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Post by mach12 on May 16, 2017 0:32:52 GMT -5
Now this is how rumors get started. The other day Dwayner and I were sitting here after dinner talking about what we were going to do with some parts so we weren't tripping over them and I said there was room in the upper barn where we put the two bodies earlier. My wife broke out laughing and I haven heard the end of it yet. Our daughter was here and said something about running off with my pickup and my wife said that if she wasn't careful that she'd end up in the upper barn with the other bodies. Sheesh. For the record, they're Stove Bodies!
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Post by pooka on May 16, 2017 3:40:15 GMT -5
That's why you have to as Paul Harvey used to say hear the rest of the story.
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Post by nana on May 16, 2017 14:16:12 GMT -5
Now this is how rumors get started. The other day Dwayner and I were sitting here after dinner talking about what we were going to do with some parts so we weren't tripping over them and I said there was room in the upper barn where we put the two bodies earlier. My wife broke out laughing and I haven heard the end of it yet. Our daughter was here and said something about running off with my pickup and my wife said that if she wasn't careful that she'd end up in the upper barn with the other bodies. Sheesh. For the record, they're Stove Bodies! However, if you DID want to get away with hiding bodies, running the long con as mild mannered stove repairmen wouldn't be a bad way to do it...No one ever suspects the butterfly......
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Post by pooka on May 16, 2017 19:10:33 GMT -5
Your mind travels in some macabre places in your dark humor nana.
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Post by dwayner2 on May 17, 2017 13:00:56 GMT -5
Yes, we all got a good laugh out of that when we said it. I know a few people down here in a TX I'd like to "store" up there in Mach12's shed. Alas, too far to travel and they would start to smell before I got there.
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Post by vaporvac on May 18, 2017 16:00:32 GMT -5
I've recently become guilty of "hiding" some bodies myself. I swear they were in the garage a short while ago. I guess that's what happens to any flat surface I have available! : )
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Post by nana on May 20, 2017 6:28:46 GMT -5
I've recently become guilty of "hiding" some bodies myself. I swear they were in the garage a short while ago. I guess that's what happens to any flat surface I have available! : ) I know what you mean. Sometimes I end up with piles on top of my piles, especially this time of year when there is so much to do outside!
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Post by mach12 on May 20, 2017 12:46:31 GMT -5
I've recently become guilty of "hiding" some bodies myself. I swear they were in the garage a short while ago. I guess that's what happens to any flat surface I have available! : ) I know what you mean. Sometimes I end up with piles on top of my piles, especially this time of year when there is so much to do outside! You're preaching to the choir! Dwayner can tell you about the two days we spent getting my shop to a point where we could do a couple of stoves at a time! It was already a bit of a mess before I started the kitchen remodel and then moving stuff to the shop to make room in the garage of the house for cabinets, saws and other tools made it even worse. There's light at the end of the tunnel though.
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Post by dwayner2 on May 20, 2017 16:55:09 GMT -5
Yeap. Big jobs (or piles of stuff) seem impossible to tackle at first but as long as you tell yourself it can't be done in one day you don't seem so lost. If you do a little each day then before long you feel like you've accomplished something and all you want to do is keep going at it. Chuckie and I only worked on his shop for 2 hours and we really made a big dent.
Years back when my place was new to me I moved X-number of yards of soil with a wheel barrel to prep my yard for grass. I calculated I moved around 15,000 lbs of soil in two days....but doubt I could do that now.
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Post by vaporvac on May 21, 2017 1:03:03 GMT -5
Well, apparently someone else is hiding "bodies" in my garage, too! I went into it after being away from home for over three months and felt something looked different. I should say so, a 15b Silverlite was sitting where I last kept a gas grill. Then I thought I was seeing double, and I was! There were TWO Silverlites snuggled together! Geez, I can't turn around for a minute.
P.S. My PICC thought this was hilarious, btw. Now I have SIX stoves down there and only twoalmost ready for new owners, although the one 15b is in really great shape and belonged to my PICC before he got his red one.
