Naunop irauni!

We have a fresh, but thankfully not very deep, blanket of snow. Looks like we'll have highs around 40 for the next week. The average high temperature this time of year is 60. But who wants to be average.

Keep warm, Gurus!

It's not much better here. It is about 20 this morning, but probably will get into the 40s today. The weather devils are talking more snow this weekend. One says it will be the last. I was thinking of sneaking out the Vette for a drive today. Maybe.

PIA 90. I mentioned the other day about the problem I had with the climate control system and the Bose Radio. After the radio was disconnected the climate control began to work perfectly. My audio guy is installing a new harness, Clarion head and new speakers all around. He's done all our audio/alarm work over the past decade and knows what we like. No high tech gadgetry. Just something that sounds good at a fair price. All i need is AM/FM CD. Of course it's MP3 and phone compatible. I will never use that function. Next on the 90, I have to readdress the slave cylinder issue. Damned thing is leaking. It's only about 3 years old and has less than 3000 miles on it. This is one of those things that really, really piss me off. I hate having to rerepair something that's pretty well new. The day is young. I have plenty of time today to engage in a regular activity around here.

Sitting in Dover, DE watching it rain. Oh well, going to head out to the launch field and see who all is there. Maybe the rain will let up.

Have a good day gang.

Morning guys...Nor much going on here. It's going to be very spring-like in temps, but no moisture. Man we could use some rain. Ken, send that rain back our way....

Clear and highs in the low 70s for the next three days. I am about to head out and pick up a pallet of Emerald Zoysia for where we have been clearing in the front yard. I am quite sure I will be sore by the time I have that all put down.

Cold right now but might get 46 they say...it is clear...will try to get some work done.

Today I am another year older and deeper in debt and I told St. Peter that I can't go couse I owe my soul to the Company Store......that would be Obama coming up on the 15th......how the hell am I going to pay for that new stuff on my Harley if I gotta give it all to the gobernment...geez louise.....The truth is I still feel like I'm in my 30's....ok my early 40's.....so I guess that is what's important.

My Dodgers got into a great brawl last night with San Diago. Of course I had just shut it off and had gone to bed so I had to see it on the highlights this morning...Greinke the pitcher broke his collar bone in the fight and will be out at least a month....I broke my collar bone once in a motorcycle mishap....takes a while to heal up.

Went out to shut off the shop lights last night and had my fighting Yorkie dog with me and we found a 40 lb. coon eating out of the cat dish....got real exciting for a bit and the Yorkie did not like the coon at all. So I'm watching all this from the top step as the dog tears around after the huge coon who then just comes lumbering right past me on the way out with the dog in hot pursuit...I had to laugh...never a dull moment in Nebraska...

Have a great day Guruistas....live large, every day is a gift....

Good Morning CGs!

My day of laziness continued yesterday as I did accomplish all I wanted. I did make it to Menard's and got 2 rolls of 30 lb underlayment and about 70 ft of base shoe. I also moved some furniture. Today I will finish pulling the carpet and base molding.

Last night I picked up an older used mountain bike for the wife from Craigslist. It's a Giant and in decent shape but poolrl maintained. I was able to talk to guy down a bit so I got a good price. Just needs some clean up and some time greasing the chain, cables, derailleurs, etc. This was we can both take the kids out for a ride.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Matthew

Good luck with the car, Tommy.

Greinke? What a traitor!

And now it seems RR#1 has a fever and won't be going to school today....hopefully that doesn't impact my work too much....

Happy Birthday, Marcus! You should buy yourself a nice supercharger or something ;-)

happy birthday Marcus!

Good morning gang.

My day off today so I slept in and it felt good
It's cool here today with temps in the low 50's and windy.

Good luck with the 90 Tom I hear your frustration on a fairly new part failing.

Matt hope RR#1 gets better. Lets hope you can get the work on your floor done that you had planned on.

Word of the Day Friday, April 12, 2013

percipient \ per-SIP-ee-uhnt \, adjective;

1.having perception; discerning; discriminating: a percipient choice of wines.

2.perceiving or capable of perceiving.

noun:

1.a person or thing that perceives.

Origin:

Percipient entered English in the mid-1600s from the Anglo-Norman perceivre meaning "to take notice of."

Happy birthday Marcus.

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thanks guys....you know I would want world peace as my first gift but since that can't happen then something for the Corvette is in order.....hmmmmmm...supercharger....good idea only I can't handle what it puts out already....what else.....I will have to get back to you on that......

