What Cheered You Up Today? (3 Viewers)

[Thumpalumpacus]

It was yesterday and not today, but I drove into town to do my grocery shopping for the week. While there, I stopped in at the Goodwill because I like thrift-storin'. I found a pair of iguana-skin Dan Post cowboy boots which fit me perfectly and in great shape for ... $25.

Now, I received a pair of DP iguanas back in the early 90s from a girlfriend, and only later learned that they were $400 boots, so I reckon I got one hell of a steal here. The only thing they need is a little heel-and-sole dressing applied to cover up a few scuffs on the soles. The topsides are in great condition, and I should get at least ten or fifteen years out of 'em. I like this pair better than the old pair because they're natural color and not dyed black like the ones Marietta got me.

Score!

 

[Greg Boeser]

It was yesterday and not today, but I drove into town to do my grocery shopping for the week, While there, I stopped in at the Goodwill because I like thrift-storin'. I found a pair of iguana-skin Dan Post cowboy boots which fit me perfectly and in great shape for ... $25.

Now, I received a pair of DP iguanas back in the early 90s from a girlfriend, and only later learned that they were $400 boots, so I reckon I got one hell of a steal here. The only thing they need is a little heel-and-sole dressing applied to cover up a few scuffs on the soles. The topsides are in great condition, and I should get at least ten or fifteen years out of 'em. I like this pair better than the old pair because they're natural color and not dyed black like the ones Marietta got me.

Score!

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Just looked 'em up, they're actually Winston model lizard-skins. Still mighty happy.

 

[ARTESH]

Beautiful!

 

[GTX]

Newborn giraffe given human medical-grade leg braces to save its life

A baby giraffe born in a US zoo with a life-threatening leg condition has been fitted with customised, human medical-grade leg braces to help her walk.

www.abc.net.au

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Ended up getting our house for 18K less than offered thanks to the appraisal.

 

[buffnut453]

LIVERPOOL WON THE FA CUP!!!!!!

 

[ARTESH]

Ended up getting our house for 18K less than offered thanks to the appraisal.

Just a question in my mind:

Did you buy new house with furniture (mostly, I mean kitchen ware / bedrooms) or without them ( bringing them from old house / buying new ones)?

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Just a question in my mind:

Did you buy new house with furniture (mostly, I mean kitchen ware / bedrooms) or without them ( bringing them from old house / buying new ones)?

The house comes with fridge, oven, stove, microwave and dishwasher. The rest of the furniture is mine, but I will be buying new furniture as well.

Thats pretty standard.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Just a question in my mind:

Did you buy new house with furniture (mostly, I mean kitchen ware / bedrooms) or without them ( bringing them from old house / buying new ones)?

Here in a new house most are fitted with a sink unit, dishwasher, oven and cook-top in the kitchen which is also fitted with cupboards and drawers. The house will have some form of drapes on the windows. In the bathroom there would normally be a shower, bath and sink unit and a separate toilet and if with an en suite to the main bedroom, a shower, sink unit and toilet. Carpets are fitted in the bedrooms and lounge area with the kitchen/family/day room tiled. I some areas now it is a requirement to have a water collection tank in the garden to collect runoff from the roof guttering.

 

[Greg Boeser]

In the US the home normally includes the major kitchen appliances (fridge, cookstove), clothes washer and dryer. Furniture is generally the buyer's responsibility.

 

[ARTESH]

Well, here situation is completely different!

You just pay for land / total area, nothing more. Even no wallpapers nor any of major kitchen wares (only sink, cabinets and bathroom / WC).

Also not much 'villas', not that much common as in Europe or US/Canada.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Here in a new house most are fitted with a sink unit, dishwasher, oven and cook-top in the kitchen which is also fitted with cupboards and drawers. The house will have some form of drapes on the windows. In the bathroom there would normally be a shower, bath and sink unit and a separate toilet and if with an en suite to the main bedroom, a shower, sink unit and toilet. Carpets are fitted in the bedrooms and lounge area with the kitchen/family/day room tiled. I some areas now it is a requirement to have a water collection tank in the garden to collect runoff from the roof guttering.

Same here. The kitchen is complete with sinks, cabinets, appliances, granite countertops (I want to replace with butcher block).

The master bath is complete with jetted corner tub, 2 sinks, toilet, and separate shower. The other 2 are bath/shower combos with toilets.

Houses are pretty standard fitted with these things today. You just need your own furniture.

 

[Bucksnort101]

So I picked up some meds at my local CVS pharmacy. While leaving I have to drive past the corner of the building, which has a blind exit, so I always watch to make sure nobody comes barreling out of the store into the crosswalk (this has happened to me before). All of a sudden I hear a loud thumping/grinding sound under my truck and some hesitation in the vehicle. I thought to myself "self, WTF was that". Sounded like the brakes I just replaced a month ago fell off!!!
Well turned around and saw that I actually ran over the Watch for Pedestrians sign, which was never there before and just below the height of my trucks hood so I never even saw it due to watching for the pedestrian I as being warned to look out for.
I just laughed and got the heck out of there.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Was there a pedestrian under the pedestrian sign?

 

[Bucksnort101]

Was there a pedestrian under the pedestrian sign?

No, but I can think of several people I wish were under the sign at the time.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

No, but I can think of several people I wish were under the sign at the time.

List sent via pm.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Stumbling around the pawnshops locally, I found a Yamaha 12-string acoustic in my price range and put it on layaway. My phone and my computer are apparently having a lover's quarrel so can't post a pic right now, but it's got a solid spruce top and mahogany sides and back, and chime for days.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

The Boeing Starliner just had a successful launch into orbit.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Stumbling around the pawnshops locally, I found a Yamaha 12-string acoustic in my price range and put it on layaway. My phone and my computer are apparently having a lover's quarrel so can't post a pic right now, but it's got a solid spruce top and mahogany sides and back, and chime for days.

Found a workaround for the uploading issues. Here's the guitar as it hung on the wall: