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And you bring up a very good point. Most, if not all of us have vocal or other crutches that we're not even aware of doing. Easy to pick up on with others, with ourselves not so much. This was rather starkly brought to my attention when I was in my 20s with a p/t job as a weekend DJ. Aircheck...

Back in the early 90s I was between jobs and worked p/t at a supermarket in the produce dept. They taught us a trick to slicing a seeded watermelon so the seeds don't show. Didn't know that before I worked there, I'd always search for a cut one that didn't show any seeds thinking I got one...

Just the opposite here. When Spectrum (Time-Warner at the time) came thru here in the early teens, probably 80% of the residents on my road signed up. I dropped them earlier this year, not due to any service problems but because Consolidated (regional phone company) offered more speed for...

All in all, it's been a pretty nice summer here after a rather hot, humid late June/early July. We've had some days where it got in the upper 80s, but for the most part the humidity has been low (well, not desert-country low, but under 60%). Rare to go this long without humidity building, not...

You were lucky, I don't miss copper at all. Then again, you may be in an area where the infrastucture was newer, lots of the lines here date back to the 70s or before. When cable finally came here about 12 years ago the trunk lines were all fiber. All in all, I've had very few issues with...

Is that the same as the heat-and-eat side dishes you can get at the supermarket? Always wondered who he was, didn't know it was a restaurant. The mac & cheese is very good!

A bit too cold to grow them this far north, though they do grow in the southern part of the state. Speaking of fruit trees...is anyone else (especially in the northeast) having a really bad year for apples? I've got maybe 10 on one of my trees, none on the other. Even the wild apple trees...

Thanks for the tips! Oak leaves, huh? Have to give it a try...keep things in the family. :ROFLMAO: 🙃

I have a few times. Most of the time it's a similar-but-different item (ie-different UPC), and someone didn't put up the right sign. Sometimes they'll give you the better price, sometimes not. One time I was buying a set of mirrors from a chain autoparts store. This was in the days when price...

Glad you like it, but that sounds like it's (quite) a bit further "out there" than I'd want to live. I think that "road" would get old real fast.

And that goes for politics too. Not much patience for those who think their way is the only way.

Not every digging job warrants using an excavator any more than everyone needs a 1 ton flatbed truck. A half ton pickup or a TLB is all many of us need. Maybe you can afford to have a fleet of specialized vehicles, but most of us don't. But you knew that.

Heh. When I was in my 20s & 30s living in the southern part of the state ran into the same thing having a truck. You're everybody's friend when they want to move.

Even though I'm not religious myself, I draw the line at making fun of someone else's beliefs. I will say my patience/tolerance was tested when I was in my 20s...for whatever reason I seemed to be a magnet for the born-againers who seemed to think I needed to be "saved".

If you could. We have a bumper crop of cukes this year, can only fit so many jars of refrigerator pickles in the fridge. Garden is doing very well this year, quite a change from last! On our 3rd cutting of broccoli, as noted cukes are going gangbusters. Corn not quite ready yet, but looks...

I don't get too many here, but a couple weeks ago a couple of guys in a tesla came around trying to push some rooftop solar system. Never heard of the company, asked for a business card so I could check out whether or not they were legit...didn't hav e one, only an e-business card they could...

That was my approach as well. Would've loved to have one, but not sure I'd get my money's worth out of it, for the reasons you mentioned. Actually looked at getting a used one maybe 15 years ago...seems all I could find were either 3PH ones (which I didn't want), really beat-up ones that...

Do the trails actually go anywhere people want to go?

And there's the key...actually enforce these laws, and make the penalties severe enough to actually have an impact.

I would imagine any sort of aux source would go thru the radio to use its amplifier. Cellphone's not gonna drive speakers, or at least not loud enough to be heard in a running tractor. As far as how the aux input would be handled, that would depend on the new stereo you install. The Pioneer I...

With me it's knees, but yeah...

Or "manuals" for products that are printed with 6p type on a 4x4" "booklet". Can't read some of that even with a magnifying glass. As you noted, weird color combinations don't help either.

Yeah, seems like you could do all that with a couple relays. But this is DIGITAL so it's gotta be better! :ROFLMAO:

I can understand that. Residential installations are penny-ante compared to a real electric supplier. Probably negative return for the the utility in the end with all the paperwork involved. Why should regular customers subsidize those with solar installations?

Maybe I should have been a bit more clear, it's Outlook.com (formerly Hotmail) I was referring to. Web based, so OS agnostic. I do agree with WinterDeere's comments about various OSs. PC vs Mac vs Linux is one of those arguments like Ford vs Chevy, orange vs green tractors or R1 vs R4 tire...

