What I hope will be my last post on the Cracker Barrel story is the following from Breitbart. The CB firm announces that if your local Cracker Barrel hasn't remodeled to eliminate the antique Americana hanging from the ceiling and walls, it is safe! It won't be remodeled. That's a relief.
We mostly eat at the CB in St. George UT which, when we left that area in May, hadn't been remodeled. Maybe we dodged the bullet, we'll find out when we go south in mid-October. I actually like the old stuff and know what a lot of it was used for, even if I never used most of it myself. Hat tip to NewsAmmo for the link.
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Yep, I'm old and grew up in a then-rural part of SoCal. I drove my uncle's Ford tractor before I was old enough to drive a car, and earned the money for my first car trapping pocket gophers out of commercial orange groves.
Gophers are a pest, they kill orange trees by gnawing on the bark of the roots, so orchardists need to eradicate them from the groves. I got paid a whole dollar for each dead gopher and cleared 3-4 dollars a week in return for walking a trapline carrying a shovel every afternoon after school.
I don't remember seeing a gopher trap on a CB wall, they are strange wire and spring contraptions, not at all humane. On the other hand, I've seen plenty of leg traps for above-ground critters displayed and they aren't humane either.
Looking back I would have loved to have a quadrunner to check my traps, but they hadn't been invented yet so I hoofed it. Good times.
