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  • Want to see something well built?  Try taking apart the basement bar built by a raging alcoholic in the 1970’s.
    • This guy couldn’t dig a footer for a retaining wall to save his life, but he made sure the place he kept his booze was secure and solid.
    • Some of this wood is what I have taken to calling “iron pine”.  It’s lumber that’s so old and hard that it breaks off screws if I don’t drill a pilot hole.  I salvaged everything I could.
    • Next on the hit parade – relocating the 450 pound Coke machine.  I must really, really love my wife.
  • Good – Getting a new stoneware muffin pan for Christmas that is supposed to make huge muffins.
  • Good – Trying it out by making strawberry muffins from scratch.
  • Not so good – Forgetting to put in the baking powder.
  • Bad – Instead of a sweet, moist, fluffy treat, I ended up with half a dozen 88mm frangible semi-wadcutters.
  • Koshka decided to help Girlie Bear with her homework this morning by taking a nap on top of her history textbook.
    • Girlie Bear had a long talk with her about it, but Koshka maintains that she is an expert in early American colonial history, so she can really be an asset.
    • Koshka later came to me to plead her case, and I must say, she made some good points.
  • School was called today because Kentucky apparently can’t figure out how to keep the streets open and safe when 3 to 4 inches of snow fall, with temperatures in the mid to high 20’s.
    • Funny thing, states like North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Montana all figure it out pretty regularly.
  • The schools are on a 2 hour delay tomorrow with no precipitation in the forecast.  
    • Temps are going to be in the teens overnight.  
    • I guess someone wants to snuggle up in their flannel sheets tomorrow instead of cowboying up and putting on their long underwear.
  • Commuters were driving 14 miles an hour on the interstate highway this morning, but I saw remarkably few stupidity crashes, so I guess it was worth it.
  • There was almost a foot of snow drifted into my driveway when I got home, but that didn’t last.
    • I may rarely fire up my weed eater in the summer, but I always do my best to make sure the driveway and sidewalk is shoveled.
by daddybear71 on January 21, 2014  •  Permalink
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Posted by daddybear71 on January 21, 2014

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  1. oldnfo's avatar

    oldnfo

     /  January 22, 2014

    You can probably SELL that pine for large $$ 😉

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  2. Frank's avatar

    Frank

     /  January 23, 2014

    You left out Wyoming. Are you just pissed because Magpul came here?
    Ducking…

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  3. Roy's avatar

    Roy

     /  January 25, 2014

    It’s not a matter of “can’t figure it out”. Those northern tier states get lots of snow every single winter, so they have a substantial investment in the machinery needed to keep things clear.
    Kentucky is in the upper south. We get snow – sometimes. We even get “big-snow” about every 20 to 30 years. If we invested the same money in snow-clearing equipment that a place like North Dakota does, it would sit idle, slowly rotting away, for 99% of the time. Were you here last winter? How much accumulating snow did we get? Answer: NONE! while New England got back-to-back snowmageddon. When we do get the “Big Snow”, (the last one was in 1994, and before that 1978), we just borrow equipment from our northern neighbors – Ohio, Indiana, Illinois – and we simply close school and stay home. It works for me.

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      daddybear71

       /  January 25, 2014

      Roy, I don’t complain when it’s really snowmageddon out there and the city shuts down. No-one expects Louisville, Nashville, or Memphis to be able to withstand a blizzard and shrug it off. Heck, Minot and Grand Forks would shut down for a couple of days several times a year when blizzards blew through. When Louisville gets more than a few inches of snow and it’s blowing like a son of a gun, then by all means, I’ll stay home and watch movies.

      My complaint is when we get a couple inches of snow, the temperatures dip into the low 20’s, and school gets cancelled. Even worse is when we get a 2 hour delay due to ‘frigid’ weather, so the kids stay inside for a couple of hours extra, the temperature goes up a few degrees, and then they go out into it. If their coat, hat, mittens, and shoes are good enough for 17 degrees, they’re good enough for 12 degrees.

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