1st Time in 8 Years!

[Norm]

That I haven't had to work the Friday after Thanksgiving!

We have an early doe season that starts today also so I'm drinking coffee and waiting for the sun to come up a little higher to keep from freezing out there. Patty headed down to her Mom's place to shop with her sister's, I called the CC company to report her card as stolen. :D

What are the rest of you out there doing today?

[sawguy21]

Boy, just you wait till she gets home. :D :D :D :D

[Magicman]

After the rain stops, I'm going over to our cabin and hunt this evening and tomorrow.  This NW wind will be dropping the temps all day.

[SwampDonkey]

Well, sent off a parcel and went for a walk in the woods. Must be a dead moose on the back of the farm, ravens going crazy and an eagle hanging around. Adds up to dead carcass to me.  ;)

[Gary_C]

Working as usual. There's been so much precipitation up in the north woods that I am far behind on the two jobs I have to complete by spring. Some weeks ago when I just moved into one job they got 5 inches of rain over one weekend and that stopped everything. Then three weeks ago deer season started and a week later they got 10 inches of heavy wet snow and that brought everything to a stop again.

The only good thing is the mills are running short of wood and are raising prices a little bit. Plus you don't seem to need quota anymore and I've got about 1300 cords to move by spring, if I get to it. Just hope we do not get snowed under.

[pineywoods]

That I haven't had to work the Friday after Thanksgiving!



What are the rest of you out there doing today?

Sitting by the fire, groaning with a belly ache and hitting the alka seltzer 

[paul case]

notn working today and my boss is a real pain about that.
i would rather be sawing than visiting inlaws(who dont seem to care if we are here or not). i will be fixing a screen door for my wife's aunt who is a widow.
NORM!!!!!
you are gonna be in a heap of trouble when patty comes home!   pc

[Mark K]

Norm, wish I'd thought of that but I'd end up in the dog house! Wife left at 3:30 this morning with her sister and mom. I decided to try and go to work this morning. Made the 47 mile trek down to the woodlot to find they got a ton of ran last night. Landing is right full of equipment, gas well company is moving in. Seems to be a lot of drilling going on down there.  So I went deer hunting instead  ;D. Hopefully it'll be dryer Monday.

[fishpharmer]

Norm, good for you getting the day off.

Its supposed to get down to 26 here tonight.

I might just go deer hunting.

[Bill Gaiche]

8 yrs is a long time. 23 degrees this morning. Myself, planed some ERC for two Cedar chest for Christmas presents. bg

[SwampDonkey]

Nice!!  ;D

[WDH]

Worked on a walnut bedside table as a present to my daughter for Christmas.  My son-in-law harvested a very large buck off my property yesterday, but it is raining today, so no hunting.  However, the hogs need a thinning, so maybe he can resume tomorrow.

[Banjo picker]

I have been building a logging winch to go behind the tractor...Tim

[tyb525]

This is the first day in a year that I've worked all day at the tire/mechanics shop. (It's usually 2 hours a day).

It also was the first day this week that it didn't rain, and I would've rather been sawing. >:(

[Coon]

Well for starters I cleaned my rifle today for another day of hunting tomorrow.  I also got my ice fishing stuff ready for tomorrow.  We will hunt in the morning on our way out to the lake then do a bit of ice fishing and then hunt on our way back home. 

I also spent part of the day today getting my chainsaws ready for the winters logging season.  I found a job finally and will need my saws.  We have 100,000 bdft of spruce, 40,000 bdft of aspen, 20,000+ bdft of white birch, and about 40,000 bdft of tammarack rails to take out plus countless cords of firewood.  I will find out on Monday when we are allowed to go into the forestry and start.  Hopefully it is froze up enough and they will give the go ahead.  ;D  I am really looking forward to spending another winter in the bush.  Will most likely be staying in camp through the week and weekends off unless the weather dictates otherwise. 

[Magicman]

I've been putting off replacing a squealing bearing in my Debarker.  Since it was raining today, I took the Debarker off of the mill now it's in a warm dry shop.  Tomorrow is another day.

