While getting the Christmas decorations for Evergreen Farm Estates down from the poolhouse-garage loft earlier this month (Brenda and neighbor Pam have always decorated our neighborhood) … I spotted the yard game of Jarts. (you probably need to be a baby boomer to remember them?)
What were they thinking???
Just as with the “design of the ironing board” invention (see Brian Regan comedy reenactment ), this is one of those games that has to make you wonder … were the inventors really just concerned with “overpopulation?”
I can still remember tossing them up in the air as high as we could, then running like crazy to get out of the way. It’s a wonder we made it to adulthood?
Below the break is a repost of a 2008 video from the early days of YouTube – oh, and Happy New Year’s eve and good bye to another decade.
Here’s a #7 hit in 1977 (which has me thinking of American Top 40 and Casey Kasem) way back in the year I graduated high school.
The song was “I Go Crazy” song by Paul Davis, who “looks like one of the Allman Brothers” as the late Ricky Nelson comments at the beginning of the VH1 video. The quality is what it was for the time, but still enjoy hearing the music and archiving the video.
Instead of cleaning the workshop as I was planning, I ended up sidetracked. Nothing new about that.
Since each time I pull the plywood box full of “short cuts and scraps” out from next to the miter saw, it is as if I’m dragging a 100 pound box with sandpaper on the bottom across the tile floor. So when I started to clear off the top of the workbench, I notice unused conveyor rollers (planned for the table saw extension) … and thought, “Hm, I can put this on the bottom of the box so it rolls easier?” Four 1” pocket holes in some scrap plywood later … and I still have a workshop yet to clean!
Also … it has been super warm and our snow has melted away … except for the north side of buildings and the front of our house (shade). Not quite the photo from a couple weeks ago, but the house still looks nice and finally has all the wreaths in the windows!
Nothing to write home about, but then there have been far more local trips than the interstate driving a few years ago … besides, my driving has become a bit more aggressive (heavier foot). Years ago when I was focused on biodiesel and working a bit harder to keep my overall fuel economy up, I might have been able to move closer to 24 mpg … but still, a 23.6 overall average is pretty good for a 2-1/2 ton SUV … and not all that much different than 2018.
For some reason, the full text of this post and photo of our 2019 family Christmas tree went missing … or maybe it didn’t post to the blog? Oh well, at least here’s the archived photo of our tree:
While putting the snowblower on the John Deere this past weekend, I notice the instruction/warranty booklet for our garage door opener hanging on the unlatch rope. I’ve unlatch dozens of times, repaired the door, the opener and sensors more times that I can count … yet have never removed the booklet. It just hangs and swings back and forth with each cycle.
Wouldn’t you think after 24 years of dangling that either Brenda or I would have said, “ENOUGH!”
But no … it hangs and is still hanging there. Hm, if I had a shrink, I think it would be worth talking about. 🙃
While getting the Christmas decorations for Evergreen Farm Estates down from the poolhouse-garage loft earlier this month (Brenda and neighbor Pam have always decorated our neighborhood) … I spotted the yard game of Jarts. (you probably need to be a baby boomer to remember them?)
