Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[svk]

I’m sorry to hear if your friend’s situation but he is not alone in his suffering. I think some men look for a replacement mom in their lives. One the will tell them what to do in every aspect of their life, even how to dress. I truly feel sorry for them


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My friend was a real good looking fellow in HS and can't say he aged gracefully. But he has/or at least had a great personality and could still do far better than that. He basically was getting old maid syndrome and stuck with the first thing that came alone....And sadly the first thing was her.

I tell younger men, do not get involved with women that you are not head over heels for. If there are warning signs DO NOT IGNORE THEM. RUN AWAY. You will find someone better eventually.

I truly feel sorry for them

I do not feel sorry for anyone who stays in a bad relationship because it is easier than the alternative.

 

[LondonNeil]

F*** that! But I hope I get to the door first later....2 more axes bought in a '. New job celebration'....I want them hidden away to avoid the 'what are they?' remarks . It was actually 3... One GBA, one saw, one HB. I already got the GBA hidden!

 

[svk]

I have another friend, more or less my little brother from another mother who jumps from controlling woman to controlling woman. He gets a new woman who is "nothing like the last one" and then all of a sudden he can't hang out with us anymore. Unfortunately this last one pretty much has him indoctrinated, they are renting a home from one of her family members and also bought a UTV "together" on CFD from another of her family members. And they got a dog together. She must have read the book on how to get your hooks into a man.

He is almost the perfect man IMO but always ends up with train wreck women because he fells he doesn't deserve better.

 

[saxman]

Sounds like a woman in a abusive relationship, either physical or mental. We all know of someone like that. At some point they get out of that relationship and jump right back in another. Out of the frying pan into to fire! It’s way over my head to figure out their thought process. The warning signs seem obvious to me.


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[svk]

Sounds like a woman in a abusive relationship, either physical or mental. We all know of someone like that. At some point they get out of that relationship and jump right back in another. Out of the frying pan into to fire! It’s way over my head to figure out their thought process. The warning signs seem obvious to me.


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Stockholm syndrome and/or searching for their "type"

Women seem more apt to search for a "type" of guy and if one of those guys is a trainwreck, usually they all will be.

OTOH guys usually fall for the "nice girl" act then fail to bail out once she starts to lay down the law when they have been together for a while.

 

[MustangMike]

Having hundreds of tax clients, and being the "victim" of a divorce, I will say a few things … there are no easy answers, and most people are not who they try to make you think they are.

I have also seen (all too often) good people abused by their spouses, and folks with abusive spouses clinging to them like they were gold.

Human nature is a strange thing.

Also, going through a divorce is life altering, financially devastating, and not fun. It is also devastating to the kids. I don't knock anyone who tries to avoid it.

 

[svk]

My wife had a very close friend who had been repeatedly abused by her husband. One weekend she knew it was worse than normal and tried to check in but the husband wouldn’t even let her talk on the phone. She said if I don’t hear from her by X time I’m calling the cops and his only response was “leave us alone”. X time came and went without a response so she called the sheriff to do a well check. Her “friend” never spoke to us again and made up a bunch of rumors about her trying to ruin their marriage.

 

[mountainguyed67]

We call them Crayfish north of the Mason/Dixon.

I‘m west of the Mason Dixon line, ha ha! We call them crawdads.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Told her she could have the crotches and uglies in the burn pile too. View attachment 848433View attachment 848434

I would call most of that “uglies”, with the mold on the end.

 

[MustangMike]

One of the girls that grew up in the house next to ours married someone who turned out to be a nut case, and children were involved.

They were going through a divorce, but she agreed to talk with him at her parents house. He started beating the snot out of her on the front lawn. My brother went over there and pulled him off, and said the only reason he didn't start hitting him was he was afraid he would not have been able to stop and would have killed him.

He told the girl to never ever, no matter what he said or did, meet him alone ever again. A few weeks later he called her, begging her to come over, but my brother's words rang in her ears and she said no. He put a shotgun under his chin an pulled the trigger. Everyone knew if she had gone over there they would have found two dead bodies instead of just one.

 

[farmer steve]

Found out last Friday I'm DECEASED. My retirement checks stopped coming and I called the company to do find out why. Their records say the info they got said I had passed away.NO my saws aren't for sale.

 

[uniballer]

Found out last Friday I'm DECEASED. My retirement checks stopped coming and I called the company to do find out why. Their records say the info they got said I had passed away.NO my saws aren't for sale.

Have you contacted the Social Security Administration yet? They spread death reports around, including false reports. They send out several thousand death reports in error every year (and almost 3 million correct reports).

 

[farmer steve]

Have you contacted the Social Security Administration yet? They spread death reports around, including false reports. They send out several thousand death reports in error every year (and almost 3 million correct reports).

This was from my former work retirement. Stihl getting my SS. At least I think

 

[Iowawoodguy]

I'm looking forward to the crops coming out of the fields soon. We know a lot of the farmers around here and have hunting permissions. I'm hoping that I'll be able to cut some of the dead trees down out of the creeks and fieldlines. I also have a patch of hickory trees in mind that I might cull from. Is anyone else looking forward to the crops coming out?

 

[Deleted member 150358]

I'm looking forward to the crops coming out of the fields soon. We know a lot of the farmers around here and have hunting permissions. I'm hoping that I'll be able to cut some of the dead trees down out of the creeks and fieldlines. I also have a patch of hickory trees in mind that I might cull from. Is anyone else looking forward to the crops coming out?

Ready for the cool down. I just spent a 1/2 an hour at the wood pile with the 445 and I'm soaked!

 

[svk]

Back at it. These lake exposure aspen rounds are pretty stringy so I’m loosening them up a bit first

 

[mountainguyed67]

Ready for the cool down.

Two more months? That’s what it’ll be here.

 

[uniballer]

This was from my former work retirement. Stihl getting my SS. At least I think

Where do you think your former workplace heard you had died? *Everybody* reports deaths to SSA and they pass it along to pension funds, banks, credit agencies, VISA, Mastercard, brokerages, credit unions, etc. Apparently, all it takes is a slip-up when putting in a decedent's social security number, and voila - somebody else is dead!

 

[rarefish383]

I‘m west of the Mason Dixon line, ha ha! We call them crawdads.
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I'm 20-30 miles south of the M/D line and either one works, they both taste the same.

 

[svk]

Laid waste to close to 70 rounds between the 505 and 394

While sharpening the chain tonight I noticed the 394 has a stripped dawg bolt so I’ll have to do some fabricating.