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$85 Garden Carts
My wife has a garden cart that’s maybe twenty years old, and the tires are bad on it. They hold air, but not for very long. Being Scots Ozark I hate throwing anything away, so I looked online for replacement tires, and you can buy new wheels and tires for those, for about seventy dollars...- Briar Lee
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Another Sign Of Getting Old.
The summer I was 16 I had to dock the boats of customers of the Highway 83 Marina, on Pomme De Terre lake. We’d dock the boat and then one, or two of us if available, would clean the windshield and pick up any trash in the boat, ask the customer what grade of fuel, fill the tank of mix oil and...- Briar Lee
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Everlasting Seiko Five watches
Not a Seiko Five, but a Seiko NH35 in a fake Explorer. Seiko did not invent the automatic watch but they’ve perfected it. It’s accurate within a few seconds a day, and will be until it dies, ten, twenty, thirty or maybe forty years from now—with no service at all. It could be serviced, but...- Briar Lee
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What are You Listening To? September '24
Carl Belew is today an almost forgotten country crooner who wrote a lot of hard country heart songs, all made famous by other artists. https://youtu.be/MK1el3Rg85Y?si=B97x4qDC-aFtA9FI- Briar Lee
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Kris Kristofferson Dies
Casey’s Last Ride was a sublime masterpiece. Casey Jones, died that others might live. But what if he returned?- Briar Lee
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Multi-state Power Outage Map (as of 9-29)
In America (and likely Ukraine and Russia) the rate payers pay for the power lines. All civilized nations that have universal public power are set up nearly the same. When peace comes to Ukraine, whether the Kremlin or the Free World and NATO wins, it will cost about twice as much to bury the...- Briar Lee
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Multi-state Power Outage Map (as of 9-29)
If money was not a concern, the utility companies would bury all the power lines. In our little town the power company has been burying wires as funds allow for all the forty years I’ve lived here and there’s no end in sight. Xxxx Cost to run power underground vs. above ground The average cost...- Briar Lee
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Pipes and Ham radio
I’ve never became a licensed HAM operator but since when I got a CB radio about fifty years ago the subject has interested me. My first question is, since I do not have any kind of HAM radio set up, what is a basic starter home radio and antenna and approximately what does it cost? And do...- Briar Lee
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A Visit to the Doctor
One strange thing, was that I had to consent to have a multi blood sceeen which they’ll test for god knows how many things, but two things required seperate permission, HIV and Hepatitis C. He explained that formerly only those at risk for those diseases were tested, but now I guess they test...- Briar Lee
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Gunsmithing and Pipe Smoking
All this black powder talk caused me to go to the one gun shop left I know that sells black powder after I got a check up today. The young man and his wife that run the shop told me Goex is back in business but they’d not got any in yet. Black powder, is black powder. If you have a wish to...- Briar Lee
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A Visit to the Doctor
I told my wife if that doctor thought he’d examine my privates I’d be finding another doctor. They don’t do that anymore. He didn’t even hammer my knee with a mallet. I think it might be one of them there gubbermint plots to convince old geezers to go see doctors and get all their tests and...- Briar Lee
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What are You Listening To? September '24
One morning about fifteen years ago my Baptist friend David called me and said there’s a Martin HD 28 for sale for $500 on the University web pages and how can I tell if it’s a real one? I replied David, the only $500 Martin HD 28s were made last year in China, not Nazerth. It has to be fake...- Briar Lee
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A Visit to the Doctor
One of the only consolations about living to be a geezer on Medicare is every doctor in the United States is happy to see you and will gladly take your insurance. Geezers are the life blood of the medical industry in all nations and the doctors fight a losing battle to keep us alive as long as...- Briar Lee
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What are You Listening To? September '24
Ralph Stanley is one of the icons of pure old time hillbilly music, and his vocals in Brother Where Art Thou made him known to a much wider audience. But Dr Ralph had a brother named Carter who drank himself to death in the sixties. Fortune and fame are fleeting things, but here was Carter...- Briar Lee
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Bitcoin
When I was young, my old grandmother had laid out “that damned old Roosevelt” for commandeering all the gold so much I wondered what our world would be like if he’d not done that, But when I was in college, almost fifty years ago now, I slowly decided Roosevelt saved not just us, but the entire...- Briar Lee
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Bitcoin
One of the most fortunate things that ever happened to me was to grow up in the Humansville school district. It was there, in the seventh grade, Miss Charlotte taught us kids about fiat currency. Then only the Swiss had gold backed currency and now the Swiss are like the other 194 nations on...- Briar Lee
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Bitcoin
Man is governed by his passions. The first man, Adam, had no need of anything. He lived in paradise and didn’t have to labor. He could play all day, eat, drink, hunt and fish to his heart’s content. But he wanted a woman, he got his wish, and although he wasn’t killed over the deal he lost...- Briar Lee
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Wisconsin Sales Tax on Tobacco Starting Jan. 1, 2025
I’ve read this and Wisconsin has imposed that 71% loose tobacco tax since January 1, 2008, for over 15 years. But until January 1 2025 the tax is not imposed on out of state sellers, only those who have a store in Wisconsin. Interestingly, if you have a tobacco store on an Indian reservation...- Briar Lee
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Gunsmithing and Pipe Smoking
In say the 1870s and 1880s, when cartridge revolvers took over from percussion, if you hear a ballad about a cowboy with a 44 it’s a 44-40. The 44-40 was 44 caliber (true size .427) and used 40 grains of black powder, which until near the turn of the century black powder was gunpowder...- Briar Lee
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Gunsmithing and Pipe Smoking
The Navy 36 Colt spit out six 80 grain 38 caliber balls at a thousand feet a second, and mine is sighted at fifty yards. Usually a cavalryman carried several, or extra loaded cylinders. The town of Humansville was founded by a polymath named James Human, who must have been adopted by a...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Discussion