What's everybody doing today?

[phideaux]

This is mine, it was laying about 20 ft from the post , in the ditch.

Jim

 

[LadyLocust]

Up the mountain, I got tired of the snow plow hitting our so finally just put it on a tree. It was a few more feet to walk to get our mail, but it's still there today.

 

[phideaux]

I need to bush hog ,
But
24 days without a drop of rain , and mid 90s every day.

Jim

 

[Spikedriver]

This is mine, it was laying about 20 ft from the post , in the ditch.

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Jim

Too bad ****y traps are illegal...

 

[Spikedriver]

At the doctor's office...er, nurse practitioners office. Same difference I guess. Time to see if I'm alive or not...

 

[squirrelhunter]

Next time, don't use the chainsaw on the trucks.

Sometimes it takes extra measures to get them running again.

 

[Meerkat]

Digging up bones thats better left alone. In the meantime I'm baking a double chocolate scratch cake . Made dinner yesterday and cleaning while watching news and venting.
Putting up summer clothing ,taking out fall and inter.

 

[Terri9630]

At the farm, Pops put his mailbox on a spring loaded hinge. Whenever something hits it, it just swings out of the way. Then you just go out and re-set it. Won't solve the kids who hit the box with ball bats, but it helps with the maintenance vehicles and the stupid drivers...

My uncle had his mounted on a a pole that swung from the road into the yard. He had a rope attached to it and he'd pull it around into the yard to check the mail before dinner and didn't swing it back out until morning.

 

[Terri9630]

My uncle had his mounted on a a pole that swung from the road into the yard. He had a rope attached to it and her pull it around into the yard to check the mail before dinner and didn't swing it back out until morning.

It was kinda like this except the ground post was straight so he could swing it 360° and was just inside his fence.

http://www.diymailboxes.com/swing-away-mailbox/

 

[Spikedriver]

Checkup went well, A1c was 6.3, cholesterol was 178. BP was higher than my normal though, which is a bit strange. Got a follow-up in 90 days...

 

[phideaux]

My mailbox is on the opposite side of the hwy from my house.
That's the way the delivery route runs.
I tried for years, due to safety, to get them to let me have it on my side so I ,and my wife, don't have to cross the racetrack hwy.

Jim

 

[The Innkeeper]

This is mine, it was laying about 20 ft from the post , in the ditch.

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Jim

That’s gotta be frustrating.

 

[phideaux]

That’s gotta be frustrating.

When it's 98 deg outside and humidity is off the charts...yeah.

Jim

 

[The Innkeeper]

After getting my tractor and snowblower ready for the coming season I went out and found I had a flat. Small crack in the sidewall. Off to the tire shop for a tube. Was frustrated but kept telling myself better now than having to lie in the snow to change it.

 

[Meerkat]

It was kinda like this except the ground post was straight so he could swing it 360° and was just inside his fence.

http://www.diymailboxes.com/swing-away-mailbox/

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Very neat Terrie. Uncle did a good job.

 

[Terri9630]

Very neat Terrie. Uncle did a good job.

That one isn't his. His wasn't that pretty but I don't have any pictures of it.

 

[Supervisor42]

This is mine, it was laying about 20 ft from the post , in the ditch.

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Jim

Dang!
I coulda swore I missed both of 'em!

 

[phideaux]

I thought I seen a mudslinger in my neighborhood..

You coulda least said hey.


Jim

 

[Sentry18]

Maybe you could make them out of ammo cans. Worked for this guy.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@phideaux I would have put in concrete posts because that would do damage to their vehicles but as you say not allowed. Mount the letterboxes to a tree sounds good as well.

 

[Patchouli]

A sweet elderly neighborhood man said he has to get his mail at the post office because the kids have destroyed his mailbox. I noticed on his street that his wasn't the only one whacked and the mailbox door hanging open for over a year now. What's the use of replacing them if they are continually destroyed?
Mine however, remains intact.

 

[Terri9630]

A sweet elderly neighborhood man said he has to get his mail at the post office because the kids have destroyed his mailbox. I noticed on his street that his wasn't the only one whacked and the mailbox door hanging open for over a year now. What's the use of replacing them if they are continually destroyed?
Mine however, remains intact.

We had to get a PO box because of mail thieves.

 

[Meerkat]

We had to get a PO box because of mail thieves.

Oh no! Put a camera in a tree near it ans see who the little felons are.

 

[Amish Heart]

We had to get a PO Box for the same reason. New Mexico thing.

 

[Terri9630]

Oh no! Put a camera in a tree near it ans see who the little felons are.

They Sheriffs dpt has caught several people out here. It happens in spurts. You'll be driving down the road and start seeing mail boxes open and at the end of the road there is a pile of mail tossed on the ground. We have also had a delivery woman that wasn't making her run, she's come out once or twice a week. She would toss all the mail in her trunk and go home. One of her co workers caught her.

 

[Terri9630]

We had to get a PO Box for the same reason. New Mexico thing.

Yep. I even use the post offices address for packages. I just put my box number under the street address.

 

[hiwall]

We have a PO box because they do not have home delivery here.

 

[Caribou]

Last home they didn't have home delivery. Some places would ship UPS no matter what and UPS would mail it so it always wound up being returned. We finally started giving them the street address but made them use the zip+4 for our PO Box and we got it delivered somewhere.

 

[The Innkeeper]

Tomorrow after we get guests fed, troubleshoot my summer lawn tractor which has been acting up and do end of season maint on push mower then get started on an equipment storage shed

 

[The Lazy L]

Finish cutting up the lumber from the trees. Hickory is hard on the chain saw! Dropped two more smaller trees while I had the chain saw going. Used one trunk for another "fence". Had a few problems getting it up on blocks but I out stubborn it.