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Title: The struggle was real!
Post by: stevewfl on December 13, 2015, 07:40:09 PM
But I finally got my Christmas tree up this year!

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Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: tweeter55 on December 13, 2015, 09:36:44 PM
But I finally got my Christmas tree up this year!

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Ya'll got a "Chicken Choker"...cool.
Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: VirginiaJim on December 14, 2015, 05:23:27 AM
Not sure what that is but I like the microphone and the camera.
Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: jimmymac on December 14, 2015, 07:33:18 AM
I pulled my mini tree out of the spare room and took the sheet off. Done! ;D
It stays decorated all year. ;)
Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: tweeter55 on December 14, 2015, 09:15:46 AM
Not sure what that is but I like the microphone and the camera.
The mic is what I called the "Chicken Choker" Can literally pick up a pin dropping if you cranked up the gain enough.
Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: Classvino on December 14, 2015, 09:16:35 AM
Nice - do you ever use the TLR?  I'm looking forward to trying mine...

I bought a really old Rolleiflex at a local yard sale for next to nothing - trying to rehab it - it's in about 30 pieces being cleaned right now, glass is surprisingly good, but the mechanicals are really rough - hope I can get it back together and working OK...     ;)

Jamie
Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: Eupher on December 14, 2015, 10:03:26 AM
But I finally got my Christmas tree up this year!

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Mic looks like a D104 Silver Eagle.

My handle was B'rer Rabbit. KOR-0534. A loooooooooong time ago.
Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: Cholla on December 14, 2015, 11:08:58 AM
I have a Rollei or two and a box of Yashicas. Then there's the Rollei 126 SLR
Never had the D104, though...

Good luck getting that TLR working but film and processing are becoming more difficult to come by.
Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: wally_games on December 14, 2015, 11:24:30 AM
Mic looks like a D104 Silver Eagle.

My handle was B'rer Rabbit. KOR-0534. A loooooooooong time ago.
That looks just like the mic I had on my tube-type base station, mid/late-70's.
KQC-7418, the Broom Pusher
That was back when the channels above 23 weren't quite kosher (nor the one's below 1   8) )
Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: B.D.F. on December 14, 2015, 11:40:00 AM
What did you end up using, Treeagra?

Brian

But I finally got my Christmas tree up this year!

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Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: Rhino on December 14, 2015, 11:41:15 AM
What, no lights?
Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: tweeter55 on December 14, 2015, 12:35:36 PM
That looks just like the mic I had on my tube-type base station, mid/late-70's.
KQC-7418, the Broom Pusher
That was back when the channels above 23 weren't quite kosher (nor the one's below 1   8) )
KWD1641 - Tweeter Bird on the Birdhouse Base.
Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: Rhino on December 14, 2015, 12:42:02 PM
Is the black and white photo you and your mom? The baby looks like: "sounds like a Honda inline 4, wonder which model..."
Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: stevewfl on December 28, 2015, 10:45:45 PM
now i have to take this biach down...   i'm going to procrastinate!  :banghead: :finger_fing11:
Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: twowheeladdict on December 29, 2015, 07:23:20 AM
Everyone is looking at the mic and camera.  All I am thinking is "Mantel means fireplace."  "Fireplace in Florida?"  That is like having Air Conditioning in Alaska.  :)
Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: stevewfl on December 29, 2015, 09:31:42 PM
Everyone is looking at the mic and camera.  All I am thinking is "Mantel means fireplace."  "Fireplace in Florida?"  That is like having Air Conditioning in Alaska.  :)

I asked my realtor WHY all these fireplaces in FL homes?  And she replied "you absolutely CANNOT sell a property to the yankees moving down here  without a fireplace!"

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Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: Eupher on January 01, 2016, 08:13:01 AM
I asked my realtor WHY all these fireplaces in FL homes?  And she replied "you absolutely CANNOT sell a property to the yankees moving down here  without a fireplace!"

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I grew up in a house without a fireplace -- in Michigan. I think fireplaces are fixtures in the larger homes, but I can definitely do without one. I think I've built 3 fires in the last 8 years.  :P
Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: just gone on January 01, 2016, 10:48:41 AM
I always thought that the fireplaces in Florida were used to help protect the back yard orange groves in case of a frost. All the back yards there have a mini orange grove, right? Only stands to reason that they do, all the back yards here in Texas have a longhorn steer or two (except the ones with personal oil rigs in the affluent neighborhoods).  :)
Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: Eupher on January 01, 2016, 11:15:15 AM
I always thought that the fireplaces in Florida were used to help protect the back yard orange groves in case of a frost. All the back yards there have a mini orange grove, right? Only stands to reason that they do, all the back yards here in Texas have a longhorn steer or two (except the ones with personal oil rigs in the affluent neighborhoods).  :)

 :rotflmao:
Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: gPink on January 01, 2016, 02:06:40 PM
....but her oil and coal and gas are ok?
Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: VirginiaJim on January 01, 2016, 05:11:13 PM
 :rotflmao:
Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: just gone on January 02, 2016, 01:23:03 PM
Now comes the real struggle. Getting all this crap taken down and put away.  :P ::)

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I wasn't envious of Steve's purple Hot Wheels tree until now.  :(

Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: Conrad on January 03, 2016, 07:34:03 AM
Now comes the real struggle. Getting all this crap taken down and put away.  :P ::)

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I wasn't envious of Steve's purple Hot Wheels tree until now.  :(

Nice!   :)

That reminds me. I need me one of those laser projector thingies.
Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: stevewfl on January 03, 2016, 05:28:58 PM
Now comes the real struggle. Getting all this crap taken down and put away.  :P ::)

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I wasn't envious of Steve's purple Hot Wheels tree until now.  :(

 ;D
Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: wally_games on January 04, 2016, 11:17:37 AM
Now comes the real struggle. Getting all this crap taken down and put away.  :P ::)

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I wasn't envious of Steve's purple Hot Wheels tree until now.  :(

We've had a skinny artificial tree for several years. With a little effort it will fit through a doorway fully assembled and decorated. It resides in a front bedroom walk-in closet for about 10-1/2 months a year. Goes up and down in minutes.

On the fireplace issue. I have one in the living room and one on the covered back porch. The one in the house just makes the rest of the house cold when it's used, so I try to keep the wife from burning a fire there. The one out back is to keep my cattle and oil wells warm during one of our twice a year ice storms down here in Texas.  8)
Title: Re: The struggle was real!
Post by: just gone on January 04, 2016, 11:39:27 AM
The one out back is to keep my cattle and oil wells warm...

Told ya! (er..I mean told ya-awl)

 I did forget to mention that some in Texas have both.