We stayed off the Lake today because of a 50% threat of
thunderstorms.........they all stayed well north of us. However, winds
started to pick up to 30 kts from the s/sw. The Lake was glass for several
hundred yards off shore, but capping (3-5) past that.

We decided it was a good day to keep the boat in dock. At least I got a
chance to install some door hardware that has been put on hold since
receiving it. ;-)

Did you get out on the water today?

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:22:11 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

Nah.... stormy all day long. It is thundering right now.Seas are 3-5
feet building to 5-8 feet.

Pansy.

Why I remember rowing out to Halfway Rock in a 10 foot pram in weather
like that.

Uphill.

Both ways.

Got a lot of honey-do crap done, though.

See above. :)

"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:07:20 -0400, "JimH" ask penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

We stayed off the Lake today because of a 50% threat of
thunderstorms.........they all stayed well north of us. However, winds
started to pick up to 30 kts from the s/sw. The Lake was glass for
several
hundred yards off shore, but capping (3-5) past that.

We decided it was a good day to keep the boat in dock. At least I got a
chance to install some door hardware that has been put on hold since
receiving it. ;-)

Did you get out on the water today?


Nah.... stormy all day long. It is thundering right now.Seas are 3-5
feet building to 5-8 feet. Got a lot of honey-do crap done, though.

--

Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC.

Homepage

Ditto! ;-)

On Jul 14, 6:57 pm, Gene Kearns
wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:28:25 -0400, "JimH" ask penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:







"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:07:20 -0400, "JimH" ask penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

We stayed off the Lake today because of a 50% threat of
thunderstorms.........they all stayed well north of us. However, winds
started to pick up to 30 kts from the s/sw. The Lake was glass for
several
hundred yards off shore, but capping (3-5) past that.

We decided it was a good day to keep the boat in dock. At least I got a
chance to install some door hardware that has been put on hold since
receiving it. ;-)

Did you get out on the water today?

Nah.... stormy all day long. It is thundering right now.Seas are 3-5
feet building to 5-8 feet. Got a lot of honey-do crap done, though.

--

Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC.

Homepage

Ditto! ;-)

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr matey, REAL sailors have better things to do
than have their knees pounded up into their kidneys by high
waves.......


Ah, don't listen to SW, he was doing to-do stuff yesterday too But
no, my kid changed her schedual three times this weekend, I did a lot
of driving on the pavement...

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:52:20 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:24:20 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:22:11 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

Nah.... stormy all day long. It is thundering right now.Seas are 3-5
feet building to 5-8 feet.

Pansy.

Why I remember rowing out to Halfway Rock in a 10 foot pram in weather
like that.

Uphill.

Both ways.


Skipper? Is that you?

Bayliner made prams?

On Jul 14, 3:07?pm, "JimH" ask wrote:
We stayed off the Lake today because of a 50% threat of
thunderstorms.........they all stayed well north of us. However, winds
started to pick up to 30 kts from the s/sw. The Lake was glass for several
hundred yards off shore, but capping (3-5) past that.

We decided it was a good day to keep the boat in dock. At least I got a
chance to install some door hardware that has been put on hold since
receiving it. ;-)

Did you get out on the water today?

Not I.

Spent most of the day cleaning up after a human pig. My 91 year old
father-in-law felt sorry for a young woman trying to get her life back
together, after a stint in drug rehab, and rented her his old
farmhouse.
She has almost never paid him any rent in the year she's been there.
She rented out bedrooms to a variety of addicts, collecting enough
money to pay my FIL the rent but she spent it as fast as she got it.
I'm out $2000 in legal fees that we're absorbing for FIL, $1k for the
first
eviction last winter under which she got current with everything
except the legal fees and FIL agreed to let her stay. Another $1k in
fees to get her thrown out after she fell several months behind in
rent again.

On the third or fourth hottest day of the year so far, my wife and I
dragged enough garbage, busted furniture, and general filth out of
that place to fill a 30-foot construction debris dumpster. This little
princess of a tenant never paid a garbage bill so she didn't have
service. Every bedroom closet was filled with plastic bags stuffed
with garbage. I had to inform my wife that the "little yellow worms"
she was noticing after picking up some items from the LR carpet were
maggots. One room probably had 300-400 flies in it, all apparently
living off cow dung available in some nearby fields and sheds.

We found a stolen Rug Doctor machine, and as we initially drove down
the lane to the farmhouse we spotted a truck parked at the gate. Blew
the horn and a guy walked out from the house area. Said he had been
hired to demolish an old barn, but was thinking he might not be in the
right place. We told him he wasn't. As he was towing a trailer, he
asked if he could pull into the turn around between the house and the
barn to head back out to the street. We said sure. When I went into
the house I heard somebody upstairs, turned out it was a buddy of the
guy driving the truck. The guy upstairs didn't see me and thought I
was his buddy as I walked in. He hollered something about "wire up
here".
I called to him to get downstairs, and when he came down he couldn't
give me any decent explanation what he was doing in the house. I told
him to "clear the hell out of here, now!"

