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granitestateofmind said:
I didn't even see that contract - I should be more careful with the beer. Well, OK - but.....she's 13½ - are you sure you're ready to deal with a teenager?
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I donno WW.... you may want to rethink this one. There are some definite pro's to go with the cons of a moody teenager. Think free babysitting ;). Also I believe GSOM's girl aint too shabby at axe throwing.....
 
Axe throwing? Meh... How is she with a cold steel shovel? That is the measure of greatness! :D
 
Mornin' heads. As of Thursday, I am the proud new owner of a bk4 and a bk5, thanks to Dex's awesome deals. I cant believe I waited so long to get them.

In other news, I'm headed to my grandmas birthday party in a few hours. Its her 100th birthday, so we will have family from all over the country here. Its kinda crazy to think about the changes she has seen and things she has been through. How she survived having 14 children is beyond me.
 
ac700wildcat said:
Mornin' heads. As of Thursday, I am the proud new owner of a bk4 and a bk5, thanks to Dex's awesome deals. I cant believe I waited so long to get them.

In other news, I'm headed to my grandmas birthday party in a few hours. Its her 100th birthday, so we will have family from all over the country here. Its kinda crazy to think about the changes she has seen and things she has been through. How she survived having 14 children is beyond me.
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Wow, tell grandma we said Happy Birthday! My grandma had 12 kids. Crazy when you think about it. There's over 150 of us now.

I knew a man from town here, that passed in 1990 at 105. Crazy to think of the changes he saw as well. He was born in 1885.
 
I couldn't even begin to count how many people there are alive because of her. I know there are great great grand children for sure. There ate probably great great great grandchildren too.
 
Damn! 100. That's special for sure! Give Grandma hugs and kisses from all of us here!
 
The Warrior said:
The Sony Cybershot is a great little camera. It's what I use as well. Mines an older model, the DSC-W55.

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Awesome brother!!

I picked this camera a couple weeks back because the camera i been using is a DSC-W650 and its been through hell for a couple years and still took a good picture.. Even if it is all screwed up now LOL....

I figured this one is a step up and being wifi would make sending pictures to the PC easier... Im hoping anyways LOL.
 
WOOOHOOOOOOO!!!

I scored some HATE dust. And it went SO fast!!

It only gets sold a couple times a year and the proceeds go to charity.

But its hard to get. They had hundreds available and they still all sold out just this morning.

At 50 bucks a pop its NOT cheap seasoning. But the point is not getting the seasoning either, even though that stuff is awesome, the point is to donate to the cause.

Happy i made the cut!!
 
100 years is a long time, but when you think about it, it's crazy to think about all the changes we've seen in just our lifetimes. Internet, laptops, tablets, cell phones, smart phones, and all kinds of crazy things. Almost every person walking around in any developed country has at least one device that could access the wealth of human knowledge on their person at any given time. And when I was a kid, answering machines weren't even common place.
 
I've been thinking about what it would be like to have been alive for the last hundred years all day. I know my grandma and grandpa lived on a very rural farm, hundreds of miles from any decent sized town. Even now its 30 miles away from the town that I live in. They were homesteaders. They had to raise/grow all their own food and didn't have anywhere to really go to if they needed anything. They were about 10 miles from a town that is very small today, so I have no how big it was back then. I couldn't imagine the amount of canning, butchering, etc you would have to do to be able to feed 14 children and 2 adults. I watch some homesteading shows and it seems like they might have it fairly rough, but back when it was a real necessity I'm sure life was really hard, especially when you have to live through winters in ND.
 
I have been alive for the last millennium. Lots of changes have come to past.

One of the worst changes was the creation of skinny jeans for men. Those "capri" pants for men is right up there with the skinny jeans though. Pretty much, men just dont need to be wearing womens clothing.

I remember when a dime bag costs a dime. you know what I mean? .....You know how much condoms used to cost back in them days? ......I don't know, we never used 'em. :D -Willie Nelson
 
ac700wildcat said:
I've been thinking about what it would be like to have been alive for the last hundred years all day. I know my grandma and grandpa lived on a very rural farm, hundreds of miles from any decent sized town. Even now its 30 miles away from the town that I live in. They were homesteaders. They had to raise/grow all their own food and didn't have anywhere to really go to if they needed anything. They were about 10 miles from a town that is very small today, so I have no how big it was back then. I couldn't imagine the amount of canning, butchering, etc you would have to do to be able to feed 14 children and 2 adults. I watch some homesteading shows and it seems like they might have it fairly rough, but back when it was a real necessity I'm sure life was really hard, especially when you have to live through winters in ND.
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Man, you know that had to be a harsh life. Took some tough people. Mentally and physically. By God they did it though.
 
AC, that's pretty cool to even get to consider what life was like back then. My dad is 82 and he tells some hella stories, even from his short life ;). I think as a species the biggest change has been that we kinda don't rely on ourselves for much of anything anymore....not judging, just sayin'....back when your grandma was a young'un, 80% of the people in this country lived in rural areas, pretty much. EVERYBODY knew where their dinner came from, even the city folks. Now, not so much....

I had a chance to drive a 1925 Lincoln with the original owner sitting next to me (this about 20 years ago), and I was struck by the absolute practicality of this gentleman. Here I was driving this vintage, wooden spoke wheel behemoth on a dirt road through the woods in PA and I was freaked out that I was gonna do something wrong, or wreck his car...and I was having trouble with the shifting 'cause I'd never had to double clutch, and he grabs my hand on the lever (I think he was in his mid-eighties ATT) and says: "Don't baby her, son!" I think folks were a whole lot more pragmatic about life (and death) than we are now. Kids worked when the were old enough (like, 12) and now we bubble wrap them for fear they'll get hurt. Even when I was a kid in the 60's and 70's we spent plenty of time without adult supervision (all the time that we weren't in school, pretty much) and we learned how to take care of ourselves. When your grandma was a kid, even more so. Now, you'd be lucky to find a 12 year old that could cook dinner for the family, much less do their own laundry.

OK, I'm rambling, but you get my point.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to your Grandma!!!!
 
Forgot all about buying this book. Probably been sitting on the shelf for a year now. Some good reading. From making log cabins, to grey water, to making power from streams, etc.:

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My Grandma moved my dad and uncles onto a homestead outside Baker, Oregon in the 60's. He took me out to the property when I was up there in August, even today it was a bit of a drive. Her had permission from all the neighbors to hunt on their property so he'd saddle up a horse and grab a rifle, shotgun, and revolver and ride all day and see what he could find. And he was only 12!
 
Its 5:30pm and no camera has been delivered.

It says out for delivery by a company called Lasership. Never heard of them. Hope they bring me my camera.

On another note the wife picked up a cut of steak called "butter steak"..... never heard of it either, but it was on sale for cheap so she grabbed it. I got it marinating and will be cooking it up shortly. Getting hungry.
 
I was talking to some of my family at the bday pary about how life was back on my grandparents farm. They told me that every fall they would butcher 500 chickens for the winter. They only had one big wood stove in the house, so in the winter when they woke up in the morning the insides of the walls were all covered in frost. Everyone would all gather in the room the stove was in to warm up and have breakfast.
 
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