tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post4266691255555973103..comments2024-03-29T06:29:15.928-07:00Comments on Chant du Départ: DiscoveriesOldAFSargehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-86147110475459057542021-01-12T09:33:47.600-08:002021-01-12T09:33:47.600-08:00THBB,
Exactly. I think we did a pretty good job a...THBB,<br />Exactly. I think we did a pretty good job avoiding that on this move. Back in September, we moved only the things we knew we'd need. Over the next couple of months, we'd go back and get the "Oops, shoulda brought that" things. Then last week we boxed up the rest, and took a lot of that to the dumpster. <br /><br />I know the feeling.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-1581832356848319632021-01-12T09:30:56.562-08:002021-01-12T09:30:56.562-08:00I could see the handiness of pliers and screw driv...I could see the handiness of pliers and screw drives in one. But I don't think the tool would have enough mass to hammer any thing other than a picture hanging nail. I carry a very small tool similar to that in my back pocket all the time. Very handy for picking cactus thorns out. DAMHIKjuvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-10340983948871496082021-01-11T20:03:43.615-08:002021-01-11T20:03:43.615-08:00Juvat, when we moved into our house 7 years ago we...Juvat, when we moved into our house 7 years ago we found boxes we had not unpacked from the move four years before. Makes you wonder why we dragged it halfway across the country in the first place.<br /><br />Ugh. The horrors of the "remodel". I get sweaty every time any kind of work is started.Toirdhealbheach Beucailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14872794169534403463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-89795991801779211252021-01-11T20:02:01.735-08:002021-01-11T20:02:01.735-08:00Nope. We are responsible for every thing this side...Nope. We are responsible for every thing this side of the valve at the curb that ties us into the city water main.<br />When we went looking for the access cover for the curb valve, we didn't find it until we bought an entry level metal detector. <br />After that we couldn't turn the valve because it probably hadn't been turned since the house was built in the early fifties.<br />As my digging large holes days are in the past, we paid a plumber to dig up the yard and fix the problem. <br />Now we lubricate and cycle that valve every few years. <br /> <br />Our house wasn't connected to the city sewer system for some long time after it was built. The excavator found the brick septic vault when digging for the pool.<br /><br />I've seen some photos of our area when the houses were built. It wasn't country like you have, but it sure wasn't the rows of closely packed houses that most of Philly has. <br /><br />John in Phillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16196033252818387245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-49689653626229372662021-01-11T15:45:19.190-08:002021-01-11T15:45:19.190-08:00(Don McCollor)...Moving a couple years ago, I boug...(Don McCollor)...Moving a couple years ago, I bought two carts - a heavy industrial cart/dolly like at work and a much smaller folding 'Pack & Roll'. The little one was used to roll (instead of lug) boxes in restricted spaces to where the big one was waiting to transport it to the Trailblazer. Arriving, the process was reversed. [A note on do-it-all tools. The oddest one I got (as a Christmas present) was a large pliers with the handle ends ground to a regular and a phillips screwdriver blades and a hammer head welded to the back of one jaw. Does not do anything well, but still pretty handy.] Don McCollorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18028324869570493102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-24560159299856255702021-01-11T15:41:01.014-08:002021-01-11T15:41:01.014-08:00🙂🙂OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-11591044161948125522021-01-11T15:18:53.033-08:002021-01-11T15:18:53.033-08:00(Don McCollor)..Quonset Huts are durable. UND at G...(Don McCollor)..Quonset Huts are durable. UND at Grand forks had a number of them built for aviation cadets in WW2. Postwar, they were converted to married student housing. The big advantage was very cheap rent and UND provided the heat. I think they were finally torn down in the early 1980sAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-30693022822509876732021-01-11T15:00:31.012-08:002021-01-11T15:00:31.012-08:00I'm expecting a "Wow"
Which if you ...I'm expecting a "Wow"<br /><br />Which if you remember....<br /><br />Phil Davis: "How much is "wow"?<br /><br />Bob Wallace: "It's right in between, uh, between "ouch" and "boing".<br /><br />Phil Davis: "Wow!"<br />juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-81181406429431412232021-01-11T13:38:39.918-08:002021-01-11T13:38:39.918-08:00OUCH as regards the update.
