We came home to a few surprises yesterday. We had never been gone for four weeks straight before.
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Number 1: If you stay gone for four weeks, all of the water will evaporate out of your toilet bowls. This water in the toilet is what keeps the sewer smell out of your house. We opened up the door into a terrible odor yesterday.
Number 2: My lawn service does a great job! They picked up all the newspapers and garbage from the driveway and kept the house looking "lived in" while we were away.
Number 3: If you have your mail held for four weeks, you will have a ton of mail when you return! We had three big totes of mail on our front porch! It took hours to go through all of it.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Has anyone used a thread holder used in fly tieing to run power lines, or fencing? It is a "Y" shaped tool that holds the spool of thread/wire between it's arms, that is then fed through a brass tube to the working end. To feed the thread through the tube, a short section is started down the tube, with slack thread handy, the working end is placed in the mouth, inhale sharply to draw the thread the length of the tube. Pull out the slack, and start whatever----I have found it is easier-(for me) to run phone lines, fence wire, compared to trying to hold a spool in one hand. Also easier to make loops, tie knots.
herrinchoker
Portland Maine was one of the major rail junctions during WW1. (As well as WW11)
During WW1, over 70% of all the horses used in the war were shipped out of Portland Maine. The pileings are still in place in the harbor from the wharves that were in place for this endeavour.
Well, we didn´t come to common terms on where to park our Trackside Diner this month and who will facilitate the move from the November location to the new place, so I took the liberty of stepping in! For the twelth time this year -
welcome to Jeffrey´s Trackside Diner, which is located in the Northeast of the USA for us to celebrate Christmas in Vermont and Maine for this month! Our base for the month will be the Boothbay Railway Village, as we explore the region, hopefully with the help of fellow diners familiar with this region with both Vermont and Maine.
Jeffrey´s Trackside Diner is the place for you to go to relax and talk off topic about most anything - as long as you stay within the forum rules, which means certain hot button topics are excluded. Please refer to Steven Otte´s post on Forum Policies. Everybody is welcome to participate in the Diner !
The staff - that´s Zoe, Chloe, Flo, Janie, and Brunhilda - is very friendly and will serve up plenty of virtual food with a smile. Just don´t forget to leave a generous tip! Now and then, our host Steven Otte chips in and brings along some goodies for us to try - which is always heartily welcomed!
At the beginning of each month, it is the time to pay our respect to friends no longer with us.
Barry Arnold aka BlownoutCylinderJerry Cox aka Cox47Wolfgang Dudler aka Westport TerminalBob Hartle aka cmrproductsEd MurphyBill NorthStein Rypern, Jr. aka SteinjrAndy SperandeoJeffrey "Running Bear" WimberleyAlan BTom MillsJames W. Rohde aka CapeJimMichael L. Myles aka Inch
Gone, but not forgotten!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"