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Belt Fed said:
Not gonna ask what you use the feathers for.
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They're from my turkey. The cat goes crazy playing with them. I put one in my Tilley hat too but I'm in the barn and I'm not going all the way back to the house to take a picture of it
 
Hi,

NMEDGE said:
Just ordered my Celebrate 250 Flag from Annin Flagmakers. They are the oldest flag maker in the country and have had great luck with their flags. I fly the US flag everyday in front of the house. I still believe in this country.
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Me too. This is one of the flags I got when I worked for Turning Point. It flies every day, except in really bad weather. I have a light on it so it flies at night too.

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It's just about stopped snowing. I suppose I should clear the driveway.

Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
 
Annihilator said:
We can’t hang flags here at my apartment facility, or really any type of outdoor stuff.
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I wanted to hang a flag up here but all my neighbors that have Flags the flags are shredded and they have to replace them I don't know what the schedule is but probably they're no good after 3 months.

I don't know if they actually had a rule against decorating our Apartments but I didn't want to do anything that distinguished my apartment from the rest of them
 
Got into the shop this afternoon. It warmed up enough that I could glue up some cabinet boxes. 3 of the youngest grandkids are here for an overnight. We are having a pizza party and Mrs Greener is making Hopping John. Happy New Year indeed! Hope to see the deer herd this evening while the kids are here, they have been coming right up in the back yard to get our acorns.
 
HayesGreener said:
A scar on the landscape in my opinion
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I mean, I don't disagree but nobody asked me my opinion before they put it in.

And we live in the middle of the little one you go about 3 and a half miles north of here and there's one that goes on for MILES and a solar farm that's probably the size of about three football fields.

My opinion of wind farms is irrelevant because they're not going to change it because what I think. They are a fact of life.

The point I was trying to make is they don't put wind farms in places where it's calm and quiet
 
The Night Rider said:
I wanted to hang a flag up here but all my neighbors that have Flags the flags are shredded and they have to replace them I don't know what the schedule is but probably they're no good after 3 months.

I don't know if they actually had a rule against decorating our Apartments but I didn't want to do anything that distinguished my apartment from the rest of them
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If I remember correctly from my flag detailing days the US flag is only made to last 90 days then replaced. If you get more time great but 90 days was the standard and yes only US made flags.
 
The flags I fly. A few months ago, I contacted a local company about installing a commercial grade 25' flagpole for me, but the owner retired. The closest company other than that was out of San Antonio and the charge for install was greater than I wanted to pay. I didn't want one of those cheap, flimsy telescoping poles. It gets windy around here, and I live near a wind farm also. At best, I get a year out of my flags.
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I'm not sure if I posted this here before or not but I think I'm about to start a fight.

Flags don't last very long in Colorado to begin with, just because of the altitude they bleach out real quick.

I keep my mouth shut because all it would do is start a fight but it annoys the hell out of me when I see people driving around with a flag mounted in the back of their pickup truck and it's shredded appears like it's been there for 2 years.

A lot of the folks around me fly flags. And they do replace them a couple of times a year but the majority of the time that those flags are up they're bleached out in the sun and they look like streamers.

I'm not doing that.

If you guys don't know I'm on a fixed income.

I can't afford to replace a quality flag three times a year. So I don't fly one.

This is the part that starts the fight.

I used to have to do security checks in the cemetery every night and had to unlock the gates every morning.

In the old Cemetery there is the tombstone that I pictured here. The guy's name was Quartermaster Sergeant Francis Cottrell 11th Michigan volunteer Calvary.

It doesn't say one way or the other whether or not he was a slave and I think if he was a probably would have mentioned that. But he was a black guy, he fought in the Civil War and during the war he contracted tuberculosis.

After the war he moved to Colorado Springs because people thought that the high altitude and dry Mountain Air I don't know if they thought it was a cure or they thought it was slow the progression of the disease. Either way it didn't, and he died here.

The buried him in the old Pioneer Cemetery at Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs.

Every year on Veterans Day and Memorial Day they put Flags on all the military Graves. And then they leave them there and the wind destroys them in the sun fades them out and they look like crap and a little monster so later when the caretakers finally get around to it they go pick him up and they throw all the flags in a dumpster.

Quartermaster Sergeant Cottrell and I got to be buds while I was working there. So when they put a flag on his grave (I didn't know it at the time but it was) my last Memorial Day working the cemetery.

I left it up there for about a week to honor him and then I took it and I brought it home so it wouldn't get ruined and thrown in the trash.

The flag in that photograph is hanging in our spare bedroom. It's still in good shape. It's still treated with respect and hey, guess what, it's not in a landfill somewhere.

The last time I mentioned that here some I'll be generous say "members" who are actually no longer with us decided to get all pout raged because I "stole"the flag from the grave.

I kind of don't care what y'all think about it. I know why I did it I saved that flag from being desecrated.
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If you didn't like the first story you're REALLY not going to like this one.

I don't remember who mounted that flag on my gun
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in Germany. It went through two or three field problems, it got beat up. There is Graff dust on it and at some point I think it was during my last field problem I decided to retire it. It is folded up in a baggie and a metal cigar box with my wedding ring and my metals and all that crap that I am not going to put on an "I Love Me" wall.

I think when they cremate me I want somebody to stick it in my breast pocket and sprinkle me and it over the back 40.
 
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I usually get 6 months, the wind and constant sun just beats them up.
The Night Rider said:
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I'm not sure if I posted this here before or not but I think I'm about to start a fight.

