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He didn't puncture both tires.....he got run over by both right side tires. Thump, thump. I've had them run under the car and hit the side of the tire and felt the thump, but I see them shaken up and run off. This guy wasn't as fortunate.

2025 not starting off on a good note. Made a few errands this a.m. when close to home a suicidal squirrel crossed where there is no crosswalk. Usually they stop and run back but this one didn't and took both passenger side tires.

Stopped by the local Ollie's looking to see what other toys they got I could grab for the grandson. They had several signs up that the toys are 33% off but models are excluded. Looks like the market materials had a better distribution than the models themselves as none of the Atlantis kits made the shelves here!

Had to take pics of Bear's incision and a video of her walking in the yard to the emergency vet as her follow up visit. Two weeks ago, she ended up having surgery to remove a softball sized wad of chewed up sock wrapped in grass. She ended up there again a week ago as she hardly eating anything and the medicine to enhance her appetite wasn't working. They modified her meds and the stomach decided she wanted to eat again. She got her release (!) and since the stitches are on the inside, nothing to take out. My youngest forgot to put the box in the chair we've been using to block her from her living room chair and she took advantage reclaiming her spot. So much for restricting her activity. She's always been a Daddy's girl. She was the only one of my dogs I took to see my dad when he ended up in the hospital from dementia and just laid in his lap (she's is perpetually happy anywhere!) so she will always have a huge spot in my heart.

Frank (mini dachshund) turns one in a couple weeks an we've yet to find a toy he can't destroy. His latest fatality was supposed to be one of the indestructible toy and he ripped up open the edge stitching in about five minutes. Bear had emergency surgery a week ago Monday to remove a chewed/eaten sock wrapped in grass. How can a 30 pound dog eat something that filled a canister about the size of a pop can! We spent another seven hours at the emergency vet on Sunday as she wasn't eating. There is an actual Rx for an appetite enhancer (!) to help jump start the stomach. We've had her almost 11 years but in great shape for being at least twelve so I was very nervous about her undergoing anesthesia. I'll never be ready to let her go, but certainly not now!

After a four year run, the monthly swap meet started by Atomic City Rod & Custom Model Car Resource won't being coming back in 2025. Per their Facebook page, it was mutual between them and the antique market host. One of the vendors is working to keep it going but we all just found out just found out. Only my wallet is happy about the pause as I never left empty handed! Atomic City Rod & Custom Model Car Resource will continue on. Their store is great resource for new/vintage kit and accessories, but the parts kits and rebuilders are the Chuck E Cheese world for modelers! I'm not affiliated with the store in anyway....just a plastihaulic like the rest of us here.

Nowadays, trash has too many rules. My city's contractor took four foot fluorescent tubes out of the trash and laid them in my yard. I e-mailed them to ask why and they told me I had to wrap them in newspaper. I answered back that in the electronic age, where does one acquire this stuff called newspaper? They wouldn't take a 40 inch board (one) that was placed next to my cans but the following week they took it when I put it in the can which made it hard to roll to the truck? Couple years ago we got forced recycling (I'm sure the city gets some kinda kickback on the program) as we can't opt out). We are suppose to wash out containers....I'm not increasing my water bill to wash trash. The city took away the big containers at city hall so I actually recycle less as I'm over cleaning up the stuff the contractor dumps from the curb to the truck.

Frank (our Dachshund) is a food mooch fan moreso than my other two dogs. He was staring at me eating my burger so I gave him a clump of blue cheese that had fallen off. Yeah he was kinda rethinking that one! He still ate it but the look on his face was like giving a small child a Sour Patch Kid candy.....

All day Sunday, Bear started yakking up her food and later any water she drank. We ended up at the emergency vet and the X ray showed something in her stomach. Before moving onto the Ultrasound, we followed up with our regular vet. No movement of the merchandise in her stomach in viewing their X rays so back to the ER vet for the Ultrasound. She had surgery this evening and recovering well. (She is around 12 years old but in excellent health). It was expensive and I know I will never be ready to let her go, but she's my baby. Her roommates are stalking me wondering where she is.

Frank (the deaf dachshund) first Christmas! I started doing this a couple rescues ago as I want the dog to bury their past and this IS their forever home!

Franklin Mint did but I believe it was a two door. I know there were 1/32 and 1/43 built ones

Neighbor told me a few weeks ago there was a momma and baby deer in my back yard but by the time I got to the back door they were gone. Last night, fed the trio and went to let them out for a post dinner bio moment and momma deer was about 40 feet away. She gracefully hopped my fence and the next fence before looking back from two yards away. The dogs never saw the deer but they gave the full yard the nasal appraisal as they knew SOMETHING was on their turf. I check the door for raccoons and squirrels right at the door before I let the dogs out but was not expecting this.

