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I told of my initial problems on my thread about "What kind of tree is this?" We are back home. For the fourth time in two years I had to go to the Shea Clinic in Memphis for a treatment on my right ear. I have a condition called Ménière's disease which causes problems with balance and...

I am helping my son in law clear out a thicket around a pond. This tree has given us a lot of trouble. There are many trunks growing out of the 6 to 10 foot diameter base. First picture. Limbs grow out and send other limbs straight up or down to the ground where they root. And another tree...

Twice this week and once last week I've driven 40 minutes to pick up my 16-year old granddaughter and then driven 30 minutes to take her to golf lessons. (Local celebrity golfer holding classes). Then I wait around for a couple hours to take her home. Lunch included wherever she wants to eat...

We lost 22% of our investments in February, March and April. Three months later we are back in the black and making money again. Basically my wife and I lost, on paper, two years salary each in about 45 days. This was from her 401K, my IRA, and our investments. The only thing that didn't lose...

I've always had problems with sinus/ear infections especially the past few years. Had a series of them in 2023 and lost much of my hearing in my right ear. Had several more in 2024. Took all kinds of antibiotics and steroids both of which caused other problems. And I've had several procedures on...

I posted elsewhere about a nurse I talked to who got out of a burning house with the clothes she had on. Her smoke detectors never went off and a neighbor saw the fire and got them out. Fire started at one end of the house and she and her son were at the other end. Our house is a one story with...

I talked to a lady Tuesday who had lost everything in a house fire. She was a nurse practitioner at a clinic I had to go to (routine checkup). She said her and her nineteen year old son were at one end of the house watching TV when they heard a noise and somebody started beating on the front...

Who ate the ears off big sister's chocolate rabbit? Wasn't me!

Youngest daughter and her family were sitting eating supper a couple nights ago. The eight year old grandson calmly said, "Guess what". My daughter answered, "What". "I think I'm growing hair on my balls". Took her a few minutes to unchoke herself while my son in law just sat there with...

Seeing as how our small town was pretty well damaged in 2021 people here are very sensitive to weather alerts. They have upped it to a level 5 for tonight. There WILL be tornados in our area. Girl next door has two young kids and her deputy sheriff husband will probably get called in to work...

Is anyone thinking of changing their investments with the new administration? I started changing mine after the election and, except for a couple weeks when the market dropped, so far it has paid off. Haven't gone full aggressive but far more so than a year ago. I only invest in mutual funds and...

THIS is scary!! https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/01/16/gulp-entry-level-california-home-costs-up-88-from-2020-and-now-the-fires-n3798862

Men CAN get something similar to a yeast infection. I have had a series of ear and sinus infections for the past two years. The "cure" for this seems to be a steroid shot and some strong antibiotics. There are side effects!! And it is painful!!! The worst this year was six long sores looking...

Had to pick up a package at a Lowes store in a neighboring town. I was sent to the "Pro Desk" at the other end of the store. The lady who waited on me and I started talking and she volunteered that before the election they hardly had any business. One or two of the four assigned to that job were...

I know the overall birthrate is down but Holy Smokes, at church yesterday there were more than twenty below three year old kids in a congregation of less than 120 people. Ours has always been a church of older people but the average age has dropped a lot the past two years. There is now one...

A couple months ago I had a small war with skunks. During that small event I expended several rounds of #4 Buckshot. Having a blind spot in the center of vision in my aiming eye makes a first shot hit difficult. Always get them on the second. Shook the box and there were only four rounds left in...

Ten years ago we were out of our house and in an apartment for nearly two weeks due to a skunk spraying under our house. According to the county 'skunk catcher' there was probably more than one that sprayed because the stench was so intense. They were getting under the house by going under the...

I had read that JD was building in Mexico. Now they are building in the US. I wonder why?

We flew to out of Louisville to Orlando last Saturday the 5th with one daughter and two grands. Supposed to spend a week at SeaWorld and Discovery Cove. Due to Hurricane Milton we had to leave after three nights at the resort. Couldn't get a flight change to get out so we changed the location of...

My cousin who is a retired WalMart store manager posted this. And I agree with her feelings. When the tornado destroyed most of our little town WalMart was one of the first to respond. You couldn't drive thru their parking lot without somebody trying to give you something to eat. We could tell...

We got home from vacation and wife texted a girl at church to see how her cancer stricken sister-in-law was doing. When she texted back she also commented that her husband was not doing well. Found out that he had been shot while we were on vacation. First info was attempted suicide because he...

Title says it all. I have spent all morning dragging soaker hoses around. Luckily Walmart had their heavy duty, thick, feels like a regular hose, soakers marked down on closeout. Got two of them for the garden and a cheaper $6.50 one for everything else. Also have six tall evergreens around the...

Maybe some of you remember a story I posted five years ago about a young girl in our community being attacked by a stray dog in her house. She came within a millimeter or two of being killed by the dog's bite. Well five years later she is still having problems. The following is from her...

