Most enjoyable day today

[HeavyGunner]

1 hour ago, tjc transport said:

 

and speaking of that outhouse, the town wants it taken down because it is not sanitary. even though it has been in the current location since it was erected in 1882. 

That might all be changing 😁. Suddenly in an apocalypse like environment having a wood box to sit on and do your business instead of a street or a sidewalk might be considered luxurious.  

[tjc transport]

it is great to use, as long as a black widow or brown recluse does not bite you on the asterisk........which has happened a few times in the past.

[RowdyRebel]

3 hours ago, tjc transport said:

the stands are still there and doing well, but there have been no hogs on the farm in over 25 years. 

when i built the big stand out on the main highway back in 78 we could do pretty much what we wanted. but now you can not wipe your asterisk in the outhouse  behind the barn without town approval. 

and speaking of that outhouse, the town wants it taken down because it is not sanitary. even though it has been in the current location since it was erected in 1882. 

Lol! When my great grandaddy bought his 1st house that had indoor plumbing, the 1st thing he did was build an outhouse out back...because "You don't do 'that' in the house!"

[HeavyGunner]

1 hour ago, RowdyRebel said:

Lol! When my great grandaddy bought his 1st house that had indoor plumbing, the 1st thing he did was build an outhouse out back...because "You don't do 'that' in the house!"

Our great grandads think alike Rowdy. Recently on another thread I posted nearly the same thing. My great grandpa wouldn’t let them put a bathroom in the house when his kids dug a waterline in. 

[davehummell]

My aunt and gram and i had only a outhouse until i was ten years old i really like my indoor plumbing. 

[tjc transport]

i remember as a child going to my mothers grandmothers house in the middle of downtown Elizabeth NJ. at the turn of the 1900's her grandfather was a produce merchant and had 10 horse drawn produce wagons that delivered around town. the stables and carriage house was in the back yard of the house. 

even in the 60's the house did not have indoor plumbing, you used the outhouse out by the carriage house. 

and it still had gas lights, no electricity in the house.

coal stove in the cellar with heat chases through the three floors, and a big wood and coal burning oven in the kitchen.

it did have "running water" in the kitchen. the kitchen was built on top of the well, and the well pump came rite through the floor with the outlet rite into the giant sink. 

and the tin bathtub was in the corner of the kitchen with curtain walls around it. 

Edited March 25, 2020 by tjc transport

[Hayseed]

3 hours ago, tjc transport said:

it is great to use, as long as a black widow or brown recluse does not bite you on the asterisk........which has happened a few times in the past.

This song was a Big Hit back in the early '70s down here..

 

 

[davehummell]

We had a wooden tub for a bathtub until i was eight no indoor water the pump was out on the side of the house. Coal cook stove in kitchen and a parlor stove in the living room. I never want to go back to that basic of life style. As i set at the desk typing am setting were the coal stove set when i was young i lived in this house for almost 65 years and my grandfather's father owned the house before me.

[tjc transport]

i hear ya Dave. i am very comfy in my gas heated house with running water and electric lights. 

 

but the big difference between us and others is we know how to survive once the sheit hit the fan and there is no power, running water, gas, or food in the stores. 

[General Ike]