I have a stock 1/18 die cast (still in the box) and one that was played with (missing bumpers) that will get the street rod treatment....eventually

In a previous life, I got stuck being a hotel manager for a year after the GM retired. His wife did the laundry for 116 room hotel. Rita was a wizard in that room as when she took a day off, I had to bring in two people whose combined age didn't equal hers to do what she could do. So as to not get caught short, I asked her if she was considering retirement. As she was loading and explaning how she runs each machine, she tells me that if she retired, she would sit on her butt and die. Or she could go walk the nearby mall but if she had to get dressed and to go out, she might as well come into the hotel. She continued saying I left her to run her world, always knew I was in my office if she needed anything and she got paid for working. Don't have to hit me upside the head.....I got it, appreciated her candor, wished her a great day and went back to my office.

There is an annual get together in Indianapolis in early September if you are a fan of the Holden's. As a former owner of a departed G8, I went over last year (just didn't have time this year). Incredible turn out and very gracious host. I really wanted to go this year as the raffle was for a Ute. https://www.facebook.com/groups/outbackinthemidwest

I got one in a lot of built kits earlier this year. Clean build but the scoop is positioned that I can't get the hood off.

LOCKLAND, Ohio — your tax dollars at work! A Lockland man accused of painting potholes in his neighborhood to warn drivers was found not guilty after a jury trial on Tuesday. Gregory Strole, a 66-year-old retired volunteer Lockland firefighter, was charged with criminal mischief after allegedly spray painting potholes to warn drivers. Lockland fire chief and village administrator Doug Wehmeyer said Strole had been doing the same thing for years and that the most recent incident was the final straw for city officials. Wehmeyer said the case escalating to a jury trial was Strole's idea. On Tuesday, jurors found Strole not guilty of criminal mischief after deliberating for much of the afternoon. There was no debate in the courtroom over whether or not Strole painted the potholes. Rather, both sides argued the purpose behind it. The prosecution argued that Strole knowingly broke the law and did not follow proper procedure. The defense argued that Strole was doing his civic duty and tried to warn other drivers. Strole took the stand in the trial on Tuesday, telling the eight-member jury that he wanted to help drivers avoid costly repairs. Police chief Michael Ott also took the stand and said some of the potholes in question had been fixed, but not all of them (almost year later). After the trial ended, Strole spoke with WLWT about how he was feeling once the verdict was read. "I feel great that maybe they'll learn something from this," Strole said. "Maybe they'll take it and do what they're supposed to. Then they wouldn't have to spend all this money bringing me to trial."

The AMT 1/25 Green Hornet showed up on the shelves near me?

April 2023, I lost Jamie (Aussie) to kidney disease and Brian (Husky/Aussie) to liver cancer two weeks apart. My heart was ripped from my chest as we went from three dogs to one. As I checked the local shelters, I came upon Shasta (Aussie). She was withdrawn as her family dumped her at the shelter as she was herding the kids (um....that's what an Aussie does!) She was so shutdown, they had to bearhug her to bring her out to meet me. She was not really interested in meeting me or what I had to offer. She was five years years old but I was there to meet her and another Aussie that was just a year old. It was love at first sight so I had no need to meet the other dog. She needed me as much as I needed her...... Earlier this week, I had all the fur kids out in the yard and I Shasta (now known as Riley) was sitting at the edge of the steps just watching. She is a little bigger than Jamie was but considerably stronger. I snapped this picture of her just looking down the down with a serious FAFO look. Confidence her breed is known for has been restored!

CARBS show in Dayton last weekend.... I 've been wanting the Sox & Martin 'cuda but they seem to go closer to $50 at shows around here. All are open/complete except the BMW which is F/S

Half empty display disappeared from the local Wally World and ended up on an end cap in toy section. Had to Scooby Doo back to the front to grab a cart.

Both are complete from recent swap meet.

One of the local shelters refers to the father as a traveling salesman when they get pups and only who what breed the mom is.

Local toy/collectible store had these in the die cast section. 350Z not painted/half built.....the rest are built but the paint needs stripped as they its very rough. $5/each

Happy National Black Dog Day! Bear is a rescue, about 12 years old. She has the personality of the cute little white fluffy dog as everyone falls in love with her. I had never heard about the black dog syndrome (all black dogs are last to get adopted because people just thing they are unremarkable) before her. She was on a county shelter for over a week (11 years ago) and we already had two dogs so I resisted but folded faster than Superman on laundry day when I met her. The photo wasn't staged.....she just got done at the groomers and wife turned on the bun warmers in the seat. She has some tan but some of the coal black is turning gray....welcome to my world!