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Just look how handy cranes are !

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Burning Man was set ablaze ahead of schedule by some psycho according to the report and the commenters...I think you have to be pretty psycho to go to Burning Man anyway...what would it be this year, 120 degrees out there in the desert ? I have never had any desire to go, I know some go just out of curiosity...any of y'all ever gone ? Burning Man Resurrected

Watch a Gmail Go 'Round the World

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Great fun collaborative video

Coming up for air

Well, it is 10 pm and I am over at the Lagoon house uploading new scrapbooking sets to that website. Heather has been busy making the various components all week. Ever since we started making the pages in both the US letter size and Europeran A4 size plus the increasingly popular over-sized printer scrapbooker preferred paper size of 12" x 12" , my goodness, we have multiplied our tasks many-fold. We have so many site visitors from overseas now...and believe it or not, they are the ones who make the most free-will financial contributions to the site. The percentage of people in the UK and Netherlands who make a donation far surpasses the US or Canadian %. So we like making the pages in the sizes that their paper comes in and their printers are set up for. I suppose it would be just as hard for them to purchase our 8 1/2 x 11 paper locally as it would be for us to buy their A4 paper. Funny thing is that there is only about a half inch difference in both directions. A4 is a t

See some awesome drains

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Drains of Canada-- hope you have broadband, big photos, but cool ones. also from same blogger: Single Hauz This guy must get paid to do all this good and time consuming blogging...I see he is a green housing speaker, etc...so I suppose it is part of his 'job'

Airport Anguish

This might help in planing a multi connection flight so that you don't miss your flights....(that is assuming the flights are not canceled or delayed as often happens). Anyway...you can check the typical wait times of the various levels of security checks at all the airports here : http://waittime.tsa.dhs.gov/index.html

French Scrapbooking Website

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I was quite surprised to see the legit looking site at www.feeduscrap.com Ran across it while doing some image searches. It is in French and the name of the online scrapbook supply shop appears to be: Fee Du Scrap Unfortunate choice of a URL. www.FeedUsCrap.com

Quick Update

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Looks like we have found the crane....I may be the owner of a Link Belt 22 ton rough terrain crane (in TX called a cherry picker) w/ a 70 ft boom w/ a 25 ' jib, new tires, new paint. Sorry I have not added to the blog much lately, I just dont have the time. Ck www.concretecottage.com for more info. All well here, not as hot as Mempho or B'ham than goodness, but still real hot for those who work outside, like the two guys hand digging footing trenches for me today. My osprey is back every day now, so nice to hear him out there chirping. I get to see him dive for fish quite often. Going to see Momma and Daddy. Got to get some BBQ to Daddy, seems he hates the foods there and wants OUT. Frances went to see M & D today on her way to Houston. Oh and get this, the crane & owner lives 4 hours away but BY CHANCE...he has a Gulf Shores house on Little Lagoon, on Fort Morgan Rd. 4 doors down from me ! OK--bed time, nite nite