A good table saw
A jig to straighten the product
A thickness planer to square all 4 sides

 

Mike, the Geo Metro is a disposable car, I:E junk. Stay away from them.

 

James so I am picturing your place as a neat old southern type plantation with horse pastures?
Got windshield in 56 F100 Saturday. Broke social distancing rules and had 4 guys helping me, shouldn't mention that here, OH Wait! I think I hear sirens- It's the social distancing enforcement team coming down the road with Gretchen in the lead car, a pink Geo Metro convertible with top down.... Sorry Mike couldn't resist it....

 

[QUOTE=Greg Rogers;1250212]James so I am picturing your place as a neat old southern type plantation with horse pastures?
Got windshield in 56 F100 Saturday. Broke social distancing rules and had 4 guys helping me, shouldn't mention that here, OH Wait! I think I hear sirens- It's the social distancing enforcement team coming down the road with Gretchen in the lead car, a pink Geo Metro convertible with top down.... Sorry Mike couldn't resist it....[/Q

Umm, no comment.

 

Hi everyone.

The week started out a success. We left after 1030 but so what. It's cloudy out and rain is coming, I'm not going to start anything outside anyway. Nice temperature though.

Dan I know that's the point. Get a throw away car, thrash it for the summer, then be done with it. Greg they are absolutely girls' cars. Who cares. I'll paint it flat black and put skulls on it. That will man it up.

Gonna go see my Mom this weekend. Haven't been to her house since the first weekend in March. I'm sure she has a list of things to do a mile long. In fact I haven't been anywhere since I got back from Australia in March. Sheesh.

Need to find something meaningful to do this afternoon. I'll figure it out. Have a good afternoon everyone.

 

I hear sirens at the rest home down the block once a week. Always city Fire Dept. with one paramedic van and one engine. They don't roll the gurneys out the front door any more. They use the driveway on the side.

 

Yes, Basic, that reminds me of this song from my teen years:

 

Greg, it's not a plantation. It's an old farm
the house was built in 1896 and has a historic marker out front
Somewhere back in the pages is an old black and white pic

 

--Sound neat, James.
--Yesterday we got 3 1/2 " of rain. Lake level is up so high you have to go thru a 2-3 foot water puddle of water to get to dock. Never seen it so high. They're talking floods around our many rivers. Wife is on a golfing league and is sposta go today but I'll bet course is flooded. Have a good one guys!!

 

Greg, same problem here. we set a couple of records. 3.80" as of yesterday morning. A lot of flooded yards and basements. We have a neighborhood on Muskegon Lake that has had a severe flooding problem for a couple of years as the Great lakes keep rising. Their front yards are now part of the lake.

 

Hi everyone.

Finished up after 10 today. The wheels came slow. Also, business must be picking up because we've upped the number to 30. Well, it's almost 160.

Nice out, a little breezy. We were supposed to get rain this morning but the sun came out instead. Rain the rest of the week.

Went over to the shop to wire up some lights on the other trailer. Got there and remembered the lighting kit was in the pickup, which was at my house. Guess I'll do that another time, I wasn't going to come home and then go back for something that trivial.

I've got a few little things to mess with around the house, so I'll do that. Tiger can help. Week's half over. See ya's.

 

well, not my day

I bought a $200.00 gas grill to replace the one at the lake that had rusted out. I thought I had it tied down good but hit a big bump of Ga 400 and the thing flipped upside down outside the bed of my truck. Sooooooooooooo, I drove backwards in the shoulder lane about 1/2 a mile to try to retreve the grates s that were laying in the road. Between traffic I darted out and got one and as I was gonna try and get another one a car smashed it to pieces, so I had a flash of sanity and decide to just get replacement parts at Casa Depot

My $200.00 dollar grill is now a $300.00 grill

Have a great day Olds friends

 

 

Norm, looks like mine but the grill was top heavy. It flipped but never touched the ground. The guts fell out

 

Well, that sucks.

 

James - Do you have death wish?

 

No, That's why I don't ride motor cycles

Planted another friend a few eeeks ago who was killed on his favorite bike route in the mountains

 

We have been getting some seriously stupid rainfall. The first named tropical storm of 2020 (Arthur) landed right here in my backyard over the weekend dumping some serious water. This was immediately followed by this enormous low pressure system hanging over the lower and mid-Eastern U.S.A. bringing tons more moisture up from the Gulf Of Mexico. It has been raining steady here four days in a row (since Sunday) and the rain isn't going to stop for another 2 - 3 days. Currently, I have a large lake in my backyard.
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOE...d=09&length=96
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOE...d=09&length=96

 

James - Quite some time ago when I joined CO & I learned of your green burial grounds, I reviewed the history of the Nix family, looked into your 10 acres & I even reviewed the Nix-Bell placard (I assume you advocated for the City Of Milton Historic Site placard).
What is/was the relationship of the Samples family to the area? I know you purchased from Bascomb. There's a significant number of buildings, etc. named Bascomb. Is this of the same Bascomb Samples family? How did Bascomb come to own the old Nix place?

