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Life, is funny !
I really loved her :waah:
I just sucked at scrabble

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I'll just leave this here as a thought question.

How many couples do you know where either the husband or the wife, when it came time to give each other a bite of wedding cake, jammed it into their new spouse's face, and how long did that marriage last?

I was amazed at how many people came up to my wife and me after we fed each other the cake like civilized human beings and were surprised that we hadn't done any cake smearing! We were married in February of '81. That's 37 years. Maybe I should have used more cake. :lol: [ow, ow, ow, I was just kidding, honest, honey!]

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Mrs. Bee and I got married in the courthouse for $75.. went home, changed into work clothes and hauled all the junk out of the house we were buying.. seller had been renting it to some deadbeat packrats and VA appraiser was scheduled for that weekend.. one of our wedding presents was a construction dump trailer load hauled out.. still on our wedding day, had late lunch at 7-11, hot dogs and chips and set off to yosemite for mini honeymoon.. got up there late and got lost in the dark, set us back about three hours.. finally made it to our room on the river with fireplace, hot tub, etc.. got the call from the appraiser half way up some goat trail to a waterfall.. house made value we needed :)

I did buy her a $10k custom platinum diamond ring that is absolutely stunning.. friends of ours are members of newport yaught club hooked us up with their jeweler.. he made a one off tiffany style ring that's probably worth double that in a retail store.. we didn't have a fancy wedding, but she carries a few mortgage payments around on her finger, actually in the safe most of the time..

I'm very fortunate to found an extremely practical woman, even our recent projects on the house are intended to maximize the property value when we sell while making us comfortable while we're in it.. we have modest savings and investments but zero debt other than a comfortable mortgage.. and she's working on a solid retirement while I'm working on my second ;)

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I tried a couple of times but no cigar.. illusive little !@#$ers! one evening while the kids were inside, I did get a quick glimpse of one from the house in the scope.. circled wide behind the garage building and just as I peeked around, zooom! so I circled the shed and when I looked down by the old barn, two big doe grazing.. one facing me looked up, right at me, I could see her nostrils flaring! her girlfriend popped up, wiggled her tail and zooom! wrong time of year of course I get one of the cleanest shots ever :rolleyes:

wish you were closer, I'd hire you! so I guess I'll have to settle for copying your ideas :lol: .. when I get things situated, would love to get a slab in there but I certainly don't want them to undermine that! I'll keep that in mind, thank you! we always had a couple or three dogs running around, I never seen anything bigger than a mouse inside the buildings, maybe a snake or bird occasionally to scare the crap out of you.. even around the buildings, only a few coons and possums passing through.. dad gone, no equipment running frequently and no dogs I think is allowing the critters to get too comfortable there.. might be a losing battle either way until I can move back and get things stirring again..

thank you sir! I'm excited to see it next trip out.. I know it needs bed wood so I'm going to try to have it shipped there ahead of my next visit.. I have been partial to 4wd last few years but I need my mom to be able to get in and out of it easily and not a lot of winter chores without cattle.. the neighbors are leasing the tillable and grazing land.. the farm is needy with dad gone, going to have to step up my game and make more trips than once a year.. working on hiring some equipment repairs right now and couple of very nice neighbors help out quite often thankfully..



and last but not least, good to see ChevyLand around, cheers!:alc:

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I would have come over to help! I took care of an elderly woman's farm needs, as far as structures go, after her husband had passed. Those varmints had probably started setting up shop once he got older and his physical issues had set in. The guy minding the grounds was a city boy so everything was a first time experience. He was constantly running the tractor into their burrows. They were everywhere, and everything that could be burrowed under was. He was making such a half hearted attempt to deal with them. If he got one in the trap you'd think he got them all. I'd tell him set that thing right back out there. They are multiplying faster than you are taking them out. Finally, I started trapping them and lost count at 15, no more than 20. Very little activity around there

Ever since my cat died I have been trapping squirrels and chipmunks. Rabbits haven't been a nuisance, though have munched some flowers. And I had to trap a young groundhog who was setting up shop. I need another cat!

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oh my folks shout and shoot at critters in the garden, and we get a fair amount of them.. two giant walnut trees in the front yard as well a few of its descendants nearby keep the squirrels hauling their nuts all over the place.. deer standing on the front porch eating mom's flowers.. everybody and their furry cousins in the gardens.. but never have I seen something so destructive to the buildings, it's almost unbelievable how destructive they are..

forgot to mention that, neighbor has trapped several.. but that's a daunting task, probably 5-10 underground or out feeding for every one you see..

without pets around, poison was my first thought but not sure what mom has already tried, she's well versed on other types of critter poisons so figured that had already been tried..

and agree totally with a good country raised cat, excellent hunters!

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Nice longhorn killer- snapped a pic of the C50 SPID- he’s the second owner

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^ thank you! wow, that's an awesome C50 with factory A/C!

here's the spid from the longhorn, heading out to work now, stopping at post office to send the $ :)

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/rk5rk9u419s...26637.jpg?dl=0 https://dl.dropbox.com/s/1ts9wns39sf...26870.jpg?dl=0

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That guy was thinking about sitting in that C/50...a/c, radio, and hydraulic steering.

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WE were married in November, '71. I don't think we could afford a cake.

