50+ thread

I saw this and had to pass it along. Great way to think about the future heading into the new year.

This too, shall pass. For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.
When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet.
When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish.
At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening.
As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A kid in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents (and now great grandparents) survived through everything listed above.
Perspective is an amazing art. Let’s try and keep things in perspective. Let’s be smart, help each other out, and we will get through this. In the history of the world, there has never been a storm that lasted. This too, shall pass.

 

I did a baked ham, collards, peas, candied yams, and cornbread.

 

Thanks for posting that, very humbling. My parents were born 1918, had some stories, I feel very fortunate.

 

Evening all

 

Chuck, evening.

 

Maybe you can explain fine southern cooking to that Montanan!

 

Well that puts my piddly-ass problems to shame.


But I am still going to post it

 

It's not something you can explain...you have to set it down in front of them and they'll be hooked

 

Mold?

 

Evening Jim

 

What did the penny do?

Thanks for posting.

Mold?

^this

 

Yes, roof has been leaking in my workshed

 

Crap! Is that something you can get rid of with some bleach, or is it going to take some rip out and rebuild?

 

Oh this is a big job, involves a new flat roof, tear out drywall and insulation. But the whole shed needs alot of work

 

You are correct!

 

It was for a prosperous year greens were your paper money and the peas with the penny was change or more likely it went back to coin money of old.

 

The blackeyed peas came from the civil war. when the North came through the south they were told to take or burn anything of value. crops,livestock etc.. they only left blackeyed peas thinking they were only livestock food. that winter the southerners survived on them.

 

Happy New Year. In memory of my dad. He battled through a rough week to make it to the new year. Passed away at 12:35am on January 1,2022. Rest In Peace Dad, and know you are loved. Thank you all for your support. Stay Well…Stay Safe