 

Greg & Dan - I hope neither of you have relatives &/or friends effected by Edenville and Sanford flooding - 10K+ residents ordered to evacuate. What a nightmare.

https://www.freep.com/picture-galler...ns/5226242002/

 

Norm, I'm good, but after two dam failures, Midland is supposed to be 9' underwater shortly. Not good at all. I have a co worker who lives about a mile from me, that put 5k into their basement last year so that they would not have anymore water problems, including a pump that they never had before. Their re habbed basement has more water than before. They got a quote of another 3k just to get someone out in an emergency to address it.

 

Dan, I read about Midland earlier w/ 9' - crazy. I did a little history on those two dams while reading, also. Can't recall which one (I think maybe Edenville) was condemned in 2018 or some such statement and Sanford rated fair or some such statement. Glad things are good w/ you.

 

Owners of dam flooding Midland ignored federal regulators for years

 

I've dodged a couple bullets in the past:
(1) I left a nephew's wedding (St. Paul, MN) and drove South over this bridge 15 minutes prior to its collapse. I was listening to a country music radio station driving South after having crossed the bridge when they made the announcement on the radio.
(2) I was staying in the World Trade Center (Marriott) weekly for 6 months prior to 911 on a Merrill Lynch engagement, moved across the street to Hilton Millennium two weeks prior to 911 because I was transferred to an engagement in Raritan, NJ (Johnson&Johnson IT) the following week (one week prior to 911). I would have been walking out of the WTC tower down Broadway at the exact time the first plane crashed.

America's infrastructure is in dire need of maintenance and there appears to be no funding in sight.

10 Years After Bridge Collapse, America Is Still Crumbling

 

• He just bought it from the family as far as I know

 

Damn Norm, someone was watching over you. There are two dams upstream form me in Newaygo county that would have a effect on the local residents along the Muskegon River, but it would only affect me if a road were washed out, prohibiting me from getting to work. I do have an alternate route, so it shouldn't be a problem if it gets any worse. With the rain now gone from the area, and no concerns in the media, I'm going to guess those two dams (the Hardy & Croton) are not at risk of failure at this time. There was concern back in the mid eighties when we had a sh!tload of rain over a week or so, but it came to pass.

 

Hi Guys. No that Edenville Dam failure didn't affect us here. We are on a natural lake. The Titabawasse River is the one that the Edenville Dam is on. Back in the day they put dams along it to make lakes and generate power. They have been there now for 100 years and everyone thinks that is just the way things have always been. Many people have bought and built beautiful lakeside "cottages"-(some more like mansions) along these man make lakes. They are indeed beautiful lakes. But in my opinion you can't fight mother nature forever without a lot of continuous expense. So now question is should this dam be rebuilt? If you and you friends had expensive lake front homes along the Wixom Lake what would you say? If you were down stream and just got your house blown away, what would you say?
--Dan, I used to work for Consumers Power/Energy and they had a employees club you could join for cheap and go camping on the Hardy Pond. That was really cool, it was on the north side of the pond and you could see the dam from the campsite. That pond is so cool as there are no cabins/houses on it . Rumor was that Consumers bought all the land that the pond would flood into and never sold any of the new "lakefront" sites. We took our pontoon boat once all the way from the Hardy dam to the Rogers dam and back- took a whole day. I imagined it would have been like going down the Mississippi river back in Mark Twains day, no development, (except going under bridges, of course). Once we took our boat and put it in the Croton pond- now that pond has places all along it- completely different....
--Perfect day yesterday, finally got the boat in the lake. Sposta be perfect again today. about time.. Have a good one!!

 

Greg - Glad someone is enjoying pleasant weather. We've now entered Day 5 of continual daily rainfall. I'm not certain of the actual total inches of rain we've received (I should look it up). We're in a flash flood stage until tomorrow sometime. This isn't necessarily significant at the moment, we often have flash floods along the Atlantic coastline. The rain isn't supposed to stop until sometime late Saturday - marking seven straight days of rainfall. Argh!

Flooding is an interesting phenomenon. IMO, it's a trade-off of mankind's pursuit for development of industry via the creation of dams & levees - whether it be for electricity, or otherwise (i.e. food production). We build dams to contain water to generate power to turn turbines which yield electricity providing us with enormous industrial gains. There are in some occasions the development of levees, dykes, & embankments to facilitate the redirection of water to provide land for development purposes &/or reduce the effects of flooding. They are expensive to maintain. I held a position w/ the U.S.G.S. for ~1 year back in the early 1980s type-mapping (via low-altitude infrared photography) vegetation in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Saskatchewan & Manitoba provinces to produce wetlands habitat profiles. This was when we discovered the adverse effects of caliche soil formation. If I'm not mistaken, the geographic areas I just described remain the largest grain producing habitats on our planet i.e. wheat, rye, oats, corn, soybean, etc. The issue is (unfortunately) these areas are now owned primarily by the world's largest banks and the world's largest countries - many of which are not U.S.A. companies. We remove N, P & K (primarily) from one area of the Earth, and employ its use as fertilizer to croplands. N, P & K then form a hard-pan layer on top of soil - much like cement. This removes the ability of the soil to allow water to recharge subterranean aquifers which leads to enormous water run-off & flooding. The hard-pan layer is referred to as a caliche soil profile. Enter the Garrison Diversion project. The enormous amounts of flooding we experience along the Mississippi is the direct cause & effect of the build-up of caliche. The costs are astronomical. Albeit, trade-offs in the pursuit of industrial gains.

