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Not really. Once I got my hip healed up, and the leg muscles that had atrophied built back up, which took about a year, my increased activity level seems to have upped my metabolism enough to allow me to eat about what I was accustomed to before. I'll back off from time to time if I see that...

@Treeaddict When I started getting back to a decent fitness level after my hip replacement in 2012, I was at 164 pounds, 5'8". In other words, fat :). For all my adult life up until my hip began to go gunny, I'd been slim, fairly lean. Packed on those extra 20 pounds over about 5-6 years. I...

Well, it's closing in on 6 months since my wedding ring went walkabout. While I haven't given up hope completely, I do think the chances that it will turn up are microscopic at this point. I was at the little local jewelry shop in town yesterday to pick up a replacement earing backing for M...

It's a willow...no great loss if it dies :D. But I bet it won't...they are really hard to kill.

https://www.masterblasterhome.com/threads/micro-pickup-camper.13059/ :)

@Kaveman, might you put a platform across the top of the bed rails for a sleeping/camp stove/rest out of the weather spot with sitting headroom, and cover the bed with an ultra-simple canopy? Maybe a set of bows or A-frames made from schedule 40 pvc and cover the whole thing with tarp?

Pretty spot, Stephen.

I guess that answers that question...fox be trollin' too :D.

Racoons used to occasionally steal my hanging tube style bird feeders. Hanging from a long stiff wire hook from a high tree branch. I thought I could foil them by closing the hook into an eye and using an old screwlock carabiner to attach the feeder. Racoon was able to open that and haul...

Jayzzus...and I used to think that working for good ol' Uncle Sam was complicated :|:.

It was decent enough that I actually took the Jag out for a run to the barbershop. Which from here is an hour round trip. So why did a 20 minute haircut add up to a 2 and a half hour trip??? :D I still love driving this close-to-collectible grand touring XKR. 24 years old, and just a smidge...

Considerably milder :). High of 51 F. today. But then we knew that :D. People who decide to live in Pheonix deserve what they get :P;).

We were lucky enough to get totality here in 2017. It is an amazing thing to experience. We camped out in a nice dispersed campsite on the NF, and shared the fun with another couple we are close with. It was a fine time.

Sounds like a big improvement in the yard, Dave. Good on you.

It's a great time of year; to finally be able to get outside and begin to do things again always feels good.

That's kinda the way it goes with me too, @Mick! Weather and time away from whatever is being hard on the joints usually helps a lot with pain. There are always the infrequent odd jolts of lightning, but lingering long-term pain does ease up if I give it a chance to rest, and the weather helps...

That alone seems worth the extra $25.

If the vendor sends you an item that is broken, open box or not, you should have easy recourse for getting a replacement, no? On the other hand, it's only 5 percent more, if that eases your mind it's probably worth the small extra cost.

I didn't mean to sound all gloom and doom. I'm with you, Mick. I also have had one hell of a fine run, and I'm far from done yet. Still some juice in the tank :).

It's the truth. Not just in the trees, either. That is life, in all its glory.