BYC Café

[cheepteach]

morning Cafe'!

 

[sourland]

Who needs a paper shredder. We've got Maggie Mae aka confetti maker.

 

[Mtn Margie]

We are too rural, ie. crazy mountain roads, for a personal driveway mailbox. I guess it has saved us money over the years! The P.O. just puts pods of mailboxes on concrete slabs at main intersections throughout the mountains and so far, all is well and they are free.
High of 40F today, sun! Our predicted low on Fri night has now risen to -1F, so we shall see.
Thanks for the coffee! More wrestling competition tomorrow and Sat. DS$ is itchin!
This has been a mentally strange season so far with the new team and coach, but I think it is good for him to have to stop and think. His new Coach is having him come in early for video reviews and I have decided it is the new way to learn some technique that the Coach is not familiar with, only because he keeps asking what DS$ is working for in various small takes, and because it is all muscle memory, DS$ has to think about it.
So far, it has not been about the mistakes, shoulda -woulda-couldas out there...

 

[aart]

Have lost a few mailboxes here over the years, only one was actually hit by the plow itself.
The plow wash is what got the others...and most other mailbox deaths.
Everyone always wants to blame the plow drivers for hitting them,
when it's plain physics that's to blame.

Bread day here, got up late but it's finally underway.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Good morning, Cafe. Thanks for the coffee, Tonya!

No mailbox here, either, but PO box is free. I like the PO, don't have to worry about mail thieves, only lost mail...

Well, still colder than a well diggers arse out there. -6°f and "feels like" -22°. The actual well diggers are doing shop work today.

My dad tells the story about drilling at one of the mines when it was -40° many moons ago. I don't know how they did it. I'd never make it!

 

[Sally PB]

In the winter of '78, roadside mailboxes were buried in the snowbanks beside the road. People dug out the area in front of the door to the box and marked the location with a flag stuck in the snowbank. Some of the flags got buried too.

I remember trying to walk up our driveway (steep hill). The snow was up to my thighs. So I laid down and kept rolling until I fell out into the street. I walked down to the PO, and the postmaster said that no mail had come in the last two days. I had cabin fever, so I didn't care; I'd just wanted to get out of the house.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

@Shadrach seems to have been gone for a bit. Hope all is well there.

 

[room onthebroom]

Good morning, Cafe', and thanks Tonya.



When we first moved here 'Mailbox rodeo' was a thing. Kids would lasso them from the back of their pickups and pull them out - that eventually morphed to baseball bat attacks. That too passed, and all has been calm for years. The latest demolition was thanks to the road crew plowing. I guess it was snowing so hard they just couldn't see our bright red mailbox. I guess it was anchored well as the pole never moved - just snapped the support arm and mailbox off. It's hidden somewhere in the snow drifts.

I imagine all of those rodeo boys eventually grew up & got jobs as plow drivers.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Ya think I recall Dad put concrete to the top of the pipe years ago .. all of town goes to PO we have boxes most pay for a larger one .. Not problems and they do not have to deliver in town here

 

[sourland]

@Shadrach seems to have been gone for a bit. Hope all is well there.

He hasn't posted since Friday.