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   Snag to Bob La Londe   
   Re: Speaking Of Welding - The Job, Big A   
   19 Feb 25 21:10:28   
   
   From: Snag_one@msn.com   
      
   On 2/19/2025 1:24 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   > On 2/19/2025 5:38 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   >> "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:vp3bqn$1utuo$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>   
   >>> I must be getting old, or more likely rode hard and put up wet one to   
   >>> many times.  Used to be I wouldn't quit until the job was done, but   
   >>> not today. I'm the one that's done.   
   >>   
   >> You're lucky you can do anything outdoors. I have plans and incomplete   
   >> projects waiting too, but snow > rain > deep freeze have locked   
   >> everything outside into a glacier here. I barely cleared the car and   
   >> shoveled a path to the road in the brief gap between the rain and   
   >> freeze, now it's a struggle even to bring in firewood.   
   >>   
   >> TV weather: "It's like 2 below with the wind chill."   
   >> This isn't the best time of the year to import wind from Canada,   
   >> please wait for July and August.   
   >   
   > I spent a grand total of one winter in cold and snow.  That was enough   
   > for me.  I've heard people say you can dress for cold, but you can't   
   > dress for heat.   
   >   
   > Well, that's kind true, but...   
   >   
        snip   
   >   
   > See, you got me all wound up again Jim.  I want to get outside and get   
   > more work done before summer.   
   >   
   >   
      
      Predicted low tonight is 4° F and we got a WHOLE 4" OF SNOW last   
   night ! Mid August we'll probably see highs near a hundred with 90%   
   humidity .   
      Spring and fall here are freakin' awesome though .   
   --   
   Snag   
   We  live in a time where intelligent people   
   are being silenced so that   
   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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