The Original O'l Farts Club.

[Putembk]

we are gonna do a lap around these 10 acres of woods and you better believe that we have a couple of hooters for the trip…

I will be packing my bear defense equipment

be back in a few

Bells on your shoes and make noise. Most black bears want nothing to do with you.

 

[oldmaninbc]

I always wanted a 20lb lap cat.....ha ha. Kevin is a bruiser and Gracy is a little sweetheart. Both are spoiled as a cat could be. They both are stuck to us like glue. No matter where you are at they are right there. Kevin loves the heat from my grow lights. He loves to sleep in the tent. Gracy is a shadow. She is right by our side.


I will be starting my mater starts soon and all neighbors who love a home grown mater will be invited to partake. Believe me I know who the mater lovers are and the ones who put them in the frig and forget about them.

I hope you are doing well OM and it is good to see you posting here again.

Our furry friends can fill our lives with joy and teach us a thing or 2 about living. Two cats in the home and both different from each other, imagine that.
My last cat I stopped him from following me everywhere, I thought he seemed needy. In hindsight I would let him be. He was my Mrs cat for the first couple of years, sucking up to her. As he got older he gravitated to my lap. Because I'm mostly at home that cat and I spent 24/7 together for over 10 years and I was by his side when he left this world. I love that cat and we had a bond.
I wished my grandkids could have a pet but they travel a lot and I guess it would not be practical.

Things are going well for a couple of older people, the Mrs turns 70 this year and is feeling the age of that number.
Since I seemed to have found my way back to the OFC, I will have to limit my other wanderings.
While I have enjoyed meeting others, there is something about the OFC and it's people that can't be replicated in other threads. Differences there is but there is some nice people here. That includes you too Mr Pute

 

[BrassNwood]

my dad would be 105 this year

he liked Jimmy Rogers

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Dad would be 122. Didn't see his first Automobile until he was 8 years old. Grew up in a horse and buggy world lit with kerosene lamps. Lived to see us walk on the moon.

Sea Cruise - oh yeah - best sung on a speedboat - on a calm sunny day - with at least 500bhp of outboard motor - around islands in the Andaman Sea - stopping off for picnics - and snork'lin coral reefs -

No border guards I see...

Now I've forgotten why I quoted this.

Once you lose a tooth you get gum recession and the tooth next to it will maybe have problems later.

Try to save it if you can.

hope you feel better

He should have the empty socket filled with cadaver bone if / when pulled. It'll both hold the adjoining teeth in place, and it'll give a base if he decides to have an implant done.



Year of the Cat
Song by Al Stewart ‧ 1976



On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolor in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat
She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow 'till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears
By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, I feel my life
Just like a river running through
The year of the cat
While she looks at you so cooly
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her, to find what's waiting inside
The year of the cat
Well morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away your choice you've lost your ticket
So you have to stay on
But the drum-beat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the newborn day
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay
In the year of the cat
Year of the cat

 

[oldmaninbc]

I went yesterday to get blood test results and he said everything looks good but your cholesterol is higher than last test so I'm prescribing a statin, I said F that and he said ok then ,we shook hands and that was that. The last time I took it I felt like I went 10 rounds with George Foreman.

I lowered mine with my diet a few years back and this winters blood work came back good. They love to prescribe medication but that's what they are taught in school. Pretty sure the pharma company's are part of that education.

 

[Putembk]

I wished my grandkids could have a pet but they travel a lot and I guess it would not be practical.

That’s my problem….I feel so guilty leaving any animal alone. That has kept me home bound more than you know.

 

[Dime]

 

[Drippy Sally]

Bells on your shoes and make noise. Most black bears want nothing to do with you.

I always wondered where the bells came from that you sometimes find in bear shit. Learn something everyday.

 

[oldmaninbc]

I have to be honest ,I always felt bad after eating an endangered species.

My last family doctor was from South Africa, on one of his return visits to his hometown, I asked him if he got to eat anything he missed...in a hushed voice as if he didn't want anyone to hear him, he said, bush meat.

 

[oldmaninbc]

Bells on your shoes and make noise. Most black bears want nothing to do with you.

That was my number 1 rule in bear country, don't be quiet.

A fellow I river fished with for salmon, had a made up song he would sing, something about Grizzly Adams selling cocaine.

 

[Countryboy]

Evening folks! Got most of my stuff done, including unloading the chair. Tacos for ddinner.

peace

 

[SubGirl]

I am going to a German restaurant tonight. Watch out cholesterol.

Schnitzel and spaetzel?

