Recent content by Walking W

No rain. No grass on my little place. Expensive hay. Sold an angus cross yearling with scurs last Monday at the Decatur auction. Weight 780. Price $2.20. Keeping one for the freezer. On a positive note, the peanut skins I am supplementing their feed with really makes them look good.

Sounds like a lot of environmental activist rhetoric, to me. This kind of talk comes from myopic city dwellers and academics whose normal view is concrete, cars and the backside of their neighbors. It's what they see so they think that's what the whole world looks like. I don't buy the...

Ever drunk from a water hose? Water hoses are vinyl, too. It's still pvc with lots of plasticizer to make it flexible. People say those plastizers are worse than the minute amount of vinyl chloride carcinogens in pvc pipe. They say they cause everything from prenatal deaths to hair loss because...

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Where my son-in-law grew up in Indiana he ate Cincinnati-Style chili. Little or no heat seasoned with cinnamon poured over spaghetti. I guess everyone has their own version of chili but, for me, chili needs to include lots of red chile with an "e".

I'm right there with you on that. When I moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico, I found that some restaurants there made Chile Rellenos with raisins in the meat filling. Yuk!

Looks good but what's all that stuff in there along with the chili? Looks like beans and cut up bell peppers! I'm sure it tasted great but I'm not sure it would pass for chili where I live.

I've lived in slab homes most of my life. The older ones have problems with either clay or iron pipes rusted or broken and leaking requiring very expensive and slab breaking repairs. PVC sewer lines changed that for the better. Water leaks under slab are a different animal but bad leaks should...

Good job for a retired guy! Mine is 20 yrs old and was put in the house when it was built. It ran on rough well water for 10 years before I switched to the much better water district when we moved in. There was a leak under the slab below the water heater the I had to fix before we moved in so I...

It's not so much the cold in this area. It's the ice, the footing, the lack of traction for vehicles. I've driven on snow in the mountains for years but the ice where we live now shuts everything down. One winter, I couldn't even get up the driveway to the closest road. It's getting like that...

That car really ran and was so smooth you didn't notice how fast it was going. Shiney Black with Chrome trim all over, it was a good looking car.

Not much later than that, probably 1957 about the age of three, I did the same with a bobby pin. It turned red hot and blew like a fuse faster than I could react. Took a while to heal the burns. What a way to learn a lesson about electricity!

I had one in my 1960 Ford Falcon. I was really up town. Lot's of cars didn't have air conditioning. As a kid we had a second hand 1956 Chrysler New Yorker that had factory air behind the back set with vents coming up inside the back windshield. Later on a local stockcar guy bought the car for...

I sold a 450 lb black heifer last week and got $1.50/lb. Barely paid it's way but I ran out of forage and hay's just too expensive. Still have 2 black steers from the same herd. Rain and snow today. Enough hay for another week while the winter ryegrass to recovers from the top getting frostbit...

Thanks! I hadn't thought about it until reading your reply but , when i feed one out, I use an automatic feeder and don't have routine contact with the steer. I will use your idea of something for them to play with the next time I feed one out.