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This afternoon I was filling up the truck when a fellow I know pulled in to do the same.?ÿ He had a pretty, red, thick-walled aluminum farm gate about 18 feet long strapped to his pickup and projecting well above the cab.?ÿ I strolled over and politely asked, "Christmas present for your wife?"?ÿ He said, "You bet it is!?ÿ She's been whining about that old extra-tight wire gate down in the east pasture since the day we got married.?ÿ She's getting to an age now where she simply doesn't have enough 'umphhh' to open and close it without struggling."?ÿ I wanted to be a mouse in the corner when he announced the new gate was her Christmas present.
I got my wife a dewalt 20v impact, and driver/drill set for her birthday. She still loves that thing to this day!
Nate
My bother Holden fancied himself a guitarist.?ÿ This was the late fifties when rock-and-roll and bee-bop could only be whispered.?ÿ?ÿ
Holden practiced on an old arched top Harmony borrowed from an uncle.?ÿ The heavy gauge wire-wound Black Diamond strings were guaranteed to make your fingers bleed.?ÿ Holden wanted an electric guitar for Christmas.
Sure enough Christmas morning came and delivered Holden a brand-spanking-new Silvertone electric guitar from Sears-Roebuck.?ÿ He was so over the moon he failed to notice the guitar came with no amp.?ÿ Selective oversight from our father I'm sure.
I always thought it was a crummy deal to get an electric guitar with no amp.?ÿ But you couldn't convince Holden of that train of thought.?ÿ If you got real close when he was playing you could pick out the tune.
By spring he had somehow horse-traded for a used electric amp.?ÿ It was no bigger than an overnight case but it made a wonderful sound.?ÿ At least I thought so...after sharing a bedroom with him and listening to him play that guitar with no amp.?ÿ All I could hear before that was the pick hitting the strings.
The amp was a pleasant change that came none too soon.?ÿ 😉
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This is what arrived on Christmas night in my yard:
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How long was it before "the ol' man" threw the amp, or Holden and the amp out? ?????ÿ
Stick a marijuana plant in it, somebody will steal the whole thing. ?????ÿ
@flga-2
Uh....Dude.... What does one of them things look like??ÿ There is a local school organization raising funds by placing hot pink ceramic items in people's front yards right now.?ÿ Saw one setting in the driveway of a place that's on my project list.?ÿ The owner is one of the prominent businessmen in that town.?ÿ I would need to set my alarm for 3:00 a.m. in order to slip in at the slowest possible time for traffic, while wearing a black garbage bag from head to toe and walk in from several hundred feet distant just in case he has any game cameras set up.
@flga-2
He didn't, amazingly.?ÿ I can remember Pops yelling for him to 'turn it down', but he never went past that.?ÿ Might have been because our bedroom was an attic room.?ÿ The "stairway' looked more like a ladder and probably would have been difficult for Pops to navigate.?ÿ He had "vertigo" from the war and fell down a lot in the evenings.?ÿ (Momma called it "Schlitz Disease").?ÿ ;)?ÿ ?ÿ
However occasionally I use to take and hide one of the tubes out of the amp when I was pissed at Holden.?ÿ That caused several fist-fights between us.
says the Kansan. Which is believable, based on how your state treats possessors of marijuana. I might could relate a story of a really expensive joint...
Wild hemp is a familiar plant in certain areas where, during WWII, hemp was raised as a commercial crop legally on many thousands of acres.?ÿ Nearly impossible to kill out completely.?ÿ That stuff can really grow TALL and THICK.
Super-sheriff leaping out of a car trunk to arrest the bad guys...........
ha- yes, you forget that I??m a native husker (though I wouldn??t expect anyone to remember that), and am familiar with how fence lines are up in those parts. And how, invariably, every Christmas my uncle (who was chief of police) would relate the year??s best tales of confiscating trash bags of fence line ??weed? from some halfwitted high schooler that got pulled over.
I just... well, I reckon I was the halfwitted not high schooler who came clean and told the trooper I had a joint on me on my way up to see the folks 7-8 years ago. A gram of way-better-than-fenceline stuff ended up costing me 6k when all was said and done. Car got raided, the tribal, city, county, and state cops all pulled up one by one, each checking their complexion in the mirror before exiting their vehicle, as to appear their best for the photos of the impending giant bust... they were all pretty pissed when, after an hour of tearing my car apart and having my kids ask them 50 times when they could use the bathroom, they figured out I wasn??t lying and only had a joint on me.
the most absurd part of the whole thing came a couple years later, when my attorney (the guy, who, had it been a year earlier would have been prosecuting me) emails me some sob story about how he??s trapped in the Ukraine with his refugee relatives and needs money to help them escape.
Really awful present:
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Boston Brady survey equipment.
David White survey equipment.
Or, a big brass reproduction compass, "made in India"
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Thanks,
N
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