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Post by nana on May 21, 2017 7:29:38 GMT -5
Maybe they're breeding?!? 😃
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Post by dwayner2 on May 21, 2017 16:29:24 GMT -5
Geeeze Vapovac, I'm I going to have to come up there after I leave Chuckie's and help you too? I might be in the market for a B with good panels someday. I have 2 extra B/BZ tops with new enamel or chrome but no panels worthy of the new tops. That way I can get some more Getta at the local restaurant. I actually did like the stuff because it's made very similar to what we make at home called Head Sausage. Of course we don't boil the hog head anymore, just use pork roasts, skins and barley.
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Post by vaporvac on May 21, 2017 18:29:41 GMT -5
That's funny, dwayner! I remember going to all the butchers as a teenager looking for a hog head to make head cheese! What was wrong with me? I never found it, but I've made Goetta from scratch and it's super easy and delicious. There are so many different versions; they even serve it in the local hospitals here!!!
One of these silverlites has black handles and a slightly different timer dial and handle. I can't remember if the top is chrome or black porcelain.It has a really great look.
Nana, I do think they breed down there. They go hide in some private place and next thing you know, there are twins! Funny thing is the Cs are breeding Bs. : )
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Post by dwayner2 on May 21, 2017 19:51:55 GMT -5
In genetics we call that segregation of traits. Your C stoves must have some B genes in their background to produce those B offsprings.
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Post by nana on May 22, 2017 19:17:32 GMT -5
That's funny, dwayner! I remember going to all the butchers as a teenager looking for a hog head to make head cheese! What was wrong with me? I never found it, but I've made Goetta from scratch and it's super easy and delicious. There are so many different versions; they even serve it in the local hospitals here!!! One of these silverlites has black handles and a slightly different timer dial and handle. I can't remember if the top is chrome or black porcelain.It has a really great look. Nana, I do think they breed down there. They go hide in some private place and next thing you know, there are twins! Funny thing is the Cs are breeding Bs. : ) Wasn't there a thread somewhere about how all our old stoves and fridges come to life at night like characters in an old Disney cartoon? Maybe not so G rated as we thought!
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Post by dwayner2 on May 22, 2017 20:41:03 GMT -5
That is funny! Kinda like when we were little and were taught all those great things Washington, Jefferson and B. Franklin did for our country, only to learn in college what some of their behind the scenes activities were.... shame, shame, shame!
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Post by pooka on May 23, 2017 1:47:58 GMT -5
nana, it was on the other site. The thread was called " Fooderama". You prompted me after I posted some pics of a vintage mid to late 1930s Servel gas fired fridge. You were commenting on this fridges little legs & the legs on my stoves. Both stoves have stumpy short legs. I even point out in my story line that I've got a late teens little waffle iron with the same style legs. It looks more like a legged silver jewel box. You posting, Jul 28, 2016 at 8:29pm QuoteIf you lived in a Disney cartoon and had that fridge I guarantee that when you turned out the lights and went to bed your stove and your fridge would put on a stack of records and dance the night away on those dainty little legs of theirs!! Now isn't that a perfect mental image? I then replied, Jul 29, 2016 at 2:39am QuoteNo doubt Merrie Melodies would have an after the witching hour jamboree with all the crockery plus pots & pans joining in on the jubilation's. The T-9 toaster would bust a move as the tea kettle linked hands with the coffee pot to do their turn round the room. I'll bet the little curved legged waffle iron would burst out of the cabinet to do a solo, then perhaps team up with the toaster to raise a ruckus till dawn.
I've been looking around for a good working Gramophone real cheap. Some time a go I noticed a couple of bundles wrapped in brown paper tucked up over the main beam in the basement. I reached up to feel it, It was heavy. As I started to grab it, I realized, it was records. I thought twice & decided to just leave them alone for now till I've got something to play them on. I've no idea what kind of music it would be. My luck, I'd get an enchanted Gramophone that would start this nightly Juke joint a la Looney Toons.If our appliances have an enchanted & hidden after hours lives. Why not ala "Felix the Cat" in nature too. Are we describing vintage appliance fan fiction? Merrie Melodies gone risque? This could be a whole new jonrah of adult rated old appliances come to life & gone blue!!!
