OldTrucker

Rats with bushy tails is what we call them! They garbage pick around here chewing through the lids of the plastic garbage containers! We put a guard on the pole that holds our bird feeder. Like a cone that sets on a ball and rocks if something lands on it. It is quite comical watching squirrels climb that skinny pole and then try to get onto the guard!LOL

What irked me? (yesterday and still does today!) Trying to remove the trim on a newly aquired 1966 Buick Special (bought for me by my son's) so I could reseal it and fix a couple rust holes in the channel the windshield cracked in two spots. Seems it had been resealed a long time ago and the windshield has slid down trapping the lower molding at the bottom edge. The glass being 53 years old was starting to delaminate all the way around making it an accident ready to happen. The neighbor that I borrowed the trim tool from works at a body shop and said that even they would most likely have cracked it because the glass was so fragile. Still doesn't make me feel any better though. Wasn't looking to spend that kind of money for something that I really didn't need!

In the immortal words of Dave Dudley "she's got a flame from her stack and she's blowin' black as coal!"

Until they don't. I had that option offered to me but I declined. They say I need another fusion done on maybe three more levels but after the first failed I will nt do another until I no longer can walk! I eventually weened myself off pain meds and just deal with the back pain which isn"t a pleasant thing. You acclimate to it to a degree but above that level you just have to become sedintary until it gets to a point you can function half way normally again. Not what I would call "quality" of life but all one cn do is live one day at a time.

Fun build!

Always wanted to get the tudour conversion but never did. I had a 1:1 years ago and wanted to replicate it!

Keep in mind advancing does not always mean for the good!

Belonged to one of the guys in a rock band my son's were in back in High School and after. The Bass player and had this and a Bass head and cab. When they broke up he enlisted in the Air Force and has been in now over 10 years. I found it in a box where we had stuff packed away from when we moved from a house to and apartment. I contacted him and he asked if it still worked. It has a couple bad (weak) tubes. and a couple bad pots. He told me to just keep it!

I did the same Jeff.

50 came and went so fast I didn't really notice it. I felt older at 21 than I do now but then I thought I wasn't going to make it much past that age due to where I was and the circumstances it was under and it almost proved true! My days of labor were cut short at the young age of 42 when I busted my back and left me unable to work any more and we lost all we had built up over the years.. So I turned my focus to other things, mainly my grand kids!

We live in an older mobile home community. The new owers are moving new trailers in but rather than selling the are leasing or renting and almost all the new people are coming down from the Chicago area. I started using the frontage road to go to the far side to the mail boxes instead of the short way through the place. If you drive through with your windows down you will almost get a secondary high on the way! We tried having our windows open more and using the ac less last summer but the two homes to the west of us send out that familiar skunky smell evey couple hours that finds its way into our place. County police say nothing they can do and going to the managment is worthless! Not to mention mor break ins and the sound of gunfire on most weekends!

Just from what I have heard and read though, this will be a very dangerous construction job due to severe weakening of the exterior structure. Going to take some very experienced engineers to think and plan this one through.

Tom is correct, treat it like they do the Frank Lloyd Wright houses as a architectural land mark of great significance.

Yes the steel could be wrapped to replicate wood beams. My sons do interior trim work and have done this in million+ dollar homes!

Reminds me of when we got our first computer in 2010. It didn't take me long to mess something up. The guy that lived across the hall worked with my wife at Walmart and he couldn't figure out what I did so he said he would get the guy that fixed his computer issues who lived in one of the other apartment buildings. He comes back with a 12 year old kid who had my computer up and running in less than 10 minutes and then did something that would keep it from happening again! Called on him 2 more times while we lived there!

That is one thing I don't miss doing!

I just don't see the rise of the same excitement that came about with the original wheel standers. But I could be proved wrong!

Cool stuff there Dave!

What irked me today??? The flex pipe on my 2006 HHR broke again! Last time I bought a repair piece that was supposed to be a slip over and clamp affair only to need to be welded on. In the end I could have bought the whole cat converter for less than what I paid in the end! This time I ordered a new cat so it is just a bolt in. Also ordered new O2 sensors rather than fighting the old ones out, besides they were most likely bad as they were throwing codes. Then had a tire separate so had to get a new pair for the back. Guess I know why that tire had a slow leak that no one could find.

I wouldn't put those nut bags onto my worst enemy! My daughter-in-law knows the breeder, she was a vet tech and he used the clinic she used to work at. Said as a breeder he is a class act . She knew that he put down his own animals but did not know that he was doing that. I checked with the locals and they said it would be my word against his (my friend said he was staying out of it) so they would not even consider going after him without more to go on. They went on to say that they know him to be a good dog breeder and considered him above reproach. The ones I thought would be the most appalled by it said how he puts down a suffering animal is his own business. Said it wasn't like he was being cruel or abusing the animal. So guess that is where it stands!

One of the song writer/performer crew of that era. I really liked his music!

Looks like a out of focus picture of a doughnut !

This little guy we watch one day a week and him and his sister 2 days a week in the summer but alas he goes to grade K next fall and we won't have them except for school breaks. This guy and his cousin Liddie (his dad's twin brother's daughter) who is exactly on month younger are our last 2 grandkids. Now we are waiting to see which of the older of our grandkids will be the first to give us a GREAT!

Seeing one of my grandsons helping daddy work on his car!