Bad Day at Block Rock - errrr - Make it Bad Year.

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Well folks I am back. It may disappoint some of you.:laughing:
i had self imposed exile. Dispute with net server. Now have a new one.

Have started on the book " Growing Up poor". Funny thing is I did not know we were poor. When I get a little farther I will post it here.

VA Bah Humbug Double.
Had I never gone to the VA I would be $599 / 600 better off. Not crying over spilled milk.
Pain pills that did not work + other things I din't need or even take. Pain pills helped me do stupid things with my $$
Cost of pills, & so one about $250??? trips to VA lots of them at about $15 a trip.
Had I never gone, I still hurt & so on. Could have hired a plumber & electrician with some $$ left over.

Life goes on & on.
Try to do something to improve the place every day. Clean something up or ??? Work on tractor. 2 Bad switches, No 3 also has a problem. figured out a cure. Now the battery is bad. Got it out & in back of truck may go to town tomorrow or when ever. 1 Reason to get tractor running, is to move the huge stack (2) of pallets & fire wood. trying to get the ugly out of my life.

owed Dug $20, Called him, says I sure can use it. Takes a lot of beer when he stops by & we tell each other lies.
I had an old spoke rim with a Mobile tire on it. How much do you want for it. Free just take it. Nope I have to pay you for it. How about $10, nope not enough, I will give you $20. OK so he gives me the 20 back that he needed.:laughing:

Gave Larry W. a sling shot & some paint balls, will see him in a few days, see if he has shot it.

I am not anti social or unfriendly, just most of the time more than content to listen to the quiet, watch the birds & drink some beer.

Wrote a funny in 1 of the school shooting threads. Not making lite of them, just poking fun at some of the posters.

Time to go feed birds & watch the world go by.
More later,
Jim
 
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Welcome back Jim! You really had us worried that the VA kept you locked up or something :laughing: Glad to hear that you were just taking a break. Your right about the pain pills, they don't take the pain away, they just make you loopy so you don't care that you hurt. Cleaning up always is a **** of a lot more than you think, clean one thing, two more show up. Mutts doing ok? Looking to hear some more stories..:thumbsup:
 
   / Bad Day at Block Rock - errrr - Make it Bad Year. #1,543  
Good Morning Jim . Glad your back with the comments of desert life in Arizona.
Your problems with the V.A. Might help by remembering it is a Government run program not for the Veterans just a money maker for the many levels of supervisors. Each needs a little off what ever funds approved to continue to there needs of requesting more funds.

Maybe go over to the Indian Clinic and have a medicine man shake a rattle and dance around the mat your laying on. worked for the nation until white man appeared. might charge you a horse for the treatment.

Enjoy your writing and comments. on old times growing up.
Cannot remember the author but read a book years ago titled 'When the mules stopped dancing". It was stories of Ozark living. after the Northern Carpet baggers had removed anything/everything of value and had returned to North of Mason Dixie line.
The only thing they never removed was the debt interest charges.
It contained some facts humor and outright lies of us Hill Billie's trying to enjoy life and work around the Government programs.

Been cleaning up shop tractor shed and all the old farm equipment stored around the place. price of junk hardly enough to buy the truck gas to haul it to salvage yard.

Best way to get rid of items is to place close to road with price tag . if free no one will pick up. put a dollar amount on it and disappears.

Se'ya ken
 
   / Bad Day at Block Rock - errrr - Make it Bad Year.
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Merry Easter

More later
Jim
 
   / Bad Day at Block Rock - errrr - Make it Bad Year.
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A quickie

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Don't let yesterdays debris clutter up today's thoughts.

A day without a laugh is a wasted day.

If it can go wrong it will.

More later,
Jim
 
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Good Morning Jim . is it time for the desert flowers to appear used to look forward to this time of year.
Had gotten to where the constant wind from Feb. to July was working on my attitude of enjoying the area.
So live here where the wind is concentrated into one quick blast . (Weather men call it a tornado)

Was thinking few weeks ago about that glass building some one had built to study living inside a controlled condition. What ever happened to this study. North of Tucson.

Plan on having a good day . then see what can go wrong.
Se'ya ken
 
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A quickie

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Don't let yesterdays debris clutter up today's thoughts.

A day without a laugh is a wasted day.

If it can go wrong it will.

More later,
Jim

Jim great one

Hope all is well
Did you ever get your blood sugar checked? Also what were the results of the prostate check. I am always thinking about how your are doing.

This morning I watched the birds fight over the seed in the feeder. Then one noticed the seed on the ground under it. Not sure what they are called - little things, but they have a parrot beak. It started squawking and before long there were probably a dozen of them on the ground. Was pretty funny.
 
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Good morning Jim. We also think about you often, and look forward to reading your posts. We like hearing about your daily shenanigans. Hope all is going well for you and the mutts, and the birds, and whoever or whatever is in your life. Waiting patiently for the next story.... Have a great day!
 
   / Bad Day at Block Rock - errrr - Make it Bad Year.
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Good morning all, from the hermit.

As I have said before, life goes on & on.

Have plenty of everything except $$$, Balance & strength. Where did the $$$ go. Tractor battery, switches, window AC & a few little things.

CRS sure has a hold on me. Want French dip for sandwiches, needed bug juice for AC. get switch, battery, forget AC. Go to store, not even look for sauce.

Squirls (?) 2 down for sure, 2 maybes, & at least 1 alive & well.
Mice 3 in house, 7 or 8 in dog seeds, know for sure that are more, seen 1 in the house.

Make tacos, never again. By the time I get everything needed, something has gone south + the amount of space to keep everything, after getting it all cut up. Wanted to make tomalies, nope worse than tacos.

Swamp box stand about to fall down. Take a couple straps 12 FT each, too short, add 1 more still too short. Get a small ratchet strap. Got it done. Plug in pump, it works, p0lug in motor, pop goes a circuit breaker. New motor about $120, plus needs new pads. Order window AC $140. No maintenance. Just need enough strength to put it in. Wanted to put one of the old ones back in window. Its in an awkward place, so what, pick up put on ceder chest then slide in. Just do it, well, try, barely get it off the floor, try again, nope, 1 more time, nope, strength all gone, can'[t even get it off the floor. I thing I have figured a way to do it. Time will tell.

2 Deliveries screw up. Slicer sat outside someplace for about a week. first driver did not even attempt to deliver. Second river just threw it down outside the gate, No horn blow, just happened to see him go by. Gillette stye razor, get form PO, long line. Finally get it, mirror is broken. OH well do not plan to use mirror it anyway.

Mutts & birds fat & happy. New mutt in yard this AM, big black dog I have never seen before.

Enough rambling for 1 day,
Jim

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   / Bad Day at Block Rock - errrr - Make it Bad Year.
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Hi all,
here goes pretty much nothing.

Up down & sideways.
take PU around in case little AC is going to come. It's there. 43# (??) no big deal, just set in. Big box, nothing to hold onto, almost in & it slips out of hands.
OK cut a handle, almost in, handle rips out, OK pick up by the box tops, almost in, top rips loose. ( All this time back & legs are having fits.)

Take PU back & have a beer. Get straps holding up old cooler. Little problem, got it done. Go in sit down have a beer. Back & legs settle down a little. Get on truck. Tires are low, so what. Drag a little ways, rest, drag, drag, drag. At last almost on ramp. Rest & have a beer. get started up ramp, no need for box on deck, cut top off, dump it out, up ramp, back & legs having fits again. Sit have beer, think about things.

Have to quit, back still having fits.
More later,
Jim
 

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