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Comments (30)Took the cupcake to son's place. His lady had forgotten about it, or would have made a cake ... but when she heard of it ... made one. So ... the cupcake came home - intact. Ham, pineapple and mango for dinner ... yummm! And ... it appears that I may be getting my computer back, fairly soon. Had a discussion with a nearby guy who does a lot of investing the other day - he uses satellite for internet. Maybe I'll have to spring for that. As we used to kid old uncle ..." you can't take it with you". Surprising result of my birthday commentary here ... scarcely any mention of the failing elastic in the nice pants! Maybe they just don't want to encourage me. ole joyful...See MoreOle joyful's recent history
Comments (21)The car was missing if I pushed more than most gently on the throttle, so I took it in for repair ... they said likely new spark plugs or wires, put them on and it worked better ... ... but ... ... there was low pressure in one cylinder and they thought that it needed to have the valves ground ... ... educated guess probably $600. - 700. When I took it in the following week they lent me a van while they were working on mine - gas gauge didn't work, probably about 1/4 tank ... so I put in $10.00 worth. Friend had said he'd like some straw for his garden and I figured that I could get several bales into the van, and only one or two into my little car ... and the back hatch has to be opeend by baler twine. Loaded a bunch of tarps into the van to collect the straw bits, it's old and breaks easily. I've been watching the female canine of a friend who's having surgery for a growth on his neck, and a boisterous canine and a half dozen bales of straw in the same van aren't a recipe for a good game. The tarps covered most of the necessary area, so I was able to get it reasonably well cleaned out without too great effort. When I went to check on the car ... it seems that a valve was a bit bent, so more work necessary. When they were finished, bill was about $1,200. So I can't let the car die for quite a while, yet! I don't think that I've seen the lady since - she'll get a kick out of the dilemma, I expect! Her uncle who died at 91 had been a major executive in a large Canadian supermarket chain ... ... she recently installed real granite counter tops and top of island which includes counter for eating and bar stools, in her kitchen: shiny ... and shiny bits that appear deep into the structure. Was it on the video that I was characterized as, " ... a sweet old dude"? She says that I remind her of her grandfather. Time to bring this literary masterpiece to a close, I think. ole joyfuelled ... was that gas?...See Moreole joyful's ... belated ... and (ahem!) retreaded Christmas gift
Comments (5)Hi sock-it-to-'em, You don't even need to put me on your list - if you come here and ask, and I feel that I have anything useful to offer (or just want to have some fun with it) ... no doubt you'll hear from me, anyway ... unless I don't show up for a while. I'll be happy to be on your list: my email address is on my profile - all that you need do is go there. You're the first person in about five years that has made that request, if I recall correctly. I've even offered my phone number to a few, and on a rare occasion, especially if someone seems rather hard up, or deeply distressed, have offered that if someone gives me their phone number, I'll call them. Will you be on my list? Tell me about your training, skills, interests, contacts, vacation destinations, hobbies, experience in maintaining various home, auto, computer, leisure, etc. issues. You've probably become fairly familiar with a number of my training, skills, interests, etc. so that you may have an idea of what kinds of concerns about which you might feel it relevant to contact me. Plus - your email address, if it isn't on your profile. Good wishes for a really fine New Year. ole joyful P.. My friend gave me 5 pair of white sport socks for Christmas ... but no one gave me any underpants: will have to buy some for myself, I guess (if I want to stop the binding-around-the-knees by the half-dozen or so lazy-elastic ones). o j...See MoreNews from ole joyful's place
Comments (15)Someone asked about my carrying water from the city for drinking and some of the cooking. There are two wells on the farm. The one that feeds the house is about a hundred feet away, just this side of a lower level of ground, sometimes a watercourse after a rain, and the barn is a couple of hundred feet on the other side, with a barnyard, partly concrete, on this side of it, about upwards of a hundred feet from the well. Old uncle, in his mid-80s, had had three hip replacements, all the left one, I think, and he had bad back, bad hip and bad leg, using a cane most of the time. He'd raised beef cattle, and had several in the barn, and we suggested that he get rid of the cattle, as he had no offspring from two marriages and was well off. He said that he'd got rid of most of them, but we said that one still had to go to the barn for feeding, watering, and occasional dealing with the residue, whether one had 2 or 35 animals there. When his wife was there, if he didn't show up after an hour or so of choring ... things'd happen. After her death in February about 14 years ago, some of us were worried that if he fell into a snowbank, with no one aware, he might not be able to get out. While we felt that rather improbable, I went back to spend quite a lot of most days with him for a couple of months, till his cattle went to pasture ... and I drank the water, as he did. One day, when we went to the town for groceries, I picked up a bag of milk and put it on the checkout counter. On the way home, he wondered whether I'd like to pay him for the milk. He had rather a dry sense of humour ... and when dealing with such people, if he's serious ... and the listener treats it as a joke and replies accordingly ... it can lead to serious consequences. Actually, I laughed and said to him to not forget ... that when about a dozen or so neighbours came to help with threshing grain, filling silo or repairing a barn, etc. ... the farmer wouldn't dream of sending them home hungry. That was the last that I heard of maybe paying for the milk. A couple of years later, following his death, when the farm was to be sold, they tested the water and fond it bad for e-Coli and coliform. There's another well, on the same side of the low ground as the barnyard, but a couple of hundred feet farther down, that fed the barn, that was O.K. for e-Coli, but bad for coliform, and later the landlord ran a pipe into his shop. I drove out there, some over 10 miles, pretty well daily, for almost a year, sleeping there and making the place look lived in, until it was sold. I don't remember whether I drank the water then, but doubt it, due to the results of the testing. My landlord said several years ago that he'd drunk from it, on occasion, without bad results, and I said that I had, as well, when watering the garden with a long plastic pipe from the barn, without deleterious effect. There haven't been any cattle around for twelve years, so it'd likely be a good idea to test the water again ... but pollution in the ground has a tendency to persist for long periods. Thunderstorm this morning ... so garden's just to be looked at, for a couple of days till dry. Hope you all had a lovely, even memorable, day. ole joyfuelled...See More
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