"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Prester John said:
Speaking of Maryland, I spent 10 days in Baltimore around Christmas and New Year's (over 30 years ago). Never been so cold in my life! I'm staying in south Texas. Love my gun rights, too.
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Baltimore gets that damp cold off the water. I don't miss Maryland in general at all. A few things here and there, like the fresh crabs and oysters from the bay, the eastern hardwood forest with real trees, and some ethnic dining like Sabatino's in Baltimore, or the Smithsonian Museums. But I love Texas and if it ever warms up again, we'll drive down to Padre Island for some beach time and fresh gulf shrimp.:thumbsup::)
 
Prester John said:
Candy, champagne, and a filet mignon dinner at home. No roses this year--my wife gets mad if I spend too much money on flowers. And she knows what I spend because she handles the bills now!
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Very nice spread, but Champagne (real stuff) must be costly in the US ?

As for cut flowers, I've gone over to giving potted plants especially flowering types camellias , Hibiscus, Chrysanthemums, Gardenia etc. They last longer and they even survive for some seasons, environmental.:cool:

Plus, you might need a Pruner to take cuttings ...:D

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jackknife said:
Yeah, I know you're right! At least here in Texas, I still have my second amendment rights, unlike either California or my old home state of the Peoples Republik Of Maryland! My son in law retired this past year from his job, and our daughter has one year to go to pull the plug on her parole officer job so then they are moving from Mission Viejo in Orange county to here in Georgetown. They can't wait to get out of California. The granddaughter can't wait to move so she can go shooing more. I hope theres ammo for us to go kill some Coke cans by then!o_O
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Shooting cans with air rifles is great fun too! Just an alternative to consider if regular ammo needs to be conserved. :)
 
natchezz said:
Shooting cans with air rifles is great fun too! Just an alternative to consider if regular ammo needs to be conserved. :)
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Got that covered. I have a Beeman Webley tempast and a Webly Hurricane that I do handgun practice with, and a Feinwerkebau 124 pellet rifle for those 'longer range' backyard shots. Lots of cans of pellets in the shop out back so no problem there. :thumbsup:

I actually do use the airguns a lot when its just too hot to be out on the range, or like in 2008 and now, theres an ammo shortage.
 
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r8shell said:
I woke up to single digit temps and real snow!
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Yeah, thats what my back yard looks like now. While Karen and I are not happy campers, our Australian shepherd Abby ran around like wild in the yard, sticking her nose down in he snow and plowing it up with a small pyramid of snow on her nose when she looked up. I'm glad someone is happy!

When we put the house up in Maryland for sale, I told the Realestate agent I wanted to be out of there before I needed either long underwear, or a snow shovel again. I never intended to see the white stuff again. To make matters worse, Karen and I have enjoyed a few hot apple cider and whiskey toddies, and the Even Williams is 50% gone.:eek: I had bought a new bottle before the storm hit, and I figured 'Hey, its Texas, how bad can it be?" Figured a little dusting. o_O

Shoulda bought two bottles!:(
 
jackknife said:
Yeah, thats what my back yard looks like now. While Karen and I are not happy campers, our Australian shepherd Abby ran around like wild in the yard, sticking her nose down in he snow and plowing it up with a small pyramid of snow on her nose when she looked up. I'm glad someone is happy!

When we put the house up in Maryland for sale, I told the Realestate agent I wanted to be out of there before I needed either long underwear, or a snow shovel again. I never intended to see the white stuff again. To make matters worse, Karen and I have enjoyed a few hot apple cider and whiskey toddies, and the Even Williams is 50% gone.:eek: I had bought a new bottle before the storm hit, and I figured 'Hey, its Texas, how bad can it be?" Figured a little dusting. o_O

Shoulda bought two bottles!:(
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That attitude shows you to still be a cold weather refugee. :p For the long time Texans, it's an exciting, once in 30 years, novelty!
It'll be back in the 60s by the weekend, and then the long hot summer will come.

p.s. the cat agrees with you. She keeps crying to go out, I open the door, and she turns around and glares at me like it's all my fault. This will be repeated hourly.
 
Canadians find all this snow angst kind of amusing.
I have spent considerable time in the US south, (I love the South by the way and enjoyed being there very much, especially Mississippi and Alabama), and I can tell you all (!) that snow there is not so uncommon.
I have been snowed on in Southern California (several times, in fact several years in a row), Arizona, Mississippi, Georgia, and Kentucky.
If it wasn't so beastly expensive to get health insurance, we probably would still be spending winters in those places, because the snow events are pretty short lived there.
 
r8shell said:
That attitude shows you to still be a cold weather refugee. :p For the long time Texans, it's an exciting, once in 30 years, novelty!
It'll be back in the 60s by the weekend, and then the long hot summer will come.

p.s. the cat agrees with you. She keeps crying to go out, I open the door, and she turns around and glares at me like it's all my fault. This will be repeated hourly.
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To me snow is NOT a novelty. I spent most my life on the Atlantic seaboard, and putting up with the Nor'easters that blew in off the Atlantic with a ton of moisture that turned into snow. Like a number of feet at a time, instead of mere inches. Every winter I shoveled out the driveway, shoveled the walk, and then shoveled some more when it snowed again.:eek: I moved to get the heck away form all that.

By all means bring on that long hot Texas summer. I LOVE it!:) The Texas summer is way easier to take than the Maryland summer with high humidity so that anything a block away looks like it has a blue haze around it. When we moved the choice was Florida or Texas. I wanted the Gulf coast of Florida, but Karen said her sisters were in Texas, so Texas it was. I told her today that if we were in Naples, we'd be out on the boat. :(

She was not amused.
 
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Man, my home state has been taking quite a beating here of late! I feel I should try to summon some righteous indignation or something, but all those brutally cold winters and sweltering humid summers have got me worn down...:D

@CVamberbonehead - back me up here, buddy!
 
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