Show us what you see!!!

[Ronnie]

Thanks @djetok . Ironically i mentioned this product/showed the pic to some friends and my 15 year old son last night and both my son and their 20 something son had heard or read about the benefits of getting in the correct position before dropping a load, taking (actually leaving) a $hit, making a deposit (aka a by my friends and relatives in healthcare having a bowl movement or BM, although they were not nearly as articulate as the guy and unicorn in the commercial.

I am still not going to buy one or a pair of them but i wouldnt be too surprised if my wife does.

 

[djetok]

I saw your post and first thought was that video. It cracks me up

 

[Zonie]

Summer view, Winter view. It's going to be a while before we see that again!

The Yacht is the Chanticleer sailing back through the Erie Canal from the Great Lakes back to the Bahamas or wherever it winters. How do I know this? I saw the name on the side of the boat and Googled it. The ship has it's own website. Interesting history too.

http://chanticleer-yacht.com/index.php/history/

 

[Ronnie]

What I saw as I left Heavenly ski resort in South Lake Tahoe yesterday. When I asked a rep for directions to the parking lot he said, just take the Gun Barrel lift and ride down the face of the mountain. I thought he meant take the lift and snowboard down the face of the mountain so was happy to find that I was to ride the lift down instead. My first time doing so, the view is much different from this perspective. Much scarier than riding a closed gondola down. Couldn’t help but think that the nut and bolt holding my lift to the cable looked like hardware I could buy at Home Depot cheap. Definitely not an activity for people affraid of heights.


Here is an attempt at a panoramic pic which didn’t come out well since the camera was also moving down as well as across when the pic(s) were taken.

Finally here is a cleaner pic from my last run of the day to my first ski trip of this season.

 

[djetok]

What I saw as I left Heavenly ski resort in South Lake Tahoe yesterday. When I asked a rep for directions to the parking lot he said, just take the Gun Barrel lift and ride down the face of the mountain. I thought he meant take the lift and snowboard down the face of the mountain so was happy to find that I was to ride the lift down instead. My first time doing so, the view is much different from this perspective. Much scarier than riding a closed gondola down. Couldn’t help but think that the nut and bolt holding my lift to the cable looked like hardware I could buy at Home Depot cheap. Definitely not an activity for people affraid of heights.

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Here is an attempt at a panoramic pic which didn’t come out well since the camera was also moving down as well as across when the pic(s) were taken.
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Finally here is a cleaner pic from my last run of the day to my first ski trip of this season.
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looks similar to what we have been skiing (monarch, co had a lot of brown off the breezeway lift and Purgatory was all Ice,) 2 more weekends to Copper which has at least a 43 inch base. I will be doing base repair tomorrow again. This sucks!!!! Ullr make it snow!!!

 

[djetok]

My daughter took this off the balcony

 

[Ronnie]

The only thing higher than the view are the costs of lift tickets to it.

I happened to share a lift with one of the employees on the snow making crew who claims they make snow every night which explains why heavenly has it while none of the surrounding mountains does. We saw only three trails that we planned on using closed but still boarded all day and crossed the state border four times, some of my runs were 15 mins long even after just one short break.

On a semi related note, I was reconciling the receipts from this weekend’s trips when I noticed the cheese steak factory that my son ate at gave themselves a 90 cent tip on a take out order for one person/a single sandwich. I didn’t save the copy of the receipt I signed but am sure that out of habit I left more than 90 cents since I usually round to the nearest dollar and tip full dollars from there. Here I probably tipped $1.44 for a total spend of $12. I could call my bank to verify but won’t, I don’t care about the tip amount but am bothered by the self tipping in this situation but for lack of a drive though this is literally a fast food situation and I tipped them twice. Gonna have to rethink my personal tipping policies again.

 

[adrianp89]

^^ My rule of thumb is 10% for take-out.

