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MFDAC said:
Your pressure washer works great, Kenny! Pretty valuable tool for sure! Glad that JD started running better after you gave it the additives!




I have had those feelings ever since I was your age, Aaron! Today in 100* heat with hip waders on repairing broken equipment down in a tank at a sewer plant, I decided that soon as I am able to get full social security on April 4th 2023, I am going to retire! I was never smart enough to have a job that wasn't bust a$$ labor and I'm too damm old for it anymore. Going to put in the date of April 14th as my last day. My wife's birthday is the 15th.

DAC
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That’s good news Doug when I first retired I was so happy I didn’t know what to do with myself. For me it took some getting use to. I felt like I had so much time now I could get everything done. I ended up getting more tired and sore than when I worked. The old saying never put off tomorrow what you can do today isn’t true when your retired. Do what you want today and enjoy yourself the rest will be there tomorrow.
 
The factory was closing when I turned 62 and I had a very hard time finding another job when the first factory closed when I was 50 so on the 31st of the month I turned 62 I went in told them by and that will be 20 years on the 31st of this month. I have been enjoying my time.
 
Cvans said:
Retired at 57. Started SS at 62. Now 72 and the doctor told me today I should be good for another week. You young'uns keep working as I should collect another check next week. :)
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Kind of what I thought about the $15/hr wage stuff going around. That much more in the fund to keep us old folk going a few more years. 3 more moths and will have 10 years on you Chris.
 
Sawdust said:
Those are some good choices. Remember Toys’R Us I miss that place.
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Our toys r us closed a few years ago. It was such a fun place to take the kids. We have no stores just for kids anymore. Target really expanded their toy department when toys r us closed. So at least there is a good selection.

the oldest doesn’t care about toys. Cooper likes nerf guns and water stuff. But nothing else really. Adeline at 5 still likes Barbie’s and baby dolls. The oldest gave away 90% of her toys to the Salvation Army. The only stuff she kept was sentimental value items that are in a box in her closet.

ugh they grow up quick!
 
What I did on my summer vacation? Worked on my rust bucket truck. Can't afford a new one so gotta make the old good again. 4-wheel brake job with the works- pads, calipers, new lines and hoses, E-brakes Cables, shocks, front & back bumpers. Front pinion seal is leaking and exhaust manifolds along with rockers (inner & outer) and cab corners still in the works. Truck has been on stands for the last 2 weeks. Oh- and the A/C quit working so add another compressor and condenser and orifice and seals. I waited to get a new A/C kit and alas, it was the wrong part! :mad::mad: Once II get it on the ground it will need to be evacuated and recharged.

I also finished up the golf cart engine and put it back in but no spark. one step forward and two steps back..

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Frankly it’s too hot to do anything. I did my outside project already. Sitting outside now watching the kids play on the inflatable water slide.

edit: I did end up making a dozen shirt for the nurses on my wife’s shift at the hospital. They are doing a “shark week”. So I used the cricut and the shirt press and made up a dozen shirts (two for each nurse) to wear. They do little events for the kids. We bought some shark toys to hand out to the little patients too.

I stole some finding Nemo shark graphics off the internet and made them into t shirt iron ons. Turned out pretty good. Did them for free. I won’t use copy righted materials for items I sell. But for hand outs or personal use I don’t have a problem with it.
 
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Saturday went to our yearly antique car show, sadly about 1/2 the cars as last year. Most likely because we had threats of severe thunderstoms.
Later in afternoon I put 35 bales of hay in the loft, that's carrying a bale at a time up 8 rungs of the ladder st a 75* angle and then throwing them sidways through the door. After 6 to 8 bales I had to climb in loft and stack. Looked like I had just stepped out of shower, 100* heat index and loft even hotter. Got 'er done though.

Then I worked on my free Huskee GT. I found a used axle on evilbay, it came Friday. I can say this job sucks. I had to remove both sides exhaust and the muffler mounted to front of frame. Then the axle is held in by two frame plates that sandwich it. Man they had it bolted everywhere. Also had to drop deck mounts so axle would drop out. Got it out late last night, today was church, then spent afternoon watching nieces/nephew and the garden tractor pulls at the fair. Then came home to the defreeze starting to thaw, coil had froze up on the inside and not moving air. Got that fixed, happened last year too.
 
TAHOE said:
Saturday went to our yearly antique car show, sadly about 1/2 the cars as last year. Most likely because we had threats of severe thunderstoms.
Later in afternoon I put 35 bales of hay in the loft, that's carrying a bale at a time up 8 rungs of the ladder st a 75* angle and then throwing them sidways through the door. After 6 to 8 bales I had to climb in loft and stack. Looked like I had just stepped out of shower, 100* heat index and loft even hotter. Got 'er done though.

Then I worked on my free Huskee GT. I found a used axle on evilbay, it came Friday. I can say this job sucks. I had to remove both sides exhaust and the muffler mounted to front of frame. Then the axle is held in by two frame plates that sandwich it. Man they had it bolted everywhere. Also had to drop deck mounts so axle would drop out. Got it out late last night, today was church, then spent afternoon watching nieces/nephew and the garden tractor pulls at the fair. Then came home to the defreeze starting to thaw, coil had froze up on the inside and not moving air. Got that fixed, happened last year too.
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Haying can almost be fun til you get to the barn. On one job when I was young I was the middle man because I was the tallest. I was on the ladder backwards with my belt around a rung. Guy on the truck would hold the bale over his head at about the level of my feet. I would grab the bale and swing it over my head balancing it on my elbows. the guy in the barn would grab it and stack it. Didn't think I would ever get the chaff outa my ears and nose. But that was a high paying job at $2 an hour.
Don
 
Oil change day for the Case 446. And as you can see on the floor, oil every where. Oil drains right on top of the steering rod. No matter where you have the wheels turned. And of course I thought it would miss it. Jumpins any way. One of those days I should of stayed in bed. All day, every thing I did had some thing wrong.

Noel
 

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