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Posted on 06/01/2005 7:12:04 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Well...I'm watching the Pepsi 400. Hopefully no explosions but there'll probably be wrecks.
Big explosions. Fiery death and carnage.
Hopefully just wrecked vehicles.
Heh...need some Kyptonite-laced nuts.
Hehehe..that'll learn 'em.
I was looking for a Robosquirrel, but couldn't find a picture.
it was the echo, no worries.
I did the "new" Hance trail down to the river and horseshoe mesa trail up. I could write pages about that adventure, but...
There was one point where us silly college kids were standing on the trail in a tight side canyon (you could toss a rock and hit the trail on the other side...) shouting at the top of our lungs every line we could remember from "Green Eggs and Ham" and listening to the echo roll down to the river.
Great fun.
Took the day off and took the inlaws to the DMV for drivers licenses. Then I went shopping for decorative items for the house. And let me just say that most of the time craft stores get a pass for putting Christmas stuff out early but...
Joann's has CHRISTMAS WRAPPING PAPER out already!!!
It's ridiculous.
It's like Christmas in July!
You never heard of Christmas in July? ;-)
Yes, actually. Have celebrated it, even - a tradition originating with the trappers/mountain men ca the 1830s.
I made sure to stop by B&N and pick up book #5. I'm happy! Gonna go read it.
Enjoy! I read one of those books...the first I think. Was a bit too...ummm...R rated for me, but interesting just the same.
Currently I'm hooked on Tony Hillerman books. I didn't discover them until recently and he's been writing one practically every year since the early seventies, so I have a way to go before I run out. Yay!
Scott,
How is Kevin Phelps came to cry on your shoulder?
Paul Malone
I got my milk bottle! Cost me $2.50. It's a quart-sized bottle. Doesn't have anything embossed or printed on it...just plain.
I cleaned it out with CLR, because it had what appeared to be lime or calcium deposits on the inside. But I took care not to get any on the outside, because on all four sides, about half-way up, there's a little mark of rust...where it sat at one time in the milkman's basket and the basket rusted a bit onto the glass.
I like it!
I got a rubber stopper to fit it at the brewery supply store. It's now sparkling clean and filled with milk in the fridge, an easy bottle for the jedis to use to pour themselves a cool class of milk.
Not from my doorstep, but close!
Heh...I thought you wanted one just for decoration. Didn't realize you were getting one to use. Glad you found what you were looking for!
What's CLR?
I didn't need to know geography though to know that he was talking about where I was at the time, all I had to do was look out the window.
Up ahead of me I noticed a car stopped on the right and the driver was outside taking pictures. As I got closer I saw that he had California plates. Then I looked out and saw what he was taking pictures of.
Three tornados probably within a mile to the south. Wide open large field and they were on the ground. They weren't babies either. I couldn't tell which way they were moving but I realized that I was traveling at a right angle to them, which the experts say is the best way. So I stepped it up to 90 mph, leaving the California idiot to take his pictures, noticing too that there were cars passing me even at that speed.
To smaagee who says I have a fear of tornados - That ain't fear son, that's respect.
Other than that we had a grand time at the Grand Canyon and a dam fine time at Hoover Dam. The Colorado Rockies are simply splendeferous! We went through the Colorado Rockies National Park, state roads winding up and down the mountains. Mrs. Graybeard was mightily spooked especially where there were no guard rails and the drop was in the thousands of feet. We even got snowed on a little while we were there.
The only real downer of the trip though was the abject poverty that was evident on the Reservations in Arizona and New Mexico. It made me start having liberal thoughts, such as, something has to be done to help these people to help themselves. Guess I'm getting all soft in my dotage.
I got home just in time to celebrate my 60 th. b/day on the 29th.- all alone (poor me). Mr. and Mrs. smaagee did come over to take me to dinner though and I chose Mickies Pizza. Yummy!
Naw, I'm not in to decor. I'm in to function. :-)
CLR stands for Calcium Lime Rust...it removes those things.
I probably will use all my milk bottles, when I get them.
There was one that I loved. It said "America keeps it's freedom my keeping it's material resources! Return this bottle for re-use!" Or something along those lines. It had an obviously 1940s era milkman on it. I found it very moving. Not moving enough to buy it for $45, though!
Beautiful!
Gorgeous pictures! Where exactly were those taken?
Gosh, I love mountains...
Are you pouring the store bought milk into 'em, then? Rather than using the container it comes in?
Guess the good, lasting glass bottles will come in handy if you ever get milk goats...
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