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Sitting down, facing forward.
I know this doesn't work for Willy, but the "hard work" of living in the country makes sure I sleep well. I also walk a couple of miles every day, and that's just doing the "normal" stuff around the house and walking the dog.
 

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Steamer, I bet that bottom left one would work for you? $4 for the set on FT.

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Steamer, I bet that bottom left one would work for you? $4 for the set on FT.

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That one with the big hole in the bottom left is the one I use :)
You can run with out one in there at all, I never tried that but should be even more air flow.
I figured out a way to eliminate my refilling problem :) I just don't put the top cap on till the jfc is open again.
I'm on the fence, weather I want to order a second?
 

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I put in two stints in the big city (Philly) when I was younger. Never again. I have no desire to live in what's essentially a human ant-hill.

Same feeling I have for NYC, four hour drive from here. I've been there twice and I'll never go back, there's nothing there for me.
 

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I've done all the city living I'm going to do until I just can't handle keeping up this place in the Ozarks. I used to keep 2 miles of trails groomed on this 160 acres but not any more, I'm slowing down already and I'm only 55. Keeping 8 acres of lawn/pasture cut, cutting firewood to heat 4500sqft, mending fences, constantly fixing the 1/4 mile driveway, caring for 175 orchard trees, the 1800 sqft garden and fixing everything that breaks around here is enough considering I still work full time in the construction biz. I wonder how much longer I can keep this up. Oh well, another day of work means another day of enjoyment, right?!

Push yourself as hard as you can, you'll be sore but you'll active longer. I tried sitting on my .... for a couple years after I blew my back out and had to quit twisting wrenches, I quickly gained weight and went down hill. Then I got activ again and I do what I can until I'm hurting, then I'll take a day or three off if it's bad enough but I've lost weight and other then hurting spine and leg, the rest of me feels younger and healthier then when I was a chair cover.

I'm pooped and sore right now, had to come in and take a break. I think I bit off more then I'll be able to chew, I may have to break down and pay someone to finish moving dirt. The son-in-law (the one that always comes to me when he needs something fixed) told me he'd be over at noon to help, still haven't seen him..... And I thought for once he'd do something for me.... silly me....
 

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I know this doesn't work for Willy, but the "hard work" of living in the country makes sure I sleep well. I also walk a couple of miles every day, and that's just doing the "normal" stuff around the house and walking the dog.

What's a good nights sleep like? I forgot.... But I get by. :)
 

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That one with the big hole in the bottom left is the one I use :)
You can run with out one in there at all, I never tried that but should be even more air flow.
I figured out a way to eliminate my refilling problem :) I just don't put the top cap on till the jfc is open again.
I'm on the fence, weather I want to order a second?

What do those go in Steamer?
 

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Same feeling I have for NYC, four hour drive from here. I've been there twice and I'll never go back, there's nothing there for me.
I find NYC to be a wonderful place to visit, but you would have to pay me a fortune to be willing to live there.
 

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I find NYC to be a wonderful place to visit, but you would have to pay me a fortune to be willing to live there.

It has it's challenges, but having grown up here it's comfortable for me. I remember when I first moved out I slept poorly for a few months until I could get used to the silence. In the city, I once slept through a building across the street burning down. Didn't even notice all those sirens and flashing lights.
 

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We live in the "country". Joint Base MDL isn't too far away and there's usually a plane or two, and maybe a chopper or two, taking off or landing during the night. We can always tell when it's a "heavy, Globemaster, by the vibration in the floor and that's ten miles from the runway. When the wind is out of the east or west, we're basically in the approach pattern. A little street traffic and such as well, but overall it's pretty quiet.

Last Novemeber we spent a few nights with a friend down Mike's way. 500 acres, set back almost a mile from the country road, five miles off what is a "main road" for them. Once the lights went off in the house there was nothing else visible in terms of lights. What a sky view! Funny, I remember being able to see that many stars up here in NJ years ago when I was a kid. Talk about quite. I loved it and slept like a baby.
 

