Weekend Wrapup

Saturday, slept in and went to an estate sale that had plenty of old matted NASA photos, some that my grandmother probably developed. I bought everything I could and took home several highly sought after photos from Apollo and the shuttle program. It turns out the guy was a lead flight controller that I remember. I'm sure he'd be happy some of his cherished NASA memorabilia went to a good home.

Sunday, rode only 25 miles in chilly conditions. Wanted to ride more but the fitness is coming along very slowly. Enjoyed a close game with the ultimate turnout. Yet another Tom Brady pout fest.
Mrs. T made a veggie and beef soup from scratch.
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DdBob said:
Made 30 feet of Pigeon board on Saturday which meant I hammered aproximately 1000 nails into 30 ft. of 1x3. The premade pigeon spikes cost like 30 bucks for 6 feet, 2 boxes of nails/three hours and 30 feet of 1x3 plywood cost 17 dollars and change. I only ruined about 10 nails and hit my thumb about 5 times, not bad. They were gone from the carport and haven't been back BUT now I have to get more wood and close up a section where the house roof over hangs above the carport. It's probably sixty feet but it's their last refuge and then hopefully they move to somewhere else since they only seem to like covered ledges. I been fighting these bastards for over a year and a half :Rage:


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Damn, goin' all viet cong on them pigeons. :rawk:

Do you ever find one impaled on there? Gasping for his last breath, and saying, "Tell my children...that I...love them. *urk*"
 
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tiger roach said:
Damn, goin' all viet cong on them pigeons. :rawk:

Do you ever find one impaled on there? Gasping for his last breath, and saying, "Tell my children...that I...love them. *urk*"
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:lol:
I've used owl decoys with good success. You have to relocate them every few weeks, though.
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No gigs this weekend. I went and stayed with some folks on Lake Ponchartrain. I'm getting back in a song writing kick and wrote a couple songs when I wasn't too busy eating. Boudin stuffed duck, seafood stuffed chicken, sausage stuffed rabbit on Friday night. Bloody Marys all day on Saturday until fried fish and gumbo that night. I went to bed early and came back to town to do some studio work on Sunday afternoon and then did some picking with a mandolin player for a few gigs we have coming up.
 
Kerouac said:
Friday: Ran errands with mum to Costco in the a.m. Came home and did laundry and some other random cleaning. Ash left work early and came over because we were expecting snow too; I made this for dinner: Kale, Green Onion, Onion and Garlic, Canadian Bacon, Turkey Sausage, Shredded Queso

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Saturday: I managed to convince Ashlee to come with to CrossFit! It was a pretty fun workout so I think she really liked it; she mentioned a box near her side of town had a free beginners class and might go check it out. Gross/sweaty gym pics:

Me getting ready to blame a 93# atlas stone:
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On the rower:
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My lovely girlfriend looking... lovely. I look like a sweaty SOB.
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We came home and Ash took a nap; I played a bit of Fallout 4, but mainly read. Later we watched Inglorious Bastards and I made tacos.

Sunday: Got up early for my first competition class. I normally workout fasted, but since it was a 1.5-2 hour competition setting, I ate a whole wheat tortilla with some scrambled eggs and turkey sausage. Left 30 min. early to give me plenty of time to get warmed up. Comp class was made up of four different WODs and I started out on a high note, getting two new PRs for double-udders and for a split clean and jerk. Second WOD was a 400m row, 60 seconds of rest, then a 400m row, all for time. I was aiming for 3:45, but actually finished at 4:15. WOD 3 was the worst; a descending ladder (10, 9, 8, ...1) of box jump overs, burpees, and wall balls. I don't have regular box jumps, much less overs, in my skill set, so I did step overs and used the 20# medicine ball. There was a 15 min. cap and I was only able to finish ups the 9s before time was out. WOD 4 was tough, but I did well; clean and jerk and then with arms locked out we had a 60ft walk. Drop weights at the end of 60 ft, turn around and pick it back up to do three more times. After that we had to do toes to bar, which I have to scale to knees to chest, before finishing up with hand release pushups. I did three full rounds, plus 8 more knees to chest before time was called.

