Good morning!!!!

   / Good morning!!!! #82,321  
Roy any new gun purchases on the horizon I’m looking at a 357 uberti 1873 should make a nice addition to my collection hopefully between now and Christmas
 
   / Good morning!!!! #82,322  
Be safe on your trip tomorrow Drew lots of crazy drivers out there
 
   / Good morning!!!! #82,323  
If I was going to seal mine no more than every three to five years

I'm right at four years, and hope to not do this again, took my time to put a lot of product down, fill all the cracks.
In suburbia they come along with those spray trucks and put down watery black stuff that looks great, but only lasts a year or two at most.
I had so many repairs due to tree roots and heavy truck damage on the edges that my repairs looked bad, time to make it all like new.
Might be able to finish it next week, not sure of weather. May have gotten all I can get done this year. Was supposed to be a July-August job but my primary help quit. I'd rather not put anything down than mess it up.

They say normal drying is over 75 degrees and 35 percent humidity. I don't think the humidity has ever gotten that low here...but enough chemical dryers in sealant as long as the sun hits it, dries pretty quickly. One hour to walk on, one day to drive on.

My friend at the River just got back in her house yesterday, and my friends in Wilmington just got back in their homes.
This storm will be remembered, but for me, I think all of us locally dodged the big one. I'd rather spend three days cleaning up leaves, sticks and mess than deal with tarps on a roof.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #82,327  
Roy any new gun purchases on the horizon I’m looking at a 357 uberti 1873 should make a nice addition to my collection hopefully between now and Christmas
I had to look this one up...nice looking piece.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #82,328  
68 now and not really going up any, got the windows open. We missed all the rain yesterday and last night but looks like some coming later.

My old Borrego doesn’t have adaptive cruise control, the SRX and MKX I am looking at do but I’m having trouble pulling the trigger when mine is still so nice and the dollars are still in the bank.


Good day folks, God bless.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #82,330  
Need to pour second cup of coffee. 39° with a bright moon this morning. Heading to 66° with partly cloudy skies. Did not get lawn cut yesterday. On today's list.

Wife wanted to set island cabinets in place yesterday. Interesting project with 2 old people moving table and chairs. Then setting cabinets in place. We got it done. Son came over in evening and helped me cut Butcher countertop to correct length. Not as easy as I thought it would be with a 7 1/4" circular saw. After first cut on the 1 1/2" butcherblock. Blade overheated and started to go offline. Son had thought it might overheat blade. Even though we purchased a Diablo blade designed to do this project.Started another cut. Only 1/2" deep each cut until got to full cut. Came out good. Carried countertop into house to see how it will fit cabinets and other cabinets in kitchen. Put it back into shop. Today I will router all the edges and sand it getting ready to put first coat of sealer on. Found one problem. We now have 9 chairs for kitchen and dining area. What to do with them all in a 1800 sq ft house.

RNG, I see similar wandering location when using Find iPhone APP. Sometimes I find my wife in center of lake about 1/4 mile south of our place. :eek:

Mostly, we got all our iPhones unlocked from ATT. Then found out that the iPhone 7 plus we had gotten from ATT could not work on Verizon/Xfinity. Traded it in on a 8 plus.

Buckeye, no updates to my TBN APP. Still working OK. I checked back to 9/13.

Prayers for all those in need.

Good Morning All.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #82,331  
Toppop, what motor did that 442 have in it?
Sure was the last gasp for the brand. My memory is that was the pits of emission control detuning.
A 350? I'm guessing no more than 300hp.

A looker, not a performer. The styling was great for the period.
I would have said that was pretty snazzy.
How's that for dating oneself...

But no one races this stuff, you drive
around and have fun making nice noises.
I'd love to have something with a stick shift, big V8 and nice mufflers.
Brings out the inner kid in you.
A dying art in a world headed for rheostats attached to electric motors.

time to stop lollygagging and get a move on.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #82,332  
Wngsprd a lot of cowboy competition shooters use these guns very dependable and high usage does not affect them. There is an importer in Virginia by the way
 
   / Good morning!!!! #82,333  
Both the GTO and the 442 were favorites of mine in looks and sounds
 
   / Good morning!!!! #82,334  
67 now

Almost stepped on this little guy while hiking at the battlefield park...well camouflaged.

