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Yeah, the ice cream part sounds great. Nice way to break up an hour drive. That’s a great tradition. We have not done that but our grandchildren are pretty young yet but that’s a great idea for in a few years. I still work so that would be up to my wife. But retirement is creeping up on me so who knows. I bet the kids love it word.

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yeah, the recent WCs were quite remarkable. I don’t know anything about Jax other than he is still in HS and what he did is just amazing!! Snyder reaching gold is another high point. Taz looks tapped out now and who knows about Sad. If they are both has beens, then Snyder is the king. I was a little disappointed in Helen. She won with…[Read more]

Yep, there is less daylight here as well. Still not 100%, but feeling better.

I made salsa with our garden grown jalapenos and roma tomatoes. It was pretty good but I deseeded all the jalapenos so it was a little bland. Will be making another batch here soon and will leave one jalapeno with seeds and all that. Hopefully that will bring…[Read more]

I’m back at work now. But not feeling 100% yet. But getting better. I hope you are on the mend word.

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I’ve been sick since Thur and pretty much out of action. feeling better now but not enough to go to work. Hopefully tomorrow.

Our neck of the woods we have mostly cedar with some maple and fir. My wife got another chip drop, not free, of real cedar chips for her preschool playground. My daughter and her boyfriend came over to spread…[Read more]

Got a chip dump from a tree company yesterday. I took the day off for other reasons, but ended up moving chips all over the property. Nice cedar chips with a great smell word.

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We have 7 4×8 grow boxes. I think we have 4 or 5 tomato plants. They have literally taken over and are bearing tons. They have overshadowed the peppers yet they are giving as well. The habanero is a little late but I think that is due to lack of sun from the tomatoes. The zuchs and cucs gave like crazy. We have a watermelon coming.…[Read more]

Good planning. We are getting rain this week but will add up to around 1 inch or so by the end of the week. Not a 1.5 inch drop all at once.

We have tomatoes and cuc’s and zuch’s and anaheim, habanero, jalapeno, bell, gypsy, and chocolate peppers. The tomatoes have taken over their area and are smothering the peppers but they are giving…[Read more]

Our grass is crispy. Funny being in Seattle, you would think our lawns woudl be green year round. I remember as an older teen we had a drought year and people were actually painting their grass green. Our front yard is huge so we have never watered it. We moved here 20 years ago and for the first 10 years or so this was not an issue. But…[Read more]

We drove and found out about the tolls and didn’t know enough to pay the tolls. So we were driving illegally pretty much the whole time. They collected later word.

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Yeah, similar story sort of. We did an AirBNB in Florence. It had a washer/dryer combo but the guy that let us in said not to use it because it locks you out so you can’t get your stuff out. Dang!! Then we made it to Rome where we had to wash, and we did it in the sink and hung stuff up in the bathroom. We stayed in that place for a few…[Read more]

My wife’s grandfather is full on Sicylian/Italian. Unfortunately, Palermo is the place and somewhere back in the day the main cathedral suffered a catastrophic earthquake and it destroyed all the records that were held there. So it is tough to get too far back. She called someone and asked for info and they said, “why do you want to know”…[Read more]

I told my wife about your trip. She was envious to say the least. I’m all for Italy. Specifically, I’d like to go to the north more than we did last time. Torino definitely on the list. Lake Como as well. Genoa and on into Nice or similar. She wants to go to southern Italy which I would like to do as well, but also wants to go…[Read more]

Wow, what a trip!! I’ve got nothing but WOW!!!

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We hosted a family reunion of sorts for my wife’s family two weeks ago. That was fun. I like my wife’s family. Then last week we drove to UT to deliver some stuff to our son and brought Grandma with us. He is starting a Fabrication tech degree that will take 11 months and has a 100% placement. So he was happy to get his stuff. I guess…[Read more]

A tiny library is normally found on walking trails. In our case, on a horse trail adjacent to our property. It is a small little box that holds books and movies. People are free to take a book and keep it, take one and put it back, add to the library. It is a fully community thing. We built it out of wood we had hanging around. I’m not…[Read more]

Well, it sounds like you have a great collection going. We just put the finishing touches on the tiny library. Our neighbor is a roofer and I asked if he had any spare underlayment that I could use. He said yes and he had cap shingles as well. I guess he later came over and decided he could have one of his junior guys just do the roofing.…[Read more]

Wow, that’s a pretty cool story about the luger. And all that other stuff is something else. I haven’t done that. I’m not really a collector of things. Although I have a wall of guitars. Not that I play that well, but I have them. My old bass from college when I was in a band. Epiphone Les Paul and ES-335, two acoustics, and my son’s…[Read more]

That is quite the story. Wow! It seems funny that your Uncle would tell your Mom to sell everything. That’s pretty amazing. You would think he would have remembered the swords. That’s pretty sad that all those heirloom swords were forcibly taken from the Japanese. The ultimate show of power to a vanquished foe.

I don’t think I have…[Read more]

My dad had a 16 gauge shotgun. It is in disrepair now. I feel bad about that. This tablesaw is also in disrepair, but it is a mortal hazard to get it fixed up. The table part of it I am not sure where it is. And it seems to me it was cracked the last time I saw it. Probably not worth much to anyone really. But he made it. That’s…[Read more]