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Post by vaporvac on May 23, 2017 11:42:13 GMT -5
I think Hans C. Anderson actually wrote a story with a similar theme, but about little china figurines. Pooka, I don't think of those as "stumpy" legs, but graceful ankles. Dresses in those years were tea length fluttering above the ankle. I think they're quite charming. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have kitchen full of them!? : )
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Post by pooka on May 23, 2017 13:15:54 GMT -5
I bought these a few years ago to put on some future custom cabinet to flank my stove upstairs. I think these are off of a refrigerator. Recently, I've been looking at these green ones. They'd be perfect for the cabinet to the right of my stove next to the three steps down to my back door landing. Only three legs would be visible, & I love the green. 3 antique stove oven cook range porcelain legs sea foam feet salvage repurposeI found they are off of a Green Majestic Wood Cook Stove. They are part of the ever evolving visions in my head of my upstairs kitchen. I dream & speculate on it's form. I may get these. I may not. Dreams are free. Buying the dream is another story. I have to pounce on opportunities as I encounter them. Sometimes I just have to let some of them pass. Others, I add to the collection. I just lucked on a frame that perfectly fits my houseboat painting for $1, & got a painting of a farmstead for $3 to boot. Excuse the clutter of my wizards den as someone referred to it recently. It's not a highly skilled work, but it has a certain appeal. I have a similar one that's a view past an old farm shed & the field & trees beyond. It'll group with this. And maybe this fall color on a pound. My folk art corner in my own private art gallery. Sometimes I have to be practical. I just got an electric mower for $25 to do the front yard. It'll make the chore all the more easily done. There's an outlet on the side of the porch, so I wont have to string a cord too far.
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Post by nana on May 23, 2017 14:26:03 GMT -5
Nice! Although why we waste any money at all buying things at thrift shops when all we have to do is dim the lights and put on some mood music in our garages and basements, I'll never know!!
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Post by dwayner2 on May 23, 2017 18:04:13 GMT -5
Those paintings of yours Pooka reminded me of one nice painting I won off an online auction for $50. It's a Texas themed painting with an old house and of course...Bluebonnets. It's very well done and the price was not bad considering the quality. Some of you saw it in the back bedroom (above the bed) of my "Texas Oil Tank Camp" thread on the other site, about 4 years ago. The small picture just to the left of the bed (above the chair) cost me $1 and the frame is so very ornate and maybe 100 years old. Here's a copy of that posting if anyone wants to check it out. Me, my Uncle and others spent 3 years remodeling the camp so I figured I'd toot my own horn on the impressive work we did. Here's the thread... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Below is the Photobucket site you can take a peek at our camp in South West Texas. This is our version of going green. When the oil runs out, we move into the empty oil tank! The program would not let me edit / organize them so basically they are in reverse order. The "before" and construction pictures are at the bottom of page two. Forgot to note--The camp is really 3 tanks; main room, back (master) bedroom tank and then the bath/storage tank. All are connected so it looks like Mickey Mouse when the jets from Del Rio fly over. s1339.photobucket.com/user/dwayner5/library/Texas%20Oil%20Tank%20Camp?sort=3&page=1
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Post by mach12 on May 23, 2017 23:46:25 GMT -5
I'm impressed! Do you need a camp cook?
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Post by pooka on May 24, 2017 4:32:38 GMT -5
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Post by mach12 on May 24, 2017 10:50:51 GMT -5
Love the silo too. I wouldn't have been able to resist putting a handle on one side and a spout on the other though. And a sign that said something like the Java Hut.
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Post by dwayner2 on May 24, 2017 14:32:51 GMT -5
I work with/for two Muslims so I'll see if they can give us a clue to what it says.
PS- That silo camp or house is awesome....quality of the space, not quantity I say.
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