Forty Rod SASS 3935

It is still the funniest thing I ever saw on TV or anyplace else!

I used to see those "disjointed" lumber trucks when I was a kid. I never was such a humongous log...maybe fifty or sixty feet were all we moved,) Years later I spent a summer working in Oregon in the same forests my dad did and they were still using those trucks. We were still running a Shay (2) and Climax (only 1) geared narrow gauge steam locomotives as well. There was a little Mallet loco, too, but I never saw it run, maybe it didn't work any more. I can still close my eyes and smell pine, diesel, and coal.

Let's go. I'll take your kraut.

Thank you. Now I have to find out why my local library doesn't have it and if it's available at one of the ILL member's locations.

I found one for $1700.00 and that's just as ridiculous. Lots of later versions with the teeth, brass hardware, etc....not what I'm looking for. Thanks, though for letting me know what you found.

Quick add-on: it just occurred to me to try sliced peaches and honey on grits. So whaddaya think? To sweet? Quick add-on #2: grits love bacon jam and bacon bits.

I never thought of horse radish, which is strange because I use it a lot of other things. I never much liked Russian dressing. I could stand a few more pickle slices but I can't afford all the many TUMS. Sweet tea is a standard drink in my house. I always have at least one pitcherful in the fridge. Now, about that pie: your three are great but don't let peach, lemon merengue, Dutch apple with a strip top crust, lingonberry, strawberry / rhubarb, pecan, chess, some others slide by. On the other hand I wouldn't just have pie for breakfast and save the rest for lunch. Side note: you don't have to be a southerner to be a rebel. I spent a lot of time roaming around Dixie and my dad's family were in Virginia just a few years after the Mayflower landed, and they mostly ended up in Kansas, Missouri, Georgia, Iowa. and in nearly every other state, too. ....and I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A REBEL..... both with a capital "R" and a lower case "r" and sometimes both at once.

Sea Quest DSV was one. It had a talking dolphin in it. The other had a flying sub. What was the name of that second one?

I ordered a pocket knife from Amazon at about noon one day. The Amazon "hub" (whatever that means) is within four miles of my house....but delivery inside of five hours is unbelievable. Wouldn't it great if USPS could get something delivered in that time and not ship it all over the country before they get it right? I get three or four letters every week with the right house number but the wrong street. Makes me wonder how many items addressed to me have ended up some place else.

An early model (1968) without the "saw tooth" serrations in the blade, blade offset about 5-7 degrees, and the aluminum impregnated handle for grip. I'd like to get one in good but not perfect condition, and not the same cost as a college education. I carried one in Vietnam for a year and gave it to my driver when I left because "I'll get one when I get back home." Yeah, Right. They changed the pattern about that time, added those useless "teeth", straightened the blade, and put a smoother new handle on them...and the price went overnight from $45.00 to $150...and I was teaching school for $330.10 a month. If I get one like I want at a reasonable price, I'll name it after whoever sells it to me.

My 1978 vintage Lyman Great Plains .50 caliber percussion rifle does just fine for me. 72 grains of Gearhart Owens bp behind a .490 round ball and a cotton patch will keep my shots on a 10-12 inch circle at a hundred yards. I used Thompson Center Spit Patch lube until they stopped making it, and now brew my own out of Crisco and Frog lube.

Bear, you're entire nation speaks with a regional accent.

Breakfast is whatever you want, when ever you want it. One of my favorite breakfast dishes is a corn beef Reuben on sourdough, a gob of kraut, and, with dijon mayo on the side, french fries, and a HUGE dill slice. Coffee or Dr, Pepper (depends on my mood) are always welcome.

I have at no place said nor insinuated that these standards should be mandatory. "State's Rights" are not the issue here. People's rights are and they are being ignored or violated on a minute by minute basis almost all across the country by every imaginable form of government and thousands of private citizens, churches, HOAs, businesses, Neighborhood Watches, private clubs, etc. But, I'll let everyone have their own way. I see no reason to continue this conversation. BEWARE OF THREE WORD COMMENTS!

I have no idea what I'm having. I don't even care. I've been invited to the home of some old friends and whatever they put out is fine by me. I can get a meal anywhere, but friendship isn't on the menu at most of those places. Have a great day, and I hope it's with your friends, too.

And? I'm not suggesting it should be mandatory, just that it would be a useful starting point to saving everyone's rights. If it works in one place it should be considered by other entities to try it. BTW, do you want to rely on California's screwed up system over Arizona's.....or New York's, or Chicago's NO? How about Seattle's or other smaller and smaller government who don't a tinker's dam about your rights? Then stay out of California and stop supporting their obvious denial of everyone else's rights. You can hardly pick up any product and not find a California caution against it POSSIBLY causing cancer or some other horrible effect...and you pay for that in so many ways. I don't have a solution, but in a society with so many sources of information and pros and cons, we should be able to find someone who can. No way of doing this without stepping on someone's toes and the citizens....ALL OF THE CITIZENS....stand to lose in the long run.

Also, I NEVER saw women in uniform with hair that long

Okay, I should have explained myself better. I am referring to so many governments doing so many different things all at the same time. Wouldn't it make more sense to gather together and see what works and set some sort of standards. Of course that might make some people in "office" losing some of their power. As it stands now in some states (even cities) you can simply cross a line on a map and have a whole set of new rules. And surely we can find a way to build a reliable machine that will preform some of these duties to everyone's satisfaction.....or would that step on some other bureaucrats' toes, too?

A lot of us have been there and done that. You're welcome here.

Yeah, a lot of those old guys had made do for so long it became a habit. The Hudson had no back doors and the left rear wheel had been replaced with a wheel modified to fit a canvas belt from a steam driven something or other. It ran a generator to power his milking machines and an electric heater to sterilize the milk. The coolers were powered by a generator hooked up to a windmill. My dad was a sharecroppers son and he never threw anything away if he could see a use for it. I remember him pounding the old steel beer cans flat and making hinges for the chicken coop, making a 1930 something Plymouth engine, transmission, and cooling system and making a trailer from other parts of the car to use to drive his home-made crane to move hay bales, lumber, and other stuff up to the top two floors of our barn / tool shed /storage loft. Today's people never even consider doing something like that....or almost anything else that doesn't come packaged and protected by bubble wrap, styrofoam, and card board.

And never will be again. Someone will be offended and the media will back down not knowing that that will offend a lot of people. Why? Because those people aren't making any loud, threatening, uneducated antieverydamn thing street"riots and the press believes in this band of idiots that they themselves have created.

All it needs now is a creek, a simple water pump and a stock tank. It's about the right size for gerbils. My uncle Frank had a small farm and kept his dairy cows and his crops watered from a canal that ran though his place. He hd two hit and miss engines and a 1945 Hudson sedan on blocks for power for his whole place...irrigation, crops , power for his dairy and emergency lighting when needed. I haven't seen a full-sized one in close to 50 years. Bear, I don't envy anyone much any more, but, Son, you make me envious.

And maybe he won't. I'm stumped on this one. It almost looks like some kind of hybrid M-79 grenade launcher. And when did medical personnel have access to, or permission to use, that sort of weaponry? I saw pistols and carbines being carried by them but npthing exatic...and almost never openly

Don't know about gasoline, but black powder will work as a fuse. I got rid of gophers that way in 1979 in my own front yard. I don't recommend it at all, but it worked.

I like the loco, too, but was referring to the Tucker car.