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  • Birthday 04/13/1944

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  1. Because of my width I had to cut the arms off of my tying chair. It is on it's last legs for several reasons so if you wouldn't mind Bruce could you throw a website at me for where yours came from. If you don't want anyone to know how much you overpaid for comfort you can PM. Overpaying is an automatic for me. My lift recliner which is basically my second home and sleep recliner cost $2200 and the faux leather finish crumbled off the day it went out of warranty. Was overpriced for what I got IMO.
  2. Got a quality set of bugs in the mail. Like CDewberry said, thanks to Woodenlegs and those who sent in such a quality swap fly.
  3. On postage, going to Pirate Ship does help and does save a couple bucks on outgoing and return but it is still high like everything else. What does help is if a swap fills completely like they all used to and then you'd at least get a dozen flies to use or at least admire. Now too often a swap doesn't fill and sending two flies does help but everything you'll stating in there Fishing' Bob is about hits the nail on the head. Lots of things in the world are changing and it looks like this site is one of them. Personally, I have seen first hand on the Christmas Fly Box swap how things have gone downhill in both participation and shows of appreciation. The overall quality and quantity of flies has come up but interest just doesn't seem the same. I think that the last year's swap will be last to undertake this but will have to see how it goes before I decide completely.
  4. Damn Silver Creek!!! Put long sleeve dress and gloves on her, blonde wig, and you couldn't tell which one was the interviewer and which the robot. DFoster: "The trouble is that it's still at his father in law's house because he can't figure out how to start it- even with the owners manual. Maybe it's got some type of facial recognition system like my iPhone?" ... The new Subaru has that but they had it turned off before they left dealership. Poopdeck: "I hate the lane centering. I had the dealer shut it off completely. I like driving where I want to drive not where the car does and I didn’t like how the wheel would fight me. I can’t take the car shutting down when at stop." ... If it didn't favor center left of road more than shoulder side I kind of like it but agree with the pulling against me when I try to drift right as trucks are coming in left lane. It has auto shutoff at lights but that is turned off. Our county does not have a stoplight and only a couple of stop signs people just roll thru. Steeldrifter: "Then when were were packing gear in the trunk and closed the trunk, it kept popping back open and would not stay closed. Finally figured out for some reason it was where he paid his FOB, it was too close to the trunk and it wouldn't stay shut because they car "thought" the FOB was being locked in the trunk. Personally I don't want a car "thinking" for me lol. Another thing I didn't like about it was it shuts off every single time you stop. I don't see how that is supposed to be a good thing. To me that is just added wear & tear on the starter/ignition system of a car. I dunno, maybe I'm getting old, but give me an old Chevy Blazer with a key and vent windows and am/fm radio and I'm happy." ... I screwed up our self-opening hatch some way when I drove and opened the hatch to put my walker in. I couldn't find the button to close it and pushed everything on the bottom of the hatch until it shut. Next time I use it It would only open foot or so. Tried to push it open and kept going into shut down mode. Found it could open it if I moved it SLOWLY. Next time I went out to car with wife to go somewhere and it wouldn't open she said it has a setting to make the hatch only open to place you want it to stop and I'd screwed it up somehow. She pushed it to where I wanted it and reset it somehow and showed me how to open and close it without messing it up. My 2004 F-150 is very basic but it doesn't have vent window. Since I quit smoking a long time ago I don't mess them. The problem I found. among others, was having cruise on automatically brings other things into like lane centering and automatic distance spacing as far as I can tell but I just keep hitting buttons on right side of steering wheel until it goes into cruise. Also, in bright sun it jumps in and out of lane centering if new white stripes "blind" the camera. I'm sure there are dozens of cool things on the car for Mike Chell to play with but I won't know much about them until wife goes to Subaru Flight School.
  5. Coming up on 80, been driving since I was 14, and now have a new fishing car and can't figure out how it works. I only drove our Outback a few times and always with wife in car doing things with it. Much of the time we had that car I was having various health problems and she did almost all the driving. The last vehicle I drove on a regular was my 2004 F-150. which I still have. She went to the big city and came home with a new Subaru Forester literally right off the showroom floor. Had it a week and I only rode in it to doc app't once. Well yesterday while she doing her aerobics I decided to go see how one of our local ponds was holding up in drought. It was way low but not dangerously low to lose fish yet. Okay, my Ford had cruise control on the steering wheel. It had an AM/FM radio with knobs and scan button. Other than that it had a cup holder. I got in the Forester and used all the controls on the seat and mirrors and steering wheel to use Setting 2 for automatic adjustment when I get in. I had the FOB in my pocket which is some sort of key I guess. I pushed the Start/Button and nothing happened, I had to put foot on brake to get it to start. Being in Park wasn't good enough for it. I tried to move and there's some electronic parking brake I had to release. I got going watching my rear view camera thinking that will be nice when I get a hitch on it. Well I pulled out and found that all the fancy stuff shuts off when car does. I got going down highway to Dead Indian Lake about 15 miles down highway. It's quiet, firm, and that little 4 cylinder boxer had me at 85 while trying to figure out some of the controls. On one side of the steering wheel is a lever with two buttons on top of it and two below it. There's symbols on them that might as well be hieroglyphics to me. Got to the lake, saw the island was now a peninsula with some guys fishing off it. Going back I did figure out the radio to find Syrius and put 70s tunes on. Pushing the buttons and throwing the lever on right of wheel I got it into cruise control at 65mph. I guess I hit some other stuff that works with cruise control because the thing was now driving itself. The road back to Cheyenne is good highway with several easy curves and a couple marked 55mph. One of the buttons I hit was Land Centering and it would read stripes and adjust the car with no input from me. I held the wheel very lightly to see and sure enough it took every curve on the way back and there's several including the ones at 55 it drove through at 65. If you did take your hands off wheel completely a beep would go off and a big warning light "KEEP ALERT" would flash on dash. The one thing I did not like was the lane centering favored the center stripe. It was like it was a foot from center stripe and 3 feet from right edge. My wife is actually scheduled for a class to discuss all the things available behind all the icons on two different screens and one of the things I want to know is if the centering can be adjusted to favor right edge instead of center stripe. I'm sure I will like this car when I get a feel for it but his old guy is in a whole new world of tech just driving a car.
