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The Teacup Whale

We didn’t go for the religious stuff but in the early 80s when my wife and I were looking for something to watch on TV, (we could only pull in 5 or 6 channels) we would pause and watch Jimmy Swaggart because he had one of the tightest gospel/old timey/bluegrass bands around. Good tunes.

Gary Owen There’s lots of versions of this tune. It’s the March of the 7th Cavalry so it gets associated with Custer and the Little Big Horn but I think it was originally an Irish Jig brought to America in the early 1800s so I chose that version.

Today is the anniversary of the beginning of the reign of Richard the Third and that reminded me of a movie I watched a couple of weeks ago on Acorn TV called 'The Lost King'. It's about a woman named Philippa Langley and her devotion and work to find the remains of King Richard III. It's a bit...

Whelp. I slept through most of this today.

The park down the street we went to as kids had one of these and a rack for the empties.

I had no idea…

Lou Christie

Happy Father's Day 1988

Very Sad

Personally, I would just go down to the local big box and get a 1/3hp Badger or whatever the house brand is. Maybe 1/2hp, but 1/3 has always worked for us. Don’t spend a ton on a “quiet” model. It’s only on for 10 secs at a time once or twice a day, anyway.

I was going to contribute to this thread and talk about implants but I think I’m going to go and throw up instead.

I know. It’s a stupid song, but that chick…

RIP Rick Derringer

I'm not an electrician. I've got all the parts together to do this and on the surface it's a pretty simple task for a handy kinda guy like me! There are four things that are keeping me from doing this although I will eventually get around to it. 1) The breaker for the generator needs to be in...