What's up today (bullchiting) thread.

A lot of work vans front wheel drive only in East..

 

Glad I'm not the only one making dry runs on the taxes! The last three years I've had decent bumps in pay, so I keep worrying I'm going to break into a different tax bracket and get bit in the azz.

The HR lady at my new company thought I was kidding when I told her I claim 14 on my W4. And I STILL pay way too much! I'm afraid to bump it and end up paying more. Getting a lump shortly after Christmas helps anyway.

 

Nice grass trails throughout all 81 acres. A few more small areas finished off. Then sell the big equipment and have a “smallish” tractor for maintenance. Im almost there now. Probably another year, year and a half of part time work.

Our own little piece of heaven right here.

 

Here I was going to say... it’s cause his wife loves horses

 

Everyone in the house is in their bedroom and the grand kids are gone for weekend so I’m sitting in a quiet living room enjoying the silence and flipping through the burpee seed catalog that came this week. Last spring was chaos and we never got a garden in so I’m looking forward to it this year.
Got hungry looking at the veggies in the catalog so I went to my den fridge and whipped up a big Bloody Mary with pickles black olives pepproncini cocktail onions and celery.
Prolly be napping in an hour !!!!

 

Well. There’s that.

 

OMG - I claim zero and still have to worry. And no, I'm not in 6 figure territory - just have absolutely no deductions besides the standard.

 

The standard is pretty stout these days. I have the two kids, so they are at least good for a deduction!

 

Spent a couple hours at the cottage opening everything once again. Man, the heart attack snow sure resists the snow blower moving it around.

Gonna have a burger cookout there tomorrow. Stop by if you're in the area. If you're from out of the area, there will be a test before you're admitted.

You will have to pronounce these words correctly.

Pasty.

Sauna.

 

My wife just called me a dork. I am a dork. Our daughter sent us her latest pic of our grandson. I asked my wife to dig out a pic of our daughter when she was 6 months old. So I held grandson pic and daughter pic next to each other and sent it up to our daughter. I am a dork and a darn proud one!

(proud and beaming dorky grandpa signing off)

 

My mom has done the same with pics of me and my son.

Congrats grandpa!

 

That sign is very similar to the one on our beer fridge.

 

I will have to find out what brand it was. Looked like a large cargo van.

 

You have to prepare them correctly. You have to de-skin them. That's the slimy part

 

Like one of these?

Yes, these vans are fwd, and I don't think they even are available in AWD/ 4wd.

The Ford Transits are rwd, but you now can get AWD on them. The transit connects, ( the smaller ones) are fwd.

Sprinter vans are rwd, and now fwd apparently too.

 

Caffeine going in. Time to get my son up. He wants to go workout this morning before the crowd gets there.

 

Yeah, it is - which helps.But they also lowered the amount they take out as taxes, so it is close to a wash.

I was going by experience, and the last time I got a "pay raise" (ie, worked a second job 2016-2018), was before that happened. I had to take extra out of my primary job (besides claiming 0 for both) in order not to owe. I was literally making $5 an hour out of a $10/hr job counting up the actual taxes taken out and the extra (hey, it got me thru a lean time without adding any debt, so it worked). At that I think I got like $50 back, so I wasn't over-paying.

Years ago I worked enough overtime to bump me and my ex up and we ended up owing enough to invoke the penalty.