Good morning! 59˚ :eek: heading to 79˚. First snake encounter yesterday in the yard. The snake was a rat snake just a bit larger than Wngsprd's. So in Texas we are colder this morning and have bigger snakes.:laughing:

I could paint today, you know the project that has been rained out or put off for two weeks or, since this is the first cold day, check out the neighborhood trail system or even go to the downtown library and take the bike trail along the river to the lake.

Mom's back door needs replacing and I handled that on the phone with a guy I worked with on a remodeling church project. Door is ordered.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #82,335  
A dying art in a world headed for rheostats attached to electric motors.
That comment hits home. I was watching a youtube video yesterday of a HF chainsaw. After a couple of minutes my wife writes a message. What is making that terrible noise? :confused2:
 
   / Good morning!!!! #82,336  
I took a couple of short videos of 2 miles of the road I live on. Second try since posting Whippers snake bark from a few years ago. I need to get a Gopro like RNG has. Much better quality than my Cobra dash cam.
First video is of the section that my house is located on. Pole on left is warning siren at manufactured housing complex. My place is on right at bottom of first hill. It was garbage pickup day .
Second video is of the road I need to travel to get to downtown of our little town. At end of video is the main north/south road that is traveled into downtown. Right turn then 4 miles in to town. Local Vegetable Market is at end of video.
East end of road.
West end of road.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #82,337  
Mostly, we got all our iPhones unlocked from ATT. Then found out that the iPhone 7 plus we had gotten from ATT could not work on Verizon/Xfinity. Traded it in on a 8 plus.

Buckeye, no updates to my TBN APP. Still working OK. I checked back to 9/13.

.
AT&T is changing from HSPA to LTE. So if you had an older phone it might not have supported LTE.

I checked, my TBN did not update recently, yet I'm seeing different behavior. When i go the GM thread, it takes me to the last page, instead of the last page i read. So now i have to manually go back and find where i left off. I didnt change any settings.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #82,338  
Good Morning!!!! 73F @ 5:00AM. Sunny to partly cloudy. High 93F. Winds light and variable.

Good you're still watching where you step, Don. Especially since you mentioned rattlers are more common around your new digs.

Rheostats? Hardly. Those charge/power management systems on the electric cars are part of why they actually cost more than the old oil burners. But yeah, the days of lumpy, rumbling V8s are quickly drawing to a close, and I'll miss that music. A buddy's older brother had a 442 in high school, and maybe once a week he was able to wheedle a ride home in it for all of us. The older brother knew how to use his lead foot, too. Fond memories of a bygone time...

Finally managed to get the Vanagon home yesterday. Rode the little Yamaha dual sport down there, climbed into the van, but didn't get far because 1st and 2nd gear were missing.:eek: Couldn't believe it, as the mechanic had just driven it back from the alignment shop, and I knew he would have noticed. Turns out a new helper had "had trouble finding reverse" when he moved it inside to charge the A/C system, and that caused a problem in the shift linkage. The fix still isn't right, as 1st is there now but difficult to engage.:confused2: Then on the freeway, it lost power at 3900 RPM in 4th, but pulled strong past that RPM in 3rd. Fortunately the problem is repeatable, but there are more teething problems to resolve. The fun part is that on the way home I had two people flash headlights at me and wave, and at the gas station another guy came up to ask if those were four wheel disc brakes. And I really, really like the short turning radius of this thing, especially after so many years of longbed supercab F250 schlepping. The mechanic still has about four or five items left on his punch list, and wants to get them cleared as soon as his parts order comes in, but in the mean time at least I can get a few things sorted out and start prepping for the little decorative paint job that's left. And give the thing a bath; spider webs and dust and dirty fingerprints everywhere!
 
   / Good morning!!!! #82,340  
I need to get a Gopro like RNG has.

I was leery of the whole GoPro thing, Ron, but when I saw the Session model on sale back in July I picked one up to play with. It's a pretty Spartan version of their bigger camera, but it's also very small which makes for easy mounting. The user interface consists of two buttons, and it's not at all intuitive what they do, so I end up reading, and re-reading, the instructions a lot. It does take pretty good video, though I haven't figured out yet how to get YouTube from wrecking the image quality during the upload process. Right off the GoPro, the videos are sharp and smooth, but when I try to view them on YouTube, besides the usual buffering stops, they're all blurry. The GoPro breaks the video into about ten minute segments, and at over a Gb (that's Giga byte!) each, there's no way I could upload them to YouTube, and probably won't even keep them around on the hard disc.

BTW, your dirt roads are smoother than the pavement that dead ends at my place!
 

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