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FrancSevin
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The world is a tough place. Understand this.
Generally speaking, people are not against you. They make their decisions for themselves.
Generally speaking, people are not against you. They make their decisions for themselves.
FrancSevin
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Do not climb a mountain so the world can see you. Climb the mountains so you can see the world.
FrancSevin
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Chose to go where you are celebrated, not where you are tolerated.
Finally getting something of mine done,an engine for my Chevelle done. Was the top end I had to put on it. Started on it last month, put it off too much to finishing it up
1970,putting in a built up 6.0 from a 2006 Chevy 2500 HD
My employee doing great so far and he listens also a hard worker. Met his parents yesterday and they raised him right. His dad noticed my Marines flag and said another jarhead which I know is another term a Marine is called. Said he was in too and told him I was out after 8 years in after an injury after being shot in the lower left leg which the bullet hit the bone which had to be amputated below the knee. Pulled my left pants leg up showing him my prosthetic leg. Said he knows other Marine veterans that happened to them losing a limb to amputation. Did say I should meet them as well and going to.
Going back to the high school I went next week Thursday, graduated from there 28 years ago. Marines recruiter wants me to come with him. He is going to be there to talk to the students and I will tell them my experience. Going to walk down the halls remembering the times I was a student there
FrancSevin
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It has been60 years since I graduated from High School. Our brains were like super sponges back then. Yet, it seems every memory is still bright and fresh. Going back will light them up. Enjoy that as you make a positive contribution to those who occupy those hallowed halls today.
I went to a grammar school reunion. Maybe it was the 25th. Seemed everybody turned out to be losers. Or at least not up to the potential they seemed to have.
But that one girl, the one that used to eat chalk from the chalk board, holy knock my pants off, stunning!
But that one girl, the one that used to eat chalk from the chalk board, holy knock my pants off, stunning!
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It's bitterly cold. I'm bringing firewood tubs into the house (Rubbermaid tubs, about 6 of them).
To carry a tub in, set it down and return to get the next one takes about 20 seconds.
Is it better to:
A) Just keep the door wide open
B) Have someone close the doors between each trip
I'm thinking A since B seems to just be fanning the air in and out.
Thoughts?
To carry a tub in, set it down and return to get the next one takes about 20 seconds.
Is it better to:
A) Just keep the door wide open
B) Have someone close the doors between each trip
I'm thinking A since B seems to just be fanning the air in and out.
Thoughts?
FrancSevin
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Personally, I use method "A"
First, I stack the split wood against the door and then open it to fill the inside wood rack.
Just throwing this out for consideration. I pull the trailer of firewood to the back of the house. I then load it into Rubbermaid tubs (see link below). The tubs are what I bring in. The wood debris, bugs... all stay in the tubs so the house stays "relatively" clean. I do have to carry some firewood to another stove that's up a flight of stairs and in a nice living room so the tubs work nicely.
On the tubs:
What's in the link below is what I use but damn, they're expensive now. It's a soft plastic so it doesn't crack in cold temps.
Don't use hard plastic tubs as they will crack from either impacts of putting the wood in or the cold temps.
On the tubs:
What's in the link below is what I use but damn, they're expensive now. It's a soft plastic so it doesn't crack in cold temps.
Don't use hard plastic tubs as they will crack from either impacts of putting the wood in or the cold temps.
I don't know what they call them, but used for carrying logs. Made of some strong material, like heavy canvas. With leather handles. Throw it in the ground, place the logs on it, grab the two handles and carry it in. Like a sling.
Those plastic containers don't last long like they used to. They seem to crack easily.
Those plastic containers don't last long like they used to. They seem to crack easily.
I know the canvas cradles you speak of. I have a few.
I specifically choose the plastic containers. There's those made of soft or hard plastic. Hard plastic won't last a year. My soft plastic ones are starting to give out... after almost 20 years of use.
I specifically choose the plastic containers. There's those made of soft or hard plastic. Hard plastic won't last a year. My soft plastic ones are starting to give out... after almost 20 years of use.
FrancSevin
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The happiest people are not those who have the best of everything, but those who make the best of everything with what they have.
NorthernRedneck
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First step! Who remembers theirs? I can't say that I remember mine as an infant but I do remember my first step when I relearned to walk at age 5 after a serious accident left me in a coma for 3 weeks. I remember coming home from the hospital and my parents transferring me from the car to a wheelchair. I had broken my femur and jaw after being struck by a pickup truck while riding my little red banana seat bicycle. It was the summer of '82.