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Marcus, I hope you are the percipient of some very nice gifts.

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Warm to hot and humid today. I'm sweating before noon. Spent the morning in the front yard. I'm gonna take a shower then launch round 2. Working on cleaning the house and washing the cars. I didn't get to that the other day and everything is dirty. My FOR KEV tag came in so I have to pick that up and mount it. I have a nice frame for it. Chrome flame surround. Off we go. Daylight's burnin and there never seems to be enough daylight. Good thing. I already work till I'm ready to drop. If it stayed light much later than it does I'd be dropping in the yard.

Hey there, let me join with everyone in wishing a happy birthday to Marcus .

Great day here in the mile high city, not a trace of Tuesday's snow left. Getting the windows cleaned today, spruced up for spring .

Happy Birthday, Marcus!

Carpet, pad, staples, baseboard up. I put the second coat of poly on the trim. Later we will lay the tar paper.

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Matt when you get done with all that you are going to be points ahead.....way ahead......you will be able to work on your car for a week straight.......

RIP Jonathan Winters.

Uwoman's B-Day card to me.......





On the inside it says....So get out there and show off your favorite package.......haaahaahah..soooo sophmoric.....

Sod is done, now it just has to grow. I figured it would take we two days to finish it up, but did it all in 5 hrs including going to pick up the pallet of it. I am using Emerald Zoyzia as I really like the look and it will require less mowing. So the total is 2 pallets down and only about 10 more to go. Prepping the ground is the really hard part - involves removing ivy and digging out a million rocks and roots.

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I feel for you Andy. I know what you're going through. On the bright side .... You're getting a little excercise.

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We see people like that in Florida all the time. They're not Floridians though. Most of them come from the Midwest, Plains States and Canada.

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Negative, Ghost Rider. There is a brand new front door sitting I need the garage waiting to be installed

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Dayum Matt .... That sure looks a lot like work. I'd be over to help you but there's that 1400+ mile thing that creates a little commuting problem.

Happy Birthday Marcus !!

This is what the yard looked like before. Actually it looked worse with ivy everywhere.
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This is after several weeks of digging out ivy, roots, tons of rocks, and even debris.
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This is also from the front porch, but looking to the right of the walkway that goes up to the road. What looks like a pile of rocks is a Koi pond with a waterfall further up the hill. We are at the very end of the road, it dead ends into out driveway, so nice and private.
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And I added a little bit of flagstone where there was just dirt and weeds.
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Hope the pictures are OK. First time I have used photobucket in over a year and they changed it a lot.

Andy; It's what a man does to make a home his castle. An ambitious effort I might add. And remember .... when it comes to a home, a mans work is never done. Ain't that right Mathew?

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The links come up as "Broken" , Andy.

P-bucket changed a while back.

Go to your Library, put your curser on a pic and a little star wheel will appear in the top, right corner.

right click that and the dropdown will show "Get Links", click that and then click the img one, it will automatically copy.

Then hit paste in your Guru post.

To Matt, Marcus, Andy and Tommy----I'm really enjoying hearing about all the work and house work you are doing.

OOPS, Andy I deleted one of your double posts, maybe you were deleting it at the same time.

Anyway, it took me a bit to figure the P-bucket out when they changed.

Note, I don't think you can get the "Get Links" thing when you pop up an individual pic, you can only get that in the Library.

Alright, if you're going to post girly songs, I'm going out on the deck and sit in the sunshine........without the humidity.

It looks peaceful, Andy. (and hilly)

That's looking great, Andy!

And good luck with your project, Matt! Sounds like I will get to install new tile on much of our first floor sometime soon. I can't wait :-P

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Hilly, heck yes.
This is from the back porch looking down to our lake house, equivalent of about 6 stories down.
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Picture of neighbor's house to show the steepness of the slope.
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Andy you will have to take some pics in June or so when everything is blooming and the leaves are all out.....gotta be great!

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Well you have level ground and a fire pit on the way down/up. If you get tired, you can pitch a tent and stay overnight to rest up.


The lake house would make a really nice dog house.

Andy, what kind of wild critters do you have there? Eastern Diamondbacks? Water mocassins? Allygators? Coyotes? Racoons? Possum? Fish?

Looks really nice, Andy. Could a bobcat or something similar make short work of clearing the debris?

Cleanup in Military

Cute. Card ,Marcus.

Andy, the yard is looking good. Lots of work, but will be worth it in the long run