The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[donaldtoo]

I'd say you have stamina!!

Short week again for me, too. We'll be getting out early tomorrow, and the I'm off until Monday!

Thank you!
But, stamina, stupid. Either way, I'm cool with it...!

So glad you're gettin' a long weekend, as well!

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Santa knows I love the Minions.
Look what he left in my stocking:
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So cute!

 

[Cesar R M]

This is how we build a cute little sand sculpture sorta' thingy in Texas...

 

[Cesar R M]

happy new year everyone! (going out for party soon)

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Just made reservations for Seattle for the NFC championship game. ( knock on wood)

That's awesome!

 

[donaldtoo]

These use to work most of the time. 2 years ago when we took out the 100+ year old pines front and back I had the tree guys give the 60 year old Locus Tree a hair cut. Could be reached with the telescope above the power and phone lines. It was the first time we had to bring in an outsider. This summer we lost an Ash tree on the easement in the front of the property. Not amused with those little tree eat'n buggers.

My Pop has 2 of those.

 

[Gabe1]

It was. Now have enough food till Monday.

Green bean casserole Honey baked ham. Sponge jello. Dill celery pasta salad. Baked beans. Potato salad. Jason potatoes which are cubed put in a pan 4 sticks of butter and onion.sweet sour baby carrots

 

[FutureCEO]

I'm watching fireworks from all the places I want to live around the world.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

no offence, but you need to calibrate the lens. some shots were a bit blurry for a DSLR.

Not my camera. Don't have a clue what you are talking about.


Could have been blurry because we were getting some rain and I kept having to wipe off the lense.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Only 11 hours home today.


Not bad. Not bad at all.

 

[Gabe1]

 

[Gabe1]

My Pop has 2 of those.

As do we. We had to take my Dads away from him before he hurt himself, someone else or took out the powerlines.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

 

[Gabe1]

Yes...especially in the historic districts. Only white lights are allowed. You see this sort of thing more in the smaller historic towns. These rules are especially designed for people like me who like a lot of color.
-T

Our historical district has all sorts of ordinances one of which is white lights for holidays. They also regulate residents on what color their house can be painted or the window replacements, types of garages that can be built and with what materials. It is a long annoying list.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Happy New Year's Eve greetings to everyone! I'm just waiting now for the Chinese food to arrive.

I hope everyone has a great evening, and I hope that @JenniferS doesn't end up driving people around again, during the wee hours of the morning!

We decided to stay home this year because it's so darn cold out. My sister is in management at a main entertainment venue here in Akron and we usually go to see whomever is playing there and walk around downtown. We went to the Chinese buffet, watched all the kids shows on Nick this evening and are heading to sleep soon. Happy New Year everyone!

 

[Gabe1]

Anybody want a new car with mounds of salt on it. Chicago

Yep it is a problem. That is the Iconic Morton Salt building. The wall took out some of the structure of the roof too. Most of the cars damaged are cars in for service in the lot of the Acura dealership. They have loaner cars until the autos can be replaced in about 2 weeks. The salt can't be removed from the Acura dealership until they figure out the structural issues with Morton's. It is going to be a while. Snow will only complicate the problems for both.

 

[Gabe1]

maybe she used the box for size comparison.
Reminds me on imgur (photo sharing website) where they always say "put a banana for comparison".

With all the food I prepared today I was at the boil stage, first up was dicing potatoes for potato salad and Jason Potatoes along with boiling more water for the Jello. You are right though. I often put a standard sized object in photo give an idea of size of what I am photographing. This was just luck. Worked though.

 

[Gabe1]

One of my kids friends arrived in Austin yesterday night. Wasn't there 45 minutes and she was riding a mechanical bull. Said Texas is as cold as Illinois. Found it odd they cancelled fireworks 'cause of cold weather.

 

[donaldtoo]

Donald, how could you?

Have you ever tasted my pops roast me...errr...duck...?!

 

[Gabe1]

Kid said Tim the Toolman Taylor was in the parks today. Had his photo taken with Buzz.