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So true Duke, they don't think about twice the work!
You know it. And it’s necessary work that you can’t always get to quickly, so it often becomes a bigger issue/problem/task. Now excuse me while I head back out to finish cleaning out that last run of rain gutter and install new gutter guards. 👷‍♂️ 🔨
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Everyone I know who doesn’t have a cottage of their own thinks it’s all sunsets, S’mores and Happy Hours. 😓 😰
You need a utility trailer to haul that stuff if you don't already have one. I have done stuff like that with a shell on the truck and it sucks!!😂
 

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The Ranger from a far with Lake Bois D Arc in the background. It is really calming and peaceful out at the lake.
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As always, Happy and Safe Travels Drivers!
 

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The Ranger from a far with Lake Bois D Arc in the background. It is really calming and peaceful out at the lake.
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As always, Happy and Safe Travels Drivers!
Looks like you're having a good time by the lake and enjoying the time off. Keep it up and I see early retirement in your future. 😜
 

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Looks like you're having a good time by the lake and enjoying the time off. Keep it up and I see early retirement in your future. 😜
Here! Here!! If I knew retirement was going to be so great I would have done it sooner!! 😂 Once you get there it's so worth it! 😎
 


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Here! Here!! If I knew retirement was going to be so great I would have done it sooner!! 😂 Once you get there it's so worth it! 😎
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It's the best job I've ever had and every day is Saturday! I have to constantly look at my phone to see what day and date it is. lol

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It's the best job I've ever had and every day is Saturday! I have to constantly look at my phone to see what day and date it is. lol

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I did get the job at the gun range two days a week. So much fun working with customers and new shooter/gun owners. There's always a couple things you could do without but it's so minor I look forward to going to work. I can't always say that the last many years teaching. I did like my job and the interactions with my students and colleagues but like any job the powers that be can sure ruin it at times.
 

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I did get the job at the gun range two days a week. So much fun working with customers and new shooter/gun owners. There's always a couple things you could do without but it's so minor I look forward to going to work. I can't always say that the last many years teaching. I did like my job and the interactions with my students and colleagues but like any job the powers that be can sure ruin it at times.
Yeah but that's not really a job, that's a fun day out of the house that you get paid for. Like when Norm on Cheers got a job at the brewery and almost cried and refused his first paycheck. lol
 

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Everyone I know who doesn’t have a cottage of their own thinks it’s all sunsets, S’mores and Happy Hours. 😓 😰
They are if you hire a landscaper or local kid 🤔. Us stubborn old coots wind up doing it ourselves. Trouble is my Ranger identifies as a garage queen 👸 that only carries stuff from Home depot 😁.
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Trouble is my Ranger identifies as a garage queen 👸 that only carries stuff from Home depot the liquor store 😁.
Fixed it for ya Ed. 🥃🍾
 

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Fixed it for ya Ed. 🥃🍾
Too bad we don't go to the mall 😁. First time I drove it in the yard, it got stuck in the mud and we had to pull it out. A truck with car tires is basically a big car.
 

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You know it. And it’s necessary work that you can’t always get to quickly, so it often becomes a bigger issue/problem/task. Now excuse me while I head back out to finish cleaning out that last run of rain gutter and install new gutter guards. 👷‍♂️ 🔨
I have a sign in my garage that I had in my shop. It reads, If you have nothing to do don't do it here. Now it takes me 2 or 3 day's of doing nothing to make sure I'm done. 🙂
 

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Also, I love that you call it a shell. I think I’ve lived in so many different places that you could call it a shell, a cap, a topper, a canopy, or a camper camp and I’d know just what you were referring too. Funny how that’s a regional thing.
Funny you mentioned canopy. Shell and canopy were the only two terms I ever heard my dad use with his. Camper shell was another one later. It wasn't until sometime this century I heard the other terms used. 😂
 

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So true Duke, they don't think about twice the work!
More than twice the work, because you aren't always there when a problem rears its ugly head, and then it just gets worse until you finally catch it, and possibly even worse while you figure out how to fix it or source the materials to do so.
 

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Few days ago, we towed for the first time...many more to come...Intech Pursue 1,500lb camper, 300 miles from GA to home...very smooth towing experience at 70-80mph...hardly noticed the trailer behind us except the mpg took a hit...as expected, my normal highway of 18-19mpg dropped to 13-14...glad I didn't go for a taller camper...
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