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Happy Birthday Dan! Enjoy your birthday EV6 and report back on how you like it. Cheers!

Claire and I ended up joining Steve's steak dinner and there was still too much food! Everything was delicious.

That's a lot to combine in one tattoo. Are you looking for a band around your arm? Maybe make it chronological as it wraps around? I hope you pick the dead guy on ice in the hold to represent part of your fishing career! It's been a long time since I was in the area we're staying this week, which is the Sierra foothills near Arnold and Murphys. It's got some goldrush charm left but wow there are a lot of bars, restaurants and wineries in these little towns now! Yesterday we walked through part of Calaveras Big Trees state park and it is aptly named. These Giant Sequoias are quite different from the Coastal Redwoods near us in Mayberry. The sequoias are the world's largest trees by volume -- which is immense! -- while the redwoods are the world's tallest trees. I failed to take pics of the gigantic stump near the beginning of the trail. Some assholes 150 years ago decided it would be cool to cut down the largest tree in this grove after it was discovered. The story is told in the plaque below but stump is still incredibly solid and people walk on it every day.

Hope you had a good one Ginger Avenger! Cheers!

Have a twink-filled birthday Steve! Cheers!

Very sweet

Inspired by Nate, I made Detroit pizza tonight for Dorothy and Steve.

Have a great one! Cheers!

RIP to the legend.

Those are cool! Did you make them on the magic ping pong table?

As usual, I can never tell if it is me or Artificial Intelligence. In this case, I think Grahame's post could go either way...

First guess came in at 190 rings/years +/- 10%. Any others?

So you should have had more respect for him the last 20 years! 😎

It was yesterday, but niece Dorothy and I walked the dogs in the newly renovated redwood grove nearby. Nate actually walked through this park before the additions of new paths and boardwalks and such. Anyway, there was a storm recently when a fair number of trees came down. This one is not particularly large but it was big enough. Remarkably shallow the roots for such a sizeable thing. These are not the greatest pics, but I'm wondering if anyone has the ability to count the rings...

Thanks Ryan. I'm pretty sure Craig has nothing to offer other than anger over the situation. I may try to reach out to NP to see if there is something available.

If I could get a proper Cicada driver that worked I would go for it and hope for the best. The cabinet has a scalloped opening so it would need to be modified for a different driver.

I've been having intermittent issues with my Moth Audio system that I was blaming on the amp until I recently discovered that one of them Cicada drivers is dead. Doug helped me troubleshoot and I found no short in the driver but it reads zero ohms. The other one shows 12 ohms as it should. Doug mentioned that someone much more skilled than I would be able to test it out more thoroughly, but I am not sure what the point would be unless it could be repaired. So, does anyone know of a source for Cicada drivers? Does anyone happen to have one or a pair even that they are not using and would be willing to sell? Apparently, Nelson Pass bought all of Craig's stock and then wouldn't sell any of them back to him. NP had some kind of DIY kit with the Cicada drivers and a subwoofer but I don't think those are available anymore, and I don't want a subwoofer. If you have any leads, please let me know. Thanks

So much for the good luck black eyed peas! Or did she skip them in favor of root beers and cookies? Yikes. Glad they eventually found it and that her appendix juice didn't do even worse damage. 😬

Happy Birthday Big Bro! Cheers!

Have a great one Adam! Cheers!

Long live Mr DIYer!

Hosting fiends!

I've listened to a few frankly pretty lame mystery novels set in Ohio Amish country and they often include references to Amish white bread. While listening to the audio books I often think that I should bake some sometime, and whenever I think about it I hear "Amish white bread" in my head like the chorus to Foreigner's "Dirty White Boy." 🤘🏻 With that background, here's my first attempt which turned out pretty good and made the house smell wonderful. Small pieces with butter, with homemade tart cherry jam and with homemade apple butter all were tssty. I'll try a sandwich at some point soon.

Grahame and Joanne went all in and all out for a lovely evening at Chloe the Cat's house. And the banana actually did work well with the curries, especially when doused with lime pickle. Thanks again!

Guess where I'm having a curry...