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...that is, those of us that are not in Lodi.
My husband Garry works at our local airport pumping gas, working at the counter, etc., every Sun and Mon for the last 4 or 5 years. That means every Memorial Day and Labor Day he is working a 12 hrs shift. So a couple of years ago he decided to stop missing out and invited our kids and their families into the airport for a barbaque. It has been growing steadedly and now people that hang around the airport will be coming too.
So we will be eating hotdogs and hamburg and all the potluck that people bring...maybe even some airplane rides for the kids. Sitting in a cool hanger and gabbing with family and friends that we never have enough time to see during the year. Its not much but its the best that we can do.
What is everyone else doing today?
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-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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Helping to put a new roof on my garage and cleaning up for Rachael's graduation party in a few weeks. She painted the picket fence yesterday. Also 2 sets of magnetic signs and 1 4x8 on aluminum. And a SignGold window layout. Tomorrow is my last day at the hardware store so I'm pretty happy about that. Have a good day everyone. Love....Jill
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I am touring around the Monterey, CA area with my daughter today...."17 mile drive", Pebble Beach, Big Sur. Yesterday we left Lodi and drove to Hollywood and LA, then looped back up to the Salinas area....about 700 miles. As soon as she is up and about we will try and see as much as we can before heading back to the Midwest.
The Lodi event was incredible all the way around, I wish I could have stayed longer but I am having a great time with my daughter out here...."on vacation".
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Dale, I just IM'd you Clay's cell phone. He's at work at the Hyatt in Monterey - call him if you need anything.
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
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Just watching the rain and feeding the BLuebirds. They have 5 babies in the nestbox and they're up to 140 mealworms a day now. "Its rainin', rainin', rainin' here this morning. And the drops are flling on my window pane. Its rainin', rainin' rainin, here this morning. And they've given me a number for a name. Oh so many raindrops... fallin' close to me, make all the streams and rivers muddy as can be. Its rainin', rainin', ranin' here this morning. Where the Mississippi rolls on to the sea."
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We planned to go boating 2 times a week, or sell the boat. Of course we still haven't got it in the water yet. And we still need to plant the garden. So what are we doing?..........Painting signs of course.
ernie
-------------------- Ernie Balch Balch Signs 1045 Raymond Rd Malta, NY 518-885-9899 Posts: 405 | From: Malta, NY | Registered: Jan 2003
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I got my scaffold set up yesterday to take a 10 foot tall, 6 foot wide Mock Orange hedge down to about 6' tall. I finished 3/4 of it & loaded both pickups with brush.
I also had some roofing work going on all last week through Saturday. I just helped on designing the framing for a new extension over the patio.
The roofers won't be back until tomorrow to do that, so I'll be catching up with things at the shop today. (My back is telling me the Mock Oranges can wait)
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Got up early and finished painting the carport I have been adding for the past 1.5 years. The grand finale is here at last! Glory be, another home project draws to a close. I will probably take the bike out for a ride now that the work part of the day is finished.
It wasn't Lodi but at least I painted something this weekend.
-------------------- Frisby Signs, Inc. El Dorado, Arkansas Posts: 902 | From: El Dorado, Arkansas, USA | Registered: Apr 1999
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Saturday and Sunday of the holiday weekends are just too crazy at the beaches and on the lake, but Monday all the yahoos are on their way back to California. The lake and ramps will be dead today so now the locals get to play.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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Working. I have 1 pickup to stripe and letter, 2 cement trucks to stripe and letter, 150 coroplast signs to screen print, and 10 32"x24" jobsite signs to fabricate and assemble.
Of course, it would go easier if my helper hadn't called in this morning at 7:30 to tell me he quit.
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Thats the spirit Si. I am such a good grandma. How many other grandma's do you know that will bring 300 water ballons to the picnic and then tell the 4x grandchild (ages 2,3,4,&5) to have a good time...and go after grandpa first.
It was supposed to get up to 93 by 3:00pm which is unheard of in Michigan in May. This is more like Aug. temps. But the water balloons felt soooo good.
-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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just got back from lettering a mack truck. most of the day spent working and putting around the shop. got alot done over the holiday weekend...but not everything on my list...but i did paint all the trim and doors on the outside...3 sets. that was one of those...hey i think i'll do this instead of whats on the list. now i'm going to go play in the garden and do some quick landscaping out back. we are tearing apart the front yard so i want to make the back yard at least tolerable this summer...quick mtn fix. thank god for woods!
all and all a very pleasant weekend...can't wait for the next long weekend!
-------------------- Karyn Bush Simply Not Ordinary, LLC Bartlett, NH 603-383-9955 www.snosigns.com info@snosigns.com Posts: 3516 | From: Bartlett, NH USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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Hectic as hell, trying to get ready for Car wash grand opening on saturday june 3. Last night I did POP displays and decals for 4 convenience stores and 1 gas bar that will resell coupons for me, (did a nice job, versa prints mounted on engraving gravoply, did a nice shaped contour cut with the engraver. (It's slick when the same software/file can print/drive every piece of equipment in the shop.))
Posters all over town, banners on building, traffic control signs all over lot, advertising on radio & TV, plus lots of free publicity as its news. Opening will be to be a big event, I'm doing opening as an all day charity event, partnered with union steelworkers, funds to help convert a van to wheelchair access for a local family who has a handicapped son and no means of tranportation.
