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#1 ·
I have no clue what order NoBite is going to post the pics, but there is a pic of my Dry Pond, Dominic and Princess Lily Belle. One pic of the neighbors DD's (well, at least 2 of the A-holes). The black Dane pup seems okay. I hope NB blows that pic up, so you can actually see their partial pack of dogs. But, if not, you can at least see I take pride in my property and the neighbors don't.

Spock,

Patience, Grasshopper!

>:)
 
#36,461 ·
So, my new attorney called me back and gave me all the statutes and sections. Then he told me I would have to compelling evidence to actually see the damage before he puts it before a judge.

Advised me not to shoot goats, which I have already shot at. He's going to send them a threatening letter at my expense, $75, And then we go from there.

Now I have to buy game cameras?

Stupid neighbors are going to pay for my game cameras too!

Can you all tell that I am fed up?
 
#36,462 ·
You might be able to Google and find your instruction manual online if your machine isn't old. Or, if it is, you might even be able to find a Youtube video of how to wind the bobbin on your machine!

Good luck...hopefully you can figure it out. Most machines aren't too complicated to wind the bobbins.

Already tried that.

I am a book in hand kind of girl.

Haven't played with my sewing machine in quite a while.
 
#36,464 ·
I have been making face masks, mainly to get to know my machine again.

I hate to admit this, but I forgot how to wind a bobbin and I can't find the instruction manual.

:nerd:

I tried to order LSU and KSU fabric when I was ordering but they were out of stock!

Yes, Ma. You were going to get some face masks sent to you.

:x
It's on its way. Along with extra bobbins.

I haven't actually sewed with a machine in over 12 years. I am more of a quilter. I like cutting fabric and sewing it back together again by hand.

I always thought quilting was an oxymoron.

Piecing is my favorite part of quilting.
Already tried that.

I am a book in hand kind of girl.

Haven't played with my sewing machine in quite a while.
You'll have to show us the finished products!

I'm envious of your quilting skills. I wish I had the time or inclination to do it. I've always been impressed by those who do...I love beautiful quilts. Some day I'm going to commission one that's exactly how I want it to be!
 
#36,465 ·
Just got the email from my boss that I'll still be teleworking next week.
:grin2::grin2::grin2::grin2::grin2:

I replied, "I can do this until April 2022 when I plan on retiring"
He replied, "Ha Ha"

Early June, the plan was to bring 50% of us back for a few weeks, then all of us. I got to go back for 2 weeks, and didn't care for it after being at home for so long. But since then, the cases in TN have been going up and have been going through the roof the last week, so for now, our office is at around 50% and my boss has to schedule people to work/telework to allow plenty of spacing between the people that are at work.

As I said before, I was born for this. I have no real need or desire to socialize, or listen to grown men try to outdo each other with their BS stories day after day or listen to them talk about World of Warcraft LOL. Here at home I have my wife and Mocha, which is pretty much all this boy needs :2smile:
 
#36,466 ·
I tried to order LSU and KSU fabric when I was ordering but they were out of stock!

Yes, Ma. You were going to get some face masks sent to you.

:x
Yeah, sure...promises, promises....

But I'm not surprised LSU fabric is out of stock. Them folks down there is fanatics.


86 here and going up. And Hairy has not been walked. I left the car at the shop last night to get its 180,000 mile checkup done today, and was waiting for the guy's call to tell me the damage.

I knew it needed tires, and oil, filters, etc, but he added...sigh...timing belt. It's been 110,000 miles since it was replaced last, so I guess it is due :(
 
#36,467 ·
Yeah, sure...promises, promises....

But I'm not surprised LSU fabric is out of stock. Them folks down there is fanatics.


86 here and going up. And Hairy has not been walked. I left the car at the shop last night to get its 180,000 mile checkup done today, and was waiting for the guy's call to tell me the damage.

I knew it needed tires, and oil, filters, etc, but he added...sigh...timing belt. It's been 110,000 miles since it was replaced last, so I guess it is due :(
I wish I knew someone that made custom masks. A Doberman mask would be cool. I already have Doberman decals on my SUV, and have Doberman t-shirts, so a mask would be the ticket.

180,000 miles...what do you have, a Toyota? My Escape is within a few road trips of 100,000 miles and although it's still running great (knock on wood) I'm starting to get nervous. Every now and then I think about selling it private and then getting another vehicle but then I tell myself, one more year, plus I really don't want car payments. I hate owing people money.
 
