Cheers!

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Good. Cuz I can't....

Why can you not, Stats, if you mind my asking?

I have an extremely rare allergy to beer. Not a drop for me.

However, I am part Irish somewhere in me body, fer Eye can dreek whiskey all night long!!!

I was worried there for a bit. lol I will join you for a shot of whiskey on St. Paddy's Day...whiskey with a beer chaser...what a combo.

 

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Anyone for a game of pool? Once the game has loaded, click on "Play as Guest".

8 Ball Quick Fire Pool - A free Pool Game

 

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[Kondor3]

Anyone for a game of pool?...

Nahhhh... once the sister and hubby show up on our doorstep this afternoon, off for a Sat-Sun-Mon long weekend getaway at a condo-resort via the sister's time-share...

Fox River Resort in the little flyspeck town of Sheridan, Illinois... nothing spectacular... just a restful weekend with lots of pool-time, and some mixed drinks and card-playing and movie-watching in the evenings...

Haven't been swimming since last August, and the damned winter's been so hard here in northeastern Illinois that the wife and I have a bad case of cabin-fever, and can't wait to stretch-out in that pool and get some serious swim-time in...

What a treat...

 

[Mertex]

Hope everyone has a wonderful, restful day.......

 

[Mertex]

Anyone for a game of pool?...

Nahhhh... once the sister and hubby show up on our doorstep this afternoon, off for a Sat-Sun-Mon long weekend getaway at a condo-resort via the sister's time-share...

Fox River Resort in the little flyspeck town of Sheridan, Illinois... nothing spectacular... just a restful weekend with lots of pool-time, and some mixed drinks and card-playing and movie-watching in the evenings...

Haven't been swimming since last August, and the damned winter's been so hard here in northeastern Illinois that the wife and I have a bad case of cabin-fever, and can't wait to stretch-out in that pool and get some serious swim-time in...

What a treat...

That's the best kind of vacation.....chillin....relaxin.....enjoying life!

 

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Anyone for a game of pool?...

Nahhhh... once the sister and hubby show up on our doorstep this afternoon, off for a Sat-Sun-Mon long weekend getaway at a condo-resort via the sister's time-share...

Fox River Resort in the little flyspeck town of Sheridan, Illinois... nothing spectacular... just a restful weekend with lots of pool-time, and some mixed drinks and card-playing and movie-watching in the evenings...

Haven't been swimming since last August, and the damned winter's been so hard here in northeastern Illinois that the wife and I have a bad case of cabin-fever, and can't wait to stretch-out in that pool and get some serious swim-time in...

What a treat...

I envy you. I am so sick of the snow. It would be nice to get away somewhere warm. You have a wonderful weekend, Kondor3.

 

[Kondor3]

Anyone for a game of pool?...

Nahhhh... once the sister and hubby show up on our doorstep this afternoon, off for a Sat-Sun-Mon long weekend getaway at a condo-resort via the sister's time-share...

Fox River Resort in the little flyspeck town of Sheridan, Illinois... nothing spectacular... just a restful weekend with lots of pool-time, and some mixed drinks and card-playing and movie-watching in the evenings...

Haven't been swimming since last August, and the damned winter's been so hard here in northeastern Illinois that the wife and I have a bad case of cabin-fever, and can't wait to stretch-out in that pool and get some serious swim-time in...

What a treat...

I envy you. I am so sick of the snow. It would be nice to get away somewhere warm. You have a wonderful weekend, Kondor3.

Thanks, but don't get me wrong...

No place warm... just a big getaway condo, only 30-40 miles from home, and probably deeper in snow than we are in our own town... it's just that they have a nice rec-center and a big greenhouse -like building with a huge indoor heated pool...

It ain't warm weather and green grass, but, as a cheap getaway weekend and a chance to stretch the winter-gnarled muscles in a pool... heck yeah, I'll take it...

We might even backtrack 20-30 miles and hit one of the casinos in Joliet for a few hours tonight or tomorrow night, for grins and giggles, but that's about the extent of the excitement...

The wife and I have been on a couple of cruises (2005, 2008) - Royal Caribbean - in both the Eastern and Western Caribbean - and thinking about another for late 2014 or early 2015...

Now THAT's a mid-winter vacation... the beaches of Jamaica or Belize or Grand Caymans or Cozumel, etc., smack-dab in the middle of the worst cold weather... bathing suits, and drinks-in-hand...

Mind you, we opened-up a special savings-account just for that purpose, months in advance of booking, but it was worth it, as a grand time and as a memory-maker...

Right about now, though, I'd settle for a two-day road trip down to Florida, then a few days there, then back - or a quick weekend outing by air to southern California or the Yucatan or sumfin', just to get warm again...

Not that that's gonna happen anytime soon...

This weekend's pool-in-a-hothouse will have to do as a substitute... even though we'll be able to see snow on the ground through the windows... hey, if the sun keeps shining, I can pretend, anyway...

Thanks!

 

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Well, I'm going to have a nice cold beer with these two fine gentlemen who keep helping themself to the whiskey while Stats is schlepping about getting supplies.

 

[Mertex]

Nahhhh... once the sister and hubby show up on our doorstep this afternoon, off for a Sat-Sun-Mon long weekend getaway at a condo-resort via the sister's time-share...

