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[Sawnee Cat]

Not to look ahead but the basketball Cats better get their act together because a tough SEC is ready to start. I watched a little of #16 Illinois last night vs. Missouri and the Illini got stomped. Missouri won 93-71. They had a guard go for 31 points and 8 assists.

I had Mizzou penciled in as a sure win pre-season. I best erase that and play the game first. Mizzou was suppose to be one of the easier SEC teams.

But it is Christmas time and I am in a good mood so I will just put this on the back burner and celebrate Peace, Love and Joy to the World.

 

[warrior-cat]

Speaking of freezing temps, back in the early 80's around February, I was at Ft. Wainwright Alaska for 30 days with a unit from the 101st out of Ft. Campbell. Our first few days were classes and equipment pickup for extreme cold weather training. One major who was an instructor there took me and a couple of others to a door to the outside and threw his cup of coffee up into the air and it crystallized before it hit the ground. The temp at the time was around -40° with a wind chill factor of around -90° as the wind was blowing very hard.

After getting our training and equipment, we spent a week in the field in and around some mountain ranges with the temps in the -20's and 30's with wind chill factors much colder. Below is us on a road march with ski's in tow and the other picture is the inside of a 10-man tent with a Yukon gravity fuel fed stove. That stove was a life saver. On the ground is pine branches so as to keep from having our equipment in mud. As the Yukon stove heated up, the frozen ground would get wet and muddy.

 

[berniecarbo]

Speaking of freezing temps, back in the early 80's around February, I was at Ft. Wainwright Alaska for 30 days with a unit from the 101st out of Ft. Campbell. Our first few days were classes and equipment pickup for extreme cold weather training. One major who was an instructor there took me and a couple of others to a door to the outside and threw his cup of coffee up into the air and it crystallized before it hit the ground. The temp at the time was around -40° with a wind chill factor of around -90° as the wind was blowing very hard.

After getting our training and equipment, we spent a week in the field in and around some mountain ranges with the temps in the -20's and 30's with wind chill factors much colder. Below is us on a road march with ski's in tow and the other picture is the inside of a 10-man tent with a Yukon gravity fuel fed stove. That stove was a life saver. On the ground is pine branches so as to keep from having our equipment in mud. As the Yukon stove heated up, the frozen ground would get wet and muddy.

Your cold was a lot worse, but I went through a winter survival school once. Maybe it will help a little if things get bad enough. Oddly the coldest I ever been was in Viet Nam, 40 foot up in the air in a guard tower with no place to get out of the wind, no cold weather gear and an abnormally cold night.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

We have entered a heat wave in Smiths Grove. We have stopped out at a balmy 0°F. I am getting my swim suit out.

 

[BBUK]

We have entered a heat wave in Smiths Grove. We have stopped out at a balmy 0°F. I am getting my swim suit out.

Moon Glow???? Sir... TMI TMI TMI...

 

[Sawnee Cat]

We have had a nice change from this morning in our weather. When the sun comes out things brighten up. And it is out now and the colors are brilliant and the sky is clear.

Latest update: The temperature is only 60° but pleasant and the humidity is low. But we may be dropping into the 40's overnight.

I am watching the news and thankful I am not in Nashville, TN. They may be losing power for periods due to over load of the system. Flights are being cancelled all over America.

This is a huge storm.

 

[BBUK]

I am thankful here... getting cold but I have a gas fireplace so if we lose power (I paid my bill) we should be able to keep warm. Just stocked up on food and drinks. Have a fridge full of Yuengling but haven't drank anything worth talking about in weeks. Started to several times but never completed the deal.... Who knows but if I wanted to, I could...

On that note...we have a Amazon Fresh store that opened near us... I walked in it last night to get a couple babana's for the BB. I walked around the store unimpressed...no deals at all. Bought TWO banana's for 30 cents (okay)

I saw they had a liquor section and I was going to walk in and browse... They guy standing there stated he needed to see my ID, I laughed but flashed my license figuring he was checking my age... The chump stated he had to SCAN my license, I walked away laughing... Ridiculous now....buying soon will cause anyone to have to verify who they are to buy food I guess. Just a HORRIBLE situation brewing! UN-American... to state the least. Communistic to state it accurately. (I didn't show it but I got seriously hot. Anger emerged...)

 

[Sawnee Cat]

I am thankful here... getting cold but I have a gas fireplace so if we lose power (I paid my bill) we should be able to keep warm. Just stocked up on food and drinks. Have a fridge full of Yuengling but haven't drank anything worth talking about in weeks. Started to several times but never completed the deal.... Who knows but if I wanted to, I could...

