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[hawkeye54]

^ Ya know, that latter term DOES have a certain 'ring' to it ! ! ! !...

[hawkeye54]

Following, Rich - looks like you have an iron-clad reason to purchase more clamps (as you are leaving the transom clamped up, etc )...

[hawkeye54]

Impact damage or rot damage ? - best bet would be to cleanly cut and taper each end of the repair - 8 to 1, or 12 to 1 scarf, use appropriate adhesive...

[hawkeye54]

Do you think we'll get to see those TV spots of Sarah Palin being interviewed in front of the turkey processing station again ? ? ?...

[hawkeye54]

They used to live and work in Minnesota - they are young, and used to the cold....

[hawkeye54]

[QUOTE=Rich Jones;n8951170]

McCarthy is a total #$!!* as Speaker, but at least he isn't a MAGA nutter at heart.
He'd dump Trump in...

[hawkeye54]

Nothing so civilized as a sump and pump in my former house - an old Minnesota farmhouse hand built in 1903 - stacked stone crawlspace / basement walls,...

[hawkeye54]

Can we get the Physician's HIPPOCRATIC OATH extended to Congress critters ? Particularly the part about ' . . and do no harm ' (?)...

[hawkeye54]

Nah, my wife had the experience of the worst 'overnight vampire' - the blood getter (phlebotomist) on night shift came into her room at 2 AM, dragged...

[hawkeye54]

Just now saw this, Spin - My son and daughter-in-law live and work there Thanks for posting

Rick...

[hawkeye54]

We had a starling with a 'death wish' in our Minnesota home - it flew down the exhaust stack of our water heater - the clouds of smoke coming from the...

[hawkeye54]

I like the way it is referred to as ' unpaid work' on that side of the pond, as opposed to 'community service' over here . . . ....

[hawkeye54]

^ This ( some hospitals do have remarkably good staff / visitor cafeteria - - just got my wife out of the hospital after 2 months of surgeries on her...

[hawkeye54]

My Grandfather ( on my mother's side ) - the male presence in my life after the parents angry divorce. He died in 1975 at the documented age of 104....

[hawkeye54]

Thanks, in great part, to my wife having 3 major surgeries since July 4 - I have been putting in 20 hour days - up at 4 AM, take care of the animals...

[hawkeye54]

Just heard that the judge is recommending disolution of all of TFG's LLC corporations, and pulling the authorization to conduct business in New York...

[hawkeye54]

Drop back in from time to time. I, for one, found your posts always helpful and on topic

Rick....

[hawkeye54]

^ Can you even imagine the poor forklift driver who has to stock a warehouse full of pallets of them ?...

[hawkeye54]

Chris - just a wild idea for your pilothouse sides . . The 'big-box' stores carry a v-grooved or beadboard look plywood or Masonite panel. It would...

[hawkeye54]

^ Monstrosity she may be, but she handled the river quite well when we cruised aboard from St. Paul south into Iowa. She rode so smooth that my wife...