It's the first automated wash in Labrador, so public interest is high. My job during first few months is to make everyone comfortable with it, and get them into the habit of using it regularly. I've given out over 500 full washes last week, & I won't charge for any 'till we do the grand opening. Car washes are a strange business, you are after all selling water, something we have absolutely no shortage of in Labrador.
WOW factor is EXCELLENT, few ppl knew I was doing a wash, and no-one was expecting one with all the bells & whistles. Signed up everyone from the municipalities, to local police department, most contractors, taxis to fleet accounts, phone hasn't stopped. Might have to go to phase II sooner than I thunk
I've got a great graphic wrapped around teller, still have to finish front & top, and I'm waiting for d/s lightbox to go over it, should be here next week. I'll post pics once it's finished, but BOY! I'm pooped. Shop is flat out, had new employee start today (12 total, incl me)
Not a holiday weekend in Canada, but I'm going to Montreal Grand Prix at end of June, then a weeks fishing in Timmons with my brother whom I haven't spent any time with in YEARS.
Just to throw in a reality check, some unplanned expenses:
-Grading the side lot (~1800 sq. meters), & compacting in crushed stone was $11,000.
-quotation for ashphalt $83,000 (+tx)... Welcome to Labrador. Concrete in Qty 10 of yards & more will cost $275/yd (Don't know why asphalt is sold by sq. meter, and concrete by cubic yard, crazy mixed up canucks!)
Paving is gonna have to wait! Someone is setting up for chipseal next summer (lots of upgrading from gravel to chipseal on our "highways" (I use the term loosely) Winter is only 4 months away anyway (Snow Flurry & frost last night) ... keeps the flies down anyway
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-------------------- Mike O'Neill
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Lettered a locomotive that I wanted to have done Friday, but was too busy with other customers. No complaint there, after the last couple years. For the big numbers on the 'car body', I brush and roller them on, there's just WAY too many hinges, latches, and door openings to ever use anything cut by a computer. But on the side of the cab, I use paint mask, and the same mini roller with paint and hardener as on the big letters. The air was warm and the mask came off flawlessly.
I wasn't in a big hurry, didn't seem like that kind of day, so I took a few breaks and went outside to watch a crew put a switch in the RR tracks outside the shop. The contractor must've been behind schedule, so they were working toady too. They worked all day in the sun, man that's tough. I'm no stranger to that kind of work, in fact, that's why I learned about making signs.
Yesterday was the family out to the lake day. We drove all the way around the lake, but all the public access places were filled wall to wall with campers right next to each other,as in five feet apart, with loud, indescrete music playing, beer drinking, etc. We were hoping for something a 'little different'. Then we remembered this place we went to years before. At that time, we found a plastic covered map of the lake that the fishermen use. It was a bit tattered, had water leaking into the lamination, but there was enough left to use. (Aha mateys! a treasure hunt) The map showed a few little known public places where you could launch a boat. We finally found the place again, and not a soul there. A few people came to launch a boat, but we had the place to ourselves. Roasted hot dogs and marshmallows, the boys are getting big enough to use my aluminum canoe by themselves. Ahoy, a treasure indeed.
-------------------- James Donahue Donahue Sign Arts 1851 E. Union Valley Rd. Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch, Benjamin Franklin Posts: 2057 | From: 1033 W. Union Valley Rd. | Registered: Feb 2003
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I regilded my grandmother & grandfather's headstone.... The perfect thing to do for someone who gave so much of himself for his country and towns. My grandfather was in both the Fire Dept and First Aid, the Coast Guard in the 1930s and then fought in WWII... He lettered his own trucks in gold and even gilded the headstone 25 years ago when my grandmother passed away.
-------------------- Doug Fielder Fallout Grafix Port St. Lucie, FL
16 years with a brush in my hand... Posts: 273 | From: Port St. Lucie, FL | Registered: May 1999
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After being a wallmutt for a few days, my host family and I went to Yosemite. They said they have never seen the falls so intense. Awesome! I'm going to head four blocks West in a few minutes and check out the murals again.
Jay Allen says he's going to Yosemite tomorrow. I hope he gets to go.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5089 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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~~~Yesterday . . .~~~ all my troubles seemed so far away . . .~~~
HUH? No, no, everythings perfectly LOVELY all these days . . . no worries . . .
But. . . you meant what are we doin' TODAY . . . butchu axed that yesterday, which COULD be today I mean, like . . if you were in Australia, or it could be TOMMORROW, 'cause I'm not sure if our today is their yesterday, or if their today is our tommorrow, but anyway . . . you did'nt ask (on yesterday) what we was doin' tommorrow, you asked (on yesterday) what we was doin' TODAY . . .
So I reckon I missed out on answerin' this . . . yesterday . . .
UNLESS your in'tersted . . . then in that case I: went out with friends for breakfast, made a banner and delivered it, collected checks and went to the bank, looked at a job, got gasoline, drinks, ice, and san'wich stuff, and THEN, cut over 6 acres of grass, and then went to church, and then, (which is akshully now-today) checked e-mail and viewed the 'Ville and finally, in a delirious and exhausted state, and an attempt to relax, frittered away, appoximately 20 minutes with this blather . . .
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