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Hate 9 PM games. Kansas/Kansas State running long as expected.
The Kansas game is central time but they get the early game. ESPN sucks
I am TAKING ONE for the team! Shutting down now. All have a great rest of your evening. The Cats will pour it on now...
What the hell is wrong with this team? They're at Rupp GD it, play like it. Did they not learn anything from the UT game? Back to same ol' crap. Sorry but this is frustrating as hell. Better get it together in the 2nd half because another home loss to an unranked team is NOT good going forward.
This is more like it. Keep it up. Oscar needs help. Can't do it alone.
Excellent 2nd half for the Cats!!!
Big adjustment in the 2nd half. It's obvious now. Starting five will be (should be) Oscar, Reeves, Toppin, Livingston and Wallace.
Good morning D-League. It's currently 41° and partly cloudy here in Eastern Kentucky. This afternoon will bring mostly cloudy skies and a high of 54°.
Have a great day.
Have a great day.
That's great news. Nothing better than being home.
Good morning, D-League!
Great to see @AustinTXCat is back at home. May God continue to bless you with healing and better health, Sir!
Just found out my friend's uncle was in the hospital down in Texas 2x in the last month. His cousin lives in Austin and his uncle lives outside of Dallas. They had him in a PT/rehab facility an hour or so south of Dallas, before his 2nd stint in the hospital. Please say some prayers for him as well.
Cats are starting to level out a bit now. I tool credit on RR for calling a possible turnaround, but my friend above is the one who called it. He doesn't post on boards anymore. He even said they'd have a rebound off the UT win with a bad game against UGA. That they pulled "it together in the 2nd half could mean their upward trajectory is higher than" he thought. (I'm still not buying that much stock yet.)
Hope yall enjoyed the game and have a great rest of your week!
"What day IS IT?! Mike,mike,mike,mike....!?"
Great to see @AustinTXCat is back at home. May God continue to bless you with healing and better health, Sir!
Just found out my friend's uncle was in the hospital down in Texas 2x in the last month. His cousin lives in Austin and his uncle lives outside of Dallas. They had him in a PT/rehab facility an hour or so south of Dallas, before his 2nd stint in the hospital. Please say some prayers for him as well.
Cats are starting to level out a bit now. I tool credit on RR for calling a possible turnaround, but my friend above is the one who called it. He doesn't post on boards anymore. He even said they'd have a rebound off the UT win with a bad game against UGA. That they pulled "it together in the 2nd half could mean their upward trajectory is higher than" he thought. (I'm still not buying that much stock yet.)
Hope yall enjoyed the game and have a great rest of your week!
"What day IS IT?! Mike,mike,mike,mike....!?"
Good morning all,
Came out for air.
Have a great day...
Oh, and in my best Saturday Night live Nick Burns voice....
YOU'RE WELCOME!!!
😁😁😁
Came out for air.
Have a great day...
Oh, and in my best Saturday Night live Nick Burns voice....
YOU'RE WELCOME!!!
😁😁😁
Good Hump Day Wednesday
Temperature 52° and the sun is up. We should hit 75° this afternoon with a 2% chance of rain at the most.
Cats got back on track the second half and had a nice win at Rupp. I am headed to the gym this morning for a good cardiac workout. The coffee is hot and black and extra good and the bacon is ready. Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day.
I trust y'all have a very nice day and we are thankful @AustinTXCat is back home and continue our prayers for his complete recovery.
Temperature 52° and the sun is up. We should hit 75° this afternoon with a 2% chance of rain at the most.
Cats got back on track the second half and had a nice win at Rupp. I am headed to the gym this morning for a good cardiac workout. The coffee is hot and black and extra good and the bacon is ready. Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day.
I trust y'all have a very nice day and we are thankful @AustinTXCat is back home and continue our prayers for his complete recovery.
Good morning everyone!
I made it til halftime of the game and decided watching a little TV with the wife was a better idea. It was nice to wake up and see that the Cats turned it on in the 2nd half.
I was mostly disappointed in the defensive play in the first half. I've seen what happened offensively in the second....Oscar. Can anyone elaborate on the defense during the second half? I sure would hate to go to the Rafters and ask. lol
Shopping and eating out today.
@Sawnee Cat The pretty oaks with the spanish moss is one of the things we love about FL. We usually don't even go to the beaches when we are there.
I hope everyone has a great day.