I wouldn't imagine that any loggers are going to clean up/haul away any of the slash, certainly not someone who's doing it for free or low cost in exchange for the wood.

Not all of us have (or want) smartphones. Several of my online accounts have gone to some form of 2FA, where they'll send a code to an email address they have on file. Kind of a PITA, but I guess that's the way things are going. Like yours, my bank doesn't do this either. One nice thing with...

I use Outlook for my email, and MS is really trying to do away with passwords and push you towards some sort of biometric login. Not sure how you're supposed to do this on a desktop PC. Gotta click past a bunch of setup prompts every 3rd or 4th time I log in.

Been that way in small towns/rural areas long before the ACA. Tough to attract/keep good doctors when there's considerably more money to be made in/near a larger city. That just leaves the handful that really like the area or the borderline quacks to serve the smaller towns. 40-odd years ago...

Not wrong, just getting old. :rolleyes:

I'm guilty of that. Even though I know better, I consider the two to be interchangeable. Don't suppose it's all that different than talking about an ATM machine. :ROFLMAO:

Same here. A co-worker once commented that I was the only guy he knew who'd try to fix a $5 radio. I've always joked that my sole marketable skill is the ability to fix things. :ROFLMAO: Taking care of things certainly helps longevity, but it's no guarantee. If something's a POS, it's a POS...

Curiously, what function does it serve in that the mower will run with it bypassed?

I think that's a bit of an exaggeration, but there does seem to be a lot of redundancy in medical forms. What kid of bugs me is every year when I go in for my annual checkup, having to go and re-answer all the questions I answered every previous year I've been there. And it's all on a tablet...

You lucked out. IF you're handy, and IF you can find replacement parts...a couple of big "ifs". As others have noted, parts and service documentation can be hard to find, especially when models change as rapidly as they do plus so many modern appliances aren't very easy to work on. I have a...

Sounds to me like it's time to hand him his walking papers.

In many ways we're already there. Both sides are equally guilty of this...taking extreme positions on issues and then refusing to budge or compromise. Hopefully, we're not so far along this path that we'll never recover. Speaking of EVs, I see another automaker is scaling back on them citing...

We've had a few bills that topped $70, but that was usually during a spell of high oil prices and the utility added a fuel surcharge. Typically, it runs mid 50s-mid 60s, a bit higher in the winter. We'll see what happens when the next rate increase kicks in later this month. 🤬

I've run into that many times myself...a business wants you to review your experience with them, but you need to sign in with Apple or Google or Facebook or something similar. I suppose it helps keep out the bots, but there should be a way for a legit customer to post a review without having to...

A couple years ago when my sisters and I were cleaning out my mother's house we ran into that with her freezer. What little we could recognize was so freezer burnt that it all went in the trash.

Pretty much the way it is here too. Recyclable stuff (#1 & 2 plastic, cardboard, newspaper, mixed paper, aluminum & steel cans & glass) is free to drop off. Likewise metal. Household trash must be in special trashbags which can be purchased at the transfer station or town hall. "Demolition"...

Ours is an LG, we've had it 5-6 years now, it's been trouble free. Just a basic model, no icemaker, water dispenser, etc. I make ice the old fashioned way. We do make sure to clean the dust off the coils once a year.

Ever try to rent a tool at HD? Some sort of "security" BS...they send a text message with a link to a ap that you must install in order to prove you are who you say you are or something like that. Last fall I needed to rent a stump chipper, called & verified they had one available. Got there...

I get lamps and batteries, but what are you supposed to do with that other stuff? I didn't know felt tip pens were recyclable. :rolleyes:

No disrespect meant, but do you ever throw anything away? :ROFLMAO: I thought I was bad. You must need a warehouse to store all this stuff!

First one of those cutters i bought, brand name was Grass Gator. Deceptive name, as you noted, it would constantly get wrapped if you tried to use it on grass, was a lot better for thicker stuff like blackberry bushes, goldenrod, etc. It would cut woody stuff up to 1/4" or so.

I've seen something similar around crosswalks. Don't know what, if any safety advantage there is, but I'm sure the highway dept. just loves having to plow around them in the winter.

A little OT, but does the OP's spool have some sort of auto-feed on it? I've got a battery Ryobi trimmer, and every start/stop cycle the string advances, whether it needs to or not. There's a cutter bar on the shield that trims it to length, so it doesn't get too long. A lot of start/stop...

Good for them! So much more to life than work, work, work. If you can support yourself on 3 or 4 days a week, go for it! Not many people go to their graves wishing they'd spent more time at the office.

