Ayupmeducks

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  1. I've a sugar maple, I collected a few seedlings from it last year that need transplanting now, plus I found a couple of saplings from last year growing near the well house, they will get transplanted in the next few days. Name your Acers, Mine are Acer Saccharum.
  2. I can see loads of errors in that "URL" Nonna, there is no way it would work, there's two URL's in one for a start, then img and IMG, HTML doesn't allow things like that . I can't even help you with that and I've debugged hundreds of web pages, I can't even see where to start with it....
  3. Mrs Ranby's Cafe was opposite St Mary's Church, Mrs Ranby was my first employer's wife.
  4. Most anything from cheese to crisps, my favourite was corned beef crispy cobs. When I lived in Oz, I found a canned ham which was the best canned ham I ever tasted, I don't know what they put in the ham when it was canned, but it sure made smells far worse than baked beans, my work mates had many expletive names they used to shout at me. We had rail mounted battery powered personnel carriers, carried seven men including the driver in the forward mode with seven men in the rear compartment. We were coming out at the end of the shift when I felt the urge to let rip, silent one mind. Wi
  5. I have a mono vinyl I bought in the 60's of the Planet Suite, in the 90's I purchased a stereo CD of it.
  6. Funny you should say that BK, I too had nightmares over the one and only episode I watched as a kid. I happened to see the episode that scared me a couple of years back, somewhere on the internet, and Jeeze, it was so primitive, made me wonder what scared me.
  7. We pay $40 for an eight year license, it used to be 4 years for $20, but streamlining it to eight years saved them money. California used to be a five year license, I think that was $20. My California driving test counts in every state, so no need to take even a written. When I took that test, I scored 100% in the written, and a bout 98% in the road test, the 2 points I lost was at a "Tee intersection, turning right, I stopped at the line, but due to dense scrub to my left, I couldn't see up the road, and had to "nose out" a little to see the traffic. The examiner told me he'd have d
  8. If we change addresses, all we do is notify DMV of the change, and are told to keep the address on a piece of paper to hand to a police officer on demand of the license. My wife had both cataracts removed from her eyes a couple of years back, on her license it says must wear eye correction glasses, she notified DMV in person and the lady just said if stopped to notify the police officer..No new license. In the state where I'm licensed it's an eight year license now.
  9. I merely asked can we put an end to it, too many are getting their panties in a twist over something that was posted years ago.
  10. Can we put an end to it, it's spoiling the site.
  11. Waddo, RR WAS a moderator once.
  12. I know my British friends won't get this, but this subject is getting worse than "little" Mike's adverts everywhere until he dropped out of the Presidential race. $500 million spent too.
  13. TBH, I don't think this software version has a post numbering system.
  14. No, no divi Oz, just lower rates than the giant corporations. Motor parts, have you done a good search of the internet??? I have a Ryobi 240 volt circular saw that I bought when I lived down under and had given me good service, but the trigger switch went out. I searched all over for that part, which was made by Bosch, no luck, so the saw went in a box under the bench and sat there for a few years. I tried several years later in a search of the net, again with the Bosch part number and came up with one success, a gentleman in China had them, so ordered a few as they were prett
  15. They are around, just that most computer users user anti virus software these days.
  16. I asked the wife if she missed TV a few weeks back, she said no, she feels more relaxed these days. Been getting on for ten years since we watched TV. Do I miss live TV or even "dead" tv?? It's all dead to me, I can't see myself ever watching TV again, just too many lies and too much indoctrination broadcast these days, Joseph Goebbels would be proud of our media today, it's doing a far better job than he ever could.
  17. Fox news??? Better known as "Faux News" this side of the pond, NONE are to be trusted, ALL make up "news" .
  18. @Oz, you can stream lots of stuff from the internet totally free, movies, sport news, if you can stand the lies and BS from the major broadcasters. I'd never pay for Netflix, or any of the pay sites, there's dozens of movie streaming sites, ALL FREE, sadly we don't have higher speed than 1.5Mps. But I used to download movies, queue them up at night and leave my Matricom STB to save them to a hard drive. There are a few documentary streaming sites to. And for Brew, Just because the main stream media isn't funded by government doesn't mean they are not controlled by government! CNN, MSNBC,
  19. @Brew, the BBC doesn't need to live off a license fee, it is more than strong enough to stand on it's "own two legs". It gains millions in revenue from it's recorded shows sold on DVD's world wide. Better budgeting would help them instead of paying millions out in salaries, streamline their services, surely having several channels is a waste of resources?? The Australian government stopped tv licensing years ago, the ABC runs on funding from two sources, government subsidies AND selling DVD's of programming. Here stateside our own Public Broadcasting network, (NOT government own
  20. Dave, the US government did try to introduce TV licensing many years back, it was fought and ended up in the Supreme Court who stated licensing radio and TV reception was an infringement on the 1st amendment. I gave up on broadcast TV many years back, terrestrial, cable and satellite. ALL the broadcast stations are owned by just a small number of international corporations. I used to pirate two of the satellite corporations until they cracked down on the encryption hackers, when they went to Nagravision 3 encryption. No it wasn't illegal, if anyone wants to state that, hacking t
  21. The big boy's didn't want the rural areas in the 1930's, so the people got together and formed the C0-operatives to bring electricity to the farmers and small towns. Now they are trying to take over, if they manage it we know our rates will double.
  22. Our electric utility is a Co-op, ie every customer is a shareholder, it's classed as a none profit corporation. I think we have the lowest Kw/h in the US, they are always suggesting ways to reduce our monthly bills. Together with a couple of other Co-ops, we own our own coal fired station for base load, plus a large diesel station for back up during the hot mid summer months.
  23. I think the tie went out at work in the 60's on safety grounds, ties and rotating machinery don't mix. I remember my 1st year at tech for the NCB, no ties at work, no ties in the workshops, no loose clothes, must wear overalls in the workshop, long hair had to be covered with a hair net, one apprentice had long hair and objected, there's the door young man, take your indentures to your training officer and he'll tear them up. They just didn't argue with us, rules were rules and they were made to protect us.