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[bruceha2000]

nope.

This is a month long thing. I will be back Feb 16th...ish... I still haven't figured out how to get out of Anchorage to my place.

A MONTH long wedding?? WOW. You must be going nuts.
Uber? Lyft? Snowmobile? Dogsled? Seaplane?

 

[Alaskan]

kid 3 keeps saying that we should just hitch hike. Might take a day or 2 if we hitch.

The wedding is only 1 weekend... but we thought since we had trekked all of the way here... it would make sense to stay awhile and see stuff.

 

[Beer can]

@getaclue
My BIL loves his John Deere lawn mower also and he doesn't even mow the lawn with it. Races it on circle track. Thing rips, easy donuts on grass.

his last names Miller, lol.

 

[ronott1]

@ronott1 I forgot to tell you thanks for your tech help.

THANK YOU!!

It sure is nice having you here to explain stuff.

I couldn't get it to agree to text. .. but at least I now know why things weren't working. I appreciate it.

Any time!

 

[getaclue]

Beer Can, I don't dare show him that. I agree he needs a couple hobbies, or some projects to do. It won't be much longer, and he'll put in a garden. That will help occupy his mind, and time. He needs to get started on my fence, gate, and automatic gate opener too. He's actually very smart, tends to overthink things, and gets bogged down by the simple, trivial things. I'm just sitting back laughing at his dilemma.

 

[chickisoup]

Hi all! Playing catchup again.
John Deere and the security system story is a hoot!!!
Congrats on the snap fix.
Hey, Al, hope you are enjoying Germany. My dad's family came from Germany. They had lived thru the Kaiser, saw the writing on the wall with Adolf and moved to the US before all the solid waste starting hitting the air circulation devices. Have no idea if I still have any relatives there or not. My dad never liked to even mention Germany and he died many years ago. His dad died when he was just a boy (sadly suicide) and I only met his mom once when I was a girl.

We have had two beautiful days in a row and today actually got above freezing!!! Not a lot of sunshine but still enough that I was able to do chores in a sweatshirt instead of snow gear.
AND THEN MOTHER NATURE DROPS THE OTHER SHOE
We are now under a winter storm watch for tomorrow pm and Monday for potentially our first real blizzard of the winter. We spent the rest of today running to town for gas for the snow throwers and generators and critter food. Oh, and snacks of course for DH's marathon football playoff watching tomorrow. We're ready, throw it at us Mother Nature.

 

[bruceha2000]

The wedding is only 1 weekend... but we thought since we had trekked all of the way here... it would make sense to stay awhile and see stuff.

I TOTALLY agree!!
What have you seen?

I was in Germany for a week with my Dad and step-mother a LONG time ago (like almost 30 years). I had been on a business trip to France and took a train to Zurich where they picked me up. Things are pretty close together in Europe compared to the USA.

If you drink beer, are you trying the local beer in the towns you go through. I think they all have a local. We never had a bad one. We went to Hohenschwangau Castle (where "crazy" King Ludwig grew up and to Neuschwanstein Castle, the one he built. I was surprised to see that Neuschwanstein isn't on a mountain top, all the pictures I had ever seen were taken from below and it appears there is nothing higher anywhere nearby.

https://en.schwangau.de/welcome/

Of course we saw other things as well. It happened to be Oktoberfest (oddly it is actually in September). We tourists didn't seem welcome in most of the beer tents but the Löwenbräu tent was OK. There we found out that beer in Oktoberfest tents comes in one size - a full liter!!! That is a LOT of beer for people who don't drink beer often. It was also where I saw "ugly Americans" and "ugly Canadians". For some reason a bunch of them started yelling back and forth "U-S-A!" "CAN-A-DA!" We were SO embarrassed, maybe that is why the other tents weren't friendly to foreigners.

 

[pennyJo1960]

did apple fritters and banana bread this morning

 

[Latestarter]

IME German desserts are great, but not "sweet" like American desserts. Hope you get to enjoy a whole lot of them with your "continental" breakfasts...

 

[drumstick diva]

Latestarter, what kind of desserts - diva needs to know