How is everyone doing? (9 Viewers)

[riderjgs]

Best response I’ve seen to grumpiness about stay at home orders etc:

“We’re staying apart for awhile so that when we can all be together again nobody’s missing.”

 

[scrapdaddy]

Here's a sign my loving wife hung in the mud room...

"I'm so miserable without you, it's like having you here"

 

[Hank Tank]

Looks like Roosevelt or Saguaro.

Lake Patagonia in Southern AZ. Spring hasn’t sprung yet down there but it’s going to start leafing out there soon.

 

[Hank Tank]

Fun birding area if you guys are into that kinda stuff.

 

[RUSH55]

This deal has turned everything weird. The industry I’m in (cement production) is still considered essential to infrastructure, so it’s still been busy and unchanged. My wife is on the front lines as a PCT at our local hospital which is currently dealing with half a dozen Covid patients and little else. She’s having to finish out her nursing school semester online. The kids are out of school until further notice. They think they should be able to stay up until 4am every night playing video games. We’ve had to put the kabosh on that crap and make them go to bed at a decent hour and get them up at a respectable time so that they can get their menial online school work done.
A couple days ago was thinking back to mid January. Willing to wager that this virus went through our house around that time. Both kids had a fever and cough with little else and both were out of school for a couple days, which is notable since they hardly EVER get sick. But they got over it, and myself and the wife got over what we caught (which didn’t keep either one of us from working) and kept rolling.
If you look at the timeline and the symptoms it’s not hard to put two and two together. This stuff has been going around quite a while longer than they want to let on. Harder on elderly with underlying health issues. Like pretty much anything else, only this one seems to be extremely contagious. The way the media covers it, you think it would be the frickin’ zombie apocalypse. Take precautions, but the world shouldn’t be falling to pieces over it.

 

[J Mack]

 

[PabloCruise]

Only worries we have here is my Dad being locked down at the vet's. home for 3 weeks now. I haven't seen and can't talk to him over the phone (can't hear good). His birthday is coming up in May, he'll be 99 and we can't go in. The home had a resident come down with the virus, but so far no more cases. I wish this was just hype, wouldn't have to worry about seeing him again.

Dang, I hope you get to see him for his Birthday. Sorry Scraps...

 

[PabloCruise]

Showed the boy how to do spring maintenance on the push mower this morning, it’s a 20 year old Craftsman but getting a soft deck so it’s days are numbered, it’s already time to cut the lawn here!

I got the boy out in the yard to clean up a little. Last year I actually winterized the mower, and then it wouldn't start in the spring. WTF?!? Crud in the carb jet. I never really got to winterizing last fall. Yesterday I poured some old gas from the fall in the mower - fired right up! There's your sign...

The boy is doing okay, as long as he get his full allotment of time on Fortnite. Wife is getting a little stir crazy.

 

[bobm]

Mine saw all the and melted

 

[Hank Tank]

This deal has turned everything weird. The industry I’m in (cement production) is still considered essential to infrastructure, so it’s still been busy and unchanged. My wife is on the front lines as a PCT at our local hospital which is currently dealing with half a dozen Covid patients and little else. She’s having to finish out her nursing school semester online. The kids are out of school until further notice. They think they should be able to stay up until 4am every night playing video games. We’ve had to put the kabosh on that crap and make them go to bed at a decent hour and get them up at a respectable time so that they can get their menial online school work done.
A couple days ago was thinking back to mid January. Willing to wager that this virus went through our house around that time. Both kids had a fever and cough with little else and both were out of school for a couple days, which is notable since they hardly EVER get sick. But they got over it, and myself and the wife got over what we caught (which didn’t keep either one of us from working) and kept rolling.
If you look at the timeline and the symptoms it’s not hard to put two and two together. This stuff has been going around quite a while longer than they want to let on. Harder on elderly with underlying health issues. Like pretty much anything else, only this one seems to be extremely contagious. The way the media covers it, you think it would be the frickin’ zombie apocalypse. Take precautions, but the world shouldn’t be falling to pieces over it.

That’s funny because the same thing happened to our son in January. Fever and really bad croup-y cough that lingered for weeks even though he was running around playing. My wife shares your theory. I’m hoping you’re both right because my my 83 yr old mom got it too and got over it as well. Here’s to hoping for antibodies.

 

[Ol Yeller]

The boy is doing okay, as long as he get his full allotment of time on Fortnite. Wife is getting a little stir crazy.

Similar, son & daughter look at us like we are aliens when we remind them there is more to life...I too feel bad for my wife, she has been shopping for us, both parents and our elderly neighbors - then she gets to put up with all of us home 24/7, tough change from having the house to herself most days.

 

[sahelzer]

Work in defense manufacturing so considered essential and our plant remains open and 120 employees still getting paid.
Social distancing at work and going stir crazy at home. Watching mad wood working skills of Vietnamese guy making miniature wooden Landcrusier.

 

[RUSH55]

That’s funny because the same thing happened to our son in January. Fever and really bad croup-y cough that lingered for weeks even though he was running around playing. My wife shares your theory. I’m hoping you’re both right because my my 83 yr old mom got it too and got over it as well. Here’s to hoping for antibodies.

