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I've tossed it at women before and it worked. :lol:

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I sprayed a black guidecoat on the Camaro. Pulled it out and took a few pictures. This is going to be a straight car. I can't wait to get it out on the open road.

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Looking good.

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I was off for President's Day yesterday and it was nice out so I did the stripes on my Equinox tailgate.

https://i.ibb.co/GnWGvft/equinoxstripes.jpg

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The only thing that I can find wrong with that Camaro is that it isn't in my driveway. That's a really neat car.

What did I do today? I called the electric company and was on hold or listening to robots for an hour and a half. Hey the fun never stops around here folks.

Finally I pressed the button for an emergency. (I lied :o ) I didn't have an emergency but it was the only way to get anyone to answer the damn phone.

I got these nitwits on the phone telling me to stay away from downed power lines. Listen sweetheart I worked there longer than you've been alive. I know a thing or two about power lines. Spare me. My power is fine. I just want to move my employee discount to my new house and the website that they keep trying to send me to won't do it and this is the only way to get past the stupid automated BS phone system.

So after 90 minutes I "think' that I got it done. The person that I talked to didn't seem too bright. Maybe they were dropped on their head as a child. I expected a fiasco and was not disappointed.

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Well like I always say, lowered expectations reduce the degree of disappointment. ;)

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Just shy of 1/2 gallon of syrup today .

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First run about a week ago on the right . As the season goes the syrup will get darker by mid March it will be almost too dark . In the industry that syrup would be used for flavoring

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I took a bunch of pictures of my Corvair for a guy that says he's interested. Not getting my hopes up though. So many looky lous these days hoping to buy something cheap from a clueless seller so they can flip it.

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So many flippers. The way to cut back on them is put the price up there. A fair price draws them in like flies on shi... sh kabob.

I love maple syrup. But I hardly use it. It takes me a long time to go through it. I have some applewurst links I'm fixing for breakfast. I'll make up some buckwheat cakes to put under some syrup.

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I really would not care how dark it was. It has to be good. How does it taste compared to Cracker BBL syrup?

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I think it’s much better . But pure maple syrup will be about the same only differences would be from local soil minerals. But most maple syrup is from the same type of northern soil

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Is Cracker Barrel's syrup actually pure maple syrup? If it is that's great. A lot of syrup claims to be pure, but it isn't.

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I don't know if it is or not. I can make a better pancake than they can, but I can't match the syrup with anything bought locally. I can go up the road to the restaurant and fork out a bunch and buy it , though.

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I ask because the standards for labeling are kinda funny. It can say "Pure Maple Syrup" but doesn't have to be 100% pure unless they say it is. It's been so long that I've eaten breakfast at Cracker Barrel I don't remember their syrup. I did make my applewurst and buckwheat cake breakfast this morning. I have syrup my friend made on his place

I raked out all the flower beds and cut plants back. Springtime duties, ready for mulch now. Only problem is this isn't spring! We are still over two months away from our frost-free date, May 15th. But I'm ready!

I also worked on making carpenter bee traps. Last year was the first time I got mine put up ahead of them getting active and I caught about 100. I started last summer making traps to sell or give to friends. I pulled those out and got more made up

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I hate snow

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Yeah the first day it falls is nice but after that. Not so much.

Today I waited for a bed that my wife ordered so I could sign for it. So far 3:45 PST it hasn't shown up.

I was bored so I decided to trash the plumbing company that has seemed to have forgotten me and left a big hole and a mess in my front yard.
Funny how a bad review on the internet wakes them up. The hole is being filled as we speak. They suddenly showed up. The owner even left me a message. Probably to get me to retract my comments. I guess that the squeaky wheel really does get the oil.

I also had the tree guy show up. I have a massive stump next to my pool.(ugly) Who plants an oak tree right next to a pool? :crazy: It'll be gone tomorrow weather permitting.

And I had another piece of fence fall down around the pool. I was going to tear it down but it seems to be doing it all by itself. Hey... Less work for me. :)

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Today I shoveled snow from my driveway, after clearing it off my wife's Tacoma. First time this year, don't recall whether I did it last year. 14" which is the most we've had in years.

Paul -- that sure was an odd place to plant an oak tree! :lol:

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Yeah it sure is odd isn't it. But the more that I get into this place the more I scratch my head. :confused:

14" is quite a bit for around here. I'm not sure what we got, too much for me. I'm ready for spring. At least the lake is looking good again. It'll be nice in the summer. :)

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Had a young roofing company rep come by to tell me my roof needed replacing. Huh, how could you tell? :lol: So he convinced me it was storm damage and I should start an insurance claim. This roof is over 25 years old people and brittle as can be so I don't imagine my insurance will cover it's replacement. So this young insurance rep said to let him know when the adjuster planned to be here so he could be also. Well the next day, while I was in the middle of reskinning the shop, the adjuster showed up earlier than planned and the sales rep missed him. The adjuster being an older man is skilled in ways of getting around sales reps. ;) He came and went in 15 minutes or so, then 1/2 hour later the youngun showed up with his trainer, also a young guy. Man, were they pissed the adjuster had done them that way. They were all set to sell the adjuster on a complete replacement and didn't even get the chance.
Being in the senior citizen group I've seen and learned a lot over my years and just grinned and chuckled watching the young guys all puffed up about themselves and their sales pitch, then the older veteran insurance adjuster giving them a bit of schooling and winking to me without comment. I knew why he came early. Wiley old veterans, gotta love em. Don't mess with old guys.

