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MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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FutureCEO said:
I didn't want to quote my own post but donut cake anyone?

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thats not freedom.. thats the noise of your arteries clogging and giving you a heart attack ;)
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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Songbird76 said:
My family drove everywhere when I was a kid. We drove to Illinois in 2 days about every other year and we drove to DisneyWorld one year....it took us 3 days driving from about 6 am to 5 p.m. We also drove to New York when I was singing in Carnegie with my choir. And I was too young to remember it, but we drove to California to Disney when I was a year old. We always did stuff along the way...like, when we drove to Florida, we stopped in...I want to say Kentucky, and went to a cave there...and somewhere the Louis and Clark had traveled, and I think there was a trapping museum there. And I remember staying overnight in Hays Kansas and we went to a museum there. Whenever we went to Illinois, we stopped at Wall Drug in South Dakota, and we did the badlands a few times, and the Corn Palace. When we went to New York, we stopped in DC for a day, too. I saw SOOO much as a kid. I kind of miss that.
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I definitively wont drive lol..
thats like at least 18 hours from my hometown to Monterrey, around 3 hours more to the border... then from Texas to Orlando...
which according to google maps.. its a 14 hour drive (via tolls) or 17 hours via free way.
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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Songbird76 said:
It was really great. Where I live now, it's so small that you drive from one side of the country to the other in just a couple of hours. We drove all the way to the opposite end of Germany almost to Austria in something like 9 hours. We did a bus tour to Paris and I think it was somewhere between 5 and 8 hours. But those trips have just be DH and myself...we've never done that with the kids and hubby doesn't think the kids would be able to sit in the car for that long. They aren't used to it. I grew up with that, but the kids haven't because we just don't HAVE those distances here unless you are going to another country. I would LOVE to do a big road trip in the US, but DH isn't real keen on it. We did it once the year after I moved over here. My mom passed just before we moved and we came back to do her burial, which was in Illinois. Then we drove from IL back home to Wyo to visit family and friends. I took him on our standard drive through Blue Earth Minnesota to see the Jolly Green Giant, across South Dakota through Sioux Falls, the Badlands, Wall, down into Wyo. On the way back, we went through Kansas to meet some cousins I found through Genealogy research and see my Great Great Grandfather's house and grave and one of the churches he built (he was a stone mason and minister and the Secretary of State in Kansas in the late1800s). DH was a good sport about it, but he really didn't like sitting in the car for that long. Not his thing. So I'm afraid my kids won't get those experiences. We do lots of fun things with them, but road trips just aren't in the cards.
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funnily.. thats another thing on my bucket list.. rent one of these big RVs and do a tour for US national parks.
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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JenniferS said:
Thank you. The turkey is in the oven, getting all happy, as I type. :)
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RIP turkey.. we hardly knew yee!

MinnieM123 said:
I have central A/C (in a sense . . . :cautious: ). In the summer, we have 2 window units that we remove in Sept. In the winter, we keep the heat down so low that it's almost like year-round A/C at home! :joyfull: :joyfull:
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I think we talked about this before.. but arent minisplits normal in the US?
In houston every home I seen had central units or window units.
Here in my country is all about minisplits.
 
French Quarter

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fox_198 said:
Canadians are so lucky they get Thanksgiving before us. I'm so jealous since it's my second favorite holiday of the holiday season.
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I looove Thanksgiving too! Up here, it is now that all the crops come in from the fields. If we waited until November, we would have to chisel them out of the frozen ground to celebrate the harvest. lol
 
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donaldtoo

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Gabe1 said:
I wrapped up potatoes and put them out on my cast iron in line gas grill to make baked potatoes for dinner. I put them out there so when I came back from the store all I had to do on my way in was turn the ****. Being a rule follower I always lift the heavy lid when igniting the BBQ. Good thing. Somehow stupid squirrel got in there and was chewing through a potato. :facepalm:

That would have been nasty.:hungover:
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:joyfull: ;) :)
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Gabe1 said:
Speakingofwhich. I told you we had a family of 3 move in from Texas across the road from us. I've spoken to them a few times and seem to be the nicest of nice people. (and there is another story coming about their DD)

I kept hearing weird metal drilling odd sounds over the last couple days coming from across the road and I also watch the man Tim the Tool Man souping up an old open, metal trailer attached to his SUV. They didn't move here with it. Well this morning on the road parked was his SUV pulling the older trail and on the trailer was this elaborate 2 swing door, self created smoker ready to be pulled away. I still cannot upload photos but even the handles were amazing. I want to be invited to dinner. Texas has arrived in Hamlet.
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YEEEEEHHHAAAAAWWWWWWW!!!!!!! :joyfull: ;) :)

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I wonder if it was for him and his family, or maybe, even if it was, does he also maybe make and sell them, too.
That's big business down here. :)
 
donaldtoo

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MinnieM123 said:
This is the happiest thing I've heard so far this morning. (Then again, no one is up, and my dog, Jack, isn't exactly talkative . . . ;) ) Anyway, this is why we all like your pop--he's an inspiration to all of us to live life to the fullest, and not get bummed out by medical details (within reason). He knows that if he has the right attitude, and keeps trying, he'll be running circles around the rest of us in no time! xoxo to your pop!! :angelic:
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So very sweet of you Minnie, thanks so much! :)

The Sunday evening before his originally scheduled stint procedure, we were all out on the front deck visiting.
When we were pulling out of the driveway, there he was, just like so many times before, sitting in his favorite swinging bench with his foot up on it (knee high, up near his face), waving goodbye.
When I drove up yesterday, there he was in the same position, waving hello. I breathed a sigh.
So very reassuring. :)
 
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French Quarter

French Quarter

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Songbird76 said:
DH was a good sport about it, but he really didn't like sitting in the car for that long. Not his thing. So I'm afraid my kids won't get those experiences. We do lots of fun things with them, but road trips just aren't in the cards.
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Yes...it's certainly not for everybody. I think that living in Canada has helped with that. It takes me 8 hours to get back to where I grew up and it's in the same region as where I live now. And the price of flying within Canada is huge. We don't have good rail or bus service and they would take so much longer anyway. But then again, I do know people who never go anywhere so it just depends.
 

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