Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch-Part Six
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Meh, not feelin' all that great today and the weather is continued mostly crappy too so...... but I'm heee-re...
GREAT boating story, Legs! That was a truly excellent adventure! While not to the same scale as your adventure, when I was in my early teens, a friend and I would take his little 12 foot boat w/a 10 hp outboard across Cook Inlet and back. It's only a couple of miles and doesn't sound all that bad but you have to remember that we have 20 plus foot tides here that change very rapidly and create a lot of whirl pools and 35 mph currents. We did this several times and everyone else was amazed we got away with it until one day when we overstayed our time on the other side of the inlet. The tide started going out and the boat was about to become stuck on the blue clay mud flats. We slogged along on foot until we got in deep enough water to start the motor and head back across. By then the tide was running stronger than we'd ever seen it. It was all the little motor could do to keep us moving forward. We had to compensate by aiming way to port just to keep from ending up half way between Anchorage and Kenai! The worst was yet to come though. We suddenly found ourselves headed straight for a 20 or 30 foot whirl pool with about a 4 foot belly in the middle of it that was swirling down the inlet with the tide! The edge caught us and all we could do was turn into it and use it's spin to spit us out the other side to break free. Obviously it worked and we continued on to "our side" of the inlet, never to attempt that again!
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Meh, not feelin' all that great today and the weather is continued mostly crappy too so...... but I'm heee-re...
GREAT boating story, Legs! That was a truly excellent adventure! While not to the same scale as your adventure, when I was in my early teens, a friend and I would take his little 12 foot boat w/a 10 hp outboard across Cook Inlet and back. It's only a couple of miles and doesn't sound all that bad but you have to remember that we have 20 plus foot tides here that change very rapidly and create a lot of whirl pools and 35 mph currents. We did this several times and everyone else was amazed we got away with it until one day when we overstayed our time on the other side of the inlet. The tide started going out and the boat was about to become stuck on the blue clay mud flats. We slogged along on foot until we got in deep enough water to start the motor and head back across. By then the tide was running stronger than we'd ever seen it. It was all the little motor could do to keep us moving forward. We had to compensate by aiming way to port just to keep from ending up half way between Anchorage and Kenai! The worst was yet to come though. We suddenly found ourselves headed straight for a 20 or 30 foot whirl pool with about a 4 foot belly in the middle of it that was swirling down the inlet with the tide! The edge caught us and all we could do was turn into it and use it's spin to spit us out the other side to break free. Obviously it worked and we continued on to "our side" of the inlet, never to attempt that again!
I know just what you mean! We got enough "yard work" in when we were kids! The woman who just moved in next door had a landscaping company come in and put in fresh top soil and then hydro-seed the back yard, all of it! The front yard was already in but the back yard was mostly gravel since the previous owner replaced the septic tank before selling. These are about half acre lots and that ends up being a whole lot of lawn. Well, sure enough, she's out there twice a week mowing! At least she has a riding mower but we laugh now every time we hear her fire it up and say, "Time to mow, mow!!!" There are SO MANY better things to be doing than MOWING!!!
Yessir! Gimme Maynard any day!
(it still is if yer duin it rite
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Sounds like a smart idea to me. Isn't it curious how near tragedy breeds wisdom...
There are SO MANY better things to be doing than MOWING!!!
Now, I use mowing as an escape / exercise program... No one bothers me when I am mowing - to much dust...
Sumtimz eye fergit..........
That sounds like my kind of yard! A little tuff on blades though..........
Sorry, but I don't care if it's in pure snow from a pristine atmosphere, no way I'll snorkel up yonder...
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Help! How do I get rid of McAffee permanently? It came installed on my fairly new laptop and pops up every day! And I can't get rid of it!!!
Never mind...I found my smart cap, put it on, tilted it slightly to the right so it'd look cool and did it myself!!
Never mind...I found my smart cap, put it on, tilted it slightly to the right so it'd look cool and did it myself!!
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I'm not sure he's going to go through with it now. The last time I talked to him he said he was going to strap a snow shovel to the front of his pick up and when someone asked, "What the heck is that?" he figured that would be the place to stop. He's in the Spokane area now. Maybe Legs knows his body shop, it's GoBees........
Well, it's "quality time"!
Ya'all take care! See ya tomorrow........
What are we - knockoffs from China???
I really enjoy doing my yard work. Of course I now have a small riding mower and what used to take me about 4 hours takes two days. I usually do all of the edging and trimming one day and the mowing the next. I have a corner lot so that means I have a the curb in front and all along the side of the house along with the sidewalk, too. I picked up a Toro weedeater and have been slowly getting the attachments that go along with it. The proper tools make the job much easier. It really is the only exercise I get.I know just what you mean! We got enough "yard work" in when we were kids! The woman who just moved in next door had a landscaping company come in and put in fresh top soil and then hydro-seed the back yard, all of it! The front yard was already in but the back yard was mostly gravel since the previous owner replaced the septic tank before selling. These are about half acre lots and that ends up being a whole lot of lawn. Well, sure enough, she's out there twice a week mowing! At least she has a riding mower but we laugh now every time we hear her fire it up and say, "Time to mow, mow!!!" There are SO MANY better things to be doing than MOWING!!!
Yessir! Gimme Maynard any day!
(it still is if yer duin it rite
And does he use his shop vac to vacuum the twigs and leaves of the mulch around his flower gardens. A nieces husband does that. He can't stand to have 'dirty' flower gardens.
Nope ... not at all would I have done that even in my craziest of days.
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