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The last number of summers our grass has browned up. Never happened before. Mostly anyway. Still green so far.

Started a fire outside last night and we cooked hot dogs with the grand kids, 6 and 3. They liked it. Not so much about marshmallows. They like cooking the mallow but not eating it. Some neighbors came by and ate hot dogs…[Read more]

I don’t know if we’ve seen a changing of the guard. But Final X might be so.

Yeah, the cost for this diesel is too much. However I get pretty good mileage so that might override. However, the way the car calculates the average mileage changed from this trip. They did something and it is not doing what it used to do. So something…[Read more]

Well, I was traveling to UT Sat – late last night. Things were going well until the DEF said I had 200 miles or I couldn’t start my car again. We were just outside Twin Falls ID and they have a VW dealership. I’ve been through this before, but the cost was more than I thought it would be. They replaced the DEF injector, emptied the DEF…[Read more]

We roofed last year. They replaced a bunch of plywood due to water absorbtion. Hopefully they fixed that scenario.

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Wow, that is quite the story. I remember the fight and the arrest. I wonder if Rutgers will make a mistake or not on this. 250K is something pretty big.

My wife and I spent the weekend on the northern Oregon coast. We stayed in Seaside but that is very close to Cannon Beach. So we spent time in both. It was just a quick vacation…[Read more]

YOu are speaking Greek to me. But those are all the questions I have to get answers for.

Shoveled another yard of dirt on Saturday and mowed a neighbor’s way overgrown lawn. I think it was overwhelming for him to look at so I took care of it. Hot tubbed with my wife that night and we both felt much better.

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Yeah, they are heavy. 1.5 inch cut is much more manageable. Just thinking about it makes me tired and sore. We are in for a stretch of dry for the next 10 days so we’ll be getting more dirt and shoveling.

Next week I have to figure out my options for medical coverage from not medicare and then medicare. Once I understand those things, I…[Read more]

I did not catch RAF 08. Real is the deal for sure. I do’nt know much about Ashnault but kudos to him for doing it, making a little money, and on his decision to head back to Rutgers.

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We have a metal roof on a outdoor shed covering. Very slippery when wet and also dry. Not recommended for older folks like me who have to get up there and clean it and I’m busy slipping all over the place. No golf shoes on that!! They are more like lean toos. Fully open to the elements but has a roof. It stays pretty dry in there and we…[Read more]

Well, my wife decided she needed a floral barrier to the garden. So I had to remove the grass in that area. I rented a sod cutter that worked pretty good. But I’m still sore from all that work. Lifting the rolls of sod, they are very heavy and there’s no good ergonomic way to do it. But I’m slowly recovering. That cutter worked pretty…[Read more]

Well, she chose well. But she really should see this stuff.

I get to spray the grass for moss today. Moss grows rampantly around here. It’s green so from a distance the lawn looks ok but there is moss everywhere. We’ll attempt to get rid of it and get the grass growing. I get to do that after work.

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She needs to see those. Definitely. Everyone should see these. Tetons is a great park. Yes yes yes.

RV or no, she’s gotta go.

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That sounds like a great trip. I have fished for Walleyes but only brought up a leach. I’ve been wanting to go to Banff which is just north. I’ll make it there at some point. I also want another trip to Yellowstone, again. I love that place. On the other hand we live in a really nice place, deer come through the property almost…[Read more]

I’ve been to Glacier park once. Funny story, my Dads family was going to go. They lived in Idaho Falls, ID. So a significant trip back in the day. My dad got pneumonia the day they were to leave and was in the hospital for 2 weeks. His whole family never went. His sisters blamed him for ruining their vacation and they never went there,…[Read more]

Yeah, that pretty much explains him. Very motivated. Can’t sit around. Has to be doing something. Still cool and wet here. It’s 8:18am and it looks like dusk out there. You can see but it is dark. Typical Seattle.

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Yes, you have to weigh how much the unit costs vs how much crap there is to take to the dump. Those are the costs. So hopefully what you can get from it outweighs those costs. He and his wife run a dog boarding facility that is quite successful and he is semi retired. So he has time to burn and does this to have something to do. He’s…[Read more]

This morning is foggy here, or maybe that’s a little bit of drizzle. Not sure, but it is cold out there. We burned some yard debris on saturday, it burned down in our burn enclosure, burned all night, was still smoking in the morning and afternoon. It is quite remarkable how fires just destroy everything given the time. So that was pretty…[Read more]

Quite the story on Jax. How do you get a guy like that? Just amazing.

Sunny here finally. But cold.

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Agreed. Yes I did see the Caliendo dismissal of Messenbrink. But he did shake at the end of the match. I get it kind of. The champ going to everyone shaking hands and saying good job guys, good job. A bit of a scene really. Caliendo got beat down for sure.

I was expecting an exciting match from Jax, but that didn’t happen. All of…[Read more]

Yes, Taylor put together quite a team this year. PSU did not do as well as seeded this year. But they did well enough to win comfortably, but not as much as in previous years. They are probably wondering why Starocci couldn’t get a 6th title. (Disclaimer: I am totally against him having a 5th season or anyone else having a 5th season)…[Read more]