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"Hey everyone! Let's stand around and wait for Nimble too pass out from holding his breath!"” 10:24:51 AM 9/28/07 “lmao! I did a search on "ban" threads. I think there were approximately eleventy hunderd. Spirit Coyote, that is one gorgeous picture.” 10:31:03 AM 9/28/07 “Thought SOMEBODY should say "Good morning" today... 8:01:13 AM 9/29/07 “Nice smile. What are ya brushing with these days? I went to my first football game at my high school in 45 years, ever since the last game I played in '62, 45 years ago. Talk about nostalgia and sentiment. I cried during the national anthem, a little more during the school song; but being a guy I sucked it up and no one noticed. We lost 21-20, but what an epic battle. It was a great, great experience. While in the stands I sort of made a trip down memory lane and recalled all the things that have happened in my life during the last 45 years. Places I've been, people I've known, history I have witnessed and, to some degree, participated in. Amazing, going from one football field way in the past, to another at which I am 20 to 25 years older than the parents of the players. WTF, how did that happen? I can still throw. I can still run. Put me in coach (I don't smoke).” 8:32:29 AM 9/29/07 “Damn --- I blinked and 30 years went by ! How did that happen?” 9:48:18 AM 9/29/07 “Bummer about the loss, but sounds like you had a nice evening, Nimble. G neglected to tell me he was helping a fellow teacher/neighbor/all around best friend ALL DAY with a school project. I was looking forward to some time away from the baby. He's not exactly on my good list today. Yet another beautiful day. Walked to the farmer's market this morning. I won't tell you what I paid for a quart of "organic" raspberries. I couldn't resist, though. Have a good one, folks.” 10:20:01 AM 9/29/07 “smiley - yogurt works wonders for thrush. I moved. Friday I rented a UHaul and moved 2 loads in a 17' truck to the new house. We closed on the existing house, closed on teh new house, and went home. Sat I took the 1 year old to the pediatrician with the croup then met the inlaws with the kids. I got back home by 11:00. The moving company had already completed their first load while my wife directed traffic. By 2:00 they were on their way. 1k well spent. We spend the rest of the weekend installing stuff and making runs to the old stuff to pickup, pickup truck loads of things still left to move. We should be fully out by Sat. I did get to take a dip or two in the pool this past weekend. Yay!!!” 7:32:22 PM 9/30/07 Good morning! “Good deal dayhiker! I hope the unpacking yields no missing treasures and your new home is all you dreamed it would be. Congratulations! I have Jury duty today in Detroit. Have to be there by 7:45. Sure wish I could hop on a train to get down there. This whole dang state is built around the car and we're dying because of it. It's possible we're in partial government shut down right now, I don't know if it happened or not but midnight was thedeadline for a state budget and it was looming last night. I'll find out when I turn on the news on theway into the city. You guys have a wonderful day.” 3:44:07 AM 10/01/07 “Very cool Nimble. I remember how weird I felt going to a game just at my 10 year reunion. That was last weekend. I have my 10 year reuinion coming up in a couple of years. My how it flies.” 4:41:52 AM 10/01/07 “I did find birch's books he loaned me. I even started one of them!” 4:50:28 AM 10/01/07 “As G and I predicted, no government shutdown in Michigan due to a early morning agreement. The voting ended at 4:30 this morning. We're supposed to have rain later today, so my daily walk will have to fit in between drops. Sunny at the moment. I gotta start looking for a job. It would be nice to make money again. :) Enjoy the day, folks!” 5:34:44 AM 10/01/07 “I start packing up the shed with camping gear today...I may finally empty the trunk of the Saturn for the first time in 10 years...how cool is that? The shelving alone cost $160 but it will be worth it in the end... Good morning all you wonderful people...” 