Fox River Resort in the little flyspeck town of Sheridan, Illinois... nothing spectacular... just a restful weekend with lots of pool-time, and some mixed drinks and card-playing and movie-watching in the evenings...

Haven't been swimming since last August, and the damned winter's been so hard here in northeastern Illinois that the wife and I have a bad case of cabin-fever, and can't wait to stretch-out in that pool and get some serious swim-time in...

What a treat...

I envy you. I am so sick of the snow. It would be nice to get away somewhere warm. You have a wonderful weekend, Kondor3.

Thanks, but don't get me wrong...

No place warm... just a big getaway condo, only 30-40 miles from home, and probably deeper in snow than we are in our own town... it's just that they have a nice rec-center and a big greenhouse -like building with a huge indoor heated pool...

It ain't warm weather and green grass, but, as a cheap getaway weekend and a chance to stretch the winter-gnarled muscles in a pool... heck yeah, I'll take it...

We might even backtrack 20-30 miles and hit one of the casinos in Joliet for a few hours tonight or tomorrow night, for grins and giggles, but that's about the extent of the excitement...

The wife and I have been on a couple of cruises (2005, 2008) - Royal Caribbean - in both the Eastern and Western Caribbean - and thinking about another for late 2014 or early 2015...

Now THAT's a mid-winter vacation... the beaches of Jamaica or Belize or Grand Caymans or Cozumel, etc., smack-dab in the middle of the worst cold weather... bathing suits, and drinks-in-hand...

Mind you, we opened-up a special savings-account just for that purpose, months in advance of booking, but it was worth it, as a grand time and as a memory-maker...

Right about now, though, I'd settle for a two-day road trip down to Florida, then a few days there, then back - or a quick weekend outing by air to southern California or the Yucatan or sumfin', just to get warm again...

Not that that's gonna happen anytime soon...

This weekend's pool-in-a-hothouse will have to do as a substitute... even though we'll be able to see snow on the ground through the windows... hey, if the sun keeps shining, I can pretend, anyway...

Thanks!

Nice....I can hardly wait for it to be warm enough here that we can go into our pool....we keep it running all winter and it looks inviting, but the water is colder than hell....oops, that didn't make sense, did it? Colder than a southbound Polar bear's ass....hows that.

 

[Kondor3]

"...Nice....I can hardly wait for it to be warm enough here that we can go into our pool....we keep it running all winter and it looks inviting, but the water is colder than hell....oops, that didn't make sense, did it? Colder than a southbound Polar bear's ass....hows that."

We have an 18 x 33 x 4 oval above-ground; inside-the-pool stairs+railings go right up to the back-deck; open May thru Sep up here around Chicago.

Come late September (early October at latest, before the leaves fall, and make Diet Coke out of the pool water), we go through a two-day Winterizing Ritual, then put the cover on and close her up 'til the next May. That's always a sad time here.

At least you can still look at yours and pretend.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Well, I'm going to have a nice cold beer with these two fine gentlemen who keep helping themself to the whiskey while Stats is schlepping about getting supplies.

Whew, a helluva lot to schlepp, too!

 

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Whew, a helluva lot to schlepp, too!

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Stats, I'd like to introduce you to Trixie. Trixie was kind enough to play bartender while you were gone. She used to work at Malcontent's Roadhouse before it shut down. This round is for kondor and Mertex and me.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Stats, I'd like to introduce you to Trixie. Trixie was kind enough to play bartender while you were gone. She used to work at Malcontent's Roadhouse before it shut down. This round is for kondor and Mertex and me.

Hello, uh, Trixie!!!!

 

[Michelle420]

 

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I'd like to meet the two gentlemen sitting at the end of the bar. I believe one is Alec Baldwin but I don't know who the other is.

 

[Mertex]

"...Nice....I can hardly wait for it to be warm enough here that we can go into our pool....we keep it running all winter and it looks inviting, but the water is colder than hell....oops, that didn't make sense, did it? Colder than a southbound Polar bear's ass....hows that."

We have an 18 x 33 x 4 oval above-ground; inside-the-pool stairs+railings go right up to the back-deck; open May thru Sep up here around Chicago.

Come late September (early October at latest, before the leaves fall, and make Diet Coke out of the pool water), we go through a two-day Winterizing Ritual, then put the cover on and close her up 'til the next May. That's always a sad time here.

At least you can still look at yours and pretend.

We checked into a pool cover....and it was going to cost over $4k....we decided it looked nicer without the cover. The only problem we have is in Spring...first the leaves from the oaks (they fall in bucketfuls) then their pollen (we call them worms) they come right after...the filter baskets get dumped twice a day and they're full.....about 3 weeks of misery, then it is sparkling and inviting after that.....

 

[Mertex]

Stats, I'd like to introduce you to Trixie. Trixie was kind enough to play bartender while you were gone. She used to work at Malcontent's Roadhouse before it shut down. This round is for kondor and Mertex and me.

Thank you......looks like we're gonna have us some fun......

 

[Kondor3]

The sister and hubby are runnin' late gettin' here, so...

Just time enough for a quick half-glass of that Green Stuff, or, a half-pint o' Guiness or a wee drop o' the Creatchture, on the way out t'door... at least I'm not drivin' me own buggy today...

Have a good weekend, folks...