THANK YOU so much Maria for the birthday wishes! (I'm happy to say I feel great after a wonderful dinner of Halibut with all the "fixins".) You are spot on with your "Age is only a number" comment. I firmly believe that!
Good morning treker! all the very best, all the joy you can ever have and may you be blessed abundantly today, tomorrow and the days to come! Happy Birthday! Age is only a number:-)) Might not be the best time for a party, you have the rest of the year to do so before the next one!:-)) You and your family keep well and safe....Maria
Me too, my friend. And I'll tell you, I was nervous coming down to the wire. I kept rechecking that it was coming out exactly right. I wanted to finish with a bang so I found that jazzy, colorful 500-piece puzzle several days ago. I worked on it while I did the last 30 or so puzzles toward 20,000. I stopped with 499 pieces assembled and one to go. Then after I did puzzle number 19,999 I went back to it and put in that last piece, piece number 1,000,000! It felt great!
Good on ya mate!!!!!!!!!!!! I just LOVE when "the PLAN" comes together. Your piece/puzzle average is most noteworthy. YAHOO! (You might want to do a screen save as you won't ever do this combo again!)
Just got on here after working in the yard most of the day. Today was spent transplanting 24 Primroses to a raised bed in the back yard. They are blooming and will look lovely when they grow a bit and "fill out" some. The Cranes are due to make their appearance this coming weekend. Stay tuned and Thanks for your interest Val!
No, it confused me a little at first, but you mean actually select the puzzles now, and then solve my way through the list knowing it will come out exactly. As opposed to bumbling along trying to keep close and then hope I can get all the right numbers at the end. Brilliant! What a good idea! In the first place it will take the uncertainty out of these last few days AND it will be a whole different kind of fun to do! It never even occurred to me to do that. Thanks Fred, that's brilliant!
Some advice. I found that I could get a leg up on the whole affair by "Bookmarking" from now on to the "finish". This gives you a plan without having to worry about the "numbers" (solves and pieces) coming out at the end. The planning will have been done NOW without any pressure re: the numbers you want. They will have already been configured. You can solve the bookmarked puzzles with no concern whether you are going to finish (numbers /puzzles) together. Does this make sense? As I read this it sounds silly. Forgive me! Have FUN!!!
By coincidence I just turned on my computer too! I have only 71 puzzles to go and by a bigger coincidence I stand exactly at my goal of 50 pieces per solve right now. I'm hovering around it, of course, but doing big and small puzzles. So yes, I'll keep on truckin' indeed and may be there in as little as a week!
On a friendlier note, binge solving is not how I do Jigidi these days. And only rarely in the past. I'm totally in awe of you and your numbers, and "lordmojo" will be hitting 10,000,000 pieces joined in less than a year. He's only been on Jigidi a couple of years longer than we have. Anyway, you're right, I should just keep marching at my own pace to the 1,000,000/20,000 landmark.
Hi Fred! This works. I get a notification every time somebody comments on a puzzle that I've already commented on. I'm responding 16 hours later simply because my computer's been off for the last 16 hours. I'm leery of leaving it on 24/7. :-)
Yep, I'm getting there. Should be the end of April or the first week of May. I've already started keeping a diligent eye on my average, hovering around plus or minus 50 so it doesn't get so far out that I can't get it back. It's being fun!
It rained all day today so I was a "happy camper" to have accomplished what I did get done a few days ago. Yikes snow! That definitely puts the "kibosh" on ones gardening cleanup chores. Spring is on the way!!
Hi ef! The yard/work began 2 weeks ago. Some friends will be visiting from Oklahoma at the end of May when "thangs" should be poppin'. I'll post an area that has just been reconfigured to include two metal Cranes that I ordered online last month. They have arrived and are awesome! One Crane is standing and the other is preening. Blue Fescue grasses have been divided and strategically relocated in a re-worked/planted section part of the landscape. I will use small size bark chips to cover the soil and provide an added texture to the setting. Soil is too damp now. (My shoes were a mess after 3 days of renovation work. ;-) Stay tuned.... And,...GOOD on ya for doin' the deep water workouts. You're a smart lady taking care of yourself. BRAVO!!
Hi Treker, got your message and glad to hear all is well and keeping busy:) You do such a beautiful work in your yard, looking forward to see some more. The aches and pain is part of A.G.E. I have been told but us seniors are not sissy! I turned 78 in November 2019, still hiking and deep water workout 3 times a week, anything to help my aching bones and it really works! Nice chatting with you, take care, ciao for now.
Just got back on here and read your "secret". I'll share mine,... that I worked out this afternoon before your contact 3 hours ago. True, true,true!! I did the math to reach the 3 Mil. mark and it'll take me 380 days at today's rate of solve. We're havin' too much FUN!! ;-)
Fred, I'll share a secret with you. I myself am on a quest like your 100,000/2,000,000. I'm shooting for 20,000/1,000,000. I should get there sometime next spring. ☺ ☺ ☺
Hey Pat,...this is soooo weird! A soon as I hit the "post" key I glanced up at the Leaderboard for this puzzle and saw your name!!!! As I was wondering how things were going for you, you "chimed in"!! Pretty spooky if you ask me!!! And with that said, I'll reciprocate and wish you a Merry Christmas as well. ;-)
Thanks for the clarification on those "never to be forgotten" memories. The mind, as the old tv ad used to state "is a terrible thing to waste"! Remember?
