I like this time at night on HBT

[Stauffbier]

Don't eat too much plywood though I hear it's bad fer ya

After 25 years of installing and finishing wood floors I'd say your advice is a little too late... :cross:

 

[Leadgolem]

After 25 years of installing and finishing wood floors I'd say your advice is a little too late... :cross:

So... Do you prefer plywood or OSB for breakfast?

 

[Stauffbier]

So... Do you prefer plywood or OSB for breakfast?

Funny, I've always enjoyed sanding maple floors, because the hot sawdust coming out of my sander makes the air smell like maple syrup in the entire house.

 

[brewingmeister]

Mmm...sanding maple syrup...delicious

 

[BobbiLynn]

Mr. Smartypants, It's deer season my kids get a day off next Friday.

No, my son skips semesters, he is not on a set curriculum. He attends his college courses when he is not busy with other obligations. And, same thing here, boys get extra days off for hunting season.:fro:

 

[BobbiLynn]

I can't translate your bus journey BL ...sorry to say. However I would like to know what break he is on since the thanksgiving break, anywhere from three day to a week, isn't for a couple weeks and the semester break isn't for another month or so.

He realized he's not going to pass/get any credits this semester so, um, quit. For now. Same thing as last year. He says fall semester teachers are too gung-ho and he can't keep up that time of year. I'm his mom, so I say come here for now, go back there when there isn't so much pressure. My sweet boy isn't good under pressure.

 

[Leadgolem]

He realized he's not going to pass this semester so, um, quit. For now. Same thing as last year. He says fall semester teachers are too gung-ho and he can't keep up that time of year. I'm his mom, so I say come here for now, go back there when there isn't so much pressure. My sweet boy isn't good under pressure.

Hmm, most people aren't. That kind of pressure just wants to make me hit people in the nuts. Oh, you think I can't figure that out? How about you try to decipher this paper I wrote on Sumerian mythology? Yeah, that's what I thought ****** nozzle...

 

[BobbiLynn]

Hmm, most people aren't. That kind of pressure just wants to make me hit people in the nuts. Oh, you think I can't figure that out? How about you try to decipher this paper I wrote on Sumerian mythology? Yeah, that's what I thought ****** nozzle...

That sounds like something my son would say and I tell him not to call his instructors things like ****** nozzle on his facebook page, they could be reading it. He doesn't care. My daughter is seriously in college, at least so far, she just started this year at the university after attending a gateway college following high school. She's acing everything and can pretty much take the classes she wants to take. My son is another story. He's been living in a college town and dropping into a few classes here and there, trying to get the prerequisites done. I tell him some people do well in a structured school setting and others are self taught. He is interested in writing/doing film, and so I asked him to do some research, how many great film artists and writers attended college? How many were mentored/self-taught? But first, I had him shoveling manure and hauling firewood since daylight. Now gonna make him a nice breakfast. Fresh eggs and bacon.

 

[BobbiLynn]

While I am going on and on, I should also mention that hubby has declared war on the possum. The ugly fellow(the possum, not hubby) is back and building a nest under the house, preparing to settle in for the winter. Hubby has conceded that the traps didn't work and that we need to force him out, then shoot him. I might just wait until the possum gets settled into his nest, then crawl under there with my .22 rifle, be done with it once and for all. Hubby says we have a major extermination effort on our hands, the possum must go.

 

[Leadgolem]

I made 5 gallons of root beer today. I followed the spit ball recipe I posted earlier. It's still warm and flat, but it's pretty good. Caramelizing the sugar added some nice flavor.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

 

[Dan]

TC, that link looked great but for some reason it wouldn't open for me

I'm visiting my youngest daughter this weekend up in Monterey. Carmel is a short drive away so we spent a few hours there today. A very beautiful place, sunny, cool air, buildings that looked like they are out of a fairy tale book, art galleries everywhere. Ridiculous prices for everything. Clint Eastwood was the mayor here for a number of years.

A shop of sorts called Secret Garden was playing music by a guy named Nawang Khechog, well it was a CD of his called Tibetan Meditation Music I'm listening to the CD now. Here's some of his kind of music. I hope the link works. Never sure when I post from a phone.

http://www.nawangkhechog.com/
http://www.rcarlosnakai.com/

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

The links work fine Dan. I don't know if you would appreciate my music, but I'm somewhat of a Buddhist in spirit if not in regular practice. I certainly appreciate the importance of the pursuit of peace and happiness in all our lives. If you are not my enemy you must be my friend, and I rejoice in your happiness.

Namaste.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

Dan, my wife and I spent a glorious couple of weeks along the coast highway with a stay in Monterey. A beautiful spot - the aquarium experience is with me now. The combination of beautiful hills and the sea was just breath-taking. I hope to get out there again soon.

 

[Dan]

The links work fine Dan. I don't know if you would appreciate my music, but I'm somewhat of a Buddhist in spirit if not in regular practice. I certainly appreciate the importance of the pursuit of peace and happiness in all our lives. If you are not my enemy you must be my friend, and I rejoice in your happiness. Namaste.

The links work fine Dan. I don't know if you would appreciate my music, but I'm somewhat of a Buddhist in spirit if not in regular practice. I certainly appreciate the importance of the pursuit of peace and happiness in all our lives. If you are not my enemy you must be my friend, and I rejoice in your happiness. Namaste.

My daughter (she was raised very Catholic) made a comment today that Buddhist are the only religion that don't do a power play on the highest power, so to speak. I really don't know much about it but enough to know peace and serenity are a large part of Buddhism, not fire brimstone and fear. I might be wrong about that but not from where I'm standing. I lived in Japan a few years, the Buddhist temples were always very peaceful. Not a bAd way to live

Pappy, if I'm crossing into inappropriate topic please delete this post.

