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"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")
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silenthunterstudios
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Thanks, they are handsome devils.
Hi,
It's a bit warm and sticky out in the garden today. But I got a 5gal pail of stringbeans picked and a good bunch of peppers. Sitting under the big ash tree with a couple of big bowls, tall glasses of iced tea, two dogs, and my Bride. We snapped beans for about an hour and just talked. Well, as generally the case for the last 21 years, she talked and snapped while I mostly listened and cut the beans I did with what ever knife is in my pocket. Today that was my 34OT.
It was relaxing and comfortable. It's good to grow older with someone.
Dale
It's a bit warm and sticky out in the garden today. But I got a 5gal pail of stringbeans picked and a good bunch of peppers. Sitting under the big ash tree with a couple of big bowls, tall glasses of iced tea, two dogs, and my Bride. We snapped beans for about an hour and just talked. Well, as generally the case for the last 21 years, she talked and snapped while I mostly listened and cut the beans I did with what ever knife is in my pocket. Today that was my 34OT.
It was relaxing and comfortable. It's good to grow older with someone.
Dale
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And here I am sitting on the couch with my dog who is passing gas. I was just wondering how much longer I have to put up with this.
(My wife is smarter, she's outside on the deck.
)P.S. Dale, I liked your little narrative. It has a nice homey feel to it. :thumbup:
Hi,
Thanks. We paid for it this evening. I did two callouts for weather watch. The first time I had rotation directly over my head. Watched it touch down and bounce back up in a bean field about a 1/4 mile away. We set the sirens off in town for that one. Lost a few trees in town.
The second watch was uneventful. But it's just miserable to sit out there in all that heavy turnout gear in the heat and mugginess. And I still managed to squeeze in traffic control for a downed power line and an ambulance call between the two watches.
So I'm having a beer and trying wind down a bit before I hit the bed.
Dale
Thanks. We paid for it this evening. I did two callouts for weather watch. The first time I had rotation directly over my head. Watched it touch down and bounce back up in a bean field about a 1/4 mile away. We set the sirens off in town for that one. Lost a few trees in town.
The second watch was uneventful. But it's just miserable to sit out there in all that heavy turnout gear in the heat and mugginess. And I still managed to squeeze in traffic control for a downed power line and an ambulance call between the two watches.
So I'm having a beer and trying wind down a bit before I hit the bed.
Dale
silenthunterstudios
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Good luck with the twisters, I hope they don't touch down in your area. Be glad your garden is doing well, not much left in mine, what the weather didn't get, the groundhogs and deer are.
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We had 8 twister sightings across the northern metro area of Minneapolis last night. What a storm we had in my town! Rain coming is sideways at 70+ mph. Relieved there is no damage when suveying everything this morning. I've resided and reroofed my house twice in 11 years from hail damage.
But is was pretty cool immediately following the storm we had the biggest rainbow I've ever seen.
But is was pretty cool immediately following the storm we had the biggest rainbow I've ever seen.
Hi,
I'm 100 miles west of you in the Willmar area Cory. And I'm very glad there were no reports of injuries here and it's good to hear you are safe also.
It was a bumpy night. Though it was very localized. The worst weather was 10 to 12 miles north of us. We had reports of straight line wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph in the county. We had estimated winds of up to 50mph locally. I think we may have had a very weak tornado on the SW corner of town. There is a 100yd wide strip about 1/3 mile long that took a few trees. No other real damage though.
I thought the wall cloud was just classically beautiful as it passed overhead. The view of the rotation starting to form over head was incredible. Watching the the clouds move and swirl is an awesome sight. I never get tired of seeing it. My Wife tends to think I'm nuts and that I have a deathwish.
Dale
I'm 100 miles west of you in the Willmar area Cory. And I'm very glad there were no reports of injuries here and it's good to hear you are safe also.
It was a bumpy night. Though it was very localized. The worst weather was 10 to 12 miles north of us. We had reports of straight line wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph in the county. We had estimated winds of up to 50mph locally. I think we may have had a very weak tornado on the SW corner of town. There is a 100yd wide strip about 1/3 mile long that took a few trees. No other real damage though.
I thought the wall cloud was just classically beautiful as it passed overhead. The view of the rotation starting to form over head was incredible. Watching the the clouds move and swirl is an awesome sight. I never get tired of seeing it. My Wife tends to think I'm nuts and that I have a deathwish.
Dale
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111°? 
Eesh. I once went to Palm Springs for a work trip and it was 115°. My nose started bleeding within 20 minutes it was so dry and hot. But I'll take a cooker of a day anytime over hunkering in a basement while tornadoes and straightline winds go through. Hearing things hit your house (and peices come off) is a total a nightmare.
Minnesota has been pummeled with more tornadoes than any state in the Union this year. I think I'll move to Kansas or Oklahoma where its a bit safer.
Eesh. I once went to Palm Springs for a work trip and it was 115°. My nose started bleeding within 20 minutes it was so dry and hot. But I'll take a cooker of a day anytime over hunkering in a basement while tornadoes and straightline winds go through. Hearing things hit your house (and peices come off) is a total a nightmare. Minnesota has been pummeled with more tornadoes than any state in the Union this year. I think I'll move to Kansas or Oklahoma where its a bit safer.
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Hi,
Be grateful it's not a SoCal wildfire?