Got back from an eight day vacation on Sunday and my wife was complaining about a sore throat. She went to the doctor Monday and checked positive for Covid. And positive for Strep! Doctor said I would probably come down with it in a week or so. And our daughters had scheduled a 'Tea' to...

In my little garden I planted Kentucky Wonder Poles Beans as I do every three years. We have great looking vines, but no blooms. Did not fertilize this year as the soil sample from last year was very good. Any ideas. RSKY

I worked with a guy who did backhoe and dozer work on the side. He told me this story about thirty years ago. He had just got home from work, we were working the midnight to 8 AM shift, when a neighbor on an adjoining farm called him in a panic. Told him, not asked, told him to get his backhoe...

I got my tractor as a retirement gift for myself in 2011. A bright shiny new Kioti CK20S hydro. The first two years I had it I did much landscaping in my front and back yards. Dirt dug out to put a trailer storage area in the back was moved a bucket at a time to become flower filled landscaping...

Several years ago I had a serious mole problem that I could not solve. They were everywhere. Front and back yard full of mole runs. I also had a problem with dandelions and lespedeza (farmers call it Jap) covering the front for nearly the entire spring and summer. I called a local lawn treatment...

My twenty year old Tray Bilt tiller will run for five minutes then it starts sounding as if it is under load, missing slightly, rpm starts varying, and it dies. It won't restart until it sits for ten minutes. Then the process starts again, run for ten minutes, then stall. Any ideas?

Got a phone call from a lady I did not know. She was looking for somebody with a small tractor to till up a garden for her sister. Her sister, Sandra, lives in our neighborhood and is one of the group that looks after another neighbor who is a disabled friend of mine. The lady that called said...

I have known for months that I was going to have to get hearing aids. I just finished a three day treatment for Meniers Disease of the inner ear and have lost 80-90% of my hearing in the right ear and maybe 20% in the left. Been sedated, taken into operating room, having steroids and drugs...

Daughter and family love eating at a place in Paducah Kentucky called the Freight House. We have heard so much about it that my wife and I are going some time in the next couple weeks. The owner/chef was a contestant on the TV program 'Top Chef' and ofter brings plates out to customers. Here...

After Elliot Roosevelt’s death (1860-1894), his daughter Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) was raised by his brother Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (1858-1919). In 1905, while her uncle was in the White House, she wed her fifth cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945). After Franklin was disabled by...

With the stock market going down the last few months I have a sister who was in a panic mode. They had received a statement for their account in the mail and had lost a little more than 10%. She was ready to fire her advisor and take all her money out. My other sister and I convinced her not to...

How many at y'all's Thanksgiving? We had 26 at my side's gathering last Sunday, ages from nearly six months to 82. And we had 41 at wife's side yesterday (Thanksgiving Day) with ages from nearly six months to 89. Instead of trying to have everybody at our house as we did for twenty or more...

We have been keeping our 5-1/2 month old granddaughter all week. She has a double ear infection AND developed RSV. This has been the happiest baby I have ever seen. Smiling, laughing, and cackling out loud when I would play with her. This week not so much until today. She has really felt bad and...

Youngest daughter and her family are on vacation at Hilton Head Island. They went horseback riding yesterday morning. Son in law stayed with the four month old in a stroller while my daughter took the ten and soon to be seven year old out on a trail ride. Everything was okay until the horses...

My wife, daughters, sisters, and sister in law will tell each other how hot and sweaty they got working outside by the bra method. Put on a clean bra in the morning, work outside to lunch and it is soaked in sweat. Put on second bra and work until evening and it too is soaked so when they go in...

We may have discovered a way to make the upcoming 1200+ acre solar farm acceptable to residents. There is a Kentucky law that says an electric generating plant must be at least 1000' from property lines. A county ordinance could decrease this distance, but it cannot be increased. So the closest...

Sunday we spent some time with our youngest daughter's family. Our newest grand (and positively the last) was born last Wednesday the 31st. So my wife held her, patting her bottom, for nearly a half hour. Then daughter needed help with something and I was delegated the task of holding the baby...

Before they were out of sight my wife was wanting to move something around in the yard that was too heavy to carry. We live on a 1.1 acre lot. How much use can a 22-hp 2,000+pound tractor be? Well, enough that we have put two projects on hold. We are retired and can put off jobs. Our daughter...

Sister talked to her neighbor who had massive tornado damage in the 2021 Mayfield tornado. Most of the brick was stripped from his very nice two story home and there was other damage inside and out. Houses one hundred yards behind his were leveled to the foundations. They replaced the red brick...

We had another three dishwasher load Sunday today. All the bunch was here except one son in law who is a lieutenant in a local fire department and had to work. So there were nine and a half present. On June 8th the half will become a whole and there will be eleven total of us. During the meal...

