Recent content by PonTuna Salad

I would forget and knock a slider off while docking.

Daril, I thought about you when I heard where it was. Knew it was pretty close to your house and in your neighborhood. I saw FoxNews is reporting that it was a gas leak that caused it. The homeowner is a Tennessee Titan football player who had just bought it for his dad, who was killed in the...

Many of you know that Boone was the reason we purchased our Bennington His early death led our family to rescue a Husky family. Out dog Peyton in the middle, his brother Fairbanks, right and mother Mia, left. Our daughters have the other two.

BK, 10-12 years ago when we had our bow rider in dry storage on 150, I didn’t trip every trip but at the end of the season after winterization I would hand the fork lift operator a thank you card with $50/75 in it. I figured he was just like me, getting paid for the job he agreed to do. That...

I purchased my John Deere zero turn in 2015. Expected I would need to replace the battery this year but it is still going strong. Didn’t even put it on a charger this spring and it started right up. When it does die, I will replace with a John Deere battery. Don’t know who makes them. On the...

I will throw out another NC lake. While I live at Lake Norman, I also enjoy Fontana Lake in the mountains of southwestern NC. Lightly used (at least compared to Norman). It is surrounded by national forests so there is little development up near the dam (which was built by TVA during WWII to...

Obviously the slip wasn’t “really “ at The Point. A dock like that would get some kicked out.

When I moved to the Lake Norman area 38 years ago, nice lots were $30k and big water main channel lots were $80k. They were expensive then too, at least for someone just starting out. Strange thing is just before Covid you could get a nice lot for $3-400k. Now they have shot up to over half a...

The people with ocean going vessels on Lake Norman have driven up the slip prices. That is why Stutts has the wide slips. My boat was lost in the slip I leased from them.

It’s expensive on the peninsula. When we moved off the lake, we put our boat at the one not to far from you. They wanted $4000/year for a 14’ wide covered without a lift. I stayed 6 months until something else opened up. But all the on water slips on the north end are expensive. I think they are...

Wow! Didn’t know Huskies lived that long. Boone was only 6. We had decided that both of the puppies will have their stomachs tacked when they are neutered. Don’t want to see a dog go through that again.

I wanted to give you an update. I got locked out of my account and finally found my password. Anyway, we still have a hole in our heart for Boone, we as a family found that hole created more room to help others. After Boone’s death, my oldest daughter (not Boone’s owner) was looking for husky...

No ice forming here. Only ice I have seen today was in my Pepsi at lunch. Mid 70s last week but 45/25 on Wednesday but back in the upper 50s after that. Glad it is getting closer to being repaired.

Thanks everyone. Of all the dogs I have had, this is the first one that bothered me when we lost him. Maybe because he became my daughters best friend, he loved being in my backyard and wanted to be everyone’s pal. We went and picked him up last night. Brought a lot of comfort to her having him...

Abby would have had him 5 years next Saturday. She was told he was 11 months when she got him but based on the past couple of years I think he was older. I think he was about 7-8.