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MtTrapper, I was so excited about Starlink I forgot to comment. Holy crap! I'm glad you're ok. I hope your insurance will cover the windshield. I had my very back window in the expedition explode while driving past my neighbor's place. Heard what sounded like a gunshot but never found the bullet. Not sure if it was intentional or not. It was at a time when our neighbors were being nasty and peppering our driveway with old screws and nails though.
 
I have eaten chocolate gravy and biscuits my whole life for breakfast. My Mom made it at least once a week usually on the weekend.
My wife knows how to make it. I'll get the recipe when she gets home.

Chocolate Gravy
1C Flour
1C sugar
1 Teaspoon Hershey's cocoa.
2 cups of milk
1 cube of butter
Add everything except the butter and cook until it's warm then add the butter and cook until the butter melts and it's thick and hot.
Stir most of the time so it doesn't stick and burn.
Serve over homemade biscuits with a pad of butter melting in.
All of these amounts are my wife's best guess, she very rarely measures anything, so you may need to adjust over time. It's easy to add too much chocolate so go easy on it.
My mother in law makes that. It’s a family tradition. They call it dogun (not sure the spelling). It’s a family get together breakfast.
 
I have eaten chocolate gravy and biscuits my whole life for breakfast. My Mom made it at least once a week usually on the weekend.
My wife knows how to make it. I'll get the recipe when she gets home.

Chocolate Gravy
1C Flour
1C sugar
1 Teaspoon Hershey's cocoa.
2 cups of milk
1 cube of butter
Add everything except the butter and cook until it's warm then add the butter and cook until the butter melts and it's thick and hot.
Stir most of the time so it doesn't stick and burn.
Serve over homemade biscuits with a pad of butter melting in.
All of these amounts are my wife's best guess, she very rarely measures anything, so you may need to adjust over time. It's easy to add too much chocolate so go easy on it.
I have never had this, but will give it a try soon. Thank you for the recipe.
 
Driving up to the doctors office this morning. Passed a log truck and a large rock flew off and crashed through my windshield. Almost hit me in the face. Covered in glass in my face, chest and down my shirt.

I feel for you. I had that happen when driving a school bus. It sounded like a rifle shot when it hit. The hole was right in front of my face. Whatever it was, it partially penitrated the window. The impact area was the size of a golf ball and it all starred out from there.

It's amazing how fine the glass particles were that came off the inside of the window. I was covered in glass just like you were.
 
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Found the "gifts" little granddaughter's mom brought with her to granddaughter yesterday. They snuck them upstairs. The first was an old Barbie pickup truck that she painted army green, then wrote stuff all over it, like **ck Barbie. The next was an old cabbage patch doll that she painted the face to look like a Chucky Doll, and wrote stuff on it's stuffed body front and back. FML (**ck my life) in black bold lettering across the chest. The woman is 48 yrs old and is a nutcase. They hid these things bringing them upstairs so I wouldn't see them. No more nice.
Amish Heart, I had no idea. You are a rock.
 
Our concrete garage floor has a clearly visible expansion joint. Expansion joint marks the center of the two stall garage.

Wife is leaving for the day. Comes back in the house to tell me that I had parked my truck too close to her car. She can’t get in the car!

My truck is a 18” on my side of the centerline. Her car is 6” on my side of the center line. I asked how did she get out of the car last night when she got home? I get the deer in the head light stare.

If she would eliminate the two rows of stuff she has piled between the car and the garage wall perhaps she would be able to park further over?
 
Our concrete garage floor has a clearly visible expansion joint. Expansion joint marks the center of the two stall garage.

Wife is leaving for the day. Comes back in the house to tell me that I had parked my truck too close to her car. She can’t get in the car!

My truck is a 18” on my side of the centerline. Her car is 6” on my side of the center line. I asked how did she get out of the car last night when she got home? I get the deer in the head light stare.

If she would eliminate the two rows of stuff she has piled between the car and the garage wall perhaps she would be able to park further over?



Aside from the mud room it all her side. ;)

The unheated detached garage is my side.

Ben
 
Our concrete garage floor has a clearly visible expansion joint. Expansion joint marks the center of the two stall garage.

Wife is leaving for the day. Comes back in the house to tell me that I had parked my truck too close to her car. She can’t get in the car!

My truck is a 18” on my side of the centerline. Her car is 6” on my side of the center line. I asked how did she get out of the car last night when she got home? I get the deer in the head light stare.

If she would eliminate the two rows of stuff she has piled between the car and the garage wall perhaps she would be able to park further over?

I feel your pain. We have a 2 1/2 car garage that has only held one car (guess whose car) for 25 of the 29 years we have been in this house. We don't have the side to side issue. We have a front to back issue. One party believes you pull into the garage until you hit something. I had to put $3,000.00 worth of upright freezer, and an old set of metal kitchen cabinets in the way, so she didn't end up in the laundry room. :pickup: RAMMING SPEED!!
 