Man, that tractor is ball stick jobey! So said my six year old grandson. His mother asked him what he said and he repeated then walked off. Thru the day this was repeated several times about different things. Finally, with both parents there, he was asked to repeat it. He did and was asked...

Helped my wife's 80+ year old aunt with a tree that had fallen on her neighbors lot. I used the Stihl, she used the Kobalt 40-volt electric chainsaw. She ran both batteries down. Said she didn't know when she had that much fun. I'm still having stamina problems from the COVID and that lady...

A while ago I posted about my youngest's problem getting a three row SUV. She wanted a Toyota Sequoia but none were available. Finally got one ordered at a dealer four hours away. They picked it up Thursday. And are impressed with it. So am I. A very impressive vehicle. They got off from work...

Some people have got together in one of our communities and are planning on installing a huge multi-acre solar farm on property adjacent to my daughter's and sister-in-law's property. They will be surrounded to the north and south of their properties and across the road. Their property value...

Just a question. I have two spots on my roof with shingles blown off by last weeks windstorm (65-mph gusts). How to I attach the tarps over the bare spots? Unless told of a better way I intend to nail them to the roof. There are so many people with damage that I don't know when the roofers will...

We worried and worried about spending the money for a whole house generator last year. And went ahead and had it installed. My thinking was that my wife could not handle the portable ones we have depended on since 2009. ANOTHER storm line came thru yesterday and there are trees down everywhere...

Complete and total success!! After a few miscues one of which nearly caused my wife to have an instantaneous nervous breakdown everything went off perfectly. More on the nervous breakdown later, it was entirely my fault. I have a new appreciation of people who cater or serve large groups of...

Wife has volunteered me to help her cater an early supper/late lunch at the extension office. It is going to be a "Baked Potato Bar" for a group of old people doing estate planning. Forty eight people are attending plus presenters. We bought all the stuff she needs for the "Baked Potato Bar"...

On a recent trip from Mayfield Kentucky to Paducah Kentucky on Highway 45 we counted 18 dead deer in less than eighteen miles. This was northbound in the center and on the east side of the road. Don't know how many were on the other side of the four lane. Not talking about piles of bones these...

For the first time this year all the bunch was at our house for Sunday lunch. Plus my sister-in-law and her husband. His birthday is at the end of the month so it was an early birthday dinner. One son-in-law works every third Sunday and sometimes more to cover a co-worker's vacation. But this...

I got two emails late Monday night that should have concerned me after all the posts on here about credit card fraud but, duh, I read that a suspicious purchase had been made on the Walmart website and cancelled by Walmart. Since it was cancelled I just read the emails and went to bed. Woke up...

My youngest daughter is needing a new vehicle because the one she has now, a Toyota 4Runner, does not meet her family's new requirements. Their vehicle requirements have changed because they are expecting a third child and they have a tractor that needs to be trailered forty miles to her...

This started before Christmas, is still going on.....and it is entirely my fault. My six year old grandson wanted "snake boots" for Christmas. Just some high topped rubber boots for him to wear while traipsing through the fields, wood, and ditches on their 20+acres. While he was explaining to...

Don't think it touched down but the local weather man got a little exited. No where near as exited as they did in December 2021. This one supposedly passed between us and youngest daughter's place while on a straight line to oldest daughter's home. Gonna be a long night.....again. RSKY

Some friends of ours are wanting us to go on an European River Cruise in the spring of 2023. Has anybody ever tried this? It seems that the Eastern Europe cruises are on 'sale' until the end of the year. Any suggestions for first timers? We are also looking at Mississippi River or other U.S...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The picture says it all.

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...

Was walking thru a store in Paducah yesterday when I met a friend and his granddaughter. He introduced her as the Kentucky State Pistol Champion. She is 15 years old. He showed some videos of her hitting a playing card EDGEWISE on the first shot at 50-feet. I couldn't see one edgewise at fifty...

I live in Mayfield, KY. Has anything been on news about this disaster?

I have wanted one of these for years after looking at a used one at a gun store. BUT the price was too high for a used one, if it could be found, and they had a three year backorder on the new ones. I don't remember what the price was for that used one back in the early 2000's but it was higher...

Finished mowing 24 acres of CRP ground at one farm and moved seven miles to the next 18 acres to be mowed. The west boundary of this farm is Clarks River and the bottom ground floods about every four years and can easily get out of control if not mowed yearly. My brother in law mowed it last...

The mechanics at a factory I worked at had a tool they used to put rubber hose/tubing on a nipple. It looked like a set of pliers with clamps on the jaws. I needed one today to repair a leak on a 12-volt sprayer. Worked on it an hour and finally got hose on to where I could clamp it. Sprayed 1/8...

I played keeper, or in other words, goalie. I only allowed four goals. We were playing 8 and 9 year old girls who had already been practicing for an hour in 90+ degree heat. It was parents against the team and the parents were one short so I got drafted. They ran circles around us. I would run...

