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By all means, be safe...and do as your instincts dictate!! As long as you're careful, you should be ok....but you know your situation best!! Good luck!
Don't get me wrong, I'll be growing until they wheel me out of here in a straight jacket! :rofl: I am all but prepared to be a martyr for medical marijuana patience in my state! I was just saying how anxious I am getting... Mostly in anticipation for some of those "good buds" of days past! LolRoddy said:By all means, be safe...and do as your instincts dictate!! As long as you're careful, you should be ok....but you know your situation best!! Good luck!
That's rough about your buddy but you can't blame yourself: number one, the motorcycle only does what the operator "tells" it too... Number two, it would've happened some other way, when it's your time to go; well... You know the saying! And it sounds like the other guy is one he'll of a buddy! Must have money lying around; I'm a good friend but never bought any of my buddies more than say lunch or a tank of gas... Maybe an electric bill here and there!:rofl: I'm just saying that your actions of giving the bike away had no influence on his decision to abuse the massive power two wheels between your legs gives you... Ultimately, be it his fault or the fault of another motorist, his time was up and was needed for something larger than himself is all! Don't beat yourself up anymore, life is difficult enough without guilt and regret!Roddy said:OK, bike story time...
My friend (like a father to me) was the president of a local biker club, a crazy man indeed. He doesn't ride anymore due to alot of friends losing their lives to distracted drivers. I had been seeing the gas crunch about 5 years ago and decided I needed something to get me back and forth to work (20 miles each way). While I have always been an avid bike rider (wasn't uncommon for me to pedal 20-30 miles a day when I was in my prime), I have to be at work by 6am most mornings and the hour and a half ride meant this was out of the question, so I went to work building a motorized bike.
I don't have a pic, sorry, but I built a chopper style bike from a Giant chopper style pedal bike, custom made a motor mount, drive system and customized the ride so it was comfortable and safe! Bike would go 40 mph and get 160 mpg, but my riding it daily to work or anywhere else, even going on a few hundred miler trips made my friend worry. He decided I needed a motorcycle and bought it for me.
That was a Yamaha V-Star 650...small bike, but my first and I enjoyed it. I bought my Kawasaki Vulcan 900LT a few years back, giving my Yam to a friend...the one wearing the fakie helmet and was killed while on the bike. Not a day goes by this doesn't hit me, but life is what it is, we all do what we do to make it.
I haven't got my bike out yet, it's still a bit early...but I will get her out and I will enjoy another summer of RIDE! If you're on the roads this summer, PLEASE look TWICE, save a LIFE!!!!
I too have problems slowing down at times and make mistakes, Gixxer, no worries! My back pain is the main reason for my medical mj prescription, but the calming effect is a great bonus!
Thx a ton bud! I really am fairly new at this, but all I do when I'm not smoking or tending to the crop is read about cultivation (not just weed either, I like to breed Asiatic lilies as well) I just apply what makes sense to me personally and ignore that which seems to good to be true, or is just completely preposterous! The chain seems to be WAY stronger than it would have taken a 25 lb light future to break it... I know I can pull harder than the light weighs! That's the whole reason I got the chain I did: I couldn't break it so thought it'd work fine! Either way, I went over this morning and tied the batch under the now missing one closer in towards the stalk, bringing the end of said branch about 2 inches closer to the top: comparable to the placement of the missing branch! May actually work out for me! My partner is a complete Newbie and had never seen plants "sleeping" before... So when the light came back on at 2 am, he called me freaking out that they were looking droopy!:rofl: I said "give it twenty minutes and check her again!" he's all freaking out and says "twenty minutes? We gotta do something now, it's bad!" I said "just keep your hands off for 20 minutes and call me back! If they're not reaching for the light I'll be there within ten minutes to take care of it!" ten minutes later the phone rings, "they look fine, what the he'll happened? How'd you know what was wrong?" I said "they were without light for four hours, they fell "asleep" so to speak!" traumatic experience for him I think!faderharley said:Tuff luck on bending your plant...I grow CFLs w/clamp on fixtures...I always worry about a CFL dropping, have not happened yet.... as u know been following ur grow and :holysheep: you know your stuff....good luck w/the bent plant
You must have been online at the same time as me earlier... I didn't even have time to respond to fader!:rofl: I didn't even notice that you'd posted after my previous and before my last entry! LOL CRAZY!!!Roddy said:Nah, a driver pulled in front of my friend and he had to lock the brakes. After sliding past the truck, my buddy made a fatal mistake when he let off the brake (we believe) and the bike went from a skid into a hop and then rolled.
Yes, my buddy is a millionaire lol, and very kind at that! As I said though, he is like a father and I am sure I am like a son...
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