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04-09-2020, 06:22 PM
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#201
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Santa Rosa County, Florida
Trailer: 2014 Escape 21 Tow: 2024 Toyota Tundra
Posts: 3,097
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Florida COVID-10 stats
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She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie-- propane
Photos and travelogues here: mikelewisimages.com
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04-10-2020, 08:37 AM
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#202
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: St. Thomas not BVI., Ontario
Trailer: 2014 Escape 5.0TA / 2016 Ram Eco Diesel 4X4
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Lewis
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Hi: Mike Lewis... The only "Breakdown" I know of is driving me stair crazy. Sorry we didn't get together at Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou St. Pk. this year. Alf
escape artist N.S. of Lake Erie
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04-10-2020, 09:03 AM
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#203
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Benton County, Iowa
Trailer: 2013 Escape 21 Classic Number 6, pulled by 2018 Toyota Highlander
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Alternatives
Quote:
Originally Posted by steve dunham
Now I wish I hadn’t thrown all those old Wards and Sears catalogs away .
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You folks up nort had it better than we did. Northrup King N99, Funks G or Decalb
Aaah the memories.
Iowa Dave
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04-10-2020, 09:09 AM
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#204
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Trailer: E 21 2019 Tow Vehicle: 2019 4Runner Limited
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Good Question.
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04-10-2020, 09:16 AM
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#205
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: St. Thomas not BVI., Ontario
Trailer: 2014 Escape 5.0TA / 2016 Ram Eco Diesel 4X4
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Iowa Dave
You folks up nort had it better than we did. Northrup King N99, Funks G or Decalb
Aaah the memories.
Iowa Dave
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Hi: Iowa Dave... One cob or two? Alf
escape artist N.S. of Lake Erie
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Quote Bugs Bunny..."Don't take life too seriously, none of us get out of it ALIVE"!!!
'16 Ram Eco D. 4X4 Laramie Longhorn CC & '14 Escape 5.0TA
St.Thomas (Not the Virgin Islands) Ontario
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04-10-2020, 09:39 AM
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#206
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Benton County, Iowa
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From Mr Mom
220 221 Whatever it takes.
Iowa Dave
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04-12-2020, 08:55 AM
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#207
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: Denver area, Colorado
Trailer: Decisions, decisions
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We can’t go back to normal.
Normal wasn’t working.
If we simply go back to normal,
We would have missed the lesson.
Surely we can do better. Surely we can.
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04-12-2020, 09:01 AM
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#208
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Trailer: 2017 Escape 5.0 TA
Posts: 15,532
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Well, I'm going back to normal, well normal for me that is. [emoji15][emoji16]
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2015 Ford F150 Lariat 3.5L EcoBoost
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“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” — Abraham Lincoln
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04-12-2020, 10:06 AM
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#209
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: North of Danbury, Wisconsin
Trailer: 2018 Escape 21C
Posts: 3,033
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Iowa Dave
You folks up nort had it better than we did. Northrup King N99, Funks G or Decalb
Aaah the memories.
Iowa Dave
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Corn cobs also made a great fuel for burning in the wood stove but you had to watch it so that the fire didn’t get too hot . The local farmers are out plowing their fields and spreading manure , getting ready for Spring planting . You have to admire their optimism . Hopefully commodity prices will go up enough to at least cover the cost of production
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04-12-2020, 10:54 AM
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#210
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Benton County, Iowa
Trailer: 2013 Escape 21 Classic Number 6, pulled by 2018 Toyota Highlander
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A little fuel oil on some cobs, some sticks out of the yard and a few nice pieces of hickory and the next thing you know the kitchen was warm at grandmas and it felt good on your rear end after a night in the upstairs bedroom where there was frost on the walls. I’d give a lot for those days back today. Always liked the outhouse too.
Iowa Dave
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04-12-2020, 12:03 PM
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#211
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2019
Location: Sarita, Texas
Trailer: 2019 Escape 21
Posts: 518
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Our health care workers are amazing!
Recalling Sir Winston's famous reference to fighter pilots during the "Battle of Britain" is appropriate here.
"Never have so many, owed so much, to so few"
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Why have I never heard of a 'Physic' winning the lottery?
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04-12-2020, 12:37 PM
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#212
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: North of Danbury, Wisconsin
Trailer: 2018 Escape 21C
Posts: 3,033
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Iowa Dave
A little fuel oil on some cobs, some sticks out of the yard and a few nice pieces of hickory and the next thing you know the kitchen was warm at grandmas and it felt good on your rear end after a night in the upstairs bedroom where there was frost on the walls. I’d give a lot for those days back today. Always liked the outhouse too.
Iowa Dave
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Nature is spreading a nice blanket of white nitrogen on the fields this Easter Sunday
We still have an outhouse, comes in handy on occasion.
