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monster 03-25-2020 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 1049315)
Arlington County Virginia has just asked homeowners to please stop it with the spring cleaning during the Coronavirus lock down.

They are being completely overwhelmed with garbage pickup, and have announce that they will temporarily suspend collecting mattresses, furniture, and appliances.

I have to laugh because it's true. On our street everyone is doing heavy spring cleaning and Marie Kondo-ing all their shit. I grabbed a nice office chair being tossed out across the street. I needed one too, because the cushion on mine was breaking down. I left the trash picked chair on the front porch in the sun for a few days before bringing it inside. It's perfect. Gives good support without being too comfortable.

Yeah I was thinking all the thrift stores are going to be overwhelmed here when they reopen. Our trash collection will only take what's in your wheelie bin. Anything else you have to take to the landfill yourself and pay a fee. They don't get off the truck when they pick up.

glatt 03-25-2020 12:02 PM

A few years ago, my son dissembled his tree house, and neatly stacked all the lumber on a picnic table we never use. It's all rotten wood now and looks like hell, so I considered as recently as yesterday tossing it in the trash. I guess I missed my window of opportunity.

Griff 03-25-2020 12:21 PM

If it's clean rotten lumber, no paint or treatment, you can compost it or simply cover it with soil. It will improve the water holding capacity of your soil. If you have any yard...

limey 03-25-2020 02:15 PM

So I went for walk yesterday round the "back" of our island. It's hard to tell which is nature's architecture and which is man-made...https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...43a5cd4531.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...1222814245.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...720c2eac18.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8de6eab261.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...65f8b64447.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...326fb0e3c1.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ead14d0961.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...044e8c1ca5.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...fc7a1c8f65.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...9b3a141c9e.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...4e522cf2d6.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...0d41871c48.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...f8bba3cab7.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...3654629857.jpg

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Flint 03-25-2020 02:25 PM

So far, just dumbbells from 5-20 pounds for high reps, frequently throughout the day. But tonight I'll be setting up some higher weight dumbbells, and a couple of barbells for doing deadlifts, squats, bent-over rows, overhead triceps, upright rows, that kind of stuff.

glatt 03-25-2020 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by limey (Post 1049345)
So I went for walk yesterday round the "back" of our island. It's hard to tell which is nature's architecture and which is man-made...

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That's so cool. I love your island!

xoxoxoBruce 03-25-2020 03:21 PM

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Thanks for the tour Limey, looks like a bad place to be stumbling around in the dark, I was expecting to meet one of these guys. :D

BigV 03-25-2020 04:00 PM

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This period of isolation is no walk in the park, I can tell you that.

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Griff 03-25-2020 04:48 PM

Gorgeous Limey!

NYC is leaving the Parks open but closing some streets so people can walk and maintain their 6 foot gaps.

glatt 03-25-2020 04:57 PM

Closing parks is bullshit. Wide open spaces are the one place it's safe.

BigV 03-25-2020 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 1049374)
Closing parks is bullshit. Wide open spaces are the one place it's safe.

You're absolutely correct.

xoxoxoBruce 03-25-2020 05:31 PM

The PA Turnpike is only 360.1 miles long, no reason not to close all the bathrooms. :facepalm:

monster 03-25-2020 07:06 PM

Parks are closed here too. I think the problem is people are tempted to bend the rules -it's a wide open space so it's ok to meet up.... and they're not very good at keeping a 2 meter distance

monster 03-25-2020 07:21 PM

Today I thoroughly let myself down. I got up early to do a big tidying/sorting job, and I also planned to go outside in the nice weather. I didn't even touch the big job (yet) and I was just stirring to go out and realized it's dark already :( I haven't left the house. I've done bits of pieces of tidying and cleaning here and there -some regular/routine, some monthly, some annual... but nothing remarkable. I just applied for a job. not a career job, but can't stop just because I have an interview..... soon I will will eligible for unemployment, so I must keep trying in case I do have to try again to apply. I wanted to plant seeds in the nice weather. didn't. And I didn't pay the health insurance that's due at the end of the month and needs to go by mail. Or set up the new printer. I'm working up to doing that right now, though

I did clean the bog, deep clean the shower doors, change the furnace filter, sort out the wrapping paper and ribbon/bow stash, cook linner for myself and the boys, do two loads of laundry, about to do the dishwasher....yada yada yada worried about my distant family members, tracked daughter's progress as she moved from her apartment to her boyfriend's parent's house in the panhandle before her county locks down tonight (gonna be a fun few weeks for her there...)

procrastinate much?

BigV 03-25-2020 07:35 PM

sounds normal

monster 03-25-2020 09:02 PM

printer is installed! I can do printy things

BigV 03-25-2020 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by BigV (Post 1049390)
sounds normal

Upon further reflection, that does not sound normal. It's not normal.