Can't stand chocolate milk. When I was maybe 7 or 8 my mother bought me some after me bugging her to do so. A couple sips were enough. Never had it again. Even though there were a number of family dairy farms in my neighborhood when growing up, don't think I ever had anything but store milk.

Agree with you on cellphones, but this is hardly restricted to younger generations...many boomers are just as bad. As far as "kids these days" goes, I'm sure when our grandparents were young their elders said the same thing about them. We boomers are hardly the first generation to claim how...

I hadn't either until maybe a year ago, there was someone returning an empty bottle to the IGA-type market next town over. Hadn't noticed in the cooler before, then again I don't especially like milk so it's not somewhere I'd be looking very often...

And why the automakers are being required to have all this annoying BS nanny crap on cars...auto lane keeping, auto braking, etc.

Maybe 6 months ago I was in the southern part of the state, just for grins drove past my house from when I llved there. Still had the same roof I put on it in 1977! Guess I got the good shingles! :D

Do they make 8' LED replacement tubes? A neighbor had a bunch in his garage and wasn't able to find any, but this was a few years ago.

But the LEDs themselves seem to fail too, as I mentioned upthread with the "Christmas light" strings I have in my living room. All they are is a bunch of LEDs in series with a load resistor, but I get a couple years out of a string before I start losing bulbs. Took one partially bad string and...

I'll rake that up and use it for mulch in my garden. Probably not a good idea if you have your lawn treated though.

Or there's a long line of cars coming the other way.

Well, yes and no. As someone mentioned upthread, longevity does not seem to be a high priority in the manufacturing of LED bulbs (of any type, not just fluorescent replacements). Yeah, there's all the hype that they'll last 2 million hours or some such nonsense, but the reality is they fail...

Was out food shopping with the wife today. Dunno what it was, but it seemed like it was senior citizen day at both Walmart and the supermarket. Slow, confused, blocking aisles and just generally being in the way. Grumbled something to her about what's with all the old people out today, her...

We see this behavior all the time. Hummingbirds are quite territorial.

My last truck was an '02 Dakota, no ashtray there. Don't think my old '90s vintage Grand Cherokee had one either.

I mow mine at about that height too, though a big part of the reason is that most of it is uneven and there are enough high spots or rocks for the blade to hit. Grass itself grows quite evenly, it doesn't get scraggly like it did at my last place. Wife keeps telling me to cut it shorter so I...

Maybe it's just what you get used to, but I find clothes smell better when line dried. From a dryer they just smell like lint. I suppose that's why they make scent beads to put in your washer... :rolleyes:

We've also seen an increase in them this year, we did move the feeder. We'll see 4 or 5 of them buzzing around it at times, NEVER saw that many at one time before. This is also the first year I've had to refill the feeders because they were empty...usually it gets changed because it's been...

I'm glad the option to pay bills online exists, and I'll use it from time to time myself, but autopay? No way.

I'm not a "conspiracy" kind of guy, but as WinterDeere noted, this makes no sense. While first class mail has declined, parcels are making up an increasing percentage of what the USPS delivers. If anything, you'd think they'd conspire to slow things down to get voters to get after their...

Here it's Dunkin' Donuts. Always a long line at the drive-thru, and not much shorter inside. We don't even have a dryer. It's either clothesline in good weather or a wood rack in the same room as the woodstove in the winter.

Most of the towns around here have the recycling center at the transfer station. You have to pay to drop off trash, electronics or white goods but recylables are no charge. Seems to work well enough. Here we have to use special "town" bags that you can purchase at either town hall or at the...

Lever-style door handles always seem to get me. Catch a belt loop on them.

I gave up riding for the same reason. Just too many crazy, inattentive drivers. I will admit there have been times I've almost not seen a biker when pulling out of an intersection myself.

Voice control means the vehicle is always listening. To every conversation in the vehicle. And doesn't that technology require the vehicle to send your command back to the mothership where it's translated into a command the vehicle understands? Nope. Not for me. Same reason I refuse to have...

It's bad enough that we're under constant surveillance wherever we go. Just what we need is even more of it. Is there anyone among us who has never done anything sketchy behind the wheel, even unintentionally (ie-fiddling with digital dash crap and wandering a bit, etc.) or maybe being fed up...

I would have been in my early 20s at the time, so don't know about kids' clothes. Pretty stupid idea for mens' clothes too. These weren't jeans, these were what would be considered business casual today. Fortunately, that fad didn't last long. Who thinks to check and see if pants have pockets...

I used to see teachers/college professors wearing jackets like that, almost never in the business world.

Must have an old car. Haven't one with an ashtray in decades.

Consider the source...

