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I am feeling some real Deja Vu right here and now. I think it was Brother Skeets post that did it... Kurtee Life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer to the end we get the faster it goes.

One day as a 13 year old, I was struck with a thought: If time travel is ever possible, that would mean we have time travelers with us, and among us, now. And knowing about the paradox of time travelers revealing themselves, if they are indeed here, they are probably doing everything they can...

Thanks! That thing probably has a hundred hours or more on it. In my last house, once a year, I'd trim all the trees and feed 'em to the Tomahawk. I'd usually have a stack the size of two pick-ups end to end. After Christmas, my daughter and I would grind up the Christmas tree and put the chips...

Done. No clips, pins or hinges. The weight of the chipper keeps it held on the frame. I bought this chipper in 1990.

Great ideas guys! I am heading to the shop now...

Great book on D-Day by Giles Milton: Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill, or Die. https://smile.amazon.com/Soldier-Sailor-Frogman-Airman-Gangster/dp/1250134927/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Soldier+sailor+frogman+spy&qid=1569514068&s=gateway&sr=8-1

I was never a champion! (Self taught.) Good for you! After graduation and awaiting active duty, I got my dream job for 7 months: Tower Hobbies in Urbana, IL. I STILL have kits I bought 40 years ago. Then, I saved the day in a warehouse flood and got a decade's buys at cost. My cup runneth over...

skratch/John, Welcome aboard! It seems the more I learn, the less I know. I used to believe time was man's explanation for the contiguous observation of events as they occurred over an observed interval. I guess that is no longer true. The physicists now theorize that all time and all things...

Wow. What a great guy. Yup, a lot of people were way younger than they said they were back then. I have heard of guys in the NAVY who were really 14. My dad did that to get in the Merchant Marine and they pipe-lined the NAVY. Man, to be in RC way back then means he must have started out in the...

My neighbor in Sacramento was a young German kid who survived the Dresden bombings. He was only five or six but he can still remember the sound of the bombs going off above him. Thankfully, he and his mom got out of there early on. During the latter firebombing raids, the fire was so intense, it...

Thanks for the offer Bill! Just when I was thinking of parting with my Troybilt Tomahawk II chipper shredder (bought in '90!), the thing saves my butt again. Definitely going to keep it now. But, I GOTTA make up a hitch mount to tow the thing around. Dragging it around on four acres sucks. Too...

More "gut" stuff! Sweet Child of Mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbsEZzgCwmI

We had a tornado alert Monday afternoon. The wall cloud passed right north of us. Destroyed our yard with 70 mph winds and rain. Trees blasted or laid over. Three ocotillos ripped clean out of the ground. A small saguaro knocked over and buried by the avalanche of limbs that fell on it. I got...

Oh yeah... Best legs on a rocker guitarist I have ever seen. What a hoot!

When I was a kid growing up in Germany in the mid-sixties, it was only 20 years after WWII ended. We used to play in the woods and there were bomb craters and potato-masher handles in areas. One day, we found a 500 lb Stuka bomb that had fallen and cracked open but it had not exploded. It was...

The Americans were readying an invasion force unseen in history to invade the mainland of Japan. Had the nuclear bombs not ended the war, all these men would have been involved in the bloodiest and most costly invasion battle in history. Fortunately, the bombs did the trick, saving millions of...

My new favorite band... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVFHmzmSO0M

I found Chucky's welding instruction excellent. He has lessons on all kinds of welding, stick/MIG/TIG. The manufacturers think so much of him that they have been sending him equipment for reviews. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgGG-ifphkA

Scientists may has released a genetically modified mosquito that may be turning into "super mosquitoes." (Didn't we just try this with bees?) https://www.zerohedge.com/health/brazil-experiment-may-have-accidentally-created-genetically-modified-super-mosquitos By the way, a coffee buddy here in...

When I flew the T-43 (Boeing 737-200) navigation trainer, we would do not-so-low low levels at 1000 feet. The reason we'd do them so high is the students in the back of the plane were guiding us by radar. The only one's with windows were the pilots up front. Some students would go on to B-52's...