Oldtent Archives 2007 - 2008

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1920’s, 30’s 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks some of us took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a Ute on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Red Rooster.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn’t open on the weekends, somehow we didn’t starve to death!

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Fruit Tingles and some fire crackers to blow up frogs and lizards with.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren’t overweight because……

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our billy- carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and cubby houses and played in creek beds with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape or DVD movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms……….WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no Lawsuits from these accidents.

Only girls had pierced ears!

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross buns at Easter time…….no really!

We were given Daisy air guns and shanghais for our 10th birthdays,

We drank milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had eaten grass covered in nuclear fallout from the atomic testing at Maralinga in 1956.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Mum didn’t have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!

Footy had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather straps and bully’s always ruled the playground at school.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

Our parents got married before they had children and didn’t invent stupid names for their kids like “Kiora” and “Blade”…..

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 70 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO

DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn’t it?!

In the last few months, I purchased a lotto ticket at the local ‘Tractor Supply’ store. It was a ticket to win a 1953 John Deere Tractor, fully restored. I regret to inform you, I did not have thw winning ticket. 1953…..the very year I was born. I was hoping. Really hoping…..but another has claimed such a prize.

Could not help but think of you, and some old rusted out pictures you once posted.

Can only hope this evening. That the winner of such a fine article. Cares for, takes care for…..a legend of our very own history.

Best, Farmboy

You bet I’m gonna have some RSWF after my conversation tonight with that mad irishman .. Now he’s got me chasing down Scarab to remind him to bring down frozen pork chops along with the customary duty fee of cigs and java… Oh yeah there was one other message to Scarab but sheesh if I could understand half the stuff he says with that damn accent I’d probably check myself into the looloo bin saran wrap and all..O Scarab where ever you are, dingdong, Belize is calling..

4-0 on the season, defending their Grey Cup Championship…. Most people think of Hockey as having the long history in canada, but Football goes a long way. In fact the modern game of football was developed from rugby in Canada at McGill university and adopted by the americans after a game between McGill and Harvard in 1874.

This year will be the 96TH Grey Cup!!!!!

“1874

The rules of a hybrid game of English rugby devised by the University of McGill were first used in the United States in a game at Boston between McGill and Harvard. On May 14, Harvard won 3-0 using Harvard rules. The next day, the teams tied 0-0 while playing Canadian rules. Harvard liked the new game so much they introduced it into the Ivy League. Both U.S. and Canadian football evolved from these games.”

www.footballcanada.com/history_timeline.asp

23C today, clear blue skies, gentle breeze …… ah, beautiful one day, perfect the next.

weekend goofiness within the region of the Salish Sea.  British Columbia’s mystery of the missing feet ( actually it is the mystery of the not missing feet but the missing bodies to go with the feet).  The link below is today’s Globe&Mail synopsis of forensic conclusions to date.  Two or three highlights struck me.  First was the U.S. coroner from the San Juan Islands who, despite the torrent of publicity about the human  feet showing up on Salish Sea shores, decided it was time to belated mention that he knew about a footless body found on Orcas Island.  The coroner is quoted as saying “I certainly could have made an inquiry sooner……There was a report of shoes with no bodies, and I thought ‘Gee, I have a body with no shoes.  I wonder if they could be related.”  A fast thinker there.

Although not explained in the link below, I was also impressed with a report from the Canadian police in another recent article where they explained that after examining DNA evidence of foot identity that two of the five feet washed ashore were from the same person, adding with remarkable clarity and candor that one was left and the other was right.

The third thing that impressed me, and should impress Fullgoldcrown too, was that the San Juan Islands coroner concluded that his found body had probably been of good background  because he had “several gold inlays” indicating that he had “the means to have some nice dental work done.”

Strange things happen in the Salish Sea beneath the late-setting summer sun  

Cheers.  Equiz.

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Wanted to take these few moments while Comcast allows….(grin) to send you and your wife a word of grateful thanks this evening. Thanks to your homemade soaps/lotions….I wanted you to know I made it through the winter and early spring months with but one or two very slight breaks in the skin of my hands. Tried it all…..Avon, lotion everything….huskers…etc.

