Old Fools Journal: I Been One upped

I knew that making guitar picks from credit cards was not original but I didn't know that there was a machine for it. Now that's progress.
It's a good way to reduce credit card debt. Something I haven't had in over 40 years.

While perusing my copy of "The Boy Mechanic" This morning I ran across this item. I love that book if only for the sketches. I don't know how many showers I've taken using just such a device as this but I'm sure it numbers in the thousands. The first one I made around 1970 and I thought it was an original idea. It was for me but this "The Boy Mechanic vol 1" is copyright 1913. That predates me by a few years. In the early '70's I spent a lot of time living outdoors in campers and trailers. My showers were similar to the one above and water was heated by a variety of solar heaters I devised. Some worked well and some did not. I did come away from that experiment knowing that a couple of hundred feet of cheap green garden hose will give plenty of hot water in a very short time in the sun. Much faster that just setting a bucket out.

We are having some very cool weather for this far south and in fact expecting a freeze every night the rest of the week so I guess my fall garden is done for. Oh well I guess I shouldn't complain
as I have already had 3 or 4 really nice tomatoes this winter from seed that was started in August. The seed was save from a tomato I bought at the farmers market and grown in dirt that my worms made from kitchen scraps and leaves. They were grown in discarded buckets. The one I had yesterday was so good it didn't even need salt.

There are still lots of tomatoes on the plants but they are so immature that they will never get ripe. I may try pickling some of these. This cold weather has slowed everything down to a crawl. I hope next year to have a crude cobbled together green house.

Some of these will get ripe indoors and some will be eaten green. My lunch today is going to be fried green tomatoes and onions with left over corned beef. Yum, tomatoes grown in worm shit.
This guy has been keeping me company all morning sitting on my computer speaker. I say "guy" but it could be a girl. It seems intelligent so it is probably a girl. All she wants is some bugs to eat and here in southeast Louisiana there is plenty of that even in the winter. Her skinny sister is living in the galley and has been for a month.

She studied me this morning for about an hour and I think she was trying to determine what the dumbass is doing.