Posts for: 2Dragons
Jul 8, 2021 08:45:29 #
quixdraw wrote:
Simple solution - I never use them.
I'm with you. Didn't need them for the first 3/4 of my life, so I think I can do very well without them now. UHH is social enough for me.
Jul 3, 2021 14:12:05 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Two women worked together in Atlanta, and the husband of each needed a kidney transplant, but they were having trouble finding a donor. As it turned out, each woman was a perfect match for the other's husband.
Wow! Talk about Kismet.
Jul 2, 2021 14:48:08 #
Amielee wrote:
No, in 1972 Ovenjoy bread (Safeway brand) was 9 cents a loaf, and hamburger in our Safeway was 33 cents a pound or 3 pounds for a dollar. My family of me, wife, and 5 kids had to buy 3 one pound packages of hamburger to save the one cent.
In 1968 I was clearing $78/week, $78/mo rent, supporting my other half who was going to school, and making a $39/mo car payment. Our grocery bill could NOT go over $12/week. There were no nights out for dinner. Entertainment was Creature Double Feature with home popped popcorn on Saturday nights. Skirt steak, lamb chops and babyback ribs were REALLY cheap then. Liver bacon and onions once a week. All those items are very expensive now. I always made lunches to take to work until the day he retired in 2006. We did not have the expenses they have today with cellphones, internet service and cable bills. It was a different world, then.
Jul 2, 2021 13:41:32 #
Wuligal wrote:
Would you want to be in Chicago over a weekend if you didn't have to? There is actually an organization that tries to get kids under the age of twelve out of the city from Friday afternoon until early Monday morning because of the child murder rate. Maybe that explains the hotel rates.
If I lived in Chicago today, with a family, I think I'd be focusing REALLY hard on finding somewhere else to bring my kids up.
Jul 2, 2021 09:48:16 #
JRiepe wrote:
The one thing people who plan on an early retirement need to consider is inflation. It's never too early to start saving for retirement.
I was 21 when I started. I had a choice of a big wedding or $1000. I took the money and invested it in Ma Bell, put a crease in my dungarees and went to the local JP.
Jul 1, 2021 09:44:58 #
SteveR wrote:
My parents bought a parcel of land right across fr... (show quote)
What bothers me is, why would ANY American be offended by their neighbor(s) flying the American flag as long as it was down before dusk if it wasn't lit up at night? I'm 78 and the sight of our flag has brought tears to my eyes since I learned the Pledge of Allegiance in kindergarten and I still can't get through America the Beautiful without choking up. I just thank God that, despite what has gone on in the past 40+ years, I haven't lost faith in my country and Constitution as have so many of the younger generations. The legal immigrants coming into this country, that I am acquainted with, have more patriotic feelings for the USA than a majority of the ones born here, and that is a sad state of affairs.
Jun 30, 2021 12:13:01 #
Leo_B wrote:
That's how many people feel about Texas. Too many of the wrong crowd moving here and bringing their failed ways with them. No different than city/country I guess.
Texas has my empathy.
Jun 30, 2021 09:50:18 #
robertjerl wrote:
They move from places with problems then vote for politicians and advocate policies just like the ones that created the problems they were trying to get away from.
Then wonder why the locals resent them. Of course they think of and treat those locals as a bunch of unsophisticated hicks who don't appreciate their wisdom of how things should be done.
Then wonder why the locals resent them. Of course they think of and treat those locals as a bunch of unsophisticated hicks who don't appreciate their wisdom of how things should be done.
You hit the nail on the head! I saw real estate prices go so bonkers in Vermont after 911 that the "real" Vermonters couldn't afford to buy land or a house in their own state. From a farmer based legislature it went to a flatlander legislature and the state hasn't been the same since, and not for the better.
Jun 27, 2021 16:50:07 #
Still have the 45s and 33s that I started buying in the mid 1950s. I think my first 45 was Heartbreak Hotel.
Jun 19, 2021 11:10:44 #
DirtFarmer wrote:
1. As soon as you start arguing, take off your shi... (show quote)
Still smiling and chuckling over your rebuttal answers.
Jun 19, 2021 10:55:51 #
Beautiful lilies. Years ago an old timer Vermonter told me how to protect my flowers that were prone to deer attacks. Human hair. I used to have the gal who cut my hair save what she swept off the floor for me and I'd spread it in the half whiskey barrels I had planted with Impatiens. The deer would decimate them. After putting the hair around the base of the plants, they never touched the Impatiens again.
Jun 19, 2021 10:42:36 #
Beautiful flowers. I'd neither seen nor heard of them before.
Jun 19, 2021 10:39:02 #
Really beautiful shot. So many ranges you were able to capture! You were definitely in the right place at the right time.
Jun 17, 2021 13:46:47 #
Amazing. I think I'd want this kid as a fellow passenger on my next flight in the event that the Captain and co-pilot became incapacitated. All he needs now is the "hands-on" experience.
Jun 17, 2021 10:27:03 #
OMG! Did not see that one coming! Still cracking up. Thanks for making my morning!