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TELL THEM WHAT THEY’VE WON, DON!

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The weekend Farm Report comes to us from Ben.

This blog was going to be all about the practice burn the fire department did at our old Haverhill Townhall. But then I looked at the weather forecast and my farming priorities changed. Talking snow in the 10 day and some cooler temps and I rearranged things. I’m still not sure if it’s snow to stay, but I decided I better get some outdoor things done and suddenly the blog turns into all this other stuff.

When I’m working in the machine shed, because we already have spotty cell phone service down in the valley, and then inside a metal building, I can’t get cell phone or Wi-Fi in there. 30 years ago it was a big deal when I ran a phone line out to the machine shed. I could call John Deere right from the shop while I was working on something and that was a big ass deal. It wasn’t long after we all had cell phones and the wall phone became irrelevant but still, I thought having a phone in the shop made me pretty hot stuff.  It’s along those lines that I need to have, well I feel like I need to have, well I WANT internet out there. It’s not like I’m installing a TV and turning it into a man cave, but texting is a major line of communication for us and I’m always looking up something or other, so it’s a need more than a want. Therefore I am installing a Wi-Fi bridge to send the Internet from the house wirelessly over to the machine shed. A cable from our basement modem through the garage  and to a device on the side of the garage, and another device at the peak of the machine shed and a cable that will plug into a router in there. It’s good that I have friends that know this stuff and could point me in the right direction, and it’s good to have YouTube to show you how to do it. The one on the garage is done and working and Wednesday morning I was mounting the one on the machine shed when I got a phone call that my second garage door would be installed the next day. Well crap, I thought that was coming next week and while I’m mostly ready for it, I wasn’t completely ready. So I spent two hours putting a couple supports in place and getting flashing installed where the tracks will be. I had to work an event Wednesday evening and then another hour Wednesday night to finish the door up before the gentlemen arrived Thursday morning and installed the door. 

Kelly said it best: “It’s like ‘Let’s Make a Deal!’ Do I want Door #1 or Door #2??” This is called vertical lift garage door. It all came about because I bought a used garage door and opener at an auction for this location. My thought is this will be a good place to park the lawnmowers or the gator or the small tractors while leaving the big door and opening for the big tractor. But then the loft hasn’t materialized and regular garage door tracks would be in the way, which led me to a vertical door. Which also means of course, the door that I bought cheap at auction doesn’t work.  Well heck, it’s only money. 

I’m heading out to chisel some more, want to try and get that done before the temps get too cold and I should be able to finish that before the weekend.

I’ve also had a contractor out to look at moving some dirt and fixing a waterway. A spot that’s always wet in the spring and the last several years the water runs down the edge of the field rather than staying in this grassy area. That area has overgrown with Willow trees and Box Elder and really, to fix it right, we need to tear out about 200 yards of trees. The contractor is hoping to get too that early December.

I think I have this weekend open, so I shall work on picking up hoses and taking off the outdoor faucet, and until they predict a snowfall amount, I’m not gonna worry about picking up the buckets and such for the chickens yet. I suppose I might have to move a water bucket inside if the temps stay cool. I did put the back on the chicken coop this week.

I’ve seen the three ducks flying overhead. I’m not sure where they’re hanging out, but I’m glad they’re still around.

Next week I need to start lighting another show. And it’s a Christmas show of all things. Knowing my love of Christmas music should make me a joy to live with. And then the second week of December I will have holiday concerts at the college. I should start stocking up on alcohol now.

NEXT week I’ll get to the burning of the townhall.

Sneak Peak Photo!

What game show do/did you enjoy watching?

58 thoughts on “TELL THEM WHAT THEY’VE WON, DON!”

        1. I’m guessing that it was on before I came to the US (November 1965).

          My first year in the US, I was exposed to everything Anne and Kate Garvin, our mother/daughter landladies, watched on TV.

          Anne was 78 years old, and her TV was always on. Shows that I recall are: Bonanza, Art Linkletter’s House Party, Candid Camera, To Tell the Truth, The Smothers Brothers, Perry Mason, and What’s My Line? I didn’t join her for the soap operas, but I got quite the education the first six months I lived there.

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  4. All time fave is Jeopardy. I took the online tests to become a contestant several times back in the day. Never even got close. Now I’m too old and slow to answer in time. I can still get 20-25 of each 30 correct most days, but 5-10 of those will only come after a contestant has answered. Jeopardy’s definitely a young thinker’s game.