It all started when I ordered these new paring knives from Smokey Mountain Knife Works. They are Victorinox knives, made in Switzerland, and they are SHARP!! So I got one that I added on an order to get free shipping and we liked it so well that I ordered three more, one the with a serrated...

A little late to post this as I will be buying today or tomorrow. I need a medium duty rotary mower. It is down to a Land Pride RDR 1872 or a Bushhog 216. Both are medium duty 2" capacity rating. Both are the same price. The major difference is that the deck is 2-1/2" taller on the Bushhog and...

Last Friday we cut down a red cedar tree behind my deceased father-in-law's house. I saved several properly sized limbs and want to make coasters from them. These will go to my wife, sister-in-law, and both daughters. What do I use and how do I seal them. Right not the bare wood is sticky with...

I used my Lowes Kobalt 40-volt chainsaw yesterday for a pretty good while. I cut down one crepe myrtle with five trunks more than 5" and trimmed two more of limbs/trunks as big or bigger. I walked around the two acre yard trimming and cutting for a couple hours. The little saw is light enough I...

Gotta get a new rotary cutter. Will be mounted on an old 55-hp Ford 4600. Our 40+ year old Ford mower died last fall, I think I finally killed it. The Titan light duty, 1" to 1-1/2" capacity, shear pin, cutter is $1700. The Bush Hog light duty mower, 1" to 1-1/2" capacity, slip clutch, is...

Until a couple years ago I thought soccer was the most boring game ever. Then I had a couple grandkids start playing. One is now eight and on a 'traveling team'. Holy guacamole!! Those little girls play rough. Elbowing, tripping, shoving, whatever they can get away with. Looks more like hockey...

I recently replaced all the smoke detectors in the house. I was prompted to do this when one started beeping and as I changed the battery I noticed that it was a couple of years out of date. So I ordered new Kiddee wireless connected smoke detectors. Granddaughter #2 helped me change them out...

Wife and daughter got their quarterly papers for their 401Ks last week. Both made a return of 76.8%. I had split both their investments between two funds. They are both Kentucky teachers. I couldn't believe it so I went back and looked at their charts and sure enough the market, and their funds...

Brought my little Kioti home from father-in-law's place yesterday and changed from the tiller to the mower. It is a 5' Howse that has served well though it has been well used and abused. If my little tractor can push it over that mower will chop it up. Got it on the trailer with the mower up and...

Thinking about enrolling myself and my two sons-in-law in one of these firearms training schools for a few classes. Pistol for all three and spouses. Rifle for the two s-i-ls, and shotgun for me. Short two day classes is all I want. Might make a two week trip out west next summer and this would...

Always, always, ALWAYS, LOCK THE BATHROOM DOOR !! It you've been there you know what I mean. Just saying. RSKY

Went out to feed the chickens this morning and the neighbor lady yelled that there was a skunk by the lawnmower building. By the time I walked around to look it had torn some of the fiberglass loose and got underneath the floor. I could smell it inside the building and all around. It was not...

I have a Troy Bilt tiller that has never given me a problem that I didn't cause with neglect or stupidity. BUT now it is doing something weird. The Briggs and Stratton engine cranks, and I till for about 1-1/2 to 2 minutes and the engine sputters and dies. I let it sit for about a minute, put...

Had to help give the three year old grandson a haircut today. The last time he screamed bloody murder. So this time he was bribed. He sat in granddaddy's (me) lap, his mom did the clipping, and his dad blew the hair away with a leaf blower. If we did this he said he would not cry. Now at the...

Anybody have any experience with the Kobalt 40-v chainsaw or hedge trimmers? I already have a Stihl gas powered but occasionally need to cut one fallen limb apart or drive to a neighbors and cut one limb for them. It seems that the little Kobalt would be ideal for that, No gas to mix. No cords...

I am looking for a battery powered trimmer for my 72-year old sister. She is a farm lady that is very active and tough as nails. But she just cannot start her gas powered trimmers any more. Looking at Kobalt (Lowes), Stihl, DeWalt, etc.. She already has the Kobalt 40-v leaf blower and two...

My 95-year old mother won the Publisher's Clearing House (PHC) grand prize yesterday. The guy who called her said he would be at her house in about two hours with her prize. She is still pretty sharp so she called my oldest sister on her cellphone while the guy was talking to her on her...

Will there be a food shortage in the US and Canada this fall/winter? Will the Corona Virus cause problems with the farms, with harvesting table crops, with processing facilities, with the delivery systems, or with the retail systems? Me and my family are putting out one large and two small...

I found out last week that I am putting out three gardens instead of one. Both daughters want one. So I spent the weekend inventorying my seed supply and looking online for seeds. Apparently everybody on quarantine has the same idea. Some online seed sellers are not taking orders for a few...

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The embarrassment has gone away and I can now tell the story. We were planning a vacation to central Florida. Actually the third of four grands was getting her four-year old Disney trip. Beware of starting expensive family traditions when you only have one grand cause you may end up with more...

