Forty Rod SASS 3935
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There was a movement a few years back to restore some of the Harvey Houses. Does anyone know how that turned out?
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Just now, Texas Lizard said:
Seem to remember someone called P T.......You know the rest....
Texas L:izard
Yep! Good ol' Uncle P. TAYLOR Barnum really called that one...and look how they have perpetuated the breed since then.
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1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:A wagon train following the California Trail across Nevada during the 1860's. The Bartleson-Bidwell Party were the first wagon train to take the California Trail across Nevada in 1841. By 1869 there had been an estimated 450,000 people who had taken a covered wagon along the California Trail in Nevada. The 40 mile desert between Lovelock, and Fernley was the worst part of that trail because there was no water. In Fallon during the 1930's you could still find a lot of debris from the wagon trains that had crossed that stretch of desert.
There are people who will tell you this picture was taken way later, just based on the hat the man in the bottom right corner is wearing.
I will use it as proof that most of my hats are, in fact, historically correct...and the sheer number of wagons will bear me out, too.
Thanks, Joe. This will turn some long-standing arguments my way.
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4 hours ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:
......... these new birthday boots ain't gonna clash with your old birthday suit ..... are they ??? 🤔
The boots won't be all wrinkled, faded and discolored, scarred up and droopy.
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Back when I was still hunting we didn't know about plastic sheets, etc. I wish we had because dragging a travois is really more work than I wanted. We used a small tarp to drag a deer out...ONCE! A real PITAT. Toward the end someone sold a fold up cart, sort of like a wheelbarrow. I saw some in stores but never saw one used. Maybe ten pounds of aluminum, a couple of web straps, and a solid rubber-like tire, folded into a 2' x' 2' x 1' pack.
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I started wearing Dan Post boots about 25 years ago when I couldn't afford anything better. (you don't earn much when your aerospace company.....not really mine, but I worked for them..... loses a bid for a big government contract.)
Learn which ones fit, and make ertain they do actually fit, care for them, and they will last a long time. They can usually have new heels and soles put on. I just had mine done for the fourth time for soles and eleventh time for heels. That pair are close to nineteen years old and I won't have them done again. They are now my yard work boots and I have four other pair for anything up to and including a coronation...or the Marine Corps Birthday Banquet and Ball on the 10th of this month.
BTW, the ones I get are about $200.00 these days at Boot Barn or C.A.L. Ranch.
Hint: if you want a really good and very easy shine, get KIWI Parade Gloss Polish. I had to order it from Amazon because few stores around here carry ANY shoe polish at all. So far I have only found it in black.
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if you can, hunt where there are a lot of trees with long, fairly straight limbs. I have always carried a small hatchet and a few yards of some sturdy cord.
I've managed to to find some branches to make a travois. And I have NEVER hunted where I was very far from a partner for any number of reasons. Remember that the wilds are called that for a reason. You can die from any number of things. Falls, animals, lack of water, injuries, weather, drowning, and almost everything in the wilds is against you.
Always have a plan.
Prepare for the worst. You will not likely need it. but why risk your precious body.
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I went to two group feeds yesterday. One of SASS folks and one at the Senior Center. Wore me gunfighting gangster' finery.
No one noticed because it's almost exactly what I wear every day anyhow.
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On 10/31/2024 at 5:59 PM, J-BAR #18287 said:
Friends of our daughter decorated their house for Halloween:
I LIKE IT.....A LOT!
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5 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Shortage of nitrocellulose. What little there is has been dedicated to military munitions.
But we're not at war anywhere.....are we?
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On 10/31/2024 at 12:24 PM, Sedalia Dave said:
Do you have to use it if you're on the throne?
I'd be in real trouble if I exercise that much an can I see a burn out in my future....and any kind of burn is gonna be dangerous in that sort of high methane atmosphere.
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1 hour ago, Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 said:
I was born on The Ides of March. It used to be tax day, too, but they changed it.
My Dad told me that the government had figured that the population couldn't handle three dreadful events on the same day and The ides of March and my birthday couldn't be changed.
I was 26 years old before I found out he was yanking my chain.
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1 hour ago, Gracos Kid said:
That's BS. Express Lanes of any description no longer exist anywhere in the USA.
An open check stand with a checker is a farce, too.
You'll be lucky to find a self check out lane open, or one that works. so that promise is a lie, too.
And I defy you to find an employee who cam tell you where anything is without using their hand computer and even then the odds are against you.
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20 years and $100,000.00 fine?
I can shoot a man on the town hall steps in front of a score of witnesses and not get that severe a punishment.
How about anti-aircraft balloons like were used in WWII.....and maybe WWI as well. Tell them you were celebrating something. With all the stupid holidays we have these days we should be able to find something.
