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[RustyRelics]

It's thundering like crazy here... cold, pouring down rain, windy, dark. I hate winter.

 

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[RustyRelics]

On the plus side, my shipment of knapping rock came in, a good 35 pounds worth.

 

[bill from lachine]

RR,

Start a fire that should warm things up....maybe start by burning some of the trees from those crazy neighbors of yours that should do the trick.....

It's thundering like crazy here... cold, pouring down rain, windy, dark. I hate winter.

 

[RustyRelics]

RR,

Start a fire that should warm things up....maybe start by burning some of the trees from those crazy neighbors of yours that should do the trick.....

Wood is wet, and I'm not too fond of trees at the moment.

My mom wanted this dead tree to be cut down, so my dad sawed almost all the way through it, and stooped, because he was worried it would snap. Mind you, this tree is over a foot or more in diameter, and he cut through 80% of it, and it didn't budge. Then we heard a crack, and the tree slid off of the stump, and landed, still standing, five feet away, caught on another tree.

My dad began sawing that one down, and he got out of the way as both trees crashed down opposite of him. I was standing watching at a distance behind the trees, and when they fel, a huge branch began falling right at me. I didn't have time to get far, so I took cover behind a large Oak. It caught the branch.

So all afternoon, we've been chewed out by our mom because of unsafe tree felling practices. As if tree cutting was ever safe.

 

[WannaDig3687]

You missed one.

I’ll take the keel hauling. I’m not going back in there.

 

[WannaDig3687]

Whew! I made it...before noon! Must be a record.
Good morning...Simon, Bill, WD, Rook, ARC, RR, GB, Bart, and the rest of the Polly..wags..no uh,...ER...scaly wags!

So RR is getting wrist flame throwers...doing a little marshmallow roasting are we?

How goes life in the lens, Bart?

Your swimming is getting good, Beeps. We may have to enter you in the pirate games.

 

[WannaDig3687]

WD some of the white stuff is visiting us tomorrow.

I blame Simon.

 

[WannaDig3687]

Might be selling these.

Lead me not into temptation!
I have so many insulators all over the house. I think they’re secretly reproducing!

 

[WannaDig3687]

How does this 'Christmas Cactus' know its almost here ? All year long it never blooms ...and then...

Very pretty! I can’t keep them alive long enough to see them bloom.

 

[RustyRelics]

Lead me not into temptation!
I have so many insulators all over the house. I think they’re secretly reproducing!

If you want em', these are $100 bucks a pop. These are rare ones.

 

[WannaDig3687]

I’m going to have to pass. I’m serious when I say I have way too many to deal with now.

 

[WannaDig3687]

Rook!!!! I saw the damage on the news! Glad to see your “likes!”

 

[RustyRelics]

I’m going to have to pass. I’m serious when I say I have way too many to deal with now.

I have too many bullets, yet I still buy them.

 

[WannaDig3687]

Today was one of those stressful days. As soon as I logged off, I got a phone call from my grandson's school. He was yakking. Couldn't get a hold of mom or dad, so grandma to the rescue. Poor kid! He looked sick! Now I will probably get it. Anyways, then I went to my dad's. We had an appointment with the lawyer. Uh, he forgot. (Patience, patience). From lawyers to the bank, to Title Agency, back to bank. Then to dad's and started cleaning. I have this game plan.
1. Get rid of clothes - mostly done but loads more in the basement and attic.
2 Get rid of excess medical supplies
3. Clear out trash and magazines
4. Then, go through stuff.

It is so overwhelming, and I got side tracked, again. Ended up with a pile to take home. I said Mr WD was not going to be happy, because I hadn't put away the last pile I took. My dad laughed and laughed. It was good to see him laugh, but Argh! What am I going to do with this stuff? I brought home my grandmother's pin cushion. Grandma died in 1968, I was 5. I don't even remember her, but I had to have it. I got a never used toaster oven for my son. Some Christmas ornaments we all have given them the past few years. And I found this brown hard plastic case and inside was this wad of some sort of clothing all brown and disintegrating. I did throw that away. But also in there was my baby pic and baby shoes. AWW! Dang I am too sentimental.

Accomplished: 2 buckets (yes, he uses a mop bucket to collect them in) of recyclables out, two small bags of trash, and only one box of supplies packed up. This is going to take forever.

