A question about perfect machines

[Golddiggie]

No, I was going to clean it up first...

I have something rigged up for that, grabbed some stuff out of the recycle bin, took a little saw to it and I think I got that part figured out. Super glue is my friend. I'm not sure if I know what you are talking about, but I think I do.

:smack: :smack: :smack:

 

[BobbiLynn]

:smack: :smack: :smack:

Why are you smacking your head? Because you don't think it'll work or because you think I completely misunderstood the question?

 

[Golddiggie]

Why are you smacking your head? Because you don't think it'll work or because you think I completely misunderstood the question?

Yes...

 

[45_70sharps]

Dang this is turning out to be more entertaining than the people I see when I have to go into the city.
I just wish someone sold popcorn.

 

[Lushife]

So will this be a squirrel stout or an acorn brown ale?

 

[BobbiLynn]

So will this be a squirrel stout or an acorn brown ale?

Both!!!!

 

[Golddiggie]

So will this be a squirrel stout or an acorn brown ale?

Both!!!!

A squirrel nut stout made by a squirrel-nut (you are what you eat they say).

 

[lschiavo]

Squirrel Nuts! I mean Happy New Year!

 

[BobbiLynn]

Squirrel Nuts! I mean Happy New Year!

Squirrel nuts to you too!!! Happy New Year!!!

 

[Lushife]

Happy New Year!!! Anyone do anything fun? I brewed an altbier kit I got for Christmas with my daughter.

 

[Golddiggie]

Squirrel Nuts! I mean Happy New Year!

Squirrel nuts to you too!!! Happy New Year!!!

Smurf packages of bubble nuts...

 

[Lushife]

Smurf packages of bubble nuts...

Is that a yes or no?

 

[Golddiggie]

Is that a yes or no?

It's a sofa king yeah... Or a fun king brew year!! :fro:

 

[BobbiLynn]

It's a sofa king yeah... Or a fun king brew year!! :fro:

Happy New Year to you too...

 

[BobbiLynn]

Well, it's a new year and I decided to read back though this topic, maybe figure out what happened and learn something about myself and other people.

This is what I learned:

"Perfect" is all in how you look at it.

I often speak before I think.

My thoughts are like my chives, all mixed up and going in different directions.

I'm always just now figuring out what happened 2 pages ago.

I regularly call things by the wrong name, causing mass confusion, if only in my own mind.

This reminds me of venting to my best friend on the phone last week. Half way through, I ask "Do you understand what I am talking about??" Her response, "Well, I'm catching bits and pieces." So this type of thing does transform into my real life. No wonder why I feel so misunderstood.

This year, I will slow down, take a deep breath. I will think before I blurt something out. I will look up the meaning of words I don't understand before assuming I know the meaning. I will make my first all grain batch. And if there is something I need to buy to make it work properly, I will buy it instead of trying to rig it up. I will lay off trying to be a perfectionist and failing miserably.

 

[45_70sharps]

What are you rambling about now?

If you slow down, think about what you are saying before you say it, think about all the fun that would be missed!

Be yourself and don't worry about it. Have a beer, make up some more soup that the dog wont eat and have fun.

 

[BobbiLynn]

What are you rambling about now?

If you slow down, think about what you are saying before you say it, think about all the fun that would be missed!

Be yourself and don't worry about it. Have a beer, make up some more soup that the dog wont eat and have fun.

I'm trying to learn and grow as a person here... oh smurf it.

New Goal:
Just relax and enjoy life. Ahh, yes, that sounds easier.

 

[Lushife]

You shouldn't give up on rigging up your own stuff. Sometimes buying something is better but sometimes you can make something better.. It just depends on what you need and what you know how to do.

 

[45_70sharps]

New Goal:
Just relax and enjoy life. Ahh, yes, that sounds easier.

Now your talking!

 

[BobbiLynn]

You shouldn't give up on rigging up your own stuff. Sometimes buying something is better but sometimes you can make something better.. It just depends on what you need and what you know how to do.

My kids and nieces and nephews think I can make anything. One day we were playing outside and one of them wanted to write something down. Screw a pen or pencil!!! I grabbed one the quills that fell off the chicken, some poison red berries and a flat piece of wood. Here ya go, showed him how to use it. They then spent the afternoon writing notes to each other.

Also built my daughter a Barbie house when she was little... built all the furniture too, complete with cushions on the couch and a comforter and pillows on the bed.

I know I come off as not really knowing what I am talking about, but I am very capable. I'll build what I can and buy what I can't. Hoping I won't have to buy anything though...

 

[Dan]

Happy New Years BobbiLynn. I'm looking forward to more of your creative ramblings and genuiness. May this year be better than the last, for us all.

 

[BobbiLynn]

I hope so too. Thanks.

And just one more thing to add(you've heard that before), this whole thing actually started out as an argument I had with hubby, him trying insist his machine was perfect and me trying to tell him it was not. Like Creamy with his wife, which actually inspired my topic, not the other way around, I thought hubby was being completely unreasonable. So I thought I'd ask the question on here, but it just resulted in the same type of "conversation" hubby and I were having, going round and round and getting nowhere. At least it stopped the argument though, I was looking for fuel for my position, I got some, but some of what was posted gave him some. I eventually just thanked him for building me the perfect machine to trim back my lettuce.

Happy New Year everyone, may we have lots of fun and lots of laughs.

 

[Golddiggie]

I hope so too. Thanks.

And just one more thing to add(you've heard that before), this whole thing actually started out as an argument I had with hubby, him trying insist his machine was perfect and me trying to tell him it was not. Like Creamy with his wife, which actually inspired my topic, not the other way around, I thought hubby was being completely unreasonable. So I thought I'd ask the question on here, but it just resulted in the same type of "conversation" hubby and I were having, going round and round and getting nowhere. At least it stopped the argument though, I was looking for fuel for my position, I got some, but some of what was posted gave him some. I eventually just thanked him for building me the perfect machine to trim back my lettuce.

Happy New Year everyone, may we have lots of fun and lots of laughs.

Just don't run it too fast across your 'lettuce' since you could trim too close and need some band-aids.

 

[BobbiLynn]

Just don't run it too fast across your 'lettuce' since you could trim too close and need some band-aids.

Well, the little tractor, a 1949 Farmall cub, I'm pulling it with only goes 6(MPH) in 3rd gear. First gear and I'm barely creeping along, so I don't have to worry about running across it too fast.

A couple pictures for you too... My container garden outside my shed, before the fungus got my peppers and me on the little tractor, hilling up some rows.

 

[BobbiLynn]

I'm going to have to also show off my cukes while I'm at it... In the first pic, the close up in the corner shows what's going on beneath all the foliage. In the second picture, I was picking that many twice a week last Spring. Hoping for another good year of cucumbers. They are so much fun to grow because they grow so fast, unlike tomatoes and bell peppers which seem to take forever. You can grow them in a five gallon bucket filled with good soil, some holes drilled in the bottom. Take some spray paint to the buckets so they don't look "offensive".