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What's up today (bullchiting) thread.

Discussion in 'Everything Else (off topic)' started by Gasifier, Oct 6, 2013.

  1. Canadian border VT

    Canadian border VT

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    You NEED to go to see what looks interesting!!
     
  2. lukem

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    A couple years ago a house down the road burned. It was clearly a chimney fire....all the damage radiated around the masonry chimney.

    It has sat as-is since...I thought he abandoned it and moved on. I just drove by and it looks like he has converted the garage into living space. There is the jankiest looking single wall chimney poked through the wall....billowing smoke and dripping creosote everywhere. I feel bad for the guy on all fronts. It's probably only a matter of time before he burns the garage down too.
     
  3. tree killer

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    I average 60,000 miles a year. It’s all for work. Now Maine and northern New Hampshire only. May be changing jobs soon, I’m in the interview process. I’d be Maine New Hampshire Vermont some of mass and some of Connecticut. Same job but working for Kubota in the finance arm KCC.
    I’m originally from Woodland, between Caribou and Washburn. Yes the county is definitely more snow but then again we get more snow in the Bangor area than in Augusta.
     
  4. Canadian border VT

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    Not like able, Pray it’s just him and no children; assume he has been told of dangers of fire..
     
  5. lukem

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    You would think burning your house down would have been all the education someone needs about that.
     
  6. TrinitySouth99

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    This will seem so inconvenient at first....

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  7. TrinitySouth99

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    You'd think, but with some people.....nope....
     
  8. yooperdave

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    I didn't realize that your province didn't do that. It happened here many years ago and you are right, we did get used to it. Mainly as the province was split initially into two area codes and now there are a lot of different ones out there.
     
  10. brenndatomu

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    We've had 10 digit phone #s here since...man, I don't even remember for sure...30 years?
     
  11. tree killer

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    I remember around here we just dialed 4 numbers, in caribou when I was small we had to dial 5. It was either 498-**** or 492-****. We dialed either the 8 or 2 and the last 4.
     
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    Just as I thought. Unbirthday boy :rofl: :lol:
     
  13. Horkn

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    Yep, that's about it. At least it's a small area.
     
  14. Horkn

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    I'd say that turned out pretty nicely.
     
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    I can be in a place like that for an hour and come out with a $5 item. Always fun to look and sometimes you find something you didn't know you needed :D
     
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    Yeah, I can't call my next door neighbor without putting in the area code. Been that way for maybe a year? They started a national crisis line of some sort, and that 3-digit number is the same as an exchange that NH uses. 36 states / 80+ area codes got hit with that.

    It's a bit inconvenient but a lot less so than remembering which towns were long distance as it was so many years ago. At my last house, for about 10 years, I could only call parts of my town (of less than 1,600) as a local call on a land line. Since our town was small, they just split it amongst 3-4 exchanges that were used in surrounding towns. I'd have to look in the phone book for the maps of various exchanges to figure out if it was a local call or not (since of course all "long distance" was an extra charge). Don't miss those days.
     
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    Last night I removed the tarp for shed instal today. First picture shows when tarp was freshly put down in October to keep out falling leaves and in case snow fell and stayed. With the heavy rain we had the day before, it was a bit heavy to dump, but it was worth it.

    Tarp over new shed base.jpg

    This picture was taken in August - does not look quite so pristine, but close.
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    that does sound like a real nuisance...
     
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    I heard a while back we were supposed to get a second area code here, but I'm not sure what happened with that since.
     
  20. Backwoods Savage

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    Seasoning... :rofl: :lol:
     
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