Depression

[cedarranch]

I was thinkin' more along the lines of "That Smell" Lynyrd Skynyrd/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif or maybe "2 steps to the door"/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[Boondox]

Cedarranch -- One thing that seems to help me is to reward myself for accomplishing something particularly nasty or difficult. Sometimes it's just a beer. Now and then it's going to town for a movie. One summer it was a case of champagne. Whatever works. But you've got to celebrate those victories or it seems you never see the light.


Hang in there!
Pete

 

[MChalkley]

cedarranch - I'm a little ashamed of myself for being annoyed that I haven't been able to grade the road with my new beast because it's been raining most of the time for the past several weeks. And to prove it, I'd like to share my favorite "drinking song" with you. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

First, an audio clip of my favorite version of it from Amazon, here.

Being a Single Malt Scotch fan, I tend to think of the song as Scottish, but it's Irish.

Of course, a few decades ago, I liked Lynyrd Skynrd's "Gimme Three Steps" more than I would've liked "The Humour's of Whiskey". /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Let me know what you think of it...

 

[MossRoad]

"that smell" is too depressing. I prefer getting the kids and playing the "chicken dance" and run around the house flapping my arms. A good polka always does it for me/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[MChalkley]

I didn't realize it when I posted the first message, but the second link also has a longer audio clip, sung by a different artist.

The whole song is pretty funny, if you understand the words, but my favorite verses are:

As a child in me cradle, me nurse with [from] her ladle
Was filling my [swillin her] mouth with a notion of pap [Pep]
When a drop from her bottle fell into my throttle
I stumbled and capered clean out of her lap

On the floor I lay crawlin' and screaming and bawling
'Til me mother and father were called to the fore
All sobbing and sighing they feared I was dying
But soon found I only was crying for more.

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[TresCrows]

Ceder, I can imagine somewhat your disgust. I hate rain too which is why I headed west to Arizona. Of course now I am stuck in the middle here in Kansaw and I could use some of your rain. In fact, by my standards it has not rained here in over two years and this year there has been no snow, no rain, no nuthin. It is becoming serious as people are out watering their grass and trees in January--I cannot beleive it. Earlier I had forcast snow and lot's of it--well--so far I am wrong though I still think the PC environmentalist/secularist are smoke'n something not healthy I have to admit I am beginning to worry. Of course, this area--the plains-- is just a desert with grass and long periods of drought are not unusual especially looking at tree ring research (what trees there are) that has been done. I consider that we are in the second year of a drought here and if it continues this summer without rain it will be disasterous for the farmers and us lawn and tree lovers.
Well consider this, you and your family have your health and you have a tractor and I am about to punch a well or two so all is well.
J

 

[JJT]

JR, How deep do you have to go to get good water?

 

[cedarranch]

I would sound drunk just trying to sing that song sober!
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My nephew called my wife friday and she told him our troubles. He offered to come help. Said he would work fer food. I took him up on it. We worked him to da bone /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif but fed him well! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif We managed to fix the drive, get both tractors stuck /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif Put a nice scratch on my pickup, /w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif found my bridge in the neighbors pasture, and got 4 of his cows out of the creek and back in his pasture - every notice a cow wants to do the opposite of what you want! [tounge] Managed to clean out the river rock that had piled up at the mouth of the culvert with the back hoe and spread it along the drive in place of the gravel lost. Does not match - but Nyla (the wife) says see likes the river rock better than the quarry rock! /w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif That is how I got one of the tractors stuck. Backed the zetor up with the Kelley B600. started digging away. Then the wet bank gave way. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif I was hangin' like a monkey from the ROPS while the zetor was positioned for lift off. /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif Glad the camera is broke. Else my wife would have been posting pics everywhere! /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif

 

[MChalkley]

cedarranch - <font color=blue>I would sound drunk just trying to sing that song sober!
</font color=blue> I think that's part of the appeal of it - I think it's outrageously funny, but I've been told I have a strange sense of humor... /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Well, it sounds like you took the bull by the horns (almost literally) and jumped in (again, almost literally) and tore up some stuff (uh, yeah, almost literally). Sometimes you just have to "do something, even if it's wrong". But it sounds like you feel better for your efforts and, since the topic of this thread is "Depression", I'd say you made a whole lot of progress! /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif