As a teen, I always thought that the XJS was cool. It looked cool to me, much more so that the XJS, and it had a V12. And as a kid anything with a V12 is cooler than pretty much anything with fewer cylinders.

And that's why I'm posting this here.

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Update on the fire in south west Nova Scotia. The affected area has grown to 84 square kilometers. Residents from one evacuated area have been allowed to return home ( including my granddaughter's middle school principal). In another area about a dozen homes were destroyed ( including her bus driver's home) my wife had been baking cookies and biscuits for the fire fighters. Donations have been pouring in for displaced families. Very little precipitation in the forecast but at least the temperatures have dropped. Spokesperson for the operation is saying at least another three weeks before all the hot spots are taken care of.

The wife is still on track to buying a horse. In a little more than a week we'll be visiting a horse trader that my wife's trainer trusts, and hopefully we will come back with something.

She's trying to save as much as she can, to get the best horse she can afford, and to that end she stopped her lessons at the end of July. When she stopped, I picked up the lesson slot and I've been learning how to do ground work with some of the horses. I imagine there will be times when she's too busy or too tired to work with the horse, so I can step in and keep him amused. I say him because she has her heart set on a gelding, not a mare.

The trainer twisted her knee, so no lesson this week. I took this opportunity to take the wife on a trail ride tonight. The weather has finally broke, it isn't miserably hot, and after a couple of cold nights there's a lot less bugs. They put me on a Thoroughbred named Twister, which might sound intimidating except he's 29 years old. It was a good ride. We got rained on. We saw a whole bunch of deer, including 2 or 3 young ones that let us get within about 30 feet of them. Even then, they just moved off the path, but didn't run like the older ones.

Oh man this would have been a hoot! Sorry to see Tim Curry isn't well.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/tim-curry-s-wry-humor-was-on-full-display-at-rare-appearance-for-50th-anniversary-screening-of-rocky-horror-picture-show/ar-AA1NXKOu?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NSJS&cvid=68e43f369bc142 a29119d46875adc281&ei=17


The " More More More" clip
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My sister and her husband were really into that movie, I guess I just never really got it.

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Crews managed to get the Long Lake fire under control last week and immediately some A hole started a fire about 20 miles away. Crews and equipment have been brought from other areas. My wife is still sending cookies and other baked goods to the facility which is feeding them and last week I started to go in a couple of times each week to entertain. Requests were interesting. Everything from "Danny Boy" to "Wish You Were Here ". We're supposed to get rain on Wednesday. Fingers crossed.

Bought a new iphone....
 

and need to backup the old one. Apparently I need iTunes to do so. Is that so?

Any other way to backup to a windows PC?

I got a new iphone last week and went from a 7 to a 16.
Just had to put them beside each other and everything copied over.

cool thanks

Just for the fun of it

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best adlib ever

https://youtube.com/shorts/256D9qO2hto?si=fCB7ccJKyQB-08K9

Weirdness at the grocery store. My wife was in line to check out, and the guy ahead of her didn't take his change. The clerk called out to him, but he said "keep it". The clerk didn't know what to do with it, as his drawer wouldn't balance, so he gave it to my wife. $13!

Unrelated. My wife is on a health kick again, and has started eating cottage cheese. I reject the origin of the name, and instead claim that when it dries it could be used to build a home. At least that's what it seems like when trying to clean the dried stuff off a spoon.

Water is your friend.

Had it after an international flight.
They used an IV and it cleared up instantly. Not pills.
Main thing is to drink fluids an help water that forest stream.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/can-cranberry-juice-stop-uti
A 2024 review found that cranberry juice provides better outcomes against UTIs. But updated studies suggest that both cranberry pills and cranberry juice help reduce the risk of UTIs.

“If you choose cranberry juice, make sure it’s 100% cranberry juice, as the common cranberry juice cocktail has very little cranberry juice "

Simple but effective and useful. Duct tape, zip ties, a 5 gallon bucket and now those big honkin' self drilling Ledger Lok screws.

I had an ice dam loosen one of the gutters on my house and it took a length of ledger board with. The crap nails used by the contractor were bent to crap so they needed to be sawed off. Then I took a big honkin' ledger board screw and pulled the board back into place against the rafters. EZPZ!

Battery Mart vs Amazon
 

I need a Yuasa YTZ 14s 12 Ah battery. Battery Mart has it for $52 Amazon has it for 150. WTF?

The specs look the same. Who to trust...:confused:

The ice went out of the Annapolis River 11 days ago. Unfortunately two men in their 70s who had an ice fishing shack on the ice didn't recognize the signs. Search and Rescue crews recovered the remains of the shack and one body. After 48 hours the intensive search of the river with boats and helicopters was scaled back and an RCMP helicopter has been doing a search pattern every few days. Given the winds, tides and geometry of the river, there's a chance remains will end up on the opposite shore.

Elmo gets tortured to death. Wait for it... Wait for it...
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Paid for 2nd day delivery....
 

but UPS is taking 5!! WTAF? :mad: