Good early morning, everyone.
Well, after flowers, cards, and two sets of meals out for the wife and mother in law, I'm out about one and a half Atlas Gold sound equipped engines.
Got to keep the girls happy though.
Karl, that truck looks like it's worth spending at least $200 on. You've done a nice job keeping it in good shape. If your wife ever mentions Bunco, tell her it causes cancer or something. Anything to get out of hosting it at your house. I've done less cleanup work when I was selling a house let alone a bunch of ladies coming over for three hours. If your wife is already sold on Suzuki's, she'd love a Grand Vitara and you would too. It's basically a larger and more comfortable Swift. Also a lot safer with six air bags.
Rex, sounds like you got stuck with even worse duty than Bunco Night cleanup. Like I said, plumbing is a mystery to me so the fact you are even able to get the pump out with breaking everything else is more than I could do.
Ken, indeed, we are now about three inches above normal just for the month and climbing. This is apparently a common pattern down here, with drought years followed by flooding. It's why a lot of farmers go bust here.
Dan, we have a really good yard service and the price is pretty reasonable. My yard is mostly on hills and I can just see myself flipping over a tractor. Our guy has one of those giant mowers with the two handles and he can cut the lawn at about 20 mph. He'd take Indy if they had lawn mower races, or at least be good competition for Chris.
Jeffrey, my late wife was a big Star Trek fan but I could just never get into it. I don't know what it is about that - you either love it or hate it. I think it was Spock's ears or something. That's too bad your attempt at marriage didn't pan out. I was lucky right out of the gate with my late wife for 38 years and July will be three with Dianna so I hope I'm just as lucky the second time out of the gate.
BOC, I don't think you'll go far wrong with a Grand Vitara (except for that danged headlight bulb). Lots of room and the 4WD versions does really well off road. Highway 82 is washed out for about a thirty foot section where the culvert blocked up and the water undermined the road. It looks like it will need an actual bridge (which it should have had in the first place) and the road will closed for at least six weeks. Just a short detour to get around it but, where it dumps you back on Highway 31, there's no traffic light so cars get really backed up waiting to turn. Going to be a big wreck there unless they install some temporary traffic signals. The nature of thunderstorms is exactly as you described, with areas within a few hundred yards getting twice or three times the rain. We don't really understand why this happens although it seems to have something to do with a mix of unstable air and terrain. Just a few feet change in elevation can increase or decrease rainfall dramatically. When scientists can explain this relatively simple phenomena, I'll start to take the idea they understand global climate change seriously.
Terry and Josh, that's the nice thing about older vehicles. All the parts were just screwed on and in ways that made sense. I can remember when it was just three screws to get a headlight out too. This one is stuck in one of those trendy bubble kind of lenses and I can find no way to adjust it. It's pointed way too low now. I'll have to troll the web and see if I can find something. If not, there must be a secret trick and I'll have to bite the bullet and take it to the dealer.
Had an impressive looking bow squall line heading our way from Mississippi earlier this evening but the entire thing fell apart and we got two flashes of lightning and a whole .08 inches of rain. No complaints though, since we need a little break. Looks like a decent chance for more severe storms tomorrow. I need to get the last of the pre-Bunco yard cleanup done so I hope it holds off until at least noon. I'm thinking of putting the house on the market since it will never be this clean again.
I'm looking forward to a few hours peace in the basement tomorrow night. Got a new Dustbuster so maybe I can get the layout looking presentable, not that any of the ladies would be interested in that. I'm sure my junk hanging job will get a close inspection though.
Or a train mural down the sides!!!
