Jaden said:

I have another story about the ranch from a few years previous. I was about 17 and my grandpa had had a stroke and we had him living at the ranch with a live in caretaker, a former friend of my mom's.

So my dad got a call from Kitty (the caretaker) and she said that there was a smell coming from the bakery. When we lived on the ranch when I was a kid, my dad had built a bakery there and my grandpa had put a walk in fridge for hanging deer and two horizontal top load freezers and he had hundreds of lbs of meat in one of the freezer's.

Well it turns out my grandpa had walked out to the bakery and flipped the breaker so that the power was out and all of that meat had rotted. The bakery was about 75-100 yards from the main house, so if Kitty was smelling the rotten meat it had to be bad.

We lived in Redlands Ca and technically the ranch was in Redlands too, but out in the canyon about 15 minutes outside of town. My dad said, "Kevin, go out to the ranch and dig a hole with the backhoe and bury the rotten meat.

I go out there and have trouble even getting into the bakery because of how bad the smell was. I walked in and managed to lift the top of one of the freezers but the smell was just too bad. So I go back home and say to my dad "You don't understand how bad the smell is, I couldn't do it. I could barely get the door open, let alone carry the meat out".

My dad responds, "Oh, it can't be THAT bad. Come on guys let's all go out to the ranch".

So we all went out to the ranch. My mom couldn't get 20 feet from the door before she stopped and started retching. My dad got through the door but turned back around and went out also retching saying "You're right son, I didn't understand". LOL.

We ended up sliding open the double doors, strapping a chain to the freezer and dragging it out into the field with the backhoe. They had wetted bandanas and sprayed them with perfume to be able to get close enough to strap up the freezer. We dug like a 9 feet deep hole and dumped all of the meat into the hole and covered it over.

At first, my dad was like, just bury the whole freezer, but me and my cousin were able to salvage it after washing it with bleach and ammonia.

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Rusty in Montana said:

A few years ago a good friend of mine was out checking his cows and a handful of traps and snares when a tie rod snapped as he was going down a hill in his pasture .
He jacked it up and did something to try and get it wired back together instead of just calling a wrecker to come and get him .
Long story short he was underneath the front end when it fell and pinned him down they found him dead a couple hours later .
A sad deal all around that was made even worse because I wasn't healthy enough to travel to Nebraska for the funeral because I had just finished up cancer treatments .
Yes I still think of him often !

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Bob Jewett said:

And over on the YouTube, I just got the first Ethel M ad I've ever seen there. BTW, the prices at the factory are the same as at the Las Vegas airport.

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SSP said:

The Bulletproof Recoil tip is a really hard tip but it holds chalk like no other, once you shape it all you need is a TipPik type tool to rough it up, I just tap it straight in at the same curvature as the tip and it lasts for about 20 hours of continuous play, you will get a minimum of 1 year out of the tip but I suspect double if not triple that, I also had an 1/8" acrylic pad added, I find no difference in hit and it will save you from having to replace the clear or white ferrule for a long time if ever.

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Bob Jewett said:

... For cacti and chocolate together, Ethel M's in Henderson makes fancy chocolates (w/tour) and has a large succulent garden. The M is for Mars. ...

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