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Title: Christmas
Post by: alta on Tuesday December 12, 2017, 06:02:46 PM Eastern
It’s getting close....


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ifCWN5pJGIE

on this board you gotta leave the “s” in  ;)
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: DC_1908 on Tuesday December 12, 2017, 06:24:43 PM Eastern
https://youtu.be/P37xPiRz1sg

this is pretty apprapos  ;D
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: alta on Tuesday December 12, 2017, 09:53:01 PM Eastern
https://youtu.be/P37xPiRz1sg

this is pretty apprapos  ;D

Yup, forgot about that one
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: alta on Wednesday December 13, 2017, 12:18:57 AM Eastern
the reason I like Queen and Billy Joel is the prodigious use of the piano....


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf_vTHI3A04
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: Maacoshark on Wednesday December 13, 2017, 05:48:52 PM Eastern
  For those that like Christmas music I suggest the Trans Siberian Orchestra..Pretty good show. I don't see any dates close to here but it looks like they are playing in DC tomorrow night.
https://youtu.be/Oe5BcfcfT50
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: alta on Sunday December 17, 2017, 06:02:36 PM Eastern
 :)


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hYlvfX3nwlc
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: DC_1908 on Sunday December 17, 2017, 10:21:08 PM Eastern
https://youtu.be/NHtStejrSSM


a new classic!
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: alta on Monday December 18, 2017, 09:45:34 PM Eastern
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mSabZvde5U4
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: DC_1908 on Tuesday December 19, 2017, 10:44:11 AM Eastern
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mSabZvde5U4 (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mSabZvde5U4)
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤠🤠🤣🤣🤣🤗
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: alta on Wednesday December 20, 2017, 01:19:36 PM Eastern
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=srHM2sIll68
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: alta on Thursday December 21, 2017, 01:27:00 PM Eastern
 ;D


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FlFjR2vUy3M
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: alta on Thursday December 21, 2017, 01:29:55 PM Eastern
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6d-4aOi3AzQ
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: alta on Monday December 25, 2017, 12:00:54 AM Eastern
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0-hWZGIWe_U
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: alta on Monday December 25, 2017, 01:02:25 PM Eastern

a little more traditional on this day...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n9kfdEyV3RQ
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: DC_1908 on Monday December 25, 2017, 05:39:35 PM Eastern

a little more traditional on this day...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n9kfdEyV3RQ (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n9kfdEyV3RQ)
two my & Ladys favorites in a classic
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: DC_1908 on Monday December 25, 2017, 05:51:54 PM Eastern
Thanks everyone for their parts and participation in getting this place started and making it successful.  You guys are awesome and so are our boards!!


Merry Christmas and many more!


-Detroit_Caps_1908
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: Maacoshark on Wednesday December 27, 2017, 02:00:19 PM Eastern
  We got our first real cold snap just in time for Christmas. -32c overnight with a windchill of - 45c. For anyone interested -45c is -49f. Its just like Siberia. Fn nasty.
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: DC_1908 on Wednesday December 27, 2017, 02:50:34 PM Eastern
  We got our first real cold snap just in time for Christmas. -32c overnight with a windchill of - 45c. For anyone interested -45c is -49f. Its just like Siberia. Fn nasty.


That actually sounds kinda fun, for about 5, maybe 3, minutes 🤣


I Russian I worked with said when he was on the military stationed in Siberia, they would play a “game” where they would go outside in weather like that, slam a bottle a vodka and feel nothing, then go inside and it would hit all at once. . .


Not sure if I should call BS on that ie not, but it does sound bad ass!
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: Maacoshark on Wednesday December 27, 2017, 04:05:39 PM Eastern
  We got our first real cold snap just in time for Christmas. -32c overnight with a windchill of - 45c. For anyone interested -45c is -49f. Its just like Siberia. Fn nasty.


That actually sounds kinda fun, for about 5, maybe 3, minutes 🤣


I Russian I worked with said when he was on the military stationed in Siberia, they would play a “game” where they would go outside in weather like that, slam a bottle a vodka and feel nothing, then go inside and it would hit all at once. . .


