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We have a total of eight credit cards. Sam's Club Mastercard gives 5% back on gas, 3% back on restaurants, and 1% back on everything else. We use this one the most. We shop a lot at Sam's Club and get this money back on purchases there, sometimes getting our entire store purchase without extra...

Told this story before on here. When each of our daughters started driving we gave them a credit card to use for gas and ESSENTIAL purchases. They never abused this to my knowledge. And I checked each month. Both got their college paid for by getting good grades in school and receiving...

THAT is why we use laundry sanitizer in every load. RSKY

Why would anyone use a debit card instead of a credit card? There seems to be no advantage to a debit card. And if you pay it off monthly, several advantages to a credit card. RSKY

Went with my wife Christmas shopping yesterday. Saw a lady with a "Take them to the train station" t-shirt. Wife said I couldn't get one. RSKY

To those who haven't watched it YET, it is addictive. We didn't start until this fall when I saw a clip on YouTube of John Dutton and trespassers. There was nothing else on so we started. Dang it, we got hooked. Beth is seriously evil. "Well Beth, what are you going to do today?" "I'm going to...

We lost my mother and father-in-law last year. During their last year or so we had to answer every single phone call we received as we got calls from everywhere about supplies we needed. What bothered me was my phone would label some of the calls 'potential spam'. And they would be from Medicare...

A few weeks ago we ate at a restaurant with my youngest and her family. As we walked out to our vehicles the grandson casually mentioned that his toes were sticking thru the front of his shoes. My daughter said impossible because she bought the shoes three months earlier and got them a half size...

I cannot think of a good comeback for that one. RSKY

County Extension Agent told my wife that she had been contacted by a local businessman asking her if she could set up a process with the 4-H agent or somebody else to give high school students instructions on how to attend a job interview. The most promising applicant for a job he wanted to fill...

Youngest daughter travels a lot to meetings with her job. One of the guys she met at the meetings is a friend of the older ranch hand on Yellowstone. I believe his name is Lloyd. Said the old guy wasn't playing a part on the show. How he is on the show is how he is in real life. RSKY

Changed my habits when I retired. I worked midnight to 8AM for most of my life. Wife would get me up, I would shower, dress in the bedroom while she showered in her bath, turn lights out, she was already in bed, and leave for work. Then I retired and changed my routine to shower whenever I felt...

He is getting his original insurance back. I am not for sure but I think the people at the Social Security Office had something to do with it. As I said earlier I am trying to stay as far out of this as I can. RSKY

That is the same that I was told by somebody more knowledgeable on the subject than anyone else I know. Don't know what kind of plan it was. Just that he had seen it on TV. But the main insurer is Medicare, the supplemental is from the company we worked for. He said it would not cover his...

My disabled neighbor who lives across the street from me called today as I was eating lunch. Said he needed to run into town. I have a sinus infection and feel like crap and told him so. He said it was important, maybe an emergency, and he needed to go to the Social Security office right now. So...

I had to pick up a can of sauerkraut for my wife yesterday. She is using it to make a chocolate cake! ???? Just cannot imagine this turning out well. I kid you not. RSKY

Many of our friends and relatives farm. So they have 100+hp tractors, combines, etc. None except for one sister have anything smaller than a 40-hp utility tractor. Well s-i-l bought a Kioti 40-hp this past summer. I am the only one with a CUT that has a FEL on it. It is handy for doing the...

LOL. True. Nobody else in our neighborhood has a tractor. And I do not loan my little Kioti to anybody except daughters/sons-in-law and one of them got a 40-hp Kioti this year. If somebody needs to borrow it they get the tractor and me as the operator. Somebody in every neighborhood needs a...

A couple who go to our church built a house on a farm they bought close to us. Over the years they have built several houses, lived in them for a while, then sold at a profit and built another one. This was to be their retirement house and it was planned over years down to the last detail. They...

I once was gifted some manure out of a cattle barn for my garden. It took me years to get rid of the weeds that sprouted up from the seeds in that manure. Next I get will be from a chicken house. RSKY

We heat primarily with natural gas. A central gas pack heats the main house. Cost is less than $160/month with about $20 of that being for the large water heater. An electric Mitsubishi split unit heats the sunroom, and an electric space heater in the utility room is used only when temps get...

Last spring my wife and I cleaned up the house and gave away or threw away all the baby stuff. Baby bed, high chairs, toys, other accessories, all that gone. Youngest grand was turning six and both our daughters have two kids so we figured........wrong. Youngest came in the house last Thursday...

We use some but are gradually phasing them out. We inherited some from wife's dad, a bunch from my mother, and a lot more from ladies in the Homemakers Club who are now widows with grown children and no garden. Most of the eight boxes that the apples came in will be used to store those jars. We...

We had our house roofed about a month ago. The guy that owns the roofing company came over and said he would have his most experienced crew do the work because one of the guys had more experience putting on the rubber cover on a section of flat roof. His was not the cheapest bid. Been there...

My friend passed out at work twenty years ago. He had a brain tumor that caused him to go into a coma. It was removed but from that day he passed out he has had challenges many of us do not face. The tumor had damaged the nerves from his brain to his eyes and while he sees okay straight ahead...