This past season was the best for my skin and hands. Had come to accept the annual breaking of skin, bleeding, soreness…..figured, it was just what I had to accept/endure as a way of life.

Tonight giving your soaps a hands up,….and also a word of thanks to Maya, who said to try Vitamin E as well. Best skin I had in a couple decades. Now, if you ever come up with a solution to the arthritis….LOL….I want to be the first to try it.

Best to you and your great family, an apprecitive Farmboy.

Hi.. I didn’t bring up the tanzanite topic , you did, LOL ..Thanks for the web site..some good info there, but personally, I would be hesitant to purch something like that over the internet.. just because I want to see it with my own eyes for color , inclusions and faceting etc..Actually , the one in Aruba was approx 2.5 ct and eyeball wise perfect .. Oh well.. Cheers

Well, read your post. Did kinda leave me wondering though. (grin).

Guess Im glad you got a picture of me actually doing some work at the grill. (Hey, I might need that one day for ‘evidence’ that I actually know how to start a fire….lol)

Oft, and many are the days, I think back on the Georgia Meeting. Guess, in the greater scheme it was of no real important, no real world problems seemed to be accomplished over that weekend. Yet, it was of Great importance for me. In the simple gathering that weekend, to get to shake a few hands, look some in the eye,….and fully understand, the meaning of a Goldheart…another Tenter.

Funny, how a man can sometimes measure a life, in just a few moments. Cant say I yet understand such a statement. Perhaps ‘understanding it’, itself is a journey. All I know, and this I do know, that I would not trade that weekend, for another year of life itself. Some things, a man cannot measure. At least in terms we often frequent.

The pleasure of meeting you, and your wife, and everyone who took the time and trouble to sit around a table…..shall never be forgotten, nor taken lightly. The pleasure, was…selffishly admitted….mine. The difference, it made in my own life…..a story yet to be told.

Thanks for the post. Forever Best, Farmboy

from cknw this am w/ victor adair after news

 http://cknwam.corusradionetwork.com/dynamic/dynamic_audiovault_process.asp?dt=20080719_09

Thanks to a number of reasons, computer time around here is oft far and few between. (Hey Comcast…you suck…lol!!)

Days can go by without service to speak of. I cannot help but ponder, if it is not only just my connection to the great wide internet world, if it somehow symbolizes America, and ALL its problems? I pretty much think it only applies to my own personal life. The long line from the road to the farmhouse, etc. Thats a positive attitude at this point, and I’m sticking too it. Not all that strongly, but would like to think, hope, things in America are really better on the whole. (Dont ask me how I could ever dupe self into thinking such…lol) Probably has a lot to do with our elected/nonelected/chosen leaders….who keep telling me such things as they ‘believe in a strong dollar’, and our President who last week claimed, our economy ‘aint so bad’.

For the reading at the Tent I have been able to see, a Thanks this evening to Floridagold, for posting some excellent articles/opinions. Ditto for Dusty, Fullgoldcrown, Ipso, and a host of others. Wanka, read enough to see you had a couple close calls of late with health issues. Hang in there friend. Looks like some like Maya and Moggy have come to the rescue. Imitate SuperGirl, ….Overcome.

Irish…hope all is going well. Dont let temporary problems steal your joy, or detract from your plans. (Course, you already know this)

Ment, good to see you are willing to drop ship a case of TAcos to Irish if situation becomes dire.

Just buy it….keep up the great work. The great/informative posts.

Titled this post ‘Bits & Dribbles’. One aspect of my thinking was how the govt/Wall ST elites give us tiny bits of information, in bits and dribbles, and always with thier spin, and forever, with a hidden agenda designed to withhold the whole truth, perhaps even the real truth, from the common man. Thankfully, the Tent has a number of folks who can quickly see through the spin/lies/decieit. Carry on GoldTenters. Viva La Tent!!

