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Originally Posted by leddzepp

I like turtles.

My favorite cast iron trivet is a turtle no picture. I could take one but I wouldn't put it in my P-Bucket acct. While we're on the topic of P-Bucket...on and on and on

Originally Posted by Ironhorse

Since this is a Hi-jack thread I guess I can Hi-jack and show off my new shop clock. Keeps good time and works great. Second clock I've made now. Actually third but don't have pics of it so "it didn't happen with out pics" applies here.

My mom gave me a battery clock I hung in the kitchen. Great for when power went out. I can see it through the doorway sitting here on my couch, the parlor to laundry room doorway, and at the door out back from the laundry room. So I could poke my head in the door to check time, look while making coffee/doing laundry (coffee set-up in l/r). Finally died months ago and I haven't seen a suitable replacement. BUT I KEEP LOOKING AT THAT THING! Force of habit is a powerful thing

Originally Posted by harpo231

MMM sketti

Made Buhsketti last night with sauge we made on Saturday on Drexel Bidle's farm. Drex is 79 and still operates heavy equipment because he enjoys it. The man is sharp as a tack and fit as a pin. Bidle Brothers Excavating was founded by his brother Buzz in the '60s. Brother Jerry was the sausage master Saturday. These are sons of settlers and it was a rich experience for me that I stumbled upon when I rang up my buddy while in the area for a farm toy auction I got bored real quick with. This is the area I lived in when I had the Blue Mule in the '70s. Buzz Bidle's place was up the road.

On my way over to Drex's place I see this

Turn around to get number off realtor sign to see about looking at buying this mountain side place with a view across the valley to the next mountain to get the opportunity on the truck.

Originally Posted by A1971Blazer

my main mechanics/fabricators...
checking the fit on the roll bar before they modify it.

That's a hungus roll bar. I bought a single 3" for the green '71 K/5 I once had. House of Steel. Decided to use the Desert Dynamics stock-type instead. Traded the bar for a set of rallye wheels of my brother in law's brothers new black '84 shortbed K10. They laid around I had them on a '70 Custom/10 a while. Then in '90 when I bought a new Blazer I had them powder coated gloss black. I didn't run beauty rings and stripped the silver paint off the flange around the lug nuts to expose the perfect chrome. Was a nice look on the somewhat de-chromed '90. Go a set of Ventshades powder coated,for it, too. I wish I had kept that Blazer, but I ended up with an '85 Diesel Jimmy I really liked. Sold that and wish I could have kept that. It's in NH now. Sold to a friend of my Spring Carlisle vendor buddies who come down every year. Great guys.

Originally Posted by Bomp

Doing things in reverse or... Built a sewing room, now learning how to sew.

Well...I'm a carpenter. My first job out of HS I was hired to learn the trade. Beore my first day Rudy told me what tools I needed to show up with the first day. Got to have the tools to learn how to use them. My kitchen is full of things I can't use. So I guess desire is the other requirement. I think that was it in it's purest form when you chose to embark on that minor transformation. Speaking of school, my best friend in elementary was Ricky Starcher. His younger brother was Mike but went by Stitch. He was bigger than us. We would play Hillbilly Bears and he was Pa Bear. We would run from him and he would hold up a broom and say "Mush Mouth, this is gonna be the last of you" POW! (gun exploded in the cartoon). All blowed up he would say "Gonna be the last of me". Thought that was the funniest thing. Yep, old Vernon & Peggy Starcher were good parents. Dad was an excavating contractor, too https://youtu.be/wTW5FDVs8EU

Originally Posted by cypressbog

I dry age big beef subprimals in my at home dedicated fridge. The one shown was air dried for 243 days. Incredible flavor and super tender!

Num Yummy. Can't think of anything unrelated to steer this away.

Originally Posted by yuccales

Couple of new Cat batteries for the Dirty-Max.

Speaking of cats, I'm working in this house now where the woman has an old Siamese and some small terrier type dog about the same size. They lay up on the bed on the electric blanket with a view up the long farm lane. Her daughter and grand daughter had just been over to play with the dog (they live next door on the place). I guess he was feeling worked up. Hadn't been 5 minutes since they left when I got to the top of the steps, looked in the room, and say the cat laying there like the sphinx with the dog humping away. Appeared to be a regular thing. Soon as I saw them it was like the child walking in on mom & dad. In a flash he was laying next to the cat facing me with this look of guilt like he has been scolded for this before.

Originally Posted by davischevy

You look stumped in those pictures.

Now what I gonna do wit dis ting? They have a high tension power line (two rows of towers) cutting through the place cut through woods. A very convenient dumping ground. I placed it at the edge of the woods with the roots facing the right of way too appear as a tree the had fallen right there.
This was on the farm for the old woman I did work for, after she had passed away and place was on the market. Now the new "young" owners have hired me to do work. Totally different situation on the same property. I had the power to decide what needed done before and now they come to me with their idealistic we just bought our dream looked it all up on the internet ideas w/o much regard for my veteran opinion.

I'm jonesin' to ride, too. Been a few years. Need to put that rear brake system on. I've had a lot of fun on that thing