Tool forms all sprued and vented to be cast in a single piece sand cope mold in 10 days.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 24, 2018:

They have a live video feed. The pour happens Friday afternoon at Mesalands Community College. The video link will be on their home page.

Pie pals

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 24, 2018:

I want these!

FX Booboo’s..

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 24, 2018:

Are these truly mistakes? I can't tell if they are! They hurt just to look at 'em:)

When I was at church, as a child in Iowa, the minister was swinging his bible around so hard that it...

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 24, 2018:

I think I know who's worth 15 cents...if that much.

Joint Planning Exercise. Anyone care to try a different approach?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 24, 2018:

A few years ago I made several survival kits that fit inside a 12 or 16 ounce plastic peanut butter jar with a screw on lid. I had foil, garbage bag, copper wire, broken hacksaw blade, matches, first aid, shoe laces, single edge razor blade, note pad/pencil and some other stuff that I can't remember. I would throw it in my little back pack when I did day hikes. Maybe one of them is still around and I can post a picture.

Water color, thick and thin paint. Near the top of Seneca Rocks.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 24, 2018:

Nice view from within the tree canopy! I'm really enjoying this group!!

I have just read your profile! Or quite likely have recently.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 24, 2018:

I'm single because I had a cheating wife and I divorced her sorry butt. She was never a real partner. So as long as I'm still relatively you get, I thought I might find someone special. after all, I am human.

Time to move on It is very evident to me that my career in aircraft part building is over.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 23, 2018:

Damn! I hope all goes well. Market gardens are a beautiful thing. It'll be good therapy to get back to the earth.

Hey all! trying to get into the sharing game on this site, I thought I would share with you guys ...

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 23, 2018:

These look like cloth? I used to do some soft sculpture using old bed sheets and rabbit glue!

I’d be happy to share some of my art, but it’s FX makeup.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 23, 2018:

Those would be good to pull a silicone mold from and cast in iron!! I'm envious, ha ha!!

What is the worst place someone could ask you on a date?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 23, 2018:

Mine was a group date. I had no idea of what that was. I didn't get to sit next to the girl who asked me and we rode in different cars to the movie theater. She asked me again the next week and I went and sat next to a different girl and didn't say two words to the girl who asked me to go??? Then she asked me a third time and I said 'No Way'! That was just plain 'ole weird for this farm boy.

America's "Pope" Billy Graham, dead at 99.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 23, 2018:

Sad thing is another one will rise up to fill the void.

Just a fad. handknitted beanies, made from bamboo, wool, cotton, silk.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 23, 2018:

Looking good!

Did god play a big role in your life growing up?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 22, 2018:

I got dragged to church, forced into doing the convocation thing, and all of the other trappings of Methodism. It was garbage, then, and it's garbage, now. I never bought into any of it.

Would you be a better god than the god of the bible? If so - how?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 22, 2018:

I'd be a teacher. Not a threatener.

Here are a few posted especially for @farmboy2017 to look at.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 22, 2018:

The grasshopper!

This is about heavy metal forging.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 22, 2018:

The heat they're talking about is just like what we deal with at the iron pour in 2 weeks. I wear 3 layers of gear!!

Paintings I did of my puppies last year.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 21, 2018:

Do you exhibit your paintings? I think you should!

If you could just pick up and move today where would you move to?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 21, 2018:

No way I'd go to Colorado. It's against the law to harvest rainwater off of your own roof!!!! I just can't respect that.

Weird?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 20, 2018:

I married at 30. I was able to live some life before tied to the institution. And now I'm once again free of the institution. ????

I am a liberal atheist - who loves his job - living in Lubbock, Texas.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 20, 2018:

I'm 40 miles north of you where it's even worse!!

Worst movie ever made?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 20, 2018:

Urban Cowboy. Geeeeeez. "And just what do think a real cowboy is?" Well, it's not some wimpified John Travolta fresh of the set of Grease. I take it all back. Grease is the all time worst movie ever made. Wait, let's talk about Gone with the Wind, next......

Worst movie ever made?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 20, 2018:

Titanic. The guy in the crow's nest yells "Hard to Port" and the helmsman turns to the right. Then the crow's nest guy yells " Hard to Starboard and the helmsman turns to the left..... It was an atrocious movie.

My latest & last mandala, this one on canvas (24" square). I call it 'the pulse of country'.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 20, 2018:

Gorgeous luminosity

When a person cheat, do you look for revenge or do you just let it go?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 19, 2018:

The question makes me wonder how many members on this site were the cheaters in their last relationship and advertise that they are open to meeting 'people'! FYI- my ex was the cheater I divorced her. Be honest, people.