I've tried, great cure for insomnia. 🙃

As someone who grew up in the 60s when jeans were almost a requirement, I've also started to move towards those same kind of pants. More comfortable, roomier in the legs and seem to stand up better. Can often stand in for dress pants on the few occasions I have to go somewhere I have to look...

I hated those iron-on patches too. Not only were they stiff, but they didn't stick very well either. A few washings, and they'd already started to peel off around the edges. :mad: Would this have been in the late 60s/early 70s? It seemed a fashion fad for a couple years to do away with...

Or at least a 250. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Automatics have been the "standard" transmission in most vehicles for what, 50+ years now? Even back then it seemed about half and half of people I knew that could drive stick. At least that's the rationale they're using to cram that technology down our throats whether we want it or not...

My tractor isn't cabbed, but I've had the same thing happen with windshields on snowmobiles, as well as helmet visors. Haven't found anything that worked except replacing it.

That's odd, I've always found Pa. to have rather high fuel prices. Off road is probably 50¢ more here. Don't have any need for OTR so haven't paid attention to its price. Weird. I live in N.H., the "live free or die" state where we don't normally go for this BS but we're on the "not for...

Any "leakage" around those vents at least in my case is a poorly-chosen place to put it. Little flap that holds the cap usually breaks after a dozen or so uses though. Have they changed the threads on cans recently? Any of mine date back to the 00s or earlier, and the aftermarket spouts work...

Back in the 70s/early 80s when I was a field service tech, I remember seeing a drive-thru liquor store in Ohio. Thought it was really weird, and took a picture of it because I figured no one at home would believe it. Turns out, it was (maybe even still is) fairly common in the midwest. Liquor...

That might have varied by region. By the early-ish 70s where I lived at the time (southern N.H.) banks were beginning to have longer hours, and many branches were open Saturday mornings. Spent a couple years on the west coast in the mid-70s and was surprised that "banker's hours" still...

Would you have done any differently? No one wants to hear that kind of stuff, especially from their parents.

I totally get stonewashing to soften them. Hated getting new jeans as a kid...took 6 months before you could bend your legs in them! :ROFLMAO: I have a friend who to this day won't wear jeans, he hated the stiffness of new ones so much when he was growing up.

I guess I was ahead of the curve on fashion. Had jeans like that forever. Never wore 'em in public though.

In CB lingo someone like that was said to have a ratchet jaw.

Don't know if or how much things have changed over the years, but I helped a neighbor renovate a mobile home ("house trailer") a few years ago, and construction in it was pretty sketchy.

Gotta love California. Don't have the manpower or budget to catch thieves or investigate property crime, but they'll send a SWAT team if you try to use a gas string trimmer or put something recyclable in the trash.

Sigh. The physician's assistant at the clinic where I go is like that. She's been there for quite a while now, but every year when I go in for my physical she can't seem to find a vein when she tries to draw blood. Often as not, she screws up the BP check too. Talent pool isn't very deep...

Not knowing much about RVs, what is the preferred method of connecting wires?

Fine if (1) you have one nearby and (2) buy enough bulk stuff to make the membership cost worthwhile. Not all of us fit that, especially those who actually live somewhere rural.

Spraying myself down there with a water jet does not sound pleasant. Thanks, but no thanks. Spend your savings down to just enough to pay for your final expenses. Works best if you know when you're going to go.

Maybe it's different in your part of the world, but most of those "fuel savings" gimmicks are not as good a deal as they seem. The only fuel savings I've seen that are worth much are at Irving, for every 50 gal. you get 10¢/gal off one fill-up. They occasionally have online games where you can...

Wow, some nice stonework! Mine pales by comparison, but I'm still kinda proud of it. Main wall's about 4' high, continues to the right of the steps about half that height. Mostly hidden by some plants my wife put in on the embankment above.

I used to do all, or at least most vehicle repairs, but as I've gotten older it's more or less limited to oil changes, tire rotation, filters and brake jobs. Not as flexible as I once was, and laying under a vehicle getting rust in your face while you try to fix something gets old after a...

How about rhododendrons (assuming they'll grow in Va.)? They keep their leaves year round, even here in northern N.H. You can't kill them, and they'll spread out once they're established. Pruning isn't just tolerated, it's pretty much a necessity.

That's all I figured it would be, for now holding off on anything that requires some disassembly. Paper clip in the seat switch connector took all of 10 seconds to do. :D

Even though I'm reasonably comfortable financially in retirement, old frugalities die hard. I'll do water in a restaurant, and (usually) pick up a penny. My mother used to say it's good luck if you pick up a penny and put it in your shoe. Dunno if it's true, but I'll do it anyway. :ROFLMAO...

