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Re: The S4 Walking Dead DC [Re: Private Klink] #1000229 05/21/14 07:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Private Klink
I bought a new rototiller today, so you know what I was doing. smirk Got the garden all tilled, so tomorrow I will be mowing grass while the General does the planting. Certainly worked some different muscles today! blush


Many years ago when I was still a young man, my 7 months pregnant wife wanted me to rototill the garden. I was having a bad gout attack in my wrist at the time (had a metal brace that covered from my palm to half way up my forearm, wrapped in an Ace bandage) and begged off and told her I would do it when the attack was over.

Next thing I know she’s “walking” the tiller over to the garden. Now I’m talking a full sized gas powered rototiller, not a wimpy little thing you see advertised in the magazines. Ok, I was properly shamed, so I pulled off the brace and wrapped a couple of Ace bandages really tight around the wrist to keep it immobilized as much as possible. Now our garden isn’t what I consider to be that large, but with my wrist being vibrated, torqued, and jostled about it felt like I was tilling the back 40. I actually had to use pain pills to be able to sleep for the next few nights.

A few weeks after this incident, I had to have some surgery done on my hand and they happened to x-ray my wrist. That’s when the doc told me that my wrist was actually broken in three areas, but that it was healing nicely and that I should just keep it wrapped up and avoid introducing any trauma to the area. As I was looking at my wife, I asked him if rototilling a garden would be classified as introducing trauma, he gave us with a quizzical look and said “that would definitely be on the do not do list.”

My wife has called me a lot of things since then but “Wuss” in not of them. How I wish I could recapture those manly days of yore.


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Re: The S4 Walking Dead DC [Re: SkunkHunter] #1000236 05/21/14 09:29 AM
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Good morning, everybody.


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Re: The S4 Walking Dead DC [Re: SkunkHunter] #1000248 05/21/14 11:04 AM
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Nice story Mastiff. Good morning Ray.


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Re: The S4 Walking Dead DC [Re: GeneralDelivery] #1000255 05/21/14 11:48 AM
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What G/D said!^^^ smile

I have to admit that I'm really feeling it today, but I'm still going to mow the grass. smirk


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Re: The S4 Walking Dead DC [Re: SkunkHunter] #1000265 05/21/14 03:08 PM
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I agree with them Mastiff. You got your man card that day for sure!

Just don't let the Wife forget about though.


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Re: The S4 Walking Dead DC [Re: SkunkHunter] #1000267 05/21/14 03:12 PM
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Agreed. That's like an ace in the pocket.


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Re: The S4 Walking Dead DC [Re: SkunkHunter] #1000273 05/21/14 03:30 PM
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Well Dogs, time for me to hit the sack. First night back at work since the night of the 10th. Gonna be rough on this old man but I can hack it (I do like to eat). I'll try and give Y'all a rundown of the Vacation tonight from work unless I am covered with mandatory work.

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We finished outside just befor dark, took a shower, and are finally getting ready for some supper! smirk


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Re: The S4 Walking Dead DC [Re: SkunkHunter] #1000289 05/22/14 12:16 AM
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Hello Dogs! Back at the old Midnight to 8am.

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Got several warrants to review (no news there), INCLUDING one on my nephew for failure to appear on a no vehicle license ticket.


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Re: The S4 Walking Dead DC [Re: SkunkHunter] #1000301 05/22/14 02:44 AM
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Ok, synopsis of our Vacation.

We left home about 0445 the morning of the 11th and got to Pigeon Forge Tennessee around 1330 that afternoon. We drove up hwy 441 (from Gatlinburg to Cherokee North Carolina) for a while until we got to where there were shear drop offs. Patty doesn't handle heights well so we turned around and went back and by then it was time check into our cabin. We followed the directions and after going up 17 switchbacks (covering 1.2 miles and grades so steep you couldn't see to the next switchback through the windshield) we got to the cabin. CUTE little place that we thoroughly loved. Even with the 48 steps (cross ties set into the ground) we made it inside and fell in love with the place.

Up and down the road for the next three days. The 3rd day it rained and the road was still kinda wet. The slopes were so steep we spun out two times trying to get up the hill. It was so seep and tight that if you had a long wheelbase pickup or a dually you couldn't negotiate the turns. IF I didn't turn correctly the rear drivers side wheel would barely stay on the pavement. Anyway, I got so scared of the road I wouldn't drive back down the next day and in the afternoon we got them to let us switch cabins and stay "Down in the Valley". MUCH BETTER! We stayed there for the next 4 nights and were even happier than in the first Cabin.

One day we met up with Todd and Susan at Smokey Mountain Knife Works and toured that for a couple hours and then went out to eat. I would have like to have visited longer as they were both very nice and the visit was quite enjoyable but I begged out early cause I wouldn't drive up the mountain after dark. Now mind you I am NOT scared of heights and "Bad" roads don't bother me. But that road gave new meaning to the term "Steep".

We went out to Cades Cove (except for the day I wouldn't come down off the mountain) every day and saw a total of 25 bears! Patty had one shoot that lasted about 10 or 15 minutes (with no other vehicles around) where we followed a Sow and her cub as they ambled down the bank alongside the road. For the whole time they were within 6 to a maximum of 15 feet away. They paid us NO attention at all.

It was a NICE vacation and Patty was as happy as a fish in water. I hope you all enjoy the pictures I put up in her Shutterbug thread and I will post more as she posts them on facebook.

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It's 0300, it's quiet so let's get to the Updates! Thanks to all those that carried on in my absence. (Ya done a great job on the updates Todd). smile


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