Tank birthday, 47+ years

[Rybren]

The house I grew up in had a milk door and a coal shoot, although by the time I came around the furnace had been converted to natural gas. My grade school still had a working coal boiler.
On Saturday mornings I used to help the milk man deliver the milk and cream in glass bottles with paper stoppers. We also had bread delivery daily.

 

[Lowell Lemon]

Our first house had milk door and coal shoot. Furnace converted to just a natural gas ring inside. When I upgraded to modern HVAC I had to use a cutting torch to get the old coal burner out of the basement.

One of our renters used the milk door to throw out her empty booze bottles so she did not have to open the back door and step out. She was very well pickled by the tome we had to evict her.

 

[Paul B]

I re-designed my "Diatom" style filter with a 1/2" acrylic base.

 

[Paul B]

This morning I placed wreaths on the graves of Veterans in Calverton National Cemetery on Long Island near my home.

I went with some friends

 

[atoll]

My daughter makes and sells these wreaths and grave pots, I don't have a pic of the grave pots yet. She makes lots of other things, she's very artistic.

 

[Paul B]

I still got it. Yesterday before we put the wreaths on the graves of Veterans we were in a bagel shop. Someone in the next booth tapped me on the shoulder and I turned around. It was a very elderly Lady. She asked if one of us "young" men could help her get to her car.
She was 94 years old and drove there herself but needed help walking with her cane. My friend Sue was next to me so I couldn't easily get up and my friend Richie helped her. As they left the table she asked him, "How old is your friend with the Vietnam hat?".

I still got it. I should have gotten her number. I don't mean her Medicare number.

 

[ScottJ]

I still got it. Yesterday before we put the wreaths on the graves of Veterans we were in a bagel shop. Someone in the next booth tapped me on the shoulder and I turned around. It was a very elderly Lady. She asked if one of us "young" men could help her get to her car.
She was 94 years old and drove there herself but needed help walking with her cane. My friend Sue was next to me so I couldn't easily get up and my friend Richie helped her. As they left the table she asked him, "How old is your friend with the Vietnam hat?".

I still got it. I should have gotten her number. I don't mean her Medicare number.

Just because there is snow on the roof, doesn't mean there isn't fire in the furnace

 

[jsmkmavity]

This morning I placed wreaths on the graves of Veterans in Calverton National Cemetery on Long Island near my home.

Thank you Paul. Too many have gone before us!

 

[Paul B]

My morning walk today

 

[Paul B]

We decided to have a New Years Eve party and are getting the guest list ready.
It seems more people want to come than we figured.

We normally have a Christmas party but we already had that last week so New Years Eve it is.

 

[Minifoot77]

I still got it. Yesterday before we put the wreaths on the graves of Veterans we were in a bagel shop. Someone in the next booth tapped me on the shoulder and I turned around. It was a very elderly Lady. She asked if one of us "young" men could help her get to her car.
She was 94 years old and drove there herself but needed help walking with her cane. My friend Sue was next to me so I couldn't easily get up and my friend Richie helped her. As they left the table she asked him, "How old is your friend with the Vietnam hat?".

I still got it. I should have gotten her number. I don't mean her Medicare number.

Aarp number?

 

[mmw64]

I don't get notifications for any post on any forum. And that's just the way I like it. My wife notifies me enough about all sorts of things, most of which I don't want to get notified about.

Yes, beautiful, and if I wanted a tank of just that, it would be fine. But if I slept near the tank, it would cover me.

I do love that table, but I like this one even better. This is how I found this piece of tree root on the shore of the Hudson River in New York behind my Daughters house.



I had to cut pieces off of it to get it in my car. Then I had to power wash it 3 times to remove mussels, barnacles and oysters. Then I bleached it. I also had to add 3 more pieces of driftwood to make it stand straight and hold the glass top.




Here it is finished

That is gorgeous!

 

[Paul B]

 

[jsmkmavity]

I am imagining a toboggan and a foot of snow!!!

 

[Paul B]

I just came back from my very Manly, dark, cold and windy walk to the beach.

I had to wimp out as I couldn't make it all the way there. To get to the beach I have to go down a very steep hill that goes for about half a mile. I started down and I could walk between the ice on old tire tracks where someone drove just after it stopped snowing.

As I got closer to the beach, I saw JoJo Starbuck come skating past me at a fast clip.
(Google her) The road became a shining sheet of ice and there is no cell service there. I could see me slipping and falling on my new shoulder so next spring someone walking their dog would dig me up and put me in a museum next to Otzi, "The Iceman". (Google him too)

So I turned around and walked past a rescue horse farm about a mile in the other direction. In the 5 yeas I have been walking here, I have never seen another person walking early in the morning, especially during winter unless they were walking a dog. Bunch of Sissies.

 

[MikeyZo]

lol jojo Starbuck!!! Imagine if she actually had whipped past you on road ice, doing a triple axle and saying “Hi Paul!” As she whizzed through the air! “Nice shiny new shoulder you got there!” And then shes gone.

 

[Paul B]

lol jojo Starbuck!!! Imagine if she actually had whipped past you on road ice, doing a triple axle and saying “Hi Paul!” As she whizzed through the air! “Nice shiny new shoulder you got there!” And then shes gone.

Shes probably 80 now so maybe isn't skating any more.

 

[MikeyZo]

It wouldn’t surprise me if she was…

Would have been even funnier if terry bradshaw came chasing behind her lol

 

[That Crusso Kid]

I just came back from my very Manly, dark, cold and windy walk to the beach.

I had to wimp out as I couldn't make it all the way there. To get to the beach I have to go down a very steep hill that goes for about half a mile. I started down and I could walk between the ice on old tire tracks where someone drove just after it stopped snowing.

As I got closer to the beach, I saw JoJo Starbuck come skating past me at a fast clip.
(Google her) The road became a shining sheet of ice and there is no cell service there. I could see me slipping and falling on my new shoulder so next spring someone walking their dog would dig me up and put me in a museum next to Otzi, "The Iceman". (Google him too)

So I turned around and walked past a rescue horse farm about a mile in the other direction. In the 5 yeas I have been walking here, I have never seen another person walking early in the morning, especially during winter unless they were walking a dog. Bunch of Sissies.

Seems they haven't rescued any horses. Unless they are all white and blending in.

 

[Paul B]

Would have been even funnier if terry bradshaw came chasing behind her lo

I'm thinking Dority Hamill. JoJo is 74

Seems they haven't rescued any horses. Unless they are all white and blending in.

Those rescue horses were moved 3 years ago, but the place is still there empty.