Moltke was fun to pic...OUCH as regards the update.<br /><br />Moltke was fun to pick on when we were lads...<br /><br />OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-29735513902827298832021-01-11T12:50:29.631-08:002021-01-11T12:50:29.631-08:00I will endeavor to make my Mother proud of my culi...I will endeavor to make my Mother proud of my culinary abilities. <br /><br />and not inflict my family with food poisoning. :-)juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-22204194059659949882021-01-11T12:47:51.942-08:002021-01-11T12:47:51.942-08:00VX, I'm sure that you are able to recite the B...VX, I'm sure that you are able to recite the Bold Face Procedures for every aircraft you flew. Only one of which has any bearing on current life. It's the one that says "Maintain Aircraft Control and Land as soon as conditions permit." Of course, "Stick Full Forward. Ailerons and Rudder neutral" comes into play sometimes when I'm trying to influence things that are out of control.<br /><br />Glad you got a chuckle.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-11622196608263192132021-01-11T12:08:41.432-08:002021-01-11T12:08:41.432-08:00There is always good and bad, the ying and the yan...There is always good and bad, the ying and the yang of our lives. Glad you found the recipes and got the pics. Easy to pick you out! LOL And now you can 'inflict' those recipes on the family! :-DOld NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-50839712973326490962021-01-11T11:50:23.581-08:002021-01-11T11:50:23.581-08:00Thanks, Beans,
Your wish is granted. See Update a...Thanks, Beans,<br />Your wish is granted. See Update above. Not too bad, Contractor thought it would be in the mid hundreds or so.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-57520899300836039802021-01-11T11:10:47.055-08:002021-01-11T11:10:47.055-08:00Yeah, we had a decent dolly, but the axle broke. ...Yeah, we had a decent dolly, but the axle broke. Mrs J was solo at Costco and saw it. I didn't get a vote.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-66494739162153295502021-01-11T11:09:33.903-08:002021-01-11T11:09:33.903-08:00The Commander gets the perks. I think the LT had ...The Commander gets the perks. I think the LT had to live in the barracks with the enlisted folks. Mom was mid-20's then and the Commander's wife, so I do remember a lot of people for dinner at regular intervals. She would drive to the commissary wherever that was and order food for delivery to the station. Sides of beef and the lot, then there would be a big shindig. I don't remember how many people were assigned, but I doubt it was more than 20-30 and I think they came TDY for the most part.<br /><br />Still, Mom was glad to leave when the time came.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-4349398378748697582021-01-11T09:52:43.219-08:002021-01-11T09:52:43.219-08:00Ah, memories. By the time I came around, between ...Ah, memories. By the time I came around, between broken cameras (not caused by me) and just wear and tear on the parental units, and me being a sickly kid in a family that already lost a sickly kid, well, the number of young-sprout photos of me are few and far between. Enough that my older brothers had a physical basis to say I was adopted. Which took a lot of convincing and more physical evidence later on for my parents to prove that I wasn't adopted.<br /><br />As to photos, yeah, there's no reason to take them if you aren't going to annotate them. Seen too many boxes of "Who are these people and when were these taken?" No clue as to the significance and importance of the photo. Mayhaps the old way, wherein photographs were expensive luxuries and thus forced people to annotate them was a good way. Nowadays? Since cheap digitals and video equipment, I see more people spending more and more time behind the lens and not experiencing the event.<br /><br />Sad, so very sad.<br /><br />As to hard precipitation, we've had five nights below 32 so far, cold enough to form frost and ice up any standing water (like on Christmas Eve, when we got hit by a ferocious wind storm that knocked out power and dropped a ton of water everywhere all the while the temperature was dropping like Congress' approval rating) and yet still no snow. Which is good, because we (the geographical and political area wherein I doth abide) isn't set up for snow. Or ice. Or any combination of the two. Which was proven in the great Ice Storm of 1989, when it went from the 70's and clear to the 19's and very unclear in like 6 hours, along with a massive amount of rain that turned to sleet that turned into snow.<br /><br />Eh, memories...<br /><br />Glad you found your recipes. I made the mistake of storing Mrs. Andrew's box-o-recipes above the stove, and the condensation molded everything. We went through all the recipes and saved the ones we actually used. And now I have been transcribing into the combonculator all the recipes and other downloaded recipes and arranging them in proper order (like, well, a single step should not have 20 parts, those are now divided into steps, because breaking complex steps down into individual steps is how Beans doesn't make mistakes) and printing them out. I use binder clips to clip the recipe to a cabinet door so the recipe is easy to see and I can use a pencil to mark any changes (which then goes back into the printer and the positive revision gets printed out.)