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It wasn't supposed to be that way, with the styrofoam cooler, for our trip. See, Dad made his own trailer for this trip. A homemade trailer. Since we were a musical family, and once the accordions, guitars, amplifiers were loaded into the trailer, and then Mom started loading cardboard boxes...

Where did Mom keep the eggs and bacon on our trip, out West?? In the styrofoam cooler, of course, in the back seat of our Caprice, between the three of us kids... Drove me nuts... Hated that squeak, for many thousand miles... But breakfast and lunch was worth it, in every case. Hated that...

Nicely done, my friend... I know that I missed out on a lot on that trip. Especially Yellowstone. We didn't do any amount of hiking, or anything like it, especially going further than a couple hundred feet from our car. Yellowstone is huge, in my mind. I'd like to do better, give it the...

Squankum, our family went to Oregon and Washington State to visit relatives on Mom's side. That was in 1977, so that would put me at about the age of 11. We went to Mount Rainier, one day. Mom's uncle took Dad and I to Puget Sound, to do some fishing. The only thing we caught was foot long...

Bob, hope you're doing ok with your issues. See what I did there? I just called you Bob Hope... That comma becomes somewhat important in my story... Sorry about that. I've been reading Squankums "Underground Lair" and am on about the 24th page of about 80 pages or so. What an incredible...

Bob, that's a great idea, joining a group to go traveling. Mom did just that after Dad's passing. I should ask her about it. She was still living in Duluth, and the group made plans for a smaller bus ride to St. Paul, to the Greyhound Bus depot, then she went on from there. They went to...

Bob, I think often about my chances of taking Cheryl abroad, to go see Paris, France. You tried to talk me out of getting the tractor, instead. I really like the tractor, and now that Cheryl has passed, I really think about my decisions. After her passing, I really don't feel like going...

Darn...I thought I was "THEE" special customer and only "I" received emails like that from them... All kidding aside, I really like shopping there, and can see that they have really stepped up their game over the past few years. As I clean up the house, and get rid of some "extra" stuff, I ran...

That's exact where I went the other day. It's funny that I was receiving a text on my way there. I was less than a block away at that point. Once there, i bought what I did, and the cashier searched for a coupon on his personal cell phone . Once there, the cashier said to me that my itc was...

Speaking about Utica tools... I once went to Duluth for the weekend, and had a friend/co-worker with a boat in a very local marina He asked me for my help. His boat had two Chevy 350 engines, side by side, in the back of the boat and was having trouble doing an oil change on them. My task...

Bob, the reason I talked about my Bonney wrenches, hopefully didn't go unsaid... Meaning that there was a deeper feeling behind all of this. My thoughts are that I'd like to buy some Evaporust this year and fill my 10 liter (litre?) ultrasonic (super duper cleaner) with something else this...

Bob, long time no speaky... From me of course. I was out in the shop, listening to music, then glanced over to an open toolbox, overflowing, of course, but recognized at least one Bonney wrench... ( I've been reading the Bonney thread ...). Sure enough, I could recognize a Bonney wrench. Lot...

Yah, sure Squankum... Everyone has that equation memorized... Ha, just funning you. Lots to unpack there. I recognize PI and a couple of things. What gets me in trouble is K to the 11th power with a subscript of lower case "e". Same with A to the 7th power and a subscript of lower case "L"...

Happy anniversary Bob and Liane! Glad to hear that your legs are doing better. Great job on fixing the fence.

Bob!!! Hope you are feeling better with your leg issues. By now you probably know about Cheryl. I've been doing housework this week, but tonight, I actually went out to the shop and cranked up my stereo... It would be the first time since we lost her. It really kinda felt good, listening to...