Well, i do think that running a television set was FAR easier, back then. Doesn't matter that there are five thousand channels to choose from, when you cannot figure out how to get there. It's a little better now, most all can be done with one remote, but we still have several remotes to choose from. A few years back, we needed three different remote controls. We kids used to be the parents' remotes...since we were usually only two or three feet away from the t.v.
I think that our first fishing bobbers were cork.
My Dad would save his worn out engineer boots. He's use the leather for making halters for the horses (with pretty brass rivets) and the laces would be used for lead ropes. He was ex-Navy, and learned from the old sailors how to do round braids and all sorts of knots.
As with many things, i do ponder what is 'more simple'. Take tools, for example. Heck, we used many hand tools, like drills. It's far easier now to use cordless, and we were tickled to finally get the electric with cords. I feel sorry when the electric goes out, like when Texas had their outages. Folks are so dependent on power that isn't 'manpower'. An item loses its simplicity when it cannot be used.
I think that our first fishing bobbers were cork.
My Dad would save his worn out engineer boots. He's use the leather for making halters for the horses (with pretty brass rivets) and the laces would be used for lead ropes. He was ex-Navy, and learned from the old sailors how to do round braids and all sorts of knots.
As with many things, i do ponder what is 'more simple'. Take tools, for example. Heck, we used many hand tools, like drills. It's far easier now to use cordless, and we were tickled to finally get the electric with cords. I feel sorry when the electric goes out, like when Texas had their outages. Folks are so dependent on power that isn't 'manpower'. An item loses its simplicity when it cannot be used.
I realize I bunched a whole lot of stuff in there because it's been so long that I was away and I couldn't remember for sure what might have been the last life experience/crisis I might have shared online. I have been keeping my head up as best I can but at the same time there is not much motivation to get out of the house and do anything other then grocery store visits and doctors appointments. Some of that is due to less people in my life these days and I really don't feel the need to replace them with new friends or partners or pets. Then part of that too is finances are now so tight surviving on about $1100 per month that I just don't have money for any of those things that I used to go out for. I wouldn't mind going out for dinner now and then but it's just no fun if you don't have anyone to share it with and for what it generally costs for one decent meal I can usually feed myself for 3 or 4 meals. Then also part of it is health related, I have heart issues and on some days I can experience chest pains just walking from my bedroom out to my living room, it seems amazing to me that it was just a few years ago that I was walking 4-5 miles a day every day. Unfortunately the opioid crisis hit and our screwed up government decide to more or less treat anyone taking pain meds for chronic pain as being just a junkie. So I got cut off from my pain meds and marijuana never really solved my pain, so I wasn't able to continue my daily walks and my health went steadily downhill after that. Of course the government has no problem letting people take all the Tylenol and Advil they want for pain even though chronic use of either of those can lead to kidney issues in one case and liver issues in the other. What really gets me about all that though is you still hear people talking about the opioid crisis like it's just as bad as ever and yet how can it be when it's so hard to get any legal opiates anymore? That's a rhetorical question since I know that the answer is that by the over reaching way they tackled legal opioid use they pushed a whole lot of people out into the black market use. I like to say that there is actually two opioid crises the one that the government and media is still pushing and then the crisis of all the people who weren't abusing opioids but had legitimate chronic pain that now can't get any form of decent pain medication.