Was able to catch some of Bernakes/Paulson’s comments last week on CNBC and C Span. I aint that smart of a guy. But even I was able to figure out from comments, body language, pauses in thier answers, the shifting of eyes, etc….they were like a couple of used car saleman (No offense to car sales folks), but in a word, dishonest, about what they really where up to, hoping to accomplish. A few of our elected leaders seem to ‘catch on’. Most just reminded me of the Maestro DAys of Greenspan, and how most cowtowed, sucked up to, the former Fed Chair. Mostly, I was unable to finish my lunch, just left half the sandwhich on the plate. A man’s stomach can only handle so much. But mostly, I would like to think, that the average American is gaining much in the area of agriculutre education. At least to the point they are beginning to recognize, the chewing of the cud, from the sounds escaping from the rear end of a farm animal. Leastways, that is my positive thinking interrpuration of watching the clowns in action.

Meanwhile, back on the farm so to speak, I have watched a number of formerly successful business in Atlanta area close up shop. To my great distress, was Atlanta Bread Co. Drove up to get me a good sandwhich and bowl of soup, to see a ‘Closed Sign’ on the door. Gonna miss thier homebaked breads. Rumors abound that Starbucks is closing 600 stores nationwide. No real loss to me. Unlike the Ment, dont care much for those fancy waterdowned coffees. Black, and Hot…is all I ask. And figured, if I ever….EVER….paid 5 bucks for a cup of coffee….I just ought to be put out to pasture to begin with. (grin)

There was some potential good news last week. Had a couple ears of corn that looked like a UFO had landed in the corn field. The ears had normal looking kernals, and then something that appeared to look like mice brains imbedded amongst them. Turns out, it is a fungi, somewhat to be expected with rains when the corn is in silk. Non toxic, but told to find those ears, and burn up post haste. This information coming from the Country Agr Extension Ofc. Who found my small farm of great interest. Seems, the local colleges, and County cafertias, are MOST interested in purchasing thier produce from local farmers. (Go Figure!) Seems, they no longer wish to pay increased prices for having produce shipped from Mexico….(With somewhat often tainted/dangerous things). Seems the local college and Govt wants to establish relationships with local farms. Now imagine, if that line of thinking takes over on a nationwide basis?

Just goes to figure in a way. Seems, I am beginning to believe more each day, that life has something to do with cycles. Seems, I will return yet again to my ‘roots’. And once again work for the government. (Aint that a hoot). Seems, some have figured out, local farmers can produce better organic products, safer food supplies, than the foriegn ones. I just smiled, told him yes he could come out to my farm. And yes, I would be willing to discuss supplying thier needs. (It wont be cheap…lol)

This Country….Our Country….it is shown to be developing a number of cracks and fissures. From Wall St, to CountryWide Mortgages….to IndyBank….you name it. I feel much more certain today, than even 5 years ago….that having a few ounces of Gold and Silver….maybe even an acre or two, will find worth far beyond thier ‘current measure’.

I think, those that have a little extra, to ‘invest’ in lands beyond our borders….may still do well to consider carefully, the location of a ’second or vacation home’. IF one is determined to ‘make it happen here in the USA’, I think listening to the likes of Moggy, will perhaps be the only hope.

In every situation, there remains an opportunity. As I see it, (dont mean I am right), but opportunity abounds in these modern days. Let us not cling to the past….what ‘worked’ in the past. Let us look forward, beyond, what our life as thus seen and experienced. Let us seek value, true value….and begin to lay the foundation of what must come next.

Bits, and dribbles this saturday evening, and best, and blessings to all. Farmboy

Has anyone thought about how long

how long is a china man

But, there is also one teeny weeny little catch………….as discussed with SabesBud, the other night………..

I just wanted to see if Ferret could hold a thought………I think he passed out.

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pmfciiyc

by ment17 @ 21:25 pm.

Hold that thought.

GR

arm getting tired here

…thats a beauty….saved at editorials..

….soo bottom Line….We WIN / win…..Depression / Inflation no matter …..wooooohooooo