Last holiday of the summer season

[mjknapp]

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

This summer went so fast, all the bikini's and skirt's will be in the bottom drawer before to long. We had so much planned this summer, now that I look back, we did it all, but I dont remember much of any of it. Have to get the ski's out of the attic now and get them ready to go.

That means christmas is right around the corner, my wife has been christmas shopping for the last month now, I am glad she did, as I always wait till the last minute, and end up spending like 1500 bucks on one day. She is smart and spreads it all out.

[tt3]

Yeah, at least most folks had a summer, I think we had 5 days above 80 this year :shock:
One of the local shops had a 20-50% sale on their toys, so we got all the neices and nephews dialed in for Christmas. Big f'in' credit card bill this month though...
Happy holiday weekend, brew something! :D

[mjknapp]

Happy holiday weekend, brew something! :D


You may need to edit this post, as my main objective was to get a two page thread going with no beer/boobie derailments.........hahahaha :lol: :lol:

[tt3]

Awcrap, sorry man....
how about
Go fishin!

:lol:

[Don-Dad]

Beer again, i plan on indulging in some , alittle Yuengling, yummy.

[Remington]

You guys have no idea how long it has been since I had a beer. As for the summer.... wow, it was real fast and up here in Maine the nights are pretty cool now. We had a frost advisory 2 nights ago. :shock:

[floridamcmarion1]

WoooooooHooooooo!! Summer is almost over!! :D Down here I rejoice at that :!: Summer ending means the hurricane season is going to be winding down in a month or so (it officially ends the end of November, but not much tends to happen after September) and the low temperatures might drop below 75 degrees. Come the end of November or first of December and it's down right nice around here........at least until March.

[Jackson's Dad]

So far, I spent the morning starting a big refinishing job. We have a couple cabinets that we want to use for our TV/Entertainment center, but they need sanding and painting. Thus, me in the garage with the orbital sander and some loud music (this morning: Depeche Mode, for all you 80's fans). Then we got my mother in law to babysit (she's so good to us) and we did a massive Ikea run -- new dinette table, chairs, shelves for our store room and basement. Tomorrow I'll be assembling everything, then doing more sanding. Wooo hoo!

Actually, feels good to get stuff done. With summer drawing to a close, I am trying to get things ready for the cold weather. Since I lived in San Francisco for 8 years, this will be my first cold winter in a long time. We had our boiler blow a few weeks back (no idea why or how, just FOOOSHH) and just had a new one installed. Expensive, but it is brand spanking new, high-efficiency, etc. Can't wait for a cold night to try it out.

[Jackson's Dad]

$5K is cheap. Ours was $6,500. :cry: Then again, this house is a bit rambling. The previous owners took a small one story house, and basically tripled it in size -- no wonder the boiler finally gave out.

It was pretty dramatic when it went -- like the wizard scene in the wizard of oz. The thing was shooting out steam, huge flames and heat, and then water came pouring out. What fun.

[Jackson's Dad]

Gas. Somehow it ignited itself, and set itself to the highest burn. Had to manually rip wires and shut valves to get it to stop. What a mess. But the beast was well over 20 years old, and who knows the repair history.

[mjknapp]

It seems to always happen with anyone who buys a house apparently, When we bought this house, it was in september a few yrs ago, the heat pump worked all the first winter, but gave out the next summer in July, It was hot as hell in my house. We put a new 16 SEER 2 ton heat pump, and replaced the air handler, all new coils for the backup heat. The thing works great, keeps both levels of the house the same temperature in the summer and in the winter. Well worth the money.