 

[releventchair]

Today was one of those stressful days. As soon as I logged off, I got a phone call from my grandson's school. He was yakking. Couldn't get a hold of mom or dad, so grandma to the rescue. Poor kid! He looked sick! Now I will probably get it. Anyways, then I went to my dad's. We had an appointment with the lawyer. Uh, he forgot. (Patience, patience). From lawyers to the bank, to Title Agency, back to bank. Then to dad's and started cleaning. I have this game plan.
1. Get rid of clothes - mostly done but loads more in the basement and attic.
2 Get rid of excess medical supplies
3. Clear out trash and magazines
4. Then, go through stuff.

It is so overwhelming, and I got side tracked, again. Ended up with a pile to take home. I said Mr WD was not going to be happy, because I hadn't put away the last pile I took. My dad laughed and laughed. It was good to see him laugh, but Argh! What am I going to do with this stuff? I brought home my grandmother's pin cushion. Grandma died in 1968, I was 5. I don't even remember her, but I had to have it. I got a never used toaster oven for my son. Some Christmas ornaments we all have given them the past few years. And I found this brown hard plastic case and inside was this wad of some sort of clothing all brown and disintegrating. I did throw that away. But also in there was my baby pic and baby shoes. AWW! Dang I am too sentimental.

Accomplished: 2 buckets (yes, he uses a mop bucket to collect them in) of recyclables out, two small bags of trash, and only one box of supplies packed up. This is going to take forever.

My Dads estate is on hold for awhile.
Going to be quite a while...
Meanwhile when anyone asks about taking something (most anything) I'm fine with it.
Four months(?) now and I still have not put guns in the hands of those that requested particular ones.

So , don't think you're not movin very fast.
It's diggin a hole with a teaspoon while as my sisters put it asking, "are we going up the stairs,or down the stairs?"

 

[Simon1]

I blame Simon.

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Ha Ha Ha Sis !

All I can say is................." In Coming "

As you said, the first one is usually pretty. We have had maybe 4 so far and so I re-adjusted my weather machine to include you in the fun. ( Maybe you will get snowed in, ( of all places ), at WORK

 

[Simon1]

If you want em', these are $100 bucks a pop. These are rare ones.

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A $ 100.00 ?
When my dad passed, he had several THOUSAND insulators. Everyone of them he, ( or us kids ), retrieved hands on. Many where from telegraph lines . When ever we were hunting and saw a pole with NO wires, we would climb it and acquire the insulator. His collection included many Fry Glass insulators as well as numerous Hemingray No. 42 . When my dad passed, they went to an estate auction where they sold for pennies on the dollar. All we were concerned with was clearing out the house so it could be sold. It was fun hunting them with our dad when we were young.

 

[Simon1]

Today was one of those stressful days. As soon as I logged off, I got a phone call from my grandson's school. He was yakking. Couldn't get a hold of mom or dad, so grandma to the rescue. Poor kid! He looked sick! Now I will probably get it. Anyways, then I went to my dad's. We had an appointment with the lawyer. Uh, he forgot. (Patience, patience). From lawyers to the bank, to Title Agency, back to bank. Then to dad's and started cleaning. I have this game plan.
1. Get rid of clothes - mostly done but loads more in the basement and attic.
2 Get rid of excess medical supplies
3. Clear out trash and magazines
4. Then, go through stuff.

It is so overwhelming, and I got side tracked, again. Ended up with a pile to take home. I said Mr WD was not going to be happy, because I hadn't put away the last pile I took. My dad laughed and laughed. It was good to see him laugh, but Argh! What am I going to do with this stuff? I brought home my grandmother's pin cushion. Grandma died in 1968, I was 5. I don't even remember her, but I had to have it. I got a never used toaster oven for my son. Some Christmas ornaments we all have given them the past few years. And I found this brown hard plastic case and inside was this wad of some sort of clothing all brown and disintegrating. I did throw that away. But also in there was my baby pic and baby shoes. AWW! Dang I am too sentimental.

Accomplished: 2 buckets (yes, he uses a mop bucket to collect them in) of recyclables out, two small bags of trash, and only one box of supplies packed up. This is going to take forever.

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I hear you Sis. My dad collected a LARGE amount of items over the years. He had a good idea on value and told me that when he died, me, my younger brother and younger sisters would never have to work again. He had that much stuff, just like a personal museum. Anyway, when he passed, I took a lot of items home even though I did NOT really want them or need them. In my mind, ( because of the shock ), I felt "IF" I took some of his favorite items that HE would come over and ask for them back. So hanging onto some of the items makes sense to me, ( or it did at the time ).

 

[Simon1]

Hey Bart

 

[ARC]

Morning Tnet matey's.