Posted on 12/17/2002 7:32:02 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Come on! Come in! -if you would like to have some seedcakes and a pint and relax a while. (If it is a special occasion, we still have a few bottles of the old wineyards left!)
Our first thread ( New Zealander builds Hobbit hole ) reached 4,100 posts, and we thought that was big. Our second thread (The New Hobbit Hole ) held us for over 48,000 posts, and we loved it dearly. We talked about moving to a new thread for the last 38,000 posts, but we are really slow to muster! Finally, the time has come. Tomorrow (at 12:01 am, to be precise!) The Two Towers comes out, and we start a new chapter.
Don't forget the rope!
:^)
Every year for 3 years in a row Payless had a buy 3 pair get one free the same week as Myranda's birthday. So, I felt compelled each year to buy her 3 pair, get her a 4th free. And, err... while we were there, buy me 3 pair, get me a 4th free.
But, then this year, - it may be because we're in a different city now - they only had a buy one pair get the other for half price sale..... so I only got 2 new pairs of shoes for Myranda's birthday. :-( How sad.
Even though it's really cheaper that way.... it's just not the same.
Thanks for the light at the end of the tunnel! LOL!
Sometimes it's tough to see past today with all the frustration and pressure I face right now, but I try to stay around those who make me happy and lift me up. It makes a BIG difference!
Ruthy, you know you can start teaching kids to start the car really young. Sometimes as young as 6 or 7 when you drive an automatic. Most of mine are manual trannies so they learned those a little later. But, definitely by 10.
Geez, I just remembered I also carry 50 feet of 550 paracord, and a nylon towstrap.
I think all of this started years ago, after a large snowstorm, when I was cruising the backroads, looking at the lovely scenery. The storm had been especially bad, and there were still a lot of cars and trucks abandoned all over when they couldn't move any longer.
But I was on a back-country road that had been fairly well-travelled, although a bit slippery. Still, the woods and fields were beautiful after the snow. I crested the top of a small hill, and saw disaster staring me in the face.
At the bottom of the hill, jammed between the two banks on either side of the road, was an abandoned 7-Up delivery truck totally blocking the road. I then knew why the road was icy, because I tried to stop, and slid all the way down the hill, stopping just a few feet from the truck.
Backing up was impossible, but I soon had company as a couple other cars and trucks came down the hill after me, and also stopped just short of hitting something, including my car. It seems the pop truck tried using the road, and spun out and wedged itself at the bottom of the road. It had gotten so cold the bottles froze and exploded (this was in the pre-plastic era).
We now had enough people in the same dire straits to work out a solution. Someone went to the top of the hill to stop others from sliding down into us. We also then had enough guys to start pushing everybody back up the hill, where everyone backed out the two miles, because it was too risky to try to turn around in the narrow lane. I was the last one pushed out, and was grateful that enough folks stayed around to get me out, too, rather than just jumping back in their cars and backing the hell out of there.
On a more serious, gadget-y note, I highly recommend one of those battery-powered car jumper kits, as opposed to jumper cables. You don't need two vehicles, and maybe two people, to jumpstart a car. I've had to jumpstart myself a couple of times, and it's much simpler that way. It also can provide 12 VDC for accessories, or for running an AC inverter. At $70 and up, it's more expensive than jumper cables, but what are you going to do when there isn't another cooperative car around for miles? Look for them on sale at the big discounters. They're worth it, IMHO.
I'm thinking I'd just rather move to a tropical climate.
If I let Becky anywhere near the ignition, she would be halfway around the block before I could catch her.
She considers herself a "big girl", which equates to "grown up" in her mind. *grin*
Hmmm. I haven't heard of those. I think I'll have to get one. Being a single-female and on the road hours and hours often I keep lots of toolish and safetyish stuff in my vehicles. This one sounds like something I need.
*ahem*
...You and yours are more than welcome to come to Florida, as long as you can face the bitter 40 degree winters!
This makes you ONE SMART DWARF in my book.
We definitely went through some rules and regs before any of this.
That didn't keep my mailbox from being crashed the first time I let my oldest daughter take my truck out on her own.
They were the one that got me this job (bless them always for that!).
Come on down!
LOL! Well I'm definitely in the OTHER half. I don't care how the computer does what it does, just tell me how I can do what I want to do with it!
SSQ is in the Quality Reliability side of the chip making bidness, and he and our #2 son are the computer weenies in the family. It is great to have them around when my computer starts doing wierd things, though!
I hope you took along a nice warm scarf for the cold...
Hope you did well on your presentation (presentation on what??)...
And don't forget to stop for elevensies...
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