Flags don't last very long in Colorado to begin with, just because of the altitude they bleach out real quick.

I keep my mouth shut because all it would do is start a fight but it annoys the hell out of me when I see people driving around with a flag mounted in the back of their pickup truck and it's shredded appears like it's been there for 2 years.

A lot of the folks around me fly flags. And they do replace them a couple of times a year but the majority of the time that those flags are up they're bleached out in the sun and they look like streamers.

I'm not doing that.

If you guys don't know I'm on a fixed income.

I can't afford to replace a quality flag three times a year. So I don't fly one.

This is the part that starts the fight.

I used to have to do security checks in the cemetery every night and had to unlock the gates every morning.

In the old Cemetery there is the tombstone that I pictured here. The guy's name was Quartermaster Sergeant Francis Cottrell 11th Michigan volunteer Calvary.

It doesn't say one way or the other whether or not he was a slave and I think if he was a probably would have mentioned that. But he was a black guy, he fought in the Civil War and during the war he contracted tuberculosis.

After the war he moved to Colorado Springs because people thought that the high altitude and dry Mountain Air I don't know if they thought it was a cure or they thought it was slow the progression of the disease. Either way it didn't, and he died here.

The buried him in the old Pioneer Cemetery at Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs.

Every year on Veterans Day and Memorial Day they put Flags on all the military Graves. And then they leave them there and the wind destroys them in the sun fades them out and they look like crap and a little monster so later when the caretakers finally get around to it they go pick him up and they throw all the flags in a dumpster.

Quartermaster Sergeant Cottrell and I got to be buds while I was working there. So when they put a flag on his grave (I didn't know it at the time but it was) my last Memorial Day working the cemetery.

I left it up there for about a week to honor him and then I took it and I brought it home so it wouldn't get ruined and thrown in the trash.

The flag in that photograph is hanging in our spare bedroom. It's still in good shape. It's still treated with respect and hey, guess what, it's not in a landfill somewhere.

The last time I mentioned that here some I'll be generous say "members" who are actually no longer with us decided to get all pout raged because I "stole"the flag from the grave.

I kind of don't care what y'all think about it. I know why I did it I saved that flag from being desecrated.
View attachment 100810

If you didn't like the first story you're REALLY not going to like this one.

I don't remember who mounted that flag on my gun
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in Germany. It went through two or three field problems, it got beat up. There is Graff dust on it and at some point I think it was during my last field problem I decided to retire it. It is folded up in a baggie and a metal cigar box with my wedding ring and my metals and all that crap that I am not going to put on an "I Love Me" wall.

I think when they cremate me I want somebody to stick it in my breast pocket and sprinkle me and it over the back 40.
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The Night Rider said:
View attachment 100807

I'm not sure if I posted this here before or not but I think I'm about to start a fight.

Flags don't last very long in Colorado to begin with, just because of the altitude they bleach out real quick.

I keep my mouth shut because all it would do is start a fight but it annoys the hell out of me when I see people driving around with a flag mounted in the back of their pickup truck and it's shredded appears like it's been there for 2 years.

A lot of the folks around me fly flags. And they do replace them a couple of times a year but the majority of the time that those flags are up they're bleached out in the sun and they look like streamers.

I'm not doing that.

If you guys don't know I'm on a fixed income.

I can't afford to replace a quality flag three times a year. So I don't fly one.

This is the part that starts the fight.

I used to have to do security checks in the cemetery every night and had to unlock the gates every morning.

In the old Cemetery there is the tombstone that I pictured here. The guy's name was Quartermaster Sergeant Francis Cottrell 11th Michigan volunteer Calvary.

It doesn't say one way or the other whether or not he was a slave and I think if he was a probably would have mentioned that. But he was a black guy, he fought in the Civil War and during the war he contracted tuberculosis.

After the war he moved to Colorado Springs because people thought that the high altitude and dry Mountain Air I don't know if they thought it was a cure or they thought it was slow the progression of the disease. Either way it didn't, and he died here.

The buried him in the old Pioneer Cemetery at Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs.

Every year on Veterans Day and Memorial Day they put Flags on all the military Graves. And then they leave them there and the wind destroys them in the sun fades them out and they look like crap and a little monster so later when the caretakers finally get around to it they go pick him up and they throw all the flags in a dumpster.

Quartermaster Sergeant Cottrell and I got to be buds while I was working there. So when they put a flag on his grave (I didn't know it at the time but it was) my last Memorial Day working the cemetery.

I left it up there for about a week to honor him and then I took it and I brought it home so it wouldn't get ruined and thrown in the trash.

The flag in that photograph is hanging in our spare bedroom. It's still in good shape. It's still treated with respect and hey, guess what, it's not in a landfill somewhere.

The last time I mentioned that here some I'll be generous say "members" who are actually no longer with us decided to get all pout raged because I "stole"the flag from the grave.

I kind of don't care what y'all think about it. I know why I did it I saved that flag from being desecrated.
View attachment 100810

If you didn't like the first story you're REALLY not going to like this one.

I don't remember who mounted that flag on my gun
View attachment 100811
in Germany. It went through two or three field problems, it got beat up. There is Graff dust on it and at some point I think it was during my last field problem I decided to retire it. It is folded up in a baggie and a metal cigar box with my wedding ring and my metals and all that crap that I am not going to put on an "I Love Me" wall.

I think when they cremate me I want somebody to stick it in my breast pocket and sprinkle me and it over the back 40.
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Agree. Most flags that I see are all messed up. If you can't take care of them properly don't fly them.
 
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