Gonna try this one more time. The bite closest to the knee is the one that nearly killed her. The bite went under the knee where there is a vein or artery that was exposed. I am no medical person so I don't know which one. All we know is that the surgeon said it was very close to being opened...

Well, that didn't work. Tried to post the mother's Facebook report without any of the info about us and it DID NOT WORK. So I cannot put a picture of the terrible scars on the young lady's leg. So I will summarize. The last scab fell off the scars last night. No scabs had appeared until last...

Takes me a little while to get to the point but bear with me. Mowing the CRP land at my mother's farm. It is supposed to be mowed only after the first of October and then in strips 60' wide with a 60' strip left standing. The next year you mow what was let stand the previous year and so on...

I tore the slip clutch plates out of our forty year old Ford 910 brush mower about a month ago. Had to order the parts and while waiting for them I somehow came down with 'walking pneumonia'! So even though I had the parts the 'ENFORCER' (sorry about all the quotation marks but.....) threatened...

If you want details look up some of my older posts. She was at the clinic where I had to go today. Her little sister was sick. Malley's leg has healed quite a bit but she is still wearing a wound vacuum on that one spot that won't heal. My daughter saw the wound last weekend. She said it was...

Now I have walking pneumonia!! I have got so much to do this fall and the PA at the walk in clinic said I would be out of circulation for 8-10 days. Tore the slip clutch out of the old Ford mower and have parts coming Tuesday. Need to get 24 acres mowed and that is hard to do on a 22-hp Kioti...

I smoked the clutch on our Ford 710 mower. I have replaced those plates a half dozen times or more over the last forty years but not in the past 10-15. Now I can't figure out how to get it apart. Any advice? RSKY

Those bastards hurt when they sting. Neighbor going to pour a pint of gasoline down the hole tonight. The nest is about 6" from the wood fence on his side. They got me twice, on the right thumb and ankle. Eight hour ago and still hurting. RSKY

I posted about a month ago about the young lady who had the stray dog come in the house and bite her. Well she now has another problem. Bear with me on this. I am reporting what the mother has said and neither of us are medical professionals. So the terminology or descriptions may not be...

Apparently a stray came out of nowhere and attacked her. She has severe damage to her upper thigh. This is the third or fourth stray attack on a child in two years.

After having two daughters and three granddaughters I am still sometimes surprised by this first grandson. For example... Our covered patio has a sloped sidewalk that goes to the house and another sidewalk that goes to the shop. The sidewalk to the shop has one large high step just off the...

This seems to be the best place to put my question. Moderators can move it if need be. We seem to be needing a high pressure surface cleaner to clean patios and concrete pads here and at our daughter's homes. My washer is a 2200 psi with 1.5 gpm. So a 12-15" is all it could handle. Any...

My nine year old granddaughter had a Daddy/Daughter Dance last night. My firefighter son in law had to work and could not take her this year. So I got drafted. I had a great time and she was a beautiful 'date'. She had on a fancy dress and was wearing white Converse hi-tops. So I showed up...

I mow alongside two busy country highways. One is for my mother and the other for my father-in-law. Not wanting to throw grass on the road I must mow facing away from oncoming traffic. So I bought a cheap 12-volt flashing light and installed it on my Bad Boy with a simple threaded rod attached...

Going to the doctor's office and having a pretty young PA come in and say, "Mr. Smith, I had both your wife and daughter as teachers in school." Child looked like she should still be in Middle School. Has a 10-month old boy. Jeezz!! RSKY

Brianna Clark WPSD - Fugitive found in underground bunker during Sperry search | Facebook This is bodycam footage from a female Sherriff's deputy in Graves County Kentucky. Besides the fugitive, missing since November of last year, there was a large amount of meth in the hide. Apparently the...

Rural King has a Taurus G2C for $154.99 after rebate. Sounds like an ideal tractor gun. Not many tears if lost in the middle of a sixty acre field. It is a 12+1 9mm that has got decent reviews everywhere I can find. There are no one or two out of five star reviews that I've seen. Most gripes...

It was delivered in less than a week. I can see what the warnings were about. Hitting that thing with an ankle or a shin is going to cause stitches. Hopefully I will be able to use in soon. RSKY

I put in an order for some accessories for my new Glock 43, mags and Sticky Holster, plus practice ammo. I was frankly amazed at the difference in pricing for the complete order. Ended up getting it from a company I have never done business with before. Ordered from them because of a 10% off...

I am looking to trade my 9mm Kahr CT-9 on a Glock 43. I need a concealable 9mm. The Kahr is accurate, easy to shoot, and holds one more round. But it is impossible for me to conceal and still be able to draw. The Glock is just small enough to meet all my criteria. Convince me not to buy the...

