BYC Café

[DobieLover]

What style are the bindings? Picture?

I still haven't unloaded them. They are in the back of my car!

 

[SkyAJK]

Good Morning,

1st coffee is done and so dusted. We are having cold weather, freezing night and early morning. I am mighty happy to say the least and so are my big fluffy heavy feather kids.

I inspected my garden yesterday and thinking of planing something as I still have a box of seeds, but everything at the moment has been eaten by something overnight. My passion fruits that I was waiting to eat are now gone, not 1 left to be seen let alone eating any.

Now I have 1 sick hen that I am treating, 2 potentially get lash eggs in the near future as one of those 2 has stopped laying and sitting in nestbox as if she is laying, she gained weight = that is a worrying sign. The other one yesterday poopped out an egg that more wrinkle that my 102 grandma when she was still with us. I have so many broody hens that I am graceful for, they are quietly warming up the nestbox materials, less work to do for me, they get a break from busy summer egg laying = good for their health, no illness for me to worry about.

In the mean time, I am physically simmering in ache and pain, I can feel my knee caps are about to fall off, I do really not love being old! My chiropractor gave me a handful of exercises to do to relief me of pain, ...I really want to say to him how about install me in a new body? I wish I said that to him, but I did not.

While simmering in my physical ache and pain, I was thinking that it would be so wonderful that human's physical do not age at all, no slow breaking of the body, we reach 30 year of age and stay that way until our expiry date, yes ..human with an expiry date so we know how much hour, minutes, second we have and live our life accordingly.
There was a movie about that

Have a lovely day over there

 

[Mtn Margie]

We still have power and lost another tree. I made it to and from the Azure drop-off. Hanging in there!

 

[Sally PB]

The reason I ask about the binding is because I've had 2 different styles, one much better than the other.

The first one was the "3 pin" style. 3 pins in the binding on the ski stuck up into a front plastic flange on the boot, and a spring loaded clamp clamped over the same flange. This was what was on my first pair of skis/boots, back in the late 70s. Eventually, the holes start to wear, and your foot could shift a bit left to right. Not what you want on cross country skis, because your heel is not anchored to the ski, as it is on downhill skis.

For the second style, there was a horizontal bar at the front of the toe of the boot, and that clamped into a spring loaded slot on the ski. It was MUCH more secure.

I bet they have even better bindings now.

 

[DobieLover]

My skis aren't new. I got them at an antique mall. They came from an estate sale. They have the second style binding you mentioned @Sally PB. With how much skiing I'll actually be able to do, I'm sure they will be fine.

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafè. Coffee is ready.

I sat with my Laotian friend at the company lunch yesterday. She brought some shrimp fried rice she made! I suggested she just save it for lunch today and eat the pizza and salad we were given. She had brought enough for both of us and now it's sitting in my office refrigerator so I won't have to bring lunch for the second day in a row.

 

[sourland]

good morning, and thanks for the coffee.

 

[SkyAJK]

Good Morning,

Coffee just made, steaming and hot which is so lovely on such a cold morning.

I think I got lice/mites, the feather kids are sharing the love, I might just dust bath with them later this morning.

Have a lovely day over there