@mikemcintyrewpg We finish our spring week of holidays today. Latest spring 1 week period we could get together. Next up the 2 weeks around Folk Fest. Praying the AC on my bus works every day this week.
@jackfish937@jjcwpg We're campground hosts on the east side of Birds Hill Park Campground this season. Week of vacation and the washrooms are still closed on this side due to frozen sewer lines. Of course no sewer at our site. Boil water due to late system startup.
As US troops retreat in cowardice, Canada will lead to protect Europe’s 2nd front from Russian invasion in the Baltics.
Canadian troops will go beyond their original mission and have been moved forward towards the Russian border. Will be the first to fight if Russia invades.
BREAKING: A Memphis man has been arrested after allegedly scratching off EVERY SINGLE scratch-off ticket at a Germantown Exxon while working the register… because apparently his retirement strategy was “manifesting.”
According to police, 32-year-old Lemonjello Washington decided the Tennessee Lottery was basically a giant reimbursement program. Witnesses say he spent the entire overnight shift scratching tickets like a raccoon that found a Red Bull and a quarter.
The plan? Simple.
Scratch all the tickets.
Use the winning tickets to pay for the losing tickets.
Pocket the profit.
Become Memphis royalty.
Unfortunately, investigators say the math “collapsed almost immediately,” which experts are calling “the most Shelby County Schools thing ever.”
Police say Lemonjello confidently told officers:
“Y’all don’t understand… eventually one of these gone hit.”
Sir. That is not investing. That is emotional support gambling.
Things became suspicious around 3:17 AM when customers walked in asking for scratch-offs and Lemonjello allegedly replied:
“We fresh out… but spiritually we up right now.”
By sunrise, the counter reportedly looked like a confetti cannon exploded inside a bankruptcy hearing. Losing tickets were stacked knee-high. The only big winner was the Exxon trash can.
Authorities say the total losses exceeded several thousand dollars, while total winnings amounted to:
• 3 free tickets
• $11
• and a coupon for a free Mountain Dew.
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BREAKING: The Texas televangelist who claimed God is using the Iran War to begin the Biblical Apocalypse and Rapture up all the Christians to Heaven on Trump's birthday this June 14th because Trump is the "2nd Messiah" just got arrested for cooking meth in his church basement.
Look at this Norwegian church. It has been standing through Norwegian rain for over 840 years.
The trees were prepared for nearly two decades before anyone cut them down.
Workers walked into old-growth pine forests and stripped the chosen trees of their tops and their branches. The trunks stayed standing for fifteen to twenty years. The roots kept pulling resin upward. The pitch bled out of every old branch socket and saturated the heartwood from the inside.
By the time the trunks were felled in winter, the heartwood was no longer wood. It was malmfuru. Ore-pine. Functionally pressure-treated lumber, except the pressure was applied by the tree itself, for free, across two decades before construction started.
That is why iron was rejected. Iron rusts. Iron expands and contracts on a different cycle than the wood around it. After 100 winters iron splits the fiber and the joint dies. Wooden pegs swell with moisture in the same direction as the staves. The joints get tighter over time. Tongue-and-groove walls. Ground sills on a stone foundation. Four corner posts carrying load down through stone, never up through soil.
Then the tar. Pine roots and stumps stacked under clay, lit on fire, burned for two days under controlled airflow. The wood decomposes into pitch. The pitch gets reapplied to the church every 10 to 15 years. Including this decade.
Norway built around 2,000 stave churches between 1150 and 1350. 28 survive. Borgund is the best preserved because its corner staves rest on stone, not soil. The ground never won.
Modern lumber arrives at the construction site finished.
Borgund's builders made the lumber finish itself.