Jimmy Hoffa…

Hungry?

I am sure I have mentioned we are growing vegetables here on the farm. The spinach and kale have been ready for a couple weeks. Oh what to do with enough spinach and kale to feed a small army?

Since we have been busy I said” let’s do what we said and feed some hungry people!” Trina agreed, so I get on the phone and start looking for soup kitchens. OMG, who would have thought it could be so difficult… One place told me… ” no sir we don’t have a soup kitchen but if you are giving it away just bring it by” no thanks I’m trying to feed some hungry people that need the food today.

I called another and they all answer the same.” Hello such and such company how can I direct your call? Please Hold for miss selfish. ” This time was crazy!

“ Hi this is miss selfish”,

me “are you a soup kitchen?”

“oh yes, we put on a dinner each Saturday but the guy in charge of that isn’t in. So you have spinach and kale you want to give away?”

Me,” yes ”

Miss Selfish. “Well stop by the office here and I’m sure the girls and I will take a few bags then you can go over to the warehouse, there are guys that work in there, you know where it is?”

Me, “yes”

Miss Selfish continues…” They will take some and the rest we will put in the food pantry refrigerator.”

Really?!

Then she says” what time will you be by? I go to lunch around noon…”

My first thought was OMG no wonder they have a “will work for food sign” the greedy bitch ate all the food!

So anyway I kept trying and after a couple hours, and five hundred Hail Marys, I found a real, live soup kitchen – they feed twelve hundred people a month! I was super happy so Trina and I picked and picked we ended up with forty large bags of spinach and kale.

It was a bit of a ride but it was cool we are off to do what we said we wanted to do. We arrived to some happy faces, they did not know we were coming. I had spoken to the Little SIster of Jesus and Mary outreach who told me about them. My next thought was ok that was a couple rows now what?
I called around and I came up with nothing, nada, zip… My third thought was I can’t stand these organizations they just aren’t right.

Then I remembered the place we dropped off the food, I’ll call them.
It worked out great he told me of a Christian crisis center where they will take in families, homeless etc… I called them and a Mr. Barnes answered, he said they would love some fresh food! Its a real center not this fake corporate crap. You can only stay three days. They feed fifty people a day. Our first delivery was 38 bags, I hope they liked it ’cause I’m coming back with more!
I learned something since doing this, I thought I would be happy…
Nope as we drove away I said to Trina ” I really wish I could do more”

Have a great Tuesday
Wolfbernz

Work Ethics

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Since I have been home among the other things we do, we work for a home builder doing the final punch list. Or whatever he needs done to finish the house and go to closing.

I noticed we get there around seven thirty or eight on the job. We roll out get set up and start working. About ten thirty here come all the trades to work… Really?

As the day progresses noon comes along and they all sit down to lunch!

At three in the afternoon they all pack up and they are done for the day.

On one of the jobs the home owner was complaining they were months behind. My first thought was yea no workers on the job for more than five or six hours and they all talk all day no wonder.

I don’t know if I mentioned that I finished a very beautiful set of stairs a couple weeks back.

Since then the poor lady of this house has had to tell everyone else to “please just get your job done.” She went as far as to put blue tape on all the spots she thought needed touching up. That’s ok on a wall, paint is easy. Well…. I told them to stay off the stairs for three days. Trina said you worry too much they will be fine there is a sign that says keep off. I explained the home owner is our worst enemy now, they feel it’s their house and if it feels dry they will walk on it.

We finished on a Friday no body should have even been there, but NO the home owner said it felt dry so they walked all over it and put blue tape where they thought there was a spot. ( not cured yet) so the house clean up crew went through pulled up the tape and the finish with it.

I was on my way home from another house that I would be embarrassed of if I built. The workers were the same show up at 11 leave at 3:30 and man does it show. I spent four days fixing the mess as best as possible. Doesn’t anybody care about the work they do and have some pride left?

So we are on our way home, I had fixed the stairs to what I thought was fine. The owner decided she wanted it to look like it never happened. This is in the middle of the floor on the main landing. I said ok I will stop by… I sanded took out the obvious tape mark Down to bare wood right in the middle of the floor, the whole time thinking man I hope you’re good enough! Some how after about an hour or so I had stained and faux painted the grain back in place, I brushed it with the clear a few times and thank The Lord it was perfect.

I told the home owners, they were both there… The floor is wet in spots mainly the one in the middle. They told me no one was going up there it’s Friday, no more than did I get a half mile down the road and the owner took the air conditioning guy up stairs and the owner walked in the finish.

They wanted me to turn around and come fix it. My second thought is I have to go there today hopefully for last time. It’s no fun on this job, the home owner keeps asking all upset, does anyone work anymore I just want to move in. The workers think she is a bitch and complainer. One guy said “she wants to move in but keeps adding on” I replied I don’t see any extras just your work that needs to be finished, I don’t think that’s much to ask.