Not sure if I should call BS on that ie not, but it does sound bad ass!
    I dont think you would last 3 mins. In those wind conditions skin will freeze in less than a minute. Maybe one day you will get to try it.
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: ArJunaZ on Wednesday December 27, 2017, 06:16:03 PM Eastern
  We got our first real cold snap just in time for Christmas. -32c overnight with a windchill of - 45c. For anyone interested -45c is -49f. Its just like Siberia. Fn nasty.

This is for real.  I've often backpacked and camped outdoors for weeks at a time in weather like that . . .  without a tent.  Just a overstuffed down sleeping bag rated to -40° and a 6' x 8' nylon tarp.  I always carried everything I needed for two weeks on my back.  I lost 18 lbs during the two week trip and a total of 26 lbs. as I kept  losing for another week afterwards.  As I got older I did start to bring a tent.  Sleeping bag ratings are meant to be inside a tent, so we cold.  I remember one night I was listening to the radio in my WalkMan cassette player (early`80s it was) and a station in a town near the mountain we were on said it was -32°F, so it had to be colder up thousands of feet on the mountain.  I remember I could not feel anything below my knees one night.   On that trip I was sleeping one night in a nylon mesh hammock in similar very cold weather.  Because of the extreme cold I had the sleeping bag zipped up so tight there was only a tiny 1/4=inch hole to breathe through with a bandana covering it to try and warm the incoming air as I breathed.  I was trying to roll over in my hammock to get comfortable and I fell out of the hammock.  We were camped on a fairly steep hill and of course my arms were not coming out of the sleeping bag anytime soon. You can imagine a slick nylon cocoon sleeping bag on rock hard snow, I was sliding downhill fast.  It took me about 10-15 seconds or so to get my arms out so I could stop myself sliding down the hill.  My buddy was laughing so hard as he heard what happened that he fell out of his hammock and slid down to join me.  Fun memories.
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: Maacoshark on Wednesday December 27, 2017, 06:48:29 PM Eastern
    That did sound like fun. Where did you guys do this?
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: ArJunaZ on Wednesday December 27, 2017, 08:24:53 PM Eastern
    That did sound like fun. Where did you guys do this?

 Early to mid `80s for this story. We continued doing this every year for two weeks every winter, usually in February/March time frame until 1995.  We also grew from two of us to 3 and then 4 guys.
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: Maacoshark on Wednesday December 27, 2017, 08:51:49 PM Eastern
  I dare you to do that here in January.
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: ArJunaZ on Wednesday December 27, 2017, 09:09:48 PM Eastern
  I dare you to do that here in January.

I'm too old and not healthy enough to do that now, but back then I would have done it with no trouble.  We did Mount Washington in the Presidential Range of the White Mountains in New Hampshire in February 94 and 95.  Solid ice, wicked cold and wicked winds.
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: alta on Thursday December 28, 2017, 12:26:06 AM Eastern
well, I've been hunting in the shenandoah valley where the only thing that didn't freeze was what was in the cooler, but that was all alcohol anyway. That happened several times during bow and gun season, which is oct-dec, it was a touch cold early in the season. And I've been skiing in WV and CO where the high of the day was 5*F. It's not bad when you're being physical at the same time, and dress properly for it
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: alta on Thursday December 28, 2017, 01:06:03 AM Eastern
This year it was just dad, the dog and me for Christmas dinner so I made us a shepherds pie with elk and lamb meat, turned out very good. I suspect dad had 3rds because I didn't tell him it had elk in it. Damn dog was in the kitchen for two hours drooling while I was making it, he's very good at detecting game meat. When I walk him and we see a deer I call it a deer, when it's in the kitchen I call it Bambi and he knows both words. He was lucky find, he's smart enough to be stubborn. He won't do things he doesn't want to. But that's what I like about him.
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: Maacoshark on Thursday December 28, 2017, 01:27:31 PM Eastern
well, I've been hunting in the shenandoah valley where the only thing that didn't freeze was what was in the cooler, but that was all alcohol anyway. That happened several times during bow and gun season, which is oct-dec, it was a touch cold early in the season. And I've been skiing in WV and CO where the high of the day was 5*F. It's not bad when you're being physical at the same time, and dress properly for it
  5 F is a bit chilly but if you are dressed for it, its not too bad. I use to be outdoors all the time during the winter but not so much with age. About the only outdoor activity I do in winter now is skating on rare occasions. Maybe I'll get back into ice fishing even though I'm not a fish person. Dont matter ice fishing is more about drinking than fishing.