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I applaud your long marriage..

and now you can have your cake, and eat it too :D

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I hesitate to put this in print for fear the CEO might see it, but, a good woman can be key to a mans success.

Of course a bad one can be a man's demise.

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It has a 366 engine with a 4 speed transmission with no 2 speed. I had to research when they started installing the 366. I had only seen small blocks in 50 series. It would be interesting to know what drivetrain Chevyland's example has.

My first dump truck had a 366 with a 4 speed and 2 speed rear. It was a square body. We hauled thousands of yards of dirt with that thing. I traded it for a 71 Cheyenne super a few years ago and the guy is still running the wheels off of it.

In about 1969 a guy down the street from us bought a new 70 series, black with what seemed like chrome everywhere. I still remember those big 427 emblems in the hood. I was in awe of that truck.

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Yep, both are very true. Sorry for doubling the exposure but I'd bet she already knows you feel that way.

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Sort of tagging onto KB's story, when we were first married you could still build and sell a house for a profit around here. I would build houses on the side, move into them and put them up for sale. We moved a lot, she hung in there, and we had our place paid for before we were 30. We haven't had a house payment since 1980.

Same with vehicles. I bought whatever needed repair, fixed it and she drove it. She drove everything from a Grand Am builder to a Mercedes but they didn't have a payment. Now she drives whatever she asks for.

Warning, a story is coming.

We bought her a new Tahoe a while back. The dealer said they would finish the paperwork and I could bring a check by later in the week.


We got home and I said "Now all we have to do is figure out how we are going to pay for it." She replied, "What do you mean WE?".

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That's right. She's your Little Queenie :cool:

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It's a sorry man that can't find his woman a good job. :lol:

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That is of funny, but it brings to mind in doing business around here the last few years we have to look at contracts for what is not in them more than what is.

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:lol: :lol: :lol: Aw man, my stomach hurts :lol:

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:lol::lol::lol::lol:

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On my way up to Clinton, MO to pick up some pipe buggys this morning a Freightliner passed me that said Midwest Truck Sales, Lone Jack, MO. I didn't think about how close I was to Killer Bees stomping grounds until then.

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Got me!! Got my girlfriend too :lol::lol:

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My wife laughed at the FBI one.

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I liked that one too:lol:

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them's good funnies thank you!!

yes sir, all over it! clinton's about an hour south of us..

there's a Midland truck on 50 hwy n F hwy across street from what used to be max's market.. not sure names of either now.. buddy and I took two giant crappie to max's when we were kids, matt won biggest for month and year and we got some free tackle for prizes..

grandma lived in clinton after grandpa passed.. they lived in lowery city in a house he built.. lived in the shed during construction.. when I was a youngin grandpa took me fishing all over truman, sparrowfoot was one of our closest favorites.. lowery city was nothing but a blink on 13 hwy.. but grandpa had a nice orchard and garden..

osceola cheese factory was a favorite stop when we'd go fishing further south.. second cousin I think he is, lives in deepwater.. uncle ran trot lines back in the trees swallowed up by the reservoir.. I ran the lines with him a few times, still remember pulling some doggone gar in the boat just because my uncle was too cheap to cut his gear LoL some of them doggone things were right scary, in the boat anyways.. 'now don't let loose of him, don't let go' he'd tell me.. it's a wonder we never got bit..

you probably came up on 13 across truman.. years ago, grandma and a church friend in her olds 98 traveling south to lowery city from clinton across one of those lake overpasses.. she got her tires over the edge of the asphalt on the shoulder and over corrected.. she shot into oncoming traffic and took the duals out from under the back of a set of doubles going the other way! of course the car was totaled, 13 was closed for hours, and grandma barely had a bruise on her, her friend only slightly worse with a few cuts and a broken arm or something minor.. she was a prayin' woman and no doubt wasn't her time that day!

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13 is a much better highway than it was in the fifties when we lived in Blue Springs.

It's divided highway all the way from here to there now.

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clear up through the 80s when I left for military, blue springs was the nearest traffic signal :lol:

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An old ad. Maybe you should have some of this shipped to the Lone Jack Farm, Killer.

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can groundhogs get asbestosis??

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I think anything with lungs can. Whirlygigs chase off moles, so maybe some bigger ground vibrations would run the hawgs off. I'll leave that to your imagination.

Here's one I herd the other day:

A young man walks into the job center in downtown Los Angeles and sees a card advertising for a gynecolo........... uh, maybe not here. Clean as it may be, I probably said too much already. I'll leave telling to someone else if they feel it's proper for here, LD

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I think Special K is standing in line just west of Albuquerque.

Anybody that wants to be on the inside on this joke will have to PM me their email address.

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Made it to Flagstaff this morning

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I ran up to Ottawa, KS to Ole Marias River Run this weekend. Drove right past the Oceola Cheese Company. Our trucks were well represented. I took a few pics. They are not the greatest work I ever did, because the sun was high and the shade was sketchy.

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I somehow lost a bunch of pictures, but here are a few more.

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Looks like a nice show. I'll take the last three.

I keep reading your signature and thinking I must be diplomatic. A friend once told me another guy we both knew when we were young said this about me, "That Tim is the only person I know who can call you an a-hole in a way that leaves you wondering, did he just call me an a-hole?" :lol:

I don't know if anyone noticed I reversed my signature back in spring. I'm ready to turn it back around again so it makes a little sense maybe