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My friend of 35 years passed away after a long and painful illness. He was roughly the same size as me and his widow gave me all his shirts, tee shirts and a raft of coats for all seasons. I picked out 2 or 3 coats I liked (I have plenty of my own) and took the rest to Goodwill. The donation door ha...

Sounds like a good guy! They're out there, I just haven't run into many of them.

Not much of any general interest going on here in East Overshoe. Having a decent Fall after a pretty poor excuse for a Summer. Doing a little maintenance and repair work for other folks, lawn equipment and trailers mostly. I've noticed that my usual go-to outlets for parts have gone from an in-stock...

Nice place, that should move quickly.

I often think about the house I grew up in. Every time I go back to Michigan I'm tempted to stop by but I really think I'd rather remember it as it was than see what the new owners have done with it.

Being from the MS-DOS era when 10MB was an unimaginably huge hard drive, I'm in the habit of running a tight ship and deleting anything that doesn't absolutely need to be saved.

Which is a round-about way of saying I deleted that email...

I started a claim. We shall see.

Ordered a mower part for a customer. FEDEX says "delivered" and shows a photo that is CLEARLY the house across the street from me. Big ol' rental place, at least two separate families living there. Casual observation over a period of months tends to indicate that these are not model citize...

I don't think it's you, Jim. You're one of the few keeping this place alive.

I think that, at least to some extent, it is a lack of common interests.

Sounds like an interesting bunch. Maybe they'll breathe a little life into this place.

My vote is to invite them and see what happens.

That's what mystifies me. I see a lot of posts with a ton of views and not one reply.

Must be a bunch of broken keyboards out there...