 

[Drippy Sally]

This year I will move money from all four of my businesses to the shareholders via dividend. No payroll taxes will be paid, no w2's issued, and no bullshit worrying about how the government taxes me or spends the taxed money. I have S-corporations and will issue myself one paycheck for 10 hours from each company and that will be my whole salary. The rest slides over via dividends. In 2024 I paid over $50k in payroll taxes matching the company taxes to that of employees. I'm not doing that anymore. No more 940/941 or RT-6 forms. Nothing. For employees it's 1099 or nothing. I've fucking had it listening to the leaders of this country from all administrations lie, cheat, and steal. I'm just not fucking paying anymore. You will get property taxes from me and a bit of sales tax. That's it. We are into March and I have not paid any tax beyond my $10 annual salary for each of my four companies. Last year I paid myself $10k per quarter per company on W2 and I paid my own federal taxes with that on top of payroll taxes for my employees. NO MORE. I stopped. People may frown on that, but I give less than a shit. This is how it is going to be. Me paying more than $1000 per week for payroll tax is fucking ridiculous in this system that is rigged against working class, middle class, and poor people.

 

[Drippy Sally]

I am going to a German restaurant tonight. Watch out cholesterol.

For some old fashioned arousal order schnitzel and watch Frau pound that fucker out.

 

[Wolverine97]

This year I will move money from all four of my businesses to the shareholders via dividend. No payroll taxes will be paid, no w2's issued, and no bullshit worrying about how the government taxes me or spends the taxed money. I have S-corporations and will issue myself one paycheck for 10 hours from each company and that will be my whole salary. The rest slides over via dividends. In 2024 I paid over $50k in payroll taxes matching the company taxes to that of employees. I'm not doing that anymore. No more 940/941 or RT-6 forms. Nothing. For employees it's 1099 or nothing. I've fucking had it listening to the leaders of this country from all administrations lie, cheat, and steal. I'm just not fucking paying anymore. You will get property taxes from me and a bit of sales tax. That's it. We are into March and I have not paid any tax beyond my $10 annual salary for each of my four companies. Last year I paid myself $10k per quarter per company on W2 and I paid my own federal taxes with that on top of payroll taxes for my employees. NO MORE. I stopped. People may frown on that, but I give less than a shit. This is how it is going to be. Me paying more than $1000 per week for payroll tax is fucking ridiculous in this system that is rigged against working class, middle class, and poor people.

This is the only way we can force real change. I've been thinking about it for a while now, from all angles I can.

 

[oldmaninbc]

That’s my problem….I feel so guilty leaving any animal alone. That has kept me home bound more than you know.

When I was younger I didn't mind leaving my cats for a long weekend and up to a week a few times. I think the cats got use to it.
My last cat I was with him almost 24/7 for 12 years, once or twice a month I would go to the city for half a day or so in the warmer months. We would come home and most times the cat would be sleeping/watching on his bench by the window. He had 2 cushioned benches by windows and the front legs were wrapped with sisal for scratching, I trained him to scratch there. I miss that cat a lot.

 

[Gray Wolf]

When I was younger I didn't mind leaving my cats for a long weekend and up to a week a few times. I think the cats got use to it.
My last cat I was with him almost 24/7 for 12 years, once or twice a month I would go to the city for half a day or so in the warmer months. We would come home and most times the cat would be sleeping/watching on his bench by the window. He had 2 cushioned benches by windows and the front legs were wrapped with sisal for scratching, I trained him to scratch there. I miss that cat a lot.

Melissa meets me at the door when we come home, just like our dog does.

 

[Travis Kelcee]

This is the only way we can force real change. I've been thinking about it for a while now, from all angles I can.

I have 4 friends of mine that own companies and they decided to misclassify their employees as sub contractors and issue 1099's.

All 4 got a visit from the IRS over the last 5 years and it cost them big bucks. Some got away with 1099 employees for 5 years some 10 years. Eventually the IRS shows up with a big ass bill.

 

[oldmaninbc]

Melissa meets me at the door when we come home, just like our dog does.

Yep, our last cat would meet the Mrs at the door when she came home from work, unless she took too long to get to the door. The cat would get bored and leave.
It's good to come home to a place of love and affection. Your a lucky man GW but with you I'm not so sure it's luck, I think you have some things figured out.

 

[Gray Wolf]

Yep, our last cat would meet the Mrs at the door when she came home from work, unless she took too long to get to the door. The cat would get bored and leave.
It's good to come home to a place of love and affection. Your a lucky man GW but with you I'm not so sure it's luck, I think you have some things figured out.

Or some combination thereof..... My luck seems better the more organized and on top of things that I am.

 

[Drippy Sally]

I have 4 friends of mine that own companies and they decided to misclassify their employees as sub contractors and issue 1099's.

All 4 got a visit from the IRS over the last 5 years and it cost them big bucks. Some got away with 1099 employees for 5 years some 10 years. Eventually the IRS shows up with a big ass bill.

That is the trouble about mis-classifying. I have an LLC in my name, workers comp, and business bank account so that people can issue me a 1099. That is as legal as it gets. As long as your employees follow the law, have an LLC, bank, and workers comp they can legally pay their own taxes. That is the route I will take, or pay cash. What I will not do is pay anymore payroll tax on employees or myself. Never again. I won't cheat the system with mis=classifications or fraudulent documents. I just ain't gonna fucking have any employees to have to worry about taxes. 1099 or cash it will be. I have a good relationship with the IRS pre-Trump. They have always been easy to reach and easy to work with.