On that note...we have a Amazon Fresh store that opened near us... I walked in it last night to get a couple babana's for the BB. I walked around the store unimpressed...no deals at all. Bought TWO banana's for 30 cents (okay)

I saw they had a liquor section and I was going to walk in and browse... They guy standing there stated he needed to see my ID, I laughed but flashed my license figuring he was checking my age... The chump stated he had to SCAN my license, I walked away laughing... Ridiculous now....buying soon will cause anyone to have to verify who they are to buy food I guess. Just a HORRIBLE situation brewing! UN-American... to state the least. Communistic to state it accurately. (I didn't show it but I got seriously hot. Anger emerged...)

@BBUK

Speaking of scanning drivers license. I have a cousin who is on a 6 month assignment to Maine to help in the medical field up there. They are short on RN's and asked Florida to help so she went. The pay is doubled and she is a widow with grown children. Her husband died a few years ago at age 45. Five others from her office went.

She went to the grocery store and pulled out her purse to pay in cash. The cashier stopped her and said no currency is accepted. "I will need your drivers license, a credit card or your bank debit card". She said why the drivers license and the answer was to scan it. Scan it for what she asked. The government, the government wants us to scan all transactions. She refused and left without the groceries.

Is this coming to all of America?

 

[BBUK]

@BBUK

Speaking of scanning drivers license. I have a cousin who is on a 6 month assignment to Maine to help in the medical field up there. They are short on RA's and asked Florida to help so she went. The pay is doubled and she is a widow with grown children. Her husband died a few years ago at age 45. Five others from her office went.

She went to the grocery store and pulled out her purse to pay in cash. The cashier stopped her and said no currency is accepted. "I will need your drivers license, a credit card or your bank debit card". She said why the drivers license and the answer was to scan it. Scan it for what she asked. The government, the government wants us to scan all transactions. She refused and left without the groceries.

Is this coming to all of America?

No Sir, just the communistic states.

 

[AustinTXCat]

We have entered a heat wave in Smiths Grove. We have stopped out at a balmy 0°F. I am getting my swim suit out.

Wow, we're lucky, Bert. 28°F and sunny here. Not bad, actually. Wind is brutal.

Walked over to homeless area twice already today. It's actually an partly produce stand. One bum apparently survived okay overnight. He yelled at me during my second trip over there. Acted like I couldn't hear him.

 

[BBUK]

I have not read this at all but posting it in the spirit of Christmas....

Printer settings changed on Election Day, linked to tabulators rejecting ballots: Maricopa official

In Kari Lake election challenge trial, county director of elections testified ballot-on-demand printer settings were altered by a tech acting independently of county election department. Trial judge is expected to rule in the case before January.

justthenews.com

 

[cordmaker]

We have entered a heat wave in Smiths Grove. We have stopped out at a balmy 0°F. I am getting my swim suit out.

I hope it's not speedo's!!!!!!

 

[berniecarbo]

I have not read this at all but posting it in the spirit of Christmas....

Printer settings changed on Election Day, linked to tabulators rejecting ballots: Maricopa official

In Kari Lake election challenge trial, county director of elections testified ballot-on-demand printer settings were altered by a tech acting independently of county election department. Trial judge is expected to rule in the case before January.

justthenews.com

Yep! I posted a link related to that the other day on the political board. They intentionally used the wrong size paper to jam the machines.

 

[BBUK]

Yep! I posted a link related to that the other day on the political board. They intentionally used the wrong size paper to jam the machines.

One man getting hung out to dry. What a severance package he will get...

 

[UK_fan_41102]

 

[blubo]

Last year it was nearly 70 degrees on christmas day. i’m sure missing that global warming.

 

[UK82]

Last year it was nearly 70 degrees on christmas day. i’m sure missing that global warming.

I remember. I prefer cold for Christmas but not polar cold.

 

[UK82]

My sister from Florida that I haven't seen in four years (thought it was three) won't make it again due to the flu. No big deal. Don't need liberal talking points at the Christmas table, especially now.

 

[berniecarbo]

I saw where an airman shot and killed an intruder illegally entering a base in South Carolina. It reminded me of an episode I witnessed. the base was in Turkey and we had a main alert area with planes armed with nukes. Each plane had its own hangar with red lines painted at the front and back. No one man was allowed inside a red line, not even the pilot. Big shots liked to tour the area as an excuse to go hunting in the mountains.

One of the guards was a big guy we called Grog after the comic strip caveman. Grog had played fullback for the U of Missouri till he flunked out. a group of VIPs were rubber necking one day. A big shot general accidentally put his foot over the line. Grog grabbed him by the seat of the pants and back of the neck. He ran him to a pickup truck and threw him in face first, then jumped in on top of him. The general rode to the police station with Grog on his back and an M1 pointed at his head.

