One Day if we ever have a grandkid, I'm gonna say to that kid - 1 cent per gumball.
That will be fun.
Ken
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Edit - I try not to edit to much and without pointing it out, I won't edit any message more than a few hours typed, but I think I'm within that criteria and I just looked a bit more close at one of the images, and actually there are 4 big trunks in the one image and I didn't plant a one of them - not the one of to the right, nor the one in the middle, nor the "two" that are really one cause they come out of the ground together. Those are the "gumball" trees, and let me tell you - the drop a lot of prickly gumballs. Let me see if I can find a more "official" link: https://georgiawildlife.com/out-my-backdoor-defense-sweetgum-tree
Sweetgum.......ha, ha. Something tells me those gumballs are good for the soil, and I sure as hell know, they are good for me when I need to get some exercise.
Well, the 24-year old one better know enough to collect more gumballs, but that is part of the fun of it. I suspect I've raked up about 4000 gumballs so far this season and maybe 100,000 or so since we've been here.
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So, assuming that is accurate, lets think about it. 1 gumball 1 cent, 4000 this year, that is like $40......oh crap, if I let older kids do this, they will expect higher payment!
That's fun Ken, but my lovely grandchildren can't do what I can: multiply £1.6s.2d by 10 - (It's our old Sterling money - Lsd, no reason why they should). But now our youth can't do any mental arithmetic (but the Asians can!). I guess they will be ripped off when trying to bargain!
If my grandpa offered me 1 cent per gumball, I'd go find where they were concentrated use a tool like a rake, spend about 10 minutes and bring back over 200 gumballs most likely, but I'd tell my grandpa - you made the offer, now you count them up and I'll abide my payment.
Odds are, I would have probably had to be over 16 before I'd behave that way with ole Papa, but that is what I would have done and we both would have had some fun out of it......hopefully.
Oh well, this just imaginary anyhow, so no harm in it.
So, per the imagination above with a grandpa, gumballs, and a 16-year old, if the 16-year old came to me and said here are the gumballs 1 cent each pops.....you count em........I'd like to think I'd be puffing on a pipe and I would slowly look up and say - OK. After getting confirmation, I would proclaim the count as 11 gumballs and then commence to paying 11 cents.
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After that, I suspect the kid would count them if they wanted to get paid fair!
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Ha, ha.
Ken
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Edit 1: So the morale to the story is the one with the funds disperses them and don't let them count the work done or product made or delivered - you tell them what you did and then get paid fair. Probably it would be pretty easy to create container and verify this, that with a bell curve of +1, +2, +3 and vice-versa on either side, the container would be generally accepted as holding 25 gumballs - that would make the counting easier and quicker and could be audited on occasion, but seems like it would be easy to setup.
Lovely Ken, thank you for sharing. I would love to show you some of my trees but I will wait a while until the blossom arrives soon. BTW I have no idea how to post pics to SS? What format should I use?
All I do is save the photo straight from the device that took it onto my "PC Smart Device" and I save it in its original format....(jpg). So far, I've saved the images via email to 2 accounts because I'm sort of doing a compare & contrast in the background as I'm fond of doing - it is harmless but informative. So, save the file to the harddrive memory place, then I click the button for adding a photo on SubS (I think it is like an envelope) and then it shows up as originally taken best I can tell, but there might be "markers" on it, and I don't care........I mean I put myself out there and I like to play at the table. I like just for there to be a table to sit around, and that is why I will be soon, in a few hours, with family that have gathered here.
And you must know, we have been here for quite some time. Since 1994. Some of the trees I planted probably have enough wood already for one year of fuel. But, I'm not cutting them down as long as there is supply of natural gas and why wouldn't there be - it makes good sense.
Stormwater awareness and the way the water flows are important things to understand if one wants to make the best out of what they have.
Peace,
BK
Edit 2: I just checked - it is an envelope and it gives the prompt if one is using a mouse stating: "insert image"....so Protect & Survive - that is how you can post a pic.
Many thanks Ken - spot on - I'll give it a try - nothing bad can happen! We have so much wood around here just a few miles away, so we are good and plenty of springs from our limestone hills (Mendips). It's a fine bugout!
The stance I take is everything is being tracked potentially, and being I got nothing to hide, the perspective I have is "I don't care".....but it doesn't mean I won't be tracking as well. Tracking the trackers in a sort of calculus way taken to the next level....of course, when does that end? It depends on principle I reckon and foundation built with conviction.
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So, when you mention "Mendips" - is that what you refer to:
Edit again...... <i> It is a small world nowadays, we know others who share our sentiment are out there, but what matters most I think is family, friends, and neighbors close. Of course to take this to its "bloody" end....what is "close".....from the perspective of an alien far away from the home planet - close could be very far away. So, I don't think that really matters relatively speaking because it is still most important to realize what matters most is family, friends, and neighbors.
"what matters most is family, friends, and neighbors." Too right Ken, and this is what we have here in SW England. You are off on your link though, the Beatles lived well north of us in Liverpool. This is the Mendips : https://www.mendiphillsaonb.org.uk/
OK, just found Frome and Shepton Mallet, and I think I'm gonna be quite a bit west of you in that inn in Mendips proper!
Ha, ha.
Still, can't deny it is fun to look on maps closely sometimes and learn something. I've been near where you reside one time and maybe if you were around we were possibly within 10 km of each other? Probably not, but maybe.....
OK, I think I figured it out...."Mendips" & 20 Forthlin Road were just a few streets in Liverpool. Now, Liverpool is about this far away from "Mendips" proper:
....well, I won't say, but they way to get their from Liverpool is to head due south. Get to Chester and head south - I think it was the A483. Take that all the way to Builth Wells. Then head towards Bristol - it is still south and there are several ways to do it. OK, once you get into Bristol, I recommend the A38 into Mendip and then you are on your own unless maybe you have a friend waiting for you!
Family, friends, and neighbors!
Ken
ps - Premier Inn Bristol Sidcot (A38) in the middle of western Mendip is the inn I would stay in if I ever went there in body!
Lovely Ken, you have it in one, except head to Bath from Bristol, then on to Frome (A361) - from there turn on to A359 at Nunney Catch roundabout to Bruton - 8 miles.
One Day if we ever have a grandkid, I'm gonna say to that kid - 1 cent per gumball.
That will be fun.
Ken
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Edit - I try not to edit to much and without pointing it out, I won't edit any message more than a few hours typed, but I think I'm within that criteria and I just looked a bit more close at one of the images, and actually there are 4 big trunks in the one image and I didn't plant a one of them - not the one of to the right, nor the one in the middle, nor the "two" that are really one cause they come out of the ground together. Those are the "gumball" trees, and let me tell you - the drop a lot of prickly gumballs. Let me see if I can find a more "official" link: https://georgiawildlife.com/out-my-backdoor-defense-sweetgum-tree
Sweetgum.......ha, ha. Something tells me those gumballs are good for the soil, and I sure as hell know, they are good for me when I need to get some exercise.
~
OK - this message is pinned!
I have 9! The eldest is 24 (I think)
Well, the 24-year old one better know enough to collect more gumballs, but that is part of the fun of it. I suspect I've raked up about 4000 gumballs so far this season and maybe 100,000 or so since we've been here.
~
So, assuming that is accurate, lets think about it. 1 gumball 1 cent, 4000 this year, that is like $40......oh crap, if I let older kids do this, they will expect higher payment!
~
ha, ha.
Peace,
Ken
That's fun Ken, but my lovely grandchildren can't do what I can: multiply £1.6s.2d by 10 - (It's our old Sterling money - Lsd, no reason why they should). But now our youth can't do any mental arithmetic (but the Asians can!). I guess they will be ripped off when trying to bargain!
If my grandpa offered me 1 cent per gumball, I'd go find where they were concentrated use a tool like a rake, spend about 10 minutes and bring back over 200 gumballs most likely, but I'd tell my grandpa - you made the offer, now you count them up and I'll abide my payment.
Odds are, I would have probably had to be over 16 before I'd behave that way with ole Papa, but that is what I would have done and we both would have had some fun out of it......hopefully.
Oh well, this just imaginary anyhow, so no harm in it.
Ken
Humor me here......
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So, per the imagination above with a grandpa, gumballs, and a 16-year old, if the 16-year old came to me and said here are the gumballs 1 cent each pops.....you count em........I'd like to think I'd be puffing on a pipe and I would slowly look up and say - OK. After getting confirmation, I would proclaim the count as 11 gumballs and then commence to paying 11 cents.
~~~
After that, I suspect the kid would count them if they wanted to get paid fair!
~~
Ha, ha.
Ken
~
Edit 1: So the morale to the story is the one with the funds disperses them and don't let them count the work done or product made or delivered - you tell them what you did and then get paid fair. Probably it would be pretty easy to create container and verify this, that with a bell curve of +1, +2, +3 and vice-versa on either side, the container would be generally accepted as holding 25 gumballs - that would make the counting easier and quicker and could be audited on occasion, but seems like it would be easy to setup.
Well, maybe, but I suspect the next generation will learn the quickest of all assuming they got loving grandparents.
Ken
...if they are alive at the time! :-)
I'd like to think they will be.
I think they will.
I mean at least some of them I reckon......
alive in body or alive in mind I hope -
best is both.