Dale
Or an oil soaked beach property.
I guess we all have crap to deal with thats out of our hands, no matter where we live.
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Or an oil soaked beach property.
I guess we all have crap to deal with thats out of our hands, no matter where we live.
Ain't that the truth...
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New topic to discuss: Sounds that bring you back home.
When I was a kid growing up in south Florida, my dad was too cheap to run the air-conditioning unless the house was actually on fire (even then, maybe not). Consequently, I spent most nights in bed asleep with the windows open. One of the sounds that - to this day - makes me feel safe and secure, is listening to the pounding rain of a heavy thunderstorm. Where I live now, serious thunderstorms are a pretty rare occurrence. But growing up, you'd have a night like that once or twice a week in the summer, at least. Sometimes my mom's dad would spend the night at our place and he always slept in my bed. I was proud to bunk out on the floor in my sleeping bag and I really looked forward to these nights because, of course, we'd lay there in the dark and have long talks about all the important issues of the world. If it were one of those rare nights where both Pop was there and it stormed? Well, that was heaven to a little kid.
What about you guys? Any sounds that just make you think about home?
-- Mark
When I was a kid growing up in south Florida, my dad was too cheap to run the air-conditioning unless the house was actually on fire (even then, maybe not). Consequently, I spent most nights in bed asleep with the windows open. One of the sounds that - to this day - makes me feel safe and secure, is listening to the pounding rain of a heavy thunderstorm. Where I live now, serious thunderstorms are a pretty rare occurrence. But growing up, you'd have a night like that once or twice a week in the summer, at least. Sometimes my mom's dad would spend the night at our place and he always slept in my bed. I was proud to bunk out on the floor in my sleeping bag and I really looked forward to these nights because, of course, we'd lay there in the dark and have long talks about all the important issues of the world. If it were one of those rare nights where both Pop was there and it stormed? Well, that was heaven to a little kid.
What about you guys? Any sounds that just make you think about home?
-- Mark
Hi,
Oh man, the sounds, (and smells), of cows moving in the stanchions waiting to be milked. And the sound of the vacuum compressor running.
And the sound of a flock of Canada geese flying out to feed against a steel grey sky. A couple Pheasant roosters challenging each other across a field in the morning.
Dale
Oh man, the sounds, (and smells), of cows moving in the stanchions waiting to be milked. And the sound of the vacuum compressor running.
And the sound of a flock of Canada geese flying out to feed against a steel grey sky. A couple Pheasant roosters challenging each other across a field in the morning.
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Minnesota has been pummeled with more tornadoes than any state in the Union this year. I think I'll move to Kansas or Oklahoma where its a bit safer.
Michigan sees its share or tornadoes but my first "too close for comfort" actual sighting of a tornado/funnel cloud was in Roseville, MN a few years back.
I was on business and actually called the hotel front desk to find out where the shelter was. The answer was "We don't have one. Try to stay away from the windows."
Really? Thanks. Between the wind and lightning striking everything in sight, that was the only time the weather actually scared the snot out of me.
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Talk about pucker factor...I was riding my motorcycle on I-49 on the way to Shreveport, LA from Lafayette when I noticed the sky turning an ominous shade of green.
I escaped the twister that was being touched off in the distance but never rode through a storm so violent or blinding in all my years on two wheels. I think I was pelted with everything but the kitchen sink.
With nowhere to turn for shelter, I was trying to feel my way down the road on faith as I couldn't see the road in front of me and hoped that I wouldn't end up riding up the rear end of a tractor trailer (or vice versa). Mother Nature can be very fickle. Certainly gained my respect (and thanks for surviving) that day.
I escaped the twister that was being touched off in the distance but never rode through a storm so violent or blinding in all my years on two wheels. I think I was pelted with everything but the kitchen sink.
With nowhere to turn for shelter, I was trying to feel my way down the road on faith as I couldn't see the road in front of me and hoped that I wouldn't end up riding up the rear end of a tractor trailer (or vice versa). Mother Nature can be very fickle. Certainly gained my respect (and thanks for surviving) that day.
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Mother Nature and the weather is nothing to scoff at. I wish everyone good fortune with tornado's, flooding, wild fires etc. in your area.
This story is along the lines of Elliott's bike ride as far as being out , no shelter when things go bad.
I had JUST gotten my Super bee back from the paint shop(I along with my son's, daughter's , wife did the prep body work)about a week before and was heading home and a Missouri hail storm loomed its ugly head. The ONLY shelter was a large bank's over hanging roof over its drive up stations. When I pulled in, all spots were already taken. Some un-known guy in a older sedan saw me pull in, noticed no spots were left, looked at me, backed out and waved me into his spot! He must have been an old car lover, and I still thank him when the weather turns bad and I have my car out.
This story is along the lines of Elliott's bike ride as far as being out , no shelter when things go bad.
I had JUST gotten my Super bee back from the paint shop(I along with my son's, daughter's , wife did the prep body work)about a week before and was heading home and a Missouri hail storm loomed its ugly head. The ONLY shelter was a large bank's over hanging roof over its drive up stations. When I pulled in, all spots were already taken. Some un-known guy in a older sedan saw me pull in, noticed no spots were left, looked at me, backed out and waved me into his spot! He must have been an old car lover, and I still thank him when the weather turns bad and I have my car out.