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Cell Phones:

My first cell phone was a Motorola Brick. I was test driving a truck at a auto auction one night, I'd just bought. And thought I put my BRICK in the seat with me. But I left it on the bed rail. And as soon as I got squared up on the road and punched it, I heard it hit. The phone went one way and the battery went another. I turned around went back thinking it was toast. Picked it and the battery up, put it back together and all was good. Put a few scratches on it, but otherwise it was fine.

And when I got my Motorola Mini Brick I thought I was Hot Snot. Half the size and half the weight.

I started using a call phone in 1988 for my car business. Back then there were no deals on usage. They charged for every second. My average cell phone bill was a minimum of $1000 a month and as high as $1500. But it made me money and of course it was a Business Expense! About a 90% right off. And always kept a spare battery in my back pocket. I was on it about 12-15 hours everyday. If cell phones caused brain cancer, all of us car dealers would've been dead, many years ago. And haven't been without one since.

Oh the memories!
 
I'm at a local dealer having my Jeep serviced. You know you're getting old when you look at the $70,175 price tag of a Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and think about what a nice Class C Motorhome that money would buy.[emoji2]
That's higher than the show price on my Class A!
See Fleetwood Flair.

Geoff
Who departs tomorrow morning.
 
Good morning drift!
63° here and light wind with sun in eastern Iowa.
Beautiful day!
Rain showers last night, but the thunderstorms went around us.
The neighbor has his grass hay field cut and down, so no heavy rain needed. More wind rowing and the lower humidity, plus sun should help. The two Amish boys cutting the field struggled because the grass was high and thick. Had to come down now.
I buy his hay by the small bale in the fall and winter. He uses part for his calves, helps prevent scours in the calves versus richer alfalfa. All I have to do is get 10 bales at a time from his barn. We cannot handle getting and putting up 120 bales at a time anymore.
In about 2 weeks, we will be heading for the Black Hills. Our son and grandson will be joining us there for our annual horseback riding, fishing, touring the hills, and eating vacation.
 
Good Morning:

I'm up, I'm up, OK I'm up. That's what I used to say to my Momma after the 3-4 times of her trying to get me up to go to school.

Boy times have sure changed. Back then I couldn't get enough sleep. Now seems like I can't get any sleep?

I was up till 3:30 a.m. watching street racing on YouTube and streaming it on ChromeCast to the big TV. Modern technology.

So I hope everyone has a Blessed Sunday. And do what ya do best. I know I am, just being LAZY!
 
The neighbor has his grass hay field cut and down, so no heavy rain needed. More wind rowing and the lower humidity, plus sun should help. The two Amish boys cutting the field struggled because the grass was high and thick. Had to come down now.
As a city gal, I find it interesting how many ways people process hay.
 
Language Lesson


A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day.

"In the English language," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative
is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."

A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."
 
Chocolate Milk:

Grandson just walked by me with a Glass of freshly poured Chocolate Milk. It smelled so good! He only likes the whole milk chocolate milk. Not the 2% or that Tru-Moo stuff. It has to be Whole milk!

I haven't had any chocolate milk in years due to diabetes. But dang it smelled good. I used to LOVE chocolate milk and a Banana Flip. The folded over cake filled with banana cream. I'd Lick the banana cream excess off first. Then eat it. Then take my finger and wipe the residue of the cake off the cardboard and eat it.

I don't see the banana flips in stores any more. I used to Love em!

Oh Yeah, Ice Cold Chocolate Milk and Banana Flip! Desert of the Gods!
 
