Good Morning All. Cloudy and 63°. Clouds moved in earlier than expected yesterday and the high was just 75° when the forecast called for 81°. No problem though, as it was rather pleasant to do lots of outdoor tasks.
We did pick up the Accura yesterday after the suspension was rebuilt; I didn't drive it home but my wife says that it is much improved. It will sit in the driveway until Monday when we have an alignment appointment at a very busy place.
I learned to drive with a manual transmission with the shifter on the steering column in a '59 Chevy Biscayne, and drove manual transmissions continuously until I gave up my Honda Civic in 2017. I still drive the automatic Accura and Lexus with my hand on the shifter, just out of habit. At least I never moved it while driving, but was tempted to at first.
Of course today is the weekly grocery trek. I have an additional stop at Home Depot on the schedule, don't know if my wife has any stops to add yet.
A boring day out in the train shed yesterday. I measured and cut out the fence mesh for the fuel distributor. I also cut the horizontal poles for the fence. Hard part is next, attaching those horizontal poles to the posts. Three hands would help.
I did some more follow-up on the Mack truck, painting the lights on the bumper and cab roof.
Here it is with two other tractors that I recovered from that toybox years ago.
Then while I was looking in the detail parts drawer, I found something else.
A pair of mirrors with CB antennas. Time for an unexpected addition.
I am not sure where I got them from, but I wish that I had five or six more sets. I'll have to search the net.
Sherrel -
Taxes are in will be in the mail today. Don't quitye understand why I am paying more with less income
It's mainly due to who's in charge both at the state and national level.
Louis/Curt - The mangled hand is just the typical cuts/scrapes from when the wrench slips off the nut and the hand makes contact with several other protruding hunks of metal. Only one spot actually required a Band Aid, the rest just bled for a couple of minutes and stopped when I washed all of the blood off. Still am wearing the Band Aid, mainly to prevent the wound from re-opening as I do other stuff. Otherwise all is OK.
Louis -
I never even heard of hackberry
In case you haven't looked it up yet,
Hackberry. Very common somewhat nuisance tree around here. They grow under power lines and along fence rows due to birds who eat the pulp-covered seeds but cannot digest the actual seed. So they deposit it under wherever they happen to be, surrounded by a mass of fertilizer. As I posted, the wood is very dense and makes excellent firewood. The warty bark can be uncomfortable to handle though.
Curt - The wood windfall is just that. I have actually been going over there and harvesting selected trees for a few years now, but they did the work and put them a lot closer. I'll still need to cut them into logs, but I have 10-12 months for that. I'm just glad that I have enough land to put them on without being in the way. They were originally putting them in the corner of the field where their massive equipment cannot go to, when I saw what was happening. I asked for them to start putting them on my property, and the fellow even went back and retrieved all that he had put in the field and moved them as well. Ironic sidenote - the man operating the piece of equipment was in my oldest daughter's graduating class of '97, (class size = 13) and knew her well. Small school!
Jim - I would hope to leave $0 to my three kids, as they didn't do anything to earn it and none of them needs it anyway. I put all of them through college already. There will probably be a goodly sum anyway. My wife wants to give them some now so they can enjoy it tax-free. I say no, inflation is going to take it's toll if things don't change, and we don't know how much longer we will need it. Wife and I got nothing until Dad died and I had to split with five siblings. We helped her parents for a short time.
Everybody have a wonderful day.
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