 

[BigN8]

I'm looking at my screen in shock. Trying to book a hotel in Midland, TX (aka middle of nowhere in West TX) and the same room last year for $99/night is now $401/night. Oil boom is in full swing fellas.

 

[justason]

color photos from NC

 

[buckbuck]

I lived in "middle of no-where" Midland Texas for years. Flat, no trees, no water. But the center of the Permian Basin where oil pump jacks could be in your back yard. Loved the people there.

 

[Ronnie]

A few more pics from my last trip to Tahoe.

First something new (to me) at least. The Fire and Ice restaraunt at the Marriott is a combination of Japanese tepanyaki (sp?) and buffet style eating with an Americanized menu. After you are seated you pick all of your food from a buffet table (they had serloin, shrimp, pasta, veg is, burgers, hotdogs, etc.), from there you walk over to a large circular bar that has a round grill at its center, the cooks take the items you picked up from the buffet table and cook it infront of you. The whole process takes less than 10 minutes from the time you walk in to the time you are eating. You can go back as much as you like and the current price is $28 per head. I’ve been eaten at a lot of Beni Hanna like places and cannot recall anytime spending less than $40 per meal and the only things you could get more of without paying an incremental fee are Tèa, water and sodas. If you have the opportunity I recommend you try this place out. I’m hoping it’s a chain and there is a location in my area.

He other pics are from a restauant in placerville which had a lot of old stuff on display. My 15 year was most interested in the phone, I had to tell him what it was and how it worked.

 

[adrianp89]

Spent The other day cleaning out our shed and moving all lawn equipment and other stuff into. It was nasty in there, the previous owners had it set up as a pool bathroom. There was a toilet that probably hadn’t been used in a decade or longer and rat shit everywhere. Pressure washed and sealed up all the hole.

 

[djetok]

Just finished still have to hang all the ski signs. We didn't go skiing this weekend. We will be next week though

 

[itsdgm]

 

[zipper]

I have been installing all the tubing necessary to add another 1000 taps to my sugarbush. Ran the high tensile wire to support the 1" mains, about 15 more mains to set up, ran the 1" tubing and tied to the high tensile. Then ran 5/16" tubing from the mains out to each tree. We "strive for 5", try to keep your 5/16" laterals as short as possible, less than 200', and not put more than 5 taps on a lateral. The end of the lateral hooks onto the high tensile wire where the tubing is terminated with a short 180 deg. connector to a "saddle" that is drilled into the main. A saddle gasket makes a vacuum tight seal when the saddle is clamped down and wire tied to both the 1" main and high tensile wire. Nearly done with the new install, now it is time to start tapping, drilling 6000 or so trees and installing the spouts.

 

[Scottintexas]

@zipper what's % that get ripped down by falling branches, do deer break thru them?

 

[zipper]

@Scottintexas No deer do not usually cause any damage, although I have found bite marks in the 5/16" laterals before causing a vacuum leak, with deer tracks at the leak. Small branches cause no damage, larger stuff and substantial trees knock it down to the ground, but once removed, they pop back up. There are weak points designed into the system that break, lessening the damage to the system. For example, as the high tensile wire carrying the 1" mainline, zig zags, it way through a ravine, there are "tie backs" that hold the line to the "anchor tree" at each bend. This tie back is a softer wire, and designed to break if impacted by anything substantial. It does not break anything else and is easily repaired using two ratchet straps to pull it back to its place on the tree. Then put a new tie back up to hold it there. The hardest part is finding a new anchor tree if one gets snapped off in a storm, like we had a couple months ago. Only lost one anchor tree in that storm, but had another to use nearby. Tie back breaks happen but are not common.
Deer chew marks

 

[buckbuck]

I sure wouldn't want to snowmobile through your woods.

 

[swatski]

Public school education at its finest:
Kirkwood High School - Woodwind Chamber Ensemble

This is their dress rehearsal for 2018 Tan-Tar-A MMEA Conference at the Lake of the Ozarks, next week!

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