Good Morning CGs!

Well, it's D-day. Or C-Day? Girls are out getting prettied up at the hair salon. They should be home soon. Suit is steamed and my shirt is ironed, I just have to polish my shoes and I'm good to go. Everything is set at the restaurant for afterwards. Wife dropped off flowers, cake, pretzels, goodie bags, and misc items yesterday and they looked like they didn't know what was about to hit them. They don't

Ordered my new Eastwood underhood light yesterday. One month backorder! Apparently they sold better than anticipated. I checked out my buddy's while I was at his shop last night (I told him about it a month ago and he ended up buying one at the local Eastwood store). It's nice. Looking forward to getting it. I also bought another ratchet that should be here next week. It's ok, I had a little extra spending cash in my tool fund.

http://www.eastwood.com/eastwood-prof ... al-folding-led-light.html

Marcus - glad UB's friend is getting better. And it sounds like the new place for mom is good. We are really happy with dad's place. All of the employees really go out of their way to help. It also seems more like a dorm setup than a hospital setup, so that helps with the ambiance.

Tommy - how is the wife doing?

TB - finish the plumbing?

Hope everyone has a great day!

Matthew

CLOUDY AND COOL IN THE NATIONS TODAY, TWO AND A HALF INCHES IN THE RAIN GAGE. THE CHEROKEES ARE DOING THE "WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS" THING IN TAHLEQUAH THIS WEEKEND; IT'S OFF TO A RATHER SOGGY START. :-)

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Morning guys....Crisp here this morning after the nice rains yesterday. We also had about 2 1/2" of rain.

The plumbing issue isn't a critical one, Matt. The main valve of the sprinkler system is leaking a little bit through the self-draining weep hole. Less leakage if the valve is in the off position, so it is turned off but is still filling up the access tube to the valve. I'll get to it one day when it warms up. I just hate f*#king plumbing.

Not much planned for today. Rosie has a baby shower to go to. I think I'll go out to the shop and work on the butcher block top I'm building for a client.

Oh, Gris, I've built similar things that go into the walls like that, Ironing boards and a bathroom medicine cabinet. That is a cool idea though.

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Thanks for asking. She's unstoppable. The first day she was back to work. Her right leg (burn foot leg) fell through part of a rotted wood deck and she scraped up the inside lower leg. Keeps on ticking. She's one tough broad. I mean it. She's a tough cookie.

We went to see BOSTON last night courtesy of my FIL. He won a couple of tickets and we took them off his hands. Went to Seminole Hard Rock to see them but didn't do any gambling. Just went for the concert. I was hungry so I ate a lot of stadium fare. Pepperoni pizza, hot pretzel, hot dog and a large soda. Later Sue picked up some M&Ms and had water and popcorn. Auction tonight but I think I'll pass. Sue might go with her gf. (Quiet house night, maybe) The concert was top notch. Tight band that played almost all the classics and a couple of new ones. Recommended if they're coming to your neck of the woods.

Rain and more rain.......bring it is what I say......we did get the acreage mowed yesterday before it started.....2 50" mowers going can buzz cut the tall grass in short order.....glad we did too with all the rain last night and for the next 2 days.

Uwoman is up in Washington helping #1 daughter move into her new home.....I think I told you she got a new job with Amazon over in the Southwest part of the State. Signing bonus and good sized raise over the company she was with. Amazon pays for her move and pays for her family to come up and help also.....amazing.....er Amazoning I mean....

Today is work on GS day to get a bit more noise reduction into the cabin. I am going down to get the material in a bit......I am looking forward to a day in the warm shop working on baby.........with no distractions.....I hope....

Have a fun day Matt with the family and the party......it's all good!

Tom......I am sure there are Plumbing anger management classes on line you can participate in......but first we must go back and find out where these feelings stem from.......feel free to share with the Guru's your pain on how it all started.......

Have a wet and wonderful day Guru's.....

Gris that looks like a good deal.....but I would rather have the hidden door in the back of the closet that opens up into the armory........uh huh uh huh....

Howdy! Gonna putz with the mower engine today, since the yard is growing like mad with all the rain we had during the week. Then out to dinner with some friends later. Tomorrow night we're going to see The Who - my son had given me tickets last year, and they postponed the tour due to Roger Daltrey's illness. Should be fun - I last saw them live in 1971. I think Boston is coming through here too at some point, may have to go see them too. Ahhh, for the days of cranking the 8-track up to 11.

Have fun at the party, Matt!

Have a good day, yawlz!

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MY OLDEST AUNT HAD ONE OF THOSE BUILT-IN IRONING BOARDS IN HER KITCHEN. AS A KID I THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY NEAT.

AND FOR YOU DOG LOVERS:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/uqlGn-K42U8?rel=0

DAMN BORDER COLLIES, YOU CAN TEACH THEM ANYTHING!

CONGRATULATIONS TO RUGRAT #1.

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GLAD THE BURN IS BETTER.

TommyT-Bone wrote:
Sue once again disregarded my banning of her cooking on high temperatures which resulted in a smoking pan of butter. ...[/quote]

TOMMY, IF YOU ARE IN THE HABIT OF TELLING YOUR WIFE HOW TO COOK, I'M SURPRISED YOU'VE LIVED THIS LONG :-)

I got the old mower engine out and did some clean-up - I'll put the new one in tomorrow. I need to hunt down a small tool for re-pinning an electrical connector, otherwise it should be smooth sailing. When I drained the oil on the old engine, I got about 3/4 gallon of gas/oil mix - I'm pretty sure the carburetor float stuck wide open.

That dog dance was unbelievable.......I have no idea how long it would take to train a dog to do all that .......I feel lucky if our dog is just trained to go potty outside......

Worked all day on the GS......took a while to figure out how to get the interior tore apart.....hope I can get it back together again.....I'm sore from all the bending over into the back of the car. Got 2/3's of the deadener in...will try and finish it up tomorrow......sucker better be like a church in there after all this work..... I have taken some pics which I will get up when I'm done....... Good night cub scouts..........

Dog dance was VERY impressive.