Are you getting any?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 19, 2018:

Frost still on the ground. Hoping for A wonderful and wholesome Spring to arrive some day.

When a person cheat, do you look for revenge or do you just let it go?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 19, 2018:

Remember: If they will cheat 'with' you, they will cheat 'on' you!!

How do I back out gracefully?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 19, 2018:

I have a similar issue with someone I knew many years ago. She wants to hang out and be buddies but you can't even have a conversation with her without her turning it into a psychology lesson on how to treat people. She's a LPC.

Date site protocol/preferences

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 19, 2018:

Well, when a profile says " Interested in meeting men", I think a woman should respond. Otherwise she hasn't 'met' me. She's just browsed me. There is a difference! Still, the online thing just isn't the same as F2F. Ooops, there's that rascally text language again, ha ha!

Lateral Thinking.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 19, 2018:

I'm going to use a system from Harbor Freight to start with. I'll be totally off the grid so I'll start small. Their 100 watt systems are about $150, on sale. I'll use 12v DC car batteries for storage. Today I bought a DC inverter so I can charge phones, laptops and cordless power tools.

Hi, this is the group for me! I love kayaking, hiking, cycling and activities in the great outdoors.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 18, 2018:

I own a Sea Eagle. The first link I did was run it through the snags where all the dead trees from flooding the lake are. That's also where all the trot lines are with the dangling hooks! I could feel the branches on the bottom of the boat. No punctures!

Cowboy - cedar, 15"

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 18, 2018:

Man, those are beautiful!!

Smidge spoons...

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 18, 2018:

I love these spoons!!

One of the first of many dozens of HANDPAINTED (I have to emphasize this; keep getting asked: is ...

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 18, 2018:

I thought it was iron, ha ha?

Cheese is the Answer

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 18, 2018:

They've always said that pigs were intelligent!

Growing your own food is another big way of being sustainable.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 18, 2018:

Community gardens are great! I've helped build a few and I grow my own. Our season is about to get started and I'm looking at asparagus right now, hoping to establish a bed that will be ready to harvest in 2-3 years. I just found out that there are male and female asparagus plants, kinda like cottonwood trees!

This is what I've been doing now - wire weave pendants.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 18, 2018:

Do you buy the stones or grind them yourself?

Here's a raku piece I did when I was doing pottery.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 17, 2018:

That's too sweet for words.

Walnut spoon & spat

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 16, 2018:

Sweet!

The first 30 squares of the afghan that I'm currently working on.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 16, 2018:

How big will it be?

Do you think other people generally see you, as you see yourself?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 16, 2018:

I have no idea. I don't even think about such things. Am I a jerk?

I love to paint in acrylics. Is anyone here an artist?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 16, 2018:

I am. Trained as a functional potter. I also do cast iron sculpture and printmaking.

Women = Lesser cut of meat!

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 16, 2018:

What a POS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dating after 50

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 16, 2018:

It's tough but I still try????

How do you feel about (boy) scouting?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 16, 2018:

Scouting creeps me out.

What are you addicted to now?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 16, 2018:

I get movies at the library. I watch one every night while I sculpt. Yeah, I need a life...

You slept with how many?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 16, 2018:

I think it can be important. Might be relevant but also might not be. I'd rather know about recently and how many times they where married. My ex wife lied about that. Yup she's much the way men get accused of being.

Ever used Craigslist personals?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 16, 2018:

Never done it. I tried some other sites with very little success. Seems like all the women wanted playmates and not an educated, grounded, and decent guy. Odd.

Enjoy a good conversation

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 16, 2018:

What is a Mansplainner? It's a new word for me!

"Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 16, 2018:

That's beautiful!!

Which bible story for you was the most comedic?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 16, 2018:

For me, it's the one that starts with "In the beginning......." and drones on for about a thousand more pages and a few thousand more years. But that's just me:)

Would you rather have a horrible job, but be able to retire comfortably in 10 years or have your ...

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 16, 2018:

Dream job. I'd be healthier doing what I love to do!!! I don't chase money.

I did not make this, but I still wanted to share it because the artist, Deb Stabley, did such a ...

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 16, 2018:

Farmsit! I've never heard that word used but I can imagine what it would be since my family farms. What kinds of things do you do when farmsitting?

What do you know well enough to teach others?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 16, 2018:

Art. I do it for a living. Teaching, I mean.

Have you had your DNA tested?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 15, 2018:

Nope. And I never will. All it does is generate a bunch of abstract relationships.

Trying to reconcile a quandry

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 15, 2018:

It's a threat to their position if they have to be care takers. They'd rather just be takers.

What do you do that makes other people say "ew?"

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 15, 2018:

Peaches with cottage cheese and Italian dressing. Mmm, mmm, good????

Anybody else looking forward to Trump's impeachment?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 15, 2018:

I'd vote Yes to impeach!

I've been on a few sites & have wasted my time only to find an email box full of dick pics & REALLY ...

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 15, 2018:

I joined for the community, which I really like. Yes, there are nice, decent men out there and we're looking for the same in women. I've not received nasty pics but I did get a very aggressive woman trying to get too cozy, way too fast and I'd been here only 2 hours. She was a scammer and I called her on it immediately. She's no longer on here as far as I can tell. So, us decent guys get our own brand of crazy to have to plow through. Good luck to us all:)

When I got to adulthood, this was my idea about to meet people to date: do the things I enjoy doing,...

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 15, 2018:

Hail yeah. Ha ha

In the past I have tried to have debates/discussions with individuals who were against any gun ...

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 15, 2018:

Guns are not the problem. Let's quit blaming the object and deal with the people using the object. Identify what the real problem is. And the problem is not with the gun, itself. Having said that I'd like to share a story about a former student of mine who has graduated. This student earned a certification that would allow them to apply for a professional license, issued by the State, to work in an area in which they had absolutely no business, whatsoever, being in. But, the laws of the United States of America protected this student from being discouraged or denied equal opportunity to pursue this education and certification. I dreaded the day when a potential employer would call upon me for a reference check. That call did come. At that point the 'former' student was no longer protected by law and I offered my professional opinion as to their emotional and mental capacities to perform the work, applied for. That's part of my professional responsibility. I did not support the job applicant in any fashion and was very plain about what the problems were. Several of us at my school had conferenced about this problem prior to the student graduating and all were in agreement that employment in the particular field of study/certification would be inappropriate, but the employer would have the final say. The certification had nothing to do with guns so don't fear. My story is simply an example of how an emotionally and mentally challenged individual can pass through all of the required steps to pursue a particular endeavor and they are protected by law. There's no effective screening process to disqualify these persons when they have no prior 'record'. I don't know if this person was hired but if so, at least I am on record as to why they should not be placed into that area of responsibility. Let's quit calling this gun control. It's not a gun issue. It's a complex problem that exists at a much deeper level in society, law, and mental health and a plethora of additional things that I can't even speak to. If we respond with more 'knee jerk' reactions, we're going to keep getting more of the same thing we have right now.

Water Self Sufficiency.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 15, 2018:

Looks like the photo thing won't work. I'll try again, later.

Water Self Sufficiency.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 15, 2018:

Trying another olla photo!

Water Self Sufficiency.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 15, 2018:

Here's a couple of examples of my 'Ollas'. Is the photo posting thing even working??

Water Self Sufficiency.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 15, 2018:

I make ollas or clay pots for a poor man's drip irrigation system. I'll post a photo.

In the past I have tried to have debates/discussions with individuals who were against any gun ...

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 15, 2018:

News Flash! We do have gun control. What we do not have control over is the ability to control mentally unstable persons.

How did you spend Valentine's Day?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 15, 2018:

I ignored it.

Saw this on FB. Very appropriate.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 15, 2018:

If we keep doing the same things over and over, we'll keep getting the same results. This applies to all sides of the argument! Guess what? We got yet another school shooting and the rhetoric from all mouths is the same as it's been in the past. And then Trump has to chime in with his geniusness. We're doomed!

Do people of above average intelligence have a harder time finding a partner?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 15, 2018:

For me, I think, it's distance and geography. I'm in the middle of farmland in flyover country. I'm attracted to intelligent and educated women but at the same time I'm fairly blue collar. However, I'm terminally degreed. So, I'm sort of an enigma and maybe that's not attractive to potential dates/mates. So, intelligence and proximity can be a tough combination to overcome, if I'm understanding the question correctly.

Nerdy Dating? Online and Offline

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 15, 2018:

I must be a nerdy guy. From reading the comments I seem to have the same or similar experiences.

Oh ya.. fat Tuesday!

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 15, 2018:

Udderly ridiculous.

Why do women have to basically spell it out for men in what they want? Why are they so clueless?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 14, 2018:

People shouldn't have to guess. That breeds resentment.