 

Good morning people!

Its going to be a beautiful day here.

 

Good Morning Wrecker. I was just texting w/ one of my beer swill drinking unscrupulous cousins in Oshkosh B'Gosh.

 

Norm, the cemetery is 10 acres. The remaining 14 acres is all I have left of about 50 Some people wanted it more than me. I sold 18 to a publix developer, 7 to the next door know it all doctor God and some more for a residential subdivision. The taxes got to high to keep raising cattle the vet died and I'm now surrounded by people who think you have to live in a mcmansion with 3.5 kids that get a BMW when they turn 16. I liked it better in the old days but time marches on

 

James - Isn't there a horse riding school behind the 10 acres or have they moved elsewhere?

 

Rainfall since Sunday:

Sunday = 0.28"
Monday = 3.12"
Tuesday = 0.59"
Wednesday = 2.24"
Total = 6.23"

That isn't a significantly large amount of rain - especially in this area. But, it sure makes remaining indoors boring. There's golf to be played! Yesterday I had a large lake in my backyard, last night it subsided to a small pond, it's been raining again all night long since 3AM. We get an avg. annual rainfall of ~60" here. We have received 23" thus far in 2020. BTW, while residing in MKE, WI in 1993, I took off from work one full week and volunteered to fill and place sandbags along the Mississippi River during that catastrophic flood event.

 

My Serenity Farms

 

Good morning everyone, for a few more minutes.

Overcast but no rain. Don't know what it's going to do this weekend and I won't be here to "enjoy" it. Heading out to see my Mom in a little while.

So work was going great. We were moving right along and planned on getting out by 10 and then I got my first KC46 nose wheel. The KC46 is the military's version of the Boeing 767, which they use as tankers. They use our wheels and we contract with them for the tires and work. Except they provide their own nose tires, which are Bridgestones. The first one I looked at had a Goodyear on it, which is what the Delta planes use. I asked the Big Moron if there was a change and we were allowed to use GY tires on the military, and he gave me a rather dumb look. After asking around and looking in the maintenance manual, turns out nope, Goodyears aren't allowed. Big Moron had already signed four of them. That's part of the mechanic's job is to verify that everything is done correctly. I don't know what pissed him off more, the fact that he screwed up and had to redo them, or that he screwed up and I found it. I tried my best not to be smug. My two wheels had been built but not signed off, so I was safe. The six wheels went back and got redone and we were out by 11. No biggie. If they would have gotten past us and sent out, the military people would have had a hemorrhage.

I really feel bad for the people in Michigan who are getting flooded. I've never been affected by a flood and pray that I never am. Living on a lake, I have to have flood insurance. Of course the water will rise and crest the dam before it gets to my house, so it's really just a money grab for the insurance company. I had them out to see and they didn't care.

Jamesbo what's that to the right of the cemetery? Looks like a bunch of pig houses. I don't know the real name for them.

Okay got a few things to do before I leave. I might take my computer and hot spot with me. I usually just use Mom's computer but this way I can look at the internet at night after she goes to bed.

If I'm not back have a good weekend and Memorial Day everyone.

 

For those that care

Norm yes there is a stable to the north East. The bottom right brown are below the indoor rink is pile up manure about 20' high around dying pines


Mike, Those pig houses are actually another cemetery behind Boiling Springs Primitive baptist church [ no piano, sing
in whole notes and wash feet]

The cleared area going SW to NE is a power line easement

The upper right of my cemetery is where we have lots pinned and mow. as we sell, we pin more [and mow more] to the left is a dedicated part of the cemetery not pinned yet. We just cut hay off of it.

 

Is it fair to suggest this is the location of

 

I personally believe cemeteries as they are known today for entombing organic human debris in embalming fluid (formaldehyde) to remain in perpetuity are a waste of resources. I read up on some of the history (a long time ago) of how embalming fluids came to be employed in the cemetery business - as I recall it was essentially to get soldiers remains back in a stable condition form the war overseas (WWI/WWII) so their beloved ones could toss roses on their grave sites? Why it still remains today is a complete mystery to me. Green cemeteries (if you really want to be buried alongside a ton of other people you never met in your entire life) are the way to go and I think you have a good thing going James. Me, on the other hand, I'm fine with getting tossed overboard at sea, taken to the swamp and used as alligator bait or burnt crisp and sold as a Cajun Creole spice.

 

No, she's my neighboron the other(west) side
actually embalming fluid was invented during the civil war to send northern soldiers back home ( before the days of refrigeration)

Believe it or not I had a good friend who became chum off bimini

 

Oh yeah...civil war...couldn't recall (obviously).