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Went to nearby Rehoboth Beach on Friday, to enjoy the weather, walk the boardwalk, and enjoy some Thrasher fries for lunch.

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Great 70ish weather for outdoor activities, bit it’s been desert dry 🏜️. No rain in a month and none forecasted for the next week! 😲

Jim
 
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Back in the 70’s by Wednesday.
 
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I see everyone is getting their boat ready for winter storage. This morning I’ve decided to get mine ready too, ready to get out on the water and enjoy the beautiful day with the family.
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I'm both happy for you and mad at you. All at the same time. Be safe out there!

Mines been in storage for almost 30days now :(
 
I'm both happy for you and mad at you. All at the same time. Be safe out there!

Mines been in storage for almost 30days now :(
Reminds me of Cleveland. Sometimes I could get all the weather changes in one day.
It happens quickly up here. Then it is gone. Too early in the season to stick. We were still in the water a week ago.

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1100’ in elevation.
 
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@Scottintexas hopefully all is good and you are not in a stink this morning, like this one. Lol

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Second hole in one yesterday during the Club’s Senior Championship! Bar tab was lite at approx $350.


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Congrats sir. Still don't have my first at the end of my second year of "really trying". I did put several on the green from the tee last weekend in Hilton Head, but none of them actually went in. One was ~4ft away, and that's about as close as I've gotten.

Anything over 180-ish yards and I lose so much accuracy it becomes pure luck if I can even find the green, much less the cup!
 
@Scottintexas hopefully all is good and you are not in a stink this morning, like this one. Lol

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maybe not a stync but definitely a tiff today,

When my mom passed I took over the family business in July. It's easy they said, it pretty much runs itself ......

anyways, supplier issues, customer issues and now packaging issues,

One of our products is a very specialized silica gel used in laboratory testing ( ASTM D 2007 for the nerds out there )

We heat it to 400 for 4 hours and then package it into individual use bags. We've always used the same bags and the same process for years, the hot silica forms it's own vacuum as it cools.

We've always had some failure rate of the bag not having a vacuum, maybe 5% but recently we're up to 30% failure rate and can't determine if it the bag quality that changed, our sealing bar or just our process and leaving to much residual air in the bag, the bag may loose vacuum overnight, 3 days or a month later

I've bought two new styles of bags recently,

anyways to help put an end to it I bought a chamber vacuum sealer today from cabelas for testing, the first 6 came out very good,

tomorrow I have an appointment with a friend that is a master chef at a high end kitchen appliance dealer, they provide everything from industrial food packaging to somebody who wants a "super" kitchen in their house, he has some chamber vacuums that he's going to let me test out,

















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and it might get some second duty in packing Grace and my fish !!
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maybe not a stync but definitely a tiff today,

When my mom passed I took over the family business in July. It's easy they said, it pretty much runs itself ......

anyways, supplier issues, customer issues and now packaging issues,

One of our products is a very specialized silica gel used in laboratory testing ( ASTM D 2007 for the nerds out there )

We heat it to 400 for 4 hours and then package it into individual use bags. We've always used the same bags and the same process for years, the hot silica forms it's own vacuum as it cools.

We've always had some failure rate of the bag not having a vacuum, maybe 5% but recently we're up to 30% failure rate and can't determine if it the bag quality that changed, our sealing bar or just our process and leaving to much residual air in the bag, the bag may loose vacuum overnight, 3 days or a month later

I've bought two new styles of bags recently,

anyways to help put an end to it I bought a chamber vacuum sealer today from cabelas for testing, the first 6 came out very good,

tomorrow I have an appointment with a friend that is a master chef at a high end kitchen appliance dealer, they provide everything from industrial food packaging to somebody who wants a "super" kitchen in their house, he has some chamber vacuums that he's going to let me test out,

















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I have purchased a couple VakPak-Its recently and they are doing well.

 
Went to nearby Rehoboth Beach on Friday, to enjoy the weather, walk the boardwalk, and enjoy some Thrasher fries for lunch.

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Great 70ish weather for outdoor activities, bit it’s been desert dry 🏜️. No rain in a month and none forecasted for the next week! 😲

Jim
We just came back from Maine and I can tell you it is dry all the way up the East Coast with very high fire risk. Remember a month or so ago we were asking for sunshine. Now we are asking for rain.
 
We just came back from Maine and I can tell you it is dry all the way up the East Coast with very high fire risk. Remember a month or so ago we were asking for sunshine. Now we are asking for rain.
We got our first rain this past Saturday. It has been 1.5 months since any significant rain. Very dry
 
Cool morning.
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Claire and I went to Maine via Humarock MA here are some photos of the foliage and Scituate Harbor. Let us say Mother Nature truly was at her best with her paint brushes. The colors of the foliage all the way to Maine was absolutely out of this world. Probably the best we have ever seen. I will first post pictures from around Fourth Cliff to include Scituate harbor and vicinity.



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Claire and I stayed at the Great Pond Outdoor Adventure Center, A Navy Recreation Area in Aurora Maine.
Again Mother Nature truly was at her best with her paint brushes. The colors of the foliage at Great Pond, Bar Harbor and other stops were absolutely out of this world. Probably the best we have ever seen. In fact Claire said it made the top ten of all the places she has visited. When you consider we have been in most continents that is pretty impressive.DSC00538.jpegDSC00565.jpegDSC00565.jpegDSC00562.jpegDSC00566.jpegDSC00568.jpegDSC00567.jpegDSC00569.jpegDSC00564.jpeg
 

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