I made it til halftime of the game and decided watching a little TV with the wife was a better idea. It was nice to wake up and see that the Cats turned it on in the 2nd half.
I was mostly disappointed in the defensive play in the first half. I've seen what happened offensively in the second....Oscar. Can anyone elaborate on the defense during the second half? I sure would hate to go to the Rafters and ask. lol
Shopping and eating out today.
@Sawnee Cat The pretty oaks with the spanish moss is one of the things we love about FL. We usually don't even go to the beaches when we are there.
I hope everyone has a great day.
Good Hump Day Wednesday
Temperature 52° and the sun is up. We should hit 75° this afternoon with a 2% chance of rain at the most.
Cats got back on track the second half and had a nice win at Rupp. I am headed to the gym this morning for a good cardiac workout. The coffee is hot and black and extra good and the bacon is ready. Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day.
I trust y'all have a very nice day and we are thankful @AustinTXCat is back home and continue our prayers for his complete recovery.
That photo reminds me of a plantation I've been to in Mt Pleasant near Charleston SC.
That photo is pure Florida and the lower Southern states along the coast. From Texas all the way up through South Carolina. These scenes are very common once you get out of the big cities. Live oaks with Spanish Moss are everywhere you look.
Once you get in isolated rural areas you see miles of what we call Canopy Live Oaks across the road. Unfortunately sprawl took a lot of them but there are laws now to protect them.
Good morning folks. Already at my DC desk grinding away.
Cats had a nice win last night. Gotta keep up the momentum. Not making any predictions, but I note that two Kentucky teams that went to the Final Four under Cal - 2011 and 2014 - had lower moments during the regular season than this year's team and still got it together. I'm not sure this team has a ceiling like that, but there is a history of late-season surges under Cal.
You folks have a good day.
Cats had a nice win last night. Gotta keep up the momentum. Not making any predictions, but I note that two Kentucky teams that went to the Final Four under Cal - 2011 and 2014 - had lower moments during the regular season than this year's team and still got it together. I'm not sure this team has a ceiling like that, but there is a history of late-season surges under Cal.
You folks have a good day.
Good Morning folks.
-Good win last night, but I still have concerns. Gotta put two halves together and start hitting more outside shots. Oscar was a monster though.
- Heading to EKY today. Looking forward to seeing how much the Mountain Parkway has improved.
- Getting darker later in the day, makes me happy.
-Have they figured out what caused the Nepal plane crash yet? Sure hope that wasn't pilot suicide.
-Good win last night, but I still have concerns. Gotta put two halves together and start hitting more outside shots. Oscar was a monster though.
- Heading to EKY today. Looking forward to seeing how much the Mountain Parkway has improved.
- Getting darker later in the day, makes me happy.
-Have they figured out what caused the Nepal plane crash yet? Sure hope that wasn't pilot suicide.
Morning right back at you.
It is too warm in Smiths Grove, 58°F. When it that warm in January it means a bad storm and that bad storm is predicted tonight.
I enjoyed the second half of the game last night. I am getting ready to edit it and burn a copy on Bluray.
I am waiting to get a post here from @AustinTXCat soon. I pray that he is doing good. I sure do miss him on our board.
I have a bunch of photo's from the Mt. Pleasant area from when we lived in Summerville, SC. We stayed on the water or in areas like the above if I wasn't at work or My Darling wasn't working.
You're late huh? How's the hip doing?
Sir, take care, I know you will but I stated it anyway. God Bless you and yours always but during the coming possible storm as well...
Hello all,
Took off this afternoon though I am in a conference here in a couple minutes. Going to do an oil change later as well as some auto-vacuuming though she doesn't know it yet.
Have a fine afternoon...
Took off this afternoon though I am in a conference here in a couple minutes. Going to do an oil change later as well as some auto-vacuuming though she doesn't know it yet.
Have a fine afternoon...
Thanks for asking, BBUK. The hip is progressing very well. Sometimes I have to stop and ask myself, "Which hip was replaced, right or left?" At physical therapy they taught me a way to keep my stride straight so I don't limp, something that had become a habit. You'd think that would come naturally, but I had to be shown. My wife calls me out when I slip back into that lazy stride in which I pull my right leg along. Habits are hard to break.
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I was a UK student in the early 60's when they started building the Mountain Parkway. Bert Combs was governor.
One of my fraternity brothers had a new Austin Healey 3000 sports car and he wanted to take it out on the Kentucky back roads. My grandfather lived in Pike County so I asked if he would like to go with me for a weekend and try his new toy out on mountain roads. He agreed and so we left one Friday afternoon.
