Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[Greywoulf]

Not so much a 'cover' as a re-creation! Well done...!

 

[SoulReflection]

I think of my late brother Tom who died too young at 53 and how he loved technology. Even more than me. I'm more like a greasy auto mechanic. I like to get my hands dirty in fixing computers but don't have much interest in higher level knowledge of how they're programmed, outside of user preferences.

Tom would have been amazed by everything he would see today. We are spoiled by advance computer graphics on the television. Our refrigerators can communicate with our smartphones. We have cameras answering the door on front porches. Streaming TV. In 1981 I fell in love with the movie Blade Runner and was working my way to that future. Well, we're partially there and I no longer feel like a futurist. It isn't what it was all cracked up to me. Technology has dumbed down our young people. They can't spell, can't add, can't do cursive, and don't understand in-person courtesy. The 1% seem to like our young generation to lack vision and leadership. We're becoming a nation of lemmings. I'm sorry to sound so negative but my dream of technology making the future bright backfired on me.

Now I enjoy going out to the woods and making a nice campfire with Carey. Roasting marshmallows. Listening to nighttime forest sounds. I've kind of come full circle back to my childhood. Ironic isn't it?

We all need to get back to the woods and away from our constant crap...

 

[beans-on-toast]

We all need to get back to the woods and away from our constant crap...

Currently, fires in the woods are banned due to dry conditions. Use of fire places in the city are always banned due to pollution concerns. Fires are out. I suppose that you can BBQ a marshmallo.

As a kid we used to cut cattail reed stems (bulrush) and soak the top in gasoline, then light them. That must be illegal theese days as well. There's always someone in authority taking away all the fun.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Currently, fires in the woods are banned due to dry conditions. Use of fire places in the city are always banned due to pollution concerns. Fires are out. I suppose that you can BBQ a marshmallo.

As a kid we used to cut cattail reed stems and soak the top in gasoline, then light them. That must be illegal theese days as well. There's always someone in authority taking away all the fun.

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Just a friendly game of singe the ear hair, yes?

 

[beans-on-toast]

Just a friendly game of singe the ear hair, yes?

You hear of people burning their hair when lighting a BBQ.

Michael Jackson received serious burns shooting a Pepsi commercial and was left bald.

 

[shadowtippy]

Currently, fires in the woods are banned due to dry conditions. Use of fire places in the city are always banned due to pollution concerns. Fires are out. I suppose that you can BBQ a marshmallo.

As a kid we used to cut cattail reed stems (bulrush) and soak the top in gasoline, then light them. That must be illegal theese days as well. There's always someone in authority taking away all the fun.

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Nice pic of corn dogs growing wild.

 

[SoulReflection]

I suppose that you can BBQ a marshmallo.

Yes you can, provided you have a propane BBQ with protection from setting the picnic table on fire...

 

[Jeff Scott]

Some Japanese funk and '60s style pop for your listening pleasure.

 

[Jeff Scott]

And then, there's this way out there one!

 

[GwenOnBass]

It's too early to deal with

 

[ahc]

As a kid we used to cut cattail reed stems (bulrush) and soak the top in gasoline, then light them. That must be illegal theese days as well. There's always someone in authority taking away all the fun.

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We used to do the same thing. For whatever reason they were known as "punks". Another deeply ingrained olfactory memory is the smell of neighbors burning leaves in the fall. That was outlawed in the 60's IIRC. I used to love that smell.

 

[StereoPlayer]

It's too early to deal with

Already picked up my grocery order...
My the prices! GOF.

 

[StereoPlayer]

We used to do the same thing. For whatever reason they were known as "punks". Another deeply ingrained olfactory memory is the smell of neighbors burning leaves in the fall. That was outlawed in the 60's IIRC. I used to love that smell.

Sometimes I do burn leaves, just to remember...

 

[beans-on-toast]

It's too early to deal with

Morning here is night time in Japan, +11 hours EST. The Saki is flowing.

For some reason, I don’t have a tolerance for sake. The first time I had it was many years ago. It was in a Japanese restaurant where you sat on the floor. The sake came in a pop type bottle with a cap much like beer. The alcohol content must have been very high, it hit me hard and didn’t mix well with the pitcher of soya sauce that they poured in with the beef. Good thing I was already on the floor. Haven’t had sake since then.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Already picked up my grocery order...
My the prices! GOF.

Even at 7AM, my grocery store is getting crowded. It used to be that he early hour was reserved for GOF’s, not any more. Home delivery remains quite strong, lots of filled orders typically waiting for delivery.

 

[StereoPlayer]

Even at 7AM, the grocery store is getting crowded.

I've been ordering online for quite a while now. Now I kind of like not going in there!

 

[notJaco]

Sometimes I do burn leaves, just to remember...

I always burn my boxes and paper packing. The stuff really collects in a hurry with a lot of delivered items these days. The recycling facility stopped accepting cardboard items and unfortunately the plastic, too. But, I wait till things are a bit moist out in the surrounding fields or at least not windy as to set embers flying.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Sometimes I do burn leaves, just to remember...

Some roll them in paper.

 

[StereoPlayer]

I always burn my boxes and paper packing. The stuff really collects in a hurry with a lot of delivered items these days. The recycling facility stopped accepting cardboard items and unfortunately the plastic, too. But, I wait till things are a bit moist out in the surrounding fields or at least not windy as to set embers flying.

We used to burn the trash in a steel barrel back in the day.

 

[StereoPlayer]

We used to burn the trash in a steel barrel back in the day.

" Back in the day"!