Island Of Misfits

[ROSTERMAN]

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

My Wife starts Chemo and Radiation treatments Monday. She has 6 weeks of it 5 days a week. Chemo is only one day a week. Thank goodness hers hadn't spread. She has stage 2 Vulvar Cancer. They said they should be able to get all of it.

Good luck with the treatment brother!! Ohmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

55F @ 90% RH, cloudy, and predicted to reach 79F.

Breakfast at Gravy's yesterday with NM, who helped me reorganize my garage enough to show my lathe to a prospective buyer, who paid asking price. I also had three other full price offers, but sold it to the first person that actually showed up.

We had to use my engine hoist to load it and it is amazing that after removing the lathe, the cabinet that it sits on, and all the ancillaries, I still barely got the garage door closed...................

Grayfox returned from Ashland early, after the water pump at the B&B that they rented failed, leaving them without water.

 

[leafminer]

I can't do much with my left hand in a terrible state and my elbow wrapped up but I managed to put five of the Superskunk seeds in. I've still got to make up four more pots for the Oaxaca sativas that popped a week ago.

 

[Bubba]

I can't do much with my left hand in a terrible state and my elbow wrapped up but I managed to put five of the Superskunk seeds in. I've still got to make up four more pots for the Oaxaca sativas that popped a week ago.

I hope you are right handed if you left is banged up. Still frustrating when trying to get something done. From opening doors to carrying things.

Oaxaca. That and Michoacán certainly stir up fond memories. Tasty treats from days of yore.

Bubba

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

62F @ 92% RH, and predicted to reach 71F.

Breakfast out and a day of rest and relaxation. Lots of crowds at the food court as well as traffic. Things starting to move again.

I dug out my last NOS Gast pump, but didn't install it yet. I plan to hook it up and run it before installing this time, in case it is a dud as well. My new Jeep headlight awaits installation as well, but it is raining, so I will continue to put it off.

Check out my latest Creme Brulee recipe: https://graywolfslair.com/index.php/...ulee-sous-vide

 

[pute]

Morning Misfits. Need to water the grass and plants every day with this fricken hot spell. Fires are already starting in the mountains. Seemed like half the state burned up last year..... hopefully this year won't be a repeat.

Looks like house cleaning day ....yuk!! Necessary evil. There should be some kind of a law against men doing this.

Watching the news....think it is time to do something interesting like house cleaning.

 

[Unca Walt]

Well, I found out what Scooter is gonna put his farm up for: $900K.

 

[Hippie420]

Will he take a two party, out of state check?

 

[leafminer]

Still got to make up one more 5 gallon bucket for a sativa. Being short of pots I drilled holes in the base of an empty 6 gallon detergent bucket. Needs must. Gotta buy more pots before the skunk pops. How big does skunk get? First time I've grown it.

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

61F @ 91% RH, rain, and predicted to reach 71F.

Snicker, snark, snort, sometimes things work out better than expected. I started removing the second "broken" Gast vacuum pump to replace it and discovered that the condenser wire had come loose. After putting the wire back on the proper terminal, the pump worked fine.

Alas and alack! Something has gone wrong in my bio mechanical left knee, so that I can no longer straighten it out all the way. I think it is a result of a fall I took last year, after slipping on a wet sidewalk traction pad, but I won't know until they get it x-rayed on the 22nd. I fear I am in for another knee surgery..................

 

[Unca Walt]

Will he take a two party, out of state check?

That is almost a line from one of my magazine articles... I was griping about the guy with two shopping carts full of groceries who got ahead of me in the "10 Items" line. So I was standing there with my melting two half-gallons of ice cream while he made out a two-party check from a bank in Portugal...

Scooter's farm has a few very important pluses: It is 600' off the road with a straight driveway to it. There are 200 year old oaks, a pond full of tame fish with a bridge to an island, an artesian well that flows all the time (it looks like a pipe/wheel factory outlet). It is 1200 feet deep!

This ain't it, but sorta like it. His feeds the pond with fresh water continually with no gushing noticeable, and he had access to fresh water forever (taps in the pipe to the pond are connected to the house):

Oh. And he has a hurricane-proof house and barn as well as a nice caretaker house.

 

[Unca Walt]

61F @ 91% RH, rain, and predicted to reach 71F.

Snicker, snark, snort, sometimes things work out better than expected. I started removing the second "broken" Gast vacuum pump to replace it and discovered that the condenser wire had come loose. After putting the wire back on the proper terminal, the pump worked fine.

Alas and alack! Something has gone wrong in my bio mechanical left knee, so that I can no longer straighten it out all the way. I think it is a result of a fall I took last year, after slipping on a wet sidewalk traction pad, but I won't know until they get it x-rayed on the 22nd. I fear I am in for another knee surgery..................

I have large U-nails holding my knee on. It doesn't bend enough for me to ride a bike, but it does go straight. Had four surgeries on that side (only two on the right).

 

[user 60570]

That is almost a line from one of my magazine articles... I was griping about the guy with two shopping carts full of groceries who got ahead of me in the "10 Items" line. So I was standing there with my melting two half-gallons of ice cream while he made out a two-party check from a bank in Portugal...