5:40:06 AM 10/01/07 “Happy.... Rocktober!” 7:47:56 AM 10/01/07 “Morning, started the day off nicely with a walk.  ”9:05:12 AM 10/01/07 “Yay, it's finally October!!!! I spent my morning meeting my neighbor's new horse that she just bought. He's an Arabian, and for an Arabian he's very docile. I myself was partial to what the owner called one of the ugliest appaloosas he's ever seen (its his horse too) and a sweet little mule of all things. Go figure! ;) She's a tiny thing, too. Next time I go out there I'm taking treats for the mule and a sketch book!” 9:10:09 AM 10/01/07 “morning, er....afternoon....” 12:24:45 PM 10/01/07 “Howdy....it's me checking in sorta late....\ ....wooo hooo...I have next week off...... ..and we have a virus or someone hacked into our computer....it sucks.....” 1:27:51 PM 10/01/07 “Mata without all that stuff in her car. What's the world coming too? ;-)” 1:43:47 PM 10/01/07 “Next thing you know nowslimmer will clean his trunk too.” 1:48:20 PM 10/01/07 “naw, he ain't got a trunk...........” 7:33:32 PM 10/01/07 “Good morning, all... I'm still working at cleaning out Bill's shed..next week-end I'll be organizing the camping gear...all the tents, mats, cookpots, sleeping bags and weird stuff all in one place...this is unimaginable and will be, no doubt, embarrassing when I see all the junk I have...I've been buying gear since 1990...imagine! The shelving has really increased the storage capabilities of my new shed.” 3:18:39 AM 10/02/07 “Hi. G'night.” 5:46:56 AM 10/02/07 Hugs. “Good morning. dayhiker - You hit that one right! I've been holding off for almost a year. I don't want to encounter the gooey banana that was left under things in there. But I have to clean it out. I have a trip planned to start this weekend. last edited: 10/02/07 5:31:19 AM” 5:47:02 AM 10/02/07 “Huh, the site seems to be out of alignment this morning. Weird. 2 nights in a row of little sleep (about 4 hours each) and I'm ready to crawl back in bed. Yuck. Time to get the pickaxe and go shape the bottom of the pond some more. Damned clay.” 6:00:03 AM 10/02/07 Hugs to all “Good morning my friends, It was a crisp lovely morning in the mountains of WNC!!! I love this time of year!!! I'm approaching another crazy deadline in the CPA office...October 15..tax deadline!!! Grrr...!!! Have a great day yall!!” 6:10:17 AM 10/02/07 “Good Morning! Boy, we've got a nice storm blowing in right now! Got woken up by a flying six year old body. It's been a few months since the wind has scared her. Kinda nice to wake up snuggling with a cutie pie though. Hopefully this storm should take down a good amount of leaves from the trees. The raking will give me some nice exercise tomorrow.” 4:26:56 AM 10/03/07 “Kinda nice to wake up snuggling with a cutie pie though. Sassafras 4:26:56 AM 10/03/07 I bet Joe takes exception to that.” 4:35:54 AM 10/03/07 Hugs. “Good morning.” 5:13:32 AM 10/03/07 “hugs to you nowslimmer, and guess what? there is an aikido dojo just 6 miles from my house!!! I'm going to visit this thursday evening. an old vietnam vet has been visiting my church and last sunday he brought his oriental wife with him. she is a member of this dojo also so i think it's time to get back into aikido. I found my old belt that I took off in 1973 before I went off to the army....wow! I'll get to put it back on after all these years, how cool is that?” 5:18:13 AM 10/03/07 “G'morning. I'm up. Can I go back to bed now?” 5:26:33 AM 10/03/07 “chappy - In some (maybe all) branches of martial arts, your rank is limited in time, like maybe two years. Don't be surprised if you have to start over.” 5:32:51 AM 10/03/07 Sunrise over the ocean “  Hope the sun shines beautifully on you all today.” 