You know you are getting older when..............

[Pwc]

Another Okie story....

G'ma and g'pa didn't have run ing water. The well was about 40 yds out in the pasture, it had a wind mill that would pump if you un bolt the pump handle and attached the wondmill pump rod to the pump, or you could pump yourself. You had to pull the lever that swung the "tail", that kept the fan facing into the wind, closed and applied the brake to the fan. Then you had to use the lever to creap the hole in the rod to the hole on the pump rod then insert a pin.

Releasing the lever then allowed the windmill to pump 4 gal of pure cool water into a porcelin lined bucket. We drank from a red rimmed porcelin lined dipper.

One time, when I was 5, I climbed up the windmill and was standing on the platform in front of the fan. G'pa was coming out with 2 buckets when I hollered to him and waved. He dropped the buckets and ran to the windmill and told me to come down.

When I got there I got a lesson on how hard calused farmers hands were. Grown now, sometimes I don't know how I survived childhood...

 

[Tommie]

You know you’re getting older when...you use the word “older” instead of “old”.

 

[MrMajestic]

Used to laugh at "Old Men" because they always had a drop of egg yolk on their white button up shirt. Now I have egg yolk, along with what ever else I've eaten, on my shirt...I don't have near the class they had as mine is usually some type of tee shirt...things one remembers

 

[brokeasajoke]

Tell me how to build one! Only saw one and it had a spring running with channels

Canhouse or troughs? We also had a tater hole dug out under our house which sat on rocks and not a foundation.

 

[hogpatrol]

I'm so old I remember tree forts, wiffle ball, baseball cards stuck to the fender braces on my bike with clothes pins, carving my name in beech tree bark, swinging on a rope over a creek swimming hole with all my clothes laying on the bank, staying in a tent out in the woods and roasting hot dogs on a stick. Beside that I can't remember if I already posted this stuff.

 

[brokeasajoke]

I'm so old I remember tree forts, wiffle ball, baseball cards stuck to the fender braces on my bike with clothes pins, carving my name in beech tree bark, swinging on a rope over a creek swimming hole with all my clothes laying on the bank, staying in a tent out in the woods and roasting hot dogs on a stick. Beside that I can't remember if I already posted this stuff.

Done some of that with my kids this past weekend.

 

[JSH]

I was going to respond to somthing, then I couldn’t remember who it was, now I can’t think what I was going to say............

 

[dttheliman]

What’s this thread about?

 

[Rustytigwire]

College town. My brother lives close to campus, daughter parked his house, walk to class. Im going to work late but stop by his house on the way one morning. Damn these college girls get prettier every year, walking down the street, nice spring day. Get outta the street!...
Omg thats my 23 yr old daughter !!!

 

[SEM]

You know you're older when the topics for conversations with your friends revolve around health issues and the medications being taken for them.

I always thought I hope I never get that old... happened any way

 

[longtrapshootn]

What’s this thread about?

Getting old and loving it.

 

[Snuggie]

I’m 69 but I don’t know what I wanna be when I grow up!!

 

[MikeT49]

When hunting in the cold you have to take half a viagra so you can find your stem to pee.

 

[jds holler]

So I says to this cute young gal at work, "Lets say for instance that I was twenty years younger, and you were twenty years older??"

She looked me up and down, and said, "Yeah, I guess you'd probably have a shot at a date ---- with my mom." jd

 

[Snuggie]

^Ouch!

 

[ShootDots]

I'm so old I remember tree forts, wiffle ball, baseball cards stuck to the fender braces on my bike with clothes pins, carving my name in beech tree bark, swinging on a rope over a creek swimming hole with all my clothes laying on the bank, staying in a tent out in the woods and roasting hot dogs on a stick. Beside that I can't remember if I already posted this stuff.

I did just about what you did! I just had a small "accident" camping out and cooking Bologna on a "Bunsen Burner"! There was a girl about a year older than I was. She was "one of us guys"! Well we were on the "camping trip" in the fields behind our houses. The Bunsen Burners somehow got out of control and we burned the entire field down! It was about 3/4 mile long and maybe 3-400 yards wide! We skated on that one>>>nobody found out it was us! LOL!!! I just looked it up, I could not remember the name of the burners we used. They were called Sterno!

 

[snert]

Canhouse or troughs? We also had a tater hole dug out under our house which sat on rocks and not a foundation.

canhouse. Whats a trough?

 

[jimcasey01]

When I was around 7-9 years old I was visiting my grandparents house. The pump in the yard had to be primed before it did it's job. My uncle and some of his friends set me up. Everyone carried a plug of Red Man and took a chaw every now and then. I was offered some, a man sized bite, which I gleefully took. When the tobacco juice ran down my throat it felt like fire. I ran to the pump, to find the bowl of water to prime the pump was empty. Everyone except me got a great laugh from it. Now a days, that would be considered child abuse. Back then it was called fun. I lived through it and did similar to my siblings and younger relatives.

 

[MrMajestic]

canhouse. Whats a trough?

I think it's what we call a Springhouse. Some used troughs to increase the water surface for more effective cooling. His "tator house" we call a cold cellar also.

 

[JFrank]

I think it's what we call a Springhouse. Some used troughs to increase the water surface for more effective cooling. His "tator house" we call a cold cellar also.

Perhaps this is the same as what we called a root cellar