We attended a meeting yesterday about preparing for care of an older person with Dementia or Alzheimer's. The lawyer was a specialist in elder law in Kentucky. She did an excellent job of presenting the material until she got to the part about Medical Surrogates. Her voice broke and she got a...

I have read several times about the bandages developed in Israel for treatment of open wounds. They supposedly are treated with something that instantly stops bleeding. Does anybody have any experience with these? Would they be something worth buying and putting in my vehicles and in the homes...

With each of us having a parent over ninety years old, four grandchildren, and sisters and brothers-in-law either older than us or in bad health we are always 'on-call' to leave and take care of somebody or something. So we are putting together a small overnight bag for each of us. The idea is...

For the fourth time in three months I worked a Funeral Meal at our church yesterday. Being retired we volunteer every chance we can to help with the set up and clean up. Most of the funerals are people who attend or their family members. Sometimes it is just a member of the community. Once or...

I am not a big movie goer. So I can't believe I am pushing a movie here. But we went to see "They Shall Not Grow Old" tonight. It is a documentary about British soldiers in the First World War. It is well worth your time and money! Over one hundred hours of silent black and white film was...

First I wanted to remind everybody to be sure to thank whoever prepares your Thanksgiving Meal. My wife has been battling a sinus infection since the weekend but she and I have cleaned house Monday and Tuesday. Well, I worked all day at my mother's Monday and my wife spent all morning at the...

I am 64 years old and have been running a tractor with mower since I was about 14. But I learned a new trick, at least to me, this year. Very simply I took my top link off the 3-point and bought a three foot length of chain to replace it while using my mower. With the chain out to it's full 3...

My disabled neighbor had let his yard get in a very bad shape. I couldn't help him out because I am about a month behind due to three funerals and a flooded bathroom at my mom's house. So he has hired this couple to help him. They look like they are killing snakes when they work. I mean they...

None of the three grease guns I own will work. The air powered one I was given, the small one handed one, or the larger lever action. I got half the tractor greased and the lever suddenly went limp. I can find nothing wrong and was in a hurry so I just quit for the day. Was is a good, reliable...

My youngest daughter, her husband, and her mother-in-law have just gone thru ten days of complete ****. Her father-in-law had a fast acting cancer that spread all over his body in a very short time. He wanted nothing more than to die with dignity. BUT, as most people will do when they don't...

Have a friend who is going to Hospice for cancer. Youngest daughter's FIL has cancer. Know a couple more having chemo. So I thought this would be a good way to help. I gave a full three units which is the most you can give. She said they would be very full units and asked me to come back if...

Well..., the fireworks I bought Tuesday (see post about getting in trouble) were looked at and admired by all the thirty or so people at our house Tuesday afternoon, July 3rd. For a change we had our 'both sides' Fourth of July celebration a day early because one son in law had to work the...

Bought fireworks last night at one of those tent thingies that have appeared everywhere around here. Told my wife I wouldn't spend over $80. Used the wrong credit card...?.. As soon as I paid she got an e-mail with the amount. Oh well.....the grand kids will be happy. RSKY Did the same...

We just got back a week or so ago from an eight day trip that took us thru parts of Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. This was a bucket list trip for my daughter's father in law who has been in bad health recently. Unfortunately he got sick and had to go home on the third day...

Just got home from an eight day trip which took us up I15 from Salt Lake City thru Idaho Falls to the West Entrance of Yellowstone Park. Then we came back a different way to SLC airport. I have some questions. We saw LOTS of hay being baled. Most of this appeared to be loaded onto semis for...

I have a small garden behind my house that measures about 12' by 20' at it's widest dimensions. We grew enough Kentucky Wonder green beans last year to can for three families. And finally pulled the vines up because we were tired of messing with them. This year I am going to plant purple hull...

Had the wife on the Bad Boy............ That didn't sound right, let me start again. Had the wife on the Zero Turn Bad Boy mower while I was blowing leaves. The sixteen year old Echo has been a reliable easy starting machine since I got it. But yesterday it just wouldn't do the job. It started...

I am having to move some money around for somebody else. It MUST be kept in CDs. Not my choice but the owners. This is a great deal of money. I have a choice of a fixed interest rate or one that is .2% lower that can be 'bumped up" twice in the five year term. Personally I think the rates will...

As you may have noticed on a thread in Related Topics I am searching for a holster for a pistol. Today we traveled to a nearby larger city to do some shopping (she shops, I sit in the car and sleep) and I looked at a couple gun stores for my holster. No luck! So we come home and I help the wife...

I need a 9mm that I can carry concealed. For various reasons the little 380 I have carried for years will not be appropriate for a situation I find myself in. The LCP was intended to be a last resort, slow them down while my family got away weapon. I never intended to be in a situation that I...

My wife and I both have hang on the mirror parking tags. Mine from a knee replacement surgery. Hers from a broke foot. The only time we have used them in the past year has been when we had somebody with us who had mobility problems. There was one exception to that during the last snow storm. We...

