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Shoxthemonkey

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  1. I have 2 coveys. One in the front acre. One in the back. Both get fed every day. Hope they make it through the next couple of days. Supposed to be -10 in the morning. Windchills around -25. Should be fun.
  2. It’s 0 degrees with 25-30 mph winds here. TV says 5-8” of snow but it’s hard to know. I have a 3’ drift across my drive and can still see the grass in the front yard. IMG_2531.MOV
  3. I have a project at work that requires caveman technology because Amish. I have been looking for an old John Deere/WheelHorse/Eaton transmission for a couple of weeks using every network I can think of. I finally posted my search to a tractor/garden tractor forum that I use occasionally. Of course , the first several responses are suggesting that I look on craigslist, ebay and facebook. No shit? Thanks, I never woulda thought of that. I thought maybe asking a group of dedicated hobbyists might get it in front of a wider audience. It's a canadian website so I suppose they are just being goshdarned nice.
  4. Well done, @deft. It needed to be said.
  5. Exactly the same except it was a Farmall A with Cub Cadet rims so it would fit under the overhang.
  6. @Al_4_ISU you getting any of the wind today? 25-30 sustained with gusts to 45mph all fucking day.
  7. https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/mars-makes-it-to-arizona/ I was hoping to make a trip to Tucson in the next few weeks to see it and also see a couple of Spring Training games on the way home. Doesn't sound like it will be be display ready anytime soon. I may have to be content with seeing it from a distance if they don't break it down right away.
  8. I'm hopeful that this means they will trade Rengifo to KC
  9. I made a quick trip to Ballinger over the weekend. I had to run the AC going home and stopped in OK to clean the bugs off of the windshield. That's bullshit, man. I ran the heater before I crossed into KS so that was good.
  10. The fathers don't need to be gone. Writing about him while he is still with you could spark lots of good conversations now. Do it anyway because I don't know how much time I have left and I want to read about it.
  11. I am going to need to sit down and write a lot of what I want to say and edit it over time before I post any more of it here. My hope is that this encourages a lot of you to do the same and share with us all.
  12. @Brisketexan started a thread about the passing of his father and it has started a lot of us that have also lost our fathers to look back fondly on lessons learned and experiences with them. @dcbc suggested that we start a thread for those memories, so here it is. Let's hear them. I'll start. My Dad was a farm kid that joined the Navy in 1944, served on the USS Wisconsin at Okinawa, saw the world and didn't want to go back to the farm. He eventually went to work for the USPS, working his way up to an office job in Schemes and Routing. It was his job to figure out how to get mail trucks to and from the sectional centers around Wichita and keep it all flowing. He also had to determine which carriers were given airmail routes that originated in Wichita. Enough background for now. 1973, I was a newlywed and my wife and I decided to fly to St Louis to visit my brother. We bought tickets from TWA and excitedly arrived at the airport, She had never flown before. We went to the counter and the ticket agent noticed the last name and asked if Old Man Shoxthemonkey was any relation to me. I said he was my father and we were promptly upgraded to first class. We took the trip, first class going and coming home, and thought, wow, what a trip! We stopped at the folks on the way home from the airport and recounted the story. My Dad flipped out, he was horrified. The next day he reported the incident to his superior and received a reprimand for it. I'm not sure it would have ever been known otherwise but it was a valuable lesson for me to do the right thing, even if it might have been possible to ignore it. I have a lot of funny memories too.
  13. I'm sorry for your loss, Brisket. It is painful to go through for sure but at some point the pain subsides a bit. The best part is that every damned day you will have a random thought that reminds you of your Dad and you will smile broadly. My Dad has been gone for 15 years and there hasn't been a day that I haven't thought of him and smiled.
  14. I was hoping that he would land on a moving walkway.
  15. Not too cold for the critters.
  16. Ouch. At least we don't have any wind with this. It could be so much worse.
  17. You win! It's only -9 down here.
  18. And I've never needed one and could have used it 3 times already.
  19. It's been on my list
  20. The wife and I are looking into the alerting watches for ourselves. Just another door I haven't wanted to go through but it seems like it might be helpful. We moved both of our parents to our town when they reached the point that they couldn't drive on their own. The wife is a retired nurse so it fell to her to check on them several times a week. Eventually that became daily and then it became too much for her and we moved them into assisted living. Every one of those changes was met with resistance because they knew that things would never go back to what it was. Now, we find ourselves facing a lot of the same things and it saddens the fuck out of me.
  21. The Calexico original is one of my favorites but Allison's voice and these harmonies make this better IMHO.
  22. Better players would make more of a difference.
  23. The handle you see in the foreground is my generator. I can unplug my furnace from the wall and plug it into the generator in less than a few minutes.
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