I hope you had a wonderful time on your trip Holly, nice photos and they look very calming. I need a vacation like that right about now, thanks for giving me ideas on my next outing. :)

B52,

The air was very fresh, and low 50's at night where you could see a thousand stars.

Rita, will pm you the contact info of the place I stayed...it was so quiet, no TV's etc...type place. The deer were out all the time just roaming around.;)

Great spot for all things outdoors indeed!


Holly

:oHappy thought of the day listening to Led Zeppelin and drinking a yuengling draft. Happy saturday:o

Wrong FOG walked by the booth...
 

As the wife went into Turbo mode on her scooter with the grand-kids at the county fair, getting to engage one of these with some history lessons and fact-based electoral college information. All of which distilled down to "You lost, some other people won. Get over it; or not." Left her mouth agape & then had to go find [callsign] "Turbo" who can disappear faster than a disloyal Clinton staffer.

No Schadenfreude Pie at the fair so I made my own.
:D

Two thoughts. I just got back from a trip to the west side of the dark continent with no major complications during the rotation, and I just started my new hobby. Home brewing....sort of....

Checked out that pathetic site, the disclaimer at the end was concentrated hypocrisy if I ever saw it! Sir you still have some optimism in you because it was brave of you to try and explain pesky little things to the noncomprehending.

Eh, no bravery involved. I don't really attempt to dissuade these useful idiots but there were a couple other people standing around so it was largely to articulate a point out loud. I don't think she really understood what she was getting into; this part of the state is to WI what folks would refer to as flyover-land on the scale of CONUS. Pretty red 'round these parts.

Some folks just don't know their audience.

I am learning a new skill, concrete casting which I hope to use in the replacement of missing finial/urns in the local cemetery I am rehabbing. I took 3 original urns to an Amish woodworker and he replicated them for me. I used them as the model for my master molds. Originally I wanted to use a two piece box mold but found that to be cost prohibitive. I settled on a blanket mold that is encased in a hard shell mother mold. It not a cheap or simple process. I now have my 3 molds and am experimenting with my concrete mixture.

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Thanks for sharing those. Fascinating stuff & really good work that you are doing.

Been delivering UPS packages for over 15 years.
Delivered my final package last night.

Been one of the backup Feeder drivers for the Flagstaff hub.
("Feeders" or "Feeder department" is the UPS term for the tractor-trailers that distribute among the hubs)

A Feeder driver on my seniority list retired yesterday, so I'm full time in the Feeder department now.
It's a big move up in the UPS world.

Now number 3 on a short seniority list (5 drivers, compared to 210 in Phoenix), and within 5-10 years the two ahead of me on the list will retire.
Top man on a Feeder list is as high as it gets in the UPS world, and this list has a run between Flagstaff and Page which might be the best work in Arizona.

In the meanwhile, the work I will have is very enjoyable, and incredibly easy on the body.
You can keep doing this into old age if you want (and if you can keep passing the DOT physical).

Don't really have to work for a living anymore.
Just a time-consuming, well-paid hobby.

I call it "semi" retirement.
:D

Congrats GC !!
Love the Flaggstaff area !
Worked as an unloader, sorter and loader in grad school a hundred years ago (East Coast city area) !!
UPS can be Tough work ! Good for the soul ! Sounds like you've worked a great situation for yourself !! Stay healthy !!

What he said! Way cool & you get paid for it.
Can't speak for other locales but in my area, UPS is "IT" in reliability & cust service. Their route/delivery model in this area shows why, without Billions in debt forgiveness, USPS would've gone with the Wooly Mammoth.
Drive on! - literally :D

Thank you much.

Just realized something that looked confusing in the post, and my OCD won't let it go...

There are 5 seniority slots in the Flagstaff Feeder list and around 210 in the Phoenix Feeder list.
Not every hub has a Feeder list, and I'm actually a Page Package driver, not a Flagstaff Package driver (Feeder drivers have simultaneous, independent seniority in both their Feeder and Package driver lists).

Package driver seniority lists are far larger and exist separately in every single hub with 3 or more drivers.

Ahhh...
My OCD can rest easy now.

I tried explaining Daylight Savings to the dog at mealtime...

She stared at me, blinking....

Then I thought about it for a minute....

Yeah, Me too.