[bill m]

Rained overnight so I worked on saws this morning. Went to the job site and just chopped the rest of the day.

I have been building a logging winch to go behind the tractor...Tim

Any pictures yet?

[isawlogs]

Feezing rain here overnight , put the tire chains on the tractor this morning, I hate freezing rain.  :-\

[Jeff]

We've been saving up to try and replace our decrepit 20 year old washer and dryer.  We knew about what we had to spend. Well, a sears black Friday add came out that had a sale for a set that was twice as nice as what we were going to be able to buy at 51% off.  Needless to say, we got up at 2:30 A.M. and drove to Mount Pleasant and got in line. We stood in line for over an hour and were able to get the units that were on sale.  I've never ever been talked into going to a black Friday sale and odds are I will never be talked into it again. we had -7 windchill here this morning. 

While in line in the store, I did get my Christmas shopping done for my brother-in-law as one of the specials they had was a whole set of ratchet wrenches normally $90 for $29. Other then my immediate family, I don't buy presents for anyone else other then Pete, and he buys for me. A tradition we have had for 33 years.  The first Christmas present he ever got me I still have. A commemorative box of Winchester Wells Faro 30-30 shells. Nickle cartridged silver tipped bullets.

[beenthere]

Jeff
Ms Christine told Burlkraft and I (and Jill) this noon that they too picked up the Sears washer/dryer combo for half price. But she claims she didn't get Mr. Christine out of bed to go stand in line.  : :

Had fried smelt for lunch.

[doctorb]

I despise the Friday after Thanksgiving.  I always have to go into the hospital (2 surgeries this AM), which is fine.  I like what I do.  But the offices are closed that day, just like today, and every patient that needs a call back or a new perscription seems to think that the offices should be open.  As obviously the officies are closed on Thanksgiving, this gives the patients two full days of questions or problems to be laid upon a closed office.  So, as the ususal office staff to handle those calls is off shopping, the calls get routed to us, one way or the other.  Don't mean to complain about patients...they generally are appropriate and fun.  But the load of communication required today is much larger than most days.  It's like swatting flies all day....Doctorb

[Texas Ranger]

Doc, you can complain here, most of us have or will, and most of us understand the need every now and then to vent.

Why, just the other day when my mother in law.......................................

8)

[Gary_C]

doctorb, I sure do enjoy having you on the FF and hope you do not get pestered with medical questions to the point you forget about us. And we don't mind you relating your problems with patients as those of us that have tried to sell wood in a retail setting sure know how much of a pain that customers can be.

A few years ago I cut a pine thinning job on a property owned by a doctor from the Mayo Clinic. I believe he was a pediatric transplant surgeon and it was obvious he loved spending time on his retreat and sure could talk about the Scotch Pines and other trees he had nurtured on that property.

You said that you had two surgeries Friday. Are you primarily a surgeon if i might ask?

[SwampDonkey]

I like fried smelt to, but like brook trout equally as well, maybe better.  8)

Jeff, at least you were standing in line for something needed and not just wanted. ;)

[Norm]

Well after freezing my lower posterior off all day I'm not sure working in a warm office fielding calls from those pesky Dr's wasn't a better idea.  ;D

As par for the course I got in started a fire and sat down in my office to watch about a dozen deer grazing in the alfalfa field just north of the house. I grabbed the gun and slowly slide open the east patio door to see if I could sneak a shot off. Sure enough it squeaked at about half open and they took off like a bullet. When Patty came home at dark she said 4 of them were grazing next to the gate.  :D

The season lasts through Sunday and the weather is going to warm up into the low 40's so I'm going to head out after breakfast. Patty is heading out to Ames for some more shopping. I was kidding about the CC as she really never spends any money and only goes because her sisters go. 

[isawlogs]

I was kidding about the CC   

  My hero ... another buble bussted  :-\   :D :D 

Next time shoot through the door , it wont squeak after  ;D

[Banjo picker]

Rained overnight so I worked on saws this morning. Went to the job site and just chopped the rest of the day.

I have been building a logging winch to go behind the tractor...Tim

Any pictures yet?