 

[BBUK]

My sister from Florida that I haven't seen in four years (thought it was three) won't make it again due to the flu. No big deal. Don't need liberal talking points at the Christmas table, especially now.

I have a sister and brother, my sister.........sigh. Being the youngest I have to mind my P's and Q's but this one had the world by the tail and sure screwed that up. Every once in a while I will answer her calls. (You'd have to understand...) Please keep my Sister in prayer. Me too and my Brother for that matter. He is the oldest. His mind is good but his body has sure seen better days when we were up to see them at my BIL's funeral. (He broke a foot a few years ago and he isn't the same.) I hurt for him but he sure has a good wife, my other sister. I am thankful...

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 20°F and clear. Today's high expected around 39°F.

Merry Christmas Eve, everyone.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Good Morning

A hard freeze with 28° here on the coast and colder inland and a little north at 23°. It is still dark here but as soon as the light comes I will check around the property and access the damages. I feel like I do the day after a hurricane blows through. What happened in the middle of the night? Nothing good I would bet.

Have a nice Christmas Eve. Oh, Santa is being tracked in Australia at this time, headed West. NORAD is tracking him.

Below is Jacksonville, FL on December 22, 1989. Snow in Florida you say, yep.

 

[warrior-cat]

Morning Legionnaires!

12° with light winds. Today's high to be right at freezing.

Been up since 0400 or just before actually. Coffee down, but sleep still calling so, I might doze off for a short nap before I start cleaning the house for Christmas. MIL, BIL, and a friend coming tomorrow but as always, not a big gathering. One of my twin sons will be driving from Tennessee tomorrow with his mother to her friend's house and he will come to my house on Monday-Wednesday. 2 of my dogs will be upset for the next 4 days. They don't like company and generally stay in another room when people are here.

NFL football games today with the Bengals at the Patriots at noon so, I need to get the house ready for tomorrow early this morning. Noon on will be couch potato time with football on tap. Will watch the Bengals vs Patriots game first, then NFL RedZone after.

You guys have a restful day, if possible, with preparations for Christmas being the order of the day and have a fest full tomorrow with family and friends.

God Bless.

 

[UK_fan_41102]

Good morning D-League. It's currently 2° and cloudy here in Eastern Kentucky. This afternoon will see cloudy skies and a high of 18°.

Have a great Christmas Eve.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Merry Christmas Eve folks.

Hope all the preparations are done and all that’s left is the anticipation for tomorrow. I’m mostly there. Will help my wife anyway I can as she starts getting things ready for Christmas dinner. It’ll be just us, the kids and her mother and stepfather.

Some serious damage in our neighborhood from that windstorm, including a house right down the way with a roof partially crushed by a huge tree that snapped like a matchstick.

Seriously cold today. Enjoyed the talk about coldest memories above. Some of you will recall it got cold in January and early February up on the Iraq-Saudi border in 1991. I was embedded with the “Quarter Cav,” 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, which was screening -and scouting attack lines into Iraq for the 1st ID, and they were sleeping outside —too crowded in their Bradley’s and APCs.

But the coldest I think I got was on a pipeline job putting a major gas line across the Susquehanna River in Central Pennsylvania in the late fall/ early winter of 1980.

Our crew was welding up the section of pipe that was eventually to be pulled across the river and tied in on both ends. Then it was buried in a trench blown by underwater charges placed by scuba crews and anchored with huge concrete weights. For us, that meant days in a frozen trench with the wind off the river knifing through us. Damn, just writing that has me needing another cup of coffee.

Have a great day folks.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

How crazy is it? My daughter came over from Ocala yesterday for Christmas and when she got up this morning she realized she did not have any heat at her place. She did not turn it on because it was warm when she left. Never even thought of it.

So off she goes now to check on her place and turn on the heat. It was 26° over there last night. I hope she doesn't have frozen pipes. It is 50 miles up there so 100 mile round trip just to check on her property.

 

[berniecarbo]

I'm no plumber and it's been a while since I stayed at a Holiday Inn, but at 26, even without heat indoors for a short time, she should be ok. I've done some reading because of my pipes. I have pex pipes and my reading says they do pretty good down to 20.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

I'm no plumber and it's been a while since I stayed at a Holiday Inn, but at 26, even without heat indoors for a short time, she should be ok. I've done some reading because of my pipes. I have pex pipes and my reading says they do pretty good down to 20.

That is what I told her but she insisted on going over there and checking it out. It will be 50° this afternoon and the sun is very bright now. Clear skies with no clouds in sight.

