Guys, RUOK?

stovepipe · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 9:53 am Post subject: Re: Guys, RUOK?

Aloysius wrote:

Elvis wrote:

so what is wrong with ya foot???

I know several men who did 'funny' things to their legs or feeth and most of them drove a motorbike when they were young...

am I close?

good education starts with teaching respect for the back-side of a horse, the front of women and the middle of a motorbike Smile

Wise words!

Yup- mashed it 3 or 4 too many times on stumps riding enduro stuff. Always the left one too. Weird.

stovepipe · Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 2:07 pm Post subject: Re: Guys, RUOK?

A huge slab of elk London Broil cut, chop it and simmer with red/green peppers, purple onion, Manwich sloppy joe sauce.....serve on a giant tortilla.

Elk burritos! Shocked

I wish you could smell just how amazingly good it smells in here right now. I had to duct tape a diaper to my face to keep from shorting out the hot plate cuz I am drooling way more than usual!

YUM!!! Very Happy

stovepipe · Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 2:12 pm Post subject: Re: Guys, RUOK?

Bushmaster wrote:

Be careful. I'm starting to wish you a white Christmas with 20 feet of snow. Aah Hell!! You'd probably like that.

Smile

4-5" last night. Been in the teens for lows most of the week. It was wicked pretty w/o any tracks before the plow came at 4am. Just a light blanket of virgin white. Man it was pretty. Did some tacking out back this morning. There's vermin abouts. Time ta pull out the bunny buster.

slimjim · Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 3:01 pm Post subject: Re: Guys, RUOK?

stovey, your meal looks great! So does your winter weather.

Here in North Texas we have been having a major winter storm involving ice. Its the worse ice storm I've seen here. It started with my Thursday afternoon flight from LAX to DFW being cancelled at 5am in the morning in advance of the ice storm. I immediately packed my bags and drove through the LA traffic and caught a 1030a flight to DFW. We landed at 4 pm just as the freezing rain started. I was supposed to fly to Boston to see my daughter for the weekend. That flight had been cancelled along with 6 others that were rescheduled after that. You can't even talk to an agent at American Airlines and is taking them over 3.5 hours to call you back. It took me 2 hours to drive home instead of 45-min and I had at least a 1/4 inch of ice covering the truck.

Here are some other indications of just how bad the situation is.

- It was 80 degrees the day before this all started.
- 4000 people slept on cots at the DFW airport for the second night in a row.
- Traffic on the highway going North from Fort Worth was back-up 100 miles.
- West of Fort Worth its a parking lot on I-20. People have not moved for 30 hours and there is no gas left in the gas stations.

There is a bright side, the freezing rain shifted over to sleet (we got
3-inches) so the power-lines in our area remained intact. Only 300,000
homes lost electrical power in the DFW area. It could have been much worse if the precipitation had not shifted to sleet.

The sun just came out and started to melt the ice. I can't believe it!
My flight tomorrow morning back to CA has just been canceled (number 8). At least I'm at home staying warm. Slim

moose2 · Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 3:52 pm Post subject: Re: Guys, RUOK?

Some great tasting vitals their Stovie. No elk here this year.
SJ. that ice is just nasty to deal with. Rather have a blizzard any day than all that ice. Hang in their buddy. Stay safe. Very Happy

Vince · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 7:42 am Post subject: Re: Guys, RUOK?

Stovey...that scoff looks outstandingly delicious mate.

Slim...I can't even imagine weather like that mate...I've never seen anything like that. How do the people in the cars get on when they are stuck, not moving, for 30 hours? Wouldn't that be a recipe for people freezing to death in their cars?

stovepipe · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:41 am Post subject: Re: Guys, RUOK?

So...Global Warming....how's that working for ya again? Setting record lows all over the place. -6 here last night with the Wind Chill. Brrrr! Global Warming my eye!

STUPID LIBERALS!

Bushmaster · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:45 am Post subject: Re: Guys, RUOK?

I believe in global warming as much as I believe in global cooling. It's what the earth has done for 4 Billion years or more.

Damn!! I need a better heater in the office. My fingers are cold.

stovepipe · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 11:27 am Post subject: Re: Guys, RUOK?

20* in my ATV workshop. Heater going for two hours. Staying in the bike shop and doing service on those today...brrr!

Bushmaster · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 11:34 am Post subject: Re: Guys, RUOK?

Might brisk for working. Have you thought of turning on the furnace?

stovepipe · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 1:14 pm Post subject: Re: Guys, RUOK?

no furnace for this shop.

I need a big electric shop heater. I cant do open flame or combustables out there. got an Eden Pure infrared heater in the bike shop. that's fine for in there. but in the ATV shop it wont even make a dent. I need to ramp this scene up.

Bushmaster · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 2:03 pm Post subject: Re: Guys, RUOK?

Local law or....?

When I was doing my aprentiship in a european automotive shop [years ago] we used a modified barrel and wood to heat the shop. We even used it to heat heads prior to installing valve seat inserts.

slimjim · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 3:40 pm Post subject: Re: Guys, RUOK?

Vince wrote:

How do the people in the cars get on when they are stuck, not moving, for 30 hours? Wouldn't that be a recipe for people freezing to death in their cars?

Or they runn out of gas. There were stories of the truckers using their microwaves to heat drinks for folks and sharing what food supplies they had. The gas stations along the remote highway ran out of fuel supplies.

Drove my wife to work this morning. The bridges are still coated with thick, cobblestone ice. My flight out of DFW this morning was cancelled. I was lucky to get rescheduled this afternoon. Others traveling with me are leaving tomorrow. Now the flight to LAX before mine and after are canceled. What a zoo! It should be back to normal winter weather by Wednesday.

Ominivision1 · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 4:05 pm Post subject: Re: Guys, RUOK?

Agreed Stovey & Bushy, global warming & cooling is just what the Earth has been going through for millions of years.

BTW, Stovey, you just made me hungry. Very Happy

dhc4ever · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 4:27 pm Post subject: Re: Guys, RUOK?

35 deg C here today, thats about 95F.
I dont envy you guys at all.
Stay safe, if not warm.