This thread Will never die!

Hey a little play time is needed from time to time!!

We are pretty much freedom of speech here. If you don't violate the COC you are pretty much free to post any stupid crap you want.(in the proper forum!)
You can't fix stupid!! But you can have fun with it!!!

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Fishing season opened yesterday but I didn't go because my fishing buddy (my grandson) had to study. His recent report card did not produce very favorable grades so he was forbidden from opening day fishing. We did go today - hit 2 lakes - with very modest results. I got a couple pumpkinfish, a pike, and a largemouth bass. Unfortunately, his luck was even worse with no catches, just a few nibbles. He was allow to go today because I convinced him that a good extra credit project for science would be to build a worm farm and write a paper about the project. We got all the necessary supplies and I ordered the red wiggles on-line so next week end we should be stocking the farm. Keeping him motivated in school is a big challenge so something that interests him is a good start. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

 

It was actually his mom and dad who imposed the sentence. Grammy would have probably come up with something a little less painful but not necessarily as effective. He got a lot of studying done so he could go today.

 

When I send an important email, I often request a read receipt. I usually get the "this message was read on (date/time)" response, but this morning, I received one I've never seen before and it made me giggle:

"Your message has been displayed to the user.
There is no guarantee that the message was read or understood."

 

Hey!! I'm only 13 posts away from 2000. Cool!! Well, 12 now. Got to start thnking of someting to say. Or I can do what WPM is doing!!

 

11 more to go

 

I could use my superhuman mod powers and go in and edit your post count back to where it was when you started WPM!!
Naw, I aint that mean!


10 to go!!

 

I just came in the house to cool off and rest. Just spent the last hour and a half delivering a calf. I was helping a buddy do some vet work on his horses. We went in to town to grab some lunch and on the way back we spotted a cow down in a pasture. Belonged to a nieghbor down the road a couple of miles. We got out, hopped the fence and went and checked on her. She had been trying to give birth and the calf was dead. Only the head and one hoof was out and it was dry. She had been there for awhile. We tried pulling it the rest of the way out but were getting no where. We called another nieghbor up the road, they called the guy who owned the cow but he was out of town. The other nieghbors husband was gone but she brought us a calf puller. A come-along with an extension that braces against the cow. We tried pulling with that and made some progress but then it hung up again. By then the ranchers grandson showed up. He brought some dishsoap and started soaping up the calf. We pulled some more and he could feel a hoof of the calf had perforated the canal wall and was hung up. We had to shove the calf back in so he could free the hoof. We pulled more and got it to it's hips but it wouldn't budge any farther.
It was about 90 degrees and we were in the middle of an open pasture. Couldn't get a vehicle down to where we were.We were all about beat. But after a lot more pulling and greasing and manipulating the dead calf it finally popped out.
We were all covered with blood and cow poop and assorted nastyness. We washed up in a nearby pond. The mama cow seemed to be no worse the wear for the ordeal. She was on her feet when we left.
Came home, drank a gallon of cold water, took a shower and turned the ac on high.
To bad about the calf. It was a bull and a damn big one too. But we saved the mama cow. In this heat and as worn out as she was I don't think she would have lasted much longer. We actually thought that she was dead when we first saw her.


9 more posts to 2000!!!!!

 

Just a bit.

 

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No reason why not other than too lazy.

 

Since I miss the in depth discussions we had in the early years of SurvivalMonkey, I have been rereading the old threads and bumping some of them for our newer members. Gosh, we covered a lot of ground for the small initial group.

 

Yep, those were good days. I enjoyed the time we had before we went public. What did we have 12 of us? We had some good discussions.
Thanks for bumping the old threads. A lot of the newer members should be able to learn a lot from them. And we get a trip down memory lane.

 

Yep, we covered a lot of ground in the early days. I've often thought that the "Complete Knowledge" is here, but then find something new from the new folks that join and contribute. And, of course, there is always new gear to look at, and new circumstances to think and plan for. We ain't done here yet; if nothing else, we are preserving information in one place. Nothing here can't be found elsewhere, but this is concise. What I'm really looking for is when melbo comes back and starts adding all the stuff from the forum back into the main SM site and update what is there from 10 years ago. As good a resource as the main site is, there is material there that could be brought forward.

Which reminds me, I need to read a couple chapters of Animal Farm for the discussions on Monday. It might be difficult to take the position that Napoleon was right --

 

My dog wrapped a rope around my ankle and bolted at full speed, attempting to outrun the water that was on its way to her coat for her bath. I've never had such a water-fearing dog before. Nor have I ever had such a delightful rope burn before. Deep burn, some skin removal, surrounded by a lovely shade of blue.

She's lucky I love her.

 

Just reading some old threads. Say something funny about the avatar is funnier since some of us have changed avatars since then (good call, Minuteman).

I just love this place! [batteye]