USMB Coffee Shop IV

[Spoonman]

totally lost here. I really hate the new format, may end up leaving. How's everybody else doing with it?

I preferred the old, but this is doable

 

[Ava]

Hope everyone is having a relaxing holiday weekend.

Eww.
This is when AdBlock Plus Block Image comes in all handy.

I love it...

I'll be going into work today but most tourists and those who have vacationed here all summer, will be packing up and heading back to their routines. I will miss them, all. Such fun people in happy moods when vacationing and shopping in galleries, close to, or on the beach. September and October are good months for older tourists though, as that is when they, with huge RVs towing little cars, come to the coast. They wait for the summer season to be over and families heading back to their home states, kids in school and low traffic on the twisting, hilly, narrow little coast highway, to travel. The many moods of the sea on one side and the coast range on the other. Splendiferous.

Then.....when October is over, the highway is just waiting for the locals to get back on and ride with freedom, free and easy. Can't wait.

Tourism in the cleanest industry. Five to seven months a year, people from all over the world and U.S. visit, drop their dollars, take home some fabulous memories and things, then leave the beauty of the vast, lush, rich, scenic land, known as the Oregon Coast, to the residents.

 

[Ava]

totally lost here. I really hate the new format, may end up leaving. How's everybody else doing with it?

I preferred the old, but this is doable

 

[blackhawk]

 

[Statistikhengst]

totally lost here. I really hate the new format, may end up leaving. How's everybody else doing with it?

Like Spoonman, I also prefer the old format, but this one is workable.

 

[Ringel05]

Good morning, everyone. I wish you a good start into your week.

Last week, I had an immense amount of extra work which then culminated a compressed weekend with my daughter as I had important work on Saturday from 8 am to 8 pm. So, I picked her up from her mother afterwards on Saturday evening.

Yesterday, I took her to a "Kletterpark" ("Climbing park") for a birthday party of one on her friends, who just turned 8. As is German tradition, kids up to sixteen generally have as many kids at the party (including the birthday child) as the number of years, so 7 girls and 1 boy were there to do the climbing parcourse. There is a 2-part parcourse for kids, and a huge parcourse for adults plus one long aerial ropeway. When we got there, the one parent who was going to do the parcourse with the kids decided not to, and so I did the course with the kids, for about 2.5 hours. Right in the middle, it began to rain like crazy but, being in a forest, we got wet but not totally drenched. This also means that I was too busy doing the parcourse to film anything, but here's a good youtube film of the children's parcourse:



(that is EXACTLY the parcourse we did)

Also, this for the adults:




(3:07)





And, the long aerial rope "Seilbahn" (450 meters long).

How innovative, kids get out of doors exercise and learn valuable lessons.
Back here in the states the aerial rope is called a zipline.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Good morning, everyone. I wish you a good start into your week.

Last week, I had an immense amount of extra work which then culminated a compressed weekend with my daughter as I had important work on Saturday from 8 am to 8 pm. So, I picked her up from her mother afterwards on Saturday evening.

Yesterday, I took her to a "Kletterpark" ("Climbing park") for a birthday party of one on her friends, who just turned 8. As is German tradition, kids up to sixteen generally have as many kids at the party (including the birthday child) as the number of years, so 7 girls and 1 boy were there to do the climbing parcourse. There is a 2-part parcourse for kids, and a huge parcourse for adults plus one long aerial ropeway. When we got there, the one parent who was going to do the parcourse with the kids decided not to, and so I did the course with the kids, for about 2.5 hours. Right in the middle, it began to rain like crazy but, being in a forest, we got wet but not totally drenched. This also means that I was too busy doing the parcourse to film anything, but here's a good youtube film of the children's parcourse:



(that is EXACTLY the parcourse we did)

Also, this for the adults:




(3:07)





And, the long aerial rope "Seilbahn" (450 meters long).

How innovative, kids get out of doors exercise and learn valuable lessons.
Back here in the states the aerial rope is called a zipline.

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Thanks, I really didn't know that term.

I German is it called a "Seilbahn".

Seil = rope
Bahn = track (like, a train track)

 

[Ringel05]

I have a bunch of Zeltbahns........

 

[blackhawk]

totally lost here. I really hate the new format, may end up leaving. How's everybody else doing with it?

Like Spoonman, I also prefer the old format, but this one is workable.

I like the old better but I'm getting used to this one some stuff I like some I don't.

 

[Ringel05]

I have 2 or 3 WWII German zeltbahns (reproduction) and a bunch of "liberated" French zeltbahns I made into a zelt mansion (Command zelt).

The big one on the left is mine.

Here's the interior view

 

[Ringel05]

For those who don't know what a zeltbahn is, if you look at the interior picture of the zelt (tent) you will see triangular sections, each one of these is a zeltbahn (loosely translated = way to a tent). Each soldaten (soldier) carried one, it served as a rain poncho and when 4 were put together it became a tent. Three soldiers would sleep in it while one was on guard.
Here's a German zeltbahn:

And the typical 4 man zelt

 

[JakeStarkey]

A brief good morning to all of you.

Off to our gold mine in NV for a few hours. It's a casino.

Enjoy the day while remembing the working backs of America made it possible.

 

[peach174]

Good Morning!

 

[alan1]

Well, I just got back from the hospital.
I was visiting the maternity ward and watching women in labor as per Labor Day tradition dictates.

 

[Sherry]

After a short and easy day at work, going to head over to my mom's soon for some mouthwatering ribs.

 

[Foxfyre]

totally lost here. I really hate the new format, may end up leaving. How's everybody else doing with it?

Has some nice features and some that suck. There is a learning curve for us un-techie types but it does become tolerable with practice--we can all help with the stuff that works a little differently and isn't intuitive so don't hesitate to ask. Day by day it is getting a bit easier to use.

 

[Spoonman]

spent the day reroofing the shed. note the osha approved scaffolding I utilize.

also spent the weekend moving and stacking firewood. i'll finish up the day doing more of that.

 

[Ringel05]

After a short and easy day at work, going to head over to my mom's soon for some mouthwatering ribs.

Just had home made burgers with fries (baked) and yes I had ketchup and mayo on my burger........

 

[Big Black Dog]

Some Labor Day this turned out to be. I waited all day for Mrs. BBD to go into labor and now I find out she isn't even prego... *** tosses hands up in the air ***

 

[saveliberty]

Missed mowing three yards on my list, but the rest was completed. Have to get up early tomorrow so I can take three five cubic yard loads of brush to the city drop off yard. Then get ready for work. Good night.