Took disabled friend/neighbor to vote yesterday. Had him, me, wife, and two grandkids in the car. I finished first and went to the parking lot to get the Highlander. Pulled up close to the door and waited for the others who had maybe 100-200 feet to walk. Friend uses a cane and I saw him start...

By accident my wife bought some 2.5 gallon freezer bags. The clear plastic kind with the press to seal closure. I keep my welding helmet, welding gloves, funnels, and anything else I want to keep clean and spider-free in one of those. Also bought some dishwasher clean out tablets for use when...

We only use autopay for utilities, Internet, cellphone, and one other service. All other bills set up so I can sit down at the computer and pay them online one day each month. But we have had the opposite problem with one outfit, and that is stopping payments to us or rather to my deceased...

We used one of those for the applesauce and apple slices. But we had a problem with small pieces of peel left on the apple. So it was easier to use the 'potato peeler'. I said we used it. My six year old grandson loves to work. He would rather help me or his dad work around the house than watch...

Today I started on my eighth bushel of apples for canned slices, applesauce, and mostly for drying. Yep, one bushel cored, sliced, and canned. One and a half bushel cooked into applesauce and canned in pint jars. Six bushels peeled, cored, and dried on a dehydrator. Have given them away to...

Thank you. That is what I was looking for. RSKY

There are both Mennonites and Amish working here. They are organized and operate under an umbrella organization called "Amish Disaster Relief" (hope that is correct). The groups we have talked to came from Pennsylvania and Kansas. The small signs the groups put is front of the houses they work...

That is different from the Amish/Mennonite charities. My wife and her homemakers clubs take frozen meals to people when they move into the Mennonite built homes springing up around town. The first dedication I attended with her was something. All the workers gathered in the house. 90% with the...

I need/want some pallet forks for my 2011 CK20s. I have yet to find anything online that will fit the loader. It is not a quick attach. Will I have to buy and install a quick attach first? RSKY

I have been trying to teach my six year old grandson to always open doors for ladies. Told him he would always be smiled at if he did that simple act. RSKY

I agree with WM75Guy. I put my replacement off for years taking one or two Naproxen Sodium pills a day. That can be worse for your body than the surgery. Youngest daughter's mother in law started some type of gel injections this week but scheduled replacement surgery for February in case they...

I was told that the Rotary Club also helped kids needing eye care. BUT the president of the local chapter has had a downturn in his health and wasn't able to communicate with me. Gonna wait until this Sunday and find out what daughter has found out from the school resource officer. Will proceed...

Our oldest daughter teaches at a middle school in the next county. In one class she moved a student to the back of the room to move a 'talker' to the front. My granddaughter is in the class and afterward she told her mom that the kid could not see anything at the front of the room. So the next...

I take my disabled neighbor to the grocery a couple times a week. Also make runs to a certain gas station so he can get his chewing tobacco. Having the only tractor on a mile or so of road I try to keep driveways clear of snow, bushes on the roadside mowed, and help with whatever people need...

Son-in-law shot one several times with a 10-mm Glock yesterday. Said it took four shots of which three appeared to be good hits dead center from about five feet. Wife's 85+ year old aunt swerved to hit one this week and said she nearly had whiplash when the huge Buick bounced over it. Tougher...

Yep, I confessed today but...... only after she couldn't find her purse (think small suitcase) which I helped her look for. She took her cellphone out to the garage to look in the car and when she came back in I had found the purse, had a magazine on top of it. But as we were walking out I asked...

I know of no-one who had a partial replacement who was happy with the results. My surgery was six years ago and I have not regretted it for one moment. The problem with getting down on your knees will gradually get better but never completely go away. RSKY

Safety, safety, safety!!! Started carrying mine full time twenty years ago when youngest daughter had a medical condition due to some medicine she was taking. She literally went blind on her way home from school. I was in a meeting at work when I received a text from my wife with the numbers...

I've tried that before. Didn't work. RSKY

Gonna add something to my two overly long replies. Several people we know have delayed getting their knees replaced until they could barely walk. Nearly all of these have damaged their hips and had to have them replaced too. RSKY

I have already left a long reply but I'm going to leave another one, Steroid shots helped me at first. But each one did less good. The first one lasted about six weeks. Next about four weeks, then two weeks, then no help at all. I know lots of people who have had total replacements and are...

We were leaving to go to a grand's soccer game yesterday afternoon and I could not find my billfold. I knew I had put it in the same place as always in the bedroom but it was not there. I always take it out of my right back pocket and put it in a tray on the nightstand. Not there. We searched...

Monday I walked across down the driveway, across the road, and up my disabled neighbor's drive to give him a bag of dried apples. He was sitting in his yard watching me and remarked that I had walked fast, not limped, and seemed to have no trouble with my knee. I had it replaced in 2016. The...

It happens at any rpm. Barely noticeable going from hi to lo but a little louder going from lo to high. RSKY

My 2011 CK20S will make a 'chirp' the first time I press the forward/reverse pedal after changing from hi to low range or vice versa. That is the only time I hear it. RSKY

There are a couple posts on TBN about how to make a burn barrel burn efficiently. I followed the instructions (kinda) of a guy from Tasmania and mine burn everything completely. While cleaning up my late mother's estate I sometimes had two barrels going every day for six days straight (she had...

