mrgumby 149 Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Wishing everyone a merry Christmas or what ever holiday you celebrate stay safe stay sober and enjoy. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
other dog 9,039 Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Thank you very much, and Merry Christmas to all. 1 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to post Share on other sites
hicrop10 616 Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Merry Christmas to all,2021 will be better. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carlotpilot 1,478 Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 very merry christmas to everyone 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bullheaded 1,013 Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Merry Christmas everyone. Hope you all have a better new year. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Red Horse 1,603 Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 20 minutes ago, Bullheaded said: Merry Christmas everyone. Hope you all have a better new year. amen! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GA_Dave 1,460 Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 MERRY CHRISTMAS! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mowerman 2,182 Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 merry christmas fellas........me and the mrs,are having a swinging time...bob 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PC68 133 Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Merry Christmas!! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alex g 708 Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Merry Christmas we woke up this morning to a white Christmas which we haven't had for a while Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HarryS 454 Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Merry Christmas and like everyone else looking forward to a better New Year. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post 85snowdog 739 Posted December 25, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 25, 2020 Merry Christmas everyone . Wishing you all the very Best ! White Christmas here too. Me and the dog got to watch the snow fall and not worry about going out. 4 Quote Keith Link to post Share on other sites
mowerman 2,182 Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 That’s the best part just looking at it out the window .... bob 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bullheaded 1,013 Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Here's how I'm spending mine.....plowing up in the mine. Trying to find all the roads and vent raises and stuff that I have no idea where they are, LOL 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mowerman 2,182 Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Oooooooooooo brother tired just looking at the photos lol bob Quote Link to post Share on other sites
staxx 672 Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Merry Christmas to y’all here at BMT 👍🏁🎄 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Vladislav 2,991 Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Merry Christmas to everybody! 1 Quote Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post RowdyRebel 2,203 Posted December 27, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 27, 2020 FINALLY winding down...my 3 brothers have hit the road (with their 10 kids in tow...4, 4, & 2) leaving just my wife, me, & our 2 kiddos at my mom & dad's. Let's just say it was a rowdy. Mom made her caramel pecan rolls, then we loaded up & went Christmas carolling outside grandma's (great grandma to the kids) window at the memory care assisted living place she's at these days. She'll be 99 in February & tested positive for China virus a couple weeks ago...never had any symptoms, though, but my question is...how do you get someone to quarantine in their room if they can't remember they have the virus? Anyway, she was happy to see everyone. Got back to mom & dad's and opened presents...not-so-organized chaos there were 12 kids under the age of 10 excited to be tearing open the huge pile of presents. We gave my boy his big gifts at home before we left with the other grandma (the mother-in-law is still staying with us & stayed home to work & look after the critters)...bicycle and a trampoline...instead of carting them up here. He got lots of monster trucks...one of them remote control, which he loves. Daddy got lots of m&m's and a big cast iron skillet. Momma got a ccw purse and a 1.8L electric water heater for tea & oatmeal and such. Then we got to go through some more of great grandma & great grandpa's stuff...grandpa's been gone since '05, and like I said, grandma willbe 99 in February and needs assisted living, so while the family was all here we got to get some keepsakes. Got my boy a matched set of cuff links and a tie bar with old cars on it. Grabbed an old mechanical pedometer for myself...interesting piece that looks like a watch, but you wear it on your ankle. Has 3 or 4 different scales depending on length of stride and 24 miles is a full revolution of the single hand going around. Can't post a pic, because I don't have enough space...but here's a