The Original O'l Farts Club.

[Putembk]

Howdy gang. Back from my out of the house duties. New bale of ProMix and Perlite....$100......

Our local grocery store is on strike so along with the grow store trip I took Mrs Pute to Target for some groceries.....Blind leading the blind.....she didn't know where anything was....wandering the isles without a clue on how to find what she needed. I was patiently at her side.

Cold is moving in all around the area.....arctic blast coming. I will be close to the fire for the next few days.

 

[D. B. Doober]

Alas, Grayfox washed my grey fleece vest with a load of towels and I just spent over an hour with a pair of tweezers picking off little balls of white lint, after first trying all the brushes and sticky lint rollers.

I would have just thrown it away, but it is an expensive LL Bean.

Yeah ll bean is good stuff I have a lot of their clothing. Pants, jackets, socks

 

[D. B. Doober]

Howdy gang. Back from my out of the house duties. New bale of ProMix and Perlite....$100......

Our local grocery store is on strike so along with the grow store trip I took Mrs Pute to Target for some groceries.....Blind leading the blind.....she didn't know where anything was....wandering the isles without a clue on how to find what she needed. I was patiently at her side.

Cold is moving in all around the area.....arctic blast coming. I will be close to the fire for the next few days.

We got snow early yesterday, is say maybe 4". Getting more Sunday but I haven't heard how much. Hang in there friend.

 

[D. B. Doober]

45 days until baseball opening day. I'm going April 10th the Blue Jays Vladimir Guerrero Jr and July 27th the Dodgers and Shohei Ohtani

 

[jokerman]

That's not teabaggin.
Teabaggin is when you pull out a Tampax by your teeth

rusty trombone?

 

[Gray Wolf]

I don't have to look to my Father. I have seen an old, old, chain-driven, wooden-spoked truck with hard rubber tires driven down my street by a guy who repaired shoes and sharpened knives in a small workshop in the back.

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I saw an in-service military US Army Air Force USAAF biplane with the red center star roundels come over our house.

View attachment 19149158 And I have seen the Billion $$ Bat Plane fly directly over me.

This was our phone on the farm (the only electricity wired was for phone operation).
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We had wasps that all turned and looked at you when you went in the outhouse. (Terrified me) And the mosquitoes flew up out of the hole in a cloud. We had a Montgomery Ward catalog in there for TP.

JEEBUS, but I am OLD.

Our first phone that I remember was a crank phone like you pictured but the only biplanes that I remember around where I grew up were crop dusting and the trucks were newer, though I do remember wagons pulled by mules.

Maybe ancient would be a better description? You are most certainly several years older than Keith Richards, who was born 12-8-1943, while I'm only about three months older, born 09-09-1943.

 

[Unca Walt]

Antikythera Mechanism: The ancient 'computer' that simply shouldn't exist -​

Gotta do it:

It most ricky-tick should and did exist. It is made with materials available at the time to do calculations for purposes known at the time. There's a "rebuilt" nice shiny one that was made to demo. I saw the pictures and the explanations. Mebbe if you get creative on Google you'll find it.

No Daniken crapola on this one.

Like the Piri Reis Map, they never mention the map has been cut and modified several times to meet "reality". Wonder why?

 

[Unca Walt]

I flew cessna 150 from Tampa to Selma, Alabama back in the mid 70s and had no license, but I did have a pilot next to me… I don’t know why it happened, but there were a couple military helicopters up towards cross city and they wanted to play games with me. One flew underneath and one flew overhead, and there was nothing but turbulence in between… I jumped out of a perfectly good airplane once and that’ll never happen again. If we’re smart enough, we learn to sort that stuff out and not try to do those things twice.

Wasn't it a rush? You could go any where you wanted. I've loved every second I've piloted.

 

[Unca Walt]

Actually, this desk might survive the house collapsing over it being a massive thing of 2x6s and 2x8s. A high 5 to 6 magnitude will drop most old unreinforced brick buildings and fireplaces. Anything built before the Long Beach quake of 32 can be knocked off its foundation even if the wood frame house comes through OK as they are not bolted to the cement foundation. The original part of this wood frame dates to 24. Added onto in the 1950s.
A magnitude 7 can knock down most anything depending on the duration. A sharp short single thrust isn't too bad but an ongoing roller that keeps coming in waves you can see will knock it all down.