The guy in the original post said he had been delivering tractors for years and never had it happen before. Just glad it wasn’t me. RSKY

Not me this time. Drove about an hour from home with son-in-law to pick up a tiller and box blade he had purchased. Just like his tractor he bought them sight unseen over the Internet from a dealer in Tennessee. While he was inside settling the bill I helped the guy loading the equipment and...

I have a lot to check on the truck and trailer today. Well first I have to retrieve the trailer from my daughter's house. Will let everybody know what I find. Once again, thanks to all who took time to respond to my post. TBN and the people who inhabit it are the best! RSKY

Still using pasta sauce from two years ago. Everybody I give a jar to says it is the best. All I did was use Mrs. Wages pasta mix and my tomatoes. Same way with salsa. Have had people at parties want to know who made the salsa and I would have to tell them that I used Mrs. Wages mix. Wife will...

OK, will check that out. Thanks guys. RSKY

When we traded our last minivan in wife got a 2003 Mazda 6 Sport. She drove the snot out of that car....until 1st grand was due. Then the large SUV became a priority. RSKY

Son in law just got a 40-hp Kioti with this. The forward pedal works just like a car accelerator. Harder you push, faster engine turns, and the faster you go. I like it and so does he. RSKY

I have a 2014 Ford F150 with trailer package. The lights on my tandem axle trailer are not working correctly. I have been hooking it up and pulling it out of it's parking spot. Then I will kill the motor and go check the lights. The truck lights stay on for about a minute after the engine is...

My oldest daughter has a 2014 Toyota Sienna minivan. She did not want a mini, said it was 'social suicide' in her circle of school teacher friends. I finally convinced her of the utility of a minivan and she bought it. Now she needs a new vehicle. No trouble with hers but it is approaching...

We had a 2011 Pilot, traded for 2018 Highlander. Got the Pilot for one reason, the 2nd row was wide enough to put a baby carrier in the center and had room for passenger on each side. Traded for the Highlander because it was a little smaller and more maneuverable. Both are great vehicles. We...

Family was here today eating lunch after church. Once the hooligans finished and left the table to destroy the house. Well, the grandkids went out to sunroom to play, argue, and fight. Just a normal Sunday. And really, they are good, polite, considerate kids who just like to talk loud argue and...

One of my dad's brothers was killed in WWII in Germany. His widow never remarried. Of the deceased's three brothers and two sisters my mom and dad were the kindest to the widow. Don't know the whole story but the others thought that somehow she could have prevented him from being in combat. At...

I agree. And I would like to be here to see them enjoy their inheritance. BUT I also want them to grow it and pass it on to the next generation and so on. THAT is what I am concerned about. I also want to watch them enjoy things. We have taken the oldest three grands to Disney World after they...

Very stable with good jobs and hard working. Took daughters to a financial advisor at a local bank when they were 14 and 10. Nobody had laptop computers then but this lady pulled out a laptop and went thru her entire sales pitch on investing in stocks and mutual funds with the girls. I sat in...

Made some decisions last night. I hope y'all will read this over and tell me what I am doing wrong or if I am making a mistake. Most of the wealth transferred to my sisters and me was in land consisting of two farms. We sold the first at auction a month or so ago and two guys got in a bidding...

Ten years ago I retired and rolled my 401K into an IRA to have better control of it. The lady I dealt with at the 'large financial company' I use went into a sales pitch on annuities. I could tell she was not enthusiastic about them and told her I needed to think about it for a week. When she...

Let’s just say that some in my family have been badly served by “estate planners” and leave it at that. Came close to loosing a third of the money involved. I have talked to an advisor at a large financial institution where I have my IRA and other investments. I outlined my short term plans as...

I would much rather go slower with a six footer and have an easier ride than faster with a five footer. Have hit too many unseen ditches and ruts at a higher speed and had to hang on for dear life. On the old Ford I always mowed with my feet hooked under the clutch and brake pedals. Over the...

What is the best way to transfer wealth to the next generation? My parents came from nothing, both lost their fathers at a very young age and grew up rough. Worked hard all their lives and left a respectable estate worth more than they would have ever believed. My in-laws did the same. F-I-L...

I always tell newbies about bush hogs, wider and slower is better, safer, and your back and kidneys will thank you at the end of the day. RSKY

My mother was bush hogging and disking until 89. Said pushing in on the clutch hurt her knee too much. Passed away at 96 last year. Though country women. RSKY

All the man has ever done is farm. It is his work, play, and life. He never married, but he has a live in girlfriend of more than thirty years. There is a small town in Mexico that sends several of it's young men to work in his tobacco fields. Don't know for sure but I've heard he only hires...

At an auction of my mother's home place I was standing by my 40+ year old niece. I asked her if she had ever met a multi-millionaire. She said she hadn't and asked if any were there. I looked around and asked her if she saw the lady with the blue top standing near the auctioneer's truck and she...

Speaking of race horses. Was sitting in the break room at work with three other supervisors. One of them said, and I quote as close to a thirty year old memory lets me, "I had sixteen hours of overtime on this check and only brought home 58 cents!" He was not kidding. Seems he was into...

