Prayer Meeting 12/03/2021

 Everyone was able to get together this Friday for our end-of-week celebration (except Pat): Jay, Ted, Tim and I all met at Jay's shop.  The weather wasn't too bad for the afternoon - a little windy but mild for this time of year.

I have become convinced that Jay's Bar and Hardware Store has every type of lightbulb ever created: from the miniature crystalizing grenade shown in the picture, to the skin searing, surface of the sun bright photo bulb as shown in the short video.  Helps to be prepared.

As we're all interested in it, the conversation turned to Geo Caching.  The talk ranged from finds (caches), to our place on the planet, to elevation, to up and down, north and south, and all other things map or location related. 

At some point I'm sure there were four different conversations going on between four different Rivertarians.   This would have been a great time for a recording crew to capture the live action.  Or not.

If I remember correctly, the talk was halted by a statement that went something like this:  "Listen to me @$$holes"

Always great sharing these times!

River Day 08/17/2015

 That's right folks, two River Day posts on the same day, but this one happened more than 6 years ago!  Other than Jay, I have no idea who all was there.

I came across the old point-and-shoot camera I used to use for River Day pics and checked the card for any photos.  Low and behold I found a handful of shots from 8/17/15, and confirmed that I never made a post from that day.

Sorry I don't have any story to go with the pics but thought I'd post them anyway.  Why keep 'em to myself, right?

From the pics, it looks like we were at the beach at Mill Creek, along the river, but if anyone has any memory of it, please comment.

Enjoy and Happy River Day (again)!

River Day 11/29/2021

 

Just Jay, Ted and I for River Day this week for a relaxing afternoon in the shop.  No snow yet but it sure was a cold walk over.  Thankfully, my walk is about a 10th of what Ted's was.  Temp was supposed to be around 40 but it didn't feel like it.

Most of the talk was about the past week and everyone's Thanksgiving holiday.  No projects, just a great time catching up.  

Short post this week, but hope that everyone had a great River Day!

Prayer Meeting 11/19/2021

 Jay, Ted and I spent a mostly quiet afternoon meeting at Jay's - always a great way to wind up a work week.  I actually finished my work week up with a Zoom meeting that I attended right there in the shop.  Jay and Ted were forced to sit in on it as well, but they seemed okay with it.  The weather outside was a bit blustery - windy and somewhere around 35 degrees.  

No projects this week, other than on my paper I was using for notes for the meeting.  After Ted saw what all I had put down,  he embellished the sheet a bit.

In case you're wondering what the final image represents (as I was) I was informed by the artist that it was simply "suck a$$", apparently what I was being during the meeting.

Had a great time as always hanging around with my fellow Rivertarians.

Not sure what everyone's plans are for the upcoming Holiday week, but it looks like there won't be a River Day celebration this coming Monday.  I'd like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, and safe travels to Jay and Tim.  

(And since Tim couldn't make it this week, I wanted to include him with a special picture)

River Day 11/15/2021

 

Another great River Day celebrated by Jay, Ted and I this week.  Again, we hung out in the shop since the weather is definitely leaning toward the cold side - sunny, but still a bit chilly.

Somehow or another the conversation got on the number "7" being the number of completion, biblically anyway.  So we decided to make our own monument to commemorate this (please forgive us).  The seven cans pictured above were completed anyway.

Logan came down to visit for a while to wow us with his Rubik's Cube skills.  He had two cubes that were "solved", so I asked him if I could scramble one of them for a test.  Although I was doubtful, he kept at it until he had it back to being completed.  Way to go!

We also got onto the topic of the upcoming winter, and hopefully, some snow.  Logan revealed that he has never ridden on or operated a Flexible Flyer steel runner sled (?!?!).  We've really got to change this and I think it's up to the senior Rivertarians to make it right.

This led to my attempt to visually depict a sledding route I used to take when I was quite a bit younger - okay, about 40 years younger, but I'm still game to give it a shot.

Happy River Day everyone!

Prayer Meeting 11/12/2021

Cooler temps kept us inside Jay's shop this week for Prayer Meeting, but at least we were able to get together.  Jay, Ted, Tim and I met for our end of week Rivertarian gathering.  

As Friday's are usually reserved for projects, Jay worked on his bench vise.  I wasn't there for the most of it, but Ted sent me some photos to record the event (Thanks Ted!).  I'm not really sure what the issue was, but all seems well now.  You can always tell it's serious when the flashlights come out.

After that it was the usual laughs, discussion of world issues, trying to decide what famous people are dead (or alive), and a few cold ones.

Gotta love our meetings!

All pics this week compliments of Ted.

River Day 11/08/2021

Warmer than usual temps for this time of year allowed us to spend at least part of River Day outside - heck, we even had a fire!  Maybe not the best fire on the river, but certainly the best fire on Franklin Ave.

Only 3 of us this Monday - Ted, Jay and me.  And no, we didn't do any trash talking about the guys that weren't there.  Another missed opportunity.  Oh well.

In true Rivertarian style, we did attempt something a little unusual: balancing beer cans (Yuengling, of course) on top of a metal ball, floating in a backyard fish pond.  Too much time on our hands maybe?  We also tried to pull the last of the beans off Jay and Lori's plants.  Some of them were hiding pretty well.

Not much else to add.  Just a nice relaxing afternoon gathering.

Thanks also to Jay for finding and hanging on to Hayden's long lost water bottle for school!

Happy River Day!