lol :)

Yesterday the tojo decided it wanted to run intermittently on 5 cylinders. I didn't get a chance to check it out today as grandad duties took precedence. I guess tomorrow will be spent figuring out what's wrong. I figure its most likely a bad lead or plug as it seems to get better after warming up.

Good Afternoon

Well two days of decent rain, a nine ton truck, grass, and a slight hill, yeah Rickie made a mess

Got the 911 out of hibernation today. Made a 150 mile loop. Felt great to get behind the wheel again.

Welcome to spring Pete

Still some snow around but just in the shady spots.
Won't be firing up the lawn mower any time soon.

I'm guessing Ricky's lawn is a little lumpy right now.

I am calling them there ruts my redneck moat, The truck went just fine but the weight had it's way with my yard

Local hot rodding test driver took a '15 5.0 GT Mustang off road at the local dealer-strip near our house today.

Spun first (rear hanging left) black marks stop, (lifted or shifted) black marks continue (rear hung right) ...burnout transitions to sideways skid marks, up over a curb, through some flower beds and into the Toyota Dealer's sign across the street... Funny business :)

On another note, the guy I'm helping sell his 911, let me really scrub through the car today and gave me all of his records to look through. Good and Bad...I found a lot of great information that paints a very clear picture, I realized the car is Paint to Sample, but also have some not so great information about a ratty headliner and mileage that needs to be clarified in the Ad.

Will take care of that ASAP.

Found a local car 'club' with storage, a lift, engine crane and air on site......friggin lift sure made doing the Disco brakes easy.....how is it that I did front pads and rotors in 1.5hrs, but midas charges 4hrs..

Hope you here had a good Sunday.

I raked the front yard, cut own a tree/shrub that was irritating me and then showed my daughter how to use the pushmower. She insisted, then wanted payment. I paid her but showed her how to blow the grass/debris off the driveway for good measure.

We have been stressing over the Suquinox and the possibility of having to do the headgaskets so it was good to leave it alone and do something else. BTW-my push mower started on the second pull, after priming the carbatator.

Guy across the street is a mechanic so I asked his thoughts on the truck. He is confident that it isn't any more than still air in the system. He has a tool at work to pressure test so we will do that Monday. He suggested bleeding it again but drive it around for a while first. I did that and we now have consistent heat at idle and whilst moving. Temp gauge stays in the normal range as well.

I'll keep an extra eye on things for now and see what happens. Thank goodness for the interweb although the amount of info can be overwhelming.

oh, wifey made lasagna for lunch!!!

Wayne, Simple things like car idling to hot then blasting defrost on high can sometime make the magic happen and get rid of those pesky bubbles. Worked on my e39 a little while back.

Good Evening

Nothing of note going on around here.

Saucy Jr has an ear infarkshun again.

Think the little man is going to need tubes, it's become a monthly occurrence and the Dr's all want to keep pumping the kid full of antibiotics.

Busy day here. I have a slow leak on a rear tire on the 911. Is is on the lift and the tire is in the bed of the Elky ready to get the leak fixed.

So...I've had 2 golden retrievers and in the past 30 years have always given them rawhide chips for chews. Over the past 6 years I've noticed them first getting thicker and my golden only liked the thinner ones. She would not chew on the thicker ones just left them laying around. So when I bought a bag I would search thru them to find the bags with the most thin ones.

About 3 years ago the rawhide chips are pretty much off the market and dog people are saying they are bad for your dog, because they cause choking and get stuck in their guts. Did some google and the choking and stuck in their gut problems seemed to be mostly the rawhide chews that look like a bone with a knot in each end. The dog chew them in half and swallow it with the knot dry and not chewed up. My dogs would only eat the thin rawhide chips. Never had any problems with my dogs eating them and they ate a LOT of them.

Asked my neighbor about it when I was picking a choosing thru the bags of rawhide chips for the thin ones, and he was doing the same thing for his dog. Also asked because after Camber visited the Dalmatian Dotty next door, she would come home with a rawhide chew.

So, why are the rawhide chews that have the knots in the ends that look like bones still for sale, and the chips are not?

Found a small bag of rawhide chips at the grocery store. It only had 3 chips in it. She ate the thin one (an hour of puppy chewing fun) and brought both of the thicker ones back to me and left them on my lap. She's done that with a few other toys she refuses to chew on, and that includes one of the kong things they are supposed to like.

I'm just looking for something for Pepper to chew on besides the house and everything in it. Caught her today chewing on the corner of our brick house.

our dogs have been destroying couch cushions. several. i am at my wits' end.

Careful with those ear infarkshuns. Got one when I was 2. Was out of town and the doctor my Mom took me to dug in my ear and made it bleed.

Later I started complaining of my legs hurting and keeping me awake at night. Home Doc said the ear infarkshun was treated poorly and migrated to the next weakest part of my body which was the part going thru a growing spurt, my legs. The problem was it was causing my legs to not grow the same length and I was starting to limp. Had to say off my legs from when I was 3 until I was 4 and my legs started growing the same length again.

Went through most of my youth with my shins keeping me awake hurting at night if I was very active during the day because of it. Doctor recommended I not get involved in any sports that involved very much running until HS.

They still bother me at times and I have to take pain killers to sleep.

I say "No! leave it." and give them something else to chew I know they like, like a rawhide chip.

First dog, Penny was so smart she would not eat or touch anything, even a bowl of food laying on the floor, or food from anyone else, unless I said she could have it.

Second dog, Camber wouldn't bother anything unless it was on the floor. Anything left on the floor was fair game.

Not sure where Pepper is going. She is at that stage where she grabs something she knows she's not supposed to have and runs away making a game of it.

the problem is that we are gone all day.