 

[Dan]

Dan, my wife and I spent a glorious couple of weeks along the coast highway with a stay in Monterey. A beautiful spot - the aquarium experience is with me now. The combination of beautiful hills and the sea was just breath-taking. I hope to get out there again soon.

Yes TC, this area is beautiful. When you make it out here again check out Big Sur and a few hours in Carmel. You will not be disappointed I promise you.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

My daughter (she was raised very Catholic) made a comment today that Buddhist are the only religion that don't do a power play on the highest power, so to speak. I really don't know much about it but enough to know peace and serenity are a large part of Buddhism, not fire brimstone and fear. I might be wrong about that but not from where I'm standing. I lived in Japan a few years, the Buddhist temples were always very peaceful. Not a bAd way to live

Pappy, if I'm crossing into inappropriate topic please delete this post.

My dad lived in Japan for several years after WWII, during the Korean war, and embraced the peace of the Buddhist culture, after having been engaged in fighting Japan for most of his young life. My stepsister was Japanese, and my only regret was that she did not live long enough for me to know her. My dad loved her and me equally. He fought in Vietnam in the same spirit of non-hatred and tragedy of the situation.

I am not a particularly religious person but Buddhism seems to be flexible about culture as long as peace is along for the ride. Peace truly is not a bad way to live.

 

[Dan]

My dad lived in Japan for several years after WWII, during the Korean war, and embraced the peace of the Buddhist culture, after having been engaged in fighting Japan for most of his young life. My stepsister was Japanese, and my only regret was that she did not live long enough for me to know her. My dad loved her and me equally. He fought in Vietnam in the same spirit of non-hatred and tragedy of the situation. I am not a particularly religious person but Buddhism seems to be flexible about culture as long as peace is along for the ride. Peace truly is not a bad way to live.

Your dad sounds like a very good man. Love given unselfishly and unconditionally seems normal to me. But I know for a fact not everybody sees it like you and your folks do. I'd like to believe those people make up a small proportion of the world.

Your sis? If I'm not being to forward, may I ask what happened to her?

A "NO" is perfectly understandable, TC.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

 

[Dan]

Your dad sounds like a very good man. Love given unselfishly and unconditionally seems normal to me. But I know for a fact not everybody sees it like you and your folks do. I'd like to believe those people make up a small proportion of the world. Your sis? If I'm not being to forward, may I ask what happened to her? A "NO" is perfectly understandable, TC.

By those people, I'm speaking of those who live conditionally. Not sure that cNe across in my previous post.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

Your dad sounds like a very good man. Love given unselfishly and unconditionally seems normal to me. But I know for a fact not everybody sees it like you and your folks do. I'd like to believe those people make up a small proportion of the world.

Your sis? If I'm not being to forward, may I ask what happened to her?

A "NO" is perfectly understandable, TC.

No worries Dan. She died with a strange form of leukemia during her birth of my step(niece/nephew). I never got to know her, and her child passed with her. Dad had a heart bigger than I can even fathom. His capacity to love despite that crushing loss, I was too young to understand it at the time but I understand it clearly now. Life is finite but love is forever.

 

[Jaybird]

MAN I LIKE THIS TIME OF NIGHT ON HBT!

Great read Thunder Chicken! Sounds like you have come from a great loving family and you dad sounds like he is a wonderful man. My SWMBO is reading the book on Buddhism at the moment. She likes how its able to help her focus on the good in all things. she calls it "finding her center". I like that!

Cheers
Jay

 

[Dan]

I'm very sorry for your sister's unfair short life, and for your family's loss.

Life does take us on a few turns along the way. I sure haven't figured it out yet.

Peace and serenity my brother. Cause we are all, family.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

Dad was a great and loving man. He passed on in 2005. I hope to give as much love as he did.

Finding your place of peace is a really important thing, no matter what name you assign to the practice. My life does not belong to me; it belongs to the next generations. If I can teach them to aspire and love as much as my dad did, all will be well.

 

[Jaybird]

Dad was a great and loving man. He passed on in 2005. I hope to give as much love as he did.

Finding your place of peace is a really important thing, no matter what name you assign to the practice. My life does not belong to me; it belongs to the next generations. If I can teach them to aspire and love as much as my dad did, all will be well.

Well said my man! Well said!

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

I'm very sorry for your sister's unfair short life, and for your family's loss.

Life does take us on a few turns along the way. I sure haven't figured it out yet.

Peace and serenity my brother. Cause we are all, family.

Dan, nothing is good or bad. It simply is. There isn't a God in the sky that worked things just to deprive me of a father or a sister. It just was. Tragic, sad, but just the way things are. You can be sad at the turn of events, but I choose to see the love that perservered despite the loss.

Whether you see something as good or bad is a choice. I choose to see the good as much as my feeble spirit can.

 

[Dan]

TC, you're a good person and I think a very humble man. The two go hand in hand. You are obviously no slouch and based upon your achievements could be a braggart. But you do not take that path.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

TC, you're a good person and I think a very humble man. The two go hand in hand. You are obviously no slouch and based upon your achievements could be a braggart. But you do not take that path.

That's a false path, and you and I know it as such. I do not expect my name or my father's name to be known years from now, but I hope that I can teach a few others about the importance of humility. It is a subtle difference between pride and knowledge.

 

[Melana]

That's a false path, and you and I know it as such. I do not expect my name or my father's name to be known years from now, but I hope that I can teach a few others about the importance of humility. It is a subtle difference between pride and knowledge.

Agreed.

 

[Dan]

Agreed.

Hi Melana!

Nice to have you aboard, always is.