I am always full disclosure with folks I meet about how I grew up.  Stay with me here.  I live in a nice house, in a nice neighborhood (Winter Park Florida) surrounded by doctors, lawyers, and money managers.  I grew up the same way in Chappaqua, NY.  I was however, and continue to be a complete and total contradiction of life to my childhood and current friends.  I have my parents to thank for that.  Mom and dad were raised in the Bronx by my off-the-boat Irish grandparents.  Dad cleaned toilets at the A&P bakery after school and mom took the subway to St. Vincent's in lower Manhattan and worked as a nurse's assistant.  Dad was an Eagle Scout and graduated top of his class after putting himself through Manhattan College.  Served our country as a Marine.  He worked good jobs as a CFO but never lost sight of his humble upbringing.  Never let myself or my older brother get full of our selves or the yuppy lifestyle that surrounded us.  Taught us how to fish, hunt, do carpentry, plumbing and electrical repairs.  He had a diesel Mercedes.  When the glow plugs needed to be replaced or the valves needed to be adjusted it didn't go to the dealer, we did it in the garage.  New tires?  You bet they got put on in the driveway using a rubber mallet, soapy water and a few really big flat head screw drivers.   So when I got older (teens) I started serving as a volunteer and eventually working part time as a firefighter.  It was tough.  Had to work twice as hard to gain everyone's trust in my skill just because of my address in town.  I don't regret it for a moment though, and I eventually had the pleasure of serving them as a senior line officer.  My friends never really got it.  They simply couldn't understand why I knew or why I bothered to fix things or perform tasks that they had grown up seeing their parents pay for.  The other day, my 12 year old shot a lacrosse ball at his goal in the front yard and it hit off one of the posts and ricocheted 50 feet into the neighbor's garage window.  Guy wasn't pissed, just said that he'd get a glass company out on monday to fix it and he would send me the bill.  I said no.  Went to the hardware store, they cut me a $4 piece of glass and I had the broken one removed and the new one installed caulked and ready for paint within the hour.  He couldn't believe it.  Thought I wasted my time and that I could have been playing golf instead.  Unbelievable the way people think.

My story or rant above is not to judge a book by its cover.  Most of the time people are judged because they are homely, uneducated, poor or for some other negative reason.  Most people judge me because I pull out of the driveway in a nice car wearing a suit and tie each day so they think I'm a complete idiot when they walk past the house on the weekend and find me on a 28 foot extension ladder repairing trim around an attic window that was damaged by a falling tree limb.

Now back to the outhouse portion of this discussion.  Until a few years ago my family and dad's best friend's had a hunting and fishing camp on a lake in the back bush of Quebec.  We sold it when dad's buddy died three years ago, as dad had passed in 1998 and we just weren't getting enough use out of it.  It had an outhouse.  Took several friends there over the years and it took getting used to for them to offload in a wooden box with a bucket full of stove ash sitting next to them.  I however miss being outside with the door open as the sun comes up, on a brisk morning in the fall, cup of coffee to the left, bucket of ash to the right, roll of toilet paper on the floor looking across the lake at the trout, bass, and pike jumping, knowing that as soon as my hangover subsided that I would be catching dinner. 

[Mack Technician]

Excellent photography 41! That bacon doesn’t even need to be taste tested, it looks perfect grade-A like right out of a country living magazine. A wood table and a wooden cut board as opposed to stainless code and plastic boards...dig it. 👌

Had you pegged as more of a fellow hunter-gatherer than a domesticated farmer?

 

[other dog]

On 3/23/2020 at 3:09 PM, davehummell said:

How things change when i was little my gram and i would walk up to the neighbors and get a chicken for Sunday dinner she would kill it in the yard and we would be eating it for dinner. I have helped butcher cows hogs chickens not for the feint of heart. god only knows how many deer i cut up use to finish the cuts on the butcher block in the kitchen. For years we only eat deer meat made my own hamburg and sausage. I never buy meat at the grocery store use a guy i know for years he sells me what i want. This year i'm going to get out and fish a little harder for crappy and panfish fried up they are as good as any other fish. 

you're right, crappie and bream are both delicious, especially the crappies.

[other dog]

On 3/26/2020 at 11:03 AM, General Ike said:

I am always full disclosure with folks I meet about how I grew up.  Stay with me here.  I live in a nice house, in a nice neighborhood (Winter Park Florida) surrounded by doctors, lawyers, and money managers. 

Zina from Florida lives in Winter Park.

[41chevy]

On 3/26/2020 at 11:30 PM, Mack Technician said:

Excellent photography 41! That bacon doesn’t even need to be taste tested, it looks perfect grade-A like right out of a country living magazine. A wood table and a wooden cut board as opposed to stainless code and plastic boards...dig it. 👌

Had you pegged as more of a fellow hunter-gatherer than a domesticated farmer?

