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Tuesday, 16 Jun '09

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BobB1	Tuesday, 16 Jun '09	Lead	[-]
Posts: 1329 (06/16/09 04:01 PM) Capt. Bob the Oysterman Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Good afternoon all. It was a pleasant, partly cloudy morning here. I went out this morning on the early low tide to harvest some clams. The tide never went very low, and the place I was working was too soft to use a rake or seed fork, so I had to just get down in the water and use my hands to scoop them up. At low tide, the water was at my shoulders, and I worked until it got to my chin. There were a few waves at first, but the wind died, so it got pretty calm which gave me a little longer to work. I was in by one, and was trying to get some grass mowed after lunch, but it started raining as soon as I headed for the lawn mower. I'm just inside now, watching the rain while I take care of some book work. Nothing exciting going on now.
Stan in SC		#1	[-]
Posts: 1904 (06/16/09 09:40 PM) Icon of Geezerhood Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Bob,I'm glad you and little Bill had a good trip. Sounds like your weather has been the same as here.Starts out hot and finally rains in the afternoon. Stan The more I listen,the more I hear....and vice versa. The LT-2 sight adjuster.Have you adjusted today? Geezer is as geezer does.
Rustybore		#2	[-]
Posts: 4140 (06/16/09 11:30 PM) Capt. Klamath Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Good evening, all. Been mostly partly cloudy today. Significantly warmer, maybe up to seventy or so. A nice breeze tonight, which I think we get almost every night, cooling everything. I got word this morning that my doctor died last night. I was told he was in the hospital for a week. I know he told me a few weeks ago he was going in for some sort of heart repair, an elective surgery to slow the heart beats some. Guess it didn't work out. He is the only doctor I have seen in seventeen years and will sure miss him. He was on the small side in stature, had a ponytail, but was a former special forces army guy, endowment member of the NRA, and an AR15 nut. I have been up to his place numerous times for shooting and pot lucks dinners. He even came and helped me when I was selling my place. Just a good doctor and friend. Headed out to my property tomorrow and meet with the contractor and power company. The well should also be done tomorrow. They had drilled to seven hundred feet as of this morning. That is one deep hole, and not cheap. Tom, in the last two days I have seen documentaries on L.A. One is about earth quakes and the other about the global warming and the mud slides out of the San Gabrials. I think you ought to consider selling out while you still have a place. The shows were sure ugly. Kevin in Or.
zeebill		#3	[-]
Posts: 382 (06/16/09 11:59 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Evening All! Little light rain showers and some wind all afternoon and evening here. Hardly wet the concrete down in the driveway although all around here they got pretty heavy rain. Cooler tonight and I think we are supposed to have heavy rain during the night and then showers off and on all day and evening tomorrow. Tried the new laptop computer at work today and unfortunately there was no signal so we still have no service at work. Dave is constantly asking me how much this or that should be worth and most times I have no idea. I was hoping for service and an answer for that but no luck. Two blocks away I have a choice of 4 different services and all free without passwords. By the way I heard on the radio that Louisiana has started taxing internet service. I sure hope that isn't a sign of things to come but alas I know it probably will be. I messed around on the computer today for almost 4 hours researching and posting on a vast plethora of different subjects and forums including the ones I know of about the Can Am Spyder I have. I am trying to learn exactly how others are reacting to little problems and big ones so I will know what to do when I have a problem. It helps to know a few fixes in case one has a problem for sure. Up to above 3500 plus miles on it and scheduling an oil change and the oil pressure switch change to replace the faulty one I have had no trouble with save one occaision last week when it lit up on me. Really wondering whether I should replace it or not now? Well I guess if I go on a long trip I should at least have that done just in case. No sign of the Makarov that was supposed to come in today and I really am not in a hurry to find it right now either as I have too much other stuff going on right now to worry about it. Wonder if I will ever see any gun shows where the laptop will pick up internet from the site of the show? Need to get to bed here I guess as I see the clock is almost ringing in Midnight here! Best to All ! Bill
akitaholic		#4	[-]
Posts: 1753 (06/17/09 12:43 AM) capt. kita Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Kevin, those documentaries sound like a riot. Mud slides out of the San Gabriels? That may be possible, but that area is mostly granite. My mom grew up in Claremont, near the base of the San Gabriels and there was very little real soil, mostly sand and rocks. Slides only affect the areas directly below foothills or the hills themselves. The hill I grew up on (I'm kind of an urban hillbilly) was a layer of adobe on sandstone and I never saw a slide. Earthquakes are some serious business, but what they do is mess up man made stuff, like power lines, gas mains, water supply, transportation, like that. Yes, buildings do fall down, too. We have about 4 million people here. Too much strain on our resources. We could afford to lose about a third of that many, one way or another. We had thought about moving out, back 20 or so years ago. Looked at houses in Monterey once. Most of the cousins have vacated, moved north (they're pretty liberal, so they fit in up there). SLO county might be nice, but kinda sleepy. Nice enough day here. 20% chance of rain, but it never looked like that would happen. Tom in SoCal

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