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Here's their website: www.quailwalk.com

Yep. Especially if folks keep putting retreads on their cars... (Sorry db - couldn't help it)

Now it's my turn to beg for appliance assistance! Last Thursday, the fine folks at the utility company saw fit to replace the gas meter on the side of my house while I wasn't home. I called MLGW (utility company) the next morning and they sent someone out. After pulling the lock off of the new meter, he came in and lit the burners on the stove (worked fine) and lit the pilot light on the hot water heater (better him than me - it's in the 600 degree attic and hard to get to). Anyways, Monday night, for the first time since the gas meter being changed out, we decided to cook something in the oven. Low and behold, the oven won't heat up. I can see the glow in the bottom of the oven, but it's not getting hot. Called MLGW back out (thinking there might be a pilot light in there or something). The guy that came out today said that either the valve that realeases the gas is stuck or the heating element that tells it to release the gas isn't getting warm enough. He told me that I'd have to call an appliance guy out. He said he can't see how them changing out the meter would cause a problem, but if the repair man said it was their fault, I could always file a claim with MLGW. Now I've seen some strange coincidences in my day, but what are the odds of a random problem occuring with my oven at the exact same time that they change out the gas meter? If it's something that they caused, I want to call someone out so that I can get a reimbursement from MLGW. If it's not related, I want to go through my list of friends & family that might be able to help me so I can save as much money as possible (money is too tight right now!). Thoughts anyone?

Well I did trade my 6-pack in for a keg some years ago... And you are very, very wrong for that picture.

Shhhhhh! Don't tell the TSA!

Sure would suck to get nixed at Nixon's... And yep, folks do that all the time. There's one section of the Shoe Carnival in Bartlett that's been taken out at least three times. Job security for me.

Hey! I'm not f..... wait..... nevermind.

Welcome!

Wow

Looks goooood.

Yeah, um, that lasted about the first week... I'm slated to get a new ride within the next year. A temporary fix might be just the ticket! We have no tazers...

My wife and I were talking about "back in the day" just recently. So far this summer, there have been several people without A/C units (or without their units on) in Shelby County that have died "due to the heat" (as the media puts it). So, "back in the day", were folks just keeling over right and left?

:rofl:

Thanks Marty. Surprisingly, I didn't see any classes listed at the TWRA range in the near future (hard to believe with such a nice facility). There is one coming up at a church on Walnut Grove that lasts a few hours on a Fri night and then all day Saturday. I'm off work then, and if I can get the wife & kid to work out the schedule with me, I might try to go to it.

When you figure where to go, lemme know

+1!

Yeah, I'm gonna have to go with the A/C guy... Glad you've got a friend in the business. I, too, have a friend in the business and he saved my rump a couple of years ago during the hottest days of the year.

Could you weigh down the curtains somehow?

Lol. Just bought the wifey an Altima. It's nice. Our admin (Chief down to Inspectors) all got new Altimas last year. Nissan just doesn't make anything competitive in the "patrol-ready" area. I wish they did, though.

Thanks for the website links guys. I'm learning a great deal from them. I've been looking at the Hunter Ed requirements on TWRA's site. I was happy to see that they now let you do most of the class online then attend a "field day" to complete it. However, in a fashion true to a government agency, I noticed that there are very few "field days" (only one listed anywhere in West TN - over an hour away from my tiny community called Memphis) and it's full. I swear they must have thought to themselves "This is convenient and people will like it! Let's just barely do it..." Ugh...

I don't really know of anywhere big enough unless you want to pay for a membership to MSSA or the Desoto Pistol & Rifle Club. :-\ I have the same problem with my rifles. They get lonely when there's nowhere to shoot 'em.

Alright, you guys are really making me want to take up a new hobby. New question - who is in the west end of the state that wants to teach me how to hunt??