Indian friend telling how family connections are helping entire extended family to become wealthy. Said he could be driving down an Interstate and he would notice when there was a long stretch of road without a motel at any intersections. He would drive on for a few miles and pull off road and...

Many years ago we were bush hogging at our farm back in the sticks. It was after my father had died so it was just my mother and I. We noticed that the same five or six cars were burning the road up going back and forth every ten or fifteen minutes. After I finished lunch and took over from mom...

Good advice. The amount of work a tractor can do in determined by it's weight. How fast is does that work is determined by it's horsepower. I stole that quote from somebody else on here. Don't remember who. RSKY

Mowed with a Ford 4000 and then a 4600 for fifty years. Sold the 4600 six weeks ago. Clipping a thin pasture with no hidden ditches or thick brush and relatively flat ground would mean 6th gear. The thick brush and grass in the river bottom we mow yearly would mean dropping to 4th gear...

Ground hogs can cause a lot of trouble in a field. On the farm we just sold they had dug burrows in low areas in the fields and as it rained they washed out into small gulleys. Brother in law didn't see one of those gulleys and hit it wide open with the right front on a 1206 International. Broke...

Put your trap in a heavy black trash bag. Then a concrete block on top. That's what the county skunk catcher does and it has worked for me. So far this year I have caught four baby skunks. They are still in traps way back in the sticks. Trapped one adult and one baby possum. Both were let go...

Don't know how to tell anybody how to get cigarette smoke smell out of a vehicle. BUT when we had a skunk spray under our house we rented an ozone generator from Servpro. Supposed to clear the smoke smell from a 150,000 sq. ft. warehouse in 24 hours. Can't prove that but we ran that thing in...

We signed over my deceased mother's (not running for ten years) 1976 Ford pickup to a nephew yesterday. Girl at clerk's office said you would not believe what people were getting for used vehicles. Contractors and businesses who depend on pickups were desperate to find something that was low...

I love to sit and watch heated arguments.

Good suggestions. My first thought was soil samples, second thought was to run a subsoiler breaking the hardpan, third was a breaking plow turning the soil over as deep as possible. Suggest running subsoiler in the fall then a cover crop of clover or whatever recommended in your area, then turn...

A relative who works for a local stave mill said that the mill bought a walnut log from a local for $5000. Log was in perfect condition. Two weeks later the mill sold the same log to a company overseas for $35.000. Said he was the operator who loaded that log on the truck for transport to...

I would NOT donate any to the big name charities. The Mayfield tornado has taught everybody in this area that the big name national charities are nothing but scams. I would donate to the charities that I have seen boots on the ground doing work seven months after the disaster. Samaritans Purse...

If you won the lottery, what would you do with the money? I'm not talking about the huge 300-400 million dollar ones. But a smaller payout of one million cash in the bank after taxes. What would you do with the money? A new tractor? A new truck? A new home? A dream vacation/cruise? Would you...

Too funny. Did you quiet the wife by offering her part of the winnings. I bet that would have calmed her down. RSKY

Four years ago I saw my then 92 year old father-in-law trying to get off his Cub Cadel ZTR and I thought he was going to fall. The next week I bought one of the Bad Boy assist bars and mounted it on his mower. It enabled him to mow the rest of that year and part of the following. He passed away...

Don't laugh but when mowing the 'Old Farm' which is five miles from the shop I take my truck with fuel cans, generator, and air compressor in the back. Ever time I stop to refuel I blow out the radiator. This is experience from 55-years bush hogging. Several years ago we got some type of...

We were cleaning out my mother's shop a couple months ago. She passed away last year at 96-years old. Mom would open a can of oil and use a little then a couple months later when she needed more she would not use the opened can but go get new. She NEVER threw anything away (somebody might need...

I have googled it and not found what I'm looking for. I need/want something simple to carry in my jeans pocket. In my right front pocket I carry keys and the Seecamp (in a Sticky holster). So that pocket is full. My left front has my phone and pocket optics glasses holder. Most of the time my...

I nearly always have a pair of 6" Channel Lock pliers in my pocket. Lately I find that I also need a screwdriver. I need something that folds like a two bladed pocket knife with a Phillips head on one end and a slotted head on the other. Think of a Case pocket knife with the blades replaced with...

I think the 'never gonna happen to us' idea is what messed up the coverage for the older larger churches. When the outside is made of huge blocks of stone you get the idea that the building is indestructible and that was proven wrong. I still cannot understand why they tore down the remaining...

Actually the farm we sold last Saturday was bought from the present day buyer’s parents. So it has returned to the original owners.

On Saturday we also sold a 46-year old tractor for $7600 to a family that will use it on their tobacco farm. Perfect tractor for what they needed. Sold a 1-year old Bushing 6' mower for $3000, which is only a hundred or so less than I paid for it. The price increase on those went from $2850 in...

Buyer pays a 10% fee. So whatever was bid on the farm, in this case $775k the buyer pays an extra $77.5k to the auction company. We will also pay half the survey and legal fees. The household goods sold that day will pay for that. We talked to the buyer today. He was laughing that he had, "been...