It’s funny how I’m finding out just now that everyone and their aunt Sally is a world traveler. “So-n-so just got back from Greece. Joe Sh*t was in Beijing last month. Fred’s aunt Sally just got back from Australia!”
Apparently, Wuhan Province is some kind of world-wide hub of action and thousands/millions of people are between there and pretty much everywhere else in the world all the time. Since it was only really “discovered” in late November/ early December, it could have easily been getting spread around the globe well before that, unnoticed and undetected.

 

[mmcinnis]

Well, got stir crazy and drove the 4 plus hrs. Over to Deos. Picked up a few Corona-19 items. Dreaming of my 55s still in

n Colorado. Kinda isolated in the Destin, Fl. Area. Think we are up to 20 cases in our county. Just hanging with the family. Its actually been a great thing. Finishing up home and dock projects. Worked on the fj25 some. Hope all stay safe and enjoy your family, they are the most important peeps we have.
Mike

 

[archie73]

Only worries we have here is my Dad being locked down at the vet's. home for 3 weeks now. I haven't seen and can't talk to him over the phone (can't hear good). His birthday is coming up in May, he'll be 99 and we can't go in. The home had a resident come down with the virus, but so far no more cases. I wish this was just hype, wouldn't have to worry about seeing him again.

My dads in lock down too. Fortunately or not, he's not aware of hi surroundings , so he's generally happy these days. Stinks my brother lives five minutes down the road and can't get to see him, but that's the way it is today I guess.

I got the boy out in the yard to clean up a little. Last year I actually winterized the mower, and then it wouldn't start in the spring. WTF?!? Crud in the carb jet. I never really got to winterizing last fall. Yesterday I poured some old gas from the fall in the mower - fired right up! There's your sign...

Bought a electric mower last year to fix this problem- after the wife said it stopped working, no oil in the engine... No more worries on that front.

The boy is doing okay, as long as he get his full allotment of time on Fortnite. Wife is getting a little stir crazy.

Trying to keep ours busy is turning out to be the most challenging part of this thing. He's a social animal and misses his friends. I'm the opposite, social isolation is not my chosen path, but it doesn't bother me either. Backcountry skiing is been a good outlet, but it's getting thin. Not the snow though, it keeps coming.
Wife's not working this time of year anyway, thankfully. I'm down to one or two days a week, so I'm getting lots of time in the garage.

 

[scrapdaddy]

Fortunately or not, he's not aware of hi surroundings

Neither is my Pops, I'm afraid he won't recognize me when the lock down is over.

 

[Ol Yeller]

Neither is my Pops, I'm afraid he won't recognize me when the lock down is over.

Tough go for everyone in your position. Your certainly not alone.

 

[Lifelong40Fan]

Life hasn't changed too much for us. We're pretty much homebodies. I'm a college prof, so I've been having to teach my classes and lab online. The students are learning, but it's a lot slower having to lecture on a much smaller whiteboard and share my computer screen for them to see the calculations we're doing.

On the positive side, I've been at home a lot more and been able to play a bunch of baseball with the kids and work on the 55. I've just about got the new floors in. I'm going to pay my boys to do all the grinding. I need to take a few pics and update my build, but I'm thinking my next work will be fixing the sunroof hole. I was up early this morning thinking about making a plywood mold of the contours and trying to shape the metal to that mold. I'd probably find that the metal would simply bend the contoured plywood back to being flat though. I don't know. Any ideas???? I guess I could support a mold by screwing it into some 2x4s???? Just thinking out loud. I'll try and get a few pics and post them on my build page.

Cheers everyone and stay safe!

 

[J Mack]

I need to take a few pics and update my build, but I'm thinking my next work will be fixing the sunroof hole. I was up early this morning thinking about making a plywood mold of the contours and trying to shape the metal to that mold. I'd probably find that the metal would simply bend the contoured plywood back to being flat though. I don't know. Any ideas???? I guess I could support a mold by screwing it into some 2x4s???? Just thinking out loud. I'll try and get a few pics and post them on my build page.

Go checkout pro shaper website and poke around some of his videos to get a better understanding of what it takes to put a permanent shape in steel like you’re talking about. Pro Shaper Sheet Metal LLC Sheet Metal Fabricator, Metal Shaping Coachbuilding Classes & Metal Shaping Tools

The Cliffs are you’ll need to stretch and or shrink to get that shape without wrinkles.

It would be much easier and faster to make a cardboard template and take a cordless grinder with a cutoff wheel out to your local junk yard and cut a section of roof from a car or van that has the correct contour.

 

[fj55-100]

Well , landlord kicked out my business in january ,said his building insurance would no longer cover auto repair . so i called in a favor and found a building in the good part of town that he would rent to me ,for the next 10 years , buy then i should be gone . we started moving equipment in march ,and got open on the first of april ,it is no small undertaking to move a functioning auto repair shop .I had always been told god protects dam fools and idiots like me . so due to the virus i have lost little business , and as a essential business . i am allowed to remain open here . Family is all well just stuck home . we live way out of town and were already isolated by choice . I hope to actually use down time to catch up on 55 stuff that i have neglected . now that the bizz is moved and open .