other dog

🤣 The Ranger!

Right- My ex gf took the Ford Ranger pickup- the one I should have kept- over to a little garage/shop about 2 miles from here to have it inspected one time. They "inspected" it and put a new sticker on it, and when I got in at the end of the week we drove it to Winchester to the truck show. After we got back it was in the driveway with the wheels turned a little bit and I just happened to notice something shiny in a front tire when I walked by. I got on the ground and looked and it was the cords showing on the inside edge of the tire. It scared me to think that I had just driven it up I-81 to Winchester and back at a high rate of speed when there was a good chance of suffering catastrophic tire failure at any time. I mean letting a small exhaust leak or something slide is one thing, but not an obvious safety issue like that. I took it straight to the tire shop and had new tires put on and a a front end alignment done.

Mine too. He's in my lap now. When I come out of the shower he's always laying right outside the door.

I stopped at a little used car lot in Rustburg the other day to look at a pickup that I've seen there for a while. Zina doesn't like the rust bucket, it's too big, too loud, it's not an extended cab so there's nowhere for the dogs to sit, it's too loud, etc. So I stopped and looked at a pretty nice looking F150 extended cab pickup. It had $10,500 on the sticker, no rust, no bents. Not too bad I thought. But it was a lot older than I thought, I think it was a 2002 model. Then I saw the milage- 297,000. It has a 6.0 diesel in it. I don't know what it is or a thing about a 6.0 diesel, so I phoned a friend who knows all about all such matters. He said to stay far, far away from it because 300,000 was about the life of them. He said you're lucky to get 300,000 out of one. So I'm sticking with the old rust bucket, at least for now.

Congratulations to you and Star on a job well done, and congratulations to Large, Medium, Small, and Extra Small for having their heads screwed on straight!

Yes, and every time you went to that Disney place in Florida- well, never mind, that's not my story to tell...

An invasion at our borders, destroyed our Energy Independence, skyrocketing inflation, crime out of control in our cities, billions being spent to stop the invasion in Ukraine but ignores the invasion at our borders and America's safety and security and Sleepy says re-elect me for more of the same.

Absolutely!

Happy birthday Bob!

I've been doing similar work myself 🤣. Sort of- just on a much smaller scale. I had to cut a couple of longer pieces of plank to make my lawn mower ramp. The first two were laying behind the shed but they were just the right length so that when you drove up them the back end would kick up and hit inside the mower deck when the front tires got to the top. The new improved longer ones work great, and the mower fits nicely in the shed.

He has some pretty impressive ears there.

We got another dog.

Happy birthday Vlad!

I have last year's calendar.

You know something, we haven't seen a girl in a car picture for a looooong time. So here's a girl in a car -

We were planning on taking a trip to the Midwest and going by the Iowa 80 Museum and stopping to see Mike on the same trip. Too bad we put it off too long.

Thanks everyone.

That was Rob who bought the water truck, a tan colored R model. He kind of comes and goes here, and is well liked. He disappeared once for a few years and then came back like he'd never left. I wish he'd reappear, he was another who's just a wealth of knowledge and will help anybody with anything.

Thank you, No head ache, all good!

She said "hey".

Thank you!