It happens! There was no foreclosure, farm paid off before 1970. The auctioneer is third generation in the business. Others in area concentrate on household goods. He spent all his time on the land and house. Food trailer and Portable-Potties set up on Friday. Saturday morning a convoy of seven...

It is out in the country so there will be no development. One main factor made the bidding so cutthroat. Our county is home to the largest cattle wholesaler East of the Mississippi. It is a family run business and they are buying up everything they can get. They pay well for what they buy and...

Father in law died last year in February. Wife and her sister were discussing what to do with the 28 acres and hundred year old house when my youngest daughter mentioned they would like to have it. So for a greatly reduced price (than what they could have got) it was sold to them. The house has...

Our auctioneer made us a lot of money. He had people lined up to bid on the place. We would have gladly sold for $420, instead we split $775+ after everything else paid for. We had people coming up to us wanting us to give them a price right up to when auction started. Auctioneer said to not...

Wrong,.... buyer pays 10% fee to auctioneer, inherited property so no taxes to us. We pay half of survey and fees for deed. Rest is ours.

That may be the next problem. CDs aren't paying anything. Hate to put it in the market but guess I will look at mutual funds.

I found out something today. If you want to sell property, have an auction. Sisters and I were hoping to get $5000/acre for 63 acres and $100000 for the house and 4 acres. Holy Guacamole !! We got nearly double that. This auctioneer knew what he was doing. He advertised everywhere. Heck...

Salvation Army has always been a favorite charity of mine too. BUT, I have not seen them in Mayfield. I think they deal with a different type of need.

The pipe organ was separately insured for 1.5 million. Many stained glass windows. Front and sides were huge stone blocks about 4’ long and 2’ high. Don’t know if you could ever get replacements. Beautiful old church inside and out.

Gonna be short and sweet on this one. Nearly all the churches destroyed in Mayfield were greatly under insured. Massively under insured. My sister's 100+ year old church building was destroyed in the tornado. It was insured for around $7 million. First estimates to rebuild were north of $30...

Hopefully this will be my last update on the tornado aftermath. It has been delayed because of other events. 1) Old PC crashed and I let daughter talk me into getting an iMac. So far so good but it has taken a little while to get used to. 2) Getting my mother's place ready to auction next...

The wall that water is sometimes seeping thru was painted with a product called Sta-Dry more than forty years ago. That stopped the leakage until the last five or six years. There is enough moisture coming thru to wet the floor about a foot or 18" away from the wall after a three day heavy rain...

We are preparing a sixty year old house to sell. The basement walls are of concrete blocks. After a heavy rain they seep a small amount of water thru some cracks and thru the blocks themselves. What is the best paint on product to seal the walls and what do I use to seal cracks?

Conditions are predicted to be close to Dec 10th. Town still not recovered from the last one!

Farmers planting more wheat will mean less ground planted in corn and more ground with beans following the wheat. This is gonna screw up ALL the markets for a couple years. Fortunes will be made and lost gambling on the futures market. RSKY

My grandmother, father's mother, lived next to us in a very small one bedroom trailer. One day I got home from school and knocked on Grandma's door. She let me in and we sat talking. She asked me if I wanted something to eat like a grilled cheese sandwhich and I said sure. Now this trailer was...

All I know about them is that the people working at the blood donation center I go to said that they were in an entirely different organization from the disaster relief group. They all work for Red Cross but more like different companies owned by an umbrella holding company. I am repeating what...

At church today they mentioned another charity that the elders worked with and highly recommend. Actually, next week's entire contribution will be donated to Mercy Chefs. I had never heard of them but they came to Mayfield, set up, and cooked meals for anybody that needed or wanted one. They did...

If you go back and read my original post you will see that I said the blood donation group is separate from the disaster relief group. I donate blood and platelets thru the Red Cross. Not as often as I should but still fairly often. They serve a necessary purpose and I do not care if they make a...

First off let me say that I did not receive any damage in the tornado. One sister had about $100,000 worth but her house was still standing. She is shocked at how much the total has come out to be. And that is with hordes of volunteers descending on her property to do cleanup at no cost to her...

At one time this morning it was raining in the front yard and sleeting/snowing in the back. I hate getting out of the house! RSKY

So far today it started out about 29F, rose to about 35F and the sun tried to come out. Now that scares me, as it would anybody living in tornado land. Had to drive about 30 miles south at 2:00 and by the time we started home at 4:00 temp had dropped to 28F and it was raining, snowing, sleeting...

I always stand to the side of a grinder on the few occasions I use one. NEVER in front. I have seen people stand directly in front of one. RSKY

Yeah, and we may have an ice storm before the week is out. Welcome to Kentucky! RSKY

Age and pain make great teachers. RSKY

At one time welding rods had asbestos in them. I don't know if they still do. My dad died of asbestosis. That is a horrible way to die, slow and painful. I seldom weld but when I do I wear some type of paper mask. Maybe not an N95 but something. RSKY

The rest of the story I forgot to put in the original post. The day BEFORE I got stuck in the yard and had to be pulled out I drove about 45 miles to a guy's woodworking shop. I had to pick up a 100+ year old wooden door that he had stripped the finish off of. This was for my youngest daughter's...

