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19 hours ago, mowerman said:

And  Tom, if you’re listening look what you started come on back ha ha… Bob

What was this post about?..oh, I remember now. I got some new tires on the truck. I didn't put 33s back on it, I went with 31s. 33s were around $190 apiece, these were 150-something. Still high though.

19 hours ago, mowerman said:

Yes fellas it seems like we were more happy in the 70s I was talking to a buddy of mine. I grew up with while back who runs a body shop he says you know I have to work harder now than I did in the 70s I said yes, we all do And Larry I watched somebody do that one time it wasn’t my bike or my tire. Somebody at the service station kept pumping air into their tire until it blew out. I don’t know when this kid thought he was going to quit pumping it was kind of funny to watch, but at the same time I felt sorry for him at 10 years old . ….   Bob

Indeed, the 70s...

C.D. Brown and Sons Supermarket had the hose going to the gas pump that rang the bell inside too. It was a supermarket but they sold Amoco gas too. And they also had the air compressor that you turned the crank for whatever pressure you wanted. And it was free, all the time, unlike today where you have to put 4 quarters in the machine to get air. My parents got all our groceries there, usually spent about $20 some dollars, for a family of 6. It was a little small grocery store, by today's standards anyway, but they had everything you needed. The meat department was all the way in the back and they pretty much cut everything to order. I remember the hotdogs were in a big box, about like a shoebox, and they were loose. The bologna was in a huge roll that they would slice, there was no such thing as a pound package of hot dogs or bologna then. They had to slice a pound of bologna for you off that giant roll, and if you wanted a pound of hot dogs they would get 10 out of that box and wrap them up for you. They also had clothes, boots, hardware, fishing rods, lures, guns- anything you needed, they had. 

5 hours ago, 70mackMB said:

LOOK at Dr. Jill's face when they say Hunter was having a little nose candy!

 

I remember when Rachel Campos-Duffy criticized Jill Biden for letting her husband run in the first place, and she caught a ton of flak for it. Turns out she was exactly right, just like she was right about saying that there was "fraud and shenanigans" in the election. And she was the the only one on Fox and Friends that had balls enough to say it. And I will never, ever, believe that that buffoon won a fair election.

1 hour ago, Mark T said:

Gee..... that makes the one I saw look like a bicycle pump from 1963.  🤯

Oh man, I just remembered - I have a bicycle pump!..somewhere. If I'd only had it with me and some Monkey Grip patches I would have been back on the road in just a few minutes!

It's good to have friends. I told Zina that I might as well go back home and get a jack and take the tire off so I could take it somewhere and get a new tire put on the wheel. About the only tire place that was open was Walmart. So she called our next door neighbor in Gladys to ask if her husband Travis had a jack I could borrow, since we were closer to Gladys than Spout Spring at the time. 

And Travis said he'd do better than that. He came out with his pickup and tools- he used to drive a service truck doing road calls- and also an old tire that he had that was the right size. He had a floor jack and an electric impact wrench, we had the flat off in a few minutes, then we went to a garage in Gladys that was open. They took my tire off, put his on, but it had a small hole in the sidewall. So we plugged the hole in the sidewall, which you're not supposed to do but it was an emergency fix. Then we found that it had another hole in the sidewall. Instead of fixing the second hole the guy at the garage said he had a used 31" tire that he could put on it instead if I wanted, so I said "yeah, let's do that".

When he got done I said "how much do you want for that used tire?"

And he said "nothing at all".

So I said "how much do I owe you for all this?"

And he said "$10". 

I handed him a 20 and he said " let me go get your change" and I told him not to worry about it. Me and Travis took the tire back and put it on and I asked Travis how much I owed him. He said "not a thing". 

I told him his pickup didn't run on air and gave him $20 anyway. Still feel like I got off really cheap today.

And I have no one to blame but myself. I knew the tires were kind of sketchy - ok, not "kind of", I knew they were crappy and I just pushed my luck a bit too far. I had no jack and no spare tire. However, I did have a lug wrench 😁.

I didn't finish the trip to Gladys with that used tire with no tread, I just turned around and went straight to Appomattox with it and left it at the tire shop. I'll get 4 new tires put on it Monday, and I'll check the junk yard for a used wheel and I'll start carrying a jack and a spare tire.

21 hours ago, Freightrain said:

Was at a 4th parade and did a little people watching.  Ya, there aren't many "thin" young people around anymore.  It's crazy how bad people just don't care.

I was 5-10, 155# out of school.  I'm 57(next week) and just 170#.  It takes a lot of determination to not let yourself go.  A good friend did and he is now 70 and near crippled due to being so overweight for the last 25 yrs.  He has been my main reason to watch what I eat.

Yep, I've been staying pretty busy lately with moving, the garden, tearing down and putting up sheds, but when I first retired I couldn't help but notice that what used to be muscle turned to flab fast!

We'll have green beans in a day or two, more peppers, and the tomatoes are looking good too.

Everybody wants a ripe tomato by the 4th. of July, so these better get a move on!

I planted some yellow tomatoes too, so maybe that's what these are, who knows...

Garden's looking pretty good too. We have lots of squash, zucchini, and peppers.

I got the grass cut, it's about 90 degrees here. As soon as I get the truck unloaded it'll be Miller time.

My favorite Miller picture-