HEY GUYS

[Fla._Deadheader]

Did ya'll know there is a FOR SALE and a WANTED page on this here forum???? Cool stuff, man !!  Ttreasure Huntin is FUN !! ;) ;) ;D ;D 8) 8) : : : : :P :P :P WHOOO HOOO

[Bro. Noble]

Harold,

Keep this up and you'll have to change your name to Sherlock.  
Some of us that read all the threads learned how to do a little spying.

Noble

[Fla._Deadheader]

ALL the threads, Noble??  ??? ???  You mean there's MORE ?? ;) ;) ;D ;D  Hot Diggity DanG !!  It's like Christmas is here early. : : ;D ;D :P

[Haytrader]

Harold,
You been drinkin that swamp water again? Must be like wakin up in a new world.  :

Have you found yer diver yet?
Was ya able to get the stain out of his diving suit?  :D

Are ya takin any bets on whether ya'all are gonna have a white Christmas down there in Flarda?
 8) 8) 8)

[Tom]

.          Merry Cotton Pickin' Christmas Y'all dagnabit![/b]          

[Texas Ranger]

I was gonna try to be the first with the
[size=8]MERRY CHRISTMAS, Y'ALL!![/size]

But Fast Tom beat me to it, dad nab it! >:(

[Bro. Noble]

Hey Don,

You can even click Tom's for more Christmas Cheer.

DonT feel too bad,  we all think you're half-fast ;D

Noble

[Fla._Deadheader]

Actually, haven't seen my diver for the past 2 days. I been needin some welding done, and he does that too. Did the welding today. Had to do a LOT of grinding. Wearin glasses is a pain! I can lay a bead as good as anyone. Just have trouble following the seam!! Some places the bead is over an inch wide, by the time I get the whole seam covered !! ;D

  The wetsuits are hanging in the garage. No smell to speak of.

  Sure feels like snow outside. We are supposed to be in the WARMER part of Florida. Tom and DanG live in the cold part. ;) ;)

[Tom]

yeah, I know.  It almost got down to 60 today.  I'de go south if there was any south left.  Florida's gotten to where the farther south you go, the farther north you get. ;D

[Jeff]

I resemble that remark. I figure the ones that come down there and stay aint the true Northerners Tom. Come North and we will make you feel as at home as you did us when we came south.                        

[Tom]

Not bad folks, Jeff.  Just a different society and they make a different world.

[Jeff]

I wouldn't defend em. They's deserters! You can Keep um. I'm tellin ya that you would enjoy whats left up here if we could keep you from expiring from Hypothermia. Do Floridiand even have hypothermia in thier vocabulary? Or is that a Northern word.

[Tom]

Hypothermia..   hmmmm...    I think we get that if we have to go outside in the winter in our underwear.  Mostly, down here, we are either Hot or Not Hot.or inside. ;D

[whitepe]

Hey Tom,

What do you guys in Florida do with your firewood?
You certainly don't need it to keep warm do you?  ;D
All of my wife's pets flock around our wood stove
or Kerosun heater in the winter time.  It makes for a lot
of melted cat and dog puddles.  The cat in the picture
wondered up as a stray about 3-4 years ago. Had a huge
abcess on it's chest and half starved to death. As you can
see my wife nursed him back to good health.






Whitepe

[Tom]

We manage to go through quite a bit of firewood, Perry.  A Physical therapist called me yesterday wanting more.  He has burned up the truckload that he came and got last summer.  

It's f-f--f---f---forty-one degrees out there right know and my wife has had a fire in the fireplace all afternoon and this evening.  I am burning up some Black Willow and Red bud that I've had since summer before last. I've got a lot of oak boards that got bugs so I sawed them up for firewood too. A lot of my firewood goes to the cooking pit but when the weather is like it is now, my wife will burn a half-cord a week.

We've got that cat thing going on here too.  My wife is being trained right now by a wild black Tom that wondered up here last summer.  He has been living out in the barn. But, when the weather started turning nasty, she started feeding him on the front porch.  He's found a home.  :-/

[woodman]

Tom come on back up north where the white stuff is snow not pine  

[Tom]

Thanks for the offer, Woodman but I don't think I could stand it.  These bones are too used to the heat.  I actually enjoy sweating and used to hate shoes.  My system starts shutting down when the falling temperatures beging to reach the 50's. :D

[whitepe]

Tom,

My first business trip to Florida was about 20 years
ago and spent the week in Ft. Lauderdale. It was January.
When I left Chicago it was -25 F and 40-50 MPH winds.
I was supposed to get to F.L. at 8:00 PM but was delayed
by mechanical probs on the plane. Eventually arrived
at 4:00 AM the next morning and it was 32 F.  I think
the high for the week was about 42F.  Wednesday
of that week was when that plane crashed into the
Potomac in D.C.  Coldest week I ever spent in FLA.

The mechanical problems were that the landing
gear wouldn't retract cause it had iced up
so we had to return to O'Hare after about 30 minutes
and prepare for a crash landing cause the pilot thought
that the wheels on the landing gear might not turn on
touchdown. It was kinda scary  

[Tom]

Holy cow.   I guess it was scarey.  Harold just thinks looking a gator in the eye is scarey.  Compared to that, it's down the page a bit. Airplanes don't scare me at all.  When I was a kid, I used to fly with a Crop Duster and it was great fun.  It's the contact with the ground that always bother me a little bit, although I looked forward to it too after being in a plane with a crop duster.  He always told me that a landing was just a controlled crash anyway. :-/

I remember that weekend.  It was awful cold here. that was a period of years when we experienced harsh winters here and even had some snow.  I pulled the boys behind the pickup truck on the hard top.  The whole neighborhood had hold of the rope. :D

I remember watching that crash on Television and how bad it made me feel for the poor victims and their families.  

[dan-l-b]

Hey deadheader, I found the buy and sell section ;D but I still can't figure out how to start a thread. :(  Maybe someone in the spirit of Christmas would help a newbie navigate these obscure waters.  The help section says go to the index--- my eyesight could be failing,  :'( but I can't seem to see where to go from there :'( :'(  

[Haytrader]

OK Dan,

Since you asked so nicely. Go to the page that has all the topics listed and look at the top of the page. It says Start new topic on the right.
Nice to see ya on here.... 8)

[Bibbyman]

Dan-l-b,

If you go to the "Commerce" folder then the "For Sale" (or "Wanted" or wherever) The top bar on the left side reads "Pages 12.."  then look across the bar to the right side you come to an icon of a page and an arrow that with "Mark Topics as Read" then another icon of a folder with plus emblem followed by "Start new topic".  You're there!   You may have to scroll over.

Click on this bad dude and it'll take you to the same kind of screen that you make any other post except you'll be the first.  What ever you put in the title will be the in the list of topics.

[Bro. Noble]

Dan,

Go to the section where you want to start a thread such as General board, or chainsaws. At the top of the menu-----across from the page numbers-----just to the right of 'mark all topics as read'  it says 'start a new topic'.

Click on 'start a new topic' and your on your way.

Noble

[Bibbyman]

Noble,

I could have told him that!!!  ;D

Haytrader,  I guess you win the typing contest. :-/

[Bro. Noble]

About the time I quit teaching,  they were pushing the concept of 'team teaching'.  I never really understood how it was supposed to work and I'm not sure it ever materalized. Maybe that is what we were doing, Bibb.  I do know that when giving a presentation it is a reccomended practice to  a) tell em what your gonna tell em.  b) Tell em   c)  Tell em what you told em.   I think that's what we did.

Are we good or what?

Noble