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pirate_girl

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The concert last evening was wonderful.
The conductor was a young woman who was very impressive.
Her history with the symphony goes back to her beginnings as an even younger woman in Paris, London and all over the USA :smile:
The Nutcracker suite was my favourite.

I've done a trade today with another nurse, I'll be working for her a Saturday in January.
 

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Hi all, Today I did some paperwork then pulled the Road King out of the shed where it has been since the last time I rode it 2 years ago. The battery has been on a tender and had seafoam in the gas. The wife and I decided to give it to my step son Tyler for Christmas, Police academy graduation, new job as a Sherrif and his next birthday so I thought I better get off my ass and get it started and clean it up. I drained the gas out and it didn't smell too bad and refilled it with fresh gas. it started without to much trouble after warming it up I took it to the post office and its running pretty good. Then I cleaned it up and put it back in the shed for Christmas morning. Then I went down and started the Thiokol snow cat and Saturday I am going to trade it off for a set of Camso tracks for the mini truck and some spare parts for the Tucker. Marty
 

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So I made a run to the border to pick up several packages. Before I went I drove to the city to buy some more pants as I lost my a$$ somewhere and haven't found it. Seriously, I've lost close to 40 lbs since may. I'm now in a pant size I haven't worn since 1992. And the waist is a little loose. I have been having stomach and digestive problems for a while. Waiting on a referral to an internal specialist to see why I get so plugged up and bloated that I can't eat. When I can manage it, the portions are half of what I ate before. I've even gotten so bloated that I end up throwing up without much notice.

This afternoon I surprised the kids and was waiting for them at the end of the road as their buses arrived with the snowmobile. 4 of them had never been on one. So I gave them each a little ride in the field behind our property.
 

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Christmas party at the plant today. 12 employees Me, and the boss. ( the wife)

They are all getting Samsung Galaxy 32 Gigabytes tablets.

Not me. I'm still happy with a heavy old Lenovo PC that has a hand crank on it.

Sunny day here and we will get orders out today on time. This despite the printer's attempt to foul us up around the Holidays. We will be off until after Christmas and then again New Year's Day.

3:30 PM today we close and go home for five days of church and family.
 

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Been running like mad since 6am. Finally stopped long enough to get online. 2 trips in to the city so far. Heading back in this evening for band practice. I was asked to pick the songs for tomorrow as the one who does it is sick. So I did that first thing this morning and emailed everyone in the band. All regular songs with the "love" theme as this week in advent is love and they normally don't want Christmas music until Christmas eve services. Then I find out that our minister wants us to do Christmas music tomorrow. Back to the drawing board. Got 6 Christmas songs ready to practice tonight.

Is it bed time yet? I'm beat.
 

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Howdy Marty,
my last Harley was an 82 FLH. Before that I had a 79 Low Rider that I wrecked and broke my leg and busted my head. After a little healing I started to put it back together and my brother asked me if he could paint it. I said sure and he did. It was candy apple red with candy blue flames. I won 8 shows with that old bike. That is a mighty fine looking one that you have. I bet Tyler will be happy with it!!!!
 

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Hi all, today is the wife birthday so we all went to lunch downtown.
Back row Tyler-son. Charlie- son in law Martin-son
front row Jessica- daughter. Charolett- grand daughter Wei- wife
I am the old fu<ker between the girls. Marty
 

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m1west

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Howdy Marty,
my last Harley was an 82 FLH. Before that I had a 79 Low Rider that I wrecked and broke my leg and busted my head. After a little healing I started to put it back together and my brother asked me if he could paint it. I said sure and he did. It was candy apple red with candy blue flames. I won 8 shows with that old bike. That is a mighty fine looking one that you have. I bet Tyler will be happy with it!!!!

Thanks Ross, I too got hit on a sportster in the 80's but didn't get hurt just the bike. Your bike sounds pretty cool. Things and interests change as life goes on. I just didn't ride it anymore its a 2001 with 19,000 miles. It is time to pass it on. Tyler will get much more enjoyment out of it than the shed it has been sitting in for a couple years. Marry Christmas. Marty
 

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It's Saturday during the height of competitive fencing season so of course I will be locked in a field house all day.

This is a team event. Its normally a fun event too.

I have 3 boys teams and 1 girls team that will be competing today.

Top 3 teams in each of the events earns a medal. I'm hoping my top boys team + my girls team each earn medals today. That would be a good day. A good day indeed. Doubtful my 2 lessor boys teams can pull of an award but I am thinking we have shots with my girls and my boys 'A' team.
 

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This is my weekend to work.
Monday morning is Christmas with the kids, then a trip to Morenci, Michigan.
 

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Hi all, I spent most of the day trading a Thiokol snow cat for a set of Camso tracks for the mini truck and some spare parts for the Tucker.
 

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My girls saber team won the gold medal today.

I had three boys teams in saber today. My “A” team won the Silver medal.


The lovely Mrs Bob & Melen are on a cruise. My wife is NOT seasick. Melen is fine but taking Dramamine. Captain announced tonight the seas are getting worse. warned everyone to use the railings when walking down the hallways. 2 people barfed on the breakfast buffet this morning! Literally ON the buffet!

They will be home on Dec 24 so I’m just taking care of the dogs until then and thinking that I made the correct life choices for this week.
 

