What did YOU do today?

[Rick W]

I’m not 6’2”, but there was a time that I could carry four 10” block at once, two in each hand. Then I got older and more beat up. Also was able to take two bundles of shingles up a ladder at once back then.

Those old timers that used to carry 500# cast iron tubs up steps by themselves though… yikes… my grandfather was able to bend an 8” steel spike until the ends touched with his bare hands…

I did a little side work for a plumber in college when I was working at the home center, to pick up some extra cash. If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t have believed it, and I’d say you were fibbing. The old fart plumber I was working for, I helped him wiggle a beat up old cast-iron tub on his shoulders, thinking I was going to be holding the other end. Then he kind of stood up bent over like a fat armadillo and slowly walked out the house with it. No stairs though, maybe you exaggerated on that part…

Seeing stuff like that in person is better than all the superhero movies combined!

 

[Blmpkn]

Yep, that’s exactly what the politicians will do every time…

How else are "we" supposed to fund other people's wars? Jeeze Rick, have a lil compassion woulda?

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I did a little side work for a plumber in college when I was working at the home center, to pick up some extra cash. If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t have believed it, and I’d say you were fibbing. The old fart plumber I was working for, I helped him wiggle a beat up old cast-iron tub on his shoulders, thinking I was going to be holding the other end. Then he kind of stood up bent over like a fat armadillo and slowly walked out the house with it. No stairs though, maybe you’re exaggerated on that part…

Seeing stuff like that in person is better than all the superhero movies combined!

There’s a lot of houses around here where the tub is on the second floor… lol

My preferred method when I’ve had to remove an old cast iron tub is to smash it to pieces, remove the nearest window and chuck the pieces out into the yard. It’s a lot easier that way, lol

 

[Rick W]

Well, I’m disappointed in all of you and the moderators in particular, tsk tsk. I never thought I’d be saying this at 71 years old, but today is my birthday. Yeah, I know, everyone will chime in now….

So far, I washed all the mud out of the Missing Linc from hauling the blocks, I blew out the interior with the leaf blower, and then wiped down the seats and the dash with a damp sponge. Pressure washed the outside, but didn’t feel up to putting soap on it.

I also made a little bracket to hang my little mileage plate. I’ve had it for about six months. I figured if I waited any longer, it would be obsolete.

And ever since I put those six-dollar-on-close-out Harbor Freight halogen floods on the top of the made-from-a-toolbox-lid light rack, they’ve been pointing cockeyed. I loosened them up and finally pointed them in the right direction. Well, I think so anyway, I’ll know tonight.

My knee is killing me, but I otherwise feel amazingly good. Moving those block was the most exercise I’ve probably had in 15 years. I think, coupled with the weight loss, I might actually rejoin the functioning human race again.

Heading up to the cute little brunette later today. She’s going to take me out for some Chinese food.

Lincoln is Lincoln. If you’ve got a dog, you know what I mean.

And, as always, I try to walk in His shadow. If we do it correctly, however, all we get is His light. Still partly shady in my existence.

And, seriously, as regards TRS and you guys, I’m honored to be in your company. That’s a pretty good birthday gift.

 

[Things2do]

Yep, that’s exactly what the politicians will do every time…

At least I was willing to give it the little bit that I did, pretty much everything I gave it would have been thrown away anyway, and in return I got to watch a happy little furry tree rat sitting calmly next to me for a few minutes.

As a band called Rebel Son once sang,
"Politician, legislative man
He smiles, while he shakes your hand
He promises you the world if you vote for him on election day
Well I can smell [@%!^&$%@] from a mile away"

 

[Curious Hound]

Well, I’m disappointed in all of you and the moderators in particular, tsk tsk. I never thought I’d be saying this at 71 years old, but today is my birthday. Yeah, I know, everyone will chime in now….

So far, I washed all the mud out of the Missing Linc from hauling the blocks, I blew out the interior with the leaf blower, and then wiped down the seats and the dash with a damp sponge. Pressure washed the outside, but didn’t feel up to putting soap on it.

I also made a little bracket to hang my little mileage plate. I’ve had it for about six months. I figured if I waited any longer, it would be obsolete.