I was outside in the street for the 1st big 6.3 aftershock of the Bear quake, and you could see the ground swelling up as the wave came down the street towards, under, lifting us up, then past us. Our friends house swayed away from then slammed back into the fireplace. Didn't do either any good. Sounds and feels like being way to close to a fast train you can't back away from.

YIKES!

I was in SF with Witchie-Poo, and we were reading a menu hanging by two thin chains in the window. Suddenly, both of us felt sorta woozy... and then we noticed the sign was now swinging back and forth.

 

[jokerman]

 

[dogzter]

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Hello Joe nice to see you!

 

[dogzter]

We have been looking for another Jack Russell and its looking pretty slim around here.
Saw a litter of beagle looking pups that we almost grabbed just to get them away from the meth but fortunately did not.

 

[Gray Wolf]

Wasn't it a rush? You could go any where you wanted. I've loved every second I've piloted.

I actually found flying small planes like a 150 or 172 boring for the most part. You sit there with the engine roar in your ears, for long periods and it looks like you are barely moving. I did like how much faster it was than driving.

I had a Cessna 172, but the last plane that I flew was a home made low wing two seater built by my tournament rifle builder. It had a Continental 360 and cruised at 200 knots.

 

[Gray Wolf]

View attachment 19149186 We have been looking for another Jack Russell and its looking pretty slim around here.
Saw a litter of beagle looking pups that we almost grabbed just to get them away from the meth but fortunately did not.

Jack Russels are a cool breed, but alas my favorite one recently died of old age.

He was named Radar and belonged to a friend, but when I visited he was sure that I was there for him and made a point to entertain me with games toss and keep away.

 

[jokerman]

Hello Joe nice to see you!

Nice to be back !
You would have loved the show.
Its the biggest sportsman show in the world I think
A lot of everything ,black powder ,guns fishing bows atvs trailers calls hunting trips 80-20 guns ,trucks ,boats ,food ,knives,
The show is 1 million square feet.
$ years ago I entered a Vets raffle and won a $800 crossbow.
The next year I entered something and won another crossbow
This year i entered one for a Garand!
Cold in PA!

 

[SubGirl]

I don't have to look to my Father. I have seen an old, old, chain-driven, wooden-spoked truck with hard rubber tires driven down my street by a guy who repaired shoes and sharpened knives in a small workshop in the back.

View attachment 19149157

I saw an in-service military US Army Air Force USAAF biplane with the red center star roundels come over our house.

View attachment 19149158 And I have seen the Billion $$ Bat Plane fly directly over me.

This was our phone on the farm (the only electricity wired was for phone operation).
View attachment 19149160

We had wasps that all turned and looked at you when you went in the outhouse. (Terrified me) And the mosquitoes flew up out of the hole in a cloud. We had a Montgomery Ward catalog in there for TP.

JEEBUS, but I am OLD.

Wow, I can’t beat that but we did have a party line

 

[Dime]

Good afternoon.The own nothing crowd is at it again.

x.com

x.com

 

[SubGirl]

Nice to be back !
You would have loved the show.
Its the biggest sportsman show in the world I think
A lot of everything ,black powder ,guns fishing bows atvs trailers calls hunting trips 80-20 guns ,trucks ,boats ,food ,knives,
The show is 1 million square feet.
$ years ago I entered a Vets raffle and won a $800 crossbow.
The next year I entered something and won another crossbow
This year i entered one for a Garand!
Cold in PA!

There is a reason that luck goes your way. Glad you had a big time and back home too

 

[Gray Wolf]

Wow, I can’t beat that but we did have a party line

We had a party line as well. Each party had a different ring and people would periodically pick it up while we were talking. Mostly they would then just hang up, but sometimes they would snoop or be a-holes with comments or an angry slam.

 

[SubGirl]

We had a party line as well. Each party had a different ring and people would periodically pick it up while we were talking. Mostly they would then just hang up, but sometimes they would snoop or be a-holes with comments or an angry slam.

Yes, we tried to be short if someone picked up prolly wanting to make a call. Sometimes they were impatient not letting us say a proper goodbye without picking it up again in 5 seconds and then a slam.