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Same feeling I have for NYC, four hour drive from here. I've been there twice and I'll never go back, there's nothing there for me.
Same for me for the whole state. I lived in upstate NY (Clifton Park) 6th thru 9th grades. I had to take Kempo Karate just to keep from getting my ... kicked every school year. Mean kids come from mean parents and there was no shortage of those in our town. Everyone in our family had problems with neighbors, co-workers and others. No offense intended to you NY'ers, I know you're not all mean....:D
 
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Same for me for the whole state. I lived in upstate NY (Clifton Park) 6th thru 9th grades. I had to take Kempo Karate just to keep from getting my ... kicked every school year. Mean kids come from mean parents and there was no shortage of those in our town. Everyone in our family had problems with neighbors, co-workers and others. No offense intended to you NY'ers, I know you're not all mean....:D

I understand, I took some beatings too, until I finally snapped like the kid in A Christmas Story and fought back hard, both of us were bloody but I ended up the winner of that one, after that I didn't have any problems, I wasn't an easy target anymore.

If not for my Daughter and grand kids I'd move, I stayed here because all my family was here, but now Mom & Dad are gone, the rest of my brothers and sister haved or are going to move out soon, my Daughter is all that keeps me here now, I wouldn't mind living in rual PA. NY is almost as bad as California now and it's not getting better, NYC area has all the voting power and they rule how we live in upstate. Hopefully we'll be able to get that changed but first enough have to vote for it this fall. About
 

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I understand, I took some beatings too, until I finally snapped like the kid in A Christmas Story and fought back hard, both of us were bloody but I ended up the winner of that one, after that I didn't have any problems, I wasn't an easy target anymore.

I was an easy target too, then after getting my Brown belt in Kempo I was a seemingly easy target. At age 14 I was maybe 105lbs soaking wet. Coming from the South my Dad got fed up with NY and moved us to Mo. during my freshman year of high school. Lucky for me the guy at the new school who decided to kick my ... was a JV football player. Once I took him down no one messed with me through the rest of HS. Thank God, I deplore violence. The sad thing is once he got home his father beat the stuffing out of him for losing a fight. Boy did he look terrible when he showed up for school. :(
 

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I was an easy target too, then after getting my Brown belt in Kempo I was a seemingly easy target. At age 14 I was maybe 105lbs soaking wet. Coming from the South my Dad got fed up with NY and moved us to Mo. during my freshman year of high school. Lucky for me the guy at the new school who decided to kick my ... was a JV football player. Once I took him down no one messed with me through the rest of HS. Thank God, I deplore violence. The sad thing is once he got home his father beat the stuffing out of him for losing a fight. Boy did he look terrible when he showed up for school. :(

Yeah same here, I deplore violence too, when I was a kid I use to have dreams I was in fights but my punches would not connect because I was afraid I'd hurt someone, funny I forgot all about that til now. I've only been in one other fight since those days in school and that's when I saw a guy had his wife on the ground chocking her, I came up from behind him, took him down and cranked his arm up his back to his neck and told him if he didn't stop resisting I'd break it, he stopped.

I don't go looking for fights and I'll walk away from an argument, I don't need someone else to admit I'm right, it just doesn't matter to me what they think. That said, I won't let anyone lay a hand on me (or worse) and not respond in equal, even it it means I'll end up loosing. Pull a gun or knife on me expect to get shot, I may die but likely you will too, I'm a very good shot and I always carry. ;)

I won't stand by and let you hurt a women, child or anyone obviously defenseless. But if your a grown man and your getting your .... kicked because you wouldn't walk away from an argument then your on your own, unless your getting beaten near death LoL.

I kind of like the Duke's "Code" from his last movie;

 

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eah same here, I deplore violence too, when I was a kid I use to have dreams I was in fights but my punches would not connect because I was afraid I'd hurt someone
Never had that problem in my dreams, all my movements were in slo-mo so he just ducked or slipped away. Same with monsters or wild animals, I'd try to run away but I was always running in slo-mo. Still those weren't the worst dreams, the ones where I'd show up to school with no clothes on.......:oops::facepalm:
 

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