The earliest I can remember black reel seats like that was probably in the 70’s, maybe late 60’s. Were they made in the 50’s?

Jon’s link takes you right to the donation page.
Their donation process gives you the option to use Paypal.
I got Ross into 1st place in his group.
I challenge IDO to keep him in the leader spot.
Start with clicking Jon’s link.

I hire a company to come into the house for a few hours and babysit my wife while I go to work. I don’t want to retire because it gets me out of the house with minimal hassle.

We have a daughter that comes and stays a week or two with her while I go off skiing or whatever.

Statistically, 40& of care givers die before the loved one does because of the constant stress.

We got the vascular dementia diagnosis almost 3 years ago, and that has an average life expectancy of 5 years.

I’m like you in that I’ll do whatever we need to do to keep her at home. When she asks where she’s at I tell her she at home where she’s loved.

Do you have a diagnosis?
If not, ask his primary care physician for a neurology referral.
Neuro will evaluate him and possibly arrange for a 3 hour verbal exam. They can tell by this battery of questions what part of the brain is damaged and the likely cause.
My wife has vascular dementia and I’m a 24/7 caregiver dealing with the same endless stream of stuff which gets worse after sundown.
A proper diagnosis will allow a decent prescription to help keep the delusions at bay.
Also, there’s a pretty good website that any of your dad’s caregivers can ask questions. You may be able to handle the stress, but others around you may need more emotional support and specific answers.
https://www.agingcare.com/caregiver-forum

Just one thing?
The common denominator of all my really bad decisions can be summed up as a result of straying a long way away from the church.

If Canada does join the US, I imagine there would be a pretty large redistribution of people. Lots of people from California and Washington would probably move to BC and people in the Midwest would probably move to Ontario and Manitoba.

I’ll have to check out that Kenora area.
I was wondering where the roads end in the different provinces, like Red Lake in Ontario.

90% of the time I see these backups it’s a Prius out to save the Earth and impose their will on all the deplorables.

I wonder if this strain that’s going around now was what Dr. Hotez threatened Trump with.

When the Russia-Ukraine war ends I wonder what will happen to the dozens of bio labs that we have in Ukraine that caused us to invade with $90B of arms to begin with.

No shots and no sickness in my family. The only people I know that have been getting sick are the ones that take the shots.

The auction items arrived today.
The cookbooks are interesting, a lot of them are about Dutch ovens.

How in the world is a Tesla Cybertruck a truck?
Does the DMV classify them as a truck?

Dang, this is a tuff crowd. I’m glad no one here has a Honda Ridgeline with the little coffer damns at the front corners of the bed.

You may want to offer to store his firearms till things stabilize.

Have you ever heard of MISO, Midcontinent Independent System Operator? They basically financially control the electrical grid and natural gas distribution system in the MidWest.
https://www.misoenergy.org/meet-miso/careers/

They have an office in:
North Region Operations Center
2985 Ames Crossing Road,
Eagan, MN 55121
651-632-8400

This might give you some ideas.
Click the hamburger icon in the upper left corner to see all the different sectors.
https://www.roadtechs.com

LabDaddy1 wrote:

we’d always stop at a place called “Beaver Liquor” with our old-enough friends.

There’s a liquor store in Beaver Colorado where the Beaver Creek ski resort is. The Beaver Liquors there sells a lot of hats and T shirts.

What kind of trout eat minnows and minnow heads?

This is hilarious.

I’ve never used grow bags, but they look interesting.
Do grow bags have weep holes for heavy rains?
Do the black ones get too hot in the summer?
What makes a good or bad grow bag?

I’ve got raised beds, but critters are a still a problem. Last year they ate every lettuce plant down to the ground. I’m thinking of building little greenhouse type frames but covering them with small mesh chicken wire, I think they call it rabbit fence.

Ah, the student becomes the teacher

Good on em!

AK Guy wrote:

You’re going to get a survey from K-Bid, the auction service. You can roast them there.

It appears that K-Bid uses subcontracted auction houses. Like me, it may have been that sub’s first time using the K-Bid platform. I think I’ve got 2 surveys from them so far, but I’ll wait till the whole transaction is over before I fill one out. I won’t roast them. But I can provide some data points they may find interesting and useful.

Aside from his dry humor, the thing I remember most about his show were the cooking segments. One of the lots that I won was the cookbooks (at less than $12). So those’ll be interesting to checkout. Some of them may have a very interesting history. If one of them is connected to the show, maybe I can get him to sign it. These early outdoor TV shows are part of our heritage.

I like clear plastic jars so I can roll it around and see what’s in them. I’ve been keeping some square clear plastic jars that stack much nicer then the round instant coffee ones.

I finally got a shipping invoice from the Winkelman auction.
Maybe it’ll arrive next week.

Critters around my house are huffers. They love to chew into small engine gas caps. So far they’ve been too high to discover wire extruded in peanut oil.

I did finally get a response from K-Bid.

We have experienced an enormous amount of shipping requests for the Babe Winkleman Retirement Auction.  We are processing these this week.  What we are asking customers to do is make sure their initial invoice is paid so we can move forward closing out the auction.  When we have your item(s) packaged, we will email you thru Square for shipping charges and once paid, we will ship.  Thank you for your patience.  Tom Johnson

When/why did men’s body wash become a necessary thing?

Have any of you won anything at this K-Bid auction site that got shipped to you? I won a couple of lots at this Winkelman auction that said shipping was available. Their rules say to pay for the auction bids first, then arrange shipping by sending an email. I paid and sent 2 emails and have not had any response yet. I’ll have to give them a call this week. I was wondering if anyone else here was having issues with these people.

Reef W wrote:

The warning is to not jump something with a lithium battery. If the BMS can’t handle it you’ll fry it and the battery.

I agree that you wouldn’t want to use a crazy high voltage source. But if your jumping a 12v battery with a 12-13v source, what difference does battery chemistry make?

I don’t think a jump pack cares what kind of battery it’s jumping.

I’ve got an Interstate Battery brand jump pack. It’s saved me one time so far.

They did have a few interesting items.