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04-12-2020, 01:22 PM
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#213
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central, Pennsylvania
Trailer: Escape#5 2022 E19
Posts: 26,268
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I remember the single paned windows with ice on the inside and with the radiator heat, they were always fogged up. My mother took newspapers rolled up and we put it under the doors to stop drafts. I would listen to my crystal radio, with an antenna outside and grounded to the radiator, picking up WKBW out of Buffalo NY and WBZ out of Boston. Ironically most of the skipped signals were north to south not west to east. Was not until I was in Iowa where WLS from Chicago and KOMA from Oklahoma City was listened to. Fm radio was not out until 70's.
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Sometime life gets in the way of living.......
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04-12-2020, 01:40 PM
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#214
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Benton County, Iowa
Trailer: 2013 Escape 21 Classic Number 6, pulled by 2018 Toyota Highlander
Posts: 8,235
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Crystal radio
Hi Jim
I ran a wire to the outside and hooked it to the heavy metal gutter and downspout. Then I was cooking with gas. KAAY Little Rock, WLS Dick Biondi in Chicago, WLW Cincinnati, KDKA Pittsburg and on into the night when I fell asleep. I listened to a lot of baseball back then too.
Iowa Dave
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04-12-2020, 01:48 PM
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#215
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: St. Thomas not BVI., Ontario
Trailer: 2014 Escape 5.0TA / 2016 Ram Eco Diesel 4X4
Posts: 8,035
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Iowa Dave
Hi Jim
I ran a wire to the outside and hooked it to the heavy metal gutter and downspout. Then I was cooking with gas. KAAY Little Rock, WLS Dick Biondi in Chicago, WLW Cincinnati, KDKA Pittsburg and on into the night when I fell asleep. I listened to a lot of baseball back then too.
Iowa Dave
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Hi: Iowa Dave... Here I listened to WABC NY. Cousin Brucey!!! When transistors were invented the radio was thin enough to fit under my pillow. Alf
escape artist N.S. of Lake Erie
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Quote Bugs Bunny..."Don't take life too seriously, none of us get out of it ALIVE"!!!
'16 Ram Eco D. 4X4 Laramie Longhorn CC & '14 Escape 5.0TA
St.Thomas (Not the Virgin Islands) Ontario
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04-12-2020, 01:56 PM
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#216
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Benton County, Iowa
Trailer: 2013 Escape 21 Classic Number 6, pulled by 2018 Toyota Highlander
Posts: 8,235
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Hi Alf
I could get Boston some nights and would live for the three game series between Boston and Cleveland and Boston and the White Sox. I saw Frank Howard hit a terrific home run in Cedar Rapids when he was in the Minors. Then he went on to play for the Senators I think. He was a big man. The ball bat looked like a stick in his hand. Rocky Colavito and Luis Aparichio had the best names in baseball in my opinion.
Iowa Dave
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04-12-2020, 03:13 PM
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#217
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: North Vancouver, British Columbia
Trailer: 2009 Escape 17B 2020 Toyota Highlander XLE
Posts: 17,136
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Picked up WLS Chicago in Whitewood, Saskatchewan. Also listened to play-by-play boxing, or was it wrestling?
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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04-12-2020, 03:56 PM
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#218
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Oswego, New York
Trailer: 2017 Escape 21C, 2018 Ford F150
Posts: 5,365
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I have a 55' military surplus tower (set in a 6'x4'x4' concrete base without guys) that is heavy enough that I can sit on the top and rock back & forth only moving it a couple of inches. I installed it in the 60's so I could pick up a PBS station 40 miles away & behind a hill. I almost started a neighborhood cable company, but Time Warner came along a few years later.
Along with a huge Jerrold TV antenna and a custom UHF antenna cut for the lower portion of the UHF band, I added a 75' long wire from to top of the tower to my barn.
Along with short wave on the long wire, I spent far too many nights using a rotor to null out local stations, watching TV skip, collecting many midwest stations.
The tower is still there & provides over 40 stations in the upstate NY & Canada areas. Unfortunately, digital TV has made watching skip pretty much a thing of the past.
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04-12-2020, 04:11 PM
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#219
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: North Vancouver, British Columbia
Trailer: 2009 Escape 17B 2020 Toyota Highlander XLE
Posts: 17,136
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Vermilye
Unfortunately, digital TV has made watching skip pretty much a thing of the past.
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My wife likes to watch Detroit news, for some reason I've never fathomed.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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04-12-2020, 04:44 PM
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#220
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Member
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: San Diego, California
Trailer: 2018 Escape 21
Posts: 72
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Iowa Dave
You folks up nort had it better than we did. Northrup King N99, Funks G or Decalb
Aaah the memories.
Iowa Dave
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Gosh... I don't know why but this reminds me of when I was a kid. One summer I de-tasseled corn. Anyone who did it as a kid will remember it. It was the only job a 13 year old could get at the time. Fond memories other than the spoiled tuna fish sandwich that caused me to get my butt kicked after throwing up out one of the front bus windows on a hot summer Indiana day.
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