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12/19/2019 at 3:19 pm #2065184
No idea what is triggering this.
Really? With what’s been happening of late? I was involved in a couple of active shooter drills….just drills…shortly before retiring and not only were the kids anxious during the drill, I was too.
We don’t watch the news at home. I get what I need on my phone, but I’m aware of what’s going on. I’m not certain that’s really it.
What I am certain about is this :ftp:
Seriously…If this was happening a few weeks ago I’d understand.
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12/19/2019 at 8:10 pm #2065186Frosting cut-out cookies today, but I’m not taking orders! Cookies are on target for Christmas presents and I best get going. Up early to get this done before the Badger Women’s Volleyball Match tonight at 7pm on ESPN. Then Minnesota plays at 9:30 pm Hoping for a Big Ten Rematch!! That would be awesome.
Impressive win over Bayler! 🙂
Oconto...the birthplace of western civilization:)
12/19/2019 at 9:39 pm #2065187It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. . .is going to be in the 40’s?
The buck stops here. . .and gets entered into Where's George.
Where's George? Stimulating the economy one EMS'ed dollar at a time.
12/20/2019 at 7:04 am #2065188GO BADGER VOLLEYBALL!!
SATURDAY NIGHT”S THE NIGHT!!
FTP FOR FRIDAY!!
12/20/2019 at 11:21 am #2065189We’re going to break out the fat bikes tonight. Not much snow here, but then again, that keeps the snowmobiles off the bike trail. So…we’ll be night riders!
12/20/2019 at 11:57 am #2065191Hope everyone has a good last weekend before Christmas!
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
-Henry David Thoreau
12/20/2019 at 10:32 pm #2065196Just got back from the Star Wars movie. We liked it! A good father, son, grandson evening, too.
12/21/2019 at 7:33 am #2065197FTP for the Winter Solstice!
12/21/2019 at 8:57 pm #2065202Happy Solstice everybody.
The buck stops here. . .and gets entered into Where's George.
Where's George? Stimulating the economy one EMS'ed dollar at a time.
12/21/2019 at 11:13 pm #2065204Had a good time at the Solstice event in Appleton. Found caches with bartrod and Screamin’ Mimi, with labrat, with rawevil, and with a big group of people.
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12/22/2019 at 6:58 am #2065205FTP for Sunday the 22nd. Another holiday gathering today.
12/22/2019 at 9:12 am #2065207I see Noonan got an FTF on a puzzle cache in Rapids this morning. It took me forever to figure it out. I had never heard of this system before. GC8GYCD
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12/22/2019 at 3:11 pm #2065217I never saw it before either, and I taught geography for years.
Thought that would fill in part of my grid, but I already had 8 5/1.5 finds. We liked hard puzzles out west.
Ok, time for some real misadventures on the homefront.
My son decided he wanted to start a family tradition and burn a Yule log. He said the tradition was that the father and son would look for the largest log on their property and burn it. If it burned for the three days from the solstice until Christmas Eve, that means something good. Well, anything that my 17 year old wants to do with me these days is a YES, but work got in the way of our searching. I knew what the biggest log on the property was – a maple tree that fell over months ago is so big my wife and I could barely reach around it when it was standing, but that thing isn’t close to being ready to be burned. The next thought was another big hunk of maple next to our driveway that fell over years before we moved it. Part of the tree got broken off in a big storm and the logs they left are almost 3′ in diameter and many feet long. I knew he wasn’t going to ask to burn them, so I prepared to go hike through our swampy woods to search for something sizeable to burn.
I was surprised when he said he wanted to burn the fallen maple log. He wanted me to cut off a chunk from the biggest piece and then haul it over with the tractor to our fire pit. Problem #1 – the log is much to wide for our 24″ electric chainsaw. I tried for several days before telling him there wasn’t any way in the world I could get through that log with this saw. He accepted that, but then we turned our eyes to the smaller hunk next to it. I was about to tell him that’s a no go, and he asked about the tractor. Well, the weather then was in the below zero range in the mornings, so that was a no go. He accepted our defeat in stride and said we could plan for next year this summer.
Then the weather warmed up this week.
We brought out our tractor and I thought I had a plan to get the hunk of wood into the bucket. My guesstimate of the length vs the bucket width was almost perfect, the log would fit. I was off on two counts however:
First: the diameter of the log was bigger than the bucket, especially because the bigger side was the base of a Y. I figured I could just push the log against the bigger, heavier log which was adjacent to the original (still standing) tree and force it into the bucket. That worked!
Second: the mass of the tractor compared to the mass of the wood. Once I got the wood into the bucket and up into the air, my son started waving at me because the back tires were off the ground. I had it in 4×4 already, so I started moving up the small hill to get onto the driveway and then I just had to get to the pit and dump it. Surprisingly, the tractor didn’t even out as I went uphill, it did the opposite and I was quickly looking down at the log, still in the bucket, sitting on the ground. Well, it was still in the bucket – and then it rolled out. The tractor dropped back down with me still in the seat. I did a quick check to make sure everything was still working and then decided pushing was the way to go.
With enough of a head start, the machine moved the log onto the paved section of the driveway, and then it was just a matter of keeping a head of steam until we got to the fire pit. Getting it into the fire pit was a problem. Long story short, after my wife came out and saw her new fire pit was sideways under a huge log, we decided to take the ring out and simply put the log on the coals that were already there.
Well, the fire lasted until midnight last night. I restarted it this morning after getting the FTF in Rapids. It’s been a struggle to keep the fire going because we don’t have any wood that is really dry and seasoned for burning. I’m thinking that it may take a week to burn through this one log, if we can keep supplying it with smaller logs to surround it to keep it hot.
SO – what did I do on my Christmas vacation? Burn one log!
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12/22/2019 at 5:46 pm #2065218I think I got the right database to solve that puzzle, but it is hard to navigate on a phone. Not like I am likely to go get it anyway, but thanks for sharing it. It’s fun to see if I can solve it.
12/22/2019 at 6:39 pm #2065219I think I got the right database to solve that puzzle, but it is hard to navigate on a phone. Not like I am likely to go get it anyway, but thanks for sharing it. It’s fun to see if I can solve it.
I can see where it would be hard to navigate on a phone. I had 4 tabs open on my laptop trying to figure it out. I never did figure out exact coordinates, but I think I can get close enough to follow the geotrail in the snow to GZ.
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