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Lets not say the “R” word on here please. Some are pretty sensative to it and it really is hurtful to see and hear!

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Shut up Retard!





(Sorry, someone had to do it)

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For coffee and reheating frozen food that I brought I have one of the two burner Coleman suitcase stoves.

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Same here, except mine is the Magellan brand from Academy. About 1.5 years ago I went in there looking for one of the Coleman stoves, and they were sold out, and I ended up buying a small one burner butane stove. It is fine in warmer weather and when I'm just taking my boys camping. It will heat a griddle just fine to do bacon and eggs, burger patties, and boil water for coffee. But I was limited to the one burner. This spring I went to find a two burner, and ended up with the Magellan which is a copycat of the Coleman. I would have bought Coleman, but again they were out of stock. I figure for $40 if it lasts me a few seasons great.

Sleeping on a camping trip when its 45 degrees. You're not in a bed, you probably don't have your good pillow from the house, the temp is way colder than anyone keeps their house, there are noises from nature going on, and probably someone snoring in your tent or in a tent nearby, but something about being in nature just recharges you overnight.

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MLB will not be played. If owners push for the salary cap, then the players will refuse. Now, the player union is kinda dumb, so if the owners offered them better health coverage with an opportunity to reach FA faster, they would probably agree to it. Really focusing on the here and now instead of the future.

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Depends if you're on one of the teams under the floor. I know there are trades and free agency every year, but there are 30 teams and 15 were under. Seems like a good time to be in a contract negotiation if your team has to come up to the floor.

Now I get it from the other side too, if I'm on the Dodgers, Yankees, Mets etc and they're going to start releasing players and signing cheaper contracts, you wouldn't like to be in that situation, but it would benefit far more players.

Someone else said in here, raise the league minimums, more benefits, and it would work for everyone.

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A guy at my church does this. He lives about 25 minutes away and is almost always 7ish minutes to the start of every service. He has grown kids too, so he isn't trying to wrangle up a lot of toddlers to leave the house. Me personally, I'd start leaving at least 10 minutes earlier to get there on time.

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Our church has an 8:00 and an 11:00 service. For some reason years ago the later service started at 10:55 instead of 11:00. The Pastor would be up making announcements, and made some comment about how the ones coming to the 11:05 service were missing all the good stuff said at the beginning. Right about then his wife walked in, as she had been teaching a children's Sunday school class, and he had to backtrack a little and say well of course some of you coming in late have other obligations to take care of.

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all three of my grown kids are this way. If they aren't at my house by the time we gave, then we start eating without them. That didn't change anything, but we don't get mad anymore

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My in laws are the opposite of this. They live in the same town as we do so we go for meals often. Last weekend we had a birthday to celebrate so we went over for lunch on Sunday. We had told them we’d be there around 1:15. They don’t go to church and had been home all morning. Yet when we get there, he’s still fixing twice baked potatoes and hasn’t even started the grill for the steaks. My wife asks if we’re having a salad or anything while we’re waiting and he either didn’t hear us talking or ignores us. Over an hour later the meal is finally ready. I told her to eat a snack before we headed over but she thought it would be ready when we got there. It has never been ready when we arrive. Always at least an hour.

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The 2025–2026 year had us on the road more than usual, eating our way through over 350 pizzerias. Many were familiar stops, but more than 100 were new.

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Just for clarification, was this over a 12 month period or all of 2025 through now in 2026? If it is for 12 months, averaging almost a pizza a day, do you eat anything else?

Alien was the movie I was thinking about when I opened this thread. I remember watching it on VHS with my dad when we lived in Mississippi, and I was 9 when we moved back to Alabama, so I was at least younger than that. The dude ripped in half with his guts flayed open I can still remember. Of course watching it later in life it wasn't nearly as scary, but for a 7-8 year old boy it left a mark.

We're one week out from a week long mission trip to the Pacific Northwest. My sons and I have been involved in a local scouting troop for a few years. I had actually joined up with my older son in the fall of 2019 when he was 6 years old. We hung around for half that year, then Covid hit and we were not allowed to hold meetings for a long time. By the time they were able to meet again, he didn't show a lot of interest, and I didn't want to force it. I was in the middle of changing jobs and the kids were changing schools, so we tried to keep the extracurricular stuff to a minimum for a little while. We had been trying out other activities along the way. Sports, Music, he's an A+ student and always has high 90s for his average grade in class. When I mentioned going back, he said he never really had fun there. I didn't want to push him at the time, but I was thinking that not every activity is always about fun and games, and sometimes you need to go outside your comfort zone.

His little bro is 5 years younger, so when he got old enough to join at 6 years old, we all joined back up. I knew the youngest would take right to it and love it. He's very spirited and outgoing. My older son, the middle child, is stuck between an older sister that just graduated high school and our youngest who is about to turn 8. What got him wanting to try it again were a few of his best friends from school were checking the troop out as well. We've been back in for almost two years now, and I have seen a lot of growth in him. Being around older boys as well as his friends his age, all of the different skills he's learned, plus he has come out of his shell so to speak.

Last fall our troop leader floated the idea of a mission trip to the dads first, then to the older boys in the troop. Several were interested, and we explored it a little more. We are going to an Indian Reservation in Washington state that our church's youth group has been to several years in a row for a mission trip. The boys have been active in the planning stages, making decisions on what activities we'll be doing, planning events to have for their kids club activities in the afternoon, and what all needs to be taken with us and what we needed to have shipped out there.

Most mornings we will be on work crews, and after talking with my daughter who has been out there the last 3 summers, it could be any variety of things. From painting houses on the reservation, yardwork, splitting wood, roofing projects, trash clean up etc. Our boys aren't old enough to get on a roof for liability reasons, but we'll probably end up doing most everything else.

We arrive late Friday night in Portland and are spending the night in a hotel there. The main reason I posted this on the OB is the outdoor activities we'll be doing along the way. We're going to Multnomah falls to hike some, and another nearby hiking spot that I'm drawing a blank on the name at the moment. Then we have to swing back to the airport to pick up two guys that were not able to fly with us on Friday, and we're driving 3+ hours out to the middle of nowhere to the reservation. We're going to stop at a fish hatchery place on the way that has some sort of underwater viewing area for large sturgeons. And eating dinner at some place overlooking the gorge.

Later in the week on our off day from the work crews, we are going to Mount Rainier to hike and maybe do some snow tubing. At the end of the week the tribe we'll be serving is having a pow wow, where we've been told there will be all local foods served. I think I heard Elk, Salmon, something else, and freshwater eel. So I'm sure we'll have some adventurous teenage boys try the eel. I'll be sure to come back and post some pictures.

Oh and the coolest part, we get to sleep in an old school teepee for the week. We take the boys camping quite a bit, but it is all in modern tents or hammocks.

6 is ribbed for her pleasure.