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BBP
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Hey Huck, great to see you! How have you been?
Sorry to hear about your oven, MTF. Do you have a straw box?
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Calvin
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Had somebody offer to make me a doily sweater. That would be SO cool.
Hi there.
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polydigm
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I'm not sure I could see you in a doily sweater Cal, not that I can see you at all, of course.
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MTF
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I was joking about barbecueing a pie. I thought it was just a nice, absurd way to end the post. But somehow it doesn't surprise me that you found this
video; in parts of the US Midwest, barbecue is nothing short of a religion...
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DED
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Me too was joking.
But how absurd you want to think, reality is more absurd than you think.
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BBP
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Not much going on here...
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polydigm
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The numbers are slowly ticking over. I would have thought with the holiday season, people had more time for idle banter. I'm working hard on my
studies every day but still finding time to look in.
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MTF
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Fixed the oven today. The problem was the igniter, which is quite similar to a car's cigarette lighter.
A guy quoted me $250 to fix it, but said he couldn't do it until next week.
So I found the part online, had them overnight it to me, and replaced it myself in about an hour.
The money we saved will pay for our tickets to see two upcoming shows: They Might Be Giants (27 January) and Zappa Plays Zappa (15 February)...
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BBP
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Nice going MTF! Our local handiman DED would be proud!
Any ideas why Dweezil isn't visiting this side of the Atlantic anymore? Too much alimony or just having small kids in general?
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DED
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Yeah I'm proud
http://youtu.be/zctww85vvSY
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polydigm
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Good one MTF. That's just the kind of thing I can't stand. Mind you, sometimes I'm just too lazy and take the expensive option. We had to cut down
five trees four and a half weeks ago that would otherwise have shaded a significant percentage of our solar panels in the afternoon. I got a quote on
one of them for $1500. Bugger that, let alone times five, I cut them all down myself with a little help from my sons. Money wise it only cost me the
price of a chain saw, a little electricity and a few lengths of heavy duty rope. I haven't finished yet, there's some finalising required and a heap
of branches to transport away, but no shade on the panels in the afternoon. It was hard work but well worth it and the first really hard work I've
done since my surgery last year. It felt good.
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aquagoat
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I've got a f...ing cold, right in time for my holidays.
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BBP
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OOh Poly that is hard work! I hope they're not acacias, like the little nightmare in our backyard with thorns like a hedgehog. They'd be perfect in
the garden of a sanatorium for tree hugging addicts.
Poor Aqua! Get well soon!
Some tears here today as the theatre where I had my grand debut at age 7 playing a part of a dragon, burnt down. A very charming theatre it was too.
Take a virtual tour at
http://speelhuis.virtuele-tour.nl/virtual.html
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MTF
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Quote: Originally posted by BBP  | | Any ideas why Dweezil isn't visiting this side of the Atlantic anymore? Too much alimony or just having small kids in general? |
I have no clue why he does anything. But as long as he plays at a theater three blocks from my house, I'll go see it.
BTW: now that the oven works, I'm off to another project. I'm refinishing a hundred-year-old cabinet from the house my wife grew up in. I spent most
of the day sanding, and probably will tomorrow as well.
Tomorrow we're going to see a band play a couple of Beatles albums in their entirety; Revolver and Sgt. Pepper. These guys are fantastic: we've seen
them every December since 2003.
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polydigm
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| Quote: Originally posted by BBP | | OOh Poly that is hard work! I hope they're not acacias, like the little nightmare in our backyard with thorns like a hedgehog. |
No, three Jacarandas, one Olive and one Pine. The Pine is the one that I got the $1500 quote on, it was over 10 metres tall and very
spread out with many long vertical side branches bunched together. The Jacarandas were at least as big and two much taller. One was quite a challenge
to bring down. I'll post a video at some point. The Olive was massively overgrown, I've never seen an Olive tree that big before.
Watch the highest Jacaranda branch come down.
You'll see as the view scans right that we're surrounded by trees and piles of tree cuttings and branches. The Pine directly behind then a Jacaranda
then the Olive and a Jacaranda together and finally the biggest Jacaranda that we're pulling the branch down from. There had already been quite a bit
of lopping done to all of them by this stage.
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BBP
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Aw... pity about the pretty purple flowers, but nice to see you and Euan moving.
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Euan's laughing at the end and saying "Look at Darwin". Darwin is one of our two beagles and a bit highly strung. Both dogs, the other one's called
Fitzroy, were inevitably curious about what we were doing, but when the branch came down Darwin scarpered into hiding up the back of the garden.
And yes, it's a pity about the trees, but they're yet another example of how previous owners of this property have stuffed things up. One of the
Jacarandas comes out of the ground literally right next to the Olive. Two giant trees having to fight for the same space. The Jacaranda we're pulling
down in the video is right next to the house and was consequently covering a significant area of the roof and filling the gutters with all kinds of
crap all year around, hence a regular chore of mine to get up there and clear it up.
There's one huge tree there, I haven't established its type yet, that will probably get to stay, which is a plus. The other plus is that the placement
of the trees we cut down was a bit random and not very conducive to arranging a nice back garden, which is the next step after we clear up.
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Calvin
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I'm going to watch a Dutch fighter against Brock Lesnar. Is Overeem popular there Bonny? Or is it not something you pay attention to?
Hi there.
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Good riddance: 2011!
In Holland, Happy Rains and sluices!
In France, Happy Hills and juices!
In Ausland, Happy Rays and ruses!
In Canuckland, Happy Trees and mooses!
In US, happy jobs and truces!
2012: Happy New Year !!
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BBP
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| Quote: Originally posted by Calvin | | I'm going to watch a Dutch fighter against Brock Lesnar. Is Overeem popular there Bonny? Or is it not something you pay attention to?
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What on eath is that?
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