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RDCanecutter

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  1. I don't get it. I enjoy planting okra and cherry tomatoes. For the rest, we recently finished up needed repairs on the garage and the roof. Our neighbors mostly bought new cars. Hope the guys who did our work are back safely hanging around the Green River in the Huasteca with savings in their pockets.
  2. Just when you think you know Peggy Hill...
  3. A'ight I just got the "executive" membership to Costco, and now I fully expect my phone to start blowing up with offers of gold under spot price. Which I resell 15 minutes later, for more. What are the cool kid tricks for doing this? How do you know when it's on sale? Is it only in-store, or can you order it online?
  4. Counterpoint: considering the alcoholism and PTSD, those old numbers are way better than you'd think.
  5. That dude is gonna pull with the "I-gwas-deported, I -am-so longly" schtick.
  6. Basically, Early George Wallace the place.
  7. If the guy had any Dos Equis Man in him, he'd sell all his crap and go live like a baron (rookies live like kings) in Venezuela with his Lady Love, and maybe grill out with local politicians that he very tastefully cultivates as friends.
  8. You're doing it wrong. Enter the Buc-ee's. Peruse the goods. Spend an extra hour in there everytime they want to stop. Be the one who makes them hate the place.
  9. I've got a feeling she won't stay lonely.
  10. I hope you can take something he told you, showed you, or gave you to help you make it through this time.
  11. This changes everything.
  12. Back to trivial shit like the food supply, I've seen this movie before. We had an unusually gumpy state senator named Scott Beason, who possessed the reverse Midas touch of turning everything to shit. One of his deeds was to wreck the picking of tomatoes. (another was to harass a cleaning lady at Miles College by turning her water off, but he doesn't know that.) Beason is a dead-squirrel toupee-wearing churchy-chik-fil-a drip. He finally got voted out, in Alabama, after being too bone-headedly doctrinaire. https://www.al.com/wire/2011/10/chandler_mountain_farmers_comp.html After talking with farmers at the tomato shed, Beason visited the Smith family's farm. Leroy Smith, Chad Smith's father, challenged the senator to pick a bucket full of tomatoes and experience the labor-intensive work. Beason declined but promised to see what could be done to help farmers while still trying to keep illegal immigrants out of Alabama. Smith threw down the bucket he offered Beason and said, "There, I figured it would be like that."
  13. Aptera: a wingless parthenogenetic female aphid that lives on the definitive host plants producing other generations of like aphids and later a generation of alates (Merriam-Webster)
  14. Poverty is a feature of fascism.
  15. @troph certain coins, eg American Eagles, Mexican Libertads, maybe some others, get you a better price when you sell, quite likely over spot. Also, I'd call everybody. You can see a 10% difference in payout just by doing recon. The best paying coin store here is a simple hole in the wall. The big one that claims to offer the most is about 3rd on the list. I would take it slow and also see if anything has numismatic mark-up, ie rare coins that have been graded. Those should bring you extra $ if you're not in a hurry.
  16. Think I'll roll down to Waffle House and have some eggs today. After I get dressed.
  17. There's a new Buc-ees down the road. Useful for taking a shit. Not sure I ever spent a dime there.
  18. I reckon you wanna do this right, pardner.
  19. Personally I'd want that tank raised above roof level so I do my water pumping before a major catastrophe, not during it. People will get used to the appearance. Hell, gussy it up like an upstairs room if sensitivities are delicate.
  20. Me I'll just learn to play the banjo. Ain't no ICE gonna hang around long oncest they hear that.
  21. Ewww... dude was born in 1936, at least go for legal-age mid-50s Robert Redford.
  22. Yep. About the only place you'd see a wooden building in Mexico-- and rare at that-- is in a border town. I got to see a ton of house building in Colima in 2003 right after an earthquake. They'd build square pillars (castillos) out of brick, put cinder block walls between them, and do the roof in concrete as well. Leave a little "garden" thingy with a separate roof on it, you have some kids and pop that off, garden becomes the staircase for the new second story. Top it all off with some heavy plastic Moorish trimmings, you're in business.
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