After some of the discussions here in Rural Living I got to thinking about the bills we are paying by credit card on autopay. Things like Dish, Verizon, and other monthly bills. Since I have several credit cards that pay back different amounts and since some of these payments have been set up...

NOW is the time to up your 401k contribution for a couple months. The market has taken a huge hit and dropped 4-8% over the past week. What that means is that the average price of a share of stock has dropped that much. Some has dropped more, some less. But the market ALWAYS comes back. So the...

Daughter said she had 4-1/2 year old granddaughter and 1-1/2 year old grandson in bathtub together. Easier to give two baths at once. She turned around to get shampoo and heard. "Mommy, Bubba is squirting water on me out of his belly button". Oh well, two baths from now on. RSKY

Get a job and keep a job. Pay your bills including credit cards monthly. NEVER carry a balance. Don't borrow money for toys. If you have to borrow money to pay for that boat, Harley, motorhome, or vacation, you cannot afford it. Keep track of your finances. Learn a little about the stock...

My wife got an e-mail this morning from the mother of the last student still in the hospital from the Marshall County High School Shooting. They emailed/texted back and forth and she says he is going to make a full recovery. He may have to move from a Nashville to a Louisville hospital for some...

Wife was sent a picture today of one of the kids shot in the Marshall County High School shooting. He is up and walking in the hall. Nearly a full recovery expected. Last week they didn't know if he would live. His mother was helping him with a big smile on her face. His mother was my oldest...

Was at my mother's house Wednesday when I got a frantic call from my wife. The drain for the washing machine was frozen up and there was water everywhere in the utility room. By the time I got home she had most of it vacuumed and mopped up. We have one drain behind the machine that goes to the...

I used my CK20S to clear off our little road today. Also cleared the driveway of anybody out shoveling. Then the little beast started loosing power. It would go from wide open to an idle and slowly pick back up. I pulled the blade up and drove home and parked it. I intended to check the fuel...

Was in the 60'sF yesterday and I was out in the yard in a T-shirt. Actually had small leaf blower out for a while. Was 57F at 10PM last night. Woke up to 19-degrees and an inch of ice on everything with a fine WET sleet falling. Now we have more than 6 inches of snow on top of a couple inches of...

I have a Kenmore upright freezer that we purchased in 1976 or 1977. So it is at least forty one years old. We defrosted both it and the two year old small chest type Monday. I put one of the remote outdoor temperature sensors in the chest type and it showed 0 degrees F. I googled it and the...

I have put this story on here before so if you have read it in the past just go out and crank your tractor and have some fun. Once upon a time, about thirty years ago, I was visiting my parents at their house. When I left I was going to a local town to get a haircut. On the way I drove by my...

This about sums up Kentucky weather.

I have planned for years to install a natural gas line to my shop and one of those ceiling mounted heaters. I also want a ceiling mounted heater in the garage. BUT, our local gas utility has very, very strict rules on who can install lines and appliances. This probably was caused by a couple of...

Sitting here bored to death and I got to thinking about several doomsday scenarios that have been broadcast about on the Net. They involve everything from a North Korean nuclear blast, an EMP attack, nation wide electrical grid failure, and so on. In my area near the New Madrid Fault an...

I made my yearly ammo purchase last week and received the last package yesterday. For some reason it seems I get better prices and better deals in December than any other time. Free shipping, items on sale, or other good deals. I made a list of what I wanted and since I am semi-sidelined after...

Took my little Ruger LCP and my Kahr CT9 out yesterday. Went to the old farm and set up a slab on a sawdust pile for a target. I have had the LCP for several years and during that time and several hundred rounds I have had one stovepipe failure. Yesterday I had three out of six in the first mag...

SAM's has an 8,000/10,000 watt electric start portable generator for $594 and FREE shipping. The brand is Gentron and it is made in China. Looks like it has the Chinese built Honda clone engine. Pricewise this is a good deal. Does anybody have one of these or know anything about them? We have a...

We have Thanksgiving meal for my wife's side of the family and others at our house every year. This year we were planning for a slight increase to 45 guests. Had three cancel yesterday because of health problems. Lost four more this morning due to stomach bug. There are usually a couple extras...

I had an umbilical hernia repaired today. What I am curious about is how long it would take to schedule this surgery in countries that have the government run health care system. This was not a critical have to do it right now surgery but instead something the doctors said needed to be...

Walked around all day with my little Ruger in my Sticky Holster. I didn't intend to carry it all day, but forgot it was there. Thanks to all who recommended that particular one. Wife's homemakers club met tonight at the BOB (Building Out Back of the church). We drove over about 9:00 this...

There have been some posts lately about EMP attacks, hurricanes, power outages and other short term disasters. I have a question about such event since my area had a serious one in 2009 that few people know about. The "Great Ice Storm of 2009" broke off a quarter of the power poles in our...

