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.

Well, there are two ways to get rid of bad behavior.

One is to have a negative result of the behavior. Example: dog digs hole, you fill hole with water and stick his nose in it until dog thinks it is going to drown. Then fill hole in. Should only happen 3 or 4 times until dog learns no dig.

The other is to train the dog to do the behavior on command, then it tends to not do the behavior unless commanded, Example: dog digs hole. Got out and start digging more holes and give the dog the command to dig and praise when it does. Repeat until dog digs on command. Fill in the holes.

The second method has worked with my dogs for most bad habits.

When the dog makes a mess with something it has chewed up it wasn't supposed to, instead of punishing them I grumble and complain in a voice like I'm angry and disappointed saying stuff like, "Look at the mess you made that I have to clean up." while cleaning up the mess. My first dog was so sensitive to this when I cleaned up a few messes, she would sit, hang her head, and smile real big while I was cleaning up. And the added benefit was she became very sensitive to the tone of my voice so all I had to do was barely raise my voice and she obeyed instantly.

Evening guys...

Went and showed some houses this afternoon despite the rain! They really loved the last one, but wanted to sleep on it. I'll call them in the morning and lock it down! :cool:

Showed another one to the couple I was out showing with on friday. This one would be a great house, especially at the price. BUT it needs several walls knocked down to even begin to work, even then the floorplan is still pretty jacked.

Looked at one house that floor plan was jacked. You had to go thru the master bath AND then a closet to get into the garage without going thru the overhead doors. Looked like they flipped the floor plans and put the kitchen where a guest bedroom was, and put the master bedroom where the kitchen and pantry was.

Another house you had to go thru one of the 2 guest bedrooms to get to either the guest bath or the master bedroom. There was also a weird little office off the kitchen only had enough room for the desk and chair. That office had a tiny little room at the other end that was barely big enough to close the door and use the toilet that was in it, no sink.

Neither of those two houses had a washer and dryer or even a place to put them.

What were those people thinking?

that is why we don't have a dog, when I retire I'll get another one.
Morning Y'all. 42 de frigging grees wtf!!

Yea, same here 42 degrees and windy.....again. Spent the weekend on an excavator digging up basement drain line, and running trenches for the barn gutter exit tiles to the creek. Cold and windy all weekend....can't get rid of the cough I developed.

We had great weekend weather. Better yet, it is raining today and real honest rain. I hope it keeps it up for a week. Our rain barrel is filling up fast.

The beginning of another day is satisfactory...i.e. Good Morning.

Another Saturday for me. :)

Likewise. Six more Saturdays to go.

I can't get enough of these extended Saturdays!

Nice range, but you need a better camera. I can't tell if you are shooting at steel silhouettes or paper targets.

Joe, for your sake I hope you are armed on the container ship. For the other people's sake, I hope you are not armed on the container ship. On the other hand, it is big enough you could drive your Lotus around on deck as in impromptu autocross.

Richard, our first dog would not chew anything but chew toys she was given. Our current lab does not chew her own toys but will chew all the kids toys. Our bagel (beagle) chews everything. Both like to dig and we have been putting their poop in the holes and they are getting the hint. The beagle goes to dig more and gives us the big stink eye for putting poop in the hole. We also put chicken wire around the perimeter against the foundation because the lab would refuse to use a dog house and would dig a nest against the house. Now that the beagle is here she takes the better house so he can't have it.

Wow, it is still raining.

Go baby go. Another 24 hours of this would be good.

I have been working so hard I missed my morning and afternoon nap. :(

I hate missing naps. The days drag on more without that refresher.

Yea, and a rainy day is perfect napping weather. Nice white noise as the drops hit the roof and walls. A metal building lets you know right away if the rain is falling.

It will be interesting to see if the rain barrel is full at home.

I bet hail is hard to nap to in that building.

Brent, yup, a spoon would be part of the job.....looks like the current spoon of choice is FAL. Cheap, reliable and .308.....

Decent enough caliber for the job assuming you aren't trying to sink another container ship with it. Do you get to keep it after your cruise?

Brrr...morning...wtf, 4 bloody degrees?

nah, they go for a swim before crossing out of international waters is my understanding.

Evening Y'all.