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Installation complete.

I did get the R&R completed on the spoiler. It has been decades since I have done any base/clear coat painting. All went well until I checked my work yesterday evening. I apparently didn’t wait long enough between the base and clear. I had...

My high school ride (‘69 3-on-tree) wasn’t as pretty but that dash brings back memories! My dad had an 8-track installed so I could be ‘cool’ 🤣

Last weekend I started the installation of a new tilt column and steering wheel in the 68’. I finished the install this afternoon.

Part of the scope of work is fixing an issue with our front stoop. Water would run down into the basement when we had a good storm. By doing it now it will be waterproofed up the walls and siding will meet the stoop properly. Well. Looky here...

haha I wont, Maryland allows you to get your learners permit at 15 and 9 months. He has to hold the permit for 9 or 10 additional months, drivers ed safety course with 6 hours of drive time with an instructor and 60 hours of drive time with...

Small updates, our neighborhood got completely repaved and the company that did it was nice enough to damage my solar light at the end of my front parking pad. O well, crap happens and they replaced it with a new one so I'm not complaining. I was...

We’ve got both nests here. Like Drew and Michael B. That’s the one event in my life where I’ll go overboard to be sure they are dead. Something clicks in my head and I get intense. One year, in a ground nest, I poured gasoline down the hole...

BURN IT WITH FIRE!

O boy, wish me luck

Jack upgrades for big rigs and regular trucks. My old HF jacks gave up the ghost. Looked into rebuild kits. Costs more than buying new. Hate to throw away. I will see to rebuild them later . Also got a bigger chain wrench for big rig filters

Yo Yo... CD, always good to see you and the fam. Liam's truck is badazz, it's going to be killer once it is all buttoned up. Thought of you on every "glunkDunck" the steering did on the way back to my lodgings. It's there... you didn't feel...

Eagle landed. Battery dead. New battery fired it up but it is starving for fuel. Fuel system needs a baseline as does other systems. Rolled it off the hauler. Towed into the barn area. Used the skidsteer to final position. She heavy! Its longer...

It was quite the saga tracking one of these down, much different beast than a cruiser. These were work trucks that were typically beat hard and put away wet. The ones that are left are either rusty, going for outrageous money, or both. I lost...

Hope this helps when you do. I hear there new places have some good stuff, but food alone does not cut it. Weathering the storm on your trade for decades and becoming world renowned with no advertising because you stayed true is where it sings...

We got home to much number crunching and analysis of the polls. We analyzed it in a few different ways. Enjoy. Hats off to @thatcabledude and his girlfriend crunching it.

Louis Mueller’s, Taylor Texas. Sign or no sign- its busy. If you know….you know. No billboards announcing it. Oozes old school. Whole place was well smoked in. Including the business card board. Staff was a little soup nazi-ish. Don't touch or...

Glad to have @thatcabledude and his girlfriend swing by the casa. We are doing the Best Texas BBQ trail the next two days. For all those visiting Texas, hope this gives you the real deal places. Not the Dickeys, Spring Creek, Rudy’s which is not...

Loft going in today. Exciting to see the endgame in sight.

Yep. Only way to do it right.

Electricity has been installed, and the doors are going on. New supervisor showed up on the job site. What a stickler...

Continuing to move forward. Building anything in middle Tennessee right now is a chore. Lots of building going on and the labor force is shrinking. Still, I'm patient. Unfortunately, the general contractor outsourced the siding and windows, and...

The structure is now complete, minus the big doors. I had them install the weathervane from my dad's farm in Iowa to make it official.

Aaand they looked just a little bit and found my 12 foot siding. Going on as I type this. Watching them install the insulation/house wrap makes me hungry for burritos

The cement guys showed up today while I was picking up my wife and her family from their river cruise in Chattanooga. The cement pad went in as described above, and I put water on it and covered it about 2 hours after it firmed up Before that...