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When my husband and I were more newly married; one evening... he asked me what I wanted to do the next day. I said don't know. He said, well..aren't there things you want to do. I said yes. But..will get up in morning and see who broke out, what fell down, what broke..and that is what I will do. And if really lucky, might get to do something I want.
Sound asleep yesterday am cause didn't sleep til 3 am. Phone ringing... it is 8am! Answered and it was my tenant. He said huge limb fell and is resting on electric line to barn..what to do.
Said be right down. Got up and dressed and headed below.
He was firing up chainsaw. I said do you have rubber soles, yep..gloves...have pair for cutting. We went up to it. 8 inch diameter at least, elbow resting on ground, base hung on line maybe 6 inches. He trimmed branches which I dragged to brush pile behind barn. I said cut up, not down. He cut some. I said keep cutting, it will bounce off line. It did. Pulled insulator off tree, but line looks OK. Tore a piece of fascia off bodyshop but small and not into roof hardly. Something else to fix.
I said thanks load to dad's memory. Mom told him to cut that tree and he said, oh, can use the shade. Now I have a huge maple that is over shop and barn and lines.
Spent the rest of the day working around. Helped tenant unload two truck loads of wood into my woodshed.
Ask me why I hate waking up!

Two true stories...with a slight embellishment to one of them under the presumption of one's character.


1. Maybe next time Youtube about how to feed your plant. "Forget that...I do what feels good to me and it has been working this long in my life." Result, a dead plant. ...and as a kicker...a friend who had tried to help them out with instructing them on how to feed their plant on the sh*t list.

2. It is not recommended that you use unvented propane heaters in a sealed enclosed area. Similar response, Well...I have been using this one for years and have not had any problems. After sealing his home tighter...result, a dead person.


I don't have much time available....but one can break down the dynamics of the deadly combination of ignorance and arrogance.


Happy Thursday all.

I am a nudist and obviously single ,I would like to know women's thoughts on this

It was a summer of heat or rain or both. So time frittered away and now it is October. That to do list...uh..oops? Now it is work the temps. Too cold to paint..cut brush. Clean the chimney, got that done. ]
Had a quote to cut down a couple oaks. Man, do I hate oak trees! Each tree has gazillions and gazillions of leaves. Which fall one by one by one, hanging on for dear life til Christmas! ARGH! Rake other leaves and they are done. Or rot by spring. Oak leaves...nope. Rake and sweep and tomorrow, do it again. Finally snow covers it all. And then spring thaw comes and the flower beds and everything are solid oak leaves. They NEVER rot!
Guy gave me a quote on just ONE oak. $2,500! Sorry! At that I can BUY a pull behind bucket lift! Or rent one is I could find someone with saw who knows how to use it. Guess I rake.
I searched on line forever again for tarps. All are poly and none will last more than 3 years before my birds make nests of blue. The good is vinyl. Check prices..grrr. What to do...back to used billboard vinyl. I did finally drag a section I had to cover one carport I built. I hate the weight of them. And not that cheap. But, this one is ancient and still OK. Then ran into a company that not only sells used, but new by the foot. I measured the dog trot, figured and thunk about it. Called..you do check over phone, yep. OK, I ordered a 16X100 foot run of new. 86 pounds. It got delivered..poor UPS guy!
My boarder and I got it up last week. What fun..me on top..MOVE cat AGAIN...him below. Got it up and over, pulled and yanked and then I threw string over to tie it down. It just touches ground. But, 20 foot plastic sheeting is under it from before so should be ok. It was $240 and shipping. Quite a bit lighter than the old billboad which is nice.
Hired a guy with chainsaw and we/he cut brush trees from behind one garage. I used to mow when living in that house. Moved up here and rented the farmhouse. Each tenant like the jungle creep bit by bit. Now I will spray in spring any tree that thinks it will grow. More to do, next weekend.
Start to close the loggia ends with doors for winter. Sorry cats, back to other side of house to woodstove and shed to get fed. Be nice to come in living room door without screaming NO. OUT. NO!
Now it is pick what and which to do, see how temps are. Next two weeks above norm and no rain. Work! FASTER!

..eYe would like to plant a decision Tree.
but 1st .. we need sum rain.....
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420. Mighty knowledge...) RadiO net..©
420. XL intel........} Madison NJ. 1890.
--------....} Math courtesy of McBob.
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.. In dys ] honor of Trick or Treats, McBob thought it prudent ( that's prude + new Test...
To remind you of Chuck Brown and his grocery bag of Halloween rocks. It always bothered me that Chuck could never play football [ due to Lucy's w/craft.] ..then he goes off into the night masked-up as a Spook with 8 eYes....only to get nothing but stone...
.. This year everyone gets to spend Q time in their own pumpkin patch of Orange crush.
Speaking of Q : at about 12:30 pm PST, my 'smart' phone phonix informed me via Y.tube, that the President will be in Dallas, TX on 10/17/20...
And at that time & $pot, Amerika will be re-Introduced to one John Kennedy Jr...
...we are not using any exclamation points here..
for the simple fact that Q has bored & irritated me from day zero. And Nothing [ real ] has been Q's
Mode of operation..if anyone be counting.

Another day.. another x- Ray.
...no time / guess who
who came first / townsend
...who else ? / J. Beck group.
...the real paradox of Atheist Astrophysics
is just how g'd damn Truufy it is....
Black hole sun / Soundgarden
..goodbye blue sky / p Floyd
Goodbye yellow brick road / E John

what happened to respect, ,please , thank you ect ect ,, have been replaced by foul language..
has cursing become the norm ,,parents regularly curse in front of their children , and then wonder why their kids grow up being so disrespectful ,,
and not only young people have adopted this way of life ,i have seen many videos of older people that seem to think cursing at some one gets the point across..
ok i have sworn at times grrrr but only at myself at getting something wrong or hitting my finger when i should have been hitting a nail,,
and before people start to shout the odds ,,yes this is more of a western thing ,, has foul language become the first language i wonder,,
do i respect a woman that swears ,not a chance , it is neither feminine nor right,, the same as i do not respect any man that swears in front of a woman or child,,

In a couple of weeks, if all goes well, I'm slowly transitioning from the Navy-owned housing community of Ribault Village in Atlantic Beach to Campus Towers Apartments across the river in Jacksonville, FL near Edward Waters College and several restaurants. My new pad is going to have a kitchen, living room, dining room, walk-in closet, bathroom, 1-bedroom-I hope.??

Can you name the 2 breeds shown?

There is a bull (not shown) laying down by the trees. Can you make it to the building?

Strangely the local coyotes seem to avoid this field. They probably know Darwin lives there.

In the West they call folks who live with these critters Cowboys. In the East they are just a Hillbilly.

Hillbillys own many cool toys.



This one, a neighbors, is fairly old (as the stamped marks on the trunnion imply), but it still throws a 6 (7 actually) pound shell over a mile easily and does so at least twice a year.



Thanks to Covid19 I am laid off from my job making coffee at the 7-11, so I am passing the time making my own small (it will be a 1 pounder) yard cannon out of some 1040 steel scrap. The barrel is done and now I am building a collared trunnion of 4" S7 steel bar scrap. Everyone should have a hobby that is fun.



I am pleased to be a country hill billy.

have jeans been mainly blue in color for the last 100+ years. Why is that color so popular for jeans?