bersaguy

Prayers for all the victums and their families..............

I can remember back about 10 years ago when I had a ton of birds, like 50+ and I had like 5 feeders up, keeping them full was a full time job.....lol. On weekend I was gone to fish a tournament and when I got back and got up early Monday morning there was birds everywhere and empty feeders. I have the food made and in the fridge so I went out and got 2 feeders and brought them inside and filled them and went back out to hang them along my patio and there was 5 birds on the feeders feeding while I was toting them to the hooks. I got the other 3 filled and had birds on the while walking to the hangers. That was when I went and got 2 more feeders and put them up and that evening I sat on the patio and watched the show and it was one heck of a performance from about 6 Pm till dark. I made sure I got my neighbor to keep them full when I went out of town from then on.

Our military has a bird that can fly at some pretty remarkable speeds and do some really crazy manuvers when trying to get a missile off it's butt and yea the pilots don't fair well when the computer takes over the controls but the plane normaly makesit back home. It is the Raptor we have been flying for the last couple years. Oh yea, it cannot hover.

Sorry folks, I was not talking about that time but Hummingbird time. Evdently they are showing up at that time for people that is not Hummingbird related............

Well I put my 4 of my Feeders up the day my buddy brought me the sugar. I thought I saw one that day but was not sure. I'm sure now!!! I've got 4 feeders up at present and 3 birds fighting over them so I will put up the second 4 tomorrow and that will have 8 up. I am going to buy 2 more and have 10 up until I have to move which now looks like late Fall early Winter and they should be gone by then anyway for the year. I will need them where I am going anyway cause my daughter has two feeders she puts up every year and always has birds fighting over them but she forgets to keep the water fresh sometimes so when I move out there we will have 12 feeders up and I will tend to them. I know a guy that lives about 8 miles from them and he always has 10+ birds every year so I'm hoping I can have that many or more!!!! It is so relaxing just sitting outside watching them put on their show.!!!!!

I have always been against crude oil and all other Fossil fuels being traded on the stock market cause they could control the prices manipulate them to where ever they wanted them to go andFossil Fuels effects everything is in out lives besides gasolene and diesel. They control all the prices on the food we eat, the shirts on our backs and everything else moved by trucks. What upsets me the most is it does not cost anywhere as much to refine diesel as it does gasolene but they charge twice as much for it. Same way with heating oil for homes costs twice as much as gas to buy but not to make. And then there is Propane which is nothing more than a fuel by product that comes from the refining of Crude to make other fuels. If they could not have found a use for it they would have just burned it off to get rid of it.

Yea that too. They have plenty of reasons to screw the public out of their hard earned money and that is another one of them............JMHO

I am aware that fuel prices always jump for summer but normally that just begins about May 15th getting ready for Memorial Day and the beginning of Summer. They started this tme before Easter and have just kept going up this time..............

Since I seldom listen to the news anymore can anyone tell me whats going on with the prices of gas climbing back up???

Ok so this is a shot gun that only holds 5 rounds so is it an assault weapon? I' m guessing the libs will because of the AR in the naming of it..............JMHO . Pretty cool for sure and to think, they make a 4.10 slug in the 2.5 inch shells.

For the old folks like me who can remember what they were doing when JFK was shot. I was in 6th period study hall when they announced it over the PA system.

Very sorry to hear of her passing. She was a great lady.

Well back when I was a boy I learned right quick if I was going to have anything except the neccessities in life it would be up to me to get it especially if you came from a large family with 3 dead beat older brothers. Cuttinng grass was the extent of their doing anything. I offered to let them in on my business but they were to good to go into the swamp behind the house to get turtles and set new lines. If I saw a way to make money I did it. Once Ollie figured out I was not a deadbeat but a go getter he began showing me little things a kid could do to make a buck or two. I used his guidence and ran with it. Even after I went disabled after working 37 years I looked for ways to make money. That is where my bait making evolved to. Why did I sit and sort all this brass. Not to get rich but to make a few bucks. You are right about it not happening these days. There is no way in hell I would live in my parents basement or house while being an adult. I could not wait to get out of their house when I turned 18. I'm going to get kicked out of here in a couple months and my daughter and SIL have told me they have plenty of room and I can move in with them and not have to pay for anything. I told them the closest I will come to living with them is the Father in Law cottage behind their house but I will live out of my Jeep before living in their house.

I have never been in one of their stores and this is just another reason not to go in one!!.............JMHO

Picking up where kinda left off, by age 9 I was quite the business man with the help of Ollie (the old man) I was in the snapping turtle business, painted turtle business, Nightcrawler business and by then I was able to buy my first new rods and reels which we of course the Zebco 33 Classics. Next was teh Doe ball business. The old man showed me his formula for making Doe balls. 1 box of Wheaties, 3 eggs, water and vanilla extract all mixed together with fingers and rolled into doe balls the size of lare sewing thimble of a little bigger and the secret ingredient was the peanut butter. I would make them up during the week and freeze them for the tri to the river which was about 3 miles from my house. I had a cart I pulled behind my bike and I would get to the river about an hour early and use my Zebco's to cathc some of the bigger Carp that fed off shore. I was using Night crawlers on one pole and Doe balls on the other. I would normally have between 5 and 10 carp on a stringer and I had the Doe balls wrapped in wax paper and foil and when thhe men saw the big carp I had on my stringer they began buying Doe balls and night crawlers. After about 2 weeks I began selling the Carp and Bull heads I was catching also. Business was flourishing and then it happened. A drought and no rain began cutting deep into my Night Crawler business and this tiime it was my dad that bailed me out. He knew the owner of the Glen Eagles Golf Course and they watered every day so the golf club lawns where loaded wih crawlers and my father spoke with the owner and he got me permission the gather crawlers on the fairways but I had strict orders to stay off the greens. It was easy to catch crawlers there and I would get a 5 gallon pail full in a couple hours. Back in business! I was making really good money for a 9 year old boy but it was also a lot of work. I had a savings acount at the bank in town and I made sure at least 80% of my earnings after buying supplies such as Wheaties eggs and other necessary stuff got bought. My 3 older brothers never did anythinng except cut grass and it didn't pay that well. When I was 12 my father got hurt and was out of work for almost a year and my Mother got a job waiting tables in town to try and help pay bills. One night I over heard them talking and my father told my mother that if they didn't make a house payment soon they would foreclose on our home. Now you gotta remember we are talking the 1950's so a house note of $72.00 was a lot of money, especially feeding 4 growing boys and keeping them in clothes. There was a lot of passing down of clothes in our house to...lol.. My folks didn't know about my savings account but I had over $1,100.00 in it that I had saved up from age 8-12 by doing all the different jobs I had. I took my bank book to my parents and showed them what I had been able tosave up and they would not take it. They said that was my money and things would get better soon. My next trip to town I went by the Lemont Savings and Loan where I had my money. I ask my banker if he could help me out and he said he could. I took out $216.00 and he made three payments on the house. That caught it up to date. The following month I made that payment also. That Fall when school got ready to start I took out another $150.00 and gave it to my mother so she could buy us all new clothes for school which she did every year before school. In October of that year my father was able to return to work. My mother continued to work also part time to help get things caught back up. Yep, I can remember all of the good times and the not so good times of my childhood and I am thankfull fo all the memories of back then. I had one best friend that lived on our road and he was the one I hunted with that i have mentioned in previous posts. We shot trap together also. That was another joint venture for making money. There was a Supper Club which was a fancy night club type place that had a buffet on weekends. It was called Matts Inn and was always packed on weekends. About 3 times during the Winter months Matt would call one of us and place an order for 200 rabbits for us to get him. He paid $1.00 per rabbit. He could not charge for the buffet that night because he was serving wild game on it but he would have a cover charge to enter and the price of drinks went up and the food was free. Dave and I would get him 200 rabbits or very close to that many each time and take them to him all cleaned and dress and he would pay us accordingly to number of rabbits we produced. Dave still lives up there and we still talk often and most times about the days of our childhood.............

Next to oldest brother did something similar but he didn't slide across the floor cause it was carpet. He set the Curtains on fire when he did it. Needless to say it got crazy in a huurry but I don't remember any of it but just heard my mother mention it a couple times over the years. I'm not even sure I was born yet when he did that.