But it does sound familiar.

xoxoxoBruce 03-25-2020 11:44 PM

The Cellar... Normal People Need Not Apply. :haha:

limey 03-26-2020 03:44 AM

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 1049389)
Today I thoroughly let myself down. I got up early to do a big tidying/sorting job, and I also planned to go outside in the nice weather. I didn't even touch the big job (yet) and I was just stirring to go out and realized it's dark already :( I haven't left the house. I've done bits of pieces of tidying and cleaning here and there -some regular/routine, some monthly, some annual... but nothing remarkable. I just applied for a job. not a career job, but can't stop just because I have an interview..... soon I will will eligible for unemployment, so I must keep trying in case I do have to try again to apply. I wanted to plant seeds in the nice weather. didn't. And I didn't pay the health insurance that's due at the end of the month and needs to go by mail. Or set up the new printer. I'm working up to doing that right now, though

I did clean the bog, deep clean the shower doors, change the furnace filter, sort out the wrapping paper and ribbon/bow stash, cook linner for myself and the boys, do two loads of laundry, about to do the dishwasher....yada yada yada worried about my distant family members, tracked daughter's progress as she moved from her apartment to her boyfriend's parent's house in the panhandle before her county locks down tonight (gonna be a fun few weeks for her there...)

procrastinate much?


You got stuff done. Just not what was on the list. You just might have some time on your hands tomorrow ...


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Griff 03-26-2020 06:13 AM

I just put the actual stuff on the list then cross it out. Success!

xoxoxoBruce 03-26-2020 09:23 AM

The main objective of the day, of every day, is to get through it without physical or mental injury. It's a win.

monster 03-26-2020 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 1049408)
I just put the actual stuff on the list then cross it out. Success!

guilty :D

Griff 04-03-2020 09:44 PM

Apparently we’re supposed to be doing Taskmaster at home via Twitter.

xoxoxoBruce 04-03-2020 11:24 PM

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Can't understand it...

monster 04-04-2020 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 1050139)
Apparently we’re supposed to be doing Taskmaster at home via Twitter.

ORLY? :/

sounds worse than tiktok challenges

sexobon 04-04-2020 07:53 PM

Meanwhile down south...
 
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If you're desperate enough to visit Twitter for entertainment, you can look at pictures and videos of US in the other Americas: https://twitter.com/jtfbravo?lang=en

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monster 04-04-2020 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 1050139)
Apparently we’re supposed to be doing Taskmaster at home via Twitter.

I just came across this, it's great!


monster 04-04-2020 10:38 PM

...it seems that Lego should be considered an essential item.

xoxoxoBruce 04-05-2020 12:47 AM

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You could fence in the North forty...

Griff 04-05-2020 06:30 AM

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 1050185)
I just came across this, it's great!


It's quite hilarious.

Griff 04-05-2020 07:24 AM

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I'm realizing how lucky I am to live in a rural place where social-distance is easily achieved. I did run into a guy in the woods today but we chatted from a distance. He works on a cell block with a lot of old-timers. They're screening all the employees but if it gets in...

Anyway, rode with Benny and dropped a cherry today.

BigV 04-05-2020 05:02 PM

Cherry?

Cherry?


Like a cherry tree?

um.... that bark is nothing like the cherry tree bark I'm acquainted with.

????????

sexobon 04-05-2020 08:16 PM

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Does Benny ever get to ride along like the Big City dogs?

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(Pictured) A bicyclist and her dog pedal through the empty streets of Queens, New York, on April 5.

Griff 04-05-2020 08:54 PM

https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk...of_Cherry_Wood

On a road bike I maybe could wear Benny out, usually not while mountain biking.

xoxoxoBruce 04-06-2020 01:32 AM

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That's a beautiful log.:thumb:

Griff 04-06-2020 06:20 AM

Prunus serotina

https://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/...ruser/all.html

HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES :
Black cherry occurs as scattered individuals in numerous forest types of
the East (see SAF cover types listed). It is codominant in only one
cover type, the black cherry-maple type (SAF 28) found in the Allegheny
Plateau and Allegheny Mountain sections of New York, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, and West Virginia [18]. In this type, black cherry is a
primary component along with red maple (Acer rubrum), sugar maple (A.
saccharum), and white ash (Fraxinus americana). Other common associates
include American beech (Fagus grandifolia), eastern hemlock (Tsuga
canadensis), sweet birch (Betula lenta), yellow birch (B.
alleghaniensis), yellow-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), cucumbertree
(Magnolia acuminata), oak (Quercus spp.), and hickory (Carya spp.)

glatt 04-06-2020 08:04 AM

OMG look at that Cherry! That log is amazing.

monster 04-06-2020 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 1050206)
dropped a cherry today.