Scooter's farm has a few very important pluses: It is 600' off the road with a straight driveway to it. There are 200 year old oaks, a pond full of tame fish with a bridge to an island, an artesian well that flows all the time (it looks like a pipe/wheel factory outlet). It is 1200 feet deep!

This ain't it, but sorta like it. His feeds the pond with fresh water continually with no gushing noticeable, and he had access to fresh water forever (taps in the pipe to the pond are connected to the house):
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Oh. And he has a hurricane-proof house and barn as well as a nice caretaker house.

how do you know it is 1200’ deep?......just curious but is it also salty from the ocean?

 

[user 60570]

Well, I found out what Scooter is gonna put his farm up for: $900K.

hows the market down there?

it is a sellers market in Colorado ......$25,000 dollar fixer uppers are going for $98,500.00

it is worse in Washington , friend just bought a bungalow in Tokeland and paid $85,000.00.......they had to gut the entire house , all 850 sq ft , but can’t rebuild right now because a 2 x 4 costs $14 bucks , 3/4 inch OSB $118.00 a sheet

 

[Unca Walt]

how do you know it is 1200’ deep?......just curious but is it also salty from the ocean?

ALL artesian wells are registered in the state of Floriduh. Depth, flow, when made, yada. The water at 1200' is purer than anything you can get anywhere else, bottled or whatever.

 

[user 60570]

ALL artesian wells are registered in the state of Floriduh. Depth, flow, when made, yada. The water at 1200' is purer than anything you can get anywhere else, bottled or whatever.

that is amazing!

with DeSantis at the helm , Florida is a very attractive option...

only time I was there was when out Squadron spent 2 weeks playing war games in Panama City....

damn , that Florida gets more attractive to us than the Pacific Northwest...both are great places to live aboard a sailboat and explore the inter coastal waterways

 

[Unca Walt]

hows the market down there?

it is a sellers market in Colorado ......$25,000 dollar fixer uppers are going for $98,500.00

it is worse in Washington , friend just bought a bungalow in Tokeland and paid $85,000.00.......they had to gut the entire house , all 850 sq ft , but can’t rebuild right now because a 2 x 4 costs $14 bucks , 3/4 inch OSB $118.00 a sheet

The market everywhere is crazy. This is a result of several big things going on at once:

1. Inflation... is here. In spades, doubled. People are getting fiat converted to houses.

2. The Chicoms (<-- TINS) are buying properties all over the US. Huge $$$.

3. Banks have too much cash <-- their words. And they want to lend it out to anybody with a heartbeat.

 

[user 60570]

The market everywhere is crazy. This is a result of several big things going on at once:

1. Inflation... is here. In spades, doubled. People are getting fiat converted to houses.

2. The Chicoms (<-- TINS) are buying properties all over the US. Huge $$$.

3. Banks have too much cash <-- their words. And they want to lend it out to anybody with a heartbeat.

that is suicidal crazy , selling American land to our sworn enemies , the commies

who the feck voted for that law!?

I wonder if Americans can buy Chinese land ?.......although I would question why in the world would anyone want land in China?

 

[Unca Walt]

that is amazing!

with DeSantis at the helm , Florida is a very attractive option...

only time I was there was when out Squadron spent 2 weeks playing war games in Panama City....

damn , that Florida gets more attractive to us than the Pacific Northwest...both are great places to live aboard a sailboat and explore the inter coastal waterways

DeSantis walks on water. Mebbe a tad above it. He was on the phone with some big shot in DC who wanted him to refer to him as "Mr. President". His response was NOT censored by Public Relation*** folks: "F uck you!"

***At Bastogne, McAuliff did NOT say "Nuts!" to the German officer demanding the surrender. He gave the same answer as the surrounded-by-cannons remainder of Napoleon's army shouted at Waterloo when told to surrender: "Merde!" <-- The Krauts might not know what "Nuts" meant, but they sure as he-ll knew "Merde!"

It was immediately changed when publicized when they typed it up. It was, after all, 1944... And Clark Gable had just made movie audiences gasp when they heard him say "damn".

 

[Unca Walt]

that is suicidal crazy , selling American land to our sworn enemies , the commies

who the feck voted for that law!?

I wonder if Americans can buy Chinese land ?.......although I would question why in the world would anyone want land in China?

They are putting BILLIONS into this... I am not exaggerating. Lookit:

"Currently 30 million acres of American farmland is owned by foreign investors or fully 2.2 percent of all American farmland. For context, that’s an area roughly the size of Mississippi or Pennsylvania These are effectively absentee landlords who own some of the best real estate in the United States.

For its part, China owned 191,000 acres worth $1.9 billion as of 2019. This might not sound like a lot, but Chinese ownership of American farmland has exploded dramatically over the last decade. Indeed, there has been a tenfold expansion of Chinese ownership of farmland in the United States in less than a decade.

They use local salespeople and call their own selves American-sounding companies.

I would not be surprised if the Chicoms buy Scooter's farm. But how can Scooter tell?