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There is 5 more chairs in there.

Don't want to be a wet blanket but let me tell you about two friends of mine. First friends BIL was 8 feet off the ground in a tree stringing some wiring. Fell on his back and is paralyzed for life. Second friends dad used a three legged stool to stand on to fix something. The stool tipped and one leg went into his rectum and tore up his colon. He was miserable for the rest of his life.

If that chair would have torn into an artery in your leg........

Be careful guys.

The wife & I acquired 50 acres of private wooded land in a fairly remote location early in the winter months of this year. 2 sides border state land that goes on for what seems like for ever.

We have prepared a building site & have started building our hunting cabin. 24 x 32 cabin with 3 bunk rooms, kitchen/dining area, small living room type area & an attached sauna room.

Sounds like a place my father build in the U.P. in 1999 same size almost the same setup. It isn't a hunting camp unless you have a sauna (pronounced sow-nah) lol. Northern Dave you must be in the Finnish-American area of Northern MN.

"To other Americans, sauna (which they often pronounce as saw-nah) is perhaps an exotic, perhaps a healthful, bath. To Finnish-Americans, sauna (pronounced sow-nah) is more than a bathhouse. It links past and present, Finland and the United States, Finns and Finnish-Americans; it is an ancient tradition and a symbol of ethnic identity."

"Wherever there are Finns, there are saunas. Geographers Cotton Mather and Matti Kaups used saunas as an index to Finnish-American settlement zones, the greatest density and largest number of Finnish-Americans being in the Upper Peninsula (U.P.) of Michigan where the Keweenau Peninsula and surrounding area is often referred to as the "sauna belt." Minnesota is a close second. Traveling the roads of Michigan’s central and western U.P., an observant visitor sees many homesteads consisting of the house and various small barns and outbuildings. One of these is a small, low structure, usually closer than the other buildings to the back door of the house, with one or two windows, one door, and a chimney. This is the sauna."

Them rugers must have a little bigger chamber?

The boy could use em up, or I could send em back to you.

You ever do something you know is stupid and probably going to hurt, but do it anyway?

I did that last night, and no I wasn't a 6-pack in either.

I was goofing around in the boat because it was the first nice night I've had off in a long time with no baseball or work. From the ground to the top of the boat, it's about 4 1/2 feet, so I grabbed a plastic "yard" chair and used it for a step stool. I did it a few times and it was pretty wobbly from being banged around in the garage and being overloaded Two Ton Tommy climbing on it 10 times.

I climbed up and SNAP! Down I went with my leg stuck in the chair bleeding all over the damn place from shards of plastic and me flopping around on the ground like a crappie, trying to figure out where the hell I am.

My left leg looks like I pulled it out of a bear trap, cut and scraped from my thigh to my ankle.

I'm sure it was a barrrel of laughs for anyone watching the deal go down. I'm glad you guys weren't there, because you'd still be belly laughing, like any good buddys would.

I think I'm really the only one (perhaps) in our crew that really wants the sow-nah.

I've decided to build the sauna detached, and I'd really like to do it this summer, I want one out there bad.