Good morning fellow drifters!, hoping all are off to a good start this fine day! ;)
Not such a nice day here in Southern Maryland, overcast and humid! :rolleyes:
Yesterday was an exciting day for the granddaughter, my wife found a roaming box turtle and she has now adopted it as a pet! :)
Since it is a female turtle she has named it Butterfly! :cool: I call it Irving! :D, she corrects me everytime! :D
They have made a nice "Habitat" under her swing set tower which really was a sandbox, gave it a pool and rocks to sun itself , a log to crawl in and sleep.
They even have planted special grass and plants for this thing, this turtle is living in the Ritz! :D
Their one dog is not happy since the turtle is now in her spot? :rolleyes: and she keeps eating the turtle food! :cool: The granddaughter keeps yelling at her, and it goes on and on and the turtle just sits there taking it all in,,,,What a zoo! ;)

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As a city gal, I find it interesting how many ways people process hay.

Around here you can see, small square bales, medium square bales, large square bales, medium round bales, large round bales, and I have even seen small round bales! The small round bales are very uncommon, and I have never seen the equipment used to bale small round, only the bales in the field ready to pick up.
As you know each requires different equipment. There are different types of cutting equipment, some crimps the hay, some does not. Multiple types of wind rowing equipment exist. In small square baling there is synthetic twine, natural/sisal twine, and you occasionally see the old wire tied bales.
Luckily due to the Amish here, small square bales are easy to find. More labor intensive than large types of bales. None of the english kids want to bale or assist in baling anymore! The Amish kids do it as part of their normal life. Hot, dirty, hard work.
Then there is alfalfa hay, alfalfa grass mixture, and various types of straight grass hay. We prefer grass hay for the horses cause with alfalfa they want the leaves and leave the stems to make a mess. We feed grass for bulk and it is the same as the fields they pasture in, so minimizes a change in diet. In the winter grass hay is slower to eat, so they do not get bored and chew on other things in the barn! 😟 Also hay provides more warmth in the belly to help with cold days and nights. The bag feed provides minerals and vitamins. We do not blanket in the winter unless one gets I'll. Once you blanket, you have to blanket all the time cause the hair does not grow. We have seen two horrific accidents involving blankets cutting off circulation to a limb. Plus horses can destroy a blanket in just moving around and rubbing in a barn.
The Amish have modern and old type equipment. Old order Amish have steel wheeled tractors and have seen steel wheeled bailers, and wind rowing equipment.
And last, haying equipment needs constant adjustment, and seems prone to breaking down just when you need it the most! 😠
Glad I just buy it now! ☺
 
Good morning drifters. It's 95 degrees right now with the sun shining and the temp going up. Yesterday my thermometer said 118 and the weatherman/woman/person said today it will be 115, we will see. Lot of stuff on here about bikes and even hearses. A bike would be nice but ain't gonna put out the money for one at this point in my life and let's face it, I'm not looking forward to a ride in a hearse any time soon.
 
It's been a lazy Sunday for me and the Mrs. So far today.It's just as well. It was a loooong night. Our youngest daughter down in North Carolina, had her baby girl late last night! We are now proud grandparents for the second time! Our oldest daughter had a son just over a year ago. We actually spent the afternoon with him at the zoo yesterday. I'm glad that we did. It's been raing all morning. Aaaah , life is good these days.
 
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Apple crispness vs. taste in The New Yorker.

Crunch - The New Yorker

Trying to be careful here, as the last time I copied a link to a New Yorker magazine article I offended someone cause there was a 'bad' word quoted in the article from an interview
and I got dinged! So I reread this article twice and found no bad words though with my asphasia sometimes words are missed, misread, or not comprehended correctly? I guess discussing apple types could be offensive, or even fruit types could create apprehension in various people, so read with caution. 🚨
One thing I do like with NYC, well heck the entire NE, words don't offend them, they have multiple options available to increase ones vocabulary! 😉
 
Well .... I just got out from work, two weeks untill i start workin' again :D
(doing shift work at the boardmill, this is a picture of one of the machines i drive)


Planing to go and get the Winchester 94 from the seller. :o
 

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Well .... I just got out from work, two weeks untill i start workin' again :D
(doing shift work at the boardmill, this is a picture of one of the machines i drive)


Planing to go and get the Winchester 94 from the seller. :o

Looks like good visibility out of that rig !

Where does everything go after the banding station?
 
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