Posted on 07/06/2005 2:11:03 AM PDT by SAMWolf
Hey Samwise. We thought about you yesterday. History Channel was doing their show on the Aleutians during WWII.
We're you able to make the slide out of metal? I have fond memories of taking wax paper down to the playground and waxing up the slide to make it speedier!
Looks like the 80th avoided the brunt of the fighting in the Bulge - they were in Luxembourg. Still, what a cold, wet, miserable winter our soldiers endured. No gore-tex back then.
What does those tell us about you. Hmmm. She takes your socks and when that doesn't work she puts a bishop in your shoes.....Driving out something wicked? :-)
That business where it rains then freezes, rains more and freezes again, then again, ugh. Mud and ice. Wet to the skin all the time. The pits. Worse sort of weather to live in that there is, IMHO.
To all our military men and women past and present, military family members, and to our allies who stand beside us
Thank You!
Hi radu.
Howdy snippy!
How are things out your way?
She'll be a chess prodigy by age 3.
Things are great. Has it cooled down any for you yet?
We wouldn't be at all surprised. ;-)
Glad to hear things are going so well!
It's been hotter 'n Hades here, and though there have been scattered showers and storms, it's been too dry overall.
We'd hoped to get some of the rain from the remnants of TS Cindy but it's scooting underneath us. POOEY!!
Yes snippy I was able to fab the slide part out of metal. The slide is an 18" wide piece of plywwod wrapped with some 23 gauge valley flashing material. I then set the "slide" into a groove cut into the bottom 2" or so of the 2X12. This makes sidewalls that will about 12" tall after I attach the hand rails to the top of the slide walls.
This is the third slide that I have made. The first two slides pointed to the alley. The whole Pad on the first two was back closer to the house by about twenty feet or so. The first slide that I made the oldest daughter, who was about 12 at the time made the inauguaral run down the slide and was going so fast that she almost ended up in the alley !!!
He P.E. is that "N" gauge or "TT" gu8age running thru the tube
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
It looks "wrong" for N-gauge, I was guessing Z.
Wyatt, 19 in 1944 was born in 1925, making him 74 in 1999 when the magazine article was published. So may we understand his choice of pusillanimous.
L pusillus very small (diminutive of pusus small child) + animus spirit--today we would choose cowardly over pusillanimous--were we Wyatt--
I however find nothing cowardly in his getting the hell out of Dodge being surrounded by armed enemy, while his initial pursuit of the souvenir seems foolhardy from fool (L my momma didn't raise no) + hardy (L this is a fine mess you've got us into).
Was able to catch the large meaty chunks of Saving Private Ryan on the Cable War Channel yesteryesterday. Watch out for that first day in combat.
We are struck at how Wyatt can shoot. He shoots this guy, he shoots that guy, he "knows" he can't miss. Probably refused to play with dolls, too.
Dang! I wish I had known. I would've watched it.
Ah, fond memories of the Garand in high school. And no I did not get the dreaded M-1 thumb either
As always I enjoy your posts Phil :-)
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
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