I checked around the house and nothing major. The hoses hooked up to the well were frozen but I broke up the ice in the hoses and water is flowing with no problem. I may have lost a few Christmas poinsettias. No problem. My wife covered her favorite pigmy palms and they came out A OK. All is good.

My eyes are watering like Noah's flood but they always do when it gets cold. I can not take cold.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

It was 6°F when I got up to shower. The electricity went off at 6:50 am and have gone out each hour for 15 minutes at ten till the hour. It is I assume roving blackout to avoid something worse. It is up to 10°F now.

I have a house full. Christmas Eve and a lot of cooking needs to be done if the lights stay on!

Merry Christmas to all my buddies on the D-League.

 

[BBUK]

Good morning all,

Me and My Darling headed to the commissary for some odds and ends. Sunny but cold. It seems we escaped the damaging winds but My Darling, my bright Darling was on the deck yesterday late preparing some pork soup on the gas burner....sigh I love My Darling....can't slow her down....had to be 15 degrees...

Have a great Christmas. God bless you all....

 

[cordmaker]

Good morning, D, read Luke 24 this morning.

We are up to a balmy 11 degrees!

We made homemade Saulsberry Steak last night, the best I have ever had!!!! If any of the D needs a recipe, I have a good one!!!!

I had a lady come by the house last night, she bought 10 more crosses, so I just gave her one for being a good customer. They also bought two THIN RED LINE BADGES for their friends. I have sold more pieces of glass in the last two months than I have sold since i have been working stained-glass!!! Thank you, SC, for being part of it!!!!

I hope the D, has a great day and prayers for the D!!!! I hope all the D, has a great Christmas with your family! Tomorrow will be the first time we will all be together since we lost JP, GOD IS GREAT!!!!

 

[Catfan in Tn.]

Rolling blackout here as well for up to an hour. Merry Christmas to all.

 

[Kai Slater]

Rolling blackout here as well for up to an hour. Merry Christmas to all.

Same here; no power for about 30 minutes. Thankfully, the temp is up to 15.4 degrees now after a low of 6. It's kinda brisk outside, but the sun is shining.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Good morning, D, read Luke 24 this morning.

We are up to a balmy 11 degrees!

We made homemade Saulsberry Steak last night, the best I have ever had!!!! If any of the D needs a recipe, I have a good one!!!!

I had a lady come by the house last night, she bought 10 more crosses, so I just gave her one for being a good customer. They also bought two THIN RED LINE BADGES for their friends. I have sold more pieces of glass in the last two months than I have sold since i have been working stained-glass!!! Thank you, SC, for being part of it!!!!

I hope the D, has a great day and prayers for the D!!!! I hope all the D, has a great Christmas with your family! Tomorrow will be the first time we will all be together since we lost JP, GOD IS GREAT!!!!

Samples:

and then we have Uncle Ken.

 

[warrior-cat]

Merry Christmas Eve folks.

Hope all the preparations are done and all that’s left is the anticipation for tomorrow. I’m mostly there. Will help my wife anyway I can as she starts getting things ready for Christmas dinner. It’ll be just us, the kids and her mother and stepfather.

Some serious damage in our neighborhood from that windstorm, including a house right down the way with a roof partially crushed by a huge tree that snapped like a matchstick.

Seriously cold today. Enjoyed the talk about coldest memories above. Some of you will recall it got cold in January and early February up on the Iraq-Saudi border in 1991. I was embedded with the “Quarter Cav,” 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, which was screening -and scouting attack lines into Iraq for the 1st ID, and they were sleeping outside —too crowded in their Bradley’s and APCs.

But the coldest I think I got was on a pipeline job putting a major gas line across the Susquehanna River in Central Pennsylvania in the late fall/ early winter of 1980.

Our crew was welding up the section of pipe that was eventually to be pulled across the river and tied in on both ends. Then it was buried in a trench blown by underwater charges placed by scuba crews and anchored with huge concrete weights. For us, that meant days in a frozen trench with the wind off the river knifing through us. Damn, just writing that has me needing another cup of coffee.

Have a great day folks.

Was there on the Saudi Iraqi border too with the 5/18th FA BN 75th FA BDE in support of the 101st and 7th Army.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Samples:

and then we have Uncle Ken.

That is beautiful work and well crafted. Cord is very talented.

 

[warrior-cat]

Bengals playing Patriots right now on CBS. Bengals 6 (missed extra point) Patriots 0.

Edited: Another Bengals touchdown and another missed extra point. 12-0 Bengals.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Bengals playing Patriots right now on CBS. Bengals 6 (missed extra point) Patriots 0.

The Bengals are making it look easy.

 

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