The Original Old Farts Club

[ROSTERMAN]

Morning OFC. My frig is still working. Feel like I won the lottery. Still 6 days to go until the repair guy gets here......wonder how long it will last.

Happy Shatterday! Low 90's today. Nice cool morning though.

My beans are all played out in the veggie garden. Will pull them as soon as I am done downstairs. I am in mater heaven though. I wait all yeah for homegrown .... Only time I eat maters.... won't eat a store bought....no flavor.

Thinking there is some football on today.... my favorite time of the year.

The Kneeling Guy made me hate football

 

[pute]

College football

 

[Unca Walt]

My beans are all played out in the veggie garden. Will pull them as soon as I am done downstairs.

pute -- You triggered an old memory. (From the 1940's!)

Bean time was actually sorta fun for us kids. Our job was to have a nice big needle threaded with kite string... We'd sit there and stick the needle through the middle of the string bean. Airplane propeller style... you could spin the bean on the string. You tied a knot around the first bean so it doesn't come off.

We cut off the stem, left the pointy end alone.

The beans were strung so they almost touched. We'd get 8'-10' strings of beans and hang them from the rafters in the attic. In a coupla months, when there is absolutely no fargin way on Gawd's good green earth to get home-grown string beans... we had home-grown string beans.

Just cook 'em like you would when picked fresh. My fave way was cooking them in bacon fat. To me, they were better than vine fresh.

 

[Unca Walt]

The Kneeling Guy made me hate football

People on their knees... As long as they fall to their knees when I come walking by, I will tolerate it.

 

[Unca Walt]

God bless American Sojers!!! Click on the link. You will be pleased. And it will be another case of "They Must Be Shown" how evil certain aspects of things are.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...secret-missions-conducted-behind-bidens-back/
Their courageous efforts have enabled 630 people to safely get to their evacuation flights out of Afghanistan.

The volunteer unit was commanded by Lt. Col. Scott Mann, a retired Green Beret commander. He explained how the team was proud to have risked their lives to save “dozens of high-risk individuals, families with small children, orphans, and pregnant women.”

 

[Hippie420]

Old Hen and I picked up the new washer, hauled it home, dragged the dead one up and the new one down, and hooked 'er up. Mission accomplished.
Had to keep reminding her not to be trying to muscle the things and let me do most the work, but she's hard headed.

 

[pute]

Now all you have to do is get rid of the old one....did you get a warranty?

 

[user 60606]

are warranties worth it

 

[Hippie420]

Just the normal one year on the washer. The old one went out back to wait for a trailer load of scrap to be taken back to the recycle yard.
OH used to think I was nuts for bothering to take stuff to the junk yard 'til I spotted two diesel truck batteries on the side of the road. Snatched 'em up, stopped by the junk yard, got my cash, and her and I drank at the local watering hole for free that evening.
Besides, if I can keep stuff out of a landfill, I figure it's worth it.

 

[Hippie420]

are warranties worth it

On most stuff, no. On Visio TVs, yes.

 

[pute]

I never used to buy warranties. But, now with appliances going out all the time I have changed my mind. Sure saved me some $$$. Guy will be out next week. I see him so often we actually have gotten to be ..... well we both have the same feelings about what is going on in both here and abroad.

 

[Bubba]

They don’t make shit like they used to.

I have one customer with a 30+year old Coleman air conditioner.
I have maintained it for years, the homeowner asked about replacing it…
I told him to leave it till it dies. Those old units were built like tanks.
That was like 5 years ago,
Still running strong.

Same here. Guy came out 2 years ago cleaned it and put in 300 worth of the expensive old school freon. Ran for 10+years I've lived here. The brand stamp says "Montgomery Wards." It was made by Rheem, the guy said from the date code it was from 1983! Cools whole house just great.

Bubba

 

[Bubba]

You can look up your model sensor and buy a set on Amazon or ebay
Then you need to bring the car into a tire place , they remove the tire from rim install the new units and sync them to car (quick if you have the tool I do)
They just screw into the valve stem hole from inside the tire.

Just put a tiny piece of black electrical tape over to the light.

Bubba

 

[yooper420]

Good Funday morning old farts, how ya'll be ?

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

I am in mater heaven though. I wait all yeah for homegrown .... Only time I eat maters.... won't eat a store bought....no flavor.

Dad was always in a contest with his friends to have the first ta'maters of the season, the best, the most, and the last, so I was spoiled early on what vine ripened tomatoes should taste like. I did learn another trick at our Skunk Pharm garden site that makes them even sweeter which I will share.

At Skunk Pharm Research, we grew our joint cannabis garden indoors in 25 gallon smart pots and fed them tea brewed using fish fertilizer. Our grow was in Eloquentsolution's basement and she vacuumed up the runoff when she fed them, and then fed that to her tomatoes. Wow, what a difference!!

Old Hen and I picked up the new washer, hauled it home, dragged the dead one up and the new one down, and hooked 'er up. Mission accomplished.

Lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lul lu lu lu lu lu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations! Let the celebration begin!

 

[user 60570]

Sunday!
sunday!
sunday!

and some trippy designs

 

[pute]

Morning OFC. Boy did I kill some brain cells last night. Felt so good I might do it again tonight.

Nice cool cloudy morning. What to do with it. Everything is in order both downstairs and up....inside and out....so looking more like a putter about kind of day. That will be nice for a change.

Frig is still cooling....one more day closer to the repair man's visit.

Guess I will make some bubble hash with my free time today. Always something to do. Will take some pictures.

Dog wants to go out back. Will also feed the critters. Later.....

 

[Unca Walt]

Just put a tiny piece of black electrical tape over to the light.

Bubba

The "GI fix". Works great.

 

[user 60606]

mornin'

my son's mother in law and sister in law's family drove all night from New Orleans to my son's house escape the geoengineered manmade hurricane which is a good move I think..
but, 10 minutes ago my son called me and asked if I had any extra joints to give her because the mil is nauseated bad from nerves, their german shep is too . lol

so, loading up blue dream , pootie tang, skywalker og ..and other loose stuff for the sick and impaired .. lol

 

[Bubba]

The "GI fix". Works great.

I had a Nissan like that. Engine light on (rarely a bad thing, you don't want the electrical warn light!) and it was caused by a leaky piece of rubber vaccum tube that dealt with EGR system. Car ran fine otherwise for another decade. Then sold to neighbor who kept driving it.

Bubba