I currently carry a Ruger LCP 380 in a wallet holster. The holster is perfect for carrying and nobody realizing you are armed which is what I want. The only problem is that it tends to pull my pants down on the right side. I understand that this is the reason these holsters are not that popular...

There is a thread somewhere here about the Keurig coffeemakers where some a-hole suggested filling the reservoir with vinegar and letting it sit overnight............. So I did it....... Then I filled reservoir with water so I could run it thru the next morning. I hope you are happy. I spit...

I weld something two or three times a year with an old Lincoln welder that was bought back in the seventies by my father. Started to weld on a bushhog a few weeks ago and the cheap helmet I was using had a broken lens. I have a couple of questions. Are auto darkening helmets work the slight...

Mowing the CRP land this week. Only 24 acres but it can only be mowed, in 50-60' wide strips, every other year. B-I-L did it last year while I was down with a knee replacement. Either he missed some or the saplings popped back up after the 1086's wide tires passed over them because there were...

I mounted a bumper receiver on the top of the FEL bucket to put a trailer hitch. I can drive up and pick up the hitch on my trailers and move them around without getting off the tractor. For the past month I have used this to move around a 42' lift we were using to paint my daughter's house...

Son-in-law was painting the ceiling on their front porch with my daughter sitting in the swing holding the 11-month old and my four year old granddaughter also watching him. As he painted along a very large spider fell off the ceiling onto his arm and he jumped back trying to knock it off his...

Farmers are cutting tobacco everywhere around us and on the roads to both daughter's homes. My wife and I have been watching the progress as the crews march across twenty to thirty acre fields. As somebody who worked as a teenager doing this I find it hard to imagine a field of tobacco that...

When is the best time to have a driveway repaved? In the spring or in the fall? I have no idea. Thanks for the info. RSKY

I talked to one of my cousins the other day. He is in his seventies and in bad health. He retold this story and I thought the people here would enjoy it. This took place in the late forties. My cousin was eight or nine years old when he walked the two miles to the local country store. It was in...

A couple weeks ago we got a coupon in the mail from the local big box store. Won't mention the name but it begins with an 'L'. This coupon said we could get 10% off our ENTIRE PURCHASE ONE TIME! We needed a couple things and were going to go get them but the wife said, "Let's make a list of...

Why do you never see any 'cabover' semis anymore. We met one on the Interstate a few days ago and it looked strange. I realized you don't see them anymore. RSKY

This is a Facebook post from a friend of my wife. Her husband was buried last week. I blocked out the phone number. This makes me very angry. She posted: The ultimate low in scam activity was aimed at me Friday. The phone rang and on caller ID appeared 'U S Government' and a toll-free number...

I was doing so well. Everybody who saw me said, "Oh, I thought you had your knee replaced". I was barely limping. Had no pain, no pills, no ice. And I screwed up. Oldest daughter gave me a Fitbit watch. The kind that counts your steps. I know they made it up to get me one so I would not overdo...

Rural King has a Del-Ton AR-15 on sale for $359.99. And a DPMS AR-15 for $399.99. Are these guns any good? Just wondering. Blind spot in right eye makes aiming a rifle very difficult BUT would like to have one just to have one. RSKY

Finally ordered my Pat's Easy Change. Shopped online and found the best price to be from Rural King. Easy Change with spreader bar and three extra sets of washers was $181.96 plus $10.92 tax for a total of $192.88. No shipping charge! It has already shipped and should be here tomorrow or Monday...

I admit it, I screw up a lot. But most of these are not from my personal experience. Well,..a few might be. Feel free to add on just please number them. #1. When paying with a credit card never put your wallet back in your pocket (or purse) until the card is returned to you. Leave the wallet...

I was sitting at the local Wally World Wednesday waiting for my wife. I had the windows down and this young guy with a short beard and a shaved head walked up to my car. He said that he was sorry to bother me but that he had run out of gas. He said he had called a friend who was bringing a gas...

Will Pat's easy hitch work on a CK20S? I'm tired of the get on, get off routine hooking up to something. Anybody else tried this?

I know not many of you are keeping up with the Stanley Cup playoffs but.......how on God's green earth do the Nashville fans get a ten pound catfish past security and hold on to it for three periods before throwing it out on the ice? Some of those fish are still kicking. Can you imagine the...

Anybody ever use an air hose retracting reel for water? We water everything on the patio nearly every day. It is a pain stretching out the hose, then putting it back in some order on the hanger. TSC has a spring retracting air hose reel with a 75' hose and I think I will give it a try. Anybody...

Anybody using battery powered leaf blowers, chainsaw, trimmers, etc. Looking for brands to purchase or ignore. RSKY

I am seriously considering buying a battery powered leaf blower and chainsaw. My wife cannot crank the Echo leaf blower. We have the Craftsman 19.2 volt blower and it just does not do the job. What I want to know is which brand and what size to get. The blower would be used once a week to clear...