Thread: Aaaarrrrgggg!!

Originally Posted by wicklundrh

The hard part is the fix. It has to come from the older generation.

So true! "What we tolerate today or children will embrace tomorrow". Saw that on a church billboard. Not only have we forsaken God in our country, our schools, and our lives, but we have forgotten the basic principles, like hard work, and honesty, and integrity that this country was built on. I am truely concerned for the next couple of generations.

Originally Posted by mmaveal

I have a friend who bales and sells hay. He had to stop making bales, bought a $30,000 machine to make the 4-6 ft. rolls. He was unable to hire anyone to stack the bales at $20.00 (That's TWENTY DOLLARS) per hour. Years ago our son used to bale for 2.50/hr. and was happy to get the work. Our grandson turned it down - too much work!!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!

You guys are killing me. I am stacking ROCKS for 10 TEN!!! bucks a hour right now.

Originally Posted by Hermin

You guys are killing me. I am stacking ROCKS for 10 TEN!!! bucks a hour right now.

looks like you might have to relocate, very quickly my freind

Well that pay isn't the whole story. I'm working for a friend on his yard to start with. I also get to stay in a 5,000 sq foot house on Pine lake for the entire winter while hes back in AZ and he flew me out to AZ last year for a month long vacation. But all I can think about is I could be stacking bales of hay instead of rocks :D

Y.D, you are so right. The problem lies with the teaching of the current generation to the next. We start with our grandparents, and we see how hard they worked, then you look to the parents, then to you, then to the children and grandchildren and so on. Some place along the way, someone taught someone about something. Maybe it is all the stories we tell about "how hard something is". In the end, we were all better people for doing that "hard thing" but that part of the story isn't passed. Just the part about how hard it is to do something.

Recently I was thinking about selling everything I owned (except my boat), taking the profits, moving to a small parcel of land (by a lake) building a small two room cabin, and going back to the way things were done in the past. Utilizing some tricks I learned while in Alaska, to colect and store water (as apposed to having a well), a composting toilet, hot water on demand, solar power, root cellar, wood stove, etc. The only problem to this wouldn't be the money, or lack there of, but rather the health insurance. In the old days, you could see a doctor for next to nothing, now days, it isn't the case.... I wish it was..... Ah, the simple life

My problem would be the cost of the divorce!!!! Ha! Ha! Ha! Our daughter was given 2 tons of decorative rocks last week. I have the trailer so guess what - we loaded and unloaded two trailers full of rocks the size of a small basketball. To say the least my bones are still squeeking.

Originally Posted by mmaveal

My problem would be the cost of the divorce!!!! Ha! Ha! Ha! Our daughter was given 2 tons of decorative rocks last week. I have the trailer so guess what - we loaded and unloaded two trailers full of rocks the size of a small basketball. To say the least my bones are still squeeking.

I had 36 tons delivered a few weeks ago on top of what I had already put down.

lookin good my freind