  6. Okay, now that site is back up and I could doublecheck you were the SM in this I'll get them in mail tomorrow. With site down I thought it was your swap but have sent to wrong person before and wanted to make sure.
  7. Looking great. Bringing some class to the show.
  8. Considering a stop at 7 I'll do another set of different style and make the return postage more bearable.
  9. I finally got mine out today Woodenleg. For such an amateur looking tie it was more work than most and I've had a hard time getting into anything lately. Got 'em out to beat deadline I hope anyway.
  10. Since I posted this just the other day I can add - Defenders of Wildlife - American Mint (actually sales) - Christian Voters Organization - and another Boys Town. One thing I didn't mention was the aggravation of their "Free Windbreaker or Blanket or Duffel Bag, etc. and to them FREE means SEND MONEY. If you need to meet the minimum donation they mark on the return pad then it AIN'T FREE. That particular con game aggravates the hell out of me and should really be illegal as false advertisement. I feel a little better now knowing I'm not the only one who has grown calloused toward all the charitable organizations. In the same vein of high salaries for top brass is the game of getting some outfit like a fire dep't or police officers union to sell the right to a third party to sell tickets to concerts and other events in their name. Third party makes a killing and the outfit giving their name to be used gets pennies on the dollar of the actual funds generated.
  11. I have in the past donated to a few of funds that I felt were good funding programs for good purposes. I found out that this puts you on a list that is then used to raise more funds by selling your name and address to other groups seeking funding. In the last week or so I have gotten these solicitations from groups asking for funds. It is out of hand and I wash my hands of giving to any of them anymore. I cannot help them all and have a couple I still send to but know they sell my name to others. Here is groups after my funds... Humane Society -- Feed the Hungry -- Ukraine Refugees -- Wounded Warriors -- Deputy Sheriffs -- AARP Foundation -- Jewish Widows in Israel -- Disabled Vets -- Trout Unlimited -- United Service Organization -- Mutual of Omaha Ins. -- Triple A Auto Ins. -- Bassmaster -- Boys Town -- Easter Seals -- OK Public TV -- Appalachian Children -- Jackets for kids -- Cheyenne Area Police -- Now I'm sure all of these put our help to good use but I'm slowing becoming one of those needing help if inflation continues to eat away at our S.S. checks, our only source of income is the monthly checks which definitely don't keep up with inflation.
  12. Bimini15's dog is 6 years old by now. Wonder how his search turned out?
  13. This is another kind of off the wall post but I have been hooked on watching a lot of the log sawing on You Tube channel. They are so primitive and do so much insane work in running their sawmills it is unbelievable that some of the guys there are fairly old. This is Indonesia and they use a rolling table for their logs and hand push them through what amounts to a huge band saw. They somehow muscle logs up to 5' diameter or so onto their tables and push them through to other guys on the other side of the saw catching and handling the sawn slabs. The thing is they work with no OSHA rules in sight. Shorts, t-shirts, sandals or bare feet, no safety glasses or gloves, not a hard hat in site. I don't how I got hooked on this but to me it's kind of like being mesmerized by a firepit burning. Okay, how does relate to this thread? These guys smoke like you cannot believe. There are times 5 or 6 are straining to roll a huge log onto the rolling bed and everyone has a smoke hanging from their mouth. Their is one old guy at one site who may have the world record for smokes consumed. Then again, he may not be old but has a perpetual squint from a dangling cigarette. I got to wondering about these guys and did a Google and darned if Indonesian men don't smoke the most per capita in the world and watching these guys at their ancient sawmills make that easy to believe. Nick
  14. You misunderstood. I gave the song but I also said works for me. I'm in.
  15. For those of you still lighting them up, go ahead, it's legal and your right to smoke in many places. Since it has been years since I gave them up and wife quit several years ago and I know I've read of many on the board getting away from them I have not had a reason to check their prices. We had a bunch of company over the other day and like usual several were running their phones instead of joining in the conversation. Someone called out that in some state I can't remember the cigarette machines were at $12 a pack. I just checked and the average price per pack in US is $8 per pack. I always thought smokes ran around the same price as a gallon of gas and back when I smoked they were very close to pricing together. If they are trying to limit smoking by pricing them out of reach they're doing a good job but like so many things these prices tend to hurt the lower income folks more than anyone else. When I quit it was for health reasons and looking at today's prices I think of how much more money I've had for rods and reels and flies because of it. So what does this have to do with fishing? Nothing, just random observation and if it prompts someone to quit the better for it.
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