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And ever since I put those six-dollar-on-close-out Harbor Freight halogen floods on the top of the made-from-a-toolbox-lid light rack, they’ve been pointing cockeyed. I loosened them up and finally pointed them in the right direction. Well, I think so anyway, I’ll know tonight.

My knee is killing me, but I otherwise feel amazingly good. Moving those block was the most exercise I’ve probably had in 15 years. I think, coupled with the weight loss, I might actually rejoin the functioning human race again.

Heading up to the cute little brunette later today. She’s going to take me out for some Chinese food.

Lincoln is Lincoln. If you’ve got a dog, you know what I mean.

And, as always, I try to walk in His shadow. If we do it correctly, however, all we get is His light. Still partly shady in my existence.

And, seriously, as regards TRS and you guys, I’m honored to be in your company. That’s a pretty good birthday gift.

I'll admit that I don't look at the birthday list every day. So, Happy Birthday! Rest, relax and recover from moving all those blocks.

Honestly, I've always been terrible with birthdays. I usually get it when Facebook reminds me.

 

[Rick W]

I'll admit that I don't look at the birthday list every day. So, Happy Birthday! Rest, relax and recover from moving all those blocks.

Honestly, I've always been terrible with birthdays. I usually get it when Facebook reminds me.

Hey, that gives me an idea. I know @Jim Oaks is always trying to increase the reach and benefits of TRS. Maybe we should start a birthday club banner!

 

[Curious Hound]

Hey, that gives me an idea. I know @Jim Oaks is always trying to increase the reach and benefits of TRS. Maybe we should start a birthday club banner!

I don't know about all that. But, if you didn't know, scroll to the bottom of the page and you will see a section listing todays birthdays. So, technically, the forum remembered.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

I did a large load of laundry today, and it was warm and sunny enough to hang it outside to dry. During our last snowstorm I rolled a friend of mine's car with a half a roll of really thin single ply that he left down in my apartment as penance for coming down and using our good toilet paper. He responded by putting the same toilet paper, after it had dried, along with some dirt and gravel from the parking lot underneath my sheets and inside my pillowcase. Luckily he failed to put any in my wool blanket. When my mom was little it belonged to my grandparents, it wasn't new then, they all say it could be over a hundred years old, and I would most certainly be handing him that $40+ dry cleaning bill. As it is it just cost me the $1.25 for the washing machine.

Then I went to enquire at a mechanic shop that a guy from my church introduced me to last year. The owner said that he could keep me busy if I had some time last summer, but that was a year ago now. He went home early with a cold before I got there today.

And then I went gold panning. I just picked a random spot and took the surface sediment from under a rock so I wasn't expecting much. I had a real pan that my dad bought in the '80's and a thrift store serving spoon to shovel with. After about 45 minutes I had one or two tablespoons of black sand with maybe a flake or two of flour gold in it. But it was a nice day to be squatting next to a sunny section of a creek in a canyon.


Someone was just telling me about the Katy Freeway section of I-10 in Texas the other day. Including frontage roads one part of that one is 26 lanes wide.

One is a baseball team and the other is a band. Damn Yankees aren't just the ones that stay, they're also the ones that Come Again.

Unless it's the middle of the night we usually bypass Atlanta to the west. I think it's about 45 minutes slower in ideal conditions, but 45 minutes is easy to lose in Atlanta. I don't think I've seen that city in the daylight while just passing through since they started building the elevated lanes alone I-75.

They can also somehow convey information to other crows and to their offspring. I read somewhere that if you walk out to a murder and swing a dead crow over your head their yet unhatched kids will still attack you years later.


That's wild to think about. I grew up outside of Chattanooga, TN. The whole Chattanooga MSA is about a half a million people in 2,000 square miles and it meets my definition of "too big." So, naturally, I went from there to the Front Range of Colorado.

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This one used to take food out of my hand.


I'd rather mess with gasoline than onions. It takes over twice as long for my hands to quit smelling like onion as it does for them to stop smelling like gas.

I like the office chair bicycle. At first I thought it was rear steer... Wiggle your butt to turn.