Since I lost the center of vision in my right eye each spring I order 2 dozen clear for inside, 1 dozen light tint for cloudy days, and 1 dozen dark tint for sunny days. I give about half away to family and anybody I see that 'needs' a pair. Money well spent is correct. RSKY

Twelve more years of experience and a strong fear of damage to my one good eye. RSKY

Yes, I was hanging on to a TV antenna tower with one hand, holding one of those four tine hoe like garden tools with a five foot handle trying to pull aluminum siding out from under the eaves of the 100-year old house my youngest is redoing. (Long sentence, stay silent grammar Nazis) Several...

Skunk catcher came yesterday. Said they would clean up nest, sanitize the area, install critter proof cover that will last in all three attic vent areas, and install same critter proof cover in all under house vents. Didn't give us a price but wife says we are having it done so I guess we will...

I learned the hard way, back in the seventies, that a manual shift front wheel drive will tend to swap ends when you let off the gas on ice. Front tires had drag, rear tires no drag. Started around a corner facing one way and ended up in a yard facing the other way. Sure scared the dickens out...

I called the local "Skunk Catcher" and talked to his secretary/wife. She started laughing when I told her what I had found. She said it is starlings doing the huge nest building. They remove several of these nests every year. They remove the grass, sanitize everything, and patch the screen so...

I had to go up into my attic Saturday to do a minor bit of rewiring. Entrance is by one of those folding ladders in the garage. I went up the ladder, turned left, and (painfully) crawled halfway across attic to do my job. On the way back I happened to shine the flashlight at the other end of the...

If it is on smooth ice I will take an AWD vehicle every time over a 2-wd or a 4-wd. One wheel on each axle not getting power will help keep you on the road. Deep snow, mud, or a loose surface is what 4-wd is made for. Looked up the price for a new 2022 Ford F150 XLT optioned like I want it. I...

Got stuck in the yard of the 100+ year old house my youngest is redoing. Wife and I were supposed to load aluminum siding that had come off the house to take to a recycling place. Truck is a 2014 Ford F150 with the towing package. I love it for driving, towing, and hauling stuff. But it can get...

Hair appointment, yes I go to a women's salon, was for 8:05 or, "just as soon as I can get there after dropping daughter at school". She didn't laugh that much, said she had seen worse, but the smell after she washed my hair was bad for both of us. She trimmed hair and beard and mustache and...

Because we had already filled two LARGE trash cans and had six yard size trash bags more to get rid of. Ground was wet, still some snow and ice around house. Barrel was burning everything up about as fast as I could dump it in. RSKY

As we were cleaning out my mother's house, she passed in October 2021, I found a Zippo lighter that I believe was given to my dad at his retirement in 1980. It did not work, the wheel spun freely and I could not get a new flint to make contact. I sent the lighter off to the Zippo company and...

I sit here at 6:45 waiting to go to an 8:05 emergency haircut appointment I made yesterday afternoon. Well, I finally got the appointment made after the lady that cuts my hair stopped laughing. If you read my post from a little while ago about the vents in my new burn barrels and how well they...

Only problem with that is the seven year guarantee that comes with purchase and installation from the dealer. Install it yourself and you don't get that. At least that was the info I got from the nice girl that I talked to. RSKY

We have decided to have a whole house generator installed. The automatic kind that comes on when the power goes off. So I have called the Generac dealer about 3.5 miles from our house. It will be a month before they can come out for a consultation and between six and eight months before I can...

I don't mind the snow. THAT I can handle. What I do not like is the inch or so of ice that we sometimes get. About forty years ago the factory I worked at got a new manager from somewhere in Canada. The first time a few inches of snow was forecast and schools were to be closed the next day he...

My wife went thru and got out all the blue/green ones and looked them up. Also all the ones that sealed with the wire handle. None worth more than $6. RSKY

I know somebody is thinking, "How can this guy get that excited about a burn barrel?". My two sisters and I are cleaning out my mother's house after she passed away October last year. She was 96 and never, NEVER, threw anything away. To give an example, we washed and saved all the name brand...

That is true. Next one will have the vents a little higher and maybe a little smaller. My main problem with that was the wind blowing very hard. RSKY

I put six slots close to equal distance around the bottom and middle. The flames will swirl out the top. Burns paper very quick except for glossy magazines and they won't burn in anything. Sister found a plastic box of quilt tops that had a hole in the bottom and they were soaked from a leak in...

Too much expense for too little gain. BUT it might be feasible on a route like LA to Sydney or something like that. If you could cut an eighteen hour flight to nine hours it might be commercially acceptable. RSKY

We have got hooked on Cold Justice. One of the ladies that the original CSI show was based on goes around trying to solve cold case murders and disappearances. Sometimes they don't find anything new. Sometimes they help the local detectives get murder charges on the killer. Sometimes they...

Well your idea works. Saved me from having to rent a dumpster or carry all that crap to a landfill. Thank you. RSKY

Now that is strange. I posted the pictures in the normal way from my Iphone and look what I got. Anyway, you can see the flames swirling out the top. It works great until the barrel is full and the vents covered. Sometimes the flames spew out of the vents and you have to be careful. The hotter...

Here are pictures.

A few years ago somebody on this forum from Australia or Tasmania posted on how to set up a burn barrel properly. I had always cut horizontal slots around the bottom of mine and hoped for the best. So I got a couple barrels last year and following posted instructions I cut six vertical slots...

Hmmm... Hawkins Research, did I once buy a computer from you??? RSKY

It was built in the 60's. I pulled in there in 1970 when I was 16 in a Ford pickup with the 6' tall sideboards on and knocked the awning over the parking area loose. I believe I had carried three or four steers to the stockyards and stopped for lunch. Nobody saw what I had done but I went inside...

Thank goodness Dairy Hill was spared. Don't know what the county would have done next summer if it was destroyed. Mmmmm.... Tasty Dog, tater tots, and a fresh banana milkshake........ RSKY

Also in Mayfield, Samaritan's Purse is still very active. I saw a bunch of them working cleaning up yards at condemned houses on 6th Street. Also saw a white van, yes a WHITE van, with Mennonite Relief on the side. Believe it or not it had something about Ebineezer Temple or something like that...

TOP STORY State police: Man killed after shooting at police officers at tornado relief distribution center in Mayfield Leanne Fuller Jan 5, 2022 MAYFIELD, KY — A man was killed by law enforcement Wednesday morning after state police say he approached officers patrolling the tornado relief...

I worked with a girl who had been dried out from meth twice. She said the next time would be prison for a while. Had got hooked first time and lost husband and kids. Got dried out at some place in Nashville TN. Then saw some "old friends" who wanted to drink a beer with her and they put meth in...

I drove down 131 from Hwy 58 to the Parkway and back on the morning after the tornado. Had two of my grands with me. The way it looks now is nothing compared to then. The eight and five year old grands were silent for about ten minutes after that little trip. That is very unusual for them. The...

Most of the looters are from out of state. My sister who had a garage destroyed was upset that some people getting free toys for kids had no damage and that people she saw getting other free stuff had no damage. I pointed out to her that both my daughters had picked up food and other items and...

My wife has been on a committee that built a new multi-million dollar County Extension Office. They had moved in the new building in late November. After the tornado they offered the building to the Sheriff and Mayfield City Police to use as both their offices had been destroyed. There are...

The picture says it all.

We are now having trouble with thieves driving in from out of state to steal whatever they can get. They have arrested three individuals/carloads at an intersection about a quarter mile from my sister's house this week. There are sheriff's deputies from many Kentucky counties and policemen from...

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About an hour ago my wife got a text from my deceased mother's number. The text said, "I thought I would give you my new number". She freaked for a minute. Thirty minutes later she got a phone call from the same number. It was from a friend of hers that had changed cell phone services and had...

If you look closely at the map above you will see that the tornado made a slight kink to the north and bypassed the main part of Benton. If it had gone straight it would have hit the Walmart, gas stations, and an area with mostly businesses but few homes. If it had kinked slightly to the south...

I do not know what issues have arisen. All I am repeating is what my wife and I have heard thru conversations and Facebook. i always thought FEMA had a good reputation for handling the rebuild of a disaster struck area. There are probably head strong do it my way or no way people on both sides...

FEMA is in town now. They have a trailer and tents set up. I haven't heard anything yet but my wife has heard that they immediately tried to take over everything and have ticked everybody off. Something about refusing to let any more relief supplies come in. Wife has a different set of friends...

Finally accepted a free meal today. Was driving around looking for the Cajun Navy setup to get some jambalaya. Was gonna make a contribution and get a good lunch. Drove thru the Walmart parking lot and got held up in traffic right by the tents and cookers. A lady came up to the window with a...

The old six story Hall Hotel in downtown Mayfield is in danger of collapsing. Officials have closed the streets around it. The building was built in 1929 and opened in 1930. A cousin of mine converted it to office spaces a few years ago and was doing well. I hope he has sufficient insurance. RSKY

Thank you for your post. I appreciate your unbiased thoughts on this and other disasters. With your permission I would like to put your complete post on Facebook. More to tell everybody what to expect than anything else. RSKY 9

Well, Mrs. USA hurt her shoulder bad yesterday. Is unable to work. Something about trying to throw a large limb on a brush pile. She hurt it before they arrived at my sister's house and had trouble getting her arm up high enough to put it around my BIL. So most of what she did was sweeping and...

A convoy of more than 100 school busses, trailers, and vans is headed to Western Kentucky from Eastern and Central Kentucky. Should be here by now. Each county donated a different type of supply. I have a list of counties and supplies but it is very long. That was 37 planes in one day at the...

Some things I forgot to post above. One of the critical needs for survivors is shoes. It is hard to pick out a pair of shoes going to a store with a large selection of sizes and styles. Imagine trying to pick out a pair from donated items. People need cash and transportation to a shoe store for...

Agree. I have tried to hold back. There are some 'relief' groups/organizations/political groups that have been loudly criticized on Facebook locally. I haven't posted as much about that as I would like because I have no direct confirmation of the complaints. People are also upset at some...

Video my SIL found on rescued servers from inside the FNB bank.

