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I haven't left my house since Monday and I dont plan too anytime soon.

I wish it was warmer so I could start weeding flowerbeds ...takes a lot of angst

And I think I am.gonna buy a new push mower. The one I have is old hard to.push and the pull cord always comes loose....

My yard looks so much nicer push mowed.... esp around the house and the front yard
I agree. Love being outside, tending to plants. Weeding, seeing my punkins grow…

And mowing the lawn. The lines gotta be perfectly straight….

It is good for angst and anxiety.

Or if you’re a nut, like me!
 
I haven't left my house since Monday and I dont plan too anytime soon.

I wish it was warmer so I could start weeding flowerbeds ...takes a lot of angst

And I think I am.gonna buy a new push mower. The one I have is old hard to.push and the pull cord always comes loose....

My yard looks so much nicer push mowed.... esp around the house and the front yard
For an experiment, we moved a bunch of plants into the shop, with a tiny little heater and grow lights.
We're still getting tomatoes and peppers, the roses, a cactus and a lemon tree bloomed.
 
He sounds like a stand up captain.... I assume you got out of the mud!!
He was. As an E-3, I had very little to do with him, but he came across as "firm but fair". The only other time I crossed paths with him was during an amphibious operation and we were 'ballasting down' to launch landing craft out of the well deck. A twelve-inch expansion joint in the ballast piping system blew out and I was sent with another HTFA (E-2) to replace it. Actually, a pretty simple, straight forward job, just very wet.

As we were coming up out of the space the expansion joint was located, we ran head-on into the Captain and a Rear-Admiral who was on board for whatever Admiral business was. My shipmate and I looked like drowned rats loaded down with the old expansion joint and tools.

We jumped back in an "Oh Shit!" manner and the Captain recognized me from the draft report incident. He asked, "Fireman D., is there a problem?" I was standing as straight as a drowned rat could in tight quarters, loaded down with tools and said, "No sir, a ballast expansion joint blew out and we just replace it."

The Captain just smiled, nodded his head, looked back at the Admiral, who said, "Carry on, I'm not going to interfere with working sailors." And they went on about with whatever Captains and Admirals do."
 
Todays coffee…

These are the classic diner to go cups or from any sidewalk stand in New York City, job site breakfast trucks…

No matter how cold or how hot, these cups will always have a place on my heart. My sister got me a ceramic one for Christmas.
 

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For an experiment, we moved a bunch of plants into the shop, with a tiny little heater and grow lights.
We're still getting tomatoes and peppers, the roses, a cactus and a lemon tree bloomed.
Getting plants ready early is a thing! Even winter gardening. We grow lettuce year-round.

Once we even grew a pot plant! Man do they smell!!
 
All that’s in my driveway is Ford.

My wife is allowed to have her Honda, tho…
Run a lot of Ford. Ran come Chevy. Lots of Subaru, too. (I keep saying I'll never buy another one, but they're reliable, AWD, easy to work on, rust slower, get good gas mileage...)

Only Dodge is a '35 pickup. Actual Dodge brothers type vehicle.
 
That’s a good officer.

Respects his crew. Trusts then and didn’t pull that officer bullshit. Owned the issue.

Respect.

There were only a few officers I couldn’t respect when I was in the army. Most of the officers I worked with were committed, forward looking and solution oriented and had their shit buttoned up tight. There were a few tho… Lt Christiansen comes to mind (name changed to protect the guilty)
He was one of the good guys as was the Engineering Officer, he helped me get orders to dive school. My Chief (E-7) was crusty, as good Chiefs usually are, but good to work for as was the R-Division LPO (Leading Petty Officer an E-6). Our Division Officer was a different story. He came aboard as an Ensign (O-1) and left the Navy four years later as an Ensign.
 
Hey Lillanna23,

One thing I do remember, we hadn't shifted to shore power, don't know if it was because of the date or time we'd pulled in or what. As for my part the Hull Technicians was R-Division or Repair Division and were part of the Engineering Department we didn't have anything to do with the operations of the engine rooms.