He walked out to the turn around to meet the guy with the pickup truck
and trailer. As they were turning around, I made a point to be very
obvious about writing down the license number of the truck. I told the
driver he had better hope nothing happened to my FIL's farmhouse,
because if something did his license number was going straight to the
police. I'm pretty sure they were ready to start ripping into the
walls for copper wire and pipe, they'd probably get enough to support
a meth habit for 2-3 days.

At least I earned a few husband points. My wife's sister asked her
husband to go over to the farmhouse and help us out and he refused.
(They live about 10 miles away, we live 40). So compared to my bro-in-
law this weekend, I'm a prince. Won't last, I'm sure I'll screw up in
the next day or so and be back to my customary status in the
doghouse.... :-)

All in all I would much rather have been boating. At least we're
drawing closer to our 17-day cruise scheduled for August...yes!!

"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
oups.com...
snip
We found a stolen Rug Doctor machine, and as we initially drove down
the lane to the farmhouse we spotted a truck parked at the gate. Blew
the horn and a guy walked out from the house area. Said he had been
hired to demolish an old barn, but was thinking he might not be in the
right place. We told him he wasn't. As he was towing a trailer, he
asked if he could pull into the turn around between the house and the
barn to head back out to the street. We said sure. When I went into
the house I heard somebody upstairs, turned out it was a buddy of the
guy driving the truck. The guy upstairs didn't see me and thought I
was his buddy as I walked in. He hollered something about "wire up
here".
I called to him to get downstairs, and when he came down he couldn't
give me any decent explanation what he was doing in the house. I told
him to "clear the hell out of here, now!"

He walked out to the turn around to meet the guy with the pickup truck
and trailer. As they were turning around, I made a point to be very
obvious about writing down the license number of the truck. I told the
driver he had better hope nothing happened to my FIL's farmhouse,
because if something did his license number was going straight to the
police. I'm pretty sure they were ready to start ripping into the
walls for copper wire and pipe, they'd probably get enough to support
a meth habit for 2-3 days.
snip...


Your father-in-law was darn lucky you showed up when you did.
Theft of copper wire & pipe is a big deal locally.
One idiot stole the few few of small diameter pipe leading from an outside
200 gallon furnace oil tank spilling contents all over the ground.
Another fried himself trying to steal wire at a power substation.
Local power company now has a special spray-on paint that includes minuature
dots or numbers that can be traced at the scrap yards.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia...per-theft.html

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:50:40 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:


"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
roups.com...
snip
We found a stolen Rug Doctor machine, and as we initially drove down
the lane to the farmhouse we spotted a truck parked at the gate. Blew
the horn and a guy walked out from the house area. Said he had been
hired to demolish an old barn, but was thinking he might not be in the
right place. We told him he wasn't. As he was towing a trailer, he
asked if he could pull into the turn around between the house and the
barn to head back out to the street. We said sure. When I went into
the house I heard somebody upstairs, turned out it was a buddy of the
guy driving the truck. The guy upstairs didn't see me and thought I
was his buddy as I walked in. He hollered something about "wire up
here".
I called to him to get downstairs, and when he came down he couldn't
give me any decent explanation what he was doing in the house. I told
him to "clear the hell out of here, now!"

He walked out to the turn around to meet the guy with the pickup truck
and trailer. As they were turning around, I made a point to be very
obvious about writing down the license number of the truck. I told the
driver he had better hope nothing happened to my FIL's farmhouse,
because if something did his license number was going straight to the
police. I'm pretty sure they were ready to start ripping into the
walls for copper wire and pipe, they'd probably get enough to support
a meth habit for 2-3 days.
snip...


Your father-in-law was darn lucky you showed up when you did.
Theft of copper wire & pipe is a big deal locally.
One idiot stole the few few of small diameter pipe leading from an outside
200 gallon furnace oil tank spilling contents all over the ground.
Another fried himself trying to steal wire at a power substation.
Local power company now has a special spray-on paint that includes minuature
dots or numbers that can be traced at the scrap yards.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia...per-theft.html

Usually that kind of theft only occurs when the unemployment rate is
high. Even at 4 bucks a pound it's a pretty desperate way to make
money. Having said that, when I worked at the IH tractor works a
machinist got caught in an exit gate lunchbox check with a few pounds
of copper, probably worth 2 bucks total then. He was fired.
He had about 15 years with IH. What an idiot. But I guess most
thieves are.

