Hobo Jungle

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I found this Arizona Poppy behind the storage shed yesterday. Spring must be here.

Nice color in that photo - be a long time until we have anything blooming around here...... got any more, please post them - we need some of that to look forward to!

[The Dirt]

Hey guys! We've all heard Rufus talking about how he does some wood-cutting when he's up at his place in Pennsylvania...

Well, how-'bout-it, I got a picture from one of his neighbors, when three of them were helping our Rufus move some of them logs around.

That'd be Rufus topmost in the upper right. 'Cording to his neighbor, that is...

[2railjon]

LOL, Pete! That would explain why he never runs out of those flatcar sticks kits!!!!!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

"Cording to his neighbor..." Oh, I got it. Cute.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Hey guys! We've all heard Rufus talking about how he does some wood-cutting when he's up at his place in Pennsylvania...

Well, how-'bout-it, I got a picture from one of his neighbors, when three of them were helping our Rufus move some of them logs around.

That'd be Rufus topmost in the upper right. 'Cording to his neighbor, that is...

Yup! And those other 2 wood hicks are my brother Darryl and my other brother Darryl.

We left Dad over at the house to work on the garden...

[E7]

That logging shot must'a been the day Rufus got his double bit out!

Rich

[E7]

I found this Arizona Poppy behind the storage shed yesterday. Spring must be here.

Wayne,

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Great shot Wayne!

Rich

[The Dirt]

You guys don't realize- Rufus' operation is bigger than you think.

Here's his millpond, sawmill, water tower, power house, and conveyor for his scraps to go to his kindling mill.
He uses his Farmall Cub (out of sight in front of his log cart) to pull them here to dump them.
Heck, he even has his track graded so they roll the right way!
That'd be Rufus alongside the log cart...



(Certainly no aspersions toward Rufus, but word is he makes his Mom do the pond work, poling his logs to the jackslip)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

That logging shot must'a been the day Rufus got his double bit out!

Rich

In as much as I do have several double bit axes, I prefer a single bit that I've been using now for 36 years that has a custom shortened handle to balance my somewhat long arms.

However, in this time zone and reality I much prefer my Stihl....

(Certainly no aspersions toward Rufus, but word is he makes his Mom do the pond work, poling his logs to the jackslip)

Incorrect; that's my Great-Aunt......Mom's keeping the boiler fired.

[AG]

However, in this time zone and reality I much prefer my sthil

me too!



AG

[AG]

BTW where is HEV? for a while I don't see him!
AG.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Perhaps, he is trying to keep his head above snow? The Dirt, too?

[AG]

Perhaps, he is trying to keep his head above snow? The Dirt, too?

no kidding! what about you?
AG.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Yesterday was the first we toddled out of the house, after more than a week. We were holdng onto each other as we had an ice and frozen slush adventure trying to traverse from our vehicle at curbside to stores. Even strip-malls were a challenge, since many parking spaces are consumed by 15' high mounds of plowed snow; also, many drivers don't realize one has to approach corners blinded by snow mounds very cautiously so that accidents don't occur.

Also, I was asked to serve at Mass tomorrow but had to decline due to precarous driving/parking and my having the flu - I didn't want to infect anybody, nor run 'em over on the way home as they walked along the edges of the roads' snow & ice shoulders. There are no shoulders anymore - just plowed snow heaps, unending. I'm beginnig to wonder if I should hire somebody to shovel my roofs.

We've been hacking at the ice on our front steps for days, now, but to no avail. I ended up putting porch chairs on the walkway to block entry and an orange highway hazzard cone blocking the sidewalk in front. To get the mail two days ago, I gave up trying to mince and skitter to our rural mailbox and simply went down on my hands-&-knees and crawled my way there, leaping at the last minute for the post. Returning the direction I went there did not seem a wise option, so I sat my ample-butt on the driveway entrance lip and slid down to the garage door - no sled required. As I only had on one layer of sweatpants, the un-sled ride ended up being a bit of a "rush."

And all this idiocy is at age 67. Whatthell will we do at 85? We wonder.

[webenda]

And all this idiocy is at age 67. Whatthell will we do at 85? We wonder.

That's easy--get crampons or move to Boynton Beach, FL.