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Got all the stuff out of Mom's apartment, so that part is over, 10 bags of clothing to goodwill a shitload of personal stuff to go through, all her nest buliding material is in the trash and I will have bulky item pick-up take the furniture away.


Still have a shitload of stuff from her house that I haven't gone through.

 

I am sorry for this ....

 

Wishing you strength for the work ahead.

 

Making space for my whole house generator today and had to face what I have been avoiding. I needed to move my tent trailer that has been sitting with a flat tire for over a year. It lost the bead and was flatspotted and misshapen from sitting so long. Filling it with a flammable and lighting it on fire didn't work and after messing around for an hour I finally wrapped it twice with a ratchet strap, once on each edge sinched it tight and bounced it as I aired it up. Damned if that didn't work.

 

We had to do that for my grandparents. We ended up with a 40 foot dumpster just for the complete trash. Unfortunately she got swept up in the sweepstakes game tword the end and had more as seen on TV junk than the front of Walmart.

 

Yeah, I am OK with all of this but it's a pain to haul stuff and get rid of it.

I am starting to eliminate every little thing that I have as a keepsake, my kid shouldn't have to deal with it when I am gone.

 

Ah man, I wish you all the best Andy. Step at a time.

My F-I-L is a minimalist. He doesn’t have any keepsakes, knick knacks, and honestly has only enough clothes for a week. He has tools and some firearms, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he sells them when he has an opportunity. A few years ago I received a couple boxes in the mail and inside was just about every gift that I had ever given him for B-days and Christmas’ over the years.

He has the mind set of ‘I came into the world with nothing, and I will leave the same way’.

We get along just fine, but he’s a goofy bastard when it comes to certain things. I think it stems from when he was 6 years old and his parents divorced and neither one wanted any of the six kids, so they dumped them all in an orphanage.

But what do I know...

 

Yeah, that's the way I want to be. I have a good collection of tools that I will keep, and pass on to the kid but other than that and technology, that would be all. Pants, I guess I could keep a pair.

 

Good morning friends. Monday is upon us.

 

Ahhh, that Monday morning feeling

 

Good morning.

Monday.

Raining here.

 

Good morning TW. Chin up @CVYota ..aka Andy I believe?

My Texas drama update. No cold water in kitchen or my daughter's bathroom. Need three 3/4" couplings and two 3/4" elbows to get everything back in working order. ZERo parts available around here so ordered online. 2 big ole holes in utility room sheetrock and a pile of soaking wet insulation was pulled. Going to let it dry out for about a month before I button everything back up and paint. I'd rather do plumbing than tape/float/paint. Hope y'all have a great day and week ahead.

 

Football seems a bit random unless you are going to plug the drain with it. You will be getting sewer gases if that is not plugged

Besides its not like Texas even has a football team anymore

 

Ha! Yep i don't clean in places folks don't see. Benefits of being a bachelor in my 50s. Believe it or not that football has been missing for quite some time. Just like texas football...aka tsip football for the orange crew down here. BUT, let's talk about my fight'n Texas Aggies and how well they did this year. Ole Jimbo is finally making up for lost time. And yep i'm probably jinxing our season next year. But we're still trying to fit into the SEC powerhouse we all know and love.

 

UT go big Orange

 

Monday Morning all,

Have a great day..

RJ

 

Morning all

 

I'll be headed to Washington, MO in a few minutes, hold all my calls, send a memo out to the folks and have Martha arrange a meeting at 4pm for the supervisors. WAIT.....Phuck all that, I'm retired. LMAO...
Zim