Yeah, the old one's in too good shape to junk, just too many issues with it to work on right now. We'll see what Mrs. Oak has to say about keeping a spare...she thinks I have too much stuff as it is. :ROFLMAO: 🙃

Update, I took the plunge and got the JD X350. I'll probably get flamed for not going with the heaviest duty machine I could find, but this seems to be a good compromise for my needs. Didn't need something of a level a lawncare pro would use, but wanted something better than a box store model...

A lot depends on how good you are at putting together a materials list. With a kit, you know everything you'll need's going to be there.

Yeah, those are the jobs that I postpone until it's cool enough to wear long pants. I likewise overheat easily. Fortunately, I'm at an age where almost nothing HAS to be done today. :D

I just replaced my kind of flakey WS1900 indoor unit with a 2902 (kept the old outdoor sensor unit). This one allegedly has wifi, but I can't seem to connect to it. According to the manual, it should appear as it's own network with an IP address of 192.168.4.1, which I can't see on any PC I...

In the late 90s my siblings and I put together a 50th anniversary party for our parents (with their knowledge...this is something my mother made clear when we were still kids that we were expected to do). Considerable help from them with the guest list...we didn't really know most of these...

Then there's the ever popular sh*t eating grin. Gotta wonder where that came from.

Not around here, or at least not when I upgraded my service in the late 00s. Just the little snap seal you could cut with a pair of dykes.

That was one of my concerns, another is just the thought of having to go outside in inclement weather to reset a breaker. Not sure I'd want to do that in the pouring rain. As far as a quick way for first responders to kill power, it's not very hard to pull a meter...

I've heard of using that trick with Amazon. I tried it a couple times with inconsistent results.

Do those have a plastic or metal headband on them? At that price, probably plastic. I have a big head (no snide remarks) and I'll get maybe a dozen wearings on plastic ones before the band snaps.

Was this a meter socket or an actual panel? My wife was watching one of those "flipper" tv shows a while back that was set in Florida and it didn't seem all that uncommon for the breaker panel to be outside. WTF?? Is that a thing there? Why would you want the breaker box outside?

They seemed to be well on their way to distance themselves from their "suck tools" image by the time they started having any physical presence in my area. Or at least had started offering better models. I will say they have some interesting items not generally found in the tool dept. of Lowes...

Curiously, what do all those charges on your bill refer to? "Energy" I presume is the actual electricity used, and "service' is the fixed cost of having an accoutnt but what are the others? Typical electric company, lots of obfuscation when it comes to what you're being charged for.

I've read that Jesse James had that too.

I would imagine it's in stores/regions with high amounts of theft. The couple of WMs nearest to me have relatively few locked display cases, mostly electronics but last summer I was out of town on a business trip and realized I'd forgotten to pack a change of socks. Went to the WM nearest the...

How does that work? Do you need to open ports on your router so they can access it? I am VERY leery about "connected" appliances, as from what I've read most are not very secure. If the NWS can get in, hackers can too, and who knows what they can get to thru that open door.

Easier said than done. They are fairly easy to swat when the land, but most of the time they just buzz you relentlessly, especially when you're trying to do something and don't have hands free.

Regional accents in general have been diminishing for half a century now. Credit or blame it on an increasingly mobile population and the influence of television.

I hear ya! Don't know how I ever got anything done when I was still working fulltime. My wife is always leaving a kleenex or two in a pocket then putting it in the wash.

And they're relentless too, they don't give up! They've been bad here this year. I don't know if what the OP calls june bugs are the same thing as here (ours come right around Memorial day/first week in June). Ours will buzz constantly against window screens at night, probably attracted to...

I'm a little disappointed with the Ambient unit we have. It's maybe 3 years old, and it looks like the indoor display is failing. Several segments of the LCD display are non-functional, and the "buttons" for changing settings are becoming increasingly flakey. I say "buttons", but they aren't...

And let's not even get started on the BS fees the phone company, electric company, internet providers, etc. tack on their bills. Back when we still had (a very limited) cable tv, the "broadcast tv" fee was more than the quoted service price more than doubling the actual monthly bill! Many auto...

Had that happen during covid at the pizza place we go to (phone order, takeout). They wouldn't allow customers in the restaurant during shutdown, so they'd have you park out front and they'd bring it to you, and you'd pay then. The waitress would get real snippy if you handed her a $20 and...

I believe the post office photographs/scans every item before delivery. Maybe your relative could ask to see the scan of that piece of mail to see what it looked like it when the carrier got it.

I wasn't around at the time, but I'd imagine there were plenty of crabby old farts who complained when self-service supermarkets came along in the 1930s. Imagine the indignity of having to take a can of beans off the shelf yourself, I expect to be waited on! :ROFLMAO: 🙃 :D I can count on...

