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Post by 4ward on Jun 1, 2024 13:26:02 GMT -5
Boat shopping with my youngest kid. Went to Gainesville to meet w/ bank then to Ocala to haggle on the boat he wants. All the way in Keystone now, waiting to load furniture that my wife is selling for my momma. Just got roped into delivering some of it.🤬 Then I will drive back home and finally put my feet up. I need a beer. Thats gotta be fun...your sons first boat? Real boat? He has run my boats his whole life, we just let go of the little 14’ that we built together ( so that was actually his first). This will be the first that he has to actually pay for. Poor kid, say a prayer for him LOL
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Post by tonyroma on Jun 1, 2024 14:01:21 GMT -5
Boat shopping with my youngest kid. Went to Gainesville to meet w/ bank then to Ocala to haggle on the boat he wants. All the way in Keystone now, waiting to load furniture that my wife is selling for my momma. Just got roped into delivering some of it.🤬 Then I will drive back home and finally put my feet up. I need a beer. what kinda boats he looking at?
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Post by swampdog on Jun 1, 2024 14:24:38 GMT -5
First boat he has to pay for - awesome! I know he’ll be a proud owner.
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Post by conchydong on Jun 1, 2024 14:55:13 GMT -5
Cleaned the pool filter and added chemicals then mowed the lawn, fixed a sprinkler head and then split a Snowy grouper head for boiled fish and grits. Had to do all that early before it got too hot. Took a shower and then a nap. Woke up and read a few chapters from a book. Getting ready to pour a bourbon and have a cigar.
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Post by cadman on Jun 1, 2024 15:09:55 GMT -5
Thats gotta be fun...your sons first boat? Real boat? He has run my boats his whole life, we just let go of the little 14’ that we built together ( so that was actually his first). This will be the first that he has to actually pay for. Poor kid, say a prayer for him LOL Two happiest days of a boat owners life, when he buys the boat and when he sells the boat.
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Post by 4ward on Jun 1, 2024 15:42:33 GMT -5
Boat shopping with my youngest kid. Went to Gainesville to meet w/ bank then to Ocala to haggle on the boat he wants. All the way in Keystone now, waiting to load furniture that my wife is selling for my momma. Just got roped into delivering some of it.🤬 Then I will drive back home and finally put my feet up. I need a beer. what kinda boats he looking at? We worked a deal on a surface drive. We went to look at a used one, then he saw some of the new ones that they just got in. One of them was set up just as if he would have custom ordered(which takes months). He couldn’t resist. Negotiated $ a little and also got them to drop it on to a much nicer aluminum trailer for him. He is happy. It’s a 18/54 gator tail mod V with a 40. Camo/seadeck/ 2 rod and gun boxes. Those boys are on the lakes around here 5 nights a week. He works his ass off and does pretty good for an 18 yo. I’m most excited about the abundance of frog legs in my future.
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Post by TRTerror on Jun 1, 2024 18:35:58 GMT -5
Dang...My first boat was a 10 foot rived Jon with a 5 HP Eska. Shit
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Post by Captj on Jun 2, 2024 6:29:44 GMT -5
Mowed the lawn, straightened up my catch all driveway, went to the pool for happy hour, ate at Square Grouper down in Islamorada (great food and service - cocktails on another level), went to The Green Turtle for a comedy club show and staggered home.
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Post by 4ward on Jun 2, 2024 11:29:17 GMT -5
Worked on a old john deer mower. I bought it used, to have as a backup. Got a few years out of it, here and there. I just spent all morning putting a new battery, solenoid ,oil and cleaning it up. Engine is purring. Then I got to the drive belt( which was shot).Worked thru it until I realized that pulling the entire steering column is required. F john deer, I don’t have time for that. It’s a belt for god sakes.
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Post by cadman on Jun 2, 2024 11:49:04 GMT -5
Finished the second coat of etching primer and should be ready to spray the bed liner coating on the interior of the Jeep tub. Also sanded and painted the seat frames and dash. Got to go sand the dash more and put on a second coat of paint.
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Post by bswiv on Jun 2, 2024 16:36:48 GMT -5
Checked on how much the timber crew managed to finish up yesterday and while at it hit a good section of road with herbicide for invasive species ( Climbing Fern ). While down there pulled 4 traps we'd sent yesterday in spots that still have water that we'd set yesterday. Brown Hoplows.....a flyer.....bunch of swamp sunfish, couple of pirate perch, a darter ( At least that's what I think it was. ) and three banded water snakes.
The smaller banded got to come home, where it'll stay for a while as part of the things we use for outreach.
Then.......spent a good 5 hours with low pressure herbicide sprayers wandering into stands we'd burned treating gums, palmetto and other things.
Smelled like a old goat when it was all over......
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Post by cadman on Jun 3, 2024 9:37:01 GMT -5
Cleaned house since the neighbor is having some trees removed and sawdust is in the air making any painting impossible.
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Post by gardawg on Jun 3, 2024 11:50:20 GMT -5
Dang...My first boat was a 10 foot rived Jon with a 5 HP Eska. Shit You were a rich kid ... my first boat was two logs tied together with a sawmill slab for an oar ...
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Post by TRTerror on Jun 3, 2024 14:26:25 GMT -5
Well....I stole the boat from some rich guys across the canal and used old Clorox jugs for life preservers so there's that..
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Post by cadman on Jun 3, 2024 14:33:34 GMT -5
The trees guys will be back tomorrow to remove one tree of ours and cut some big limbs off another. I could go solar now with the amount of sun the roof will get. I went ahead and bought a water pump for the jeep and will install it and a thermostat tomorrow. Could change the oils in the front and rear axles and transmission if there is time too.
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