We used to keep a refrigerator in the farm shop loaded up with several gallon jugs (mostly old Clorox jugs).?ÿ Would stick a couple in the freezer every night, then the next day take one from the freezer and one from the refrigerator.?ÿ Weren't no need for coolers, a couple of paper fertilizer sacks, one stuffed into the other and rolled shut at the top would keep them both cold enough that by the time the cold one was used up, the frozen one was melting to last the rest of the day.?ÿ If there was a hay or tobacco crew, we used the old metal Igloo coolers with a spout.?ÿ Didn't need cups, just sit it up on the edge of the wagon/truck and drink like a chicken.
Many years ago a carpenter friend of ours used a Clorox jug as his water jug.?ÿ He was working inside of a lady's house one day when he stopped to get a drink.?ÿ Grabbed the wrong Clorox bottle.?ÿ Sputtered and spit and spit and spit.?ÿ Had inhaled some fumes, too.?ÿ Thought he was going to die right there.?ÿ He survived.?ÿ No lasting damage.?ÿ Last day he used a Clorox jug.
It's been high 90s and into the 100s here??æ
I drink water and spit seasoned sunflowerseeds but the real trick to beat the heat is to quit early and head to the river or the bar?????ÿ
If anyone can recomend a class 3 vest for working in hot weather, or any hi-vis clothing for hot weather I am all ears.
?ÿBut I would take that heat over the humidity of Mississippi Tennessee South Carolina or North Carolina and sometimes Virginia any day. ?ÿ
And Georgia...this summer has been a tough one. It wasn't too many years ago that we beat the record for days over 90 degrees in Athens at 87 days (54 straight). We are running a good pace of 90+ days this year too. Muggy mornings blah!
@david3038 Is Ben McElroy still alive and practicing??ÿ I always had a great deal of respect for Ben.
Andy
Hey Andy. Ben is my Father-in-law. He retired back in 2018 at 85. Was still going in the field every day.
He lives on 9 acres and works outside every day for at least 8 hours. He is 89 now and just got over a small bout with Covid. He was still mowing and tending his garden through that.?ÿ
He's something else.
@david3038 yes Georgia is hot. I lived there for a while after my USMC days .?ÿ
Feels like 80 to me.?ÿ
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
@david3038 It's great to hear that Ben is still going.?ÿ I hope you learned a lot form him, he had a lot to give.?ÿ He probably won't remember me but tell him Andy said hey. I was president of SAMSOG back in 2002-2003 that may jog his memory.
Andy
A non-smoking, non-drinking guy has to have some sort of vice, you know.
?ÿMy wife got me to cut back (quit) drinking almost ten years ago. ?ÿNow she wants me to cut back (quit) cussing. ?ÿI said, ??f**k that shit.? ?ÿI??d be perfect. ?ÿThen she??d want to move on to some new project.
?ÿI said, ??[coitus] that [poop].?
Holy shit! ?ÿThat is funny!
Must be a Sheldon Cooper censor floating around in cyberspace today.
Wendell's software is making interesting replacements. If you quote one of the censored posts, you can still see the original words. They get replaced in the process of posting.
I wonder what other substitutions it does. Let's try a small animal - coon. Edit: That one used to get bleeped.
Tried a couple that might get banned and they didn't.?ÿ I'll have to try hard on the next try.