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I've always wanted to take a week to go 500 hundred miles and this year was the year. We just got a new car (the wife's): Which turned out to be the perfect car for touring the mountain roads. The speed limits are 35 and 45, with lots to see and many stops. We kept the top down most of the...

If you've been around a while you might remember my previous visits to the farm. If not, here are the links of the previous posts: Winter on the farm Harvest time I just finished a visit to the farm during planting, so this pretty much completes the full season. The plants start out as...

A while back I posted a thread asking for advice about some stereo equipment. Specifically I was trying to outfit my workshop with some new tunes and I wanted to be able to play my iPod. (Link to that thread). It started off pretty simply, but with some good advice from everybody, the stuff I...

I have a workshop in the backyard and it needs some decent tunes. It's a barn-shaped building, 12 feet wide and 32 feet deep. It's basically two 12x16 barns stuck end to end. The back half is the dirty and noisy end...table saw, drill press, miter saws, blower fan. The front half is the...

Pics are on page 2.... It's a contest, plus I'm trying to get my post count into 4-digits...I think I may win the "slowest CP'er to 1000 posts" award... Anyway, here's the deal. It's a simple contest, amuse or entertain me in some way with your idea. It doesn't have to be "doable", but I am...

Surfin', redneck style! A neighbor several doors down had a good sized oak tree taken down. They left these logs piled in his front yard and were supposed to come take them away. We asked him if we could have a couple for firewood and they said "Sure, take all you want.". They were so...

We had a trailer load of downed branches mostly from our yard, but a few from the neighbors on both sides. My wife offered to ride along and help with the unloading (I loaded it all). We actually went to the local transfer station. In case they don't have these where you live or you've never...

In case you were wondering how it's going in Central Florida. It's raining. And windy. I came home last night to a leaking roof, broken A/C and a stuck shop door. Just one of those days. I managed to get a bucket jammed in just the right spot in the attic and will call the roof guy today...

I'm looking for the before and after picture of the house and the house with Santa...it was done a by one of the guys here for another brother's family to help convince the young ones that Santa was really there...I don't remember all the details, but I'm sure somebody does. I searched for it...

I know it's kind of long-shot posting here, but hey, you guys know everything right? I mean, as a community, we're a cigar-smoking version of Google! I've been trying to find this out for a couple of days now and haven't been able to figure it out. It is very Oracle-database-specific. (you've...

Hey, no kidding. My son brings in the mail and I spot the box right away. Them newbies are getting plenty smart! This time only a bogus return address. I opened the box carefully (I've sent a few special bombs and you never know what's going to show up in the mail) and a bag of cigars...

I cut the tip of my thumb off with a cigar cutter! We are walking around in The Plaza (Kansas City)...it's a beautiful day, sunny, not too cold. We brought a few cigars with us, but don't have any matches so we take a quick trip through Diebel's Sportsman Club (nice walk-in humidor, friendly...

Earlier this month my wife and I celebrated our 25th Wedding Anniversary. She scored big time with a custom-made humidor (thread linky) and I did ok with a week in the Georgia mountains at this place: We haven't been before and we have talked about going forever, so I made all the...

We celebrated our 25th Wedding Anniversary early in March and my wife gave me this custom-built humidor. She commissioned it back in Sept and has been secretly working on it with the guy for months. She even snuck out into my shop and stole my last piece of black walnut that I had left over...

Timothy Trapped in a mine that had caved in And everyone knows the only ones left Were Joe and me and Tim When they broke through to pull us free The only ones left to tell the tale Were Joe and me Timothy, Timothy, where on earth did you go? Timothy, Timothy, God why don't I know...

I had the chance to take a few pictures, so thought I would post the first lesson. The cavers/climbers also know this knot, but probably tie it differently. It is an easy knot to tie, it can be used for all kinds of situations and you can get it out even after it is wet and under strain. Ok...

I've had a fascination with knot tying for a while and have learned a few that really come in handy. I thought I would offer a couple of short lessons in knot tying if anybody is interested. I learned a whole bunch of them, but you really only need to know a couple. The all-purpose knots can...

I was following a thread in the humi forum about making trays for single storage and there was some discussion about glue. There was lots of good advice there and I thought it might be helpful to provide "glue basics" for some folks... There are many different kinds of glue and they aren't...

I've been working on this for 6 months and it is finally coming together. Here's the pic: The story: My wife works in a store located in a local strip mall. One of the other stores was a picture framing store and the guy bought another store across town and consolidated both of his locations...

I thought I would post this here (rather than the review forum), because although it's about a great cigar I recently smoked, it's also about my disappointment in my own attempts at tracking and organization. Last weekend, I had a few chores to do (clean the pool, straighten up the shop) that...