60+ year old thread.

Good morning gang,
Up at 5 today. Yesterday morning I counted six Douglas squirrels in my yard, eight Stellar Jay's on my deck after I threw some shell peanuts out. Repo pup didn't come back to me the other night when I took him out, so I went to bed. He was in front of the door the next morning, so being a bad dog, he got to spend a couple days in his pen, let him in today, curled up on his bed now. At least it was in the 30's, few inches of snow yesterday then rain.
Checked mileage on my truck for the last 12 months, only went 7200 miles. Maybe I can get more this year.
Duane

 

I see that Punxsutawney Phil wanted for fraud! Ha...law enforcement believes that he's headed for Florida...lol.

 

Morning all:
Seems like they were right for once, 6" of snow here.

 

Prayers requested for the tornado victims in Alabama

 

X2, some very unfortunate people there who were in its path.

 

X3

 

X4

 

They replaced him with a groundhog they found.

 

After finishing re-doing the pantry in our house, we decided to begin working on the original farmhouse on our property. It dates to the late 1800s and, at some point, a kitchen was added on and the upstairs was split into 2 bedrooms and a small bathroom. Lynn has been working on stripping 4 layers of wallpaper and several coats of paint from the small bedroom. That led her to use the old bathroom...and the decision to rework that too. Today was demo day.

Here are a few pics of the "style."





Once the cabinets came out we found what we think is the original wallpaper that was in the bathroom. It's pretty wild and dates to the 1920s. Look at the depictions. On the one with the circular shower curtains, count the number of arms sticking out. Risqué!! We were able to salvage a few pieces and have cleaned them up. We're going to mount and frame some scenes and hang them in the redone bathroom.

 

Evening all:
That's pretty cool Mark, glad you're planning on salvaging some of it and putting it in frames.

 

Mark, looks like a huge project. If you can tell, what is the ultimate goal of the restoration?

 

I don't know...maybe it's just me, but some times I really have a hard time believing what I see/read on the internet.

I know I will never own one, I didn't know that such a thing existed!

Car and Driver states 12.5 million. https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/new...-expensive-new-car/ar-BBUo4ZS?ocid=spartanntp

Road and Track states 18.9 million. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/12-4-million-bugatti-la-081000494.html

That's a difference of 6.4 million.

I'm not sure where I'm going w/this...maybe I'm just old and don't understand....

 

Car trim level? LOL Some people have too much discretionary income.

 

Morning all:
I was thinking the same thing, those options can get expensive, I'm sure that someone like Jeff Bezos could buy it with his pocket change at either price!
I've read a lot of articles where there are conflicting figures on different things, nothing new there!

 

The Road & Track $18.9 million price is after tax ($12.45 million before tax) per the article. Awfully high tax rate.

 

Just saw this, there are options!
Who thinks this stuff up!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/91049c/cute_squirrel/

 

Voice of experience?

 

The bathroom hasn't been updated since the late 60s. We're taking the walls back to the original lathe/studs and reworking it all. At this point, Lynn's mom lives there and Lynn's siblings stay upstairs when they come to visit. After Lynn's Mom is gone we will probably turn it into a vacation rental for skiers, etc. So, we want the bathroom to be clean functional - putting in all new fixtures and putting in a tiled shower instead of the plastic bath unit.

Here's how it looked last night.

 

Looks good Mark. The final outcome should be a nice little money maker for the both of you in retirement. Might even make enough to support your firearms hobby.

 

Evening all:
Looks like a project for sure!