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This guy brought a bunch of old boards to me and asked if I could make a table out of them. The boards were the rough sawn oak floor joists from his Grandmother's 140 year old house in Nebraska. Had just enough material to make the top - the legs ands aprons were made from new oak and relic'd a bit. One of the more fun projects I've done.

It's no place for pussies, that's for sure. But the summers are really nice and you could explore loads of old ghost towns, mining sites, etc. around here.

There's 4-5 ghost towns within 5 miles of here. They're are all over the place.

Cruised over to Apex - a ghost town about a mile from my house - to see the front of the hold hotel has collapsed. Bummer. Hate to see it fall into further disrepair. Some then and now pics...

Same here - I have no idea what's going on. I do go to the sports book place to watch games and races though. Big assed TV's and free beer*. * Alcohol is free in Colorado casinos. Only supposed to get 3 drinks per hour but a well placed tip will eliminate that rule. Or you can just go to a different bar in the casino as they have 7-8 bars in them.

They don't make them posh with their own money - they use yours!

That's not a bad thing, Bob.

Gonna be awhile for updates as they're just now cleaning it out. Really dirty in the place now. But it'll make a nice, smaller casino some day.

Nah, they're not seedy little places at all. Here's two of the bigger ones in town; Monarch and Ameristar. We don't really have any "side roads or back streets" as our entire town is in a very narrow valley between large mountains - so we have basically one street running through town.

Casino only at this point - not really big enough to put a hotel of any size in there,

Opening day is just 2 years away -or maybe a bit longer - pics as it happens Thought Extreme would like to see the interior of one of the original 1850's buildings.

One of the old buildings was a hotel - here's a hallway to the rooms and an exterior brick wall - which is now and interior wall...

Cool old tin ceiling in lots of places...

I can't imagine the money it's gonna take to refurbish this place. Carpeting alone is gonna cost a mint ...

Place has 4 large bars in it, a stage, a restaurant and lots of open floor space for the casino machines and poker tables...

Always wanted to get inside of this historic building that has been left empty for the past 20 years. A friend of mine owns a small casino in town and just bought a vacant casino across the street. The new place consists of 3 buildings that have been joined on the inside. Three buildings circled ...

"I don't know what I'm even doing here, I was told that there would be free beer" Sounds good to me.

Gotta love Canuckistan.

I dunno - none of my business so I didn't ask. Just some old guy had to get to the hospital which is about 60 miles away and the roads going down the mountain are covered in shit, so they flew him.

Big doings at my bud's restaurant today. We were inside shooting the shit when the fire department shows up and commandeers his parking lot for the Ambulance to land. I stupidly went outside as it landed to get pics and got blasted by snow....

I'll admit it - I'm a wussy. But it was -16C this morning and the roads are still covered with shit. Soon though, soon.

Commercial Bar in Fuengirola for 75K? Let's all chip in and buy it! Be nice to have a private clubhouse for us all in Spain. Creepy clown thing on the wall has got to go though,