link we found when trying to figure out exactly what it was: https://www.compasslibrary.com/products/vintage-west-german-pedometer-c-1960 Also in the boxes of stuff, I grabbed my grandpa's harmonica that nobody else wanted...until I showed them the box that had his military info (unit, etc) from the war...it was the one he carried overseas...too late, they had their chance to speak up. Also found some OPA ration tokens...just a variety of stuff. The old Christmas ornaments spoke of the times they were from...walnut nut shells carefully cracked to clean out for cookies, and then glued back together to decorate & hang on the tree...paper cups wrapped in tin foil to look like bells...turkey wishbones painted up all pretty...basically anything that nowadays would quickly be discarded without a second thought, they had saved, decorated, and hung on the tree. Grandparents grew up in the depression & didn't have much, and maintained that extremely frugal lifestyle while raising their 4 kids in the remodeled chicken-coup they called home sitting on an acre of land in suburban Chicago. House was actually moved to it's current location when Argonne Nat'l Lab was being built & they wanted the land my grandparents were on at the time. Don't know what happened to the pics of that move...but I remember grandma showing them to me ages ago. Anyway, enough reminiscing. Hope everyone's Christmas was as enjoyable as mine! 4 1 Quote When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way! Link to post Share on other sites
mrsmackpaul 2,471 Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Yes happy Christmas to all, interesting Rowdy, got me talking to people about all the stuff we used to do as kids that would be quite llame these days Paper chains, paper lanterns, and we only ever got one special thing and everything else was clothing World has changed a lot, you all stay safe and healthy into 2021 Paul Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fjh 748 Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 (edited) Yup cheers Guys! Stay safe! On 12/25/2020 at 4:29 PM, Bullheaded said: Here's how I'm spending mine.....plowing up in the mine. Trying to find all the roads and vent raises and stuff that I have no idea where they are, LOL Hey Bull ! You appear to be drivin Volvo Trash ! Edited December 28, 2020 by fjh Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mowerman 2,182 Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Roudy that was quite a rundown I would’ve also grab the harmonica I have always wanted one glad you had a good time thanks for sharing... my pop grew up in the depression wouldn’t dare throw out any food ... I wound up the same way no food gets thrown away in this house,,, bob 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post 1958 F.W.D. 3,725 Posted December 29, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 29, 2020 (edited) Merry Christmas Everyone!!! Unfortunately here, Momma and myself both had the china virus. We kept it off the bookface for those of you on there. Here's the cliffs notes- Back on Nov 29, our fire dept was dispatched with the Ambulance to a cardiac arrest, which is standard procedure as extra hands are always needed at an arrest. I was part of the fire crew. Back in a former life I was also an EMT and the Medic knew this, so he grabbed me to ride in the back of the Ambulance with him as extra hands. I was "bagging" the patient the whole time- using a bag respirator breathing for the patient who was clinically dead when we got to her. So needless to say I was in close proximity to her mouth and slobber. I did have a mask on. The next day we were informed she tested hot. We all waited seven days to get tested (12/6) and tested negative. Then on Friday 12/11 in the afternoon I started to feel run down and beat up. Started having the Hershey Squirts and when I got home from work, momma took my temp and it was 100.1. So I kicked the daughter out of her bedroom to sleep with Momma and I quarantined myself in her room. Had fever/chills, etc. That night around 1am my temp topped at 101.6 but thats as high as it got. By Saturday afternoon it was done. Like nothing ever happened. I was fine. We figured it was a stomach bug. I went to work on Monday, again no big deal. So then Monday Momma 12/14 starts with the liquid poo and the fever/chills and aches. But she also got a hacking cough Tuesday morning after I left for work. Uh oh. Doc tells her to go get tested, so she heads over to the employee health office (she is a Nurse at the hospital) and gets the brain tickle. Meanwhile I leave work and come home Tuesday. Brought a boatload of paperwork with me as it's supposed to blizzard one to two feet Weds during the day (I think we ended up with 8" dont get me started on the weather people....) Later in the afternoon on Tuesday she gets the call- she is hot for the virus. So I call my Doc office but they are gone for the day. Called first thing Weds morning, and the doc finally calls me back around 2pm and tells me to head over to the walk-in care place. By this time it was 3pm Weds and it was snowing harder than any blizzard that Other Dog could exaggerate about. I was at least 15th person in line (not an exaggeration....) waiting in our cars. When you got there you had to call in and stay in your to car and they would take all your information. When it was your turn, they would call you and you walked to the entrance (under a porch roof thank you) and they would come out and give you the brain tickle. I told them I was a first responder and that puts a 24 hour rush on the test but the girl told me that because of the "blizzard" they would probably be late. So I slept in the daughter's room again (hoping against hope that I didn't have it) and waited Thursday....Waited Friday.......