I'm still not sure this isn't a euphemism for something rude.... :eek:

.....way back when I was employed in a grocery store and I was responsible for printing the promo materials, there was a "cherry fest" promotion and I doctored one of the posters to say "Lost your cherry? Don't worry, we have plenty!" and put it in some department mailboxes. Poor darlings actually thought home office had sent it down and started blustering things like "Do they know what this actually means?....." :lol:

Griff 04-06-2020 08:40 PM

Ha!

glatt 04-19-2020 12:20 PM

Got out of Dodge, if just for a few hours. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ac9988e1ee.jpg

We Hit the trail at 7:48am. Not anyone else on the trail on the way up. Maybe two dozen when we came back down at 9:30. Most kept their distance, but some were clueless. I was prepared though. That’s the Mrs. and daughter behind me in the picture.
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xoxoxoBruce 04-20-2020 12:12 AM

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limey 04-20-2020 07:34 AM

Recording. Multitracking. The Limey Big Band sound is being born ....


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glatt 04-20-2020 09:10 AM

I'm excited to hear it.

Undertoad 04-20-2020 08:50 PM

If you are isolating with children you have time to teach them a song.



oh not this guy he taught them it in 2011

fargon 04-21-2020 08:36 AM

Yesterday I replaced the A/C belt and tensioner (sp) on my truck.

glatt 04-21-2020 08:49 AM

Nice!

Yesterday, I put on some disposable rubber gloves, and picked up a dead bunny by our driveway by its hind paws. It was stiff as a board, and there were three flies on it. It had no signs of trauma, disease, or blood from the nose as if it was poisoned. It looked like it was a perfectly healthy specimen, except for the bit about being dead. It's a mystery to me how it died.

Anyway, I placed it in a garbage bag and threw my gloves in after it. It's in the garbage can out at the curb now.

Good times.

fargon 04-21-2020 09:09 AM

Will the excitement ever end.

Flint 04-21-2020 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Flint (Post 1049348)
So far, just dumbbells from 5-20 pounds for high reps, frequently throughout the day. ... [a month ago]

Progress, getting strong. Last night I did deadlifts, shrugs, bent-over barbell rows, barbell/reverse/hammer curls. Heavy enough that it was hard to un-bend my fingers, and I got nauseous from lactic acid build up.

I'm stuffing myself with food to maximize hypertrophy while my body is reacting aggressively. If/when I get too strong for my connective tissues, I'll reduce the calories and start burning off my visceral fat.

Subcutaneous fat loss is not a goal, but it should come as a result of my base metabolism increase.

Griff 04-21-2020 02:20 PM

Good work man. I don't have the discipline for that.

Flint 04-21-2020 02:35 PM

Thanks. For most of my life, it was just an ego thing. I had a naturally lean, aesthetic physique and it was gratifying to see my veins bulging out. This is the first time I’ve ever tried to "bulk up"— all compound movements, no cables/machines, and surplus calorie intake. I’m fat and strong, it's totally different.


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eta: also, I'm not drinking

BigV 04-22-2020 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Flint (Post 1051338)
Thanks. For most of my life, it was just an ego thing. I had a naturally lean, aesthetic physique and it was gratifying to see my veins bulging out. This is the first time I’ve ever tried to "bulk up"— all compound movements, no cables/machines, and surplus calorie intake. I’m fat and strong, it's totally different.

Good work man, very impressive discipline.
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Originally Posted by Flint (Post 1051338)
eta: also, I'm not drinking

I'm taking up your slack.

BigV 04-22-2020 02:20 PM

I'm doing a lot of things.

Today, I'm using YouTube to expand my brain to include how to use SketchUp. I plan to use it to create a plan for the shop I'm going to build.

fargon 04-22-2020 03:46 PM

Yesterday we cleaned up the Truck, and today we cleaned up the Car. Later I'm going to help a friend move an organ. Yippee!!!

Griff 04-22-2020 04:09 PM

nudge nudge wink wink

fargon 04-22-2020 04:12 PM

Hammond Organ you pervert.

Griff 04-22-2020 05:24 PM

:D

BigV 04-22-2020 08:47 PM

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Griff

I'll see your felled cherry and raise you a western red cedar.

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Carry tree in wheelbarrow.


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Dig hole for tree roots.


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Plug tree into hole.


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Embrace your inner treehugger.

HAPPY EARTH DAY #50!!!!

Griff 04-23-2020 06:21 AM

Excellent!

limey 04-23-2020 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by fargon (Post 1051408)
Hammond Organ you pervert.

My brother's got one of those. Complete with twirling speakers.

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xoxoxoBruce 04-24-2020 12:13 AM

My Dad did too, twirling speakers and all.


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