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I always said that legalizing pot would get/keep California out of debt. The taxes are so high, though, that the illegal growing will never stop. You wouldn't get me smoking it though. I don't smoke anything...except tires, once in awhile.

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There is an unbelievable amount grown in my county, one of three making up the Emerald Triangle. I feel very lucky now to live in town, where it's not a problem. Years ago we looked for property out in the country, but nowadays your neighbors are probably growing, legal or not, and the stench can be deafening.

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I visited my friend up on South Mt in PA. About a month ago he came to find he had a brain tumor. Within two days he was in surgery. It's on an optic nerve and has affected his vision. Can't see out of the left half of either eye. No more driving for him.

They only took 75% and he gets chemo M-F. Quite an ordeal to suddenly find yourself in. A "relentless tumor" type, so even if the chemo knocks it down, it will keep coming back. To take it all would leave him totally blind. They may be able to keep it at bay with him continuing with life (he's 70), or he's got 5 years maximum.

This friend was my go-to for assistance on tiny, tedious, meticulous, intricate, you get the idea. Like a watchmaker. Until this, he was the Model A speedometer rebuild/restore guy, with speedometers sent from all over the country and beyond. No more. He's selling his machinery off.

He has been restoring a '29 Model A closed cab pickup. He's got the chassis and drivetrain all shiny done and running like a clock. He's going out and working on it when he has time and feels well enough. He was doing well yesterday and I gave him a hand. I also helped with grass trimming since he has to stay out of the son.

He's a great guy I've known about 40 years. It was a great day. I need to be getting back more often now

When I lived in Humboldt Co it was illegal ('70s), but the county commissioners turned a blind eye to the pot growing. Fishing and logging industries were both hurting and pot was bringing money into the county from the rest of the state, then the rest of the country. There were unemployed loggers growing it, not just transplant hippies. Money coming in and being spent local.

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Put my truck work on hold last Saturday so the wife and I could take a hiking/fishing trip. Fishing was just OK but overall it was a great day. Hot and humid here, but it is summer in the south.

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I definitely don't want to do anything illegal. (Okay I do break the speed limit from time to time :o ). But if it's a legal business. Why not? I don't smoke pot. Wont go near it. But if I can make money legally growing it. WTH. To me it's just a crop and my stocks haven't been doing too well lately and that's what I live on. I need to supplement my income.

My father had a greenhouse. He grew Orchids in it. One day I went in and there was pot growing in it. My father never smoked pot a day in his life.
I asked him why he had pot growing in his greenhouse.
He said his friend paid him to use the greenhouse. He didn't pay much attention to it. He just watered the plants when he watered the orchids.

I was just so shocked. My old man was the last person on earth that you would think would be growing weed. But he grew up dirt poor in the depression. He saved everything and never turned down money. He died a millionaire but you would have never known it. My mother too. She wouldn't turn on the air conditioning and sit in the heat because it would run up the electric bill. :rolleyes:

I miss my old man. He's been gone a long time now. He would have been 103 years old last May. He only made it to 68. My mom made it to 91 but she was 11 years younger than him. She died last July and my brother died in September. They're dropping like flies around here. Sad. :( I miss them all. Especially my brother. I was always the f*ck up. The black sheep, the bad seed. He was a renowned doctor. He could always talk me down from the edge when things went south for me. Which happened from time to time.
We couldn't have been more opposite. But we could talk for hours. We were on the same page. Just different. I miss him terribly.

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Sorry you’ve lost so many close family members (especially your brother)- has to be tough. Prayers for you Paul

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Thank you.

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Paul -- words fail me. I am so sorry for your losses. :(

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Sorry for your loss Paul .. were on here to help you through the tough times with anything we can do as you being a friend

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Paul
I look back at the people I had been around when I was Younger.

I paid more attention to them Than I did in School:lol:

I treasure their memories and that is what pushes me Forward.

I am just a little slow at going Forward:lol::lol::lol:

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I pulled my fishin boat up close to the shop to get it ready to maybe use this summer. It's not been used in over 7 yrs. It's been sitting out uncovered forever. The new tires I put on 5 yrs ago were both flat. The lights weren't working. And the inside was filthy. I spent most of the day scrubbing on it. I quit around 3 when the temp reached 100. And tomorrow I get to do the same with the outboard motors. I may be too tired to use it once I get it all ready to use again. :lol:

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Never had a boat, but I remember being able to do that kind of work all day long, and get up and go the next day...

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Paul, that is a great tribute to your brother what you said above. Thanks for reminding me to value mine, even though they frustrate me terribly sometimes. I hope that at some point your memories will outweigh your feeling of loss.

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My neighbor has a jon boat with a motor on a trailer. When the weather gets warm I might see him out messing with it or the trailer, last year and this year. I have yet to see him take it out to the reservoir. Same with his snow plow. He picked one up, mounted it, and works on it. The past two winters when they are calling for a snow he'll get on it. It snows and there sets the plow on the ground. I have to hand it to him for all his effort. He's a working man with 4 young ones. He told me now it needs a pump.
Going at it all day long is one thing. Doing it outside in 100% heat with humidity is a whole 'nother thing. I can't take much of just sitting in 100* heat.

