The Coffee House

[smoke665]

That's a tragic story, as it shows that even trained personnel sometimes lose the fight in situations like this.

Yeah, one of the officers in the boat that had the member drown is a good friend on mine. The memories have been really hard on him. The Chief of the rescue squad at that time was relieved of command and has since been charged negligent homicide for allowing the boats in the water.

However through tragedy comes better training and response. It's unfortunate, but the body of the second victim has still not been recovered. They're pretty sure, it's locked into a slight cavity on the downstream side of the dam, but the water flow over the dam is still causing hazardous conditions. SOP's have been changed to prevent any risk of life on a recovery effort, so divers are cooling their heels until either the water can be diverted or the level goes down.

 

[jcdeboever]

Wife is testing my good nature today.... She charged 1600 at a Coach store today in Philadelphia. We just sat down and hammered out a plan of paying off the house in two years to be debt free. Must have been someone else in the room or I was possibly slipped some LSD. I may have to wave the white flag tomorrow or buy some bourbon. Maybe both. **CK!

 

[smoke665]

Wife is testing my good nature today.... She charged 1600 at a Coach store today in Philadelphia. We just sat down and hammered

Get even with her!!!! BUY MORE CAMERA GEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[SquarePeg36 7]

Wife is testing my good nature today.... She charged 1600 at a Coach store today in Philadelphia. We just sat down and hammered out a plan of paying off the house in two years to be debt free. Must have been someone else in the room or I was possibly slipped some LSD. I may have to wave the white flag tomorrow or buy some bourbon. Maybe both. **CK!

Yikes! What did she buy? Does it have leather seats and a sunroof?

Wife is testing my good nature today.... She charged 1600 at a Coach store today in Philadelphia. We just sat down and hammered

Get even with her!!!! BUY MORE CAMERA GEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would totally do this.

 

[limr29 2]

Wife is testing my good nature today.... She charged 1600 at a Coach store today in Philadelphia. We just sat down and hammered out a plan of paying off the house in two years to be debt free. Must have been someone else in the room or I was possibly slipped some LSD. I may have to wave the white flag tomorrow or buy some bourbon. Maybe both. **CK!

Yikes! What did she buy? Does it have leather seats and a sunroof?

At Coach? Probably a purse.

 

[vintagesnaps]

That'd be a heckuva purse! Now if it was a really big purse that opened up into a mini car...

 

[snowbear114 46]

Wife is testing my good nature today.... She charged 1600 at a Coach store today in Philadelphia. We just sat down and hammered out a plan of paying off the house in two years to be debt free. Must have been someone else in the room or I was possibly slipped some LSD. I may have to wave the white flag tomorrow or buy some bourbon. Maybe both. **CK!

Yikes! What did she buy? Does it have leather seats and a sunroof?

At Coach? Probably a purse.

I mentioned the outlet stores on the eastern shore of MD and the fact that they have a Peppridge Farm (AKA "Goldfish" crackers) outlet to MLW. She said I could go there and she'd go to the Coach outlet . . . we didn't stop.

Fire/EMS has gotten a new sucker intern and I've been given the task of mentor/tutor. So far, so good. We're working through getting the closest hydrant to each address. I get new left lens Thursday, so I'm pretty anxious/excited. I can't wait to see again.

 

[snowbear114 46]

Sadly Big Willis Creek claimed two more victims today. Big Willis is a small tributary that winds through our valley (not far from our house) untill it finally dumps into the Coosa River. Normally it's a shallow stream with a few rapids that's fun to kayak. Downstream from us about 10 miles is a Head Dam, that served to create a deep pool from which the former steel plant drew water. This pool has been a popular swimming spot for years, despite all the warning signs of the dangers. That's where the two were apparently attempting to swim. During periods of heavier rainfall (which we've had) the water rushes over the dam creating an undertow that sucks people under, holding them tight against the dam. In 2015 it claimed the lives of two kayakers who tried to ride over the dam after a heavy rain, rather than portage around. As rescue workers attempted to retrieve the bodies from the downstream side, two of the rescue boats got to close to the dam, and capsized. One of the rescuers was sucked into the undertow and drowned, two more ended up in the hospital with various broken bones from being pummeled by the current.

Strange thing is even without the signs, everyone knows how dangerous it is, and yet the number of lives claimed by this one spot over the years keeps rising. I guess it's the fact that it is so deceptively calm, that you don't realize you're in trouble until it's to late.

Mother nature is not biased - she doesn't care who you are. These things are traumatic, regardless of the circumstances.

 

[limr29 2]

That'd be a heckuva purse! Now if it was a really big purse that opened up into a mini car...

Rogue in Glovetanned Leather With Exotic Tea Rose

 

[snowbear114 46]

That'd be a heckuva purse! Now if it was a really big purse that opened up into a mini car...

Maybe it was a purse with a matching wallet; that'd be worth a new D750 with lit lens.

 

[snowbear114 46]

That'd be a heckuva purse! Now if it was a really big purse that opened up into a mini car...

Rogue in Glovetanned Leather With Exotic Tea Rose

It sounds like you've window shopped.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Last night I watched Sunday Silents on TCM and in one of the movies, playing the role of 'His Playmate', was 'Pepper the cat comedian'. Who has a page with a filmography...
Overview for Pepper, the cat comedian
That seems to have been Pepper's only film appearance, in 1920.


edit - Hey, in three years they could have a Pepper the Cat Comedian 100th film retrospective. And we could have an excuse for a party. With lots of wine and coffee and tuna fish.

And Goldfish crackers.

 

[limr29 2]

Wife is testing my good nature today.... She charged 1600 at a Coach store today in Philadelphia. We just sat down and hammered out a plan of paying off the house in two years to be debt free. Must have been someone else in the room or I was possibly slipped some LSD. I may have to wave the white flag tomorrow or buy some bourbon. Maybe both. **CK!

Yikes! What did she buy? Does it have leather seats and a sunroof?

At Coach? Probably a purse.

I mentioned the outlet stores on the eastern shore of MD and the fact that they have a Peppridge Farm (AKA "Goldfish" crackers) outlet to MLW. She said I could go there and she'd go to the Coach outlet . . . we didn't stop.

Fire/EMS has gotten a new sucker intern and I've been given the task of mentor/tutor. So far, so good. We're working through getting the closest hydrant to each address. I get new left lens Thursday, so I'm pretty anxious/excited. I can't wait to see again.

Now, now, YLW could very well have gotten a good deal!

I have a small Coach bag that my sister got me. Now mind you, my sister does well for herself AND she is married to a man who was a patent lawyer for a pharmaceutical company, so she could afford to buy a Coach bag, and yet, she is the queen of bargains and sales and coupons. I can guarantee you that my bag cost her a fraction of the full price. And Coach isn't even that bad, considering how much other designer bags can cost. Most of them run in the hundreds, not thousands. And on sale, the small ones even dip below $100.

Even so, $1500 doesn't get you a whole lot of stuff at Coach if you're paying full price.

 

[limr29 2]

That'd be a heckuva purse! Now if it was a really big purse that opened up into a mini car...

Rogue in Glovetanned Leather With Exotic Tea Rose

It sounds like you've window shopped.

Nah, just a quick perusal of the Coach site to see if I was right about the price. Granted, that purse is $1500 exactly, but to be fair, JC's wife might have gotten three overpriced purses at $500 a pop rather than the one super overpriced purse at $1500

 

[snowbear114 46]

And once we are caught up on some debt (since I didn't get paid for a while), I will gladly take her to Coach. She is, after all, helping lazy lobster and I get those D750s.