The Goat Pen

Fucking retard

White misses both ft then he hits 3

then he turnes it over

Maye withe big rebound and bucket

anotehr terrible tunrover

back when Alben Barkley was V.P. he finagled some deal to get Paducah as the location of an uranium enrichment plant. Of course that was well before my time, but in the 50's when it was being built the local area was booming. Construction workers were bringing home good money. Of course it was a boomtown atmosphere with a lot of hard working men without much to do at night. Western Kentucky is fairly straightlaced with at least 2 churches for every liquor store, but across the river in Southern Illinois, well...that's a different story. Cairo Illinois was a hub of honky tonks, cat houses, gambling and other forms of ill repute.

Cairo was a destination spot post civil war for African Americans. It was the first spot of freedom over the river, far enough away from the south they could live and carve out a life in agriculture - but the 50's boom didn't come to the African Americans who lived there and tensions boiled over like alot of other cities in the 60's. Whites fled and took business and prosperity with it. From 15,000 at its peak to 6000 by the end of the 60's to less than 2000 in its ghost town now. There isn't a single business there - no grocery, no gas station, only a library that relies on state and federal funds.

I type all this because I want you to see what $60K will buy you in a town like this

scan thru the pictures

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandho ... 092#photo0

wow that is pretty nice old house where the two rivers meet that is crazy it is dead in a town where they come together

yea, its really bad

I wish you were dead in town where the two rivers came together

Wow. A new low

getting a roof put on the house today.

My old man and I did it on his house when I was 19 during spring break from college.

There is no way I'd attempt it now, even with a 19 year old. That looks like hard work.

Other college kids went to Daytona for spring break, I put a new roof on the house, the following year I dug up our septic tank with a shovel.

There was no way I was going to fail college and do that work the rest of my life. I was what you might say highly motivated.

Plus, my Spanish is lousy.

Podrías hacerlo sin problema.

Up yours too

eCat wrote:getting a roof put on the house today.

My old man and I did it on his house when I was 19 during spring break from college.

There is no way I'd attempt it now, even with a 19 year old. That looks like hard work.

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Back a few years ago when I was a youngster of 45, my wife and I shingled our 2500 sq foot home. Took 96 bundles to roof the house. I carried each bundle on my shoulder up the ladder and they were the dimentional cut shingles which are much heavier than the flat ones. To make a long story short, it took over a month to shingle the house but it got me in great shape... especially my legs. So c'mon eCat... don't be a softie. It's not that difficult....even at your age.

Jungle Rat wrote:Up yours too

¡Órale homes!

those guys had a ladder with an electric motor /lift to carry the shingles up.

still wouldn't do it.

I went with a 3 dimensional (which was a waste of money, the color I chose doesn't show it) 30 year shingle. I'm hoping I never deal with shingles again.

could I do it, yes.

would I do it - no, I'm beyond the age/income bracket where I would consider doing it.

I did bring my daughter out in the front yard, pointed up to the roof and told her "that's our trip to London next summer"

she was not amused

"Back a few years ago when I was a youngster of 45"

You mean during the Eisenhower administration?

hedge wrote:"Back a few years ago when I was a youngster of 45"

You mean during the Eisenhower administration?

The Heavy Weight Champion was still named Cassius.

crotch wrote:

eCat wrote:getting a roof put on the house today.

My old man and I did it on his house when I was 19 during spring break from college.

There is no way I'd attempt it now, even with a 19 year old. That looks like hard work.

.

Back a few years ago when I was a youngster of 45, my wife and I shingled our 2500 sq foot home. Took 96 bundles to roof the house. I carried each bundle on my shoulder up the ladder and they were the dimentional cut shingles which are much heavier than the flat ones. To make a long story short, it took over a month to shingle the house but it got me in great shape... especially my legs. So c'mon eCat... don't be a softie. It's not that difficult....even at your age.

My Grandpa walked 5 miles back and forth to school every day with no shoes. In the snow.

Jungle Rat wrote:

crotch wrote:

eCat wrote:getting a roof put on the house today.

My old man and I did it on his house when I was 19 during spring break from college.

There is no way I'd attempt it now, even with a 19 year old. That looks like hard work.

.

Back a few years ago when I was a youngster of 45, my wife and I shingled our 2500 sq foot home. Took 96 bundles to roof the house. I carried each bundle on my shoulder up the ladder and they were the dimentional cut shingles which are much heavier than the flat ones. To make a long story short, it took over a month to shingle the house but it got me in great shape... especially my legs. So c'mon eCat... don't be a softie. It's not that difficult....even at your age.

My Grandpa walked 5 miles back and forth to school every day with no shoes. In the snow.

You forgot to add that it was up hill both ways.......

hedge wrote:"Back a few years ago when I was a youngster of 45"

You mean during the Eisenhower administration?

Ike was a great man....