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I had to relocate today. No fire this time. Just Edison shutting the power off again. I'm getting sick of these outages. About every 2 weeks there's another one. I've lost count as to how many. And they are all day long. Finish the dang job already!

I'm lucky that I've got another place. I feel for my neighbors that don't. It's a hot day and no air conditioning. Especially for the older folks.

And the business's that have to close. They are losing money and times are tough enough for them already.

I just realized that today is July 7th. My 40th wedding anniversary. Or it would have been. At least I don't have to buy her a present. Saved myself a couple of bucks there. :lol:

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Paul ,, If you want to get away from power shortages , ,MOVE here to idaho. we have several dams on the Snake River to make lots of Killowatts . besides I could give ya lots of ideas about what to do with your classic collection,, AFTER we go camping that is ,, :),,,,,,,,,,,,,Happy anniversary to ya too

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Snake River? Didn't Evel Knievel run into a little trouble there? :lol:

As far as camping. I have a 37 foot motorhome with two air conditioners, satellite TV, and a big comfy couch. That's about as close as I get to "roughing it'. I'm not too outdoorsy. I don't even do yard work anymore. I spent too many years working in the heat and rain. I'll just stay comfortably inside now. Let the young guys do that now.

I would like to see Idaho. I'd like to go all over the country. But my wife is still working. It's hard for her to get away. I could just go by myself. But she might get upset. Or maybe not. She just might pack my bags for me and tell me not to let the door hit me in the azz on the way out. :lol: It's happened before.

My anniversary...Yeah. (sigh) What can I say? I married a lunatic. Then turned around and married a worse one. Not to mention the psychotic girlfriends. I just seem to gravitate to crazy. I don't recommend it.

But I must say that I have had an interesting life. Not always good, but interesting. :)

In retrospect. Thinking about it in my later years. I wouldn't have done anything any different.

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That's called living it to the fullest in my book. Gotta just roll with it.

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It could also be called stupidity. :lol: I've got that one covered.

One thing that sticks with me is when my brother died I was talking with his girlfriend and she said that he had said that he wished that he could have been more like me. He was a very structured disciplined person. I am not and never have been. We were total opposites. But we were brothers and got along very well. The funny thing is that I wished that I could have been more like him. We both were thinking the same thing. We both looked at each other and thought "I'd like to be like that'.

It blew me away when she said that. I would have never guessed.

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My brother and I are very different people, yet a definite course runs through us that bonds us. I was 15 when he was born, so we weren't kids together and didn't exactly grow up together. I had all sisters and always wanted a brother. Finally got one, but a bit late.

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It's funny how opposite brothers can be. You all grew up the same, went to the same schools, lived in the same house but in the end you are totally different.

I knew two guys. They were identical twins. They looked exactly alike but you couldn't find two people that were more different. They were nothing like each other. I could tell right off who was who. They looked the same but they weren't. Not even close.

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I knew two girls who were identical twins and I couldn't tell one from the other in how they acted.

For us it was growing up different in a different time I think. I grew up in the country in the '50s & '60s, moved in '70 to literally a new town with new concepts (Columbia, MD) for my HS years. He was born in Columbia 1970, moved to the mountains for his HS years in the '80s. He stayed up that way and I'm still down here.

I'm building a pantry in a gal's cellar stairway. It was her idea to store canned goods on the ceiling. It was my job to make it happen.

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Busted my ass on the Yamaha got it 90% back together . This was the down and dirty fix cost all of $30 if I were to have done it by the book the motor would have had to come out and the cases split and new trans output shaft installed. Would have been 300 to $400 in parts .

I put the universal in the chest freezer overnight and warmed up the yokes before installation . Made it super easy to install

I got the rear tire installed let me tell you it ain’t easy lifting it up and getting the driveshaft to line up all by yourself. It’s all one unit going in differential rim tire driveshaft . I got it in and had to take it out again as I couldn’t get the brake caliper in .

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As long as she doesn't overload it, that ceiling pantry is a great idea. I'm assuming the door to her cellar is off the kitchen or close by. Hey, it even means you get a couple stairs worth of exercise when you go to get your canned goods. Bonus!

And nice work on the Yamaha. That does look like a wrestling match. But what a great feeling of doing it for 10% of the parts cost and no expenditure on labor other than your own effort.

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Double post. Just trying to be like S-K.

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You paid in sweat equity today, I bet. It sure felt hot down here today.
I designed/engineered it to be able to hold the 8 cans across that will fit. All the trim, not just the shelves, is screwed on. Her water is heated by the oil furnace, so the stone cellar is anything but damp. I don't expect the wood to bow.

here it is 100% done now. The linoleum is a remnant from when her grandmother lived there. That was the kitchen floor and it was on the shelf at the bottom of the stairs. I had to remove it, so I made a wall panel with it to see it better. She was happy with that

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Nice, clean work on the stairway shelves.

