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  1. Bugguy

    Show us your photography

    The Thinker, JOSEPH KLIBANSKY Rembrandt Square (Rembrandtplein) Amsterdam Not the greatest technical quality - more of a snapshot. I got a kick out of it , though. Rodin - The Thinker, Philadelphia, PA
  2. Bugguy

    Loungers' Pets

    We had her DNA checked... she's >80% Australian Kelpie - basically a cattle/herding dog. She started a tracking program and we'd have her herding if it wasn't so darn expensive to find a trainer with a herd of something, i.e. goats, sheep, geese, cats, etc. My weird daughter aspires for her to...
  3. Bugguy

    Loungers' Pets

    Indoor competition.... Barn Hunting. The dogs must locate several rats enclosed in tubes hidden under hay bales in a set amount of time. Two rats in 1 min. 30 sec. and 4 rats in 2 min. 30 sec. Ruby found her two rats by smell in 38 sec. She advanced to the 4-rat class and located them in 1...
  4. Bugguy

    Resole Shoes

    I like this thread. Over the years I've thought that learning shoe repair would be an essential skill for when the SHTF. It could be a skill set that could be bartered. I mean as a former hospital administrator, what can I bring to the table that has value to a community?
  5. Bugguy

    62 Years ago A Bridge Too Far..

    Thanks for resurrecting this thread... I hadn't seen it when I posted my Market Garden trip last week. Next year will be the 80th anniversary of the battle.
  6. Bugguy

    Operation Market Garden

    Rained every day in Amsterdam and Paris. However, the Market Garden battlefield trip to Groesbeek (at the German border) was clear, sunny, and windy.... almost too cold for a top down jeep ride. Here are a couple of pictures that show the actual field my father landed in, with the forest he...
  7. Bugguy

    Operation Market Garden

    Heading to Groesbeek (Netherlands) at the end of this week to tour the museum (Grateful Generation Tours) and the battle field where my father (82nd Airborne) landed in a glider. These guys have my fathers uniform, medals, etc.on display. I'll post some pictures when I get back.
  8. Bugguy

    Essentials for the kitchen

    As I grew up, my family always had a bread box in the kitchen. However, only my grandmother in rural Wisconsin had a match dispenser, and only with the strike-anywhere wood matches. When the cousins were really being cool, we'd strike the matches on the zipper of our pants... tough guys. What...
  9. Bugguy

    Restaurantware in the modern home?

    We've been following the 'buy what you like and enjoy' approach for several years. As noted there are plenty of examples of green-stripe dinnerware. We have been collecting the style pictured below and exclusively the Homer Laughlin product (https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/474). We have...
  10. Bugguy

    Summertime then and now ...

    Three thoughts on this thread... 1st.: Play is an essential part of human socialization. 2nd.: The original mission of the Chicago Boys Clubs was to "provide our good kids with and alternative to the street". Unfortunately that devolved into "let's rehabilitate the gang-bangers" and we lost...
  11. Bugguy

    The Collectors Dilemma

    I'd wear the 1967 NOS... in my opinion they're not collectable "in the original box" like matchbox cars or beanie babies. where "pristine" is what counts. Frankly, who cares about mint boots - there are probably more out there in a crate somewhere. For a collector the value is in the story...
  12. Bugguy

    Loungers' Pets

    Yet another spin on AKC dock diving. Air Retrieve... Lure is suspended 2' above the dock and it's further back after each successful grab. The top tier is 21'. Ruby is grabbing it at 19'. I love the flat out form. I never knew this type of competition existed. Sure beats primping and running...
  13. Bugguy

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    Mid-70's I started out with a Motorola Pageboy II - tone only beeper. I'd get paged out of a movie theater and thought I was pretty hot stuff. My work partner had one of the first mobile phones in his car. It was a radio phone and you had to connect through the mobile operator - like a ship at...
  14. Bugguy

    WW2 Tours

    I'll be visiting the Netherlands in November to meet up with Grateful Generation Tours (https://www.gratefulgenerationtours.nl/ to visit the site of operation Market Garden. My father landed there via glider and fought to liberate the town where this group is based. His uniform and various...
  15. Bugguy

    The shed got a new roof

    I'm also banned from ladders... several years ago I was wiping down a wood-paneled wall with Liquid Gold and was overcome with the fumes. I smashed by zygomatic arch - a.k.a. cheek bone. At least my eye stayed where it belongs. At this point I'm getting too old to heal and can't afford broken...
  16. Bugguy

    Loungers' Pets

    Ruby ended the 100 yqrd dash season with a >28 mph run. She broke into the top 100 fastest in the US AKC trials. Not bad for her 1st year! Summer's here and the latest competition is "dock diving". A 35" running start to how far she can leap into a pool. She skipped over beginner and master...
  17. Bugguy

    DAISY BB's

    I think I still have a CO2 powered pistol that shoots BBs.... or my son-in-law has it. Crossman. Growing up we always has Daisy pump-action rifles. The cylinder would screw in and take maybe 50 BBs.
  18. Bugguy

    Loungers' Pets

    Ruby... mostly Australian Cattle Dog. She's evolving as a tracker and speedster - if chasing a lure counts. She ran a 7.74 sec 100 yds last weekend. This week it was 7.57 sec (27.04 mph). Personal Best! They get 2 runs per day at this AKC sanctioned event. For her breed (mixed) - All American...
  19. Bugguy

    The Agents of F.L.A.S.K.

    From what I've been told, Australian camels have been captured and shipped to Saudi Arabia. Apparently they're healthier than the native ones. About 20 years ago I spent several weeks touring central Australia solo in a camper. On a backroad outside Alice Springs I almost ran down these guys...
  20. Bugguy

    Your most historically interesting militaria

    Thinking back to my high school days in Chicago, I wanted to try cross-country skiing. The only way I could afford gear was to buy army surplus from an outlet. I had a full set of WWII US 10th Mountain Division skis, boots, gloves, etc. While X-country gear was narrow, light and had sleek boots...

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