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  1. phideaux

    Curmudgeon AKA Bruce Chandler

    I'm truly sorry to hear this. He was a good person. I remember when he joined the forum . My sincere condolences go out to the entire family. Jim
  2. phideaux

    Old cottonfields

    I think my grampa would get his truck full and feed it in the feed troughs with corn. Hard to remember some things. Jim
  3. phideaux

    What's everybody doing today?

    Busy day today. First off , I'm so stinking tire I can't get going. Like @Spikedriver , hard manual labor is getting this old body down , but it feels good . Gotta have Eli at the Vet at 11am for shot. Then lunch. I think we're staying in today with all beef hot dogs, cuz I want to put up the...
  4. phideaux

    Old cottonfields

    @Peanut , trying to remember, Did some folks feed ginned cotton seeds to hogs and cattle? Jim
  5. phideaux

    Old cottonfields

    I remember in Tennessee , during cotton picking time, schools closed for cotton picking, for 3 weeks I think. Kids worked the fields back then. I also remember the cotton seed mounds , out behind the gin. That's where the biggest fishing worms I've ever seen were dug up under the seeds. Some...
  6. phideaux

    Old cottonfields

    Exactly the scales. You know I don't mind the photos. All the posts are good, and takes me back to my youth Jim
  7. phideaux

    What's everybody doing today?

    Been working on the right side of porch landscape. Taking a break. Gonna run up the road for a quick BBQ lunch. Then back at it. 77 deg and low humidity...perfect for outside work. Waiting for wife to pick me up. She's down the road helping my daughter with lunch. Im old , I can really tell...
  8. phideaux

    Old cottonfields

    I hated picking cotton worse than chopping . We never had a cotton picker . My grampa hired a bunch of black folks to come pick, along with us . Yep packed a lotta cotton in my day. I had rather be picking than packing. Dragging them sacks was brutal , I think I was 10 or 12 when I graduated...
  9. phideaux

    Old cottonfields

    Sitting under shade trees at lunch time for lunch . Looked forward to that break. Usually blony or spam sammich. Always a moon pie. Seems I remember @Peanut , was Cotton on PS. Hmmm wonder why. Jim
  10. phideaux

    Old cottonfields

    Got up at 6 and, the dog said get up. So I did , took him out. While sitting there watching him , my mind wandered back, way back to when I was a kid. The older I get the more my mind wanders. Today I went back to the early , mid 50s. My grampa , my Gramma, my mo , my sister , me, and sometimes...
  11. phideaux

    What's everybody doing today?

    Well I survived the WM trip. I got my Ant spray and sit on the bench waiting. Wife went to Cato's, I waited in truck. She got 3 tops and a skirt...🙄🙄🙄 We had lunch. Nothing special. Got home , did some mowing. Then went and got a truck load of mulch. Worked on the left side of porch area. Got...
  12. phideaux

    What's everybody doing today?

    Gonna be dragged off to WM to pickup a few things. Need some ant spray, they're invading my pantry. Have lunch. Then, if the dew has lifted , will be mowing. 37 deg on front porch when I got up . HEAVY dew. Eli took care of business quickly. Probly do a little more landscape work on front of...
  13. phideaux

    Jokes and Humor

    Jim
  14. phideaux

    What's everybody doing today?

    @hashbrown , I bet she just told you " a man's got to know his limitations". Chicken chick . Jim
  15. phideaux

    Hello

    Welcome from West KY Jim
  16. phideaux

    What's everybody doing today?

    I got hooked , sucker punched , on the golf cart delivery. She told me it was 10 minutes from her house to the restaurant. I shoulda map it before agreeing to deliver. It was 15 miles of the narrowest , roughest , crookedest KY back roads , I've ever been on. We left my house at 12:15 got to her...
  17. phideaux

    What's everybody doing today?

    You can't imagine what a relief. I'm so DONE with any remodeling . This house was my last hoorah. Jim
  18. phideaux

    What's everybody doing today?

    Told y'all I'd put up pic of that room that robbed me of 10years of my life , just in stress. 10 years I don't have. Notice the closet is full of ONLY SKIRTS. then notice how particular she is with 6 clothes hampers.... bath linen , bed linen, blues ,reds, colors , blacks. Drives me crazy Jim
  19. phideaux

    Jokes and Humor

    Jim
  20. phideaux

    What's everybody doing today?

    Looks like the old golf cart sold last night on Marketplace. 2 hours after listing. Like cars they're hard to find and are expensive. Sold for $3800. Only hitch is , she pays full price if I deliver. We were going to her town for lunch today, so kill 2 birds. That's about it for today. Cool...
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