Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 >> Why am I picturing you as Benjamin Button? << <<I am not familar with Benjamin Button. Is he a Red Neck?>> With his personal life, he should be!
Originally Posted By MPierce >> How anyone can say we shouldn't spend to try and shore up the economy on the Main Street level is just beyond me. I guess they're just greedy, arrogant, ignorant or a combo << Spending without checks, and balances is what got us here. Tell me what's in the latest bill. Anybody feel free to speak up. Maybe we will find out one of these days. I can't remember the last good or popular war. I will only quote actual facts. The country of Iraq posed an immediate threat to the Middle East. We know for a fact that they used WMD's againt Iran, and it's own citizens. They invaded a neighbor attempting to put a strangle whole on the oil supply. We also know they created an inviromental disastor to spite their defeat at the hands of the Coalition of nations. We also know they would lauch attacks at a neutral country trying to start a Jihad. How about the fact they constantly violated the treaty ending the first Gulf war. How about the fact that they murdered, and tortured hundreds of thousands of their own people. How about the fact that almost every inteligence service suspected them of either having WMD's are trying to reimplement the program. How about all the cowards that voted for the war then tried to say they were deceived. The whole world joined Bush in deceiving the Congress. I can not oppose the Iraq war for my own personal reasons now, I do not support an immediate withdrawl. I do not fault Bush for the War, only the process he used following the swift victory we achieved. I could go on, and on, but like I said another venue. That's why we elect leaders that will hopefully look out for the majority of people. Tell me, do you think their looking out for us today?
Originally Posted By MPierce >> <<You only love someone for what they are. Not what you want them to be.>> Is that what Mrs. Pierce says? << She tells me to go tell my friends on LP. She's watching a program.
Originally Posted By MPierce ....and it's not my fault this got off track! I was trying hard to keep it on the subject that you posted!
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt <<She tells me to go tell my friends on LP. She's watching a program.>> I get the samething but, he's shopping on e-bay! Got to drive to Boston this afternoon & pick up our new snowblower!
Originally Posted By vbdad55 they area necessity here unless one day you wantto find yourself face down on the driveway waiting for the ambulance
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 Sometimes the mounds get so high, my shoulders can't lift the shovel high enough. Then there's seeing around the snow banks at intersections! Nightmare. What I meant above was I hope it doesn't snow enough again to need a snowblower. We use to have a little Toro electric snow shovel/blower, really nice, but it died a few years ago. Now we have a really nice neighbor who takes care of our driveway.
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt ^^don't laugh, my DH's grandfather died of a heart attack he had while shoveling!
Originally Posted By vbdad55 oh trust me I'm not laughing. A few years ago my fist snowblower had died - andI decided $600 was too much $$. SoI was shoveling--- now my neighbor across the street is a doctor - and one day during aheavy snow he wheeled his snowblower over to help cleanmy driveway.I thank him when he said he felt he had to do it- that not trying to scare me -he thought I looked like Ireally needed the help and to take it easy. I wentout that night and got me the biggest azz snowblower Ace Hardware had on the floor....I considered it sound medical advice.
Originally Posted By fkurucz Out here the snow tends to be fluffy and not too deep. Instead of "shoveling" it, we use these shovels that look like a snow plow and just push the snow off the driveway.
Originally Posted By MPierce I love that feeling you get just a split second before your head strikes the icy sidewalk. I learned fast that sidewalks with steep inclines covered in ice are not your friends.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 ^^^Neither are flat flagstone ones. I fell 6 years ago, and my neck still hurts if I hold it a certain way. Maybe I should sue myself. I should sue my son in law, his father put in the walk. Who knew years later his 4 yr old kid and my 3 yr old would get married.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <I love that feeling you get just a split second before your head strikes the icy sidewalk. I learned fast that sidewalks with steep inclines covered in ice are not your friends.< and they become less so the older one gets -- I hit the ground a few years ago and laid there for a while just to 'take inventory'
Originally Posted By MPierce >> I should sue my son in law, his father put in the walk. Who knew years later his 4 yr old kid and my 3 yr old would get married. << Sue WDW, they'll settle out of court.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> and they become less so the older one gets -- I hit the ground a few years ago and laid there for a while just to 'take inventory' << >> and that's6'4" and 260 pounds of timberrrrrrrrr << When you feel yourself going down is when you wish you were only 3'10" tall, and seven years old again. You cry a little bit, than forget all about it.
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt So we are all busy doing the WIPE-OUT while others are headed to the Parks! I fell over at EPCOT. I like a little of both
