other dog

now that's a pretty rare animal, i've only seen one.

I got this one- ...and there were 9 birds in that tree in the background, but they had all flown away in the second picture.

You're welcome,might see you there!

Thank you, yes it was a scary situation. I thought the house was a goner. The shed was so close to the house you could spread your arms out and touch both. It was like that when I moved here.

Sept. 10 https://facebook.com/events/s/keystone-blowout/1013890002644992/

This is what the top box of my tool box looked like. I salvaged a few wrenches and things, but not much. Never could get my chain saws started again either. I tried soaking some sockets and other things in white vinegar for about a month, put some pliers, pipe wrenches, and breaker bars in a can of diesel fuel trying to free them up, but nothing worked very good. It was a very intense fire, besides the tools I had several gas cans, oil, and hydraulic fluid in that shed. Almost burned the house down. I was digging through a coffee can full of rusty sockets a while back when I was working on the rust bucket. So the next time I got on Amazon looking for something, before I even typed anything in the search bar, I saw "items on sale" in the suggested items bin. So I clicked on it just out of curiosity and the first thing I saw was this socket set on sale for 55% off. Of couse I clicked "buy now" immediately. They kind of make it too easy to buy stuff. Nice set though, it has 1/4, 3/8, and 1/2 inch drive, regular and deep well, standard and metric sockets, ratchets, extensions, universal joints, everything. I might throw all those rusty ones in the scrap pile. This post belongs here because I was the idiot. The fire was totally my fault. I was smoking a turkey on Thanksgiving day. The smoker was almost touching the shed, about a foot away. And I always raked any leaves away from around it and wet the ground with the garden hose- but I didn't that day. And I wasn't paying as close attention as I should have been, I was inside when the fire started, no doubt from the dry leaves catching fire, and when it spread to the shed it was on.

Maybe, Zina from Gladys is still working though. She does have a lot of vacation days piled up that she can use. We're planning to go to the Watt's Mack show next munt, and the Blowout at the Keystone Antique Truck and Tractor Museum and Winchester in September. She said we were going to go more and do more this year, then "boom!", gas is $5 a gallon.

You are correct! One is a 12 oz. can, the other is 16 ounces!

True that! I can do a little work on older stuff, like changing plugs, putting points in and setting them, and so on. But without a computer thing there's very little you can do with newer stuff. I can change an air filter, that's about it 🤣. I used to have a dwell meter, timing light, distributor wrench, feeler gauges, plug gappers, a big hammer, and a long handled punch, but I lost it in a shed fire. But the shops can hardly fix anything anymore unless the computer tells them what to fix. I took that '91 Dodge pickup to a shop in Concord one time and they told me straight up "that has a carburetor on it, and we don't work on anything that old". Which meant "if we can't plug a computer into it to tell us what's wrong we have no clue". The thing is, it didn't have a carburetor, it was the first year they came out with the throttle body injection.

This is a good show, I went several times when it was at Brad Wike's farm. I was impressed that they had several big plastic barrels sitting around the grounds filled with ice water- free ice water. It used to be in July, then they moved it to September, so I just go to the show in Winchester, Va. instead.

OK, I'll try one- how many differences in these two-

And sadly, it's everywhere these days. This was in Madison Heights, where I went to the eye doctor and took those pictures of the vehicles they're going to auction just a week or two ago.

I strained the wine in the cheesy poofs container today for the first time, first through a strainer, then through two layers of cheesecloth. This is what's left of the berries. I strained it into this bowl first, then strained it through the cheese cloth into these bottles I found in the dumpster. I didn't screw the tops down tight because i'm not sure if it's finished working yet or not. I actually got more than I was expecting.

Here's a couple of youtube videos that were posted about the auction.

I'd never seen as many as I did the first time I went to North Dakota. People usually plant a few around their yard or in their gardens around here, this field up the road is big for these parts. But when I was in North Dakota it was like you said about Italy, just huge fields of them.

Why, they're one of the things that make America great! Zina from Gladys made me some this morning, with our own blueberries and some of the wild blackberries that we picked in them. I only had 3 though, not 671. It would take me a week to eat that many pancakes. Speaking of wild blackberries, I've got some wine going on in the cheesy poofs container.

If I had taken my camera I probably could have gotten it. All I had was my phone though, and I held it right up against the glass. I need to start taking a camera with me again. When I was driving I always had one with me.

That's just a screenshot from my phone, no link.

I just happened to see a listing for 2 B-61s for sale, but they're B-67s. I don't know a thing about them, just saw them on marketplace. The ad says they're in good shape except for the stuck brake pedals, you can see this one needs a little work, but overall it doesn't look too bad.

We were out just riding yesterday, went to see the sunflower field just up the road. Took the long way home and saw this bus parked on Long Island Road right there where the junkyard used to be. I don't know how rare a Crown is or anything, but i'd never seen a tandem axle school bus before, of any kind. I rode an International bus to school myself.

So, I went to the eye Dr. in Madison Heights today. I rode by those vehicles that were parked to take a look. I probably won't post any more pictures, or go by there again, unless somebody wants me to investigate anything further. I still think it's some pretty neat stuff though. Right up yonder where the road curves, just over the "N" on the tail of the plane is the doctor's office I went to. Neat looking old unit here too- Lots of tractors. I wouldn't be surprised if some of this stuff ended up at the Keystone Antique Truck and Tractor museum. There was some old wooden boats out there too, but I didn't get any pictures of them. Nice looking Impala- oh wait, that's mines,never mind. It's not for sale. ...a little work on this baby and you could be flying in no time!

what?..that's not mountains, it's a lak- oh, never mind, you're right- I see the mountains now.

I saw some more pictures on the "Living in Lynchburg" page of the vehicles they're going to auction. There's an M37 Dodge, some tractors, and even an airplane. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10224874207035955&set=pcb.3180233168902475 As soon as I saw this picture I knew exactly where they were. Madison Heights, the dump trailers across the street gave it away. I have an appointment at the eye doctor tomorrow about half a mile from there. I might take a look, but the comments on the original post would indicate that the guys working on this job are not exactly friendly.