I feel your pain. We have a 2 1/2 car garage that has only held one car (guess whose car) for 25 of the 29 years we have been in this house. We don't have the side to side issue. We have a front to back issue. One party believes you pull into the garage until you hit something. I had to put $3,000.00 worth of upright freezer, and an old set of metal kitchen cabinets in the way, so she didn't end up in the laundry room. :pickup: RAMMING SPEED!!
Have you seen the hanging tennis ball that lets the driver know when they are in far enough to get the door to close? That might help.
 
I feel your pain. We have a 2 1/2 car garage that has only held one car (guess whose car) for 25 of the 29 years we have been in this house. We don't have the side to side issue. We have a front to back issue. One party believes you pull into the garage until you hit something. I had to put $3,000.00 worth of upright freezer, and an old set of metal kitchen cabinets in the way, so she didn't end up in the laundry room. :pickup: RAMMING SPEED!!
I have suggested putting old tires around her car like a tug boat. She was not amused.

Ben
 
I parked in a garage when I rode a train to work every day. One evening there was a note on my truck informing me I was parked too close to the line and she would have me towed if I did it again.
I left her a reply that said I was between the lines and she was an idiot. I would make it a point to park next to her every time I could. We finally met face to face and she started in about my parking. It just hit me wrong and I told her in no uncertain terms what I thought of her and what would happen if she ever accosted me again. By the time I was finished there was a crowd watching and several people started clapping. She started crying and left.

I never have the problem with my wife parking on my side of the garage.
There is so much crap in the garage it would take a backhoe to even get a car in it.
 
We have a 2 car garage and it's been full of junk for 15 years. Neither of us can park inside.

I told my husband 10 years ago that I was not going to clean the garage again until he agreed to help. Well, it hasn't been touched. I may have to break down in a year or two. Lol
 
I've never parked in a garage, but I've parked in the roundtop next to the tractor.
Well, Smalltimefarmer, don't know how much of a rock I am. The mom called last night and I talked her about her "gifts" and asked her to explain herself. Of course she first lied, Then said it was artistic. Then said little granddaughter hates me anyway and that she told her she does. So I hung up. Asked little granddaughter if that's what she said, and she said it was. So I was crushed. I told little granddaughter how hurt that made me feel, and she seemed indifferent. Decided I'd get over my sorry self, and will change visitation. So no visits for awhile. No visits in our home. We will meet at the park or zoo in the bigger town, and they need to keep it upbeat, need to be in earshot, and need to come washed. They have access to water, and they need to show it. Visits can resume later, and phone calls, too. Not right now.
 
Our garage was built 8 years ago. It is a two car garage and we park our cars in it. There is a shed outside for garden vehicles and the utensils hang on the side walls inside the garage. I put a potting table and lights in on the south side of the west wall of the garage for her to keep her gardening supplies and there is a shelf unit on the north side of the west wall for auto supplies.
We don't store unused stuff in either the garage or my shop. Both buildings are heated and cooled for year round use.
 
I've never parked in a garage, but I've parked in the roundtop next to the tractor.
Well, Smalltimefarmer, don't know how much of a rock I am. The mom called last night and I talked her about her "gifts" and asked her to explain herself. Of course she first lied, Then said it was artistic. Then said little granddaughter hates me anyway and that she told her she does. So I hung up. Asked little granddaughter if that's what she said, and she said it was. So I was crushed. I told little granddaughter how hurt that made me feel, and she seemed indifferent. Decided I'd get over my sorry self, and will change visitation. So no visits for awhile. No visits in our home. We will meet at the park or zoo in the bigger town, and they need to keep it upbeat, need to be in earshot, and need to come washed. They have access to water, and they need to show it. Visits can resume later, and phone calls, too. Not right now.
Sorry to hear that but I can understand where you are at, that would be enough to make most people just give up on them completely.
 
Trying to be a bit more diplomatic, they moved cross country from California after we moved to Kansas. That was a shock in itself. She wants to see her daughter, we are not obligated as guardians, and she's a poor example of a parent. Will just taper off the visits. Don't want to start any more garbage with the ten yr old.
 
Have you seen the hanging tennis ball that lets the driver know when they are in far enough to get the door to close? That might help.

We tried that. First time she pulled in she knocked the ball off of the string. It would be a gross understatement to say it didn't work.
 
Trying to be a bit more diplomatic, they moved cross country from California after we moved to Kansas. That was a shock in itself. She wants to see her daughter, we are not obligated as guardians, and she's a poor example of a parent. Will just taper off the visits. Don't want to start any more garbage with the ten yr old.
My son was nine when The Princess and wed. He hated her but thought he loved his birth mother.

After he grew up 5hings changed and his daughters think of The Princess as Gramma and my son avoids talking to his birth mother like the plague.

Bottom line, when they get old enough to realize birth mother is a basket case, they will come around.