They are separate things at the same location over the lake. As I recall now, though, the rope (not wire) crawl was the one at 60 feet. We did a suspended crawl under the rope, not what I believe now is called an Australian crawl on top of the rope. Then you touch a metal "Ranger Tab" and hang by your hands and then drop. The zip line started at 90 feet above the water. I wonder how fast we were going when we got to the bottom!
I've seen promotional footage of the Ranger school zip line apparatus on tv! Looks really neat!! The challenge I always thought appeared tough was a "belly crawl" across a wire suspended high above a pond/lake. At some point far out on the line, and you can avow, you must drop to the water and swim to shore I imagine. True? (maybe that is what you were describing) Yeah,...so cool! ;-)
Hi Fred. I just got back from a nice trip to Chicago, only 4 days, so I just found this. We did for-real zip-lines in Ranger School in the army. Starting at 60 feet on a pole, over a little lake, suspended under the apparatus with only a hand grip. When we bellied out about 10 feet over the water we let go and took the plunge! It was so cool. ☺
My wife went "sightseeing" in this airplane. She "opted out" of the "zip line" experience that I chose to experience that day. What a kick that was!! The accident is still being investigated as to the circumstances that caused this terrible accident.
haha treker, what i was asking... to remember me next year on my birthday of making a possible trip for an aerial tour on the plane-boat/ i was not planning a data with you.personal haha.. please tell your wife ☺☺☺☺☺
More importantly I'm coming up on the 50th anniversary of the day I was wounded in Vietnam on Groundhog Day, February 2! No matter the actual wound, the way we said it was "...the day I got my ass shot to pieces."
hi treker,, thanks for your birthday wishes! very thoughtfull♣ something went wrong with the mail via Ank puzzlejac i think. thanks and gr. marionugchelen☼
Hi Maria! I live in Boise, Idaho and it's 7;15 PM (still 2018). Here's wishing you and yours a healthy and fun New Year! (The lady in that old clip is/was quite talented!!) ;-)
Happy New Year to you as well! I loved watching the Gong Show "back in the day." This was a performance I missed. Wow, some kinda juggler eh? Thanks for this clip and,...HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and yours!!!!!
Here's a short clip for everybody to enjoy, under 3 minutes. It's from a 1970s TV show called The Gong Show, which featured lots of zany comedy by the host and panelists, and brief appearances by contestants who did all kinds of things. This is a great one:
My older daughter, the one I just visited, lives about 280 miles away, a little over 4 hrs. west of here. You never know how your kids are going to grow up to be! She wants nothing to do with children (of her own - - she loves her niece and nephew to death) and says she has no interest in marriage, although after several long false starts she now, in her early forties, seems to have found the right guy! I like him fine, and he me, so I'm still holding out hope.
My other daughter lives 490 miles east, about 7 1/2 hrs. She's so similar to her sister, yet she came out the opposite way. She couldn't believe she came home from four years of college without a husband! But after a few years she found him. She was with ATF and he's a Special Agent of the FBI and they met in Taekwondo class of all places. Both black belts. (She was what we would call Internal Affairs, catching ATF Agents at credit card fraud. She was good at it and got a lot of people prosecuted or fired! He's one of the FBI's top bomb experts.) She quit a few years after their wedding, when she got pregnant actually, and now I have a 9-year-old granddaughter and a 6-year-old grandson. She's about to turn 41 in a few weeks. Big house in Virginia, traditional family, the whole nine yards. The older one is an MIT engineer, the younger a double-honors graduate of St. Olaf College in Minnesota. (That's where her mother went!) As you can tell, I'm proud of them both!!! ☺ Have a happy season!
Hey buddy, Thanks for the greeting and melody! You've been a busy Dad that's for sure. Are your daughters near your residence or did the visits require out of town travel? That can be a trial in itself. Our kids, a son and daughter live minutes from home. They are both married. My son has no children. My daughter and sil have 5 kids. The younger 3 adopted black kids joined the family when they were babies. They are now in HS. Grandson Peter will be home from Law school (in Fla.) and Grace, the oldest granddaughter will be home from Spokane, WA. where she is working on her Phd. in Med. Sci. (Both have received "full ride" scholarships for their entire college efforts.) These two are a joy to be around and we'll have a great time albeit short while they are home for the holidays. Soooo, with that said we wish you the Merriest of Christmases and a kick ass New Year!!
♫ ♩♬ ♪ ♫ M E R R Y ♪ C H R I S T M A S ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♬ to you Fred!
I got home last night from my daughter's house where we celebrated Christmas starting Thursday and all weekend. I had Thanksgiving at my other daughter's house, so I'm all set for a peaceful Christmas Day and New Year's!
Gladstone- A flight in a float plane had been on her "bucket list" for some time. (I earned a Private Pilot's License in 1970.) I've yet to fly in a float plane!!!
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