Advice from the voice of EXPERIENCE !!

   / Advice from the voice of EXPERIENCE !! #141  
Do not under any circumstances put out even just a lil bit warm fireplace ashes for the garbage man to pick up.
The garbage truck might just maybe catch on fire.

Similarly do not use the house central vacuum system to vacuum out the fireplace [see above] if ashes are even just a lil bit warm.
 
   / Advice from the voice of EXPERIENCE !! #142  
Here's one that's not funny. I always slow down to wildlife speed when driving country roads after dark. Usually that means 45 mph with my brights on, even slower in bad visibility. Cars have hit a dozen deer on the road to my house. A couple of them messed up the car so badly it required a tow truck.

We have 1 section near me where most of the accidents happen. I set the cruise control and hover my foot on the brake while my hand is on the horn. I hit a turkey vulture the other day. He smeared some oily feathers on my windshield but no damage.
 
   / Advice from the voice of EXPERIENCE !! #143  
No matter how funny you might think it is, On April 1st, do not ask your girlfriend to marry you...

I still to this day, 27 years later, can not pull an April fool's joke....

Someone said, the best April Fool's joke my wife could have said was, "Good, I'm pregnant!!"
 
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   / Advice from the voice of EXPERIENCE !! #144  
Do not use your wife's expensive vacuum cleaner to suck the ashes out of your pellet stove. I had waited 24 hours for everything to die down. Three things happened when I did:

1) the vacuum became a roaring, fire-breathing jet engine
2) the house filled with smoke, soot and ash
3) the new vacuum was a LOT more expensive than the one it replaced
 
   / Advice from the voice of EXPERIENCE !! #145  
Always remember to remove the pto shaft when you disconnect ... ...could bend the shaft so bad you need a new one.
Twice did this... :mur:
 
   / Advice from the voice of EXPERIENCE !! #146  
No mater how small the task always wear gloves when using the sand blaster.
 
   / Advice from the voice of EXPERIENCE !! #147  
Here's one that's not funny. I always slow down to wildlife speed when driving country roads after dark. Usually that means 45 mph with my brights on, even slower in bad visibility. Cars have hit a dozen deer on the road to my house. A couple of them messed up the car so badly it required a tow truck.

Been there done that - twice. Next time you find yourself in Montana in the Clark Fork region check out what the locals drive and play count the road kill game. I have never seen so many deer as we saw on a trip back there, we arrived at night and the number of eyes along the road was amazing. Just about every pickup and SUV sports a heavy brush guard type front bumper.
 
   / Advice from the voice of EXPERIENCE !! #148  
If you're in the garden, tying up tomato plants with the help of your 4 year old grandson and he tells you that he lost the ball of jute twine he was holding, then it begins to rain and you just think you'll find the twine later on, that only works if your intent is to find it a few days later with your rear tine tiller.
 
   / Advice from the voice of EXPERIENCE !! #149  
If you're in the garden, tying up tomato plants with the help of your 4 year old grandson and he tells you that he lost the ball of jute twine he was holding, then it begins to rain and you just think you'll find the twine later on, that only works if your intent is to find it a few days later with your rear tine tiller.

:) Or a hunk of baler twine with your lawnmower.
 
   / Advice from the voice of EXPERIENCE !! #150  
Or you use a bush hog to find that 200 foot length of electric fence wire that you'd forgotten about
 

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