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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stig / Major Tom on December 17, 2025, 02:08:46 PM
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Wife and I took a little get-away at a nice hotel with a pool and a fireplace last w/e.
The temps went straight into single digits - with a nice snow.
So it was nice hunkering down and watching it all out the 5th floor window, sitting by the gas fireplace. Toasty!
Our fav steakhouse, BlackRock Grill, (cook your own whatever on a hot black rock. "No thanks - I'll let the pro cook my nice steak!") was about 300 yrds down the street, breakfast included at the hotel - and mall across the street if we needed any Xmas shopping. Wife packed like we were going to Kenya. Clerk greeted us and asked what brought us to town. I almost got it out - before my wife punched me, and lied to the man :)
I tried begging off the pool - but wife is a Calif borne girl and swims like a fish. I swim like a rock.
It is single digits out the window - snow-covered cars - and I am warned not to do any diving!
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Private pool!
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Before the snow started. Scion Hospital over there. ('where's the Xmas decorations?' Wife: "it's an Indian hospital." 'Yeah, but a few thousand of those employees are American!' ??)
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I watched 3 snowplows work the lot most of the night.
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I love this Xmas ornament -
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...remembering the good times. Like when my daughter and I went to the big grocery store at 5AM, and lined up to get toilet paper. Two sheriff deputies and the store manager with a loudspeaker kept order. My daughter was waiting just outside the door for me to bring the car around, when an elderly lady came out and told her that she is in peril standing there by herself with toilet paper, "you should wait inside, young lady!"
Stig
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"I swim like a rock" :) must remember / use that one!
Stig you'd be proud of me. Up and out on the scooter before sunrise this morning to run an errand for she who must be obeyed and was rewarded with a gorgeous red sky as the dawn broke. Downside it was 3C and then the rain started! No photos though so you'll just have to take my word for it.
Round trip was only 18 miles, but the homeward leg took waaay longer than it should with a road closure following a crash (wreck) at a road junction 5 miles from home necessitating a 2 mile diversion. Am I the only one that ponders inside the helmet that, had I been a minute or two later setting off, I could've been tangled up in that collision? Probably just me. Main thing, safely back home and free to mull on the crap timing for the poor folks involved, as our hospital doctors started a five-day strike at 07:00 this morning!
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I've always had an affinity for the rhinoceros since childhood, about a decade or so ago, my son gifted me a single rhino head bookend, I quickly repurposed the rhino head into a faring ornament for my V-Strom
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big thumbs up from my son who gifted me the original bookend
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awesome hood ornament (bonnet ornament?) !
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nice job Randy!
Thanks for sharing.
I was trying to describe the lighted Indian head on some early Pontiacs to my daughter.
I always thought they were pretty cool! Best hood ornament ever, IMHO!
Stig
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thinking of a narwhal play toy for the faring or fender of my AK550