I don't get the hate on self checkout. To me it's way more convenient than standing in line (and without fail, get in the line with the slowest cashier). I'm smart enough to figure out the scanner. Scan, pay, get on my way. Do you pump your own gas? If so, what's the difference? You're not...

As someone who lives in a state where tourism is a big part of the economy I can understand it. It's a way to shift some of the tax burden from the year-round residents to the tourists, who will probably pay it anyway. For example, we don't have a sales tax per se in our state, but there is a...

Never mowed a lawn with one, but I've mowed fields plenty of times.

You do realize that you don't need to order enough to last the rest of your life all at once...

Neither of has any real interest in doing so.

Only one? I'll usually get 4 or 5. Don't know how I miss them when they're normal size, but I do.

Yeah, probably ought to replace the batteries in ours too, also lithiums but they're 2-3 years old. Got this mostly for the wife, she'd wanted one for a while. Ours is standalone, no internet connectivity. Didn't see the need.

My parents always had a garden, but we never raised any sort of livestock. They might have had chickens when they first bought the house (there was a coop in the back yard), but I don't remember seeing them, I must have been a very small child. I'd never had any sort of fast food, sub, etc...

I've got an Ambient WS1900 that's been pretty good for the 5 or so years we've had it. Lately it's been acting strangely...both the outside temperature and rainfall totals kind of spaz out periodically. They'll rotate thru different displays (ie-rain event, daily, weekly, monthly) all by...

The brand doesn't ring a bell, but the peanut butter creme gauchos look familiar from when I was a kid. Maybe someone else made similar cookies. "Store" cookies were all we ever got as kids, mother wasn't much on baking.

My size was fairly consistent from my 20s thru my mid-ish 40s. Other than maybe dress clothes which were rarely worn, I've never gotten 35 years out of any clothing. Worn out well before that.

I was in the 170-180 range in my 20s. These days...uh, never mind. :(

I've got a few T- or sweat shirts that go back 20 or so years, but that's about it. And they're pretty much relegated to being "grub" clothes. All my pants from back then seem to have shrunk in the wash. :ROFLMAO:

Key word here: temporary. The government giveth, and the government can taketh away.

No burial here, both my (former) cable and current fiber are run from the pole to the house. Well, the junction/tap point for the fiber was a few hundred yards down the road in front of a neighbor's house, the tech just apparently ziptied the individual strand along the trunk line from the tap...

Is your Spectrum fiber right to your house? When we had them, it was fiber on the road, but "last mile" distribution was coax cable. Never got a straight answer from them as to why. Here's what I got just now: Very few need 1G down either. :rolleyes: An internet connection is only as fast...

Fiber is symmetrical...you get the same speed both ways. Most others are asymmetrical, with MUCH slower speeds up than down. When we went from cable to fiber here, I didn't notice a huge difference in d/l even though it was 3x the speed (300 vs 100), but, man do those uploads fly!! Previously...

Vonage is still around too. They offer both residential and business service.

What do you do to keep the slices from getting rubbery in storage? Whole cukes hold up OK, but if I do sliced ones they don't stay crisp. The cukes that I don't see until they're oversized get made into relish. I'll can beans, but not pickle them. Tried it once, didn't like the result.

Wow, that's quite the garden!! Way more than I have time or ambition for! What do you do to keep it so well-weeded? I have enough trouble staying ahead of my ~15 x 50'.

Yeah. Most "landline" phones via your ISP are VOIP, as are 100% of cell calls. Not many copper pair-to-CO lines left except in a few really rural areas.

Anytime I've heard that expression, it meant really really good. A guy I used to work with who was from Maine would call something that was really good the cat's @ss.

Depends, I guess. Don't know what he drives, but from what I've read Warren Buffet's lifestyle is relatively modest. Sam Walton was rumored to drive some old beater truck.

Friend of mine had an Avalanche back in the 00s...he really liked it. He almost never kept a truck more than 3-4 years, held on to it for over 10. Big downside to them was that there was almost no rear visibility. Tried to back a 4x8 utility trailer on his truck once...could not see it at all...

Hadn't really considered CC...just thought they were a box store, MTD/Murray-built brand these days like most of them. Not sure if anyone around here sells them, I'll have to check.

My father was pretty much a GM guy, we did have one Ford station wagon...a '58 if I'm not mistaken, and it rusted out pretty quick. It was back to GMs for him after that. My mother had a '64 Fairlane that stood up quite well, especially considering she didn't really take very good care of it...

