Christian Pipe Smokers

sweetandsour wrote: 13 Nov 2024, 17:06

JimVH wrote: 10 Nov 2024, 13:27

Biff wrote: 09 Nov 2024, 14:11
Hey Jim, would you like to serve on the CPS cabinet?

The only cabinet I wish to serve in is the liquor cabinet.

Wise choice, otherwise you'll have to have a blue suit and red necktie. It appears to be a requirement in DC.

Great minds?

I had dibs.

The cannibal box
I've got more than my share.
A box of old parts in loose formation of something that was once something of some value that ends up as a source for stuff scavenged to possibly
make again something useful.
My cannibal boxes I've organized by subject, taking a que from my dad, whose cannibal box of deep sea fishing reels I inherited----a small box full of old reels and parts in various stages of disassembly. It's important that these things don't simply get thrown into a junk drawer, where they will be lost for eternity hence the importance of a cannibal box. This was my original cannibal box, and since then several more cannibal boxes have joined it on the shelf. I have a darkroom cannibal box which has kind of spurred my latest generation of cannibal boxes in part because of eBay.
Few camera shops carry darkroom gizmos in this digital age. If I find I need something, I'll go through eBay. The problem with that is that people are selling darkroom stuff by the lot, so I end up with a lot of unneeded stuff that mostly ends up in---you guessed it---another cannibal box. This cannibal box is particularly fertile in that I've been able to exhume several pieces of useful photography gear from the scavenged pieces.
My latest interest in woodworking has generated my newest cannibal box. Several of my woodworking tools came from my Uncle Al and while many are fine tools, there are a few that found their way into a woodworking tool cannibal box, such as a battered hand plane---a Harlequin---a mix of parts from a variety of makes somehow cobbled into a semi working plane that's been dropped a few times and shows it. Replaced by an excellent second hand Stanley No.4, the harlequin has joined an eggbeater hand drill with a screwed-up unusable chuck in the cannibal box. Now it's being joined by a 10" Jorgensen hand screw with a broken Maple jaw with part of the wood missing (part of a lot off eBay, thrown in with the tool I bid on just to make it interesting) This is by far the most intriguing cannibal box in my collection.
Not that anyone should care.

My big toe has been rather uncomfortable and last night it looked swollen and red like WC Field's nose
Mrs. Hov diagnosed an infection so this morning I called my foot doctor who was able to squeeze me in at 2:00PM.
Diabetic's feet aren't something to be trifled with.
It turned out to be an ingrown toenail and got dug it out after three or four tries.
That sure got my attention!
I'm very grateful

A local rancher rounded up calves from the pasture(s) behind our house last Friday, and took them to market. The momma cows have only today stopped mooing.

JimVH wrote: 16 Nov 2024, 10:03 My grandson's current status. His mom was in the seat next to him. I got a text from her saying "The jeep is done. I'm saving my phone".

No great story ever started with "Let's take the safe route".

So, last night at their jeep club meeting, Justin received a major award.

JimVH wrote: 22 Nov 2024, 09:56

JimVH wrote: 16 Nov 2024, 10:03 My grandson's current status. His mom was in the seat next to him. I got a text from her saying "The jeep is done. I'm saving my phone".

No great story ever started with "Let's take the safe route".

So, last night at their jeep club meeting, Justin received a major award.

A major award. I love it!! I'm not sure it beats a leg lamp with fishnet stocking though.

So we were in Texas llast weekend to see the oldest Grand daughter. We are in Grand Junction to see the middle Grand daughter this weekend. She wanted to bake and make candy with Grandma, so I went back to the motel to work on some projects for work. Good use of time, right? Well my work computer will not accept the WiFi at the hotel...won;t let me even try to log onto the VPN...Sooooo....I am headed to Cabela's and a couple of gun shops...hey not my fault the computer doesn't like the hotel system...I say make the most of it

Bloodhound wrote: 23 Nov 2024, 10:55 So we were in Texas llast weekend to see the oldest Grand daughter. We are in Grand Junction to see the middle Grand daughter this weekend. She wanted to bake and make candy with Grandma, so I went back to the motel to work on some projects for work. Good use of time, right? Well my work computer will not accept the WiFi at the hotel...won;t let me even try to log onto the VPN...Sooooo....I am headed to Cabela's and a couple of gun shops...hey not my fault the computer doesn't like the hotel system...I say make the most of it

It's the right thing to do.

My new Notary stamp came in the mail today.

sweetandsour wrote: 26 Nov 2024, 15:54 My new Notary stamp came in the mail today.

An historic day.