Ben
 
MtTrapper, I was so excited about Starlink I forgot to comment. Holy crap! I'm glad you're ok. I hope your insurance will cover the windshield. I had my very back window in the expedition explode while driving past my neighbor's place. Heard what sounded like a gunshot but never found the bullet. Not sure if it was intentional or not. It was at a time when our neighbors were being nasty and peppering our driveway with old screws and nails though.
Years ago when I was doing custodial/maintenance for a local school district as I was walking toward the elementary library I heard a loud thud, when I got to the library I found that the interior glass on a large window next to the door to the courtyard had broken into thousands of pieces, most all were still in place, what the issue is that windows near the floor and along side of doors are required to be tempered, pretty much the same as all vehicle windows other than the windshield of vehicles. Tempered glass has unusual aspects to it that can cause it to blow and one of them is fast changes in temperatures, when tempered glass is made, it's my belief that there are certain pressures that end up in the finished product and they show up like someone has thrown something at them. Years ago my wife son and I were visiting her mom in Denver and as we are driving around in the cold weather I turned on the rear window defrost for the second time, to clear the ice built up and in just a few minuted that window exploded in place, our young son was in tears because of the loud sound and I was upset, thinking that someone had thrown a doctored snowball, after I thought it out, I realized it was because I turned on the defrost the second time. I've seen tempered back windows blow out clear back to the mid fifties, seen that happen on more than a few 55' 56' Chevrolets. Perhaps, now days, the making of tempered glass is a lot better, I really haven't seen as much of that happening any more. On a side note, seat belt cutters/window breakers are sold to have in vehicles for emergency, look them up and you will see that the glass breaker is a pointed metal insert in the tool. From time to time I need to get rid of old tempered glass and I needed to do was hit the glass with the pointed edge of a large file and the glass became a large pile of small pieces of easily swept up glass.
 
Years ago when I was doing custodial/maintenance for a local school district as I was walking toward the elementary library I heard a loud thud, when I got to the library I found that the interior glass on a large window next to the door to the courtyard had broken into thousands of pieces, most all were still in place, what the issue is that windows near the floor and along side of doors are required to be tempered, pretty much the same as all vehicle windows other than the windshield of vehicles. Tempered glass has unusual aspects to it that can cause it to blow and one of them is fast changes in temperatures, when tempered glass is made, it's my belief that there are certain pressures that end up in the finished product and they show up like someone has thrown something at them. Years ago my wife son and I were visiting her mom in Denver and as we are driving around in the cold weather I turned on the rear window defrost for the second time, to clear the ice built up and in just a few minuted that window exploded in place, our young son was in tears because of the loud sound and I was upset, thinking that someone had thrown a doctored snowball, after I thought it out, I realized it was because I turned on the defrost the second time. I've seen tempered back windows blow out clear back to the mid fifties, seen that happen on more than a few 55' 56' Chevrolets. Perhaps, now days, the making of tempered glass is a lot better, I really haven't seen as much of that happening any more. On a side note, seat belt cutters/window breakers are sold to have in vehicles for emergency, look them up and you will see that the glass breaker is a pointed metal insert in the tool. From time to time I need to get rid of old tempered glass and I needed to do was hit the glass with the pointed edge of a large file and the glass became a large pile of small pieces of easily swept up glass.
From Wikipedia....

"
Tempered or toughened glass is a type of safety glass processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strength compared with normal glass. Tempering puts the outer surfaces into compression and the interior into tension. Such stresses cause the glass, when broken, to shatter into small granular chunks instead of splintering into jagged shards as ordinary annealed glass does. The granular chunks are less likely to cause injury.
"
See here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempered_glass
Ben
 
Trying to be a bit more diplomatic, they moved cross country from California after we moved to Kansas. That was a shock in itself. She wants to see her daughter, we are not obligated as guardians, and she's a poor example of a parent. Will just taper off the visits. Don't want to start any more garbage with the ten yr old.
My childhood had some similar and some different circumstances. I don't think these situations are ever easy. I know you are giving her a life she would never have had, but she is not in a place to understand that. I also wonder how much carp her mother is feeding her about the circumstances? The toughest parts of her childhood are ahead of her, her adolescent years. I can imagine that the mom has more damage that she can cause in this situation.
 
My childhood had some similar and some different circumstances. I don't think these situations are ever easy. I know you are giving her a life she would never have had, but she is not in a place to understand that. I also wonder how much carp her mother is feeding her about the circumstances? The toughest parts of her childhood are ahead of her, her adolescent years. I can imagine that the mom has more damage that she can cause in this situation.

Ditto that!

What matters in the long run is the model of a good woman that she will not from birth mom.

Ben
 
Try a 4x4 laying on the floor.
We used a simple 2x4 10' long for decades. It stopped her perfect every time. :thumbs:
You would have to push the gas pedal to drive over it.
 

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