Share one song that you cannot help but sing along with when it comes on the radio.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 14, 2018:

Please Don't Judas Me- Nazareth

If you could modify your personality with genetic engineering would you do it?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 14, 2018:

Would that make me a GMO??

Date a theist?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 14, 2018:

I work with 'em and that's as far as I can go.

I guess I have been an old lady since I was 6 ;)

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 14, 2018:

I never could get the hang of it. I can weave...sorta. And even weave a basket. Us potters like vessels!

What's your dream job?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 14, 2018:

I want to sit on a mountainside and make my pottery and people somehow know when I'm cracking open the kiln. They just show up, line up with their money and I put toasty warm pots in their hands! After all the pots have been adopted, I make more. And people just seem to know when to show up with their money!! It's a sweet deal if you can get it.

Have you ever declined a date with someone because of their name?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 14, 2018:

I've not, yet, had that happen. I don't think it would be a problem until I was talking to someone and had to add an identifying number to them. Amy #1 or Amy #2, ha ha

"Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 14, 2018:

Thanks

Anybody here ever do raku?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 14, 2018:

I do! I think I even have a few photos of some if I dig around in my files. I specialize in clay and casting metals.

When its more than physical.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 14, 2018:

This reminds me of someone I knew a long time ago. Hurts just to read this.

Have you ever had a stalker?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 14, 2018:

I can't say that I have. I've met weird ones that tried getting too close, too soon. But, no real stalking. That I know of........

Sadly in suburbia these days, I did have a few acres on the coast a little further south 8 years ...

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 14, 2018:

Grow food!!! Not lawns!!! very nice. I let my place revert back to the short grass prairie that it once was. Made my father mad. His precious Bermuda grass is long gone:) I only mowed it during the winter after the side oats and gramma grasses had reseeded. Took about 20 years but nature has a way of reclaiming herself.

If you were a beer, what would you be? I'd be a hazy juicy New England style IPA

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 14, 2018:

I damned sure wouldn't be a light beer...

Home in the bush, early days.

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 14, 2018:

I'd live there.

Do you have a favorite outspoken atheist?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 13, 2018:

Hitch

5 Insane Beliefs of the World's Major Religions

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 13, 2018:

Yeah! And if every piece of wood claimed to be from the ' True Cross' was legit, that cross would be 10 miles tall.

Do you find it attractive dating someone who smokes cigarettes?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 13, 2018:

Seems like all of my girlfriends smoked or picked it up. All of my family smoked. I never did and never will. Nope, I'll never, ever date another smoker.

In my latest updated post, I mentioned my bestie, Patty, and that her kids (an 18-year-old son and a...

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 13, 2018:

It may be his only way to get an education. I graduated from one of them. I went for the art program. It was a power house at the time. But not anymore.

How often do you self-censor? Is it hard to bite your tongue?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 13, 2018:

I work in an environment that prohibits me from using my farm boy vernacular. I wish I worked elsewhere.?

What movie fucked with your head the most?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 13, 2018:

And West World!

What movie fucked with your head the most?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 13, 2018:

Apocalypse Now.

Anyone believe in luck?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 13, 2018:

Not me.

More Dating Preferences

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 13, 2018:

I know the post was for the ladies but maybe this adds to the conversation?? I had a date where I met the woman at her house. Before I we finalized our plans I suggested we didn't meet there but she said she checked me out and personally knew some of my colleagues, even. So, she knew where I worked and who I associated with and she told all of her people we had a date. She had me dead to rights! And she knew it. So, if I was a perv, I'd either back out or behave for fear of her people taking me out! So, there may be a time where it's OK but I still think it's weird. We ended up having 2 dates but there wasn't any connection.

Anyone else laughing to themselves about the Catholics and the conflict between Ash Wednesday and ...

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 13, 2018:

Sounds like a snooze festival to me. Same for Mardi Gras...more man made crap.

Cremation or burial for your funeral?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 13, 2018:

Cremation. Then scatter me as fertilizer in my gardens. Use me to keep growing food. Don't waste any more space on cemeteries. All that does is cater to the insecurities of the living.

Spoon and spat

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 12, 2018:

Cast iron plant forms appx 6" tall.

Okay single folks, how are you spending Valentine's day?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 12, 2018:

I'll be teaching 2-D Design class and Advanced ceramics.

Spoon and spat

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 12, 2018:

I'm a functional Potter but I'm doing some cast iron sculpture.

Where is your favorite place to vacation?

farmboy2017 comments on Feb 12, 2018:

Santa Fe, NM or any place in NM.