Here recently I began a record of my life to see how far back I could remember things in my life. Good bad and everything between. When I am just setting around kicking back I have began thinking about my life. Funny how CRS works. I realized that I can remember things all the way back to age 5 but can't remember a lot of what I did yesterday. I can remember getting my first polio shots and as small as I was back then it took 3 people to hold me down while the doctor stuck me in the arm. I was 5 and had to have them before I began school. I was 6 years old when I got to catch my first fish on an old cane pole the old man that lived next store to us had. He was 85 years old and lived in a 2 room cottage next to us. He owned about 5 acres next to us and had 3 big buildings full of stuff. I don't think he ever threw anything away. We had a couple Black dirt ponds about 5 or 6 acres in size about waist deep behind the house where we lived and they had Carp, Bluegills, Bullheads and Grass Pickerel fish in them and once in a while the old man or I would catch a Bass. I can remember that old man like it was yesterday. We became good friends and my mother was cooking for 4 growing boys with me being the youngest plus my father when he was home. He was a truck driver and not home a lot. Mother always cooked a little extra and every evening my mother would send him a plate of food for his supper. He had these beautful Flower gardens every year and people would drive out of Chicago to buy plants and flowers from him all summer on weekends. He also taught me how to catch snapping turtles from the dirt ponds with turtle lines. He built me a few cages to keep the big turtles in and people would come and buy them to eat and I could make extra money selling them. The bigger the turtle the more they paid and there was some I got 5 dollars for but they were almost as big as a number 8 washtub. Most of them I got 2-3 dollars for. He also showed me how to catch night crawler worms after each rain at night with a flashlight. He built me a worm bed of black dirt and screened bottom so we never had to dig worms when we went fishing. Just go get some out of the bed and go fishing. He also taught me how and when to catch the baby painted turtles which I was able to sell to pet stores in the area got 25 cents each. He taught me several ways to make money back then. On weekends African Americans would come out of Chicago to fish in the Desplaines River that ran through my hometown and they would buy night crawlers in Chicago and paid a dollar for 10 crawlers. I went up there where they were fishing and began selling them night crawlers 25 in a can for 50 cents. All the people on my road I lived on would save cans for me and soon the people would begin bring back their old cans and I would just swap cans with them for 50 cents. Oh well I know ya'll are tired of reading about my life as a child. You might find it fun to just see how far back you can remember in your life when your sitting around just kicking back............JMHO

Was spitting flurries here in Gallatin also!!!!

I thought a couple of them where ummm ahh ! buttocks but then I have been wrong about other things also and I will turn my cheeks on either sides of my nose but when it comes to the other 2 there will be a line drawn that it might not be to smart to cross. I think that is when the Tomahawks come into play..........JMHO

Thanks Toby and I got to meet your furry friend that is in your Avatar and he is a seat full for sure and tell your son I said hi to him. I am terrible with names so please forgive me on that.

Well got to meet Toby1304 today. Had a very nice but short visit with him, his son and his furry partner. He met me to pick up the 45 cal brass. Had a nice talk, Great folks for sure!!! Thanks for the brass purchase Toby Bersaguy

I was talking with a buddy this morning and he just stopped by wth a 10 lb bag of sugar for me. I told him I was going out to get some and he was already out so picked it up for me. Gonna make up some food and fill a few feeders and get them up...............

Well that is where it cannot be blamed on any contractor doing the work because he is doing it all himself and all he is doing is cosmetic stuff. Carpeting , new cupboards, sinks counter tops. toilets, new paint etc etc. Nothing electrical that would require a licensed contractor. My electrical contractor that went up to fix an imediate problem came back down and gave me a list of things that needed imediate attention and after making a few copies of it I passed one of them on to the last landlord before this one and he sold the place the following month. That told me all I needed to know after he had his contractor do an inspection. When I leave I will take this list up to the fire inspectors office and Codes. If they don't take care of it I have done my civil duty.

Gosh they are early this year. I guess I better go get 10bs of sugar and make up the food and get my feeders up tomorrow. We must be getting the early passer thru's going up east but the home birds will be right behind them.........

Well, lets get it all out on the table. The Landlord I had prior to this was told by me that he may want to take a look at the electrical issue before it became more than just an issue but a mess. He had someone come out and look at it. About a week later the place went back on the market and this guy that has it now bought it. Now do you honestly think the previous seller/Landlord told the buyer/this landlord about the issue. Of course he didn't because I'm sure this guy would not have purchased it. If I tell this guy all he is going to do is put it up for sale and pass it on to the next person until someone either fixes it or a fire fixes it. At least by telling codes and the fire inspectors it won't just get pushed off on someone else till it burns down. In all honesty the last landlord seemed to be a pretty straight up dude and I thought he would fix the issues is the only reason I told him about them. I learned by that one that you can't trust anyone to do what is right. The way I figure it someone will either fix it or bull doze it and build a new house here but at least it will get fixed