Mundane Pics From Everyday Life - Feel Free To Bore Us

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Went to the local heavy trash drop off today and a guy was getting ready to toss this power washer in the dumpster. Told him I could use the wheels off that but I don't have any tools with me to take'em off. So I dedcided to take the whole thing. He said it ran last he knew but it been sitting a while, said the he forgot to drain the pump over the winter and it froze and cracked. Brought it home, poured a little gas in, started on the second pull and runs perfect. I'll look into fixing the pump but if that don't happen I'll put the engine on Ebay and use the frame to cart my kayak down to the river.

Recycling at it's best. I went to an estate auction over the weekend. There was a lawnmower that is not locked up & showed little use. Most of the ones I have seen need a carburetor kit due to ethanol being left in the fuel system over the winter. I bought it for $10 & will get a kit off ebay for $10 & have it ready for a loaner to one of my young ones. I admit I have a lawnmower that is 35 years old & still mows grass. I would like to buy another one like it new today.
 
Recycling at it's best. I went to an estate auction over the weekend. There was a lawnmower that is not locked up & showed little use. Most of the ones I have seen need a carburetor kit due to ethanol being left in the fuel system over the winter. I bought it for $10 & will get a kit off ebay for $10 & have it ready for a loaner to one of my young ones. I admit I have a lawnmower that is 35 years old & still mows grass. I would like to buy another one like it new today.

It's always rewarding to bring something back to life that otherwise might have been given up for dead. And if you like to tinker it's fun. If that pressure washer pump can't be fixed I'll sell the engine and use the frame to make something like this for my kayak.

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Got milk? Went to the local farm today for some glass bottled milk, compliments of these gals.

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Recently this state repealed a law that previously banned the sale of raw milk. When I was young I milked twice daily for our own use & I also sold some. Opponents of lifting the ban that required all milk to be pasteurized said people would be sick. I never was sick from drinking fresh milk. We also churned our own butter from the fresh milk. There will always be busybodies trying to pass laws to protect us from ourselves. People who have no more to do than dictate what milk we drink need to get a life.
 
Recently this state repealed a law that previously banned the sale of raw milk. When I was young I milked twice daily for our own use & I also sold some. Opponents of lifting the ban that required all milk to be pasteurized said people would be sick. I never was sick from drinking fresh milk. We also churned our own butter from the fresh milk. There will always be busybodies trying to pass laws to protect us from ourselves. People who have no more to do than dictate what milk we drink need to get a life.
But yet our forefathers LIVED with milk that was straight outta the cow.
 
Recently this state repealed a law that previously banned the sale of raw milk. When I was young I milked twice daily for our own use & I also sold some. Opponents of lifting the ban that required all milk to be pasteurized said people would be sick. I never was sick from drinking fresh milk. We also churned our own butter from the fresh milk. There will always be busybodies trying to pass laws to protect us from ourselves. People who have no more to do than dictate what milk we drink need to get a life.

I feel for people today who have never had real butter or butter milk, with a hunk of corn bread.
Butter milk was so thick, you could turn the glass over and catch it before it spilled, (almost)
 
I feel for people today who have never had real butter or butter milk, with a hunk of corn bread.
Butter milk was so thick, you could turn the glass over and catch it before it spilled, (almost)
I remember the milkman who use to deliver to our home in Garden City, Michigan. Back in the nineteen- fifties.
 
But yet our forefathers LIVED with milk that was straight outta the cow.

We all drank raw milk. We would get most of the cream off the top of the gallon glass jug for butter then stir the rest into the milk. The whole family drank raw milk till we left home. Little did we know how unhealthy it was.
I am convinced raw milk killed my grandmother. It took 99 years but it finally got her.
 
Cool dog. Mixed breed with some terrier?

When we got her we were told chi/:shit:zu but now she looks :shit:zu/terrier. When she takes her natural stance like she is guarding something, the terrier comes out to the point that you could pick her hind legs up with a feather.
 
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