I remember waking up from the coma. Not being able to talk. Not knowing who I was or where I was or who these people were that were hovering over me. Slowly as the days progressed and I layed there with a blank stare with my right leg in traction. I remember the feeling of the pin they had drilled through my lower leg to maintain the traction with the metal medical contraption encompassing my upper and lower leg.
When I was finally released from the hospital, I still couldn't walk. My first actual emotional response to anything after waking up was laughing at a loud fart my uncle had made while he was visiting me in the hospital. I still remember that. I remember coming home and dad carrying me into the house and putting me down because I still couldn't walk.
It was time for me to start school in kindergarten. I remember those first steps I took getting onto the school bus. I was still using a walker at that point to get around. I still remember all of the mobility exercises that they gave me in the physiotherapy department to keep walking.
I went through a similar experience later in life when I was seriously injured in an accident and woke up in intensive care with tubes coming from every orifice. I remember being tied to the bed to keep me immobilized. I remember the pain the first time I sat up 4 days later. I remember that first step when two physiotherapists assisted me to stand. I remember taking those first steps with the standing walker and my wife pushing a wheelchair from behind. I remember it taking me 20 minutes to walk 10 feet. That was 2015. I have come a long way since then. But every now and then I still take time to remember those first steps and it gives me the strength to carry on.
I remember waking up from the coma. Not being able to talk. Not knowing who I was or where I was or who these people were that were hovering over me. Slowly as the days progressed and I layed there with a blank stare with my right leg in traction. I remember the feeling of the pin they had drilled through my lower leg to maintain the traction with the metal medical contraption encompassing my upper and lower leg.
When I was finally released from the hospital, I still couldn't walk. My first actual emotional response to anything after waking up was laughing at a loud fart my uncle had made while he was visiting me in the hospital. I still remember that. I remember coming home and dad carrying me into the house and putting me down because I still couldn't walk.
It was time for me to start school in kindergarten. I remember those first steps I took getting onto the school bus. I was still using a walker at that point to get around. I still remember all of the mobility exercises that they gave me in the physiotherapy department to keep walking.
I went through a similar experience later in life when I was seriously injured in an accident and woke up in intensive care with tubes coming from every orifice. I remember being tied to the bed to keep me immobilized. I remember the pain the first time I sat up 4 days later. I remember that first step when two physiotherapists assisted me to stand. I remember taking those first steps with the standing walker and my wife pushing a wheelchair from behind. I remember it taking me 20 minutes to walk 10 feet. That was 2015. I have come a long way since then. But every now and then I still take time to remember those first steps and it gives me the strength to carry on.
FrancSevin
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A good marriage is two people with one soul.
Aristotle
Aristotle
FrancSevin
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Wisemen speak because they have something to say.
Fools speak because they have to say something.
"Never argue with a fool there may be onlookers.
They may not be able to tell the difference."
Mark Twain
Fools speak because they have to say something.
"Never argue with a fool there may be onlookers.
They may not be able to tell the difference."
Mark Twain
It appears it's not available in the USA.
It's a Discovery+ show. Also on Apple TV it seems.
Some people download and watch some of those shows.
I'll check later when I'm in the house but here's what I see on the internet.
blog.reelgood.com
Unfortunately, James May and the Dull Men’s Club is currently exclusive to discovery+ UK. This means it’s geo-restricted and cannot be accessed directly from outside the United Kingdom.
You can get around it using VPN to a UK server but I'm not going to try that hard to watch it. If I want to see James May again, I'll re-watch "The Grand Tour" which is a great series.
How to watch James May and the Dull Men’s Club in the US
Unfortunately, James May and the Dull Men's Club is currently exclusive to discovery+ UK. This means it's geo-restricted and cannot be accessed directly from outside the United Kingdom. However, there's a workaround: Using a VPN A Virtual Private
blog.reelgood.com
Unfortunately, James May and the Dull Men’s Club is currently exclusive to discovery+ UK. This means it’s geo-restricted and cannot be accessed directly from outside the United Kingdom.
You can get around it using VPN to a UK server but I'm not going to try that hard to watch it. If I want to see James May again, I'll re-watch "The Grand Tour" which is a great series.
FrancSevin
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Fidelity is a key promise between people and their government.
A government without fidelity to the people will not stand.
A nation without the family unit will not stand.
A family unit without fidelity will not stand.
Fidelity and strength of family unit is the
basis of a nation; not the government.
F W R
A government without fidelity to the people will not stand.
A nation without the family unit will not stand.
A family unit without fidelity will not stand.
Fidelity and strength of family unit is the
basis of a nation; not the government.
F W R