What's up today (bullchiting) thread.

For sure there are some bad ones that make it all the way through teenagers years. Then, they become influenced by social media and get the right to vote.....

 

Looks a bit different than when I drove that last in September 2021

 

That's why you had to reach Independence Rock in Wyoming by September or it was just best to wait until next year. The Donner party didn't wait after arriving late.

 

I love the ANC on my wyze buds. It sure asks me to turn the music down and they still hear it better. It's great for snowblowing, mowing, weed whacking and if coworkers are being noisy.
Backwoods Savage the ANC is a great thing to have. I have the wyze buds pro and I got my wife the wyze buds non pro, both have the ANC. The pro models have the "stems" that make them fit great, like the apple versions, but without the chat and the wyze buds pro sound better. The wyze buds pro have the tap to change tracks, pause, turn volume up or down too. They are about 80-90 bucks. I've had mine for a while now, summer of '21 iirc)I got them as a preorder deal for $50.

 

......and then claim they are tidepod eating cats eventually taking over seats in gubberment and trying to straighten out all of us normal people

 

Oh Lawd help us!

 

Sorry to hear about your cat Pallet Pete . Losing a loved pet is the worst

 

So sorry about your cat. I know how that feels. And, yes, it never happens at a suitable time. Stress loves stress. 20 yrs. is old old old for a cat. But you are right not to allow her to continue to suffer.

 

Telling you to move where you are not up against the neighbors. Best to be in a place with lots of trees making a nice border between you and the next guy.

 

Been slipped a lot of Roofy's in your younger days??

 

Tide pods for adults. Lol

 

Towns being abandoned because of business closures have been happening for centuries. Brings thoughts of the old west and the gold rush, and towns alongside rout 66. We have declining towns here in Maine from Textile and shoe mill closures and most recently from the paper-making industry. They are scrambling to get a new direction, business, and recreation in those locations.

 

Very true. And its not always easy to find a way to rejuvenate struggling places. Theres something interesting, yet sad about ghost towns, or ghost towns in the making.

Perhaps this has occurred in other places more than I realize, but it's a touchy subject for many here in NL because several decades ago, the government, led by what would become perhaps our history's most hated politician, forced a hundreds of communities to relocate In an effort to collect people into larger areas. Granted, most of these communities likely would have petered out on their own, (but

a lot of them were island villages, or otherwise had no road access, which worked in the days when boats served the purpose cars do now. A few managed to survive, and now are served by ferry. Some resettled more recently, and more probably will over time. The difference now is, instead of being forced, most of the community has to vote yes, and the government compensates them for the property they leave behind. It seems they are only willing to do this for places served by ferry, I know at least one isolated community wanted to resettle a few years ago and were informed there wasn't enough savings to be had. Apparently plowing and maintaining a 10 mile access road for a few dozen people doesn't cost enough to justify helping them relocate.

There are a couple of these places, with no roads or cars, that I'd love to visit, but they're too far away to be able to do it at this time. Hopefully a few continue to survive for a long time yet, in the sense that they're the closest thing to a time machine we have, even if they do cost a lot of tax dollars in ferry service.
So for this year, we plan to "settle" for visiting a community called St.Brendan's. It's not quite as much of a time capsule because it does have roads and cars, but it's a tiny community on a small island which relies on a 1 hour, each way, ferry ride to access the outside world. The ferry goes through a cluster of islands on the way, so I think it will be a beautiful trip.

 

The bottom of my driveway goes between the 2 neighbors, but my house is pretty tucked away. I have enough trees to have some privacy and shelter, but there is one side I want to plant more. Especially where they will block out the neighbor with the ugly yellow house. I don't mind seeing the one with the cute little cape cod from a comfortable distance.

 

It was nasty cold and windy today. I spent several hours in the tractor spreading gravel. I've lost track but I think I'm at 140 ton since last spring.

 

Is that in relation to the new barn? That really is a lot of gravel.

 

Yes and no. I spread 4 loads on the driveways and 3 loads in the barn.