<br /><br />Which reminds me I need to get some sort of backup for my combonculator that has all my recipes and downloaded books and stuff on it. Any recommendations out there for cheap and good?<br /><br />Back to the juvat... glad you're move seems to be winding down. Looking forward to the adventures of "Look what we found under the Carpet..."Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-74917810486027689082021-01-11T09:37:12.666-08:002021-01-11T09:37:12.666-08:00Just like it's worth forking over the bucks fo...Just like it's worth forking over the bucks for good woodworking tools, same goes for moving tools. Try to save a buck, you'll spend it a thousand times over on repairing your back.Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-7263365994859708982021-01-11T09:34:15.974-08:002021-01-11T09:34:15.974-08:00Ooooh... You got to live in a Quonset Hut? How luc...Ooooh... You got to live in a Quonset Hut? How lucky!Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-87726157836108711652021-01-11T08:59:40.777-08:002021-01-11T08:59:40.777-08:00"Which means I'll remember it forever.&qu..."Which means I'll remember it forever."<br /><br />LOL, LOL, LOL! So VERY, verrrry true! :)virgil xenophonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14577165785872035948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-14574674447427844612021-01-11T07:42:02.340-08:002021-01-11T07:42:02.340-08:00Yeah, That picture was taken in Norman OK, when Da...Yeah, That picture was taken in Norman OK, when Dad was getting an Engineering Degree from OU. He was applying for an Astronaut position as his next assignment and it was required. So...There were a lot of Space type things around the house at the time. He didn't (obviously) make the program and next few assignments were base civil engineer stuff until he finally got back to flying as an IP at Webb and I became a Texan.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-48403919854712644722021-01-11T07:38:38.730-08:002021-01-11T07:38:38.730-08:00Yeah, I do remember that scent also. I also got t...Yeah, I do remember that scent also. I also got that Mattel thing that you heated plastic and stretched it across a form (car, airplane, animals) then cut them out and glued them together. It also had a similar smell. I used to have pleasant thoughts when I smelled that. Now...Not so much. Nothing good is happening with melting plastic now.<br /><br />I am definitely getting a better dolly shortly. My back is demanding I do so.<br /><br />Yeah, we were pretty much on the rain/snow line all day. It would snow pretty hard for an hour or so, then sleet/rain, rinse and repeat all day long. Nothing on the ground when I went to feed the horses this morning.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-22024798604069460952021-01-11T07:33:34.652-08:002021-01-11T07:33:34.652-08:00Both of those categories are good cause to pick up...Both of those categories are good cause to pick up the phone and checkbook. I know enough about both to screw things up really badly. However, in this case, I was assured it was just the turning of a valve. Which was technically correct, if incomplete, information. The Culligan guy was helpful and walked me through the undersink nomenclature and fluid flow. Which, since we've moved out of the house, is virtually useless information. Which means I'll remember it forever!juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-59203714294971931102021-01-11T07:30:28.111-08:002021-01-11T07:30:28.111-08:00You can't shut off your well? Both of ours ha...You can't shut off your well? Both of ours have big red t-handles right beside them to turn off the flow. Have had to use them a few times in the past. <br /><br />The culling of family photos is an on-going thing. The obvious ones are easy to do away with, Others....not so much.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-54309629416337983452021-01-11T07:27:44.333-08:002021-01-11T07:27:44.333-08:00If you google Earth Finley AFS ND, you can see the...If you google Earth Finley AFS ND, you can see the layout of the place. I do have a couple of memories of the place. One is a scar on my knee caused by a barb wire fence that I'd run into on my first attempt at riding a bike. Still have the scar. The other is sledding off the roof of the quonset hut that served as our home. Dad was a junior Captain at the time, but was the station commander. I think he had a LT also assigned, along with several NCO's and other enlisted. It was an early warning RADAR station. I do remember Mom being somewhat excited when we got transferred to....Miles City Montana. Which was/is a big city in comparison to Finley. <br /><br />I probably need to plan a road trip to "see the sites". No, it won't be til at least June.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-43328911803672909102021-01-11T05:06:21.734-08:002021-01-11T05:06:21.734-08:00So you were an early member of the Space Force?
(...So you were an early member of the Space Force?<br /><br />(That has to be you!)OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.com