Forty Rod SASS 3935
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4 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said:As an old gentleman, you can never be overdressed.
A mirror, when you’re an old geezerCan leave you feeling distressedYou should try not to do it while nakedGo get yourself properly dressedAnd you know what I mean by properlyA neatly pressed shirt for a startNo backwards ball cap on your nogginNo jeans that are falling apartA proper fedora’s a nice touchOr a Stetson if the mood is just rightor even a Boater in summertimeTo ward off the sun’s rays so brightProperly cleaned and pressed trousersA crease like a knife’s a nice touchAnd a good belt to hold up your pants pleaseOr you’ll look like a gangsta and suchShine your shoes, add a tie if you want toA vest if the weather turns coolBut avoid a fur collared raccoon coatYou don’t want to look like a foolNow go back and look hard in the mirrorIn you classy fine hat and new suitGo stroll around town with some pride for a changeThe young girls might say “Awww. Ain’t he cute!”They say “Clothes make the man”, well not alwaysBut they’re handy if it starts to sprinkleAnd one very important factor isThey will certainly hide most your wrinklesWhat a coincidence: tomorrow is my 60th wedding anniversary. My wife would be proud if she still lived, but I'm celebrating alone, proud enough for both of us
I have a red rose and a white carnation, a tradition we started the year before we were married and it was kept going every year since, even when we were apart....Okinawa, Japan, Vietnam, and other interferences with our ceremony.
I still have two custom suits that I had made by Peter Daniel, Montclair, CA when I was in business for myself. I'll be wearing the navy blue one tomorrow with an ice white shirt by the same tailor. Add a solid blood red necktie with a double Windsor knot, parade gloss western style boots, a custom "cowboy fedora" by Bobbie "All Hat" Dumez (RIP my friend), a gold pocket watch with a double chain, and two lapel pins and I'll be presentable. I'll take a framed picture of my wife, order a glass of Burgundy and a cup of decaf coffee for her, and we'll enjoy a wonderful meal at Gabriella's Italian Restaurant. Every year it's a different place.
If I can get the staff to do it, I'll have them play Neil Diamond's "The Story of my Life" at dessert time.
Your poem will be resting on the table my friend. Thank you.
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BTW, both of those guns can hurt you. Never had a problem with ejected rounds because we had a mimeographed set of instructions.
Everyone got to shoot each gun once. Some fired them more than once. Not me. One kid, Roger someone, broke his collar bone on his second shot.
Carried them up Green Canyon to an abandoned sheriff's shooting range in a pickup because my MGA wasn't up to the challenge.
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I've eaten jerky and pemmican all my life, usually as a trail food. They will keep you alive in an emergency but we never used it more than as a pocket snack while hunting, hiking, or fishing. Night time found camp fires and cast iron cook ware.
I never even considered making rubaboo stew out of it and haven't made pemmican in years and I made my last jerky to sell at a rendezvous over 25 years ago.
That said, I think I'll pass on this stuff for......well, forever.
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On 7/9/2025 at 3:32 PM, Buckshot Bear said:
On 7/13/2025 at 4:51 PM, Buckshot Bear said:
No, we have idiots, too.
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On 7/8/2025 at 4:46 PM, Buckshot Bear said:
the big tractor in WA
I'd like to see the person who could swing that crank. Australia's answer to Paul Bunyan?
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You have great taste.
JIF creamy pb and Kerry Gold salted butter. Consumer Reports reported on butters and rate KG #2. I don't recall what #1 was but it cost twice as much, and KG tastes just right to me. It's worth the extra cost. I buy four pound package.
About a year ago I went on a quest to try all the different honeys I could find. I got local clover honey, pure Arizona mesquite honey, sourwood honey and a bevy of others......a total of22 jars. I couldn't find a nickel's worth of difference in any of them except one. Maybe my old taste buds are finally going bad, but......
Byrd's Bees 100% raw honey stands out. My daughter lives in Flat Rock NC and found this local honey that is just right. When I run out of the honey a have already....in about five years....I'll have her gather me up few jars to tide me over until I die.
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6 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
Each one weighs about 42 pounds.
That's what they make hand trucks for. Keeps guys from being crippled up when they get older.
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12 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
I’ve ruined a couple of pans when boiling eggs! I’d fall asleep and woke up and heard popping noises! Luckily I only boiled 4 eggs at a time. I’m very careful now🙄
Hey, I bought a little thingy that holds up to five eggs and boils them (from really soft to hard), poaches them, and makes several other dishes, and is so simple even I can use it. Cost me about $25.00 IIRC and I use it maybe once week.
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I have, in my long ago past, fired Boyes and Lahti antitank rifles using surplus ammo. Both were fairly accurate at 100-200 yards, maybe out to 350, but not much further.
Not very impressive.
Some outfit in Florida was selling them for a song (IIDC we paid more to get them shipped to Utah than the guns cost) and a few us got the money together to buy the guns and ammo (Hey! Great name for a magazine.) An Air Force brat in the bunch bought both of them when we ran out of ammo.
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16 minutes ago, watab kid said:
if i can find fresh honeycomb i will eat a bit more than a spoonfull every day - ill go back to my peanut butter and honey sandwiches i used to enjoy so much
Honey and real butter are the only things that will make me eat peanut butter. PB is supposed to be good for you, too.
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Looks to me like entrapment and like I said, I know a whole herd of lawyers who would love to take that on.
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10 hours ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said:
A brand new, fairly stiff Stetson saved my skull one summer afternoon ... a four foot long set of pipe tongs (family oilfield setting) slipped out of the user's hands and cracked me across the crown.