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Skipping this morning's service. Had a bad flare up in my legs yesterday that knocked me on my ass. It's like losing all muscle strength in your legs while experiencing muscle tightening to the point where your legs are like rigamortis. It reduced me to using a walker around the house so I didn't fall down. This came on without warning. It usually takes a couple days to get back to semi normal.
 

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Hi all, just got back from Costco with Christmas dinner and my final Christmas shopping. Now I'm going down to the shop for a while to ponder my track installation on the Suzuki. After that couch potato. Marty
 

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Morning all! My legs feel slightly better this morning. Early to bed last night as I was up at the ungodly hour of 3:30am to drive my oldest son to the airport to catch his flight to go out west for the Christmas break to visit his bio mother. Yawn. Heading home and back to bed when his flight leaves at 6am.
 

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I'm heading down to Defi around 10am to have brunch and pass out gifts to the kids at Ty's house.
He's making 2 large pans of his big brunch bake.
He says he's got 3 hrs covered so he won't get dispatched.
We'll see about that! Lol

After that I'm buzzing back home to wait for my friend Julie to get off work, then we're heading for Michigan.
Her late hubby and his Mother are buried in a cemetery there, so she is going to lay holiday wreaths on the graves. After that, we're going to find some places to shop and look around nearby.
I do want to stop at The Brown Bag Market on the way back and pick up some goodies.
The weather is going to be perfect.
In the low 50s and sunny.
Hopefully I'll be home before it's too dark.
Don't like driving this time of year because of all the deer.
 

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Had a super fantastic day!
Couldn't have asked for anything better.
My heart is filled with joy this evening.
:mrgreen:
 

FrancSevin

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I spent the day doing trim work on the 8 foot X 7 foot bay window I installed in the bedroom last year. Took most of the day. The weather was so pleasant ( 60's F) I split firewood for about two hours as he sun went down. Made quite a pile of the stuff. But with a week of 60's ahead, we likely won't use any of it.


Cathy took the kids to the Zoo his evening. Christmas lites.
I baked pies for Christmas dinner. Blueberry, Strawberry Rhubarb, Apple Cranberry and pumpkin.

So much for dieting. Instead I'll have to split more wood.
 

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At first I thought Santa was a day early. At exactly 2:36 am both my wife and I were awakened by the sound of loud banging and a clatter. We went to investigate thinking it almost sounded like the dogs yelping.

The sound was coming from the boiler room downstairs. One of the pressure switches in the infloor heating system gave out. We had to shut down the boiler and already have a call out to a 24 hour boiler repair shop.
 

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Merry Christmas eve!
I'm up having coffee and caught up on news from the relatives in both England and southern Indiana via text.
My stepdaughter Leeanne has gone from being a physical therapist to soon to be nurse of midwifery /Northumbria University at Newcastle.
She has split from her husband, Stewart and has a flat in Tyne and Wear. Wow. Haven't heard from her in almost 4 years!
Aunt Rosemary has moved into a Christian Science retirement home.
At 95 she's still spry and entertains her fellow residents playing piano after dinner.

I'm working today and tomorrow. Picked up half a shift + bonus and double time tomorrow - ain't no way I was going to turn that down.

It's very foggy out there.
Mid 50s today nearing 60 tomorrow.
I was not dreaming of a brown Christmas.
 

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Merry Christmas eve!
I'm up having coffee and caught up on news from the relatives in both England and southern Indiana via text.
My stepdaughter Leeanne has gone from being a physical therapist to soon to be nurse of midwifery /Northumbria University at Newcastle.
She has split from her husband, Stewart and has a flat in Tyne and Wear. Wow. Haven't heard from her in almost 4 years!
Aunt Rosemary has moved into a Christian Science retirement home.
At 95 she's still spry and entertains her fellow residents playing piano after dinner.

I'm working today and tomorrow. Picked up half a shift + bonus and double time tomorrow - ain't no way I was going to turn that down.

It's very foggy out there.
Mid 50s today nearing 60 tomorrow.
I was not dreaming of a brown Christmas.

Foggy Christmas?
Look at it This way. Rudolf has work tonite
:clap::thumbup:
 

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We're having a mild Christmas up here too. +1 celcius. It's going to be a very quiet Christmas as only one of the kids is home. Three of them return tomorrow afternoon so we'll do presents then.

Looks like our boiler is down until Friday. No worries. We have 2 gas fireplaces upstairs for heat and several micro furnaces for the basement.

We'll be going to the city for the 5PM service. My wife is baking cookies to drop off at the firehall after the service.
 

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Merry Christmas all, we are headed to my daughters house pretty soon for Christmas Eve brunch. Marty
 

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Going into Council Bluffs tomorrow to have lunch with about six friends and then go visit a few other ones. Then back here to Avoca, Iowa for a boring evening.
 

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Yawn. Three nights in a row we were woken up at 3am. First, I had to drive my son to the airport. Two nights ago it was the boiler making noises. Last night, some fat guy in a red suit and sled decided that our roof made a good landing spot.

Merry Christmas everyone.
 

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Merry Christmas, Brian and everyone else too!
I've been awake since 5am.
I do believe this is the quietest Christmas morning I've had ever!
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... and that's not a bad thing.
 

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Merry Christmas Lollie and all the fine folks on this site!!!!! I beat you out of bed by a half hour!!!!!!!
 
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