From Lexington to Rockhouse Holler was quite a drive in those days with steep mountains and dangerous curves. He was from New Jersey and had never been to Eastern Kentucky. The parkway was under construction so you would drive a few miles, then detour and pick up a few more miles. Once we got past Pikeville we had three big mountains to cross. The Mountain Parkway ended in Prestonsburg so it was very narrow roads the rest of the way.
We were doing fine until we hit the second mountain (Bent Mountain) and started up. In front of us was a coal truck and he was loaded and struggling to get to the top. He must have been going 10 mph and there was no room or space to pass. So you just had to be patient. But this boy was not patient and he started honking his horn and acting stupid. I knew he was making this coal truck driver mad and with his little English sports car that was foolish. I told him to knock it off but he kept it up. Honking louder.
When we got to the top of Bent Mountain there was a clearing for vehicles to pull over and the coal truck did. So we passed him and started down. Within a few moments that coal truck was on our rear bumper and running like a runaway freight train with his air horns blasting. I knew we were dead and the truck was going to run us over the hill and that would be our end. Especially with New Jersey plates in the middle of Pike County. Dead, dead, dead. We did make it but that truck was pushing us most of the way. And my buddy was shaking like a leaf. I told him to never pull a trick like that again with me as a passenger. You don't insult coal tricks headed downhill on Bent Mountain.
Those Healeys were nice though. I doubt we would have made it in a regular passenger car.
I was a UK student in the early 60's when they started building the Mountain Parkway. Bert Combs was governor.
One of my fraternity brothers had a new Austin Healey 3000 sports car and he wanted to take it out on the Kentucky back roads. My grandfather lived in Pike County so I asked if he would like to go with me for a weekend and try his new toy out on mountain roads. He agreed and so we left one Friday afternoon.
From Lexington to Rockhouse Holler was quite a drive in those days with steep mountains and dangerous curves. He was from New Jersey and had never been to Eastern Kentucky. The parkway was under construction so you would drive a few miles, then detour and pick up a few more miles. Once we got past Pikeville we had three big mountains to cross. The Mountain Parkway ended in Prestonsburg so it was very narrow roads the rest of the way.
We were doing fine until we hit the second mountain (Bent Mountain) and started up. In front of us was a coal truck and he was loaded and struggling to get to the top. He must have been going 10 mph and there was no room or space to pass. So you just had to be patient. But this boy was not patient and he started honking his horn and acting stupid. I knew he was making this coal truck driver mad and with his little English sports car that was foolish. I told him to knock it off but he kept it up. Honking louder.
When we got to the top of Bent Mountain there was a clearing for vehicles to pull over and the coal truck did. So we passed him and started down. Within a few moments that coal truck was on our rear bumper and running like a runaway freight train with his air horns blasting. I knew we were dead and the truck was going to run us over the hill and that would be our end. Especially with New Jersey plates in the middle of Pike County. Dead, dead, dead. We did make it but that truck was pushing us most of the way. And my buddy was shaking like a leaf. I told him to never pull a trick like that again with me as a passenger. You don't insult coal tricks headed downhill on Bent Mountain.
Those Healeys were nice though. I doubt we would have made it in a regular passenger car.
Sir, (After you stopped) You should have jacked his jaw.
I tell the BB, Papa's gonna jack your jaw. Now he looks back at me with his type of smile and tells me, I'm gonna jack your jaw... 😍
A few other things happened on that weekend back in Pike. Enough that he vowed never to return.Sir, (After you stopped) You should have jacked his jaw.
I tell the BB, Papa's gonna jack your jaw. Now he looks back at me with his type of smile and tells me, I'm gonna jack your jaw... 😍
He got his clocked cleaned in Williamson, WV by a boy from across the river in Pike. He got a little loud and boisterous for his environment.
I've seen that when people get into an environment thinking they know it better and are smarter, yadda, yadda, yadda,... Best to be quiet and learn.
As a lifetime Cincinnati Reds fan I was aware of the fact that Frank Robinson and Vada Pinson, my two early boyhood heroes, were from the same Oakland high school. But somehow I didn't know that Curt Flood - also originally signed by the Reds - was from the same school, and that the three played outfield together for one year, when Robinson was a senior and the others underclassmen.
Not a bad high school outfield.
(By the way, the school had a decent basketball team too, with Robinson playing along side a center named Bill Russell.)