 

I'm  the result of 410 years of independent living from English and German ancestors. Wood table, chairs and cutting boards were made by my Great Granpa, butcher saws, knives and cleavers were my great uncles. I do most all things myself all though Gail would help some times. I've done everything from cooking to swinging a new drum on my mixer truck my self. I work better alone because people don't do things to my liking and I don't have the patience to explain what  or how it has to be done. I do need people to work in my breakwater/ dock business but other than that I will not  feed them lodge them or like them. I tolerate maybe 3 or 4 people that are not family.  Been that way since I came home from service, my wife always said I was a century and a half to late.

Edited April 2, 2020 by 41chevy

[Mack Technician]

Your not antisocial 41, your a man ahead of your years. Now there telling us not to talk or get within 6 feet of others. 

 

[41chevy]

21 hours ago, Mack Technician said:

Your not antisocial 41, your a man ahead of your years. Now there telling us not to talk or get within 6 feet of others. 

 

Never was anti social just my opinion of social interaction is much different from most. I dress the way I like, drive what I like, live as I like and don't care about what "they" think or feel about it. I find most people talk just to make noise. If it is something important I'll say something if not, I'll just occupy myself with not falling asleep from boredom  My daughter inlaw the all seeing princess snowflake in a prime example.Tells me I should have such and such car, the people will be impressed, sorry I like my old stuff. She'll  talk for a long time about her new BMW or her super nano Bat Flu  mask while mentioning it cost $200 or about her new I Phone with its 100" LED screen and trailer hitch, about her friends giant 75 lb.goiter on her nipple or about how her dust mop precious poodle seems to be growing teeth on it's butt.  Useless waste of time and effort.

My wife was happy with our life style and that is all that counted.

Edited April 3, 2020 by 41chevy

[j hancock]

43 minutes ago, 41chevy said:

 If it is something important I'll say something if not, I'll just occupy myself with not falling asleep from boredom.

Good for you!

If it is boring conversation, I will fall asleep and on several occasion been informed that I snore rather loudly!

[Mack Technician]

2 hours ago, 41chevy said:

about her friends giant 75 lb.goiter on her nipple 

A WHAT on WHERE???? 😯 

Good as that bacon looks, think I just lost my appetite....

Edited April 3, 2020 by Mack Technician

[41chevy]

8 hours ago, Mack Technician said:

A WHAT on WHERE???? 😯 

Good as that bacon looks, think I just lost my appetite....

Once it is done aging I'll send you a slab, but you have to share it with your mom too.

[Mack Technician]

49 minutes ago, 41chevy said:

Once it is done aging I'll send you a slab, but you have to share it with your mom too.

If I see bacon show up with a single can of Moxie you’ll being seeing some of the maple syrup I’m watching boil down. 

[carlotpilot]

two things I see talked about on here I haven't seen or tried . moxie and that stuff from aust.  gotta try and find some of each.   by the way some good lookin bacon

[1965]

9 hours ago, carlotpilot said:

two things I see talked about on here I haven't seen or tried . moxie and that stuff from aust.  gotta try and find some of each.   by the way some good lookin bacon

Me too. Definitely has my curiosity.

[Mack Technician]

10 hours ago, carlotpilot said:

two things I see talked about on here I haven't seen or tried . moxie and that stuff from aust.  gotta try and find some of each.   by the way some good lookin bacon

I was able to mail order some Vegemite. Kraft makes it. Different. It’s a paste that tastes sorta like like beef boullion. 

Moxie can only be explained using visual aids.

Edited April 4, 2020 by Mack Technician

[41chevy]

11 hours ago, Mack Technician said:

If I see bacon show up with a single can of Moxie you’ll being seeing some of the maple syrup I’m watching boil down. 

You do not drink Moxie with bacon. . . you cook it it it.