Stijn!!

[RKDinOKC]

Hey, come by this way too. Glen and I can split the tab so we can both be gentlemans.

[GH85Carrera]

We are going to drive up Rt-66 to Pops for breakfast with the PCA group today.

[RKDinOKC]

Didn't know Pops did breakfast. Just thought they had burgers, etc. Only been there for lunch or later though. Mostly remember it being crowded.

Watched a youtube on how to make your own root beer. Have forgotten how to carbonate it. Something about letting it set sealed in the fridge to get bubbly.

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Hey, come by this way too. Glen and I can split the tab so we can both be gentlemans.

What a couple of great guys you are!

Finally sitting down to eat breakfast. I’ve been playing grandpa the past few hours. Diapers were involved.

[RKDinOKC]

Be careful, I can remember a few things that happened when very young, but nothing involving diaper changing.

Most are just flashes from when was 1 to 3.

[GH85Carrera]

Happy Sunday folks.

I watched a interesting version of a move of Jack and the beanstalk. Instead of the giants are really bad guys, they are the reason their world is happy and content, and Jack was the bad guy by stealing their treasures and source of magic that keeps the lands fertile and the crops growing and everyone happy. Sort of a reverse who was the good guy. Much like a lot of history, it depends on who told the history of the events.

[Jim Richards]

Raining in sunny Southern California.

[GH85Carrera]

We were supposed to have rain yesterday, but it never showed up. It was weird at noon, it was 67 degrees when the forecast was much colder and drizzle.

[RKDinOKC]

Well, it's now suppsed to be sunny and 32°F with a 30% chance of rain.

[Porsche-poor]

Moring all. I caught up on the iso's enough to chime in here. Not sure how long that will last. Had a great weekend spending big bucks on having a large piece of granite removed from the top of the sewer line leaving the house. Looks like after 22 years the rock shifted enough to make itself known by slowly pinching the pipe till it broke.

[GH85Carrera]

David, you sure know how to party like a rock star and spend money on lavish things. Did you get to keep the granite boulder as a decorative piece for the yard?

We don't have granite around here, just red sandstone. When I was trenching up my yard for my sprinkler system I lowered the cutting blade and had not even moved, and I had cut the cable TV cable. I started moving along and the trencher just stopped moving horizontally and it started hopping around. I came across a large sandstone rock about 20 inches wide but fairly flat. Finally one tooth on the trencher grabbed it and pulled it up. It is now in the koi pond as a decorative rock. Mostly because it is heavy enough I did not want to move it far.

[Porsche-poor]

I do have a bout a 200 pounds of it left. They spent 3 hours with a jackhammer making it small enough to lift out of a 4' deep hole.

[GH85Carrera]

There is a grocery store several miles away that uses the phrase "Rock bottom prices" as their company motto. They paid a bunch of money to have a 6 foot diameter boulder with that phrase carved in it. The city threw a fit at first and called it an unauthorized sign. The store put in lots of landscaping and they pay several million per year in taxes so the city decided yea, they can live with it. You will not see it just driving past. You pretty much have to go into the store to see it as it is close to the front door.

[RKDinOKC]

Builder burried a huge concret base for one of those T clothes line ends. It finally floated up and what floated up looked like it was about a foot diameter.. Penny (fun to have her dig on command) and myself dug it up. Then hooked up my 4x4 and pulled it out of the hole. It was basically a 4 ft ball with a 1 ft x 1 ft cylinder the pipe sticking out. Penny and I dug the hole 3 to 4 foot deeper, pushed it back in the hole, and covered it up.

[RKDinOKC]

Just got back from an hour and a half of Physical Therapy. Was only good for 30 out of 60 exercises to not be a fall risk. I am worn out!

They were concerned that I lost 40 lbs since the accident.

[flipper35]

Sounds fun, but at least the weight loss will help with your other health issues. Plus, if you do fall there will be less momentum.

We had every type of precipitation except hail Sunday. I hate clearing slush, but it went from 33* in the day to 10* at night and I didn't want a bunch of ice to deal with.

[GH85Carrera]

The previous owner of my old bachelor pad house must have had a connection with some concrete company. I had the only two car wide driveway in the neighborhood. The chain link fence in the back yard was set in concrete all the way around the back yard, and there was a concrete border on the front side of the flowerbed. There was a concrete border to section off the very back of the yard under the pecan trees that was a vegetable garden from what my neighbors told me. Since the pecan trees were so big no veggies would ever grow back there.

I figured I would break up the concrete border of the veggie garden to make it easier to mow. That border was concrete that was 2 feet deep. I felt like I was digging out a foundation stem wall. I had to smash it into pieces small enough to haul to the front driveway and had to pay to have it hauled off. It was an insane project that was one of the thing I regretted starting. No way could I do that much work at my age now. I was young and tough back then in my late 20s. I figured that border was maybe 6 inches deep. I was way wrong but I refused to let it whip me. I endeavored to persevere!

There was a concrete pad for a storage building that was falling down from rust on the west side a 10x10 concrete walled compost bed on the east side.

[GH85Carrera]

My wife had a Monday type of day.

She has an aquarium with African cichlids. She has to change out a portion of the water every few weeks to keep the pH levels in check. That starts with her getting my help to fill three 5 gallon tubs with well water. That sits in the informal dining room for a day to get to room temp instead of cold well water. Then she hooks up a siphon to the bathroom in the garage (MY bathroom) and uses a waterbed type connector to get the siphon going.

The ladies that clean the house always clean the sinks, even my bathroom. They pull up the drain in the bottom so they can wipe it down and get it clean. They leave it plugged to give them a visual that it has been done. My wife did not look at that, and I had not been out there since they came to clean.

The sink overflowed, and poured on the floor, and soaked all the stuff in the cabinet under the sink. It ran out into my garage under the workbench. So suddenly WE get to clean up the mess.

[Porsche-poor]

Pictures of the stupid rock.

[RKDinOKC]

Dynomite!