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BK, Poem of the Day, 31923 1701
Lovely Ken, thank you for sharing. I would love to show you some of my trees but I will wait a while until the blossom arrives soon. BTW I have no idea how to post pics to SS? What format should I use?
Blessings
AP
All I do is save the photo straight from the device that took it onto my "PC Smart Device" and I save it in its original format....(jpg). So far, I've saved the images via email to 2 accounts because I'm sort of doing a compare & contrast in the background as I'm fond of doing - it is harmless but informative. So, save the file to the harddrive memory place, then I click the button for adding a photo on SubS (I think it is like an envelope) and then it shows up as originally taken best I can tell, but there might be "markers" on it, and I don't care........I mean I put myself out there and I like to play at the table. I like just for there to be a table to sit around, and that is why I will be soon, in a few hours, with family that have gathered here.
And you must know, we have been here for quite some time. Since 1994. Some of the trees I planted probably have enough wood already for one year of fuel. But, I'm not cutting them down as long as there is supply of natural gas and why wouldn't there be - it makes good sense.
Stormwater awareness and the way the water flows are important things to understand if one wants to make the best out of what they have.
Peace,
BK
Edit 2: I just checked - it is an envelope and it gives the prompt if one is using a mouse stating: "insert image"....so Protect & Survive - that is how you can post a pic.
Many thanks Ken - spot on - I'll give it a try - nothing bad can happen! We have so much wood around here just a few miles away, so we are good and plenty of springs from our limestone hills (Mendips). It's a fine bugout!
The stance I take is everything is being tracked potentially, and being I got nothing to hide, the perspective I have is "I don't care".....but it doesn't mean I won't be tracking as well. Tracking the trackers in a sort of calculus way taken to the next level....of course, when does that end? It depends on principle I reckon and foundation built with conviction.
~
So, when you mention "Mendips" - is that what you refer to:
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/liverpool-lancashire/the-beatles-childhood-homes?awc=3795_1679165957_c4b47e40ad094b097d34b36886dec71e&campid=Affiliates_Central_Mem_AWIN_Standard&aff=78888
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Edit again...... <i> It is a small world nowadays, we know others who share our sentiment are out there, but what matters most I think is family, friends, and neighbors close. Of course to take this to its "bloody" end....what is "close".....from the perspective of an alien far away from the home planet - close could be very far away. So, I don't think that really matters relatively speaking because it is still most important to realize what matters most is family, friends, and neighbors.
~~
Ken
"what matters most is family, friends, and neighbors." Too right Ken, and this is what we have here in SW England. You are off on your link though, the Beatles lived well north of us in Liverpool. This is the Mendips : https://www.mendiphillsaonb.org.uk/
We stay in a small town of Bruton (pop 3,000) equidistant between Shepton Mallet and Frome on the A361 marked on the map (a tiny back-lane actually in your terms) : https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/visit-trendiest-town-somerset-find-6353091
A small world indeed my friend.
OK, just found Frome and Shepton Mallet, and I think I'm gonna be quite a bit west of you in that inn in Mendips proper!
Ha, ha.
Still, can't deny it is fun to look on maps closely sometimes and learn something. I've been near where you reside one time and maybe if you were around we were possibly within 10 km of each other? Probably not, but maybe.....
Ken
OK, I think I figured it out...."Mendips" & 20 Forthlin Road were just a few streets in Liverpool. Now, Liverpool is about this far away from "Mendips" proper:
....well, I won't say, but they way to get their from Liverpool is to head due south. Get to Chester and head south - I think it was the A483. Take that all the way to Builth Wells. Then head towards Bristol - it is still south and there are several ways to do it. OK, once you get into Bristol, I recommend the A38 into Mendip and then you are on your own unless maybe you have a friend waiting for you!
Family, friends, and neighbors!
Ken
ps - Premier Inn Bristol Sidcot (A38) in the middle of western Mendip is the inn I would stay in if I ever went there in body!
Lovely Ken, you have it in one, except head to Bath from Bristol, then on to Frome (A361) - from there turn on to A359 at Nunney Catch roundabout to Bruton - 8 miles.
https://mydrive.tomtom.com/en_gb/#mode=routes+viewport=51.24463,-2.53871,9.44,0,-0+search=%7B%22input%22:%22Bruton%22,%22coords%22:%5B51.11185,-2.45232%5D%7D+routes=%7B%22departure%22:true,%22traffic%22:true,%22routeType%22:%22FASTEST%22,%22travelMode%22:%22CAR%22,%22points%22:%5B%22hw~51.38488,-2.36197~A~Bath%20ENG,%20GBR%22,%22hw~51.11185,-2.45232%22%5D,%22avoidCriteria%22:%5B%5D%7D+ver=3
Wow - Mendips per your link seems like a fine place. The "walks" (hiking trails) seemed most appealing.....thanks for sharing.
Ken