Good Morning.

After fixing up his house to sell, my brother fixed up his new house just the way he wanted. Said this time he was going to fix things up for himself and not someone else. Guess he forgot about remodeling the old house umpteen times while he lived there.

One of my friends is a quite successful business owner. He is essentially retired and his son runs the business now and he just gets a nice retirement income from the business. He has been married for over 40 years to the same woman. She has become very high maintenance. About once every 12 months she want to redo the living room or the kitchen back to bare walls, new wall covering or paint, new floor and all the appliances or high end furniture. Every time you go over there the place is completely different. She will get tired of that house and they sell it and move to a different house and sometimes to a different state. They bounce around from the beach in the Florida panhandle, Alabama, Louisiana, and then back the same neighborhood they were in for years. Every move is all new furniture and decor. That is her thing and what keeps her happy. Evidently he loves her and can afford her. I would killer her.

Hahahahahahaha! We've moved over a dozen times since we got married. My wife has happy feet.

Surprisingly, we've lived in this condo twice as long as anywhere else we've lived.

Morning all.

10 moves for the bride and I. The next ones gunna be a while down the track.

We've been in our house for 14 years with no plans on moving. We redid the kitchen and living room right after we moved in and found no reason to change it.



My wife is very low maintenance. :D

I grew up in as a Air Force brat. I think we moved 16 times while I was growing up.

When I moved away from home I moved into a dump of an place that was $90 per month furnished. It was a miserable little place but it was all I could afford. After a year a good friend of mine got divorced and had to move out of his house and I became a roommate for 14 months. It was a really nice duplex but the owner of the place was broke and could not maintain it. My roommate and I did a lot of maintenance just to keep it livable. Ultimately the roof started leaking real bad. I filled up a 40 gallon plastic trash can in one night from the leak coming out of the light fixture in my bedroom. That was it for me. I started looking for a house to buy. I found that and moved and lived there over 20 years. I finally found my wife and I sold my little house and moved into her place since she had a two car garage.

Almost 19 years ago we decided a three garage was a better option so we moved to our current place. My wife might have a slightly different reason we moved but the garage was the main reason. :D

We said back then that we were done moving. That is still the plan. My next move is to the old folks home or the mortuary.

We bought our house because of the garage. Seriously, I told my wife "that's the one" when we first drove by it(in the SC of course). We had looked at several and our agent kept taking us to houses with small garages and on dirt roads.

2 rules I had for where we going to live>>no dirt roads and must have at least a 2 car garage.

Ironically the very first house we looked at was the house we ended up buying.

My only stipulation to move was the new place had to have a 3 car garage minimum. 4 or more is OK. My garage is 3 car and oversize and has a workshop area and a bathroom. I did not care about the rest of the house. I figured it had a kitchen as a place for the microwave and the refrigerator and a bedroom or more.

We looked at a lot of places and few if any had a decent garage. Some had the room to build a detached workshop garage but that is not ideal for me.

Unless we just fall into a great deal on a property with several acres so my wife could play Elly May Clampett and have a lot of critters and the place has a fantastic garage space and it is cheap we will not be moving. Since we don't even look for real estate it is unlikely to pop up.

Moved to OKC before my 1st birthday. Just before my second birthday we moved to a new house. Lived for a couple of years in an apartment at University. Then back to parents house to help Mom take care of Dad. After Dad passed brother came down with MS, got divorced, and moved in with Mom and I so we could help take care of him. Soon after sold parents house and I bought a more wheel chair accessible home for Me, Mom, and brother. We lived there for 35 years before moving to my more accessible home. That's where I am now having outlived my Brother and Mom both. Been here for 19 years.

I remember moving when I was 2, then to University then back, then here. So guess I've moved 4 times that I can remember.

If you think a good garage is difficult to find, try finding a wheelchair accessible home!

2 of the houses we looked at (and we looked at a LOT) had attached 2 car garage AND a big detached garage/work shop. Those were very enticing, but just too much to make them accessible. Probably a good thing because I would have had to fill the shop with all kinds of wood and metal working stuff! Not having the space has been a good excuse.

And since the garage thing was mentioned, I just don't understand people that have a perfectly good garage, fill it up with junk, and then park their expensive cars outside.

My Doctors office wrote me letter recently and said I have to come in for an office visit so they can keep writing me prescriptions or some nonsense. The bottom line is they want me to come them for an office visit. OK, so today is the day. I go in and they asks why I am in today. I mention the letter and she looks puzzled and asks if I want a physical. Not really, I did that 2 years ago. I feel fine, no complaints except a pimple on my cheek. It is tough going through adolescence for all these years. So the doctor comes in and he is a former Porsche club member and I have seen him a few times before. He has a 1978 911 and a 993 Cabriolet. We talk Porsche in between him looking in my ears and nose listening to my chest with a stethoscope. He asked if I had any medical issues and I mentioned the pimple on my cheek as the only complaint. No aches, no pains, no issues except I need to eat less and exercise more. Blood tests are normal and BP and vitals are normal. I showed him some pictures of my car and he really likes this one.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1440177313.jpg

He does have excellence taste!
He asked if I can make a print and I just asked how big. He may send some pictures of his car and I will print those as well for his garage.

Overall for a Doctors office visit it was not a bad experience. :cool:

Because I have a pain killer script I have to pee when I go to the doctor to make sure I'm NOT taking them?

When it comes to doctor's offices, I am like the old adage of having a B.O.A.T.........Bust Out Another Thousand. I've had cancer a coupla times, and related heart failure, and blood clots, so going to the doctor's office usually isn't so pleasant for me, I wish all I had was acne.

We have an older farm house on 10 acres of rolling farmland with a nice creek, and some woods. It had an attached small 2 car gargae that is only 18' wide (big enough for her BMW 3 series and my 944). The garage is 28' deep, so I walled off the front 10' of it and insulated it with good lighting, that is now my work shop where I can heat it easily.

When we bought the house, it had a 40x60 pole barn that tried to hold all of my mechanical projects, AND all of her horses and other animals. We just built a new 60'x104' indoor riding arena that has 4 horse stalls and a wash stall across one end, so now I get the older smaller barn back for more projects. and possibly a 4 post lift to come later.

We just have a small 2car garage. We looked at moving but within the boundaries of our school district there isn't much with a big enough garage to warrant moving. I'm making do with what we've got. My parents are talking about moving out here in a few years. They want a place on the edge of town with a shop building, so I'll just hold out and help them buy a place with a big enough shop for all of dads toys and mine....

I often think about how lucky I am. My one constant pain was a bad hip. I had that replaced and I am not in constant pain like so many people I know. One of my cousins is just 6 months older than I am. He is fighting bone cancer and other health issues. He has been a vitamin and health food skinny man for many long years.

I am lucky to have to go to the doctors office only because I don't see him enough to keep some federal law about prescriptions satisfied. Maybe it is that I eat all those apples that keeps the doctors away. :cool:

I have to go once a year to keep my prescription as well. My doctor is pretty cool but not a car guy at all.


I consider myself lucky with health, too. I ran into a old friend last weekend and he is dealing with arthritis and hip problems. I honestly thought he was a homeless dude and it took me a second to figure out who he was. He looked and moved like a man much older than 48.

Posted this on FB too. Heard it on the satellite radio. Freaking hilarious! NSFW!!!!


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Evening Y'all,
Well I had a 72 bug land in my driveway tonight. It belongs to a friend of mine who's husband has thrown in the towel on.
It needs some carb work and to be honest I think all the issues are from a bad valve adjustment.

An old big is just a oversize lawn mower. Pretty easy to fix. It should be a breeze for you.