Have a great Tuesday
Wolfbernz

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A reclaimed boat

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I was reading on Craig’s List and I saw what appeared to be a small boat with a steering wheel. It is 17 feet long and light for its size. All one gets is the hull no motor no trailer.

I went to look at it and the hull was in good shape. All the trim was there and no dents. Did I mention it was made in the late sixties? It almost looks like an old impala on the rear.

My first thought was if I am going to work on a small old boat it might as well be a classic. One of the nice things is it is all original and all the parts are here and undamaged.

So I put my new 60 dollar boat hull, a 17 foot Alpex Sea Aire, on blocks in the shop and started tearing it apart.

My second thought is I hope there are no surprises. Thank God nothing out of the ordinary. I really like the old style motor boats no matter what size they are, they have class.

Here is bringing it home and washing it

Here is in the shop

Doesn’t it look as though it needs tail lights?

Now the long process of prepping the hull for new gel coat, then the new floor, carpet and add my outboard and off we go!

Commuting

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So I am up early again today… Off to work we go!

The last three jobs we are doing that involve working on a house have been 45 minutes to an hour from home.

My first thought is I wouldn’t want to commute like this all the time. The people, the madness, some are driving as if to say “get outta the way or I’ll run you down bitch! ” We even had a police officer try to cross the highway right in front of us…

I do like the stopping and getting coffee part of the commute and it is fun to see all the different people that are up early hurrying to get their coffee and head to work. I could not imagine how it would be to have to punch a time clock every day…

My second thought is I would have all kinds of excuses why I was late. I had to feed the chickens, I ran into Mark, you know he likes to talk, sorry had to go to Lowe’s. It seems as though daily life would get in the way, how do people that commute and punch the clock get any daily life things done.

Even with the days getting longer, there is never enough time to get everything done. For a commuter, by the time they put in an eight hour day and drive 1 hour each way, 10 hours of the day are gone. And after that, who’s in the mood for doing anything else?

Wolf


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Tuesday’s Thoughts

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As I get up this morning my first thought is about global warming. What happened to all the talk about it? Is it still happening?

I don’t know about the rest of the country but it is Cold here… I don’t think global warming is affecting this area. The low temperature was 42 last night, it has to be some kind of record. After all this is the middle of May.

In fact it has been so cold that many of the vegetables we planted didn’t come up! All the Lima beans, peppers and cantaloupe have to be replanted this week.

We are still wearing jackets here and running the fire place at night.

My second thought is… It is good working weather, the highs have been in the sixties. That is perfect to work in.

Happy Tuesday,
Wolf


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Chickens GMO’s and Bees

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We finally found chickens… You would think this would be easy to do since we live in a rural area. But all we could find this last month were chicks, until the other day.

Everyone wants to know why in the heck I would want chickens. Here’s the deal, I can control what goes into making my eggs. It’s that plain and simple. Everyday we hear about our food being compromised with a chemical or genetically altered feed crops. My first thought was oh no big deal, they are growing bigger crops with higher yields… Everyone is living longer with a better quality of life. I’m not so sure I believe this anymore.
Monsanto, the leader of Genetically Modified Food, the maker of Agent Orange and the company protected from liability by our government for the 400,000 people killed and 2 million sickened, are at it again.

Monsanto is traveling around the globe with their products in which when planted you cannot save seeds for the next year because they have a patent on them. This has effected many farmers and forces the farmers to buy Monsanto’s seed. That’s not the worst of it either. In talking to our local bee keepers they blame GMO’S for the loss of 60 percent of their bee population!

I was told by one local bee keeper “There will not be enough bees to go around, a lot of farmers are planting and do not know it yet but they won’t get bees this year.” When I asked why, I was told that the Genetically Modified Food was to blame. The old timer went onto say that his bees are affected, become confused and disoriented. When this happens they don’t return to the hive, also the pesticides are killing many of the bees. I asked how do you replace them. “There are bee farms in Texas but it is so bad right now you can’t get bees for replacement.” This local bee keeper has decided to sell out at the end of the season. My second thought is heck I’ll buy a few hives and put them in the back of the farm. I don’t plan on using GMO’S or a lot of pesticides so they may have a safe place to live and maybe we’ll get some honey to boot.

I am not a survivalist but growing my own food and raising chickens lessens my dependency on our food supply.
For all the conspiracy buffs out there here is a thought… Our Government protects companies like Monsanto and Dow shielding them from prosecution so they can control the food supply.

Ok back to the chickens, these pics are from the day we brought them home:

is it safe here? Should we get out of the box?

It’s ok… Get out of that box!