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Title: Monday, May 6, 2024
Post by: ACL1504 on May 06, 2024, 07:15:04 AM
Morning all,

Breakfast is ready, scrambled eggs, grits and link sausage. Drinks on the end.

I'z gots nuttin dis morn'n!

Tom 
Title: Re: Monday, May 6, 2024
Post by: Zephyrus52246 on May 06, 2024, 07:18:35 AM
Morning, all.

Wow, Tom's up early.  After breakfast I have an appointment with the hand surgeon to see what he thinks these lumps in my hand are.  Need to stop at Lowe's on the way home as it's a rainy spring and that means we have an ant issue.  Otherwise a lazy Monday here.

Jeff
Title: Re: Monday, May 6, 2024
Post by: GPdemayo on May 06, 2024, 07:22:44 AM
Morning all.....
Title: Re: Monday, May 6, 2024
Post by: Vietnam Seabee on May 06, 2024, 08:27:40 AM
Thanks Tom....scrambled eggs just like I like them...yer a good cook, Butty!!!!
Hair cut for me today and change out a bad light switch...modeling on the sawmill this afternoon
Sitting on a park bench in Winter Park just now waiting on the wife to finish her part of the walk
Terry
Title: Re: Monday, May 6, 2024
Post by: BandOGuy on May 06, 2024, 09:24:21 AM
Passed through. Thanks for the spread, Tom. Someone else can have my grits ration. With all the time I spent in grits country, I never learned to enjoy them. Taylor's Pork Roll? Now that's a whole new ball game.
Hope it dries out here today.
Title: Re: Monday, May 6, 2024
Post by: ReadingBob on May 06, 2024, 09:26:22 AM
Morning all,

I managed some workbench time yesterday.  When I started the build, I told myself I wasn't going to light up the Gorman Sign structure.  I spent the day yesterday crafting gooseneck lights and planning the lighting circuit for the interior as well as how I might make the roof removable.  This is all Slim's fault. 8) I'll continue on with that today.

By sheer coincidence, I watched the extended edition of "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring" on Friday.  Next up is "The Two Towers".  RIP Bernard Hill/King Theoden.  :'(

Have a great one!
Title: Re: Monday, May 6, 2024
Post by: deemery on May 06, 2024, 02:16:29 PM
Like BandOGuy, I never learned to like grits, despite all those Army breakfasts...  

Bernard Hill did a great job as King Theoden.  That's a difficult role, I think, but Shakespearian in all that Theoden had to go through.  Last night we watched the episode of Brokenwood that centered around a clunky New Zealand rip-off tour of pseudo-LOTR sites.  ("Lord of the Ringz tours")

dave
Title: Re: Monday, May 6, 2024
Post by: Rollin on May 06, 2024, 05:44:17 PM
That Brokenwood episode was great fun! Way back when, long before any films, Harvard Lampoon published a parody called "Bored of the Rings." That was a clear sign that there was a real love of the Tolkien works, that someone would like it enough to write a parody!
Title: Re: Monday, May 6, 2024
Post by: deemery on May 06, 2024, 08:49:37 PM
I have an original paperback copy of "Bored of the Rings," bought in 1973.  I still dig it out, and totally crack up/laugh out loud reading the map!
bored of the rings map.jpg

dave