Driver's Retirement Thread

[Rigjockey]

I took all of my stuff to the accountant on a Monday he filed online and on Friday I got my whopping $30.00 refund. Even if it was $1.00, it's better than paying.

Better than a kick in the pants

The Post Office is so damned slow, I don't trust them to get anything anywhere on time.

Your postal service is as good as ours.

It used to take 3 days for a letter or card to go from Florida to California. Now it takes 20 days for a rent check to go from my town to my address in the same town. It gets picked up by the carrier at about 14:00, it's then dropped off at the main Cocoa P.O. Then it goes to Orlando, (40 miles) then returns to Cocoa for sorting, then to my mailbox.

Same here. The closer the destination the longer it seems to take to deliver.

I pay all my bills online too directly to the receiver. I used to use bank bill pay, but they send out a check by mail. If it's late, you have to eat the late fees. Government efficiency is an oxy-moron.

Bills are paid online these days. I can't remember the last time I mailed out an actual check.
The postal service went on strike here last year and people barely noticed. The unions thought they had leverage. They were wrong!

Also, mostly what the post delivers these days is flyers and junk mail. Back in my day flyers and junk mail was delivered by kids. I know, I was one of those kids.

 

[Electric Chicken]

I remember when they'd sneak the junk mail in your rolled up newspaper.

 

[Duck]

Manteno, IL is still waiting for 38 ballots, postmarked by April 1, to arrive at the building immediately next door to the post office they were mailed from.

 

[389 Hood]

Manteno, IL is still waiting for 38 ballots, postmarked by April 1, to arrive at the building immediately next door to the post office they were mailed from.

They probably took a sneak peak at them and realized they were Republican ballots and that would push the margin in favor of the Reps, so they'll just say they lost them and they'll magically appear in a year or so.

 

[Shreck]

I have to admit it I miss it. I would like nothing more than to crawl up in a cab and head west in the middle of the night. As long as I could take my time. But I promised my wife of 41 years I would be home every night.So instead her and I are leaving tomorrow morning in the motorhome heading down @389 Hoods way for the winter.

@389 Hood We brought the Florida house back to the Pa home.We plan on coming back down in November

 

[389 Hood]

If I could handle the cold well, I would trade you my FL house for your PA house. But, 8 years later, I'm still not adjusting to the cold just 200 miles north of where I used to be.

 

[Shreck]

If I could handle the cold well, I would trade you my FL house for your PA house. But, 8 years later, I'm still not adjusting to the cold just 200 miles north of where I used to be.

Well I guess I’m not hauling carnival rides till summer. We were just about back home here to Pennsylvania and he calls to tell me he is going to contract the move instead of us hauling it ourselves. He just now realized it’s going to gross over 81500 and he doesn’t want to deal with all the oversized permits and red tape. Sounds good to me. Although I was looking forward to it.

A local farmer with a pretty big operation just realized I was home from Florida.lol Oh well, something’s to do till the Carnival season starts the end of June.

 

[389 Hood]

Is that Mack all wheel drive? Or are the huge luggers on the front to hold up the weight?

 

[Shreck]

Is that Mack all wheel drive? Or are the huge luggers on the front to hold up the weight?

I have only been driving the KW so far,the Mack has a spreader box on it and the big tires for getting into the fields to spread lime and fertilizer. I assume it’s all wheel drive.

 

[Electric Chicken]

I have only been driving the KW so far,the Mack has a spreader box on it and the big tires for getting into the fields to spread lime and fertilizer. I assume it’s all wheel drive.

I need to get one and put a pickup bed on it

 

[Shreck]

I need to get one and put a pickup bed on it

You could use the one you have.

 

[Electric Chicken]

You could use the one you have.

It's not the same.

 

[Shreck]

A local farmer with a pretty big operation just realized I was home from Florida.lol Oh well, something’s to do till the Carnival season starts the end of June.

Ride of the day.

 

[Shreck]

Ride of the day.

Ride of the day.

The only thing I was told on how to operate it before I left was don’t forget to put your dick down.lol

 

[389 Hood]

What type of trailer is that? A fertilizer hopper unit. Assuming the 'dick' is an auger, I see the hydraulic ram and the opening outlet at the top of it.

The closest thing I ever came to a farm is the produce aisle at the grocery store.

 

[Duck]

The closest thing I ever came to a farm is the produce aisle at the grocery store.

I'm sure you've been in people's vegetable gardens if you haven't got one yourself. That's closer to the farm than retail space in a grocery store.

Summer is the best time of the year to NOT be in Florida. You should explore. Go north. Find a car show in the midwest to haul your antique land yacht to.


There is a working farm half a mile away from me. Or homestead minus the house. Ain't no big fields, just like ten acres and some cows, chickens and vegetable gardens. It's been ten years since the current owner bought the property but I haven't seen anyone there yet. I wanta catch him & talk. Like maybe I can exchange a little labor for some education.

Down the road a little further is a homestead run by a young Manteno cop and his wife.
They've got ducks, chickens, sheep, goats, cows, and vegetable gardens.



I've lost track of how many farms & farmettes there are like that around here. Most of the land is regular boring corn and soybean production.

If you don't mind buying it in package deals (instead of just buying a couple of steaks) you can get local beef from these local places.

At any given moment my "neighbor" Mark (half a mile west) has up to half a cow in his freezer. He doesn't raise any meat but he's got 40+ chickens and he sells their eggs. He gets the beef from local farms.

Lots of people around here who live out in the country raise bees and sell the honey. If you've got allergies, honey from local bees that eat the same pollen that affect your allergies, is like a vaccine for allergies. You build up immunity to it. I put it in my coffee sometimes or spread it on toast.

Yeah this land up here is flat and boring but it's got it's perks.

 

[Electric Chicken]

I'm sure you've been in people's vegetable gardens if you haven't got one yourself. That's closer to the farm than retail space in a grocery store.

Summer is the best time of the year to NOT be in Florida. You should explore. Go north. Find a car show in the midwest to haul your antique land yacht to.


There is a working farm half a mile away from me. Or homestead minus the house. Ain't no big fields, just like ten acres and some cows, chickens and vegetable gardens. It's been ten years since the current owner bought the property but I haven't seen anyone there yet. I wanta catch him & talk. Like maybe I can exchange a little labor for some education.

Down the road a little further is a homestead run by a young Manteno cop and his wife.
They've got ducks, chickens, sheep, goats, cows, and vegetable gardens.



I've lost track of how many farms & farmettes there are like that around here. Most of the land is regular boring corn and soybean production.

If you don't mind buying it in package deals (instead of just buying a couple of steaks) you can get local beef from these local places.

At any given moment my "neighbor" Mark (half a mile west) has up to half a cow in his freezer. He doesn't raise any meat but he's got 40+ chickens and he sells their eggs. He gets the beef from local farms.

Lots of people around here who live out in the country raise bees and sell the honey. If you've got allergies, honey from local bees that eat the same pollen that affect your allergies, is like a vaccine for allergies. You build up immunity to it. I put it in my coffee sometimes or spread it on toast.

Yeah this land up here is flat and boring but it's got it's perks.

Bet my day cab would get great MPG.

 

[Shreck]

What type of trailer is that? A fertilizer hopper unit. Assuming the 'dick' is an auger, I see the hydraulic ram and the opening outlet at the top of it.

The closest thing I ever came to a farm is the produce aisle at the grocery store.

Yep a fertilizer hopper for some reason they called it a tender. He buys in bulk then sells to other farmers.

 

[Rigjockey]

At any given moment my "neighbor" Mark (half a mile west) has up to half a cow in his freezer. He doesn't raise any meat but he's got 40+ chickens and he sells their eggs. He gets the beef from local farms.

My grandparents had a farm and every Christmas my mother and her sister would get a half side of beef from one of the slaughtered and butchered cows. Every kind of cut of beef and that would go in the "big freezer" and last us through the year.

Some egg farmers here will sell their eggs on the honor system. They have cartons of eggs in a cooler. You take the eggs and leave the money. I am sure you guys have that there too.

Lots of people around here who live out in the country raise bees and sell the honey. If you've got allergies, honey from local bees that eat the same pollen that affect your allergies, is like a vaccine for allergies. You build up immunity to it. I put it in my coffee sometimes or spread it on toast.

At the farmers market they sell honey or harder to find is honey still on the comb. It tastes pretty good. I mean better than from a store-bought jar.

 

[Duck]

My grandparents had a farm and every Christmas my mother and her sister would get a half side of beef from one of the slaughtered and butchered cows. Every kind of cut of beef and that would go in the "big freezer" and last us through the year.

Some egg farmers here will sell their eggs on the honor system. They have cartons of eggs in a cooler. You take the eggs and leave the money. I am sure you guys have that there too.

Usually just for corn when it's harvested. A couple of women operate little mini stands where one of them sells stupid shit like little bundles of flowers, and the other one sells homemade sourdough bread, on the honor system. Cash box but I think the bread lady has one of those square things you take a picture of to go to a URL where you can pay online somehow.

At the farmers market they sell honey or harder to find is honey still on the comb. It tastes pretty good. I mean better than from a store-bought jar.

I read something a whole back that it's possible to dilute honey with high fructose corn syrup, which is way cheaper, and it's nearly impossible to tell. The tests for it are complicated.

As a result, a lot of honey that's imported from other countries can potentially be mixed with HCFS even though it's illegal (here) to sell it as pure honey.

It's one thing I look at for the "product of USA" label, like shrimp but for different reasons.

(shrimp from asia is mostly farm raised & often fed with human sewage. So you gotta look at the label to see where it comes from)