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El Dee

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Great that you got a visit with the Baby Rat !!! If I went with a Grateful screen name....Casey Jones....Trust I've been watching my speed for decades now....Dangitt......

Nice looking mod you got there Bov !!!!!!

Worked on the septic drain field yesterday....Pushed down a tree of about 25 feet and hauled it off too the woods...Dang old front tires on the Kubota were off the ground for a good 1/4 mile ride dragging that tree....it was pretty heavy and I had to stop and adjust several times due to no steering...Gone though....Trust it's more than a huge relief with the Kubota running like a champ....I started digging the septic drain line after getting the last small tree taken care of...Two big trees that gotta go but I'm getting the line in and then cutting them whenever possible after a good break....Rode up too Taylorsville, N.C. today and looked at a truck....I was looking at the Great Smokey Mountains when I arrived in Taylorsville and they were indeed smokey today....Old car dealer was blowing some smoke up my rear when he described the truck and took those 50 photos.....It was almost like a different truck from the pics....All day riding but the knee needed a rest and I had to see what the deal was with the truck.....Trust when I spend up I will hold the seller's feet to the fire....I gotta live with the deal and don't intend compromise....One day the chips will fall my way....
 

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Thank you for the wonderful smelling mail!!! I’m off tomorrow so I plan on brewing some then. Work mornings I have to rush through my coffee and I want to take my time and enjoy it. :)

Wharf,
Happy to see that you had a nice visit with Kia! Always good to see you here.

ElDee,
Crossing all of my crossables for you on the truck. Rest that knee too.

Bov I love your new mod! Sexayyyyy!!

Fran, Snow?!?! Ugh not here YET. A cold front is supposed to move in tomorrow and hang out for two weeks.
 

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I decided when digging the trench for the septic to fill the wheelbarrow and roll the dirt to a pile off the grass....That way it would do the least damage to the yard...Plus the dirt would cause me access issues to the trench later due to 2 rock walls and such....It's a big old wheelbarrow and when I picked up those handles the first time I could tell the knee wasn't liking that....I'm outta dog treats....I need to go fill a couple big propane tanks....Needing pipe and such for the trench....Thinking I'll grab a 4x8 sheet of OSB and some 2x10s and make a three sided dirt bin....Then I can scoop the dirt and move it away from the trench with the Kubota...Knee is better now and that wheelbarrow is a knee killer....Complications

71* yesterday but the cold front arrived last night....Rainy ATM....Snow has been forecast......Low 40s for the highs coming up.....30* drop in daytime temps??????? DANG!!!!!!!!!

Went and looked at another truck yesterday....This one had the six speed transmission but also had some gear grinding issues....Beat to death on the outside I decided to drive it just in case it was excellent mechanically....Dude had a dog and wasn't hygienic.....Couple hours later I could still smell all that on my clothes....Still on the hunt....
 

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Bov, tuck me in your suitcase? I don’t eat too much and promise I’ll behave! Haha

Me too. I wanna go too..................

Hahaha!! Let's roll, ladies! I can promise our little orange friend would be overjoyed to see all of us :wub:

Dee, we've had an incredibly mild fall/winter so far up here. But looking into the 10 day forecast says highs in the 20s middle of next week! And snow, of course. Glad you came up with a creative way to NOT use your knee moving that dirt.
 

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Great that you got a visit with the Baby Rat !!!

It was a 20 hour visit with 3 hour drive up and back... and I soak up every minute :wub:


Casey Jones....Trust I've been watching my speed for decades now....Dangitt......

You and Me both Bruther !!!


Wharf,
Happy to see that you had a nice visit with Kia! Always good to see you here.

I'm always here Tracy :)

Speaking of Kia....

She auditioned in August at Universal Studios LA to go to Universal Japan as a performer. We just found out last night that she will be one of their performers as Princess Fiona and will be leaving Feb 15th for Japan on a 11 month contract :shock:
 

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Congratulations too the Baby Rat !!!!!!!!! Big Poppa you're gonna have to visit....bring back some of that OG Saki..!!!!

Knee is better today....Trust....The Hell with that wheelbarrow!!!!!!! Spent the day rounding up stuff....lamb ears....cow ears....Greenies....SS staples....crazy glue{cause Hell Yeah I dropped an Oceanus and the magnet popped out}....propane....Wrote out all of Mom's monthlies{that's a pain in the buttocks}....Didn't get the pipe but it's gonna be wet for a few days according to those in the know....

Sleet and snow earlier....The FB was exploding about that....Used the trusty NOAA weather radio and they said no accumulation through the period....I'm good with that....

Arrow brand electric staple guns....I had a yellow one that met an untimely demise when I smashed it to smithereens....A year or so back I saw they updated the gun and now it was grey and red with a case so I purchased it....Had a job for it earlier and had purchased a fresh box of staples today...Jam after jam and believe me it's a real beech taking it apart to clear....I got half a box of staples left....the job to be redone tomorrow....I mean I only needed 50/60 staples tops and I had thousands...HAD!!!....Long/short tomorrow I gotta dig out my old trusty manual stapler as the red and grey one is in a thousand pieces all over the shop....That extra long cord it came with was mighty handy when in full on smash it mode....I got a sheet load of tools all very well cared for....They all work as intended though......Dang good thing I didn't get a knee as things got athletic there for a minute.....
 

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Dug out my old manual Arrow staple gun and shot every staple I needed without a single issue.....Whatever you do never purchase an Arrow electric stapler....Unless of course they change it and you're a tool .........then maybe.....well....NO!!!!!!!!!

Gotta be 2 months since I sold the Dodge....Finally today I cancelled the insurance....Lost my multi-vehicle because Harleys don't count....Look you gotta pay money so why the Hell doesn't it count????? Come home and find the best prospect for a new truck so far....I'd given up on the older trucks as all I'd seen were beat...3500 duallys seem to get a lot of owner installed stuff like running boards/hitches in the bed/God awful guards around the front bumper and light area....I've seen a ton of "What were you thinking modifications...." As always tomorrow has promise.....Found a little old retired goat farmer with a 2003 silver Dodge dually....as low as I've seen mileage....93k....unmolested in any way....owner says absolutely not a scratch anywhere....pics indicate he may be truthful....it's got the full boat leather interior in grey with the suede inserts and the Ram's head stitched in.....It's a Mack Daddy truck....it's Friday so I gotta shake and bake to get the deal done....Now all I gotta do is get up early and haul a fat sack of cash all the way across the State for the second time this week....I really don't like hauling that money but the owner said very firmly cash only.....Price wise from what I've seen and with the mileage figured in it's a good deal....Now if I can only get him to drop that price just a fraction....Time will tell...Say a little prayer it's not a dud......
 
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