while on the subject......
now I really feel old!
and this is the last meme for like...... oh look! a shiny thing
Automote
1. Handle a blowout
2. Drive in snow (snow? what's snow?)(Can drive in teeming rain)
3. Check trouble codes(eh?)
4. Replace fan belt
5.Wax a car
6.Conquer an off-road obstacle
7.Use a stick welder (ambidextrous welder :})
8.Hitch up a trailer
9.Jump start a car
Handling Emergencies
10. Perform the Heimlich
11. Reverse hypothermia
12. Perform hands-only CPR
13. Escape a sinking car
Home
14.Carve a turkey(chicken, cow, lamb)
15. Use a sewing machine (stoopid home ec electives!)
16.Put out a fire (oh sand where art thou!)
17. Home brew beer ( I love being a cheapskate)
18. Remove bloodstains from fabric(evidence darlingk)
19. Move heavy stuff
20. Grow food
21. Read an electric meter(my dad is a leckie)
22. Shovel the right way
23. Solder wire
24. Tape drywall(plasterboard for the aussies)
25. Split firewood(sharp axe = win)
26.Replace a faucet washer ( over here they're called 'taps' )
27. Mix concrete (was once a concrete tester type person)
28. Paint a straight line (masking tape FTW)
29. Use a French knife ( a what?)
30. Prune bushes and small trees
31. Iron a shirt
32. Fix a toilet tank flapper (he thingo that refills the cistern)
33. Change a single-pole switch(please leave for the leckie)
34. Fell a tree
35. Replace a broken windowpane
36.Set up a ladder, safely
37. Fix a faucet cartridge(tap.it is a tap!)
38. Sweat copper tubing(who needs a plumber)
39. Change a nappy (cloth and disposable)
40. Grill with charcoal
41. Sew a button on a shirt
42. Fold a flag(thank you air cadets)
Medical Myths
43. Treat frostbite
44. Treat a burn
45. Help a seizure victim
46. Treat a snakebite
47. Remove a tick
Military Know-How (I was an Air Cadet)
48. Shine
49. Make a drum-tight bed
50. Drop and give the perfect pushup
Outdoors
51. Run rapids in a canoe
52.Hang food in the wild
53.Skipper a boat
54. Shoot straight
55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike
56.Escape a rip current (this is one everybody in Australia learns, as far as I can tell. It's either learn it or find out where Harold Holt went.)
Primitive Skills
57. Build a fire in the wilderness
58. Build a shelter Mental note : don't trust your Outward Bound co-ordinators in this.
59. Find potable water(I can make and filter water)
Surviving Extremes (I think I could)
60. Floods
61. Tornados
62. Cold
63. Heat
64. Lightning
Teach Your Kids(my kids live with their Father....I know he has taught them all but whittling)
65. Cast a line
66. Lend a hand
67. Change a tire
68. Throw a spiral
69. Fly a stunt kite
70. Drive a stick shift
71. Parallel park
72. Tie a bowline
73. Tie a necktie
74. Whittle
75. Ride a bike
Technology ( I keep a geek handy for this sort of stuff)
76. Install a graphics card
77. Take the perfect portrait
78. Calibrate HDTV settings
79. Shoot a home movie
80. Ditch your hard drive
Master Key Workshop Tools - I have had all or more of this list at some stage in my life, I currently only have a nail file, some gum and a multi tool.... I am not MacGuyver)
81. Drill driver
82. Grease gun
83. Coolant hydrometer
84. Socket wrench
85. Test light
86. Brick trowel
87. Framing hammer
88. Wood chisel
89. Spade bit
90. Circular saw
91. Sledge hammer
92. Hacksaw
93. Torque wrench
94. Air wrench
95. Infrared thermometer
96. Sand blaster
97. Crosscut saw
98. Hand plane
99. Multimeter
100. Feeler gauges
This sort of meme, makes me realise how much life I have lived and how much I have enjoyed learning, and how much I have yet to learn and enjoy :}
and this is the last meme for like...... oh look! a shiny thing
Automote
1. Handle a blowout
2. Drive in snow (snow? what's snow?)(Can drive in teeming rain)
3. Check trouble codes(eh?)
4. Replace fan belt
5.Wax a car
6.Conquer an off-road obstacle
7.Use a stick welder (ambidextrous welder :})
8.Hitch up a trailer
9.Jump start a car
Handling Emergencies
10. Perform the Heimlich
11. Reverse hypothermia
12. Perform hands-only CPR
13. Escape a sinking car
Home
14.Carve a turkey(chicken, cow, lamb)
15. Use a sewing machine (stoopid home ec electives!)
16.Put out a fire (oh sand where art thou!)
17. Home brew beer ( I love being a cheapskate)
18. Remove bloodstains from fabric(evidence darlingk)
19. Move heavy stuff
20. Grow food
21. Read an electric meter(my dad is a leckie)
22. Shovel the right way
23. Solder wire
24. Tape drywall(plasterboard for the aussies)
25. Split firewood(sharp axe = win)
26.Replace a faucet washer ( over here they're called 'taps' )
27. Mix concrete (was once a concrete tester type person)
28. Paint a straight line (masking tape FTW)
29. Use a French knife ( a what?)
30. Prune bushes and small trees
31. Iron a shirt
32. Fix a toilet tank flapper (he thingo that refills the cistern)
33. Change a single-pole switch(please leave for the leckie)
34. Fell a tree
35. Replace a broken windowpane
36.Set up a ladder, safely
37. Fix a faucet cartridge(tap.it is a tap!)
38. Sweat copper tubing(who needs a plumber)
39. Change a nappy (cloth and disposable)
40. Grill with charcoal
41. Sew a button on a shirt
42. Fold a flag(thank you air cadets)
Medical Myths
43. Treat frostbite
44. Treat a burn
45. Help a seizure victim
46. Treat a snakebite
47. Remove a tick
Military Know-How (I was an Air Cadet)
48. Shine
49. Make a drum-tight bed
50. Drop and give the perfect pushup
Outdoors
51. Run rapids in a canoe
52.Hang food in the wild
53.Skipper a boat
54. Shoot straight
55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike
56.Escape a rip current (this is one everybody in Australia learns, as far as I can tell. It's either learn it or find out where Harold Holt went.)
Primitive Skills
57. Build a fire in the wilderness
58. Build a shelter Mental note : don't trust your Outward Bound co-ordinators in this.
59. Find potable water(I can make and filter water)
Surviving Extremes (I think I could)
60. Floods
61. Tornados
62. Cold
63. Heat
64. Lightning
Teach Your Kids(my kids live with their Father....I know he has taught them all but whittling)
65. Cast a line
66. Lend a hand
67. Change a tire
68. Throw a spiral
69. Fly a stunt kite
70. Drive a stick shift
71. Parallel park
72. Tie a bowline
73. Tie a necktie
74. Whittle
75. Ride a bike
Technology ( I keep a geek handy for this sort of stuff)
76. Install a graphics card
77. Take the perfect portrait
78. Calibrate HDTV settings
79. Shoot a home movie
80. Ditch your hard drive
Master Key Workshop Tools - I have had all or more of this list at some stage in my life, I currently only have a nail file, some gum and a multi tool.... I am not MacGuyver)
81. Drill driver
82. Grease gun
83. Coolant hydrometer
84. Socket wrench
85. Test light
86. Brick trowel
87. Framing hammer
88. Wood chisel
89. Spade bit
90. Circular saw
91. Sledge hammer
92. Hacksaw
93. Torque wrench
94. Air wrench
95. Infrared thermometer
96. Sand blaster
97. Crosscut saw
98. Hand plane
99. Multimeter
100. Feeler gauges
This sort of meme, makes me realise how much life I have lived and how much I have enjoyed learning, and how much I have yet to learn and enjoy :}