May 2015 Greetings

New month new topic.

I was eating lunch today & the whole building shook for several seconds!

turns out we had an 4.2 magnitude Earthquake about 80 miles South West of here  

Never had one you could feel here in my 48 years  

So Chris are you trying to shake it up a bit up?

Perhaps the new paradyne shift is causing earth quakes too.

Mark Jones

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GOOD ONE, DAN!

I am not saying anything because we sit close to the new madrid fault... but if we rebuild t would look something like this.
http://readyrangers.tzo.com/2015survival/2015survival.htm

Mark Jones

It was a cold windy day Felt more like March than May brrr

ccm2361 wrote:It was a cold windy day Felt more like March than May   brrr

I almost got a sunburn as I was cutting my grass for the 6 week in a row.

Hey, I just noticed two things..... I'm not the Newbie anymore and now I am "jr. member" Is there a badge for either of those?

I was on vacation all this week (to build our house)  but one of my coworkers got "hurt" (a minor injury) & I was called in to work yesterday & today to cover their route    
 

Canadarangers wrote:Hey, I just noticed two things..... I'm not the Newbie anymore and now I am "jr. member"     Is there a  badge for either of those?

yes

it looks like this  


see this thread for more details
https://rangerchat.forumotion.com/t20-new-rank-system

This past week I began a part time job in the mornings been a little rough. This second week schedule looks much better.

Been super busy lately, so I haven't been foruming much. Spring season baseball has come to an end for me and Seth (I was assistant coaching), and we came out the champions! It was a fun season to see the team come together from losing the first three in a row because of errors to taking the championship. On top of that, Seth ended up making the All-Star team for this summer. He's super stoked about that! He'll remain an out fielder for All-Stars, but is starting to train on the mound. The head coach has started giving him some one on one pitching lessons outside of normal practice. Seth is tall and lanky and will probably do well on the mound eventually.

Phillip Jr is developing on the new race bike this season, but it was a bit of a slow start. Going from a bike that will do 60-65 on the straights to a bike that will do 90-100 took a bit of getting used to. Looking back, the biggest problem was that he was trying to acclimate to a new bike AND win races, which didn't turn out very well. I told him not to worry about race results and just focus on the bike, but I think his internal pressure got the better of him and would do horrible, neither learning the bike, nor winning a race! So, I decided that we would skip an event and go to a race school in Florida instead. It was just what the Dr ordered for him. In a no pressure environment, he flourished and got the bugs worked out. Now he's looking forward to the next race event to see how he can do now that he feels comfortable on the bike.

Rangers is winding down for us before COA and summer break. I have mixed emotions about the summer break because we did lose some kids last year, but who knows if they'd have quit regardless... It is nice to have some time off though because our schedule (my family's) is jam packed all the time! We're planning a couple events for this summer just to keep everyone connected though, so hopefully we can retain momentum by dividing up the break with some get togethers. The one I'm really looking forward to is the backpacking trip in July up to Ellicott Rock Wilderness area again. Last time we went it was still fairly chilly so the boys couldn't swim in the river (although a couple managed to slip off the rocks anyway...), so we're all looking forward to that cool mountain river after packing in.

Other than that stuff, it's just a bunch of work work work....

Ah Philip said a RR2.0 word...momentum! Mmmm

Phillip Gross wrote:Other than that stuff, it's just a bunch of work work work....

boy do I know how that feels. Worked 51 hours this week plus a few hours on the house. man am I beat House building is on break till Tuesday.....so being gluttons for punishment we are volunteering back at the Habitat Restore today

Happy Memorial Day.

Pray I survive the influx of leftist progressives that are flooding my little city to hear the FLOTUS Michelle Obama give the Oberlin College commencement speech.

RRCmdrBennett wrote:Happy Memorial Day.

Healing from Knee Surgery, so I'm watching "Band of Brothers" on TV.

How long are you propped up for?

Right now, I can hobble around for an hour, then prop my knee up and ice it for an hour.

Stitches should come out later this week, and I should be able to do pretty-much non-strenuous function for a couple of weeks.

(That's what happens when the warranty on God's Vehicle runs out, and you need to get an overhaul.)

Heal up and be ready. I got worried about my knee a few months back but it healed up.
Praying for a speedy recovery.

Mark Jones

"The problem with Youth is that, it is wasted on the Young."

George Bernard Shaw

Claymore wrote:"The problem with Youth is that, it is wasted on the Young."

George Bernard Shaw

that's for sure

Thats for sure. When we get older we just quote really cool authors that young people probably never heard of or will appreciate till they are our age.

I've been having some muscular pain in my hands. The other day it went down into my arm to my elbow. Not fun.

Move to Colorado. Even if it doesn't fix it, at least you won't know it...