60+ year old thread.

Excited about the NFC championship game today. May the best team win and the refs not screw it up for anybody.

 

Cool, dry weather yesterday, good day to edge the driveway. Been waiting for just the right conditions for a while. UPS has no excuse not to stay on it now. Some just can't back those big brown boxes. One won't even attempt it, stopping on the road, and walking in, which is dangerous.. too close to a blind spot hill. Funny, FedX backs the entire S curve, to within 5' of the garage door, perfect every time, using mirrors, and never a rut to fix.

 

Welcome to the porch Bill @rocknbil . Pull up a chair and have a cold beverage. Enjoy the thread.

 

It should be an excellent game Ivan (if the refs don't blow calls). Two young gun quarterbacks and strong defense lines. Enjoy the game as I will and yes, "May the best team win"
AFC will be interesting because I think the Bengals will win, but I am rooting for the Chiefs because of a past Eagles head coach Andy Reid. Its going to be a long afternoon/evening.
Have a good day and enjoy Sir.

 

Morning 60+

 

I made a big batch of delicious chili yesterday. Game time food later !

 

Curry lentils with pulled smoked chicken and Alchemist Heddy Topper IPA to wash it down at our house today

 

If you've never seen this...it's hilarious

 

Good morning. Wonderful day yesterday. An all-day outing to the Blackwater Nature Reserve on the Eastern Shore of Maryland followed by lunch at the R&R brewery in Cambridge MD. Dinner and music last night. Today it will be a flank steak and I have not decided on Tacos or Beef and Broccoli for dinner.

 

he still is a big kid but in a different direction...I haven't seen it before so thanks for posting Dennis

 

Good morning fellow Porchatonians!! Taking advantage of a relatively good internet connection - only had to reboot twice so far. Go Eagles!!!

 

Morning all:

Another welcome to Bill @rocknbil, the cooler looks a little low and it's your turn to fill it up, then pull up a chair and join in.

Will be watching the football games also, should be good games and hope the refs don't mess up the outcome.

Here we go again!
I called the home office of Key Bank in Ohio and explained the situation regarding the safe deposit box refund that I'm due, they said I would hear back from them in 2 days and so far nothing!
Seems like I'm getting a run around on being able to get a refund from them, nothing new there!!!!
I "WILL" get what is due me, but it will involve writing a letter stating my case and contacting several agencies with copies of various receipts and other things in order to prove that they owe me a refund.
There is a govt. agency, (consumer financial protection bureau), that supposedly handles complaints against banks, plus the state attorney general's office, I will send the complaint to both.
There may be another thing in my favor, "I'M OLD ", some states don't like businesses that try to rip off senior citizens !!!!!
I'm thinking the bank is trying to make it as hard as possible to get the refund and hoping that I'll just let it go so they can keep it, that ain't happening, they did say a check was issued for the refund in Sept., but I never received it????
Nothing's easy!!!!

 

A more accurate depiction of the grumpy old man

 

Good Morning Porch Pals & Sue! That was the ugliest 0.10" of day I can remember for quite a while. It never stopped doing nothing all day, was wet every time I went out the door, and just so ugly I went and got us Sonic with onion rings instead of cooking burgers in it. Looks like more of the same today, but I DID see a bright grey in the sky. Son is coming over for the early game, and I'm cooking some brats in beer on the grill. That'll work!

 

Morning old guys and young Sue. Going to watch football today. My wife born in Philadelphia and grew up in rural Lancaster Pennsylvania is a big Eagles fan, home for her will always be Pennsylvania. Me, I’m a Bay Area California boy born and raised and the 9ers are my team. Should be interesting in our house today. If the Eagles win at least that means happy wife, happy life and that’s something to think about. Go 49ers!

 

That is great!

Ya, I was one of those big kids.

I never played sports, but my son, in middle school, decided to go out for football. Coach asked him, "what would you like to do?" And my son said
"Sack the quarterback." OK, Kid, get to it. His team went on to an undefeated season 14-0.

He's 30 now, 6'5", and about 210 pounds of solid muscle. I had fun as he joined me for my Parkinson's Boxing Class. All the women in class kept asking, "when is your son back in town,
we enjoyed watching him work out," Down ladies, down.

Photo from a few years ago, hiking the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal. He managed to cover 140 miles in a little over a week. Took the bare minimum, a solo hike. Glad I didn't learn about
the snow leopards until he got back (solo hiking isn't recommended for a reason).

 

20 Miles a day in the mountains of Nepal is no joke. Wish I was still in that kind of shape, but at least I once was. Those were good times.

 

Waiting for the rain to start in San Diego. Need to pull my RV cover a bit tighter. Just average chores on my list for today. Wife is making pot roast in the crock pot.
Maybe I'll catch a little of the Football games on today. Still stalling on my shower recaulking and sealing-it's not getting any easier wedging myself into the shower stall. Cutting and adding self adhesive carpet strips to my GSD ramp used to get him up and down the back of my Tacoma bed. (13 year old GSD "Santino")

 

My wife was so giddy with delight after her Eagles crushed the 9ers she asked me if I wanted to go out and look at new Tacomas and Tundras this week. I’ve been catatonic since she asked. I’m just trying to get the word yes out before she changes her mind.