ExiledInIllinois

JC... Do I really gotta grin and bear this joke!

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Honestly, it's a hard situation. Unfed bears are angry bears when their tummys rumble! So many parallels to other aspects of life! Oh... And why I chuckled at your post: I have been dead for 30 years. 😉 😜

HFBD! Hope biz is booming:

Bing back open town dumps. Problem solved like the first 150 years of our country. They never used to come into town, do damage. They had a place to go. LoL...

Another set up! @Gugnyis watching his figure! I've been framed!

My wife as child would always take their week family vacations at Long Lake, she said the highlight of the week was to go to the open dump and watch the bears eat. Now, there are closed transfer stations. Thanks for wrecking the family 👪 moment environmentalists! People would watch and when bears started to get close, the people would frantically back up. Good wholesome AND CHEAP mid-week activity: "Let's go watch the bears eat at the open dump! Everyone into the car!" Better than any zoo on planet!

Mt.Baldy @ Philmont, New Mexico...Strolled right under our dining fly while we were eating breakfast. The smallish bear ate our Pop-Tarts and SwissMiss, powdered milk, all the good stuff, in some brush about 10 meters after we ran it off. Left us only dry granola until we could get to a staffed camp and reprovison a few days later. That SOB! Got pix on my Kodak DiscCamera that should be digitized. Mt.Marcy, New York. Ranger warned us to hang our bear bag extra high and extra strong with the knot going along multiple trees because "Cliff" the bear was very adapt at getting people's ***** and would follow the line to the knot. I stood on another's shoulders when we strung the line to tie the knot. That night we had a lean-too campsite. We thought one guy was ***** -ing around when he said he heard something... Grabbed a flashlight and there was Cliff the black bear on his hand legs swinging at the knot multiple trees down from the bag. We chased him off with anything we could make noise with. That morning down by stream we heard other backpackers clanking pots and pans. I had to be indisposed that morning, went up over a swale to dig a cat hole and bingo, there was Cliff's cache!!! From other hikers!!! All the good stuff, Front Loops, Tang and cocoa, etc...! Hope that SOB didn't mind me shitting in his kitchen! 😆

That's @BringBackFergy 's calling card!! An IPA and some JIF peanut butter! I was set up!

Flaco Jiménez and his Conjunto w/Ryan Cooder, 1975, Austin City Limits. The first song. Ry Cooder covering Jim Reeves' "He'll Have to Go." Rest is great too!

Will the WS and other champions all get *'s this year? Keep the Pats* company?

They have them in Iowa. Almost as bad as calling bean bags: Cornhole. Nothing like the Midwest, just power through the screwy names.

Squirt guns aren't pistols! And...Don't be telling me you have a SuperSoaker!

Weren't they finding wooden pipes under Main when the Light Rail was going in?

I get the humor. I guess I am too serious.

Yet...Somehow the roads get paved. 😜 Must be contracted out.

They sell them here. Only thing different is we spell it: Tires. It's a Korean brand like Hankook. Major brand, I wouldn't call them cheap. I have a set of Hankook's on my Jeep. Mostly made in China 🇨🇳.

In Chicago... You never have to step outside during winter. But, w/COVID. Bits & pieces shutdown, gradually opening. https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/cdot/provdrs/ped/svcs/pedway.html

We have a hidden "Bat Cave." From Lakeside right into the catacombs of the city. Capone used to bootleg his booze to his patrons on the GoldCoast via that route. He called it: "Hospitality." Anyway...The cave was used (when discovered) as point of operation by the G-men to launch vessels and what not. I think we need Geraldo Rivera to investigate!

What are you? The man from Nantucket? 🤣 🤣 🤣 /SorryCouldn'tResist 😉 Mine does too!

I have a cordless hammer drill. Dewalt. 18v, XRP... Circa early 2000s. Still packs a punch. The key is to keep the second battery charged. It's on my second round of 2 batteries. I have a friend who has a friend that sells the stuff, got me two new batteries and traded old in. Nada a penny out of pocket. Similar: Brushes (motor) are starting to wear a little, but still a beaut!!!

I figure this has to get more views. When we were down in Miami a bunch of years back. That's me of course channeling my inner @Gugny Hey! Bills won... You would too!

Huh! Wow!

Dude, you're ancient. 63, the new 23! HFBD! Birthday 🎂 🎁 🎈 🎉 🕯 🍰 🎂 Maybe this will jog your memory:

You know what gets me. I probably said this before, it's the whining little B word mentality bleeding into bikers now. Remember when bikers were the epitome of tough? Leather jackets, bars, spreading Covid-19 from S.Dakota, etc... Now... They put whiny signs on their suburban lawns and minivans: How can I start seeing what I can't see? Now I gotta look twice for something I can't see? Now that's what I am talking about!

Middle mangers suck.