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drumstick diva said:
Teenagers would delight in running me off the shoulder (no sidewalks here) and making nasty remarks. How boring their lives must be - that I became their entertainment.

The nicer populace would just refer to me as the "Lady with the hat.
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to bad you did not know them I would have gone to their parents
 
penny1960 said:
View attachment 1051284this is our trash burner it heats our home , there was a very nice wood stove in the house when we bought it I wanted this trash burner Richard and I had picked up a few months earlier from folks that where retiring he had used it in his shop for 45 years they where retiring turning the house to their son he did not want the stove we bought for 80.00 rebuilt the ash box the only part needing redone
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Love it! We also have a stove made out of a large metal barrel. That sucker really gets rolling and can hold alot of large overnight logs. Just means you get to sleep longer before you have to add more wood. ;)
 
Evening everyone. I would normally be stretching out in bed watching some quality something I had set to record to enjoy later but my bad leg is giving me such a hard time I figured I might as well get comfy (I hope) in the la-z-boy and catch up what you all have been up to.
Al-I guess we both live in the same kind of place. (maybe it's the cold?) Pick on someone for wearing a large hat? First, some of the strangest head gear you can imagine was actually invented in my neck of the woods. I even own one or two of the furrier ones (one even has built in earbuds in the ear flaps.) I bought DH one of the red checked wool ones with fur lining and he loves it. Oh, and if you can live in a place where no one makes fun of you for wearing a large wedge of foam cheddar on your head, pretty much any hat can go just fine. As for the behavior? That still does NOT go up here. Somebody would be giving those boys an attitude adjustment real quick. Every once in a while some family will move up here from the big city live Chicago or something and they either learn real quick to leave their city attitudes in the their suitcase or they get hit with total culture shock and realize this isn't for them, pack their stuff and head back for the city. Personally seen that a lot.
Still raining here too!!! ARGGHH! Actually only had enough of a break today to get the new light up in the coop and some other small finish work. Everything around here needs painting this year but if it doesn't quit raining soon it won't matter, everything will have either rotted or floated away.
 
getaclue said:
My daughters had several friends that their parents would fuss at them for their behavior, but never really do anything about it. No consequences for poor behavior choices. When the youngest daughter went on a chaperoned date, the young man got really rude, and mouthy with me. I told him he better shut up, or we would leave, and I would take him home. He kept it up, so we left.

The next day his mother called. She let me know that she, and her husband never told him to shut up, because he was allowed to express himself any way he wanted. I let her know that if he talked to them like he did to me, they should tell him to shut up. She told me they would never do that, because they wanted to be his friend. I told her a friend would never talk to me that way. At least, not more than once. I asked her that while they were busy being his friend, where were his parents? She then let me know it was inappropriate for me to have made him leave, and brought him home, for expressing himself.

I let her know that until he learned to respect me, and hold his tongue, even if he disagreed with me, and quit expressing himself, he would never go out with my daughter again. She called a couple times inviting my daughter over to their place, inviting her to go to the mall with them, inviting her to the movies with them. I told her no. Not until her son learned he had to respect me, and not mouth off to me. Three weeks later, he called and apologized, promising never to speak to me that way again.
Several years later, my daughter married him. I can honestly say he never disrespected me, or spoke to me that way again.
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Great story! The end almost knocked me out of my chair -- Definitely did not expect that!!!:eek:
 

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