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It has the air shift, that's a first for me too. I've driven the vacuum and electric shift 2 speeds before and the vacuum shift seemed to work better. But I never really drove any truck with a 2 speed rear enough to master it.

Well, here's Zina's new truck sitting on the trailer in the driveway. Here's a couple of old fellows talking about the truck on the trailer in the driveway. Here's the truck parked in the driveway after it was unloaded. Here's the empty trailer the truck was parked on before it was unloaded. So now I need to learn how to drive a truck again. It has no power steering, non-synchronized transmission, cab so small the steering wheel touches my stomach, gas engine, 2 speed rear, I ain't used to any of that 🤣

I think a good many of these squatters are the same people that stroll across the border freely.

Cost about $300 to pay for the rodent damage.

I'll try to get a long video of it running, like maybe 3 or even 4 seconds.

20240319_132813_001.mp4 20240319_132813_001.mp4 A 1 second video of the truck running...or just audio I should say.

Well, you know Rob used to haul an R model behind his Dodge pickup.

Yes it is.

Oh yeah, and the IH guy called and asked when it would suit us to bring the International, he said it was loaded up and ready to go. I told him "whatever suits you suits me better". So he's supposed to drop it off Friday .

All I've planted so far is some potatoes and onions. The onions came up good and are looking pretty good too. The potatoes don't seem to be doing much.

Welp, the folks at Lynchburg Nissan called back. They said it looked like a mouse had made a nest in the air box, and damaged a "something or other" sensor, so they're going to clean it, fix it, and put a new air filter in it. None of which is covered by the famous "Mabry Million Mile Warranty". "No ma'am, it doesn't cover rodent damage". I don't think it was mice, I'd be more inclined to believe it was these squirrels and chipmunks that are always running around out here.

It's not a secret at all. I came up with this through years of trial and error. I had no idea how to make hot sauce. When I first started making hot sauce I pretty much just ground the peppers up in the blender with enough vinegar to liquify it, then I added some salt, boiled it in a pot, then poured it into bottles. Usually I used recycled hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce, the little wine bottles, etc. to put it in. When I read the ingredients on hot sauce bottles they all said "vinegar, peppers, salt", so that's what I used. I still use the same 'gredients but I do it a little different now. I cook the peppers in a crock pot with vinegar, salt, and minced garlic until it's pretty much mush. THEN I liquify them with a blender, adding more vinegar if needed to get it to the right consistency. Zina has a hand held blender that's like a small outboard motor and I liquify it right in the crock pot. I think it's a 12 horsepower. Then I strain it before I bottle it, so there's no "pulp" in it. And I use new bottles instead of recycling old ones. It's different every year because I never have the same amount of the same peppers. Last year I used cayennes, tabascos, jalapenos, the little red super hot ones, and Serrano's. But that's how I make it, I pick the peppers and put them in the freezer until they're all picked, then I make the sauce, and cowboy candy with some of the jalapenos.

Yep, last year's. I'm going to plant a row this year too, a lot of people love that hot sauce I make.

🤣"Big mike"😂

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's been posted here before when another member called me an a-hole, in a roundabout way.🤣

I have one of you and me too, but I didn't think anybody wanted to see that 🤣 I thought I had a picture of all 3 of us, but apparently not.

It's all red dirt around here too, like wheel bearing grease when it's wet, and as hard as the highway out here when it's dry. Peppers seem to like it though.

Here's a girl in a car eating an ice cream cone. Funny, I was just posting this when Zina came in and said "whatcha doin'?'' I said "oh nuthin', just posting a picture of a girl in a car eating an ice cream cone".

Somebody finally called her back, said it would be tomorrow before they can look at it. Only good thing about it is that it conked out here instead of Macungie or halfway to Florida.

Sounds like you have the same dirt I do!

We don't know about the Nissan yet, she called this morning but couldn't get anybody in the service department. Somebody is supposed to call her back but they haven't yet. She called an hour ago.

That's what we do here in Odds and ends Vlad, you know that. I'll even hijack my own thread- So, it must not pay to go to Home Depot on Sundays, especially Easter Sunday. The last time I was at Home Depot was when we went to get a freezer last summer. The starter locked up on the red Ford pickup when we were leaving and I had to get it towed. I filed the burs off all the teeths on the flywheel and put a starter on it, been starting ok ever since. Today Zina wanted to get some flowers so we drove the Zinamobile Nissan Titan to Home Depot. And on the way back, about halfway up Oxford Furnace Hill it just quit. It would start and run for about 3 seconds then cut off. I coasted it back down the hill and into a driveway so it's off the road. I called a ride to take us home and a tow truck to take the Zinamobile to Lynchburg Nissan. Sounds like a fuel pump issue. Good thing it has the top to bottom, front to back, complete warranty on it, even the towing is included. Only has 21,000 miles on it.

Gee, these trucks are expensive. Now I need to get a carport to park it under.

Yes, that's when I was young and handsome. That picture was taken about 30 years ago.