--Vic

"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
oups.com...
On Jul 14, 3:07?pm, "JimH" ask wrote:
We stayed off the Lake today because of a 50% threat of
thunderstorms.........they all stayed well north of us. However, winds
started to pick up to 30 kts from the s/sw. The Lake was glass for
several
hundred yards off shore, but capping (3-5) past that.

We decided it was a good day to keep the boat in dock. At least I got a
chance to install some door hardware that has been put on hold since
receiving it. ;-)

Did you get out on the water today?

Not I.

Spent most of the day cleaning up after a human pig. My 91 year old
father-in-law felt sorry for a young woman trying to get her life back
together, after a stint in drug rehab, and rented her his old
farmhouse.
She has almost never paid him any rent in the year she's been there.
She rented out bedrooms to a variety of addicts, collecting enough
money to pay my FIL the rent but she spent it as fast as she got it.
I'm out $2000 in legal fees that we're absorbing for FIL, $1k for the
first
eviction last winter under which she got current with everything
except the legal fees and FIL agreed to let her stay. Another $1k in
fees to get her thrown out after she fell several months behind in
rent again.

On the third or fourth hottest day of the year so far, my wife and I
dragged enough garbage, busted furniture, and general filth out of
that place to fill a 30-foot construction debris dumpster. This little
princess of a tenant never paid a garbage bill so she didn't have
service. Every bedroom closet was filled with plastic bags stuffed
with garbage. I had to inform my wife that the "little yellow worms"
she was noticing after picking up some items from the LR carpet were
maggots. One room probably had 300-400 flies in it, all apparently
living off cow dung available in some nearby fields and sheds.

We found a stolen Rug Doctor machine, and as we initially drove down
the lane to the farmhouse we spotted a truck parked at the gate. Blew
the horn and a guy walked out from the house area. Said he had been
hired to demolish an old barn, but was thinking he might not be in the
right place. We told him he wasn't. As he was towing a trailer, he
asked if he could pull into the turn around between the house and the
barn to head back out to the street. We said sure. When I went into
the house I heard somebody upstairs, turned out it was a buddy of the
guy driving the truck. The guy upstairs didn't see me and thought I
was his buddy as I walked in. He hollered something about "wire up
here".
I called to him to get downstairs, and when he came down he couldn't
give me any decent explanation what he was doing in the house. I told
him to "clear the hell out of here, now!"

He walked out to the turn around to meet the guy with the pickup truck
and trailer. As they were turning around, I made a point to be very
obvious about writing down the license number of the truck. I told the
driver he had better hope nothing happened to my FIL's farmhouse,
because if something did his license number was going straight to the
police. I'm pretty sure they were ready to start ripping into the
walls for copper wire and pipe, they'd probably get enough to support
a meth habit for 2-3 days.

At least I earned a few husband points. My wife's sister asked her
husband to go over to the farmhouse and help us out and he refused.
(They live about 10 miles away, we live 40). So compared to my bro-in-
law this weekend, I'm a prince. Won't last, I'm sure I'll screw up in
the next day or so and be back to my customary status in the
doghouse.... :-)

All in all I would much rather have been boating. At least we're
drawing closer to our 17-day cruise scheduled for August...yes!!



It sure is a pity when someone tries to help someone in need and gets
screwed in the process.

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:07:20 -0400, "JimH" ask wrote:

We stayed off the Lake today because of a 50% threat of
thunderstorms.........they all stayed well north of us. However, winds
started to pick up to 30 kts from the s/sw. The Lake was glass for several
hundred yards off shore, but capping (3-5) past that.

We decided it was a good day to keep the boat in dock. At least I got a
chance to install some door hardware that has been put on hold since
receiving it. ;-)

Did you get out on the water today?


Oh yes.

We went with a group of people, 5 boats in all, down to Charleston, SC
this weekend. We put in Friday the 13th at Monks Corner in the Cooper
River, and went downstream to Charleston.

We took our time going down, it was almost 50 miles total. We went
upstream to the Lake Moultrie Dam first, where we went up the locks
into the lake. We rode the locks back down, and took off to Chas.

The rest of the trip was uneventful, but very scenic. There's a
Monastery on the way, and the view fron the river is brief, but
beautiful.

We spent the weekend in Chas, out on the marina at Patriots Point.
Saturday was very rainy, but my wife and I made it in to downtown to
Hank's for a great dinner Saturday night.

Sunday morning we all gassed up and took off up the river about 8 am.
We were back at the landing by 11 or so, and home mid-afternoon. We
put our boat back into its slip and we are back home, grilling steaks
and corn.

Hope everyone had a great weeknend as well!

Jack