5:51:05 AM 10/03/07 “Lol, Dayhiker! Can we have that rain, please? Nothing measurable in over 6 weeks as far as precipitation here. We're over a foot low for precip, and the local lake/ reservoir is now 6.25 feet down. Not as bad as Athens Ga., which has about 40 days of water left in it's reservoir. My splurge (early birthday gift?) arrived yesterday- the Rembrandt 225-count pastel set, in a nice wooden case. Gotta love cheapjoes.com! I'm on my second red bull of the morning already. I was doing quite well for a few weeks with little or no caffeine, and two (might as well be thre) sleepless nights in a row blew that all to heck.” 5:53:50 AM 10/03/07 “Good morning, nice picture CG. We haven't had much rain here either, maybe a quarter inch in the past month. I read in the paper the local farmers are reporting a great pumpkin harvest this year from some summer rain we had.” 6:16:32 AM 10/03/07 “Apparently the only crop to really thrive with this drought is the wine grape crop. Lots of growers and vintners are saying this years' wine will be incredible.” 6:46:53 AM 10/03/07 “Morning. Yesterdays rains scored us 3.5 inches, according to my very unscientific rain guage. Had more htis morning, but not too significant. Sunny now, will head out for our daily walk soon, I hope! Tree, feel free to send me some of that wine! And happy early birthday!” 6:58:46 AM 10/03/07 “Thanks SG! If I can get some I'll try and send it to you! My birthday isn't until November 15th though! How's the bambina?” 7:06:48 AM 10/03/07 “She's not sleeping. Like, for two days now. Its always an adventure, isn't it???” 9:53:16 AM 10/03/07 “I knew a guy at school who stayed awake for three days. The guys with the butterfly nets came and took him away...... ” 9:58:34 AM 10/03/07 “It's been a very nice morning, I rode my bike to the market today to pick up potatoes, local eggs and local made butter (it comes as a roll, unlike the stuff you see in the grocery stores) They are getting to know me there and now I no longer have to remind them not to bag my stuff as I bring my own cloth bags that I made from old sheets and the door guy always watches my bike for me lol :) last edited: 10/03/07 9:44:31 AM” 10:00:57 AM 10/03/07 “Ok, its too early....naw, it's just right....quiet, peaceful, early.....got my five hours of sleep so now I'm ready to move about, get coffee, maybe bike out the country hills........my wife fell asleep about 20 minutes ago. She had some tea last night and when she does that she can't sleep from the caffein. So I'm up and she aint.....hehe........ What's with this time??? It's 4:10 here, not 2:06??? last edited: 10/04/07 1:54:51 AM” 2:06:47 AM 10/04/07 “Morning! I'm up surfing the internet on how to make a toga. Its spirit week at school for G, and he needs toga for today. Good times! My folks and sister are coming up today for lunch. It'll be nice to have some company, especially the kind where I can pass the baby off, go take a nap, and someone will do my dishes. :)) Another gorgeous day here in Michigan - temps in the 80's today, unheard of for October! Enjoy the day.” 4:06:40 AM 10/04/07 “Good morning! I'm officially off the coffee. I've been dealing with a sinus infection for the past week and nothing tasted good so I stopped making it (alredy had the headache). Now that I'm regaining my taste I'm going to start drinking a cup of ginger tea in the morning. I don't need no stinkin' caffeine. Less weight in the backpack eh? Raking and mowing today. It's going to be gorgeous out there! Have a wonderful day everyone.” 4:45:56 AM 10/04/07 “Sassy, return to the dark side.........” 5:04:06 AM 10/04/07 “I probably will eventually but for now I've got two thousand coffee filters if anyone needs some, lol.” 5:38:37 AM 10/04/07 “I'm drinking red bull, myself. The coffee (or is it the splenda? They both cause it) was giving me pretty serious gastric upset the other day. Of course I did make it double strength (by accident, honest) and drank an entire pot of it. The good thing is I slept well last night, so I don't need a big caffeine kick this morning. There's purportedly a 60% chance if rain today; I checked the radar and its all moving away from this area, in a big circle. How did that happen? Oh well. I'm off to putter in the pond pit again. Oh the joy.” 5:46:56 AM 10/04/07 “It's raining!!! It was so nice to wake up to the soft rain outside this morning. We are only supposed to get 1/4 of an inch but we will take it! Have a great day!” 6:20:23 AM 10/04/07 Jump to Page << prev
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