What's everybody doing today?

[Sentry18]

Today is our anniversary
53 years ago we walked the isle.
2 kids just out of high school.
I wouldn't change anything that we have done.
3 daughters, 6 grandkids.
It's been a great life.

Today we just go shopping , she loves to shop.
Then we have a good meal , at Outback Steakhouse... tradition for us , except the milestone years , 25, 50, and 60 ....then we get away for a week somewhere special.
Yeah, there are better places, but that's where we started celebrating years ago.

So I'm looking forward to today and hopefully many more.


Jim

 

[Weedygarden]

Happy Anniversary, Phideaux! And many more!

 

[The Innkeeper]

@phideaux Congrats on your milestone Jim. May God continue to bless your union

 

[The Innkeeper]

Guests, guests and more guests. In between I have started the preseason maintenance on the snow removal equipment. I never had training and most of my jobs were office related, so I depend heavily on YouTube. When that goes down, I will have lost a major asset. It saves me a lot of trial and error

 

[WVDragonlady]

Guests, guests and more guests. In between I have started the preseason maintenance on the snow removal equipment. I never had training and most of my jobs were office related, so I depend heavily on YouTube. When that goes down, I will have lost a major asset. It saves me a lot of trial and error

Hubby just used it the other day too. He had to find out why the air brakes on the 5 ton army truck blew. He managed to get it back into its parking spot but it was a close call.

 

[Amish Heart]

53 years is amazing, Phideaux!

 

[phideaux]

Thanks,

I give my beautiful bride all the credit for making it happen....she put up with me all those years.
I think this is 2 years old, the latest pic I have,

Only change is my beard was shorter. I guess we need a newer pic.


Jim

 

[Sentry18]

No to detract from the celebration, but I just realized we are now on page 357 and I felt this was needed.

 

[Meerkat]

Today is our anniversary
53 years ago we walked the isle.
2 kids just out of high school.
I wouldn't change anything that we have done.
3 daughters, 6 grandkids.
It's been a great life.

Today we just go shopping , she loves to shop.
Then we have a good meal , at Outback Steakhouse... tradition for us , except the milestone years , 25, 50, and 60 ....then we get away for a week somewhere special.
Yeah, there are better places, but that's where we started celebrating years ago.

So I'm looking forward to today and hopefully many more.


Jim

And many more .

 

[Meerkat]

Enjoying the fact the heat wave is pretty much over as of today it is only 95 with lower humidity.
Been dealing with a couple friend's and family lately plus watching some youtube bio's.
And doing the basic clearning cooking ,etc,.

 

[snappy1]

Been staying busy with general household stuff the last few days. Dug up my sweet potato.es today and did a little Fall decorating outside. It's been so hot here so staying in as much as possible

 

[Amish Heart]

Regular chores done, then I tackled a large file cabinet. Then I tackled my walk in closet. That took awhile. I didn't put things away properly after the robbery. Granddaughter got the cleaning bug, too, and we have a dozen large bags ready to go to the thrift store tomorrow.

 

[The Lazy L]

Loaned a new rifle to a newbie shooter friend. I wanted the rifle broken in and he wanted some experience. He had a few failure to feed. Probability user caused but...plan on going to the range this morning to see if it's the rifle or magazine. Ready to leave before I thought about checking their web site. Range is reserved for the day. Mowed yard instead, watered the new grass and chicken chores. Swaged several hundred 5.56 cases too.

 

[Bacpacker]

Congrats Jim and your bride.

 

[Supervisor42]

It's been over a year but I finally got the chance to do the scheduled test on my CDV-700 low-level radiation detector.
FIL had a nuclear radiogram done on the blood-vessels in his heart today. Perfect source to test all 3 scales on the meter.
It easily picked him up from over 10 feet away on the lowest scale.
He was a little hotter than I was after the NS test. He pegged out the meter on highest scale with the tube 3" from his body.

Oh, in the name of being prepared, everything functioned flawlessly, and it only took 14 minutes to get it out, batteryed-up, and running.
Test=PASS

 

[Bacpacker]

If you can you should run the same test and record data for the next several days to see how fast it decays.

 

[timmie]

congrats to you and your bride.

 

[Supervisor42]

If you can you should run the same test and record data for the next several days to see how fast it decays.

It's already online.
It decays very fast. Loses down to about 50% at 6 hours and 5% at 24 hours. Very short shelf-life.
Add that to the fact that most of the isotope is eliminated from the body within 24 hours, there won't be hardly anything to measure tomorrow.
This is why it is 'safe'.

"Tritium (hydrogen-3) has a half-life of only 11.2 years, meaning that half of it decays every 11 years. It is highly radioactive - but not nearly as radioactive as some isotopes used in medicine, such as Technetium-99 with a half-life of only 6 hours. A unit of Technetium-99 emits 16,000 times as much radiation per second than does Tritium, which in turn is 7,000,000 times as radioactive as Plutonium!

Of course the Samarskite I have is different. It has a half-life of 4.5 billion years.

Talk about the Energizer Bunny!
But it is also very weak.

 

[LadyLocust]

Loaned a new rifle to a newbie shooter friend. I wanted the rifle broken in and he wanted some experience. He had a few failure to feed. Probability user caused but...plan on going to the range this morning to see if it's the rifle or magazine. Ready to leave before I thought about checking their web site. Range is reserved for the day. Mowed yard instead, watered the new grass and chicken chores. Swaged several hundred 5.56 cases too.

Did you clean it when you got it. When I got my rifle, it was throwing rounds clear out of the chamber. I learned they grease them up extra good for shipping in order to prevent rust. Had something similar with a pistol but it had a wacky firing pin too.
@phideaux Congrats to you both! You're an inspiration

 

[Terri9630]

Here I was thinking that 24 years was good. Happy anniversary and congratulations.

 

[Meerkat]

Started reading a book this morning that I have absolutely no idea where it came from ,it was in my library.
Very interesting even for a history buff like myself. I learned lots of things I didn't know. A real page turner.
Killing Lincoln, by Bill O'Reilly.

 

[phideaux]

Just got released from home health care.
No more nurses visits,
No more rehab,

At least until November.
Then it starts all over again.

Jim

 

[Meerkat]

Just got released from home health care.
No more nurses visits,
No more rehab,

At least until November.
Then it starts all over again.

Jim

Hope the next one is even faster.

 

[phideaux]

Hope the next one is even faster.

Doctor and myself believe the next one will go better, as this leg was damaged from a DVT 7 years ago.
Poor vascularity , which makes slow healing recovery.


Jim

 

[Support Gunner]

Started harvest.

 

[Meerkat]

Started harvest.


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Gunner, thats yours, looks great.

 

[Caribou]

I like your garden Gunner.

 

[Support Gunner]

Gunner, thats yours, looks great.

Unfortunately its not mine. Its owned by the company I work for. I just drive it.

 

[Bacpacker]

What cha harvesting there SG? Soybeans? Crop looks good. Like that tractor too.
I've drove across a few places in the midwest over the years, both during planting and harvesting. Always wished I could spend some time out in the fields like that. Biggest field I ever worked was about 30 acres or so. Working 500 at a time would have been awesome.

 

[Support Gunner]

Corn. That field was a small 3 acre field. The biggest 3 fields we have this year is 25 acres each.