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Old 05-09-2017, 12:23 PM   #461
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Timex, takes a licking and keeps on ticking....
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Old 05-09-2017, 01:10 PM   #462
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I prefer a simple clock myself [emoji6]


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Old 05-09-2017, 01:16 PM   #463
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It took a while, but I found this model, with no day/date to clutter the dial ( can't read it anyway ). A clean, legible face. Press the winding stem and it lights up.
It's even on Timex time.
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Old 05-09-2017, 01:24 PM   #464
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Clocks and camping almost seems like an oxymoron. It's not like when I was working, woke up and thought... cool I can sleep 20 more minutes.
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It took a while, but I found this model, with no day/date to clutter the dial ( can't read it anyway ). A clean, legible face. Press the winding stem and it lights up.
The Helbros watch I got in the second grade wore out. I was so proud of it. It had a radium dial. Later they were outlawed. I never thought much of it, till I started hearing Russian satellites in my head. Now I use the sun, works well. Cloudy days I fish, sleep or drink. Time keeps slipping away into the future.
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Old 05-09-2017, 03:42 PM   #466
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True, when in the camper out in the great, ridiculously free beyond, it’s not like I have to be on time somewhere else. Agreed, free is having no exterior time constraint, nothing else to do. Won’t be catching a bus, punching a clock, meeting appointments, or worrying about the arc of the sun. If it’s time to make the coffee or to leave the campground before they charge me for another day, there are other indicators for that.

There’s beer, of course. It didn’t used to be this way: if I have a second beer now, I wake up from a sound sleep in the middle of night. That big display of red numbers will announce and affirm how inconvenient the interruption. Seeing time digitally helps me understand. I don’t know why that is. If am asked what time I got up, whatever the reason, now I wouldn’t be puzzled and say I didn’t know.

Red is such a magnet. It’s also more likely I glanced at the clock when I took my meds, or didn’t. If I could only put time in a bottle.
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Old 05-09-2017, 04:17 PM   #467
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I see a medley of hits coming after time is on my side....
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Old 05-09-2017, 05:51 PM   #468
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Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away, across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell

So... go camping in an Escape!!!
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Old 05-09-2017, 10:11 PM   #469
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I see a medley of hits coming after time is on my side....
Clear back to Eddie Howard with "Timeless" "Time won't let me" and If you've got the time, I've got the beer.
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Old 05-09-2017, 10:31 PM   #470
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Ticking away the moments...
I've read this twice thinking that it was not an uplifting post--until the end, of course. But it gave me pause. Shortly after I retired almost eighteen years ago, it didn't take me long to realize that one can't sit around to wait for things to happen. Carpe diem!

At my favorite campground last week, the camp host posted this: Think Outside, No Box Necessary.

Just get out there and do it.

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True, when in the camper out in the great, ridiculously free beyond, it’s not like I have to be on time somewhere else. Agreed, free is having no exterior time constraint, nothing else to do. Won’t be catching a bus, punching a clock, meeting appointments, or worrying about the arc of the sun. If it’s time to make the coffee or to leave the campground before they charge me for another day, there are other indicators for that.

There’s beer, of course. It didn’t used to be this way: if I have a second beer now, I wake up from a sound sleep in the middle of night. That big display of red numbers will announce and affirm how inconvenient the interruption. Seeing time digitally helps me understand. I don’t know why that is. If am asked what time I got up, whatever the reason, now I wouldn’t be puzzled and say I didn’t know.

Red is such a magnet. It’s also more likely I glanced at the clock when I took my meds, or didn’t. If I could only put time in a bottle.
Myron "Time in a bottle " Jim Croce . Pat
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I've read this twice thinking that it was not an uplifting post--until the end, of course. But it gave me pause. Shortly after I retired almost eighteen years ago, it didn't take me long to realize that one can't sit around to wait for things to happen. Carpe diem!

At my favorite campground last week, the camp host posted this: Think Outside, No Box Necessary.

Just get out there and do it.

(And thanks for posting.)
Just FYI that is the song "Time" by Pink Floyd. I loved it in my misspent youth, although I never got around to understanding the lyrics. Now that I am older I like to look up the lyrics of songs from the sixties and seventies and ponder them.
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Just FYI that is the song "Time" by Pink Floyd. I loved it in my misspent youth, although I never got around to understanding the lyrics. Now that I am older I like to look up the lyrics of songs from the sixties and seventies and ponder them.
When you figure-out the meaning of "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys," let me know what you come up with, will ya?
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When you figure-out the meaning of "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys," let me know what you come up with, will ya?
One of my favorite all time songs.

From Wikipedia:

"Jim Capaldi started writing this in Morocco, where he was getting ready to make a movie called Nevertheless with actor Michael J. Pollard. The film project fell through, but did lead to one of Traffic's best-known songs. Said Capaldi: "Pollard and I would sit around writing lyrics all day, talking about Bob Dylan and the Band, thinking up ridiculous plots for the movie. Before I left Morocco, Pollard wrote in my book 'The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys.' For me, it summed him up. He had this tremendous rebel attitude. He walked around in his cowboy boots, his leather jacket. At the time he was a heavy little dude. It seemed to sum up all the people of that generation who were just rebels. The 'Low Spark,' for me, was the spirit, high-spirited. You know, standing on a street corner. The low rider. The 'Low Spark' meaning that strong undercurrent at the street level."
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Old 05-10-2017, 03:50 PM   #475
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Small Shelf bedside of Bulkhead

I am thinking of installing a small shelf on the bedside of the kitchen/bedside bulkhead of our 19. Does anyone know if this bulkhead is solid and can safely take a couple of wood screws?

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Best way to know for sure is tap the paneling wall with a hammer, listen for a not hollow sound.
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One of my favorite all time songs.
Traffic a very much under-appreciated band. They were a major influence on a lot of music that came after them. Another from about the same time period, in my opinion, is Procol Harem.
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Even if it's not reinforced there's still enough usable solid framing there.

Running vertically there is solid wood, probably something like 1 x 2 at the front edge and against the trailer side. Enough to safely attach a shelf to. The front framing along holds my TV arm with TV.

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What Ron, no framing picture?
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What Ron, no framing picture?
Very funny Myron, one of the few areas that I haven't opened up.

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