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General >> Chit-Chat (for poking fun and off topic subjects) >> When Life gives you lemons .... http://www.kragcollectorsassociation.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1569423332 Message started by butlersrangers on Sep 25^th, 2019 at 2:55pm

Title: When Life gives you lemons ....
Post by butlersrangers on Sep 25^th, 2019 at 2:55pm

The 'tree service' arrived today to remove recent storm damage. A huge Box Elder 'shattered', next to my barn, doing some minor damage.

Looks like, I get a new toilet seat out of the deal ......

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Title: Re: When Life gives you lemons ....
Post by Whig on Sep 25^th, 2019 at 4:26pm

What a fabulously massive and beautiful tree. Sorry it did so much damage but the toilet seat is a real prize! Lots of history in that tree seat.

Title: Re: When Life gives you lemons ....
Post by butlersrangers on Sep 25^th, 2019 at 5:05pm

We'll miss the shade. It kept the barn cool.

I gave the "Seat" to the crew. They're going to hang it on the wall at their office to "frame" the Employee of the Month!

Title: Re: When Life gives you lemons ....
Post by Knute1 on Sep 26^th, 2019 at 12:33am

For some reason, seeing this impromptu "toilet seat" makes me think of corn cobs from a "rougher" past. :o

Hope your place gets back into good order.

Your a redneck if you can answer this. If you had both red corn cobs and white corn cobs, which one would you use first and why?

Title: Re: When Life gives you lemons ....
Post by psteinmayer on Sep 26^th, 2019 at 11:42am

Now there's a question I would have never imagined! :D

Title: Re: When Life gives you lemons ....
Post by Culpeper on Sep 26^th, 2019 at 2:22pm

There goes a lot of fire wood for the coming ice age. Wait, um, Global warming. Ice age is so 1970s.

Title: Re: When Life gives you lemons ....
Post by Local Boy on Sep 26^th, 2019 at 2:47pm

Funny, I'm sitting here reading this thread and drinking my coffee and I have this insatiable urge for a doughnut!

Good bye to Chuck's Acer negundo friend. :'(

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Title: Re: When Life gives you lemons ....
Post by butlersrangers on Sep 26^th, 2019 at 2:47pm

Box Elder is not fire wood. It generates no BTU's. I would have used up a lot of hardwood to burn up that junk wood.

Title: Re: When Life gives you lemons ....
Post by Knute1 on Sep 27^th, 2019 at 1:02am

I may be pushing it on the corn cobs. But you use the red ones first. Follow-up with a white one to make sure everything is in order. So says my Dad. I never had to try this theory out myself.

Title: Re: When Life gives you lemons ....
Post by butlersrangers on Sep 27^th, 2019 at 4:00am

Did somebody say Wooden ... Donuts!

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Title: Re: When Life gives you lemons ....
Post by HeyJoe on Sep 27^th, 2019 at 1:48pm

My father was a miser
He'd never waste a thing
How I do remember
How I do remember
The corn cob on a string

Title: Re: When Life gives you lemons ....
Post by psteinmayer on Sep 27^th, 2019 at 5:36pm

Title: Re: When Life gives you lemons ....
Post by Capt. Frank on Sep 27^th, 2019 at 6:19pm

No corn cobs for me, I prefer the Sears catalog.

Title: Re: When Life gives you lemons ....
Post by Knute1 on Sep 27^th, 2019 at 10:04pm

Gee, I stopped using Sears catalogs when they went to glossy pages.

Title: Re: When Life gives you lemons ....
Post by Capt. Frank on Sep 28^th, 2019 at 3:55pm

Yeah, that paper was kinda rough.

Title: Re: When Life gives you lemons ....
Post by psteinmayer on Sep 29^th, 2019 at 4:00pm

Capt. Frank wrote on Sep 28^th, 2019 at 3:55pm:

Yeah, that paper was kinda rough.

Can't be as rough as the paper they provided us on the Aircraft Carrier! ;D

Title: Re: When Life gives you lemons ....
Post by Culpeper on Sep 30^th, 2019 at 8:00am

Or the stuff the West Germans had at a location south of Stuttgart in the mid 80's. One of our guys said their stuff could be used to remove bondo from car panels. He was prone to extreme opinions. ...but only by a little.

Title: Re: When Life gives you lemons ....
Post by Local Boy on Sep 30^th, 2019 at 1:24pm

Back in the day, I think U.S. Milspec requirements dictated that the enlisted paper roll, type toilet, 1 EA, be between 100 to 220 grit.

Officer paper roll was to be between 400 to 600 grit.

Title: Re: When Life gives you lemons ....
Post by HeyJoe on Sep 30^th, 2019 at 1:31pm

Officers also could have no splinters.