I will try to get donation information posted here before the day is out. NO MORE MATERIAL THINGS ARE NEEDED. They are having a hard time storing and distributing supplies. For example, for the first few days the water system was down. They worked to first get power to the pumps and get leaks...

Speaker at Church today much involved with relief effort and finances. He is on board of "Bread of Life" a charity of the Churches of Christ. In the Tennessee floods earlier this year they not only went there and worked they wrote checks to families and individuals in the hundreds of thousands...

The jail was destroyed and right across the street the CVS Pharmacy only had cosmetic damage and was open as soon as a generator was brought in. THAT building must have been built like a fortress. That jail is the only building everybody is glad to see gone. It was the ugliest thing ever built...

No words needed. Notice in picture on the right that the kernels are still on the cob INSIDE the tractor.

I deleted my derogatory comments about certain "charities". Not what I wanted this thread to be about. Sister said my nephew finally lost his cool. Not at anybody in our area but at some out of state relatives who put his cell number on Facebook. As if he didn't have enough problems. They have...

The Red Cross may be there but nobody I have talked to has seen them.

The blood donation part of the Red Cross is completely different from the disaster relief. I donate blood and platelets on a regular basis. I donated to United Way and Red Cross for over thirty years. I feel like I wasted my money. RSKY

Welcome to The United States. A week after the tornado officials are having a hard time sorting and delivering all the supplies coming in. A point to make: I know a few of you on here are anti-religious or anti-church BUT the initial aid coming in, apart from local emergency services, was...

Thought y'all might be getting bored with it. Not for sure but I think they may have the power restored to all but the most heavily devastated areas yesterday afternoon. I think the nephew who is Superintendent of Water and Electric Department may have finally got some rest yesterday. Was told...

I know I said earlier that only one more post but some things have come to my attention. A local middle of nowhere restaurant in the county called Southern Reds BBQ started cooking and delivering meals almost before the tornado had passed. They have delivered more than 60,000 meals to workers...

Tomorrow will be my last update. Except for one short trip into Mayfield everything I have been posting is second hand from people involved from the start. Most of those people are close relatives. Local police, firefighters, and individuals handled the immediate rescue attempts. Now, nearly a...

Brains and looks!! Congratulations to her and the proud grandfather. Until you have grandchildren it is hard to realize how much their success can mean to you.

I drove downtown to the court square to the CVS drugstore. Wife and I each had a prescription there. That place must be built like a fortress. Every single building around it was destroyed. But it not only survived with no inside damage, it is open for business. National Guard everywhere...

Nobody that I know has seen the Red Cross here in Mayfield. I have NOT gone downtown to the heavily damaged areas yet. Just around the outskirts. Too many sightseers blocking traffic and getting in the way. Man from Florida flew in to Nashville and rented a car, and drove here. On the way he...

It was about a half mile from the outside path of destruction. Only minor damage so I hear. I think they got power this afternoon. They had, notice the past tense, a chicken hatchery out by the candle factory. Today they found a singe chick that had survived. They named him Resilient.

Sewage treatment plant state of the art a few years ago. Nephew had to go to Canada to be trained on it, then city got paid when he traveled to troubleshoot other towns system. Sewage plant and system took a direct hit from tornado. Don’t know what they will do. Took my disabled neighbor to...

All of the old downtown churches are total losses. The courthouse is a total loss. Two new, less than ten year, bank buildings are total losses. City government buildings total loss. Heard than six non commercial buildings over $50 million. Large nursing home had a tornado drill five hours...

Six years ago we stood in our back yard and watched a tornado a couple miles away. It swerved at the last minute and missed the school where our oldest taught. That tornado crossed I69/Purchase Parkway where it crosses Clark’s River between the towns of Mayfield and Benton. It tore trees up on...

Bear with me on my posts, having to use IPhone, no Internet. We drove to a restaurant about thirty miles away and met my sisters for a birthday meal. My mother passed away October 20th and today was her birthday. This had been planned for months. We came back down Purchase Parkway/I69 and my...

Local county churches have organized groups that are going around cleaning up, serving food and generally making themselves useful. They cleaned up at my sister’s house. Their detached garage was destroyed and two huge trees knocked over. A teenager knocked on the door and asked them where to...

Daughter #1’s husband is a firefighter in Murray, KY about twenty miles from Mayfield. He was called in Friday night. He finally got home Saturday afternoon changed uniforms and headed to Moors Marina and Campground which was leveled by the tornado thirty minutes after Mayfield. He has been a...

Friday night daughter #2’s husband was frantic to get to the bank he works at to get the servers out. It is the large building in front of the courthouse. Had to go back the next morning at daylight. He was standing beside the building staring at it when his boss asked what was wrong. Said he...

I drove into town (not thru destroyed area, too many nails on streets) yesterday to the Lowes store to get another extension cord. Food trucks set up everywhere supplying free food and drink. I had to explain to grandkids (8 & 5) that those were for people who had lost homes and had no place to...

The tornado knocked the biggest water tower down. I believe it was 50 thousand gallons. Pulled the concrete footers out of the ground. The county had been using water stored in multiple other tanks until power to pumps could be restored. Everybody ran out yesterday afternoon. Apparently got...