Update Update

[roweenie]

Power was out for two days, just restored late last night.

We had three tornadoes in my area on Tuesday (very unusual for these parts).

[Three Valves]

If you were "in AV Club and Glee Club and even the Chess team", you might be.............

A Weird Al fan.

Exactly.

[opus37]

My grandson, now 11, is a Weird Al fan, should I be worried?

(No, he doesn't play tuba and he likes soccer).

[Three Valves]

My grandson, now 11, is a Weird Al fan, should I be worried?

If he is still a Weird Al fan after he gets his drivers license, THEN you should start worrying!!

[Dubby]

Nearing the end of my stint in Germany working with a Boy’s Choir. Don’t want to leave here, but excited to be back in the States and get started on graduate work. Y’all have been updated.

[alfredr]

My son, the tuba player, just graduated from BOTC, Basic Officer Training Course, commissioned as Ensign in NOAA Commissioned Corps. Training was at US Coast Guard Academy in Groton, Conn. in conjunction with a Coast Guard OCS.

USCG Quintet Band provided the music. Thanks to all.

alfredr

[bort]

My son, the tuba player, just graduated from BOTC, Basic Officer Training Course, commissioned as Ensign in NOAA Commissioned Corps. Training was at US Coast Guard Academy in Groton, Conn. in conjunction with a Coast Guard OCS.

USCG Quintet Band provided the music. Thanks to all.

alfredr

Congrats!

[Dan Schultz]

The epic blokemower© remains at the shop and broken, awaiting a $400 muffler.

There is an official excuse for the foot-tall grass.

You have been updated.

400 bucks for a muffler??? get a herd of goats!

[windshieldbug]

get a herd of goats!

Goats make good interns.
And they don't drink much beer or scotch...

[Donn]

They're not really famous for eating grass, though, either. More browsers than grazers, though no doubt they'll eat it if it's all there is. I was thinking geese, they love grass, but the outcome can be a little disgusting at close quarters. Bloke needs a horse, so he can be ready for the end times, and they do eat some grass.

[Donn]

So, post-end-times, and still getting around without a horse? Living on borrowed time, you'll be glad when you've got that taken care of.

[Three Valves]

... 'poverty'...where everyone has houses, HVAC, cars, TV's, computer-phones, plenty to wear, and (quite obviously) plenty to eat..."

Classic!!

[roweenie]

I hate water keys.

You have been updated.

[roweenie]

Good advice, thanks bloke.

Messing around with that water key today (finding various parts that would work together, etc.), and then installing it (which wound up being a mistake, because I didn't check first to see that its location was in the way of something else, necessitating its eventual removal) made me forget to do something far more important (non-tuba-building related), which with the holiday weekend upon us, will now have to wait until Tuesday....

(Generally speaking, I remove water keys and replace them with patches. I just don't like them....)

[roweenie]

If you need to move the nipple hole - and WITHOUT an obvious "patch" - I can talk you through that here... ??

Lay on, MacDuff.

[roweenie]

So, you are placing this cone-shaped plug inside the crook, or outside? My verbally oriented mind is having difficulty visualizing how it is placed in the hole....

[roweenie]

It's all clear to me now, thanks for the tips. I'll practice on a scrap crook first before I tackle the real one(s)....

P.S. - I still hate water keys, but I will grudgingly admit they are useful, sometimes.....

[Three Valves]

I'm just not what one would call a "modern man" and I'm ashamed of myself.

Now pull my finger!!



You have been updated...

[windshieldbug]

If you have never tried blindfolded archery, you don't know what you're missing.

What's your point?

[windshieldbug]

If you have never tried blindfolded archery, you don't know what you're missing.

What's your point?

Well..
It could prove to be yet another feather in your cap...

Or a shot in the dark.

Then you’d get the shaft.