Good morning!!!!

[txdon]

Good Morning! The Rechargeable fan passed. I tried it on different locations. The front location on the canopy really shook the fan but the clamp held good. I ended up putting it near the rear of the canopy to blow on the back of my neck, which seemed to be the coolest. For 3.5 hours on high continuously it only used 1/3 of the battery and recharged easily last night. A Keeper.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
52 and won’t quite make it 75 today. Another sunny day without rain.

Yesterday I finished up the model airplane, but didn’t fly it, that will likely be today. Did a batch of chores, but stayed low energy, except for playing with Zoe outside.

Today will start with going to bank and buying a CD at over 5%, then maybe a Costco run. Got a dead ash to cut down, might be a good day for that. Still wrestling with cough and congestion, but not enough to be much more than an annoyance.

 

[Buppies]

That junk is really hanging on PopG hope it leaves soon

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 52 going up to 77 and sunny, still dry
Did some weedwhacking and general cleanup around the yard and pool.
Dog walk at peddlers village.

Careful with the Ash Paul, I only use plunge cuts now and watch for falling branches. I had too many barber chairs and flying pieces. I have about 20 smaller ash I need to take down, will be using 200' bull rope, some of these trees break up while I am cutting them, rather be far away with a rope and pulley.

Be well,

Next mini project, umbrella stand sand, clean, repair and repaint

Sand Castles are back at peddlers village, looks like fairy tale theme

With lot of sandboxes for the kids to play in

 

[kenmbz]

Drew - RV needs a band aid bumper sticker.

 

[daugen]

my first job "off the farm" was at age 12 cutting Christmas trees for good friends of my parents.
50 cents an hour, and maybe a tip. Not sure I understood the tip angle at that age.
Next job was age 16 bussing tables at local French restaurant called Odettes.
Tips were split by some formula with wait staff and I went home with more money than I had ever seen.
80 bucks in cash in my pocket in 1966 was a lot of money.

waiting on tables was when I learned the issues of service.
And dealing with the general and not always nice public.
But every Saturday night when Benny Sidon, who with his wife Sarah owned the town's small drug store,
would have a table seat in the bar area. And they smoked, as so many did then. I learned early on that even if I wasn't
handling their table, if I walked by and cleaned out their ash tray, a dollar bill would miraculously appear.
A lesson was learned. Give good service and be appreciated for it. And the Sidons knew exactly what I was doing, I was coming to pay my
respects since every Saturday morning my father did the same thing by visiting their drug store.
Small town stuff, and that guy had the cleanest ash tray in town.

95 percent of the staff at Odette's was gay. What an education.
I got kidded with a lot but never touched. They knew who my father was...and he tipped well.

food has gotten more expensive so it seems to me 20 percent is applying to an ever increasing number.

I guess we have a choice.
We pay ten bucks for a burger and tip the wait staff 25 percent,
Or
we pay fifteen bucks for a burger from restaurant paying their staff a good salary and full benefits.
which is hugely expensive to the business but can be done. And no tipping.
So the wait staff gets crappy benefits because we are paying less for our food.
We try to make that up by tipping well.

I wonder if some restaurants today won't let you put tips on the table anymore.
all monies shall be tracked...and taxes paid.

 

[scott_vt]

Do you rivet your own a s b e s t o s to the shoes?

Good Morning KilroyJC,
No I bought new shoes along with cast iron drums, very expensive ! But I was not comfortable driving the car with the way the brakes performed ! I really needed to anticipate my stops well in advance, not fun ! I never drive the car faster than about 45 mph, but even so, it can get exciting very quick !

Its a fun car to own, but it can get expensive very quickly ! I would love to put a new Burtz motor in it, but I think it would be cost prohibitive for someone retired like myself, at least until I win the lottery !

For the amount of time I drive the car, a few car shows, and maybe an ice cream run occasionally, it mostly sits in the garage ! Also gets some lawn ornament work along with my 1949 Farmall Super A !

 

[Buppies]

Great picture of sand castle Ken

 

[m7040]

remember a long time ago that a car from a big estate that came in to be serviced. It was a ford A with rumble seat that had been in storage since new. It was in pristine new condition as if it just rolled off the assembly line

 

[kenmbz]

my first job "off the farm" was at age 12 cutting Christmas trees for good friends of my parents.
50 cents an hour, and maybe a tip. Not sure I understood the tip angle at that age.
Next job was age 16 bussing tables at local French restaurant called Odettes.
Tips were split by some formula with wait staff and I went home with more money than I had ever seen.
80 bucks in cash in my pocket in 1966 was a lot of money.

waiting on tables was when I learned the issues of service.
And dealing with the general and not always nice public.
But every Saturday night when Benny Sidon, who with his wife Sarah owned the town's small drug store,
would have a table seat in the bar area. And they smoked, as so many did then. I learned early on that even if I wasn't
handling their table, if I walked by and cleaned out their ash tray, a dollar bill would miraculously appear.
A lesson was learned. Give good service and be appreciated for it. And the Sidons knew exactly what I was doing, I was coming to pay my
respects since every Saturday morning my father did the same thing by visiting their drug store.
Small town stuff, and that guy had the cleanest ash tray in town.

95 percent of the staff at Odette's was gay. What an education.
I got kidded with a lot but never touched. They knew who my father was...and he tipped well.

food has gotten more expensive so it seems to me 20 percent is applying to an ever increasing number.

I guess we have a choice.
We pay ten bucks for a burger and tip the wait staff 25 percent,
Or
we pay fifteen bucks for a burger from restaurant paying their staff a good salary and full benefits.
which is hugely expensive to the business but can be done. And no tipping.
So the wait staff gets crappy benefits because we are paying less for our food.
We try to make that up by tipping well.

I wonder if some restaurants today won't let you put tips on the table anymore.
all monies shall be tracked...and taxes paid.

Shame only the front entrance of Odettes still exists.
Leaving cash on the table is still a thing, but we talk to friends whose kids get tips, they consider the credit card tip normal and don't seem to mind it gets counted , since it gets them more tips it seems than people leaving cash did.
Wonder of anyone did a study on cash vs. credit tips, probably a goverment study somewhere...