Yul Lose

Louder than a Mexican ice cream truck playing La Cookaracha?

Some of the ones in Escondido play mariachi music.

My wife used to manage a large avocado and citrus farm and sold large amounts of both products to farmers market dealers around Southern California. They all paid in cash and after getting paid a large amount of money for a lot of product sold to one dealer and the bank telling her that most of the $100.00 bills used were counterfeit they invested in a machine that she’d run every bill through right when she was paid to see if it was real or not. She never found a counterfeit bill after that and neither did the bank.

Thank you.

I’ve been banned from FB so is there any other way to contact the guy about purchasing one of these?

Sorry to hear about that. Glad you and your family are safe.

Maybe it will be a new Branson tourist attraction.

Everyone who’s seen the table over here thinks that this collection of knots on the table top look like Jesus. I don’t see it but lots of others do.

Well here it is in its new temporary home in Sedona. On June 9th the movers will take the top off and get it packed for its journey to Branson, Missouri. I filled the knots with deep pour epoxy and to keep it from leaking out the knotholes on the bottom I routed out pockets and glued in inlays. I inserted threaded inserts in the back of the top and also used 26 Z clips to hold the top on and allow for seasonal wood movement. I rubbed in 11 coats or polyurethane on the top and did a final polish with paraffin oil and pumice stone.

I’m bettin PD will take those.

Kicking the beehive, huh?

The storytelling has gone by the wayside everywhere that I shoot and even saying a line before the beep has disappeared in most places. Some folks out here even question the need to differentiate between a round count and a sweep when the scenarios are read, I find it helpful.

My wife, two daughters and a granddaughter spent 10 days driving around Ireland last year and fell in love with it. Their only complaint was narrow roads. Mrs. Lose still mentions things about her trip and I’ve got a hunch they’ll visit again someday. The castles and the friendliness of everyone they met was certainly memorable for her.

Sorry I missed you at the Cowboys match, the Escondido Bandidos was having an annual event at the range that they shoot at and I was the designated gun loader. 1,600 rounds loaded into rifles and pistols. My hands and arms are feeling it today.

Red gum eucalyptus is a great wood to use in furniture, indoor or outdoor. It works well and finishes nicely.

You learned how to stack firewood like I did, nice job.

We heat with a fireplace woodstove insert that burns wood. We go through about 5 cords a year and it’s a mixture of oak, eucalyptus, citrus and avocado. The citrus and avocado is fast burning while the oak and old growth eucalyptus burn the best and longest. We have oaks and eucalyptus on our 10 acres and have tree work done annually and use what we can from that as firewood but we still have to buy a majority of what we burn. There are a lot of firewood vendors around here to choose from. We have propane central heating and rarely use it. We bought our own 200 gallon propane tank 8 years ago and have filled it once after the initial fill.

Good to hear that you two aren’t injured. I have lots of oaks and sycamores all around my house and have to have the tree trimmer out on an annual basis. I was not too concerned until about 7 years ago when a big branch fell off of an oak tree right after I walked past it and landed where I had just been. Since then tree trimming has become much more important.

I needed some stuff from the local hardware store this afternoon and as I was leaving I saw this broken down hearse in the lot across the street. It had a flat tire and the hood was up. As I turned the corner I noticed a guy sitting in the door of the hearse with his head in his hands so I stopped to see if he was okay. He told me that the water pump was out and he had a flat tire. He said the hearse has been his home for the last year or so and if he could get the water pump and tire fixed he’d be able to get to his brothers place in Arizona. I gave him $20.00 and he told me that a friend of his was on his way to take him to the parts store for the water pump and help him change the tire. He seemed like a nice guy, down on his luck but now days out here it’s hard to believe what anyone says. I felt sorry for the guy so helping him out seemed like the right thing to do.

I’ve got a son in law, Larry that is 2 years, 247 days, 13 hours and 12 minutes older than me.

We don’t talk. My oldest daughter, his sister found out about it and let us know. It’s a long story.

Just found out that my oldest son got promoted to Colonel in the Marine Corps in November 2024. Line them up Bottles.

A long, long time ago in the pan handle of Nebraska I attended an elementary school and my teacher was referred to as Mrs. S because for many of her 1st and 2nd grade students pronouncing her real last name was very close to swearing. My step dad jokingly, in his way insisted on referring to her in a derogatory pronouncing of her name every chance he got and of course it rubbed off on me. I mistakenly called her the derogatory last name one day and got the paddle from the principal and again when I got home even though my step dad referred to her with the same name. I called her Mrs. S faithfully after that, lesson learned. My grandkids had a teacher in elementary school that was called Mr. K because his Polish last name was very long and hard to pronounce correctly.

I delivered newspapers for the Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post, one was a morning paper the other was after school. They always had a promotion going on for stuff you could win and I won a combination record player and 8 track tape machine. My first album was Merl Haggard, Okie From Muskogee.

There’s a good looking blond behind home plate and she’s been drinking tall cans of beer the entire game, hope she isn’t driving.