Thomas Millen Dippold died on June-26-2014 at his home in Danville, PA. He was a great lover of the outdoors, guns, and making things. As physical education and health teacher, Tom was always active both physically and mentally. Tom’s strong personality and directness made him strive to build roads, harvest 10 cord of wood a year, and fix almost anything.
I don’t know that I practice all of these lessons but understand their basis
- Take care of your machines and start the complex ones regularly
- Hard work is a good for the body and mind
- Principle of the matter can narrow perspective
- The enjoyment of have the right tool for the job
- You can control a lot of your own life
- Read a book. Read lots of books.
- Tomato juice with beer and 8-O’Clock coffee can be a daily habit
- You can say you don’t like something (computers) and still have many
- It can be fun to argue and/or get someone worked up on an issue
- You can never have too many screwdrivers as long as they are distributed for easy access
- Disposable containers should be reused
- Give someone a tool
- Better to retired early and spend less to do so
- Diesel engines are better than gas engines
- Scrap lumber for 1 project makes 3 more projects
- Clean the chimney twice a year if you heat with wood
- Leftovers from dinner make breakfast
- Gas grills can be made to last forever
- Off-road, put it in 4-wheel drive
- Stick is more fun
- Some things found in the dumpster you can use your whole life (rope, cable)
- Rural internet sucks. Totally.
- A cell phone doesn’t work everywhere.
- Stream water is better for your house than well water.
- Turn off the gas line. Turn on the gas line.
- Have a good quality knife nearby
- A tree can kill you. Easily. Pay attention!
- Heat your pool while cooling your roof
