Roger B
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Trying to catch up!!
Holy crap you guys! I am knee-deep in alligators, trying to put in a nail-down, solid-bamboo floor in the spare bedroom and yesterday I worked trying to finish it up from lobstering time (0545 - 0700) until dark and I didn't have enough wind left in my sails to even bother to light off the computer.. This job is whipping my arse via my knees (which aren't worth two-cents) but all I have left to do today is inside one-end of the closet and the "shutter-plank". (Last board on the inside wall.)
Anyway, we're not going out lobstering this morning until 0645, (slack tide at high tide), so I had enough time to open this thing up and read all the posts.. I've still got to go read Tom's travelogue.
OK Boo, you've almost shamed me into it, but if you told Becky that I squandered $10 on a 'bet', I wouldn't need a knee replacement because she cut me "off" at the knees! What are the rules going to be? And I'd at least want the right to cast a new number out there, closer to the closing date..
Doc, I'm glad it wasn't us that have been troubling you, tell the dude to piss-off and block him.. Nice tractor job for your son, by the way.. If you go back far enough on this thing, you'll see that I had a CASE 442 at one time, but I ended up selling it as a basket case.. I am NOT - anywhere near - as accomplished at mechanics as you obviously are. That's why it's nice to have you (and the rest of the guys) - aboard.. (My father would agree with you - motors ARE either electric or hydraulic! They are not engines or vice-versa.)
I sure hope the fog scales this morning! I can't even see across to the mainland today and that's only a couple hundred yards here at the narrows. The GPS on the neighbors boat takes several minutes to align itself (it's old!) and we're usually down to the can buoy at the North end of the island (assuming we can find it when it's foggy) before the damn thing knows where it is!
Any of you guys knife nuts?? I watch "Deadliest Catch" sometimes, (just to remind myself of how easy we have it lobstering) and it occurred to me that if I got tangled in the pot-warp (rope) and hauled overboard, that I probably wouldn't be able to reach my clip knife that I keep on the waistband of my dungarees, when I'm wearing Grundens. So I've ordered a CRKT blunt-tip, Bear Claw as a safety knife that I'll attach to the shoulder strap on my Grunden overalls. https://www.crkt.com/bear-claw-e-r.html
I don't know if I'm getting paranoid in my old age, or actually being sensible.. Anyway, I like knives, so that's cool...
Keep on keeping on boys, I gotta go fishin' and then finish that damn floor... (Then I've got to mill-out all the mop boards and install them, - then re-cut and re-hang the doors, - then - - - Geez, I'm never going to finish this project!!
Roger
Holy crap you guys! I am knee-deep in alligators, trying to put in a nail-down, solid-bamboo floor in the spare bedroom and yesterday I worked trying to finish it up from lobstering time (0545 - 0700) until dark and I didn't have enough wind left in my sails to even bother to light off the computer.. This job is whipping my arse via my knees (which aren't worth two-cents) but all I have left to do today is inside one-end of the closet and the "shutter-plank". (Last board on the inside wall.)
Anyway, we're not going out lobstering this morning until 0645, (slack tide at high tide), so I had enough time to open this thing up and read all the posts.. I've still got to go read Tom's travelogue.
OK Boo, you've almost shamed me into it, but if you told Becky that I squandered $10 on a 'bet', I wouldn't need a knee replacement because she cut me "off" at the knees! What are the rules going to be? And I'd at least want the right to cast a new number out there, closer to the closing date..
Doc, I'm glad it wasn't us that have been troubling you, tell the dude to piss-off and block him.. Nice tractor job for your son, by the way.. If you go back far enough on this thing, you'll see that I had a CASE 442 at one time, but I ended up selling it as a basket case.. I am NOT - anywhere near - as accomplished at mechanics as you obviously are. That's why it's nice to have you (and the rest of the guys) - aboard.. (My father would agree with you - motors ARE either electric or hydraulic! They are not engines or vice-versa.)
I sure hope the fog scales this morning! I can't even see across to the mainland today and that's only a couple hundred yards here at the narrows. The GPS on the neighbors boat takes several minutes to align itself (it's old!) and we're usually down to the can buoy at the North end of the island (assuming we can find it when it's foggy) before the damn thing knows where it is!
Any of you guys knife nuts?? I watch "Deadliest Catch" sometimes, (just to remind myself of how easy we have it lobstering) and it occurred to me that if I got tangled in the pot-warp (rope) and hauled overboard, that I probably wouldn't be able to reach my clip knife that I keep on the waistband of my dungarees, when I'm wearing Grundens. So I've ordered a CRKT blunt-tip, Bear Claw as a safety knife that I'll attach to the shoulder strap on my Grunden overalls. https://www.crkt.com/bear-claw-e-r.html
I don't know if I'm getting paranoid in my old age, or actually being sensible.. Anyway, I like knives, so that's cool...
Keep on keeping on boys, I gotta go fishin' and then finish that damn floor... (Then I've got to mill-out all the mop boards and install them, - then re-cut and re-hang the doors, - then - - - Geez, I'm never going to finish this project!!
Roger
