Celebrating Positives (offset of the Gripes Thread)

[facthunter]

I like Boats, but my Missus would get seasick in the Bath if I splashed her.  She didn't get Airsick in Citabria or Tiger Moths. Nev

[Marty_d]

My wife and I bought wetsuits on Saturday and went snorkeling Sunday.

Tinderbox marine reserve. Only metres from the rocks we saw heaps of big blue Wrasse, puffer fish, schools of small fish.

It was beautiful.

[spacesailor]

I ( after a few decades ) finally rode around the washing line.  On my bicycle. 

Just once , but , what a scary thing to do when everyone was away.

Who knows how it could have ended .

spacesailor

 

[old man emu]

5 hours ago, spacesailor said:

I ( after a few decades ) finally rode around the washing line.  On my bicycle. Just once , but , what a scary thing to do when everyone was away.Who knows how it could have ended .

spacesailor

You could have been hung out and left to dry.

[facthunter]

 I have a "clothes " line. Are they called a washing line in the penal colony of NSW. We do Peg the clothes on the line . Haven't you cycled for a while?. Nev

[spacesailor]

Well over twenty years , I hung the bikes up , out of the way .

Rotary clothhoist.  But if I had a bad fall there would be no help coming. 

Two hours later ny legs & hip gave me " what-for " . And I had to sit for a while .

I will try again .

silly fool me .

spacesailor

[onetrack]

Give it a miss, ya silly old fool, before you end up in hospital again!! It's time to "act your age", not keep thinking you're a 20 yr old, and can still do all this stuff!!

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

Are they called a washing line in the penal colony of NSW.

In urban NSW, the clothes line in the form of the venerable Hills Hoist is but a tribal memory. There is barely room on a building block for a McMansion, let alone a rotary clothes line. Besides, kids nowadays remain inside to get on line.

[old man emu]

Just to give you an idea of the typical lawn areas of a modern house in one of Sydney's recently developed residential areas. Go ahead to about timestamp 5:30 to see the 'back yard'.

 

 

[spacesailor]

We're would they put the " boy's toys " . that you collect over the years .

Even the garden shed would be overload .

spacesailor

[facthunter]

Not for ME . I'd rather die. Bloody Treadmill. Spend most of your life paying for a potential Hell on Earth situation. There HAS to be more meaning to life than  that. I used to live in Sydney's West. Nev

[red750]

32 minutes ago, spacesailor said:

We're would they put the " boy's toys " .

Spacey, it's 'where', not 'we are' (we're). You do it all the time.

[old man emu]

45 minutes ago, red750 said:

Spacey, it's 'where', not 'we are' (we're). You do it all the time.

Are you trying to usurp my role on this site????????

[pmccarthy]

Beware the where wolf.

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, spacesailor said:

Where would they put the " boy's toys " . that you collect over the years?

I'm preparing to review my Last Will & Testament. I've got a good collection of "boy's toys", but what will become of them when I'm planted? It would be nice if my son of grandsons got them, but they live in one of those McMansions with now place to set up a workshop. My son has a few tools, but since the grandsons live with him, he has nowhere to make a workshop. I don't see my grandsons being likely to enter a woodworking trade. My daughter has no use for them, and unfortunately she might be a widow in a decade as my SIL has cancer.

 

I don't want to burden my kids, who are my Executors, with having to try to sell the tools. The return would not be worth the price of the effort. I am thinking of telling the kids to take the tools and my carpenter's workbench to the Men's Shed. But what do I do about all the household stuff? I've got rid of a lot of manchester and the like. I've yet to go through the boxes the kitchenware and stuff is still in. All that will got to the local OP shop.I even wonder about my motorbike. I have indicated that it should go to my son, and down his line, but I wonder how they will keep it roadworthy.   As the King of Siam was want to lament, "'Tis a puzzlement".

 

 

[spacesailor]

I must be catching up with the oldies here ( ear ) . LoL

I thought I put " were " not we-are .

Could our AI have changed my bad spelling ? .

spacesailo

[old man emu]

1 minute ago, spacesailor said:

Could our AI have changed my bad spelling ?

AI is pretty good, but it can't do the impossible.

[Marty_d]

33 minutes ago, old man emu said:

I'm preparing to review my Last Will & Testament. I've got a good collection of "boy's toys", but what will become of them when I'm planted? It would be nice if my son of grandsons got them, but they live in one of those McMansions with now place to set up a workshop. My son has a few tools, but since the grandsons live with him, he has nowhere to make a workshop. I don't see my grandsons being likely to enter a woodworking trade. My daughter has no use for them, and unfortunately she might be a widow in a decade as my SIL has cancer.

 

I don't want to burden my kids, who are my Executors, with having to try to sell the tools. The return would not be worth the price of the effort. I am thinking of telling the kids to take the tools and my carpenter's workbench to the Men's Shed. But what do I do about all the household stuff? I've got rid of a lot of manchester and the like. I've yet to go through the boxes the kitchenware and stuff is still in. All that will got to the local OP shop.I even wonder about my motorbike. I have indicated that it should go to my son, and down his line, but I wonder how they will keep it roadworthy.   As the King of Siam was want to lament, "'Tis a puzzlement".

 

 

Why do you care?

 

My father's shed was an absolute mess when he died, but it only took us a day to clear it out.

 

Think about what you're going to do while you're alive, not worry about what others do when you're not! 🙂

[old man emu]

7 minutes ago, Marty_d said:

Why do you care?

I don't know if it is sign of OCD, but I was brought up to be organised. Also, I've had the sad experience of doing this after my wife died, and also when my Mum moved out of her home to go into care. I'm still trying to decide what things that produce memories of my wife I am going to keep. I don't want to burden my kids with the same problems.

[spacesailor]

I agree with your thoughts of disposing of the accumulated ' nicnacks' that have so many childhood memories.  When my mother  passed , I held her possessions for a couple of years , just could not bring myself to let them go .

Now my wife does not want me to ' spend the kids inheritance '. LoL

spacesailor

 

[rgmwa]

4 hours ago, Marty_d said:

Why do you care?

 

My father's shed was an absolute mess when he died, but it only took us a day to clear it out.

 

Think about what you're going to do while you're alive, not worry about what others do when you're not! 🙂

That's very good advice, Marty although like OME, I've also been thinking about this. I lost my wife a few months ago and I now have a house that's far too big for one person and a dog. We seem to have accumulated so much stuff over the years, that I really need to cull a lot of it while I'm still around, rather that leave it all to the kids to sort out one day. Not that I'm thinking of departing any time soon, but I don't want to dump it all on them. As far as tools go, my son already has more than I do, although he said he'd like to have my my shed. 

Edited January 22 by rgmwa

[pmccarthy]

I recently threw out my mother's diaries and the tape recorder I was given for my sixteenth birthday. I am getting there slowly but am a hoarder by nature.

[onetrack]

Put it all in a fully sealed, soil-proof, contamination-proof container, that has an exceptionally durable coating, and bury it all. In 500 years when it's found and dug up, the archaeologists will be delighted to find a window into the everyday life of a person who lived 500 years ago - and your descendants will probably make a financial killing out of selling it all off to the highest bidders.  😄

[facthunter]

They will have to return from MARS to do that,  nev

[old man emu]

This morning I started to go through what's in the boxes that have been stacked up for two years. I'm keeping photos and family records and sending most of the rest to the OP shop. Who needs several dinner set or sets of glasses that were the go as wedding gifts fifty years ago, but you kids have no use for now?