The Original Old Farts Club

[yarddog]

morning gang. cool mornings now. glad to get some relief. couple weeks and rifle season comes in. time to fill the freezers. i processed 52 lb of sausages last weekend. i have GOT to buy an electric grinder. shoulder still hurts lol. cheddar jalapeño and philly cheese brats. sure are good. i have two sheep we need to process out soon, between lamb and deer we hardly buy meat anymore. nothing like a good roasted lamb shoulder. i gotta stop, getting hungry.

 

[pute]

morning gang. cool mornings now. glad to get some relief. couple weeks and rifle season comes in. time to fill the freezers. i processed 52 lb of sausages last weekend. i have GOT to buy an electric grinder. shoulder still hurts lol. cheddar jalapeño and philly cheese brats. sure are good. i have two sheep we need to process out soon, between lamb and deer we hardly buy meat anymore. nothing like a good roasted lamb shoulder. i gotta stop, getting hungry.

Sounds like you are set for the winter yarddog.

 

[dogster]

Sounds like you are set for the winter yarddog.

Winter starts here next week.
Highs in the 50's and below freezing at night.........praise be.

 

[pute]

Winter starts here next week.
Highs in the 50's and below freezing at night.........praise be.

We are getting snow above us already. Won't be long. My maters are on life support.

 

[giggy]

We might get winter in January, sometimes sooner but we have had snow in April.

 

[user 60570]

hurricane update!

surf is up n the east coast!

 

[Hippie420]

Wow! Tommy caught tube!

 

[boo]

we get about an hour of winter down here...

 

[user 60606]

we get about an hour of winter down here...

Anita Bryant will not allow snapper cold weather near her oranges

 

[Unca Walt]

Hey folks, get this -- My High School class of 1958 had a reunion this week -- our 65th.

They sent me a video of them singing "Earth Angel" <-- One of the first rock n' roll songs we heard back then. I din' go because it was way up on Long Island at the Coral House in Baldwin <-- I do not travel anymore since my metal sets off alarms and I'd wind up getting half-nekkid and X-rayed again.

Anyway, one of the guys did some math: in 1958, the Class of 1872 was celebrating their 65th. They graduated four years before Custer got a haircut. Thass how old our group is. Jeez.

An equal distance back the same amount of time from my birthday-to-today, it was 1857... five years BEFORE the Civil War started. It was the year the Pandies rebelled in Injah. Sepoy Mutiny.

 

[user 60606]

sepoys not like brits and their ... and it became a patriotic revolt

 

[NewbOldster]

Anita Bryant will not allow snapper cold weather near her oranges

I remember smudge pots in the orange groves to keep the fruit from freezing when I was growing up. The orange tree itself is impervious to temps, but when the fruit freezes, it becomes useless and ruined.

 

[Hippie420]

Went down there in '76. You could smell an orange grove miles before you got to it. Heavenly. Went back in '86. The groves that were there ten years earlier were gone. Stopped into a Mexican restaurant to feed the wife and was asking what happened to 'em. I was told that Dow had came out with some new fangled spray that would stop the fruit from freezing. It killed the trees. Dow paid out big bucks in a lawsuit and replanted the orchard. The new trees died. Glad I didn't have stock in Dow!

 

[boo]

in 1970 I was hired to tend smudge pots in the freezing night for 5 bucks an hour...we smoked weed all night and got paid for it...

 

[NewbOldster]

in 1970 I was hired to tend smudge pots in the freezing night for 5 bucks an hour...we smoked weed all night and got paid for it...

I don't doubt that a bit! lol
5 bucks an hour was good money then, boo!

 

[NewbOldster]

Went down there in '76. You could smell an orange grove miles before you got to it. Heavenly. Went back in '86. The groves that were there ten years earlier were gone. Stopped into a Mexican restaurant to feed the wife and was asking what happened to 'em. I was told that Dow had came out with some new fangled spray that would stop the fruit from freezing. It killed the trees. Dow paid out big bucks in a lawsuit and replanted the orchard. The new trees died. Glad I didn't have stock in Dow!

Try to find yourself some Orange Blossom Honey. I keep jars of it at home.
I hear Pitcairn Honey is one of the best in the world, but I've never tried it.
I'm thinkin' Orange Blossom Honey is just as good. Yes, the smell is heavenly!

 

[NewbOldster]

Wow! Tommy caught tube!

I stayed Hawaii for two years. Every storm came along, I was on the North Shore. Waves that shake the dry ground you're standing on is pretty dad-gummed impressive!

 

[NewbOldster]

Hey folks, get this -- My High School class of 1958 had a reunion this week -- our 65th.

They sent me a video of them singing "Earth Angel" <-- One of the first rock n' roll songs we heard back then. I din' go because it was way up on Long Island at the Coral House in Baldwin <-- I do not travel anymore since my metal sets off alarms and I'd wind up getting half-nekkid and X-rayed again.

Anyway, one of the guys did some math: in 1958, the Class of 1872 was celebrating their 65th. They graduated four years before Custer got a haircut. Thass how old our group is. Jeez.

An equal distance back the same amount of time from my birthday-to-today, it was 1857... five years BEFORE the Civil War started. It was the year the Pandies rebelled in Injah. Sepoy Mutiny.

If I go back the number of my living years before my birth date, I find that among other things;
Benjamin Harrison was President. The Mammoth Mine Disaster occurred, as did the Grand Opening of Carnegie Hall, the first display of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope, and Marie Owens becomes (probably) the first female police officer in the U.S., with the Chicago Police Department.

 

[user 60570]

I don't doubt that a bit! lol
5 bucks an hour was good money then, boo!

good money indeed!

I was pearl diving in 1969 for $1.25 an hour

then I moved to Oklahoma , got a job as a receiving clerk for an electric supply company and made $3.25 an hour

i do not think I would get out of bed for less than $50 an hour now

 

[pute]

My first Dealership job was at Schofield Bros Pontiac in 1970. $3.50 an hr flat rate....I thought I was rich!