Good Morning OG!
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I hope your doing alright tonight brother. ?
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Good morning gentlemen
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I’m about as ‘right’ as it gets for me cuz lol but soon to be even ‘righter’ (said as I light my concentrate topped bowlpack)
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How’s things going for you on your homefront?
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I’d have to look too long and hard to find a reason to complain. That’s too much work so… We are doing fine. 
Work is getting done around here but now the fun starts in earnest. I have a lot of trees that I ringed a while back that are standing dead and I haven’t got but, maybe, a cord of firewood up for the winter. I used to love cutting and busting but those days are long past. lol
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lol don’t I remember them days! And damn glad they are no mo! Chopping/stacking wood to get ahead of the cold
lol We had a big ol double door flat-top Ben Franklin woodstove that seriously got a LOT of use, since it was our primary heat source and also cooked on.
Back when our sons were younger(7,6 &5), we bought a gutted house and lived in it while also doing the remodel… lol never again!
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There’s nothing like a cranking hot wood stove in the deep Winter though. And a little mix gas is a lot more affordable than electric or natural gas. I still have dads double axe just in case the world falls apart. lol
Worst Worst scenario. Other than that, it’ll hang in the barn. lol
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Ya ever get a wood stove cranking so hard the doors go translucent, and you can see the flames dancing through the metal? We had to open the door to help cool it off in there. Sweating with snow on the ground! lol
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I have never. That one stovepipe fire we had was, probably, about as scared as I have ever been in that way. When we rebuilt the ceiling and put in a new pipe I put two dampers in the dang thing. One is down by the stove and there’s another up in the attic that has a pull lever so I can shut off both ends and kill a flame right now!
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When I was a youngster, we had a house with a central old-school fireplace with 4 hearths. Fronting in two rooms downstairs and 2 rooms upstairs. That was one helluva house! Built in the 1800s lol When grandpaw installed running water & tore down the outhouse, grandma was so damn happy!
(also installed electricity!) I’m talking about the early 1950s lol
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I’ll never tear my outhouse down. We had to replace the well pump twice because of lightening. The outhouse still worked after all these years. lol
My daughter absolutely HATED using it. 
I never heard such grumbling over having to walk ~ 200’ from the back door.
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Those were ‘the days’ huh cuz?! And I’m so damn glad they ‘were’, and not ‘are’
Kids and folks now-a-days take electricity & hot-cold running water for granted!
Those were luxuries when I was young. Hell ( 
) I walked to & from school, uphill both ways! (fact check!) lol
ok maybe that’s a bit of a stretch there… 
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The funny thing is. This is just “how it was” with us as kids. Work was just “how it was”. Drawing water from the well was just “how it was”. Every generation is getting softer and softer because of convenience. A little hardship is a strengthening thing and, I think, a necessary thing in my opinion. The country needs young folks that have backbone. That comes from struggles you learn to work through growing up.
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Very true! We didn’t look at it as hardship, but rather just the way it was
the water had to be drawn from the well and toted inside
the cattle needed feed & water and milked, eggs gathered etc
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Speaking of… I got my coffee down. I’ll catch you after the outside stuff is done.
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Good morning my friends. Hope everyone has a nice day.
I got out of the army in 1976. My girlfriend had a grandma who lived out side of town. She had a well for getting water. I would leave for work a bit early every day and run by to draw a few buckets of water for grandma. She was 92 yrs young and still had no electricity or running water. Still used an outhouse. Went to bed when it got dark and got up when the rooster crowed. I loved that old lady. The stories were always incredible.
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Good morning Johnny, good morning OG’s. Thanks everyone, everything was awesome. I gained a son and he’s a good man, im sure he’ll take good care of my daughter.
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Morning OG!
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