Send them up with tinfoil and ribbon streamers, sparkly stuff, mylar mirrors, little flags, Chinese whirly-gigs like we made out of construction paper. Simply confuse the bejabbers out or their cameras, signals, and anything else. Magnets might be fun, too.
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Used to love Halloween, but it got ruined when we were still in California. I live on a narrow to lane road now, no street lights, no sidewalks, curbs nor gutters, most houses are back a ways from the streets, and not very appealing. Since moving here just over ten years ago we never had a single trick-or-treater......until last night.
About 8:30 my door bell rang and I found two little girls and an older boy with Cinderella costumes, make-up (no masks). Before I could say anything the oldest girl handed me a box wrapped in Halloween paper and all three called out a hearty" Trick or Treat".
I told them I thought they were doing it backwards and the youngest girl said "No we didn't. We know you live alone except for Trinket (My dog) and we asked Momma if she thought it would be okay to make you some cookies for Halloween and she helped us, so here you are and thank you for being nice to us. They have an old Lionel electric train set that I gave them some stuff for.
I asked them in and Momma came in. I gave them each some candy that I had in the fridge and a root beer each and opened the package. I found snicker doodles, chocolate cookies, a horrible-looking lump of delicious divinity, a bottle of sarsaparilla, and a dozen doggie cookies made with peanut butter and dark Karo syrup rolled in crushed up Vita-Bone, dried and sliced
Guess I can get back in the spirit a few more times down the road.
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Don't try to buy Bunratti (SP?) Castle. When my wife and daughter visited my wife tried and got so persistent that the people who do own it threatened to call the police.
Also, as they were leaving the country they were asked if they had kissed the Blarney Stone. My wife said that they had not and the gent at the ticket office said "It's just as well. The locals pee on it, you know."
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Some friends recently lost a little dog that had been with them for a dozen years or so. She was sick and horribly crippled and in pain, so they took that final step. They still have two others, but wanted anther like the one they lost.
They finaly found one that seemed to fit their wants and needs. A few months old, pedigreed, all the shots and such. They showed me a picture and she is nearly as cute as my little dog.
They started the procedure at a total cost of close to three grand. They have the money and the dog seemed perfect. The people who have the pup would have it delivered by a transporter of their choosing in Kansas.
Comes the SCAM!
They wanted to be paid in gift cards (alarm #1) and the transport company wanted the same thing, but would accept a cashier's check from American Express (who told my friends that they would NOT make out such a check.) (Alarm #2) made out to an individual, not a business. (Alarm #3. ) Neither would produce a mailing address except for a PO Box (alarm #4).
When they were questioned they got somewhat nasty (Alarm #5) and my friends reported it to everyone they could think of: town and state governments, BBBs, Chambers of Commerce, TV, radio, newspapers, breeders' magazines and Kennel Clubs, etc.
They started to get threatening messages from the criminals, so they reported it to USPS, the phone and computer companies, even the FBI
, their email company and others, then they went online and bashed these scammers on social media...then they blocked all calls from the outfit.
The end isn't here yet but probably will be one way of another.
Hubby is a combat vet from 'Nam with 3 Purple Hearts and a peck of other medals, wife is a contract "end of life" nurse, and neither one is afraid of much of anything. As a team they are truly frightening,
It takes a real AH to use a cute puppy to scam someone. My personal first response is "Get a rope".
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Trust a red-headed Scottish witchy-woman in a haunted mansion to come up with wonderfully artistic spooky things like this.
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What became of the old Free Alias site?
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For 52 years I was always startled when she told me she loved me. I never felt like I deserved her love. She died 8 1/2 years ago and I still love her as much as I ever did, and I miss here every day.
Cherish your woman.
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If anyone had bitten my kid they'd have eaten soup through a straw for a LONG time!
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Stop by Zeke's Eatin' Place in Prescott around 7:00 am and / or CASA Senior Center in Prescott Valley at 11:00.am tomorrow and y'all can see someone (that would be me) in his all around fabulous dress-up costume for Hallowe'en.
I'll try to get some pics for y'all to drool over.
40 Rod (aka Humble Tom).
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15 hours ago, Alpo said:
Who took Yogi's hat and necktie?
Or maybe he took them off so they wouldn't get greasy when he got down to some serious eating.
Search Grumpy Lunch Bunch for a bear at a picnic table. He is the official mascot, named Grumpy the Lunch Bunch Bear, for about 25 years. Ask Cliff Hanger for the exact date.
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Funny Photos - add some.
in SASS Wire Saloon
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And yet there are those who refuse to believe in aliens from outer space.
