Tim, you've seen me...
I eat anything!
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Sometimes I guess it's all how you look at things---
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Nice one Roy!
Another post reminded me of this story............
I used to work at St Olaf College as an Operating engineer/boiler room operator. We were there 24/7 so of course we could answer anything. Most times they would use students to answer phones on weekends etc. but many times we would. Security would give rides for anyone to feel safe late at night.
One night I got a call from a young girl that wanted a ride from security. I asked where she was and she replied "The Center of the Universe". I inwardly chuckled and dang near hung up, but then asked where that was.
It was a coffee shop downtown. :rofl2:
She was the switchboard operator ready to come to work to relieve me!
I know it is cold outside when I open my back door into a porch and it creaks from the temperature change as it swings into the warm house.
I don't remember how I ended up here but interesting if you are into railroads.
Canadian railway tunnels Snow Sheds with a special look at the CPR The Spiral Tunnels
I was playing an online Solitaire Game and an Ad popped up urging the purchase of 'Pot Stocks' saying they would be the best investment in 2018.
I loved the 'flag'.
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There is a big warehouse two towns over from me that just got converted over to a business called Cultivate where they grow it now.
Pete <:-}
There is an outfit here in my town of Walla Walla called 'Walla Walla Weedery':gaah:
How creative there Roy. Our little town just passed laws for 3 dispensaries and a big grow op in an abandoned factory. Mind you, our usual graduating class is about 45 kids. Like I said, small town
Mebbe you can get some Walla Walla Weedery Willie Weed, Roy!
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To quote the great Rodney Dangerfield.
“I don’t do cocaine, I just love the way it smells.”
:chapeau
Here all week, try the fish..
On a different subject, My sons friend has a grandmother who is 97,and I asked her out of all the things she has seen appear in the world, what she thought was the most amazing thing she had seen come about. Her reply was, without missing a beat, the Thermos...I was stunned,The thermos?? I asked, to which she replied absolutely, you put in hot coffee and it stays hot, if you put in cold water it stays cold,and without computers how do it know???
One trouble with being aged..things we remember getting to do a specific job are no longer made and the clerks don't even know what we are talking about! Bring a sketch pad and en to communicate. Spent about two hours going from place to place today to find a swinging plant hanger...no luck even with sketches. Then to a Dolla' Sto and they havesn't put them out yet but do remember the item. Go figure!
YMMV
~Richard
Try telling so many people today that you want 2 bits for something. Better yet, ask a grocery clerk where the Oleo is kept.:rofl2::roflmao
I haven't heard two bits and oleo in a long time, well done.
two bits---a Shave--hehehe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDsgkRW2hDA
Or have them make change when the computer is down....
I don't remember one of my Great Grandmothers. She died just after I was born. I have been told that she wanted to hold a great grandchild.
She told my father if you even come close to the changes that I have seen in my life it will be amazing.
She went from the horse and buggy to a man in space.
My grandmother basically said the same thing: She said that she thought that Mankind had made more advances in her lifetime than Mankind would ever see again in a single lifetime. From Horse and Buggy/Writing on a Piece of Slate with Chalk to Space Travel and these things called Computers (She never had or used one).
4 out of 5 dentists recommend it for there patience that chew gum...
My dad, who'll be 83 in a few months, talks about things once in a while that he remembers.
As farmers, he's seen going from horses to the incredible machines we run today. Well some that run themselves and do more in an hour than he used to be able to do in a day!
My mother who is living with me is 86, she also has some old quips.
Dave, we still have one farmer in the area that still does 100 acres by horse n plow. The rest is done with modern tools. He says that's the only way that part of the farm has ever been done, for the past 3-4 generations. Just family tradition, he says.
Wow, that sounds like the Omish near me.
Honestly, that is great Mike!!
There are so many things that are being forgotten or pushed aside for "modernization".
The old folks knew what work was and also knew how to care for their land much better than we do now.
Word.
I work on a horse farm and my grandparents and their parents also used their horses to do everything before machines came into play.
Honestly, we as people in general have become less wise and knowledgeable about a lot of things the old folks knew about. Sadly there's a great wealth of information and skills disappearing with them.
We think we're much smarter now with technology, but I notice when working with people a lot of practical knowledges and skills are lacking.
The world has shifted, a lot. In some ways we are evolving and getting much smarter, in others we are estranging from things were once a normality.
Generally people now are raised in a cyber world as opposed to the real world (this statement needs nuancing, but you get the point).
I've been fortunate to have worked with "elder" people showing and teaching me a lot of things, but they also admit they have only gotten a small % of knowledge from their elders.
While studying history I generally noticed people don't give populations in history enough credit for their knowledge, they were much smarter (practically) then we are now and then we realize.
I heard a story when I was younger about a man that worked a "large" farm at least at that time in ND.
He would plow a furrow across each end of a long field. Once he got started he would put the tractor in the dead furrow and go to sleep. When he hit the cross plowed one at the other end it would wake him up.
Turn the tractor around and go back to sleep until the other end..... OMG
When my grandparents were living in the country the electric company had a little monthly 'magazine' and people would request recipes. One woman asked if anyone knew how to make Egg Butter. Her parents used to make it but she hadn't ever learned how and her folks had passed on.
My grandmother wrote how to make it and mailed it to the woman. She never heard back if that was what she was looking for.
I asked my grandmother what it was and what it was used for. She said it was a way to use up extra eggs and butter. Her family used it on pancakes, toast and other things.
Pretty simple actually.
Hard boil eggs, cube butter. Peel eggs, chop eggs, mash eggs, add the cubes of butter mash together until creamy, add salt and pepper if desired.
And why/how would you use this egg butter?
My grandparents were immigrants and they lived on ham hocks, cornbread and pinto beans.
seriously...Why not just eat the eggs and then the butter?
Where they trying to make the butter or eggs last longer?
I can't answer that my friend, I can say that I hard boiled an egg and after cooling it I used a small food processor to chop it and then added about a tablespoon of cold butter chunks and creamed it.
I was eating a slice of toast with the mixture on it when your post came in and it's nothing Great, but it's decent.
I'll probably use the remaining on some pancakes tomorrow morning. :tu
Never herd of the egg butter but to this day, my wife make pinto beans with ham hawk and cornbread. It was a staple in both our homes growing up. If you were hungry there was always beans in the fridge. Another thing that we had most every meal was fried potatos. Cubed and fried. Nothing special but it was a good filler to a meal.
Tbis was back when folks sat at the table for dinner. Always.
I stumbled upon this and just had to post--Hey Geezer--this is for You and ME!
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