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One of these weeks, it'll be time to retrieve the Falcon from storage. This year is the first time I stored it off site - hopefully the mice and cats didn't make a home in it. Trouble is that I've become used to parking the truck in the garage. It's nice not having to scrape the frost off the windshield in the morning...

 

Master Electrician, over thirty years in the trade. That's a lot of ladders.

 

My buddy is a retired sparky, I should have done that. Still working carpenter, a lot harder on the body.

 

Agreed. I hope today's new apprentices recognize how good they have it. Back in our day, no battery tools, you stretched a cord with you and many times used a generator. No nail guns, impact drivers..... you get the point.

 

Kinda like me and staining cabinets today.

 

Same here.
Have only seen one toilet that has a cord on it and what it does I don't care for...

 

We had to cut pipe and rebar with hacksaw. And you had to stand it up when not in use so Texas sun wouldn't turn it to 150f.

 

I think we're all jacked up.
I have plumbers knees. but when doing overhead piping on a ladder kills my back from all the reaching with back bent back.

 

I going to Home Depot today. Need to get a new cordless drill and driver. Going with a DeWalt 18v setup, have the same rig at work, holding up well. I remember just rebuilding the tools was what you did. Now it's cheaper to by new,

 

If I could start new I'd go with makita.
I upgraded to lipo Dewalt since I had some old. I do know allot of parts are interchangeable. I broke case of new Sawzall and used old 18 v case. Same part number. Besides I got free tool with 2 pc set and set was on sale with 2 pack batteries for 90.00

 

Or maybe Makita

 

Good morning, all! First camping trip of the season.

I found out a young guy in the SC thread does a lot of turning. Check this out.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...-gossip-thread.411211/page-4117#post-14840860

 

Good morning 6:30 it was 45* here no need for a jacket, well would be nice but will take it! Have to see if it really will hit 70* today hard to believe.

I still have 2 car wash passes from Kwik Trip, too late to use one today every Tom, Dick, Harry and Betty will be in line. Wisconsin's greatest contribution to the world as far as I'm concerned is Kwik Trip. They are expanding here and not fast enough as far as I'm concerned.

That just plain sucks Bob and hope that is the last time this year until December that you have to drive in that white chit!!

Opens next weekend here. I'll likely skip it because everyone else will be out and I don't like the crowds. After opening weekend seems like 3/4 of the people never go out again. That high muddy boiling water doesn't help either and is enough to keep me off the cricks too. Damn I'm getting picky as I get older.

 

Most of our Kwik Trips don't have car washes. Maybe 1 or 2 up by Madison.

 

Staining cabinets isn't very fun.

 

Good Morning everyone !!

Light rain /drizzle currently until noontime and cooler temps with 52 deg right now . hoping rain stops before the car show I can enjoy it !!

 

Finally I get to sit for awhile.
Top cabinets are stained.
Need to do lowers now.
Joy.

 

Morning all, sore from moving furniture around yesterday by myself. But the back held up!

Where did you see this requirement? You and Greg are the only 2 that do that weird, truck washing thing.

 

Yeah those fish have seen every presentation there is at one time or another. For what ever reason I seemed to have my best luck with small (size 18 or smaller) gold head bead hare's ear nymphs for the average trout there. My largest were usually caught on larger deer hair\bead head sculpins drifted on the bottom in the deeper pools or undercuts on the banks. For dries the CDC patterns fished in the film seemed to work best. Until that it warms up and those "tube hatch" starts and all those people start coming down in rubber inner tubes that will usually put the fish back down. Good luck even with the limestone creeks here I miss that river!

They started in LaCrosse which is still the epicenter, some around there and in the rural areas here have sitdown seating and small restaurants. They have started replacing a lot of the smaller older ones here with car washes and everything but the restaurants. The expansion seems to be to the North and Superior Wi. now has a HUGE one as do more and more places.

At work we call Eau Claire Hospital and Clinics NW Wi. and La Crosse Hospital and Clinics SW Wi. Sometimes I forget there is a lot more to Wi. South and to the East of La Crosse. Hope you get some more stores in your area soon. When I first moved here the closest one to me offered unleaded fuel in all calibers but they switched not long ago to only 92 octane as an unleaded option.

 

So no options.
Diesel and super.