Thread: Notes for Old Codgers

Originally Posted by john m

E Paton and son in 450x3 1/4" bpe, damascus with Henry rifled barrels. Left and right poa 1" group at 50 yds useing nitro for black load and Woodleigh 350gr sp 1900fps. The rifle has been in our family over 80 yrs.

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A thing of beauty

Nice family heirloom.

Greetings All,
Old codgerhood strikes again. Nice and calm this morning so got the last of the highest gutters cleaned without any excitement. Was carrying the working platform from my scaffolding system to the next bit, hooked my toe on the edge of the deck and did a plant on top of the kit. No serious damage other than to pride but a rest day has been declared with work to continue tomorrow, body permitting.
Regards Grandpamac.
PS Swore I would get someone in to do the gutters this time. Maybe next year.

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings All,
Old codgerhood strikes again. Nice and calm this morning so got the last of the highest gutters cleaned without any excitement. Was carrying the working platform from my scaffolding system to the next bit, hooked my toe on the edge of the deck and did a plant on top of the kit. No serious damage other than to pride but a rest day has been declared with work to continue tomorrow, body permitting.
Regards Grandpamac.
PS Swore I would get someone in to do the gutters this time. Maybe next year.

If you get a bit of copper half inch pipe, thread one end for a hose connection and bend the other end over like a candy cane then slightly flatten the mouth you can clean gutters blind from much lower down provided you have reasonable hose pressure

It's the cold water running down into my armpits that I dislike..

Originally Posted by 308

If you get a bit of copper half inch pipe, thread one end for a hose connection and bend the other end over like a candy cane then slightly flatten the mouth you can clean gutters blind from much lower down provided you have reasonable hose pressure

It's the cold water running down into my armpits that I dislike..

Greetings and thanks @308,
I have a little hand thingy for the end of the hose that is great for a final clean but it does not shift a lot of the crud. Seed pods from the wattles are the main problem.
GPM.

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings All,
Old codgerhood strikes again. Nice and calm this morning so got the last of the highest gutters cleaned without any excitement. Was carrying the working platform from my scaffolding system to the next bit, hooked my toe on the edge of the deck and did a plant on top of the kit. No serious damage other than to pride but a rest day has been declared with work to continue tomorrow, body permitting.
Regards Grandpamac.
PS Swore I would get someone in to do the gutters this time. Maybe next year.

Spend half of yesterday up on the roof spraying moss, cleaning gutters and then windows. Rest of the day making feijoa chutney and lookin after our dying cat, poor buggers not eating, not 5 days gone, giving antibiotics but think it’s kidneys shut down. Just a waiting game, very sad after 14 yrs

Originally Posted by Maca49

Spend half of yesterday up on the roof spraying moss, cleaning gutters and then windows. Rest of the day making feijoa chutney and lookin after our dying cat, poor buggers not eating, not 5 days gone, giving antibiotics but think it’s kidneys shut down. Just a waiting game, very sad after 14 yrs

Yeah they go downhill real quick

Originally Posted by Maca49

Spend half of yesterday up on the roof spraying moss, cleaning gutters and then windows. Rest of the day making feijoa chutney and lookin after our dying cat, poor buggers not eating, not 5 days gone, giving antibiotics but think it’s kidneys shut down. Just a waiting game, very sad after 14 yrs

They are bit like cows: pretty robust units, so when they do go downhill there's usually not much you can do for them.

Originally Posted by Maca49

Spend half of yesterday up on the roof spraying moss, cleaning gutters and then windows. Rest of the day making feijoa chutney and lookin after our dying cat, poor buggers not eating, not 5 days gone, giving antibiotics but think it’s kidneys shut down. Just a waiting game, very sad after 14 yrs

I don’t think I refreshed the bit about the cat, he still had another life left, made a good recovery, then got into eating 3 pottles of meat a week. He then loss his voice, another $250 at the vet for thyroid problem, tablets helped, voice didn’t return, another $70 to the vet to tell me a growth in his neck slowly closing his wind pipe. Well on Wednesday another vet visit, one he didn’t survive, he couldn’t breathe, so was put to sleep. Sad day for all the kids and other family. He now resides in the freezer awaiting a burial in the the pet cemetery at the bach. Reached 16 years with very little health probs, the dog cannot figure out where his mates gone

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings All,
Old codgerhood strikes again. Nice and calm this morning so got the last of the highest gutters cleaned without any excitement. Was carrying the working platform from my scaffolding system to the next bit, hooked my toe on the edge of the deck and did a plant on top of the kit. No serious damage other than to pride but a rest day has been declared with work to continue tomorrow, body permitting.
Regards Grandpamac.
PS Swore I would get someone in to do the gutters this time. Maybe next year.

I feel you Gpm!
Fall’s should be reserved for the young (and at times the shcikkered!) and us oldies don’t bounce back so sprightly and the aches linger longer

We can't stop time but we can slow it down a-little . Covid has knocked us around more than some realise , I swear by The Tibetan 5-rites for feeling younger and less-tired , especially for accident-recovery (when I discovered it ) It took me 2-years before I could 'Do' the 3rd-move and it's still a careful-manoeuvre but it's better than anything I have ever tried before including pharmaceutical-fixes (antibiotics aside ) I've blahed-on about it many-times , but it's even cured my motion-sickness and my-Specialist now does it after seeing my results

Originally Posted by rewa

We can't stop time but we can slow it down a-little . Covid has knocked us around more than some realise , I swear by The Tibetan 5-rites for feeling younger and less-tired , especially for accident-recovery (when I discovered it ) It took me 2-years before I could 'Do' the 3rd-move and it's still a careful-manoeuvre but it's better than anything I have ever tried before including pharmaceutical-fixes (antibiotics aside ) I've blahed-on about it many-times , but it's even cured my motion-sickness and my-Specialist now does it after seeing my results

Interesting, just looked up those exercises, with the injury to my arm that I have had for 20 years no4 is impossible for me. As soon as I feel better I will give them a go

#1 shit
#2 shower
#3 shave
#4shampoo
#5 shag
perhaps???? has worked well for me over the years

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

#1 shit
#2 shower
#3 shave
#4shampoo
#5 shag
perhaps???? has worked well for me over the years

So Mickey Duck,what do you do with the shag? Cook it? Just asking for a friend..

Into my 79th year now. I learned to grudgingly accept that I can't burn the candle ay both ends like O ised to. Home projects take precedence and take longer than they uded to, but there is still pride as each is completed. Hunting and shooting time is much reduced ad a result but still achieved albeit less frequently. Howevet, getting close to pegging day and duck seadon now so good tucker supplrments coming up . Will get to an eady feer sometime in a few weeks time I hope; ad long ad my big red old bike still syarts ha ha. As you get on though and the old puns can't hack a load anymore you just have be careful and accept that the old expectations have to be pruned a bit. Bugger, but hey, thats life and I've had a great run. Big thing now is to give my dog a fair go.