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You do good work Tim. I wish you were around here. Forget about all that BS about taxes and all that other stuff. :lol:

It's all sunshine and rainbows around here. And I have a bridge that I can sell you...Cheap. :D

I didn't do anything today. It was 105 degrees. Screw that. Well I guess I did do something. I ran up my electric bill cranking up the air conditioning. And I paid a kid to wash my Porsche. :lol:

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Thanks for the compliments. She's very happy with it. Let me tell you, I enjoyed doing it, but was good and ready to get out of there. Just an awkward place to work. Need the plank, plank in the way, remove plank to get behind the door, plank too high so had to sit on it, Plank too low so need 2' step ladder, move ladder out of my way to get through door...

There was no light in that staircase, but the basement ceiling light switch was right there. I offered to give a light over the door, only 3 - 4' from switch and I was paneling over the plaster anyway. Turns out, the way the wiring was done, I had to pull power from down across the cellar ceiling from off of the other light

this staircase is fairly close to the kitchen. The kitchen is in the added on part of this mid-1800s farm house. It's all one room with the den/sitting room/family room. The stairway door is behind this other shelving project I did for here a while back. The beam is in place of a wall that was removed in the '70s. The shelf area was just paneled over.
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That's exactly how I look at CA, especially since I'm not living there. Living there was a dream I grew up with and that influenced my life. Just the land, the sea, the sky, and yes, EVEN the people (some, right?) are all I look at and it's a great place. I have to shut out what I don't like to enjoy life in general. Judging a place only by what you hear in the news or politics is like judging a state by what you see from the interstate. Take a backroad if you want to know that place for real. I have people say all the time, "I didn't know Maryland had mountains". I think we have everything but tundra and desert on this postage stamp state. They call it America In Miniature. Few people who live here know the whole state very well. Back here people think the whole state of CA is landslides, wildfires, and earthquakes

I've always been a cool old car and truck nut, since a kid. That and surfing had California luring me. All the old stuff running around in the '70s was sensory overload. I always wanted to go back to stay but would find a woman that kept me here.

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I've travelled the back roads. I must be doing something wrong. I always end up in a bad neighborhood with guys that look like they just got out of prison giving me the stinkeye. :lol: :exit:

I stay in California as well because of a woman. I was inches away from leaving but she didn't want to. She asked me to look for an alterative. And I found it. :) Central California. Light years away from Los Angeles. Small towns, hay fields, and cattle.

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Only thing left to do is change the oil and filter which is a pain on these as the front head pipe on the exhaust needs to be removed to get at the filter. But it’s already off so I’ll change it out even though it’s not time . You change the filter every other oil change . I started to detail it too since it was apart finish that tomorrow also

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rest of my kids tires showed up today.
we mounted them up and threw them on the 'bird
old and busted...new hotness
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You probably wouldn't buy another one of those bikes now would you? ;)

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Actually have two . A 99 650 and this 1100 this is the first thing to go wrong on it in 57k miles . The oil thing can be remedied with an aftermarket remote filter .

$5000 new and it’s holding up better than the 23k Road Glide I have . I would not buy another Harley well maybe a pan head

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Hey! Don't you be knocking on my Harleys!! Oh. sorry, I see you were referring to the more recent offerings. No thanks, it's go old or it's no go for me. For me, it's Evo or earlier. Yes, I consider the Evos old and they were as modern as a Harley ever needed to get. The beauty in the Harley was how they had survived so long with so little change in style or even general design. Like Jeeps and Vettes did... until more recently. All three came out as favorites for passing up on the fickle changes everything else went through. My dream is to rebuild a 66-69 (would consider '70-'72) Electra-Glide for touring this country's 2-lanes. I'd feel more secure with one of those than anything newer. Or build one off that frame design with an Evo/5spd/belt

Anyway, glad you got the bike done. Turned a nightmare into just a PIA

The Firebird has it's look now! I bet he's happy.

I got the shed roof cut back for the 32 1/2" barn move........whenever that happens. Poking at it here and there some and also nothing :lol:

If I showed these somewhere already, sorry for a repeat

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I went to pick up the oil filter today . Yamaha -Kawasaki dealer they had nothing but ATVs and a couple of sport bikes . Friend is a salesman there we talked he’s going to try and find a 1300 Yamaha bagger they stopped making them in 2017 said he’d if he finds one he can give cash back on trade with my Road Glide . This is the bike she wants. She tried the Kawasaki Voyager but didn’t like it said it was a tad to big .

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That's good progress on your barn move. How is it going with fixing your friend's structure that got bashed by a tree?

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With the calendar on December with a 1970 442 picture, the Metallica banner, and the Firebird, I would not feel like a fish out of water in your garage. You have hit many of the high points of my existence :lol:

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i buy my calendars for the pictures mostly....:lol:

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Ready for the next 50k miles . Need to buy some new bags the old one are tearing on the bottoms .