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Shoxthemonkey

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  1. That was the first thought I had when I read Telstar but for the life of me I couldn't remember who the artist was. Thanks
  2. How elitist are we going to be? I was raised on Ellington, Armstrong and the Dukes of Dixieland but I don't want to offend by posting something that isn't "real" jazz.
  3. ^^^^^Windy
  4. New shit has come to light https://kfor.com/2019/07/11/new-details-on-uranium-rattlesnake-found-during-traffic-stop-in-guthrie/ Makes perfect sense now.
  5. Jenkins and Jones
  6. Good on you, Slorch.
  7. I couldn't have written it better than you did, Slorch. It took my mother and I miss her every day. Like somebody else said, if I get it and have enough awareness to see it, I will not put my kids through the struggle of watching me slip away.
  8. This is that same tornado a few miles west of the overpass and a few minutes earlier. They weren't safe under there if it had maintained this intensity.
  9. I stumbled across this and was going to put it in the Songbird thread but I'll just leave it here.
  10. Recipe please. This looks delicious.
  11. Looks lush. What variety of grass is that?
  12. From earlier in the thread.
  13. It sounds like everything is growing like crazy this year. Is goatweed hard to control? Not something we have to worry about here.
  14. A couple pictures of this years brome crop.
  15. We had 3 WDs and a Farmall M with an MW hand clutch retrofit and 4 balers. An M and an H to pull 8' sickle mowers and 3 of the nieces and nephews or wives on 9N Fords with 12' rakes. It was quite a crew. Field lunches were the best. Those old farm wives could cook. It would take us from late August right up to milo harvest to get it all wrapped up. We had a 53 Chevy pickup with a generator/welder mounted in the back. There was a 55 gal drum mounted on a rack for fuel. A bigass anvil and vise hung of the bumper. We had more tools in that truck than we had in our shop. There were damn few problems we couldn't fix out of that truck. I'll have to see if I can find some pictures and scan them in here. You youngsters and your cabs and GPS might get a kick out of it. The most excitement was when one of the rakes would stir up a bumblebee nest or somebody would come across a prairie rattler. The biggest one I ever saw was 18" or so and most were a foot or less. They made up for their lack of size with numbers. Sometimes we would square bale some of the hay to feed our small cowherd and it would get dicey bucking those bales onto a flatbed. The snakes liked to get under the bales and escape the sun. Fun times.
  16. An old trick that my FIL taught me was to water down some mollasses and sprinkle it over the hay. They will slick it right up. We had a 500 head feedlot and had a 1000 gal tank for mollasses that we put in the ration for the fats. I doubt that anybody keeps bulk mollasses around nowadays. We put up 3 1/2 sections of prairie hay using an Allis rotobaler. Just let it lay in the pasture. Then we would buy stocker calves and turn them out on that pasture. It would take them all winter to eat all that hay but there were always remnants of bales that they had bedded on or shit on or whatever. We would drive around burning our .29 cent gas and sprinkle all of that. They would eat everything right up to a cowpie. Very effective. I haven't seen any little round bales for years but I wish I had a dime for every time I pulled the hand clutch on a WD Allis.
  17. I can't imagine owning stock and not being able to pick mine out of the herd. Hobby ranching at its finest, I guess. I proudly put the "Lazy MF" on all my critters.
  18. We put it down 10 days ago and then the rain returned. Over 6". Finally got it baled yesterday after noon. 24 1500# bales. It surprisingly looked pretty good in spite of the rain. At least it wasn't alfalfa.
  19. There are many that I will listen to and never have a problem with. Steve Physioc, however, makes me want to poke my ears with an icepick. Kevin Harlen is my alltime favorite.
  20. One more picture from my wife's phone. She was standing pretty close when she took the shot. She aint skeered. BTW, the balusters are on 4" centers.
  21. Been married 47 years. I think she used to.
  22. That's why I have barn cats. I also have 7 kittens (less than 3 weeks old) on the front porch. I don't want the snek to reduce the mouser numbers. There is a bird nest under the eaves that the snake was after. The wife would be pissed if anything happened to her birds. Some type of swallow that eats bugs so it is allowed to build there.
  23. A couple of nights ago Pulled him off of the post and put him in the pasture about 50 yards from the house. Next morning Took him down to the lake, you can see part of it at the top of this pic, about 400 yards away. He returned this morning so I put him in a bucket and took him to the golf course. I figured he could eat vermin around the cart sheds. Let him go And the SOB made a beeline for my golfcart and crawled behind the airbox. I pulled him out and put him in one of our maintenance sheds. Before you criticize my deck, and it does look sorry, we are rebuilding and painting it. You can see the top of my radial arm saw in the 2nd pic.
  24. Great read. I'm surprised I hadn't read that before. Makes me rethink my aloofness for everything Springsteen.
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