#36,469 ·
Here's the PNW via Portland (the left side one) weather report--since it's all hotter than the hubs of hell (I always wonder just how hot and where exactly are the hubs of hell) through the midwest and drowning from systems moving from the south on the east coast--I'm sure you'll all enjoy hearing about our partly cloudy dry days (the next three at least) the high today should only be 80 and even I can survive that.

Like Ken and his dog yard, I did get the back yard both mowed and weed whacked the entire perimeter. With Joey the loaners help--that dog be crazy--perfect for those of us are not quite right. And I've come to believe he's part cat hence at least part alien.

In you drag something across the floor he foot slaps it to stop it like kitties do. So his "help" consisted of jumping or slapping the electrical cord attached to the new over powered weed whacker.

His breeder who took him for a walk earlier said they did three miles (or at least she did--he probably did much more--and she found an all up and down trail to walk him on.

He probably put in another 2 or 3 miles running laps in the back yard and figure 8's while I was weed whacking. That did ultimately wear him out.

And when I was mowing the back I realized the big very old cherry was dropping thousands of withered dried out cherries. The little Riobi plowed through all the grass, tough weeds, cherry pits and maple seeds (in abundance this time of year. It chopped the cherries and maple seeds--sounded like popcorn. Since I taught Joey that squirrels were bad things I don't have nearly as many in the yard trying to pick up the cherries.

Good! maybe he'll also keep them from stealing tomatoes eventually.

And I guess it's time to go out and dismantle pieces of the fence to remove the young maples who are trying to grow there.

Later all--Denny, I hope you've mastered the bobbin winding by now--be sure to take pictures of the finished product.

ABTLH
 
#36,470 ·
Toyota. Sienna.

Almost always have Toyotas here. We like to run them into the ground.

I do that too--except for the VW's I owned in SoCal--stealing VW's was a big business--they sold for more than either of them cost me new in Baja as Baja buggys.

My first Toyota Tacoma (1983 short bed, two wheel drive) with a $400 canopy ran until it blew an oil pump on a max traffic time on a freeway--could not get over--trashed the engine. But it had over 300,000 miles with only routine service. My second one is what I'm driving now--it's a 1999 also short bed and retired from delivery truck for an Arizona furniture and appliance store (i know that because you can read the faint shadow on the side of the front where the Arizona sun altered the paint color (white). It had about 190,000 miles on it then and I've added not very many more in the 10+ years I've had it--maybe 3 or 4K not showing many dogs in anything more than a few agility trials and being sort of retired.

Given my tendency to keep stuff until it falls apart--if it hadn't been stolen I'd probably still be driving that first (1963) VW--it was 38hp--which meant it could hardly get up the hill going north from Portland to Seattle right after the bridge. And you had to be doing 70mph at the start to hope to be doing 35mph at the top (and that was when that section of I-5 didn't exist--it was Hwy 99 E.)

Gotta' go murder some maples.

ABTLH
 
#36,471 ·
Well, I'm going to be working fewer hours for a few weeks (at least). My job has changed so tremendously that I simply don't have enough work to fill up my time right now. I let my boss know that I'm going to take some unpaid time off each week right now for a while until we see how things are going in a couple of weeks. The church is still not open - we're doing virtual services - and I don't know when we will be. We're looking ahead to fall and I think it's going to be different. Even if we open, I think things will have changed. So...who knows.
 
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Never heard of "the hubs of Hell", but here's what I could find:

"Hotter than the hubs of Hades
Posted by RRC on June 16, 2008 at 15:59
In Reply to: Hotter than the hubs of Hades posted by Victoria S Dennis on June 16, 2008 at 12:58:

: : : I don't find "hotter than the hubs of Hades" in Phrase Finder. There's some speculation on other sites, but this is the one I trust. Does anyone have a definitive answer? It seems to be fairly common in the U.S (I first heard it over 50 years ago).

: : The word "hub" in this expression is a variant of hob, which means principally, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, "In a fire-place, the part of the casing having a surface level with the top of the grate." It is where you put things to keep them warm without burning up. I think, however, that being put on the hobs of Hades does put you in danger of burning up or at least of getting much too hot.

: : I don't think the expression is heard much in the U.S. nowadays. You'll more often hear, "hotter than the hinges of Hades."
: : SS

: This is a euphemism for "hotter than the hobs of Hell" which is certainly the earlier version. I've also come across "black as the hobs of Hell" in 19th-century literature. The hob of a fireplace is proverbially a black hot place, as is Hell; logically the hottest and blackest part of Hell should be its hobs. (VSD)

In the southwestern US here, I hear "hubs of hell" a lot and never hinges nor any variation with Hades. There must be regional differences."


And this:

As hard as the hobs of hell
Posted by Baceseras on October 16, 2007

In Reply to: As hard as the hobs of hell posted by Smokey Stover on October 16, 2007

: : I have heard s saying oft quoted in my family (which is based in Ireland):

: : 'As hard as the hobs of hell'

: : Of course it could be likely that this is a perversion of another saying.

: By another saying, are you thinking of "hot as the hinges of Hades"? It would make a little more sense to me if the saying quoted in your family were, "Hot as the hobs of hell." Hobs (or hubs) were surfaces in a fireplace or on a stove where things could be set in order to get warm or stay warm. They were hard, of course, since they were used as supports. But how hard does hard have to be for this purpose?
: SS

I heard "the knobs of hell", not hobs; and what were those knobs --- budding horns, perhaps?

I don't know if they were Irish at the root (not the horns, but the folks who said "knobs of hell"): possibly Scotch-Irish, by way of Appalachian.


And then there's this:

"My mother-in-law used to always use the phrase, “hotter than the Hubs of Hades”. Now, due to vocal exasperation from her daughter and my constant query, “exactly how hot are the Hubs of Hades?” she has quit using it. I really don’t think I will be getting an answer from her, so I turn to you, Jellies. How hot are they?"

"They’re actually kept cooler than the ambient temperature of 666. It might be an engineering snafu, but the hot tubs melt around 583 degrees, well before 666, leaving a hot puddle. Nobody likes a hot puddle. So, to contain the water, they actually cool it to a brisk 550 degrees. People go hot-tubbing to cool down.

It’s a bit of a misnomer really."
 
#36,476 ·
Just got the email from my boss that I'll still be teleworking next week.
:grin2::grin2::grin2::grin2::grin2:

I replied, "I can do this until April 2022 when I plan on retiring"
He replied, "Ha Ha"

Early June, the plan was to bring 50% of us back for a few weeks, then all of us. I got to go back for 2 weeks, and didn't care for it after being at home for so long. But since then, the cases in TN have been going up and have been going through the roof the last week, so for now, our office is at around 50% and my boss has to schedule people to work/telework to allow plenty of spacing between the people that are at work.

As I said before, I was born for this. I have no real need or desire to socialize, or listen to grown men try to outdo each other with their BS stories day after day or listen to them talk about World of Warcraft LOL. Here at home I have my wife and Mocha, which is pretty much all this boy needs :2smile:
I can't like you or your boss right now.

At least you have a boss.

I've always wanted to work from home. After I got laid off from Sprint, while I was living in my Kansas farmhouse, I went to school for transcribing. That didn't pan out. Found out my then boyfriend was cheating on me with a stripper that looked like she had downs syndrome. And here I am in Oklahoma.

$2000 dollars down the drain.

TN, I need to order multiple game cameras for my court case. Can you assist?
 
#36,477 ·
I wish I knew someone that made custom masks. A Doberman mask would be cool. I already have Doberman decals on my SUV, and have Doberman t-shirts, so a mask would be the ticket.

180,000 miles...what do you have, a Toyota? My Escape is within a few road trips of 100,000 miles and although it's still running great (knock on wood) I'm starting to get nervous. Every now and then I think about selling it private and then getting another vehicle but then I tell myself, one more year, plus I really don't want car payments. I hate owing people money.
Robin Loreth (of the Doberman Diversity Project) makes custom masks. She had posted that she got some Doberman fabric in. I don't know if she still has some but she might be able to get some more. Her Etsy shop is here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/SewArtisanDesigns?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=799474089
 
#36,478 ·
#36,480 ·
Robin Loreth (of the Doberman Diversity Project) makes custom masks. She had posted that she got some Doberman fabric in. I don't know if she still has some but she might be able to get some more. Her Etsy shop is here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/SewArtisanDesigns?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=799474089
I was going to Etsy a few weeks ago. My girlfriend in Missouri and her sister sell on that site. I was going for a butter dish and cannisters. I got distracted by goats instead.

And great!

Lyme disease in my territory.

What next?
 
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