I have some pic.s ....keep a look in the Forstery and Logging...section...   Tim

[Burlkraft]

Jill is still recovering from her surgery, so it's been a quiet week around home for us.
I did not hunt at all this year. Season ends on Sunday.
Last year Beenthere shot me a doe. That was the best hunting ever!  :D :D :D

I'm glad you did not do that to Patty, Norm

We all know she could kick yer butt if she wanted to  ;D  ;D

Shmelt......They were sooo good, I was thinkin' about headin' back today for anudder order  digin_2 digin_2 digin_2

[doctorb]

Gary_C-

I am a tried and true orthopaedic surgeon.  I work in a hospital with a residency, so I love to teach.  I operate Mondays and Wednesdays, office on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and operate with the residents on Fridays and weekends.  I spent 20 years as a trauma specialized orthopaedic surgeon at the Univ of MD Shock Trauma Center, one of the premier trauma centers in the world.

I have a very unusual practice.  About 33% is acute trauma - some difficult stuff referred by docs that know me and some that comes through the ER door, another 33% is trauma gone bad (failure of fractures to heal, fractures that heal shortened and crooked), and the final 33% involves orthopaedic infections (osteomyelitis - bone infection - and infected total joints).

I don't do arthroscopies, total joint replacements (primary), back pain or back surgery, sports stuff, bunions, or kids' (developmental) problems.  I have been called "the catfish" by my hospital colleagues, because all the you-know-what that sifts to the bottom of the pond.....that's where my practice lies.  I like the role of taking care of every else's difficult cases and complications and serve as a referral source for physicians to help them with problems and surgeries that didn't work out well.  I am like Mikey of that cereal commercial...."Send it to Doctorb, he'll "eat" it!  Hey!  He likes it!"

I consider myself very fortunate to, at age 59, still love the challenges that I face.  Makes every day a good day.  Sorry about the long-winded answer about my practice.  Please do not misinterpret my exuberance as arrogance.  I think that we all put on our pants one leg at a time.  Have enjoyed my time on the FF and have learned much from being here.  

I guess the "day after Thanksgiving" thread just went awry.  Sorry, Doctorb

[DanG]

No need to be sorry, Doc.  I think we all enjoy a little glimpse into a life that is different from our own, especially one that requires such tremendous skill.  I also haven't seen anything from you that could be construed as arrogance. ;)

[customsawyer]

I agree with Dang and would like to add that any man with your talents and skill has a right to be proud of his abilities.

[Norm]

Doc the one thing I love about the FF is most of us and especially me don't care where the threads we start go. 

Well I got my deer this morning. Patty was walking by my office window and said there's 4 deer in the alfalfa field moving south. I grabbed my gun and waited on the south patio for them to move by and got one on the 2nd shot. With Patty's help it's now quartered and in the cooler. The weather is supposed to be in the 40's the next couple of days so I'll let it age in the cooler instead.

[Magicman]

I just had a Grandson call and talk me into going this afternoon/evening.  Actually, he didn't have to twist very hard.  I love going with those Grandsons.

[Warbird]

What are the rest of you out there doing today?

I sat on my rear all day, relaxing.  We stayed at home reading and playing games.  It was a great day.

[LeeB]

Up at 04:00 to shower and get ready to go to the airport. Back to work again. Spent the whole day flying. Not one single search, full body xray or pat down of any kind. I did at least get off for Thanksgiving this year.

[Jeff]

I don't think they want to pat ya down unless they have a reason, like your good looking or something.

[WH_Conley]

Maybe that's it Jeff. My BIL just flew in the other day, just walked through the metal detector. I can't say much about his looks. ;D

[sawdust]

I find it odd that everytime I fly I get a patdown, and they want to look in my wallet. I have wondered if they have blue eyed guy day and then granny with an afghan day. Sort of organized randomness for searches.
I don't mind being searched. I am hiring them to supply a service and am willing to abide by their conditions.

sawdust

[beenthere]

I s'pose down under they pat you up  : :   ???

[DouginUtah]

Have you seen the TSA bumper stickers?  :D


(An email that is making the rounds.)

[beenthere]

Yep!    ;D