I suppose that's helpful, especially if you're young and inexperienced in life and may have avoided the "tough" discussions while dating. My wife and I met in our 50s, so we were both pretty much who we were gonna be by then. We were together a bit more than 5 years (and had lived together for...

Always gets me every time we have a gas price spike, people rush out to trade in perfectly good vehicles for some little sardine can that gets maybe 20% better gas mileage. 6 months later when prices come back down, there's buyers remorse and they're back in the market for something bigger/more...

You're fortunate in that regard. I'm in New England where rust is a big limiter on how long a vehicle lasts. I will say over the last 25-30 years great strides have been made in rustproofing. Back in the 60s/70s you were lucky to get 5-6 years out of something, Asian vehicles even less.

One thing not noted here, but I have any dividend-paying stocks set to reinvest the dividends. Don't really need the income at this point, so why not compound earnings?

Thanks for the info. It would only be used for mowing, I have a tractor and an ATV to plow snow or do heavier duty tasks. Yes, I did have the dealer show me the height adjustment...there was a pedal, a knob and some sort of lever on the dash (which he didn't really explain very well). I...

Not that I have any interest in a "performance" vehicle (I don't), but could you elaborate on this?

Not likely. It's still ugly and pretty useless as anything but a "look at me I've got more money than common sense" vehicle. Not to say there isn't a limited market for e-trucks, but it'd need a complete redesign in order to be anything but a novelty vehicle.

Yeah, after driving a truck and/or an SUV (or at least something marketed as one) for the last 30 years I would never even consider another sedan. Too low, too hard to get in/out of.

I don't like the headlights, but at least it otherwise looks like a normal truck. Front end of tesla sedans look like a fish to me.

Each to their own. Personally, I find Tesla vehicles rather ugly, and think the interior ergonomics absolutely suck. Glad you like yours, but I'll stick to ICEs for the foreseeable future.

I'll check that one out next time I'm near a dealer, is a little more than I was looking to spend. A 42" deck is about as wide as will fit in some of the places I have to mow, no way would I get a 48 there. Gotta say though, don't think I've EVER had a transaxle problem with any mower I've ever...

Good question, and no easy one size fits all answer. Best option is to have held steady when things went south. Agree, and that's been my lifestyle as well, living well below my means. For sure there are people who are just getting by and don't have anything leftover to save, but it's easy to...

"Jitney" is a new one on me, never heard that term before. #2 I've always heard as "not the sharpest knife in the drawer" (alternately tool in the shed) Never heard either of the last 2. One term that has different regional meanings is "yankee". To a southerner it means anyone from a northern...

I read somewhere that the average 60 year old has less than $50k in retirement savings. Seems pretty short-sighted to me, barring some big inheritance there's almost no way you can catch up at that age. I sure would hate to be 80 and be working because I need to. Not sure what you mean by...

Not sure I'd call my LK3054 "little" (though I guess compared to an AG tractor it is). Way too many places it wouldn't fit...anything wider than a 42" isn't gonna fit in some of the places I have to go. Not looking for more places to hand mow! Don't want to give my wife any ideas with a...

Like the title said, I'm in the market for a new rider mower. Currently have an old Ariens that my father bought back in the mid 90s and I kind of inherited a few years ago. It still runs, but it's got issues...steering is really sloppy, I've had to re-weld one of the mower deck hangers a...

Not following you here. Are you saying your car has better range now than when it was new? Seems a bit hard to believe that range would triple over time.

I would say a better plan is to put together a plan that makes sense for you and stick with it. Re-assess it once a year or so to see if a particular investment still makes sense but the market is a long game. Trying to time the market is for fools. Not every stock that's down is a bargain.

After a couple close calls, I've started using carabiners thru that loop to attach the strap to the hooks on the trailer. At least if it loosens up you don't lose the strap. I'll also criss-cross the straps on each side ie strap to the back of the snowmobile/atv to the front hook on the...

My youngest sister was a HUGE fan back in his heyday, she would have been 12 or 13 at the time. A few years later when she was in college she dug out some of his old 45s, after a listen or two threw them away. :ROFLMAO:

I do remember meter maids using something similar 50-odd years ago. There was a guy that drove around neighborhoods in the city where I went to college with something like that (I think his was a Cushman) selling produce door to door.

A couple kids at my high (maybe grade) school had them, I always thought they were so gross. Blow nose, put it back in pocket. Repeat as necessary thru the day. Yuck. My wife said her father used to use a handkerchief, her mother hated washing them, very hard to get clean.

Don't think I've ever seen one of those before. Then again, I've mostly lived where it was rural delivery, and the carriers used personal vehicles. Given that most vehicles made in the last 20-odd years have large center consoles, it must be a PITA to deliver mail in a LH drive vehicle. ISTR...