(not going to work, either.....) and finally I wake up Saturday AM to an email saying I was hot. Well, at least I don't have to sleep on the daughters plywood feeling mattress anymore. So sent my boss an email and spent the last 2 weeks at home. I never had any more fevers/chills/aches after the Friday 12/11 incident. But I did develop a cough and sniffles, nothing bad- I have had worse sinus infections. I did however lose all sense of taste and smell.....Noticed that on Monday morning 12/21 when I went to put on my after shave- couldn't smell it or my deoderant. Nothing. No one home. Even stuck my nose in a bottle of Kelchner's horseradish sauce- nothing!!! As I write this on 12/29. Momma and I are both beginning to get taste and smell back- seems like my smell is coming back slower than my taste. Talked to my Doc yesterday who released me back to work no restrictions, and he said our taste and smell could take 2-3 weeks to fully return. As for Momma, it hit her harder than me. She was laid up in bed and slept for 18-20 hours a day for the better part of the first week. Had a bad cough, too but she monitored her blood oxygen level with one of the finger meter thingamajiggers (like a code reader for humans I guess) and her oxygen level in her blood was never too concerning. So Xmas was kind of a pisser. I felt fine (like I said I have had worse sinus infections....) and Momma even felt OK and stayed downstairs most of the day. Thank god she had most of the presents for Extra Small, Small, Medium and Large wrapped a few weeks ago or I would have been screwed. She is feeling better but not 100% (she is on short-term disability endorsed by the Hospital HR dept.) and already got a payment which shocked me. In the past when she has had surgeries they usually work at the speed of molasses in February. None of the kids are showing any kind of symptoms...The School District told us to keep them home back when Momma tested hot back on that Tuesday 12/15. As long as they show no symptoms, they can go back to school on 1/4 no testing needed. Be careful folks. It's out there. Did I get it from that patient we were working in the back of the ambulance? Probably. Can I prove it? No. Who knows, I could have damn well gotten it at the grocery store. Or maybe Momma got it somewhere and gave it to me. We will never know. Just be careful lads. By the way here is a picture of Large (17) teaching Small (9) how to weld. Large is in his second year of welding at the Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School. he had just gotten a new self-darkening helmet (the stars and stripes one) and was running some welds to try it out. Small was watching him through his old flip-down helmet and was getting very interested. So Large coached him through some welds but Small was having trouble with the flip-down helmet. Large let him use the self-darkening helmet, and I tell you what, that little boy was happier than a pig in slop after he got to run a few welds!!!! Edited December 29, 2020 by 1958 F.W.D. 5 Quote TWO STROKES ARE FOR GARDEN TOOLS Link to post Share on other sites
alex g 708 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Glad to hear the you all recovered from the China virus. Also glad to see kids being kids having fun and learning something constructive Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bullheaded 1,013 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Wow, glad to to hear you are all good now. That's exactly how I think about this virus. I think if you are healthy and have a good immune system it is no big deal. It's those that have problems or a bad immune system that have to really worry. Crappy way to spend your holiday though. That's gotta suck having no sense of taste or smell. Kids look like they are having fun. That's awesome...get them started young. They will go places! So refreshing to see kids doing like most of us older guys did.....having fun doing something that will better them. Not sitting around playing video games. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mrsmackpaul 2,471 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 I guess you all are lucky things have worked out ok for the family I still dont know anyone that has had the virus here in Australia so I have no opinion about how severe it is The thought about ones immune system makes sense to me I haven't watched the news on TV since 2007 so I am really dum and only get what filters thru to me from social media and family and friends Stay safe over there in Yanky land and the rest of the world Paul Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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