    As a kid, I watched pretty much any game show out of boredom (or no cartoons or Hogan’s Heroes). Password, Let’s Make a Deal, the Newlywed Game, Match Game, To Tell the Truth, all come to mind as quite a bit of wasted time in my youth.

    Chris in O-town

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      1. Jeopardy! is the only game show I watch regularly. It doesn’t bother me in the least that contestants jump around the board in search of the daily doubles, and I think Ken Jennings is doing a fine job of hosting the show.

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  5. I loved What’s My Line – still remember it was Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennet Cerf, and then a guest panelist? All kinds of celebrities were on as the Mystery Guest…

    You can go down quite a rabbit hole looking these up, but here:

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  6. Jeopardy for me. At my work we have TV’s in the waiting rooms that are sometimes set to really old reruns of The Price Is Right. Those gaudy suits and wide ties on Bob Barker!

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  8. I remember liking The Gong Show, (Never would have imagined it a predecessor to AGT these days) but maybe it was supposed to be more funny than serious. I was also a teenager so it appealed to my sense of humor.
    Match Game and Gene Rayburn as host and his tall narrow microphone. Again, too young / sheltered / innocent to catch all the double entendre’s…

    I finished chisel plowing last night. Cleaned up and poured a glass of whiskey, drank half, fell asleep on the couch.

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  9. I’ve never been much of a fan of game shows. Too much jingly jangly noise for my taste. We used to have Jeopardy on for one of the clients at the group home where I worked. That young guy would say, “Depperdy,” so we knew he wanted to listen to it. I think he liked to watch one of my coworkers get all excited as she guessed the puzzle. So it was entertaining to watch them both. I was usually too busy to pay much attentions, but once in a while I could hear it and figure it out.

    I’m looking forward to seeing some of you tomorrow at Jacque and Lou’s.

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  10. Rise and Shine, Baboons,

    All the game shows mentioned, especially the very old ones from the early TV days are shows I watched and loved as a child. In the present I see Jeopardy now and then, but not often; but it is still fun. My all time favorite was Password. I loved Allen Ludden and Betty White as personalities on the show, but I also loved the concept. But I still love word games (thus my Wordle thing).

    In a minute we will head up to Once Upon a Crime to my sister’s book signing. I waited to buy the new book until today to drive up her numbers by one book. I hope to see a few Baboons there.

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      1. As I recall, she got a new washing machine out of the deal. That’s the sort of prizes they awarded their queens.
        I think she had been going through some hard times. Not sure the washing machine helped much.

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    1. Pretty damn funny. Reminded me of celebrity Jeopardy! which was often quite surprising to watch. Quite a few of those so-called celebrities were less than impressive with their general knowledge.

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  14. One of the fun things of the blog are the ‘More from the Trail’ posts at the end of the days entry. And one at the end of this week is a blog I wrote from December 31, 2018 about planning a shop. So it’s kind of neat six years later to see I’m finishing up a shop. Back in 2018 I hadn’t quite figured things out as to what has actually transpired.

    I have Monday and Tuesday off from work, I plan to be moving a lot of machinery in before the weather gets bad, meaning I need to move a lot of other stuff around.
    I have got Wi-Fi in the shop and cameras working! Pretty cool!

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      2. Hey, the previous posts showing on my phone are NOT the same as the posts showing on the desktop computer. Huh!
        On the desktop, they’re between the post and the comments and they say “related”. So that’s weird…

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  15. OT-Tee Hee! I just finished frying 50 sheets of lefse, and an ad popped up on my phone asking if my house was ready for a deep clean. Well, there are floury hand prints everywhere in the kitchen with a flour dusting on the floor and cupboards. How did they know?

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  16. Like Krista, I am not a game show gal. When I was little, having the tv on during the day didn’t happy often. So while I have heard most of the game shows you all hae mentioned, I’m not really all that familiar with them.

    Nonny really likes Wheel of Fortune and another girlfriend of mine is rabid about seeing Jeopardy every night. I can sit and watch them but I don’t seek them out on my own.

    At Blevins today we got on the topic of the Great British Baking Show (sorry if I got the name wrong), which seems like a game show to me. I’ve never actually seen it although MANY folks have worked to convince me over the years that I should watch it. But I’m secure in my position that I don’t want to watch shows in which people get thrown off. Just me.

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      1. I think that’s great. And I am absolutely not trying to get anyone to stop watching any show that they want to. I just think it’s interesting that so many people have tried to convince me that I should be watching this particular show.

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    1. She was satisfied. She sold more books than the other 2 authors. She was very pleased to know they stock her books. Then she sold a few more today at Blevins.

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