Thread: Progress On My Lake Cabin

Originally Posted by Southern Woman

I really marveled at your description of the spider and his web. You are really observent, Stink. That cabin of yours is magnificent to say the least...and you did it yourself..nothing more enjoyable that knowing you make it and did a great job. Hope to see it early next year.

Thanks for the compliment Southern Woman, makes me feel good about all this. I sure am looking forward to having you and Rigrunner here for a visit later on. Looks like I won't be making it out to Ft. Cobb until after the 1st of the year, but I want to pay you guys a visit also. Maybe ol Crappie Josh and I can car pool out to see you because he enjoys fishing Cobb too. It will be the 1st time for me and also, the gentleman that bought my little pontoon boat has a place at Cobb and he wanted me to come out to see him someday. I don't think he stays there much in the winter though.

Here's a neat story about observation skills: Brand new group of medical students are assigned to their medical instructor and he advises them they will be learning how to observe that day.

Oh, they're all eager and wearing their new white lab jackets, got their stethoscopes proudly adorned around the back on their necks, and ready to impress the instructor.

He takes the group down to the morgue at the hospital and has the attendant pull out a corpse. He tells them to all gather around and they do......each one has an unobstructed view of the dead person laying their without clothes.

The old doctor rolls over the corpse onto his belly and then does something that stuns the new medical students, he pokes his index finger into the anus of the dead person. He's standing there with his finger inserted and ask all of them if they can see what he has done.

They all nod and then he pulls his finger out and tells them to repeat exactly what he did. One by one they walk up to the corpse, insert their index finger and then quickly pull it free. When they've all finished the medical instructor really blows their minds, he inserts his finger into his mouth and holds it there for a little while.

After he pulls it out of his mouth he tells them all to repeat his action and they do........ slowly inserting their own finger into the mouth, almost gagging, but eventually, each medical student completes what the medical instructor has shown them.

And then the old doctor tells them: "The lesson today has been observation and each one of you failed this lesson. But I hope in the future you will be more observant because had you been really paying attention, you would have noticed that I inserted the index finger of my left hand into the corpse, but used the index finger of my right hand to stick in my mouth."

:D

Ewww. Lol.

Got my wood burning stove hooked up last Saturday and have been enjoying it ever since. Heat pump doesn't kick on and I'm hoping to save on my electric bill while using the wood stove.

The wood stove needs a good paint job and I ended up having to use a piece of rusty stove pipe, but I am impatient and decided to hook it up now and paint it later. I can't find the right color right now anyway.

This stove is around 20 years old, is full of soapstone and weighs in around 400 lbs. Once you get it fired up, the heat is wonderful and even after the fire dies down, it keeps putting out heat for hours.

I'm enjoying this thing more than I thought I would, thanks for looking.:D

I bet that does put out some heat.

Stink- The secret to the wood stove is not build tooooooooo big of a fire in it because it can force you to open the windows. I been there. I put a box fan that I got at Wallyworld behind mine and it moves the air and warms my cabin quickly. U B in heavan now. It bea fishin time now buddy! You has arrived. PARTY AT STINKS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Stinkfinger

I sat there last night and wondered what was going on in the spider's mind. Does he have any thoughts or is he just like a little machine, doing what his program tells him to do.

Dude...you really need to get out more...and leave the Jack and Coke alone

Serioiusly, it's funny that you mention that because I wonder the same things. When I try and share them with my Wife, she just looks at me like I fell off my rocker!

I've pondered away many hours wondering how in the world a squirrel thinks it's going to remember where it buried one of a thousand acorns it must bury in the Fall. I mean some squirrels appear to take the utmost care and concern when burying a an acorn. It looks like they have to find JUST the right spot before digging.

Then occasionally I think about going and stealing that acorn after he's left, so that just in case he does remember where he buried it, he'll think he's going senile when he comes back for it and it's gone. Oh yeah, my Wife says I can have a twisted mind sometimes also :rolleyes:

That cabin of yours is looking really good. Is that a soapstone stove?

Edit: Just reread your post...yeah it's soapstone...that's what I get for speed and skim reading at the same time!

Don, I used to run my teachers nuts, especially the ones that had sat themselves up on a perch, thinking they were far above us kids in intelligence. I'd study the lesson for the next day's lecture and study information I knew even the teacher wouldn't know, just to quiz he or she about incidental facts.

Thanks all for your comments on my stove.:D

Okiedon- You have tooooooooooo much time on your hands.