The Bar, Volume #4

[knowmad]

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Now there's a slogan!

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Liquidate?

Diluted Market.

t.o.p. Factoid #64: Pringles cause anal leakage.

[Elorrum]

I'm feeling dry. Some Sassafras and soda water I think.

[media]

[ygmir]

*drags self in, and over to ROS*

oh dang......what a long hard day!! but got a ton done, at the Hof......some snow, but we made it in
saw some dang big bear tracks.........and then another set, probably mom and cub.....to the bruins are lookin for food and all I'd say.

I need a massage.......and drink.......and a massage..........urgh.......

nice
view today , though.

the campsite ready for winter:

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door and shutters closed:

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[ygmir]

ok, one photo of me working......just so you know I keep all my safety gear and procedures up to snuff:

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I"m cutting a 3" dia piece of drill steel (part of my shutter hinge) that I had left too long, with a gas powered cutoff saw, about a 6 h.p. Stihl. cuts fast, but sure throws the fire!! hahaah

[FIGJAM]

Stop making me feel inadequate!

[maryanimal]

*drags self in, and over to ROS*

oh dang......what a long hard day!! but got a ton done, at the Hof......some snow, but we made it in
saw some dang big bear tracks.........and then another set, probably mom and cub.....to the bruins are lookin for food and all I'd say.

I need a massage.......and drink.......and a massage..........urgh.......

nice
view today , though.

the campsite ready for winter:

DSCN0542.jpg

door and shutters closed:

DSCN0544.jpg

DSCN0546.jpg

Holy moley Yg, what breathtaking pictures! And I've never really seen the Hof in all it's splendor! I now understand why you're building it!

[tattoogoddess]

Perdyyyyy!

Wobles up to the bar. Only some pain killers tonight my neck is not feeling so great tonight. Tom's at work for the next 10 or 11 hours and most of the housework is done so may pop in the new season of dr.who or may call it a night. Not sure.what should I do?

[Aurelia]

what a fine place you have
please tell me how I can join your enjoyers way too past the working part but great at the appreciating
xoA.

[ygmir]

*shuffles in, starts ECM*
Hi aserendipity! you'd be more than welcome to come up and visit, of course! We try to have a party or two, and hopefully more, each year there, and I announce it here. Or if in the area, just pop in!

Hey TTG.......when you see this anyway.

well, what fun will be had today?
I'll be calling the ancestors later.

*shuffles over to IBBOD*

[Aurelia]

thank you !
will come and bring food
that is what I can do
xoA.

[burner von braun]

*strolls in other door with extention cord for ECM*

Hey yg, looks like you beat me to it.
Nice hof pictures, thanks.
It still throws me off a bit to hear how soon, relatively speaking, winter shuts things down up there in the mountains. Just not used to that schedule here.

Good seeing you aserendipity

Meanwhile, hopefully our east coast friends continue to check in..

[ygmir]

Hey BVB......yeah, the shutdown up there is a combination, of 16 miles of rural road, good road but unplowed, all above 5K ft el. and the highest point going in is about 6400', for about a mile.... so once the snow is too deep for my vehicles (and I don't have a snow machine), I'm out. Some others in monster trucks and jeeps and such can get in a little longer.
Did you get any effects from the storm?

aseredipity: you're welcome to come watch, no work necessary when folks show.....that is relax time. food is great, but really, if you just show up with a smile you're welcome.
Are you in the area?

[gyre]

Just unplugged the ac here.
Still working in a tshirt outside last night.
That elevation thing matters though.
It's about 240 ft here.

Beautiful view there.

[burner von braun]

The storm didn't really reach this far inland to speak of, mostly all east and northeast of here. Sounds pretty tough in a lot of areas.

*pulls whiskey bottle off the shelf and sets it on the bar*

[Ugly Dougly]

It's like a private Tahoe there. And with that road, it'll probably stay private.

[magicmarty]

Morning aserendipity, BVB, Gyre, UD and YG. Great pics of the Hof! Looks so beautiful up there. What a load of work you've done, YG. Looks quite livable and maybe the bears will agree????? Hope not.

SF will be a zoo today with the Giants big victory parade. Going to avoid that for sure. Watch it on TV.

Guess the worst of the storm is now over and the clean up and reconstruction has to begin. Spoke to my grandson in Queens NY yesterday morning and he is doing ok. I can really understand how the tunnels and subways could get flooded. So much of Manhattan is really hollowed out with the subway system and so a natural for flooding. Guess now folks might take the melting Artic ice and it effect on rising sea levels a bit more seriously. Hope MDF and our other east coast friends have electricity and are doing ok. My thoughts are with them.

(((LF)))

[ygmir]

Indeed Dougly.......we shoulda dressed you in some of your battle gear and taken photos with all the backgrounds......"Doughly, of the Hill People"

[Ugly Dougly]

Ygmir, the dog sled team is not in any kind of condition to make the trek.
It'll have to wait on spring. But yeah.

[theCryptofishist]

I'll be calling the ancestors later.

If you get through, can you tell George and Lilo that I"m sorry I never really knew them (but don't mention the ostrich egg or samovar) and Victoria that her creepy racism still pisses me off?
Ta.

[ygmir]

I'll be calling the ancestors later.

If you get through, can you tell George and Lilo that I"m sorry I never really knew them (but don't mention the ostrich egg or samovar) and Victoria that her creepy racism still pisses me off?
Ta.

sure..........I'll try to call them once I'm done with mine........how will I know them? is there a secret word?

[Nipple]

I'll be calling the ancestors later.

If you get through, can you tell George and Lilo that I"m sorry I never really knew them (but don't mention the ostrich egg or samovar) and Victoria that her creepy racism still pisses me off?
Ta.