See 'em all the time here. Couple years ago we had a tree with berries on it, one morning we found it with branches ripped off and a big pile of bear poo nearby. In this photo it's scavenging apples off the ground in the fall. Patch of dirt in the foreground is our vegetable garden. Mother...

Some of that is going to vary by jurisdiction. In my town no permits are required for anything other than septic (state requirement). No building permits of any type. I upgraded my service when I first bought this house. After verifying that no permits were required, the electric company...

Now that you mentioned it, ISTR my parents' friends tended towards mixed drinks at get-togethers too. Father would drink beer at home, but not generally at gatherings or with company. Don't recall either of them drinking wine, or at least not until much later in life. I've never been able to...

Not full, but probably 80%. Personally, I'd rather have it collect on the drain screen than in the trap where I have to snake it, but that's just me...

My "lawn" is largely plants that are green, but not necessarily grass. I'll typically mow around wildflower patches in it while they're in bloom. Seems like quite a few others in the area do the same. If I lived where there was some sort of HOA I'm sure they'd have a fit, but I don't (and have...

Agree. I'm surprised the OP got away with it in the past. One would think a broken/missing seal would be a giant red flag to a meter reader (back when they had them). Most utilities take theft of service seriously, and they usually want to be informed in advance if someone is removing a meter...

Guess I'm not old yet, 'cause I don't understand that one.

Never heard of that, but we have this low bush sumac that'll take over if you let it. Has white blossoms as opposed to the usual red, very fragrant. Half the yard was over-run with it when we moved here, even now it pops up every spring. We did leave a section of it along the property line as...

I do the same. Extremely fragrant when in bloom, and the patches are full of insects...monarchs, hummingbird moths, all sorts of bees. Last year bears seem to have discovered it, one morning the whole patch had been trampled. Speaking of bears, they seem to be more plentiful in recent years...

I don't drink alcohol other than the occasional beer or glass of wine but my wife sometimes has a G&T. She generally goes with Schweppes, but uses Polar sometimes. I don't know how widely distributed it is outside of the northeast. Haven't seen any sort of soda in glass bottles in decades...

Same here. When my father died, my BIL (who is as allergic to ties as I am) basically said that if I wore a tie to his funeral he would too. I didn't, but he did. Maybe my sister insisted, but she's not exactly a sharp dresser either... When I go, no viewing, no funeral, just cremation as...

We had them for a while, wife's idea. Strictly pets. Well eggs too, for her...I neither like them, nor do they agree with me. :sick: 5030 makes a good point. Chickens are magnets for every sort of predator imaginable, a strong coop is a must. I will say that when we had them ticks were not...

I don't think I've worn a tie in 40-odd years, and have no intentions of wearing one ever again. I will dress presentably if the need arises, but it won't include a tie.

I go barefoot as much as I can, but for those times I can't I'll wear what my wife calls my swamp sneakers. A pair of sneakers or slip-on shoes that hasn't been presentable for a good 10 years but still kinda protects the bottom of my feet. Strictly around the property, she'd have a fit if I...

I wouldn't even come close to fitting any clothes of mine from the 70s!! I leave the key in my mower all the time. Not something anyone's going to steal, and it keeps the mason bees from laying eggs in the keyhole and filling it with mud.

Not to mention that they didn't always grip the bumper very well either. Had a '65 Impala when I was in my early 20s, front bumper was so high off the ground that the jack was almost to the top by the time the tire was off the ground. More than once was glad I had blocks under it!

Raccoons are a bigger problem here. Deer seem to stick with wild apples and my wife's flower beds.

Well, for one thing I don't have 220 in my garage/shop. Would be kind of a PITA to run it. The 110 I have does everything I'm likely to need to do.

More children than that drown in a bathtub, wading pool or even a bucket each year. Maybe we should ban them too. Nannyism gone amok.

Took me a while to figure those out. Likewise license plates being referred to by some as "tags". Here in New England a milkshake is called a frappe. Pronounced "frap". Chocolate sprinkles are called "jimmies".

I'll second Arly's recommendations to go with a MIG welder. MIG welding is relatively easy to learn, only drawback is that you can't do it outside but many/most MIG welders are also capable of doing flux welding too. I have a Hobart Handler 140 that I've been pleased with. Only a 110v, but...

Apparently you can't get blinds with cords anymore. Wife wanted to add a couple more to our 3 season porch, couldn't find any. Ones she bought use these weird little clips to hold them in place, PITA to adjust, almost takes 2 people to do it (these are 72" wide). Did some Googling and...