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Tell a Lie Day is on April 4 and it gives us permission to tell a lie within reason. It comes only a few days after April Fool’s Day and it makes for the perfect companion holiday for those still in the trickster spirit. There are certain times when lying is acceptable. One of which involves bluffing during a game of poker. It’s better to keep a straight face and act as if our hands aren’t as great as they are. Afterall, sometimes being as good liar can pay off! Tricksters have been around since the beginning of written myths. They’ve appeared in folktales all over the world as gods, goddesses, spirits, and animals with human traits that have the propensity for causing trouble. “Aesop’s Fables” is a collection of fables from a slave and storyteller in Ancient Greece that was published in 1876. In his story, “The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf”, a boy lies to villagers about a wolf eating his flock of sheep. The boy was actually lying to create a bit of excitement. When a wolf actually came, he told the villagers but they had caught onto his game and they didn’t believe him. The shepherd boy’s sheep were eaten and a wise man tells him that a liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. In 1940, Italian author Carlo Collodi’s novel “The Adventures of Pinnochio” was adapted to an animated film. In “Pinnochio” an elderly and impoverished woodcarver was so lonely that he wished for his puppet to come to life. The Blue Fairy appears and grants him his wish, bringing life to Pinnochio, but he’s still made of wood. Through Pinnochio’s trials, he has to make a series of choices that test his goodness and if he tells a lie, his nose grows. The Washington Post Fact Checker began as a temporary project aimed at fact-checking the 2008 presidential campaign. Veteran reporter Michael Dobbs served as the Post’s Fact Checker columnist during its first temporary run. Dobbs started the column's use of its "Pinocchio" rating scale in September 2007. Statements ruled misleading receive one to four Pinocchios, with more misleading claims receiving the most Pinocchios. Today, being a liar isn’t seen as an admirable trait in most circumstances, but Tell a Lie Day offers people a chance at pretending for a little while.

The rear wheels on both pictured machines are the same, at 12x7.50. Those can be swapped. You can actually go up to 10.50 width with turf tires. The fronts are not the same. The wider 6.50 tires can be made to work with both, but the narrower front tires on the 856 may not fit the wider 414-8 wheels. Maybe with tubes?

My Amish neighbor came over and helped me today and we got the rest of the floor tore up. Pieces of plywood are loose just to walk on to get the barn doors closed.

We got a "sick egg", a torn up slice of bread mixed with a soft boiled egg in a bowl.

Mom always fed us milk toast when we were sick, minus the sugar. Now sugar sandwiches on the other hand was an after-school treat.

@FLtractor You ask about jacking up a tractor. I use an atv jack with 6x6’s to give me Moore height. They’re cheap enough and handy. You do not get a sore back and neck pans when using this. 6x6 have to cut to frame width. Not on belt guard. I can take a picture if needid.

I bought some stick on reflectors from Harbor Freight for the 308. The original ones on it are chipped pretty deeply. I'll drill out the old rivets and stick them on tomorrow.

Thanks for letting me join this site and thanks for the help trying to navigate how to comment on each post model number is 73400 and I am not very mechanically inclined but willing to try

Broke out the pressurized (canister) sandblaster today, finished blasting the weight box for the '73, and got a coat of primer on that and other related parts. Hopefully I'll get the red on tomorrow. Low end paint job; Rustoleum and a roller. Maybe I'll try to learn how to use a sprayer one of these days. I need to get an air feed for the sandblaster headgear and some gloves that won't fill up with media. (I'm going to try to modify an old CPAP machine to blow air into the hood.)

Here's the final product of the basement apartment bathroom divider door installation.

What kind of wizardry magic is that? Got mine submitted to the accountant way early this year on Feb19 and just got them back. Plus that with paying for a bookkeeper as well.

Got the new grommets and 90° tank to 1/4 barb fittings 5 grommets and 3 fittings was a little over $14 shipped and after tax.

A non profit business or an addictive debilitating illness.

Me too... for years. Agree on expense, but past history is all there with a couple clicks... fast and easy.

I use Turbo Tax, but it's getting expensive.

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It looks great Bob !!!

About forty years ago I went to a CPA for my business accounting and taxes, he failed me immediately with three wrong things that I called him on. That would have cost me thousands so I did my own after that using QuickBooks for accounting and TurboTax for income tax. After TurboTax put impossible to remove spyware on my computer, I switched to H&R Block software and that worked well till last week when things went crazy. I attempted to e-file numerous times making adjustments and double checking everything each time only to have the IRS reject it each time and supplying a different cryptic code number as the reason for the rejection. H&R Block could only say that the return needs to be mailed in. So what did I pay for? When will they haul me in? I don't need this crap!

We've got two set of taxes to do. Ours which is simple and done on Turbo tax and I have to agree it's getting pricy. We also do mom's but through CPA. Moms is more complicated. Her nursing home insurance reimburses her for the nursing home expenses. The reimbursement is "tax free" but affects her taxes. She paid estimated taxes and the tax preparer said her costs of the assisted living really saved her taxes and she was getting a refund. When I reviewed her tax papers, I saw that the preparer forgot to include the reimbursements from the insurance company. Low and behold no more refund. Yesterday I noticed that the nursing home insurance didn't reimburse the same amount each month. The assisted living charges a specific amount each month. The insurance pays a specific daily amount. Therefore, the insurance company paid about 215 dollars less for Febuary (28 days) than for January (31 days). This will cost mom about 640 dollars this year. How about them apples?