Lilo was my grandmother's name. Short for Liselotte! Though growing up, I only ever knew her as "Omi". To the point where I assumed it was her name, until I was told differently in Jr. High.

[theCryptofishist]

I'll be calling the ancestors later.

If you get through, can you tell George and Lilo that I"m sorry I never really knew them (but don't mention the ostrich egg or samovar) and Victoria that her creepy racism still pisses me off?
Ta.

sure..........I'll try to call them once I'm done with mine........how will I know them? is there a secret word?

"Your granddaughter is a fish" should do quite nicely.

(A fish who may have overstepped herself. Sorry if this was too disrespectful, Ygmir.)

Goodness, our Grandmothers had the same name, Nipple!

[theCryptofishist]

Liselotte is, in turn, short for Elizabeth Charlotte...

[ygmir]

Fishy: I'd say it's pretty hard to use "too disrespectful" and "Ygmir" in the same sentence.
one thing, about us Norse Pagans...we love to laugh!! and not much is off the table, if it's amusing.

wow, maybe you and Nippple are related, considering all you grandmothers had in common?

[theCryptofishist]

Hm. Maybe. But as my grandmother didn't have any known grandsons, it would be kinda amazing to find this out.

[ygmir]

Hm. Maybe. But as my grandmother didn't have any known grandsons, it would be kinda amazing to find this out.

hhmm........well, I recently got a letter, from a cousin, I never knew I had, a previously unknown (by me) grand daughter of my paternal grandmother. Up to now, I only had male cousins.........

[Nipple]

Elizabeth Charlotte! I had never heard that before!

She met my grandfather while fleeing Europe with her family due to some political strife in the early 40's.

That's really neat!

(She lived in Germany as a yute. That area of Germany though is now modern day Poland, and the city was razed during the war. I'd have to check the name when I get home. Only recently did I learn that my Große Opa fought in both WWI and WWII (Almost not old enough for WWI, and almost too old for WWII, best luck ever on his part.) He was drafted and turns out he was captured as a prisoner of war early on by the Soviets, and sent East. At the end of the war they just opened the door on the labor camps and sent him on his way. Apparently it took him forever to find the family. They had fled Germany, Lilo married a US Serviceman (my grandfather, whom I only met a couple times) and her and her brothers were about to move to Ohio with my Great Aunt Gisela. Later my grandmother remarried the man I'd know as my grandfather... (trading this time, for an Army Officer and ex-WWII POW) and moved Große Opa Fritz in with them making for what would eventually sound like a terrible sitcom... The story could be completely false as related to me, but... that's how I heard it and I'm sticking with it.)

* - I love that the parenthetical portion of my post is like 8 times denser than the non, and includes nested parenthetical statements. (My life is an aside.)

[FIGJAM]

Hm. Maybe. But as my grandmother didn't have any known grandsons, it would be kinda amazing to find this out.

hhmm........well, I recently got a letter, from a cousin, I never knew I had, a previously unknown (by me) grand daughter of my paternal grandmother. Up to now, I only had male cousins.........

Leave your cousin alone and beat minimir like he owed you money!!!

[Ugly Dougly]

She lived in Germany as a yute.

A "yute"? You mean Jude or Jutlander? (Or maybe "youth"...)

I recently uncovered a long-lost cousin in Germany as well. Seems that one part of the family comes from where they make the Porsches and the other from where they used to make Trabants.

[theCryptofishist]

Elizabeth Charlotte! I had never heard that before!

She met my grandfather while fleeing Europe with her family due to some political strife in the early 40's.

That's really neat!

(She lived in Germany as a yute. That area of Germany though is now modern day Poland, and the city was razed during the war. I'd have to check the name when I get home. Only recently did I learn that my Große Opa fought in both WWI and WWII (Almost not old enough for WWI, and almost too old for WWII, best luck ever on his part.) He was drafted and turns out he was captured as a prisoner of war early on by the Soviets, and sent East. At the end of the war they just opened the door on the labor camps and sent him on his way. Apparently it took him forever to find the family. They had fled Germany, Lilo married a US Serviceman (my grandfather, whom I only met a couple times) and her and her brothers were about to move to Ohio with my Great Aunt Gisela. Later my grandmother remarried the man I'd know as my grandfather... (trading this time, for an Army Officer and ex-WWII POW) and moved Große Opa Fritz in with them making for what would eventually sound like a terrible sitcom... The story could be completely false as related to me, but... that's how I heard it and I'm sticking with it.)

* - I love that the parenthetical portion of my post is like 8 times denser than the non, and includes nested parenthetical statements. (My life is an aside.)

My father's family left Germany in the late 30s. My grandfather's family was Jewish. He left first, leaving my grandmother, my father, and his two sibs, my great-grandmother and some sort of cousin, plus various pets, behind, as there were currency restrictions at the time. He took work as an expert witness to make money before he sent for them. When it came time for the rest of the family to come over, the SS colonel wouldn't grant the exit visas. Lilo went to his office, dressed in her best, and pulled some sort of "if I act as if everything is normal and in order he'll grant them" and what do you know, she was right. The SS still hung out and watched as they packed...
My grandmother grew up in a town called Goslar, which was in East Germany. Now it's only in eastern Germany. I don't know how well it faired (fared?) in the war.
You were lucking your great-grandfather made it back. There were German prisoners in the Soviet Union until some time in the fifties. A good chunk of the Sixth Army (who had surrendered at Stalingrad) did labor--including building. If at all possible, you wanted to live in an apartment building they had built--less chance of it falling down.
(Yeah, my life is filled with parentheses. I'm only sorry I can't use brackets as well.)