If memory services me right, they must have caught it before there was a major problem because liberty went down as scheduled. However, the guys working in the engine room still had to perform maintenance to flush out any mud sucked in as I didn't see many of them crossing the Quarter Deck going on liberty.
At a dive boat company I worked for, safety regs didn't allow me to replace an end on a drop cord, but they'd allow me to stand in 6 inches of water and connect 480V shore power in a live panel, to get the crew off of payroll.
 
I just called it "training."

But I used to test 220V with the back of my hand... I use a meter nowadays. Lol
Yeah, fuck that!

One thing I don’t like to mess with is anything electric. Yeah I can swap out light fixtures, change, and on off switch, but I don’t fuck with electricity.

My neighbor is line man for the power company. He laughs at me!
 
Yeah, fuck that!

One thing I don’t like to mess with is anything electric. Yeah I can swap out light fixtures, change, and on off switch, but I don’t fuck with electricity.

My neighbor is line man for the power company. He laughs at me!
I'm a poor Arkiie... I've replaced two meter loops, live, to keep my $$ in my pocket... granted, it took several drinks to get my head "right for the task."
 
A little fun side note. In the early spring of 1973, we were on a six-month Med Cruise and had pulled into Naples Italy. I was on the 0400 to 0800 Sound and Security watch. Part of my duties were to take the draft reading from the pier. I heard over the 1MC, "Fireman D,, report to the Captain on the Quarter Deck". I was wondering what the fuck have I done wrong for the Captain, an O6, to call me an E-3 to the Quarter Deck?"

When I got there, I saluted and reported to him. He looked at me and said, "These draft reading cannot be right. I am going to show you how to take these readings." Down to the pier we went and to the bow. He looked at my report, looked at the draft markings, turned and went to mid-ship readings, then turned and walked quickly aft. After he checked those he turned to me and said, "Fireman D, I owe you an apology, your report is absolutely right. We're sitting on the bottom sucking mud into the main intakes."

We quickly took off back to the Quarter Deck and told the OOD to get ahold of LCDR T. who was the Chief Engineer. My Division Officer was there as my Chief and my shop LPO. The Chief asked the Captain if there was a problem and he said, "At first I thought there was. But Fireman D. was correct with his draft report and the charts are wrong. We're sitting on the bottom taking mud into the main intakes and we could have a major problem."
I spent a little time in Capidichino, NAS Naples! We staged out of there for Operation Joint Guardian (Kosovo) but stayed in Pinatumara (sp?) the old Navy recreation area. The 29 story high rise was being turned over to the Italians but we stayed there and drove into Capidichino everyday.

NURSE, NURSE! My granddaughter came down with C-Diff…she’s OK but my mother called me and said she caught it? Is this possible? I’m taking her to the doc today. My wife (who’s not a doctor but pretends to be one) says she doesn’t have it, it has to be something else. Anyhow. I put my trust in our resident nurses. 😍. Thanks in advance for any gouge!

Sticking to the theme…it got into the mid 70s here yesterday, and will return today. The Key West MZ has brought on the thaw! 😂

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I spent a little time in Capidichino, NAS Naples! We staged out of there for Operation Joint Guardian (Kosovo) but stayed in Pinatumara (sp?) the old Navy recreation area. The 29 story high rise was being turned over to the Italians but we stayed there and drove into Capidichino everyday.

NURSE, NURSE! My granddaughter came down with C-Diff…she’s OK but my mother called me and said she caught it? Is this possible? I’m taking her to the doc today. My wife (who’s not a doctor but pretends to be one) says she doesn’t have it, it has to be something else. Anyhow. I put my trust in our resident nurses. 😍. Thanks in advance for any gouge!

Sticking to the theme…it got into the mid 70s here yesterday, and will return today. The Key West MZ has brought on the thaw! 😂

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ENJOY!!!
 
I agree. Love being outside, tending to plants. Weeding, seeing my punkins grow…

And mowing the lawn. The lines gotta be perfectly straight….

It is good for angst and anxiety.

Or if you’re a nut, like me!
I know the Mrs is a big gardener.... she needs to start a thread call it the dirty hoe channel and we can have the same vibe about plants....can you imagine...

Hahahahaha

We can talk about hoes here
 
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