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Posted by CDNRatMan
- August 15, 2015, 23:33:47 PMmy story is better then a lame wandering lighting bolt from the havens.....lol.....imagine if the hound had had her collar on she could have been fried.
Posted by 49Reo
- August 15, 2015, 21:55:16 PMSheesh. What a mess. Like troll says, Luckily that is all that got damaged. Your house could have gone up in smoke, then you would have had to move the whole kit and kaboodle up to Andys......or Trolls, maybe...Trolls place would be good, you could open a bay just for motorcycles and such....Troll could do all that work for you....
Uh oh. I just realized I am starting to sound like the Ratman...... 
Posted by CDNRatMan
- August 15, 2015, 16:29:59 PMNow wait are you blaming me for all this damage?
Or are you trying to say what I was telling everyone at Drift In was a tall tale? But it was a good story........Even got a good laugh from Dawn......lol.....
Posted by Troll
- August 15, 2015, 15:39:53 PMYou're lucky that is all that got cooked. I've seen mainboards with holes burned in them, big screen tvs catch fire, lots of stuff...
Posted by greenbarn
- August 15, 2015, 12:40:51 PMQuote from: CDNRatMan on July 20, 2015, 21:45:34 PMOK, I'm FINALLY getting back fully on-line after the "Andy" night. we had such a lightning storm that night, Between being gone to Drift-In, a couple more riding days after that, then our family vacation last week, I still don't have all the damage fixed. The lightning was so bad that night, I feel blessed this is all that was damaged (so far).I found the GB residence with no real issues after that, and I will echo Troll's sentiments from his experience with the family last year, you can not find such nice hosts, they do have a very strange custom, after supper they all stand around the dinning room and then suddenly they all jump and make noises and turn the light off and then go and sit in the dark living room and chat and missus GB goes around lighting candles. Strange but a super couple.
Phone lines coming into the house: fried
Internet router: fried
Computer network card: Fried
In-ground dog fence transformer: fried
Dog fence control box: fried
Once I found the phone lines, and repaired them, still no internet (we have DSL). Figured out the router was not working - got a new one from the ISP, and got it to hookup to DSL, and I could get wireless internet on the laptop - but nothing working on my main computer. Figured out is must be the network card, so went out and bought a WIFI adapter, and went that route. So now I'm finally back fully on-line.
The dog fence will have to wait....
Posted by CDNRatMan
- August 11, 2015, 21:05:38 PMOk I finally got the picture that I had not taken and it was shown to me and I really needed this picture to show that when the large lady sings it is over.......
Posted by CDNRatMan
- August 08, 2015, 21:52:09 PMThought you were on your second honeymoon why are you on here breaking my chops ....and yes your wife is such a sweetie........when she comes here for a visit I have more of the fudge just for her.......lol....
Posted by greenbarn
- August 08, 2015, 20:07:34 PMQuote from: CDNRatMan on August 06, 2015, 15:36:28 PMWell, first of all, Logan is obviously a better model than you are.... Looks pretty sharp in his 'coon skin hat and goggles...Now for all you people who beat me up over the auction at Drift In and for making a big deal about the Minion goggles and why I wanted them so bad please look at the pictures below and then I'll accept your apologies for think ill of me........and Stephen I really hope you are getting a lot of use or viewing use of the leather vest I bid on in your behalf.....now you just need to buy her the chaps.......lol.....
I am in the first picture with the goggles ok....
on the ride home I found a place selling Danial Boone coon skin fur hats and bought one....and with the goggles ...
Second of all, that's definitely an example of a thorn between roses in that first picture, ain't it?
Posted by CDNRatMan
- August 06, 2015, 15:36:28 PMNow for all you people who beat me up over the auction at Drift In and for making a big deal about the Minion goggles and why I wanted them so bad please look at the pictures below and then I'll accept your apologies for think ill of me........and Stephen I really hope you are getting a lot of use or viewing use of the leather vest I bid on in your behalf.....now you just need to buy her the chaps.......lol.....
I am in the first picture with the goggles ok....
on the ride home I found a place selling Danial Boone coon skin fur hats and bought one....and with the goggles ...
Posted by CDNRatMan
- August 04, 2015, 07:42:38 AMzig, when I was in CO I went to were they filmed the movie Sacketts.....so there.....lol......When I was riding along some of the back roads and side way places in TN I was thinking of the boys walking those trails and the far Blue Mountains.......Cumberland Gap....is also a reason to ride that way because he mentions it so often......
Posted by zig
- August 04, 2015, 06:18:39 AMQuote from: CDNRatMan on August 03, 2015, 21:28:46 PMgot to visit the Cumberland Gap were the Sackett's of Louis L'Amour fame lived and thrived from.
Love the Louis L'Amour reference! My trip out west, I kept thinking this must be what Mr. L'Amour was seeing while writing those books. But I thought if I mentioned that, no one would know what I was talking about.
Posted by greenbarn
- August 03, 2015, 21:57:16 PMQuote from: CDNRatMan on August 03, 2015, 21:28:46 PMlike the 2 wingers on the ferry from Wolfe Island to Kingston who treated me like a leaper, but that was fine by me.
It was probably that chinese pony tail thingy on your helmet, don't you know....
Glad to hear you got home safely, and happy to hear you had a good time.Posted by CDNRatMan
- August 03, 2015, 21:28:46 PM Well my trip is over Drift In 15 is done and I am now home. After 4,852.8 kms or 3,015.39012 miles, two countries, one province, 10 states and 2 ferries to make it a round trip, time to do the math and see what I actually spent and what I did with the money. But it will never pay for the fantastic time I had, the fantastic people I met and the fun I had. That includes seeing all the accidents, some wonderful individual in the state of Maryland making my load on the motorcycle lighter I lightened my internal load at a rest area. There is a number of people who made this trip a very memorable one and made it so much fun, but if I name them I am sure to miss one person and then I will hurt someone's feelings so better to just say thanks to everyone who I met and talking to. I got to take a few must do for a biker rides off my bucket list, Moonshiners 28, Tail of the Dragon 129, got to visit the Cumberland Gap were the Sackett's of Louis L'Amour fame lived and thrived from.
I met more people on bikes that were super cool, and some like the 2 wingers on the ferry from Wolfe Island to Kingston who treated me like a leaper, but that was fine by me. Meeting a Drifter rider in the Shenandoah National Park, Sky Line Drive who was from Toronto, like 4 hours south of me here in North Bay.....who would have thought it. Got to met a bunch of Drifter riders and some who I have known a long time but only on the forum, and then my fellow Canadian Drifter riders from Windsor and Arnprior....lol....what a fun ride it has been. So to move forward.
I now have packing and unpacking my bike to an art, but I do like the little trailer I saw behind a members bike, time to check into one of them puppies. Also time to start to plan next summer's trips and ideas over the winter, I have a fall ride planned and want to do P.E.I. yet before I am to old to ride so plans are in the works now......
So to any and all who made my ride a fun one thanks and for those of you who were there fantastic and Ron and Heidi, much thanks to both of you for all your work......
Posted by CDNRatMan
- July 28, 2015, 19:21:04 PMsome more picture taken by Kim
Posted by 49Reo
- July 28, 2015, 17:31:55 PMCool trailer. Wonder of he made that?