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Not a bad high school outfield.
(By the way, the school had a decent basketball team too, with Robinson playing along side a center named Bill Russell.)
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I was a UK student in the early 60's when they started building the Mountain Parkway. Bert Combs was governor.
One of my fraternity brothers had a new Austin Healey 3000 sports car and he wanted to take it out on the Kentucky back roads. My grandfather lived in Pike County so I asked if he would like to go with me for a weekend and try his new toy out on mountain roads. He agreed and so we left one Friday afternoon.
From Lexington to Rockhouse Holler was quite a drive in those days with steep mountains and dangerous curves. He was from New Jersey and had never been to Eastern Kentucky. The parkway was under construction so you would drive a few miles, then detour and pick up a few more miles. Once we got past Pikeville we had three big mountains to cross. The Mountain Parkway ended in Prestonsburg so it was very narrow roads the rest of the way.
We were doing fine until we hit the second mountain (Bent Mountain) and started up. In front of us was a coal truck and he was loaded and struggling to get to the top. He must have been going 10 mph and there was no room or space to pass. So you just had to be patient. But this boy was not patient and he started honking his horn and acting stupid. I knew he was making this coal truck driver mad and with his little English sports car that was foolish. I told him to knock it off but he kept it up. Honking louder.
When we got to the top of Bent Mountain there was a clearing for vehicles to pull over and the coal truck did. So we passed him and started down. Within a few moments that coal truck was on our rear bumper and running like a runaway freight train with his air horns blasting. I knew we were dead and the truck was going to run us over the hill and that would be our end. Especially with New Jersey plates in the middle of Pike County. Dead, dead, dead. We did make it but that truck was pushing us most of the way. And my buddy was shaking like a leaf. I told him to never pull a trick like that again with me as a passenger. You don't insult coal tricks headed downhill on Bent Mountain.
Those Healeys were nice though. I doubt we would have made it in a regular passenger car.
That's a great story and yes, you do not mess with coal truck drivers.
We are living high on the hog today, how bout some rice, with carrots, and beef, and imitation crab meat, squash, and eggs, all wrapped up in a seaweed blanket and cut to order.... All seasoned nicely to where the only time you stop is when everything is gone......
Yum, yum...
My wife has been on me to clean up the cable mess from all my beloved equipment. I thought I did a pretty good job over the years but evidently it hasn't passed the spouse test. Ordering more cable raceways, sleeves, ties, etc.. Big undertaking but it's a good Winter project.
How far east did you drive on the Parkway?
I was a UK student in the early 60's when they started building the Mountain Parkway. Bert Combs was governor.
One of my fraternity brothers had a new Austin Healey 3000 sports car and he wanted to take it out on the Kentucky back roads. My grandfather lived in Pike County so I asked if he would like to go with me for a weekend and try his new toy out on mountain roads. He agreed and so we left one Friday afternoon.
From Lexington to Rockhouse Holler was quite a drive in those days with steep mountains and dangerous curves. He was from New Jersey and had never been to Eastern Kentucky. The parkway was under construction so you would drive a few miles, then detour and pick up a few more miles. Once we got past Pikeville we had three big mountains to cross. The Mountain Parkway ended in Prestonsburg so it was very narrow roads the rest of the way.
We were doing fine until we hit the second mountain (Bent Mountain) and started up. In front of us was a coal truck and he was loaded and struggling to get to the top. He must have been going 10 mph and there was no room or space to pass. So you just had to be patient. But this boy was not patient and he started honking his horn and acting stupid. I knew he was making this coal truck driver mad and with his little English sports car that was foolish. I told him to knock it off but he kept it up. Honking louder.
When we got to the top of Bent Mountain there was a clearing for vehicles to pull over and the coal truck did. So we passed him and started down. Within a few moments that coal truck was on our rear bumper and running like a runaway freight train with his air horns blasting. I knew we were dead and the truck was going to run us over the hill and that would be our end. Especially with New Jersey plates in the middle of Pike County. Dead, dead, dead. We did make it but that truck was pushing us most of the way. And my buddy was shaking like a leaf. I told him to never pull a trick like that again with me as a passenger. You don't insult coal tricks headed downhill on Bent Mountain.
Those Healeys were nice though. I doubt we would have made it in a regular passenger car.
It's been a few years since I've made the drive, but it's pretty easy sailing from Pikeville to Belfry (and beyond) now.
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