Me in action:
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I came home and spent a bit of time with Ash before she had to leave, then spent the rest of the day relaxing around the house.
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You're working so hard! Every time I feel like skipping a workout, I think of the work you put in and I get my ass to class. Keep it up!
 
Friday - worked at home, then picked up a UPS package that was the Panama 1x8 cab that now sits under my Quilter Mini 101 :). Watched Blackhawks lose in pitiful fashion.

Saturday - errands, honey-dos, yadda, yadda, yadda. Watched some AHS with the Mrs.

Sunday - breakfast, then my weekly admin stuff for my job, followed by doing our taxes party0. Watched some football while loudly voicing my objections over the latest really cute fuzzy creature my wife and SIL found online and want to adopt :mad:. I think I may have won that one, though, after logically laying out our mandatory expenditures for the next 3 months. I still think they are scheming for some way to come up with the adoption fee, though :( .
 
Two-hour hike with the neighbors, kids, and dogs.
Met with kitchen cabinet guy to get a quote.
Picked up lumber for raised garden beds in the backyard.
Napped.
Made a kickass lentil curry.
Hung out/had drinks with neighbors.
Breakfast burritos and cinnamon buns.
Went to the middle school production of The Lion King.
Practiced the syncopated solo section of On the Loose by Saga (I'm basically back in ARENA now, BTW).
 
micwalt said:
Two-hour hike with the neighbors, kids, and dogs.
Met with kitchen cabinet guy to get a quote.
Picked up lumber for raised garden beds in the backyard.
Napped.
Made a kickass lentil curry.
Hung out/had drinks with neighbors.
Breakfast burritos and cinnamon buns.
Went to the middle school production of The Lion King.
Practiced the syncopated solo section of On the Loose by Saga (I'm basically back in ARENA now, BTW).
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Raised beds are where it's at. I've had really good success with them the past few years.
 
Watched it snow
Shoveled the snow
Shoveled a path to the beer distro across the street. Enjoyed a beer to recover from the shoveling.
 
Gig Thursday, so Friday at work was kind of a zombie day. Mexican food for dinner.

Saturday, I cashed in all my chips from being sick for weeks, gigging on a weekday, and a bunch of other things and took two 3 hour naps on Saturday. Pretty much recovered by Sunday.

Sunday--did some paperwork for the band, did some winter yard work. Continued to lay low.

Today I had jury duty, so I was off work. They released me around noon, which is just barely too late for me to go back to work. I'll have to go in this afternoon to set up for class tomorrow in a bit.
 
tiger roach said:
Damn, goin' all viet cong on them pigeons. :rawk:

Do you ever find one impaled on there? Gasping for his last breath, and saying, "Tell my children...that I...love them. *urk*"
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it's the only way bro, I tried the pacifist way and they just shat all over my Jeep (so clearly that means they are communists and hate 'mericuh). Over the last year they have hatched youngin's and I let them be but I did kill three embryos by accident when I was removing their nests the eggs dropped. I felt bad but if the tables were turned Charlie would not have done any differntly to me and my dog child :mad:
 
rhino said:
I'm getting back in a song writing kick and wrote a couple songs when I wasn't too busy eating. Boudin stuffed duck, seafood stuffed chicken, sausage stuffed rabbit on Friday night. /QUOTE]
Man..you must have been stuffed!
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Hmmmm. Well friday was sort of a post-insane-workweek recovery mode.
Saturday I spent hours looking for a guitar case that fit my acoustic dreadnaught since the bag I had was not adequate and the body size was weird enough that I had to look around quite a bit.
Sunday we spent time getting the house ready for my nephews' 23rd birthday - it was a small turnout because his mom was out of town and his sisters both had to work. Oh well. A good time nonetheless.
 
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