Kind of reshaped the hat but saved the underlying scalp and whatever claimed to be rattling around inside my skull.
I stepped back, examined the skypiece, allowed as it just got some character, and went back to work.
Now, that explains a lot. 😉
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3 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Whatever became of Foghorn Leghorn. Dad hung a picture of him in the hen house "to motivate the hens". And you wonder where I got my strange streak from.
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Yes, since I can remember. On toast, pancakes, waffles, in coffee and tea, and on a lot of breakfast cereals. I even remember it in Ovaltine when you still had to boil it. (I'd love to find those old black crystals of Ovaltine again. Nothing ever tasted just like it and the stuff they sell now under that label is still the best, but not the same.) I remember driving 60 miles each way over to Bear Lake to buy huge tins of honey with the comb still in a lot of it...until Dad found out it was really from a farm just three miles down the road.
We'd chew the combs until they had no honey left in them. Sure beats chewing gum.
Mom used a lot of honey in her baking and for glazing some meats.
I think Mom and Sis used to rub it on their skin but I'm not sure of that.
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4 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
22 minutes in the microwave? Was that what the directions said? That’s a long time in a microwave 🙄😳
NOOOO! Read it again and then read the next response from Cowtown Scout....who got it right.
Pay attention, son! Pay attention!
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Looking at the pictures seem to indicate that they were taken many years ago. I think they show an M-1A1 carbine and a M-1 Garand rifle and some sort of WWII style rocket launcher. The helmets are styles not used since Vietnam.
Also there is no evidence that these people are even from your regiment and not some jackass U S soldiers
If I'm correct it appears that you are being offended by something that isn't really identified and from a long ago time.
Am I missing something here?
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My sister-in-law, in spite of severe arthritis in her hands, made fishing lures and tied flies as part of her own version of therapy. Her husband was not much of a fisherman....but her son, and later his wife and son, all were, and used her lures and flies almost exclusively.
She designed a lot of her own tools and sold all of her creations in sporting goods stores in the Layton, Ogden, and Salt Lake City area for years.
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Thanks, I needed that.
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2 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
I have two of those and they as useless as tits on a chicken.
And if I wanted a hard hat I'd get another Derby or something like folks wear on construction sites or when riding motorcycles.
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15 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Get a wooden hat stretcher. Then take a sanding disc to it and reprofile the sides so that it creates the desired oval shape you want.
I have two of those and they are as useless as tits on a chicken.
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12 hours ago, Rip Snorter said:
The big issue that even fine off the shelf can't generally address is actual head shape. I have a couple of off the shelf, but several customs. Most of the customs are a perfect fit, and you will not wear out a good one. I wear a Western hat daily - took me 24 years to wear out a favorite Resistol my wife gave me. Customs last generations - a rancher friend has his Fathers and Grandfathers handmades. They still look great.
I bought a 1941 vintage Resistol that had never been worn. It's been my every day favorite for almost ten years. About once a years I have it cleaned and re-blocked (that lady just retired and I don't what I going to do now.).
I still have two All Hat hats (a very elegant wide brim high crown cowboy hat and a "western Fedora", both in light gray) that Bobbie Dumez (Damn I miss that guy.) made for me that are almost as good, but they are more Sunday-Go-To-Meeting hats that don't get as much use.
I also have a baker's dozen other hats and caps that get very little use, a beaver pelt "trappers hat" and a Marine eight panel utility cover and an Army "boonie" hat that are mostly once or twice a year hats....and a Navy watch cap for really cold days.
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12 hours ago, Rip Snorter said:
Man, chill, you'll have an episode!
I AM an episode! I don't get 'em, I cause 'em in other folks.
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I got out a package of Innovasian Orange chicken for my supper. It's pretty good for a frozen meal but not used very often. They make a number of other dishes that I use more often.
Anyway, I preheated the oven to 400 degrees, opened the package, dumped the chicken into an oven-safe dish, and put the sauce in warm water to thaw.
I heard the buzzer go off, went in and put the dish in the microwave, and set the timer for 22 minutes, pushed the button and went back to the book I was reading in the living room.
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Did you catch that?
Fifteen minutes later I went in to check the meal and found the kitchen full of smoke......and a dish full of chicken nuggets cooked to the consistency of paving stones. Why the smoke alarm didn't go off is a mystery for later.
I turned the oven off and made myself a grilled cheese sandwich, opened a bottle of sarsaparilla, and read some more.
I'm up and will clean up the mess later.
Just remember, POBODY'S NERFECT!
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Why doesn't anyone make cowboy hats in men's sizes any more. I take a 7 7/8 or 8. I have several that I bought some years back in those sizes. They are wearing out and need replacing.
And while ranting, what is this crap with "hard hats", felt so stiff it can't be reshaped and is impossible to break in without a pro quality steamer.
Let's carry this gripe further: most hats for sale on the net don't show brim and crown measurements, either.
Step aside, Sasquatch. Move over, Occam. Jeremy is here!
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I use a Viking Blade brand safety razor that uses Gillette three blade cartridges. I shave in the shower using Camay brand bath soap (because my wife did) and water as hot as I can stand it. I get a shave so smooth it makes a baby's bottom feel like a gravel road. Touch it up with a dash of Old Bay brand bay rum.....very mild and not a bit overwhelming..... and I'm ready for almost everything.
Other than that, the video nails it perfectly. BTW, I'd give a lot for hair a white as his. Mine's a sort of light steel gray. It ain't bad but I'd like it whiter, more like the color of my soul.