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Ambulance chaser sales technique. I would never trust the guy who knocks on my door and tells me I need a new roof. How can he see hail damage from off your property? I see it as trespassing since he doesn't actually know if there is hail damage. He is going by your area seeing some hail damage recently. My friend, who is a contractor, lives in a neighborhood where every house around him got new roofs due to hail damage. His company wouldn't give him a new roof even after seeing all the neighbors got one. If that guy has to go door to door to find work, is he the guy you want replacing your roof? Even if the adjuster gave the ok for a roof replacement, I'd be calling someone who gets work through having a good enough reputation that people seek them out, not the opposite.

The thing you need to watch with homeowner's insurance these days is they have adopted the same model auto insurance companies use. Three strikes and you are out. They will cancel you for making too many claims. And they count an inquiry as a claim.

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I agree with you Tim.. I am at needing a new roof myself ,,but I can tell that I should get one and not put it off until it leaks and then do it ,,My roof is 22 years old and the heat here in the summer is what ages mine the most as the asphalt shingles have shiny tar showing up in all the tab edges ,,Sure I might get another few years ,, but to have a leak over vaulted ceilings is enough for me to decide better safe than sorry ,, I estimate it will around 12k in my neck of the woods to replace it.

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We had hail damage that got about 5,000 house back in '95. I was recruited by a salesman who could tell by my truck I was a siding contractor. A agreed to do some house for that company. Then I started getting calls from references. I suddenly had more work than I could wish for. and this was after I got beat out of big bucks by a builder declaring bankruptcy, so I was leery about taking on another builder. This salesman was a friend of the owner of a home improvement company and he came down from MI to help sell these insurance jobs. We had a lot of contactors flock in from other areas. Salesmen were knocking on doors telling homeowners their aluminum siding needed replaced just because the hail buffed spots in the oxidized paint. All this led to the state insurance commissioner changing the guidelines for damaged siding replacement. The new rule was only replace the affected wall and only if more than two walls were affected would you get the whole house re-sided. Pretty screwed up when you had aluminum siding and the replacement siding was vinyl.

I didn't have to knock on any doors to get work. I'd be in a neighborhood with (sub) contractors replacing siding up and down the street. People would see the job I was doing, how we kept the job cleaned up, how well we worked together, no loud music, cigarette butts, good looking trucks, good equipment, Offered upgrades, and we gotter done. I had homeowners walking past the other crews to ask me for a quote. Once we were in the neighborhood we got all the work. That's the only way I know how to sell a job.

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I've been up on the roof numerous times so I knew 5 years ago it was time to consider replacing it. I had it replaced sometime after we bought the home 30 years ago.
He asked so I allowed him to go up and take some pictures. Since it has a few tabs broken off and layed over it is easy to see from the street which is why he stopped by. We had a hard thunderstorm blow through last week. Lot of wind. I was in the shop at the time and stopped what I was doing due to the noise and watched it blow through. I told him due to the age of the roof there likely will be no help from the insurance. Eh, if nothing else, this is a learning experience for the young man. ;)

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Just a little over 4 gallons of syrup put up . Still have a week or two for the sap run . Once the buds pop you have to pull the taps . Sap gets a bad taste after the buds pop . The color is getting darker too the jar on the right is from the first run in Feb

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I ordered new flooring for the entire house today. Or should I say that my contractor did. I was busy lying in the corner in the fetal position, crying, and asking myself why did I buy such a big house. :dohh:
They aint givin that stuff away and it was a big order. :waah:

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It hurts but at least you're going through with it. I'm running into people backing out on jobs I had lined up due to fear of spending the money. So, the chain reaction begins. I can't spend money if I can't make money. Even though I work on my own house, I am stalled for lack of material funds. And we are having great weather for gittin' a jump on spring! I found a house I want so bad but can't get my place ready to sell. Spring is in the air and my phone isn't ringing.

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That's so different than here. I can't get anyone to answer the phone. I'm getting stood up more than an ugly girl with a canker sore. It's costing money to fix this place up but I knew that going in and I have a slush fund from the place I sold. I'm basically rolling the money over from the last house to this one. It's a lot more house for the same money and that was the plan. I just like to complain about spending money on practical things. I'd rather buy toys. :lol:

I believe (hope) that I have some good contractors now. They're going to start tearing the place up today. The bad weather has slowed things down. The canyon had a rockslide and that road is closed and it's the main way to get here from Bakersfield. 2 gas stations were out of gas the other day and the shelves in the store are getting thin so it's not just me. So please I'm cut off here. Send food and water....No. Scratch that... Send women and beer. :lol:

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I'm sure things are the same here as out there, but not the same for me. I'm do a small volume of work and that doesn't get the word out very well. And I live in a rural area where I get little exposure. I get work through references only. But I am seeing that people are getting leery on spending. Maybe it's just these particular people in my small pool of potential customers. Mainly I'm hitting a lull due to the next job dropping out (he's retired), another decided to hold off due to other expenses coming up (not that he doesn't have the money), and another that involved ordering in materials that will take a few weeks. I'm about done my present job and only have one other petty job for that few weeks gap. I just told the guy who wants to hold off that I'd like to go ahead with his project to keep moving so I'm available when more work comes in. He can pay up later this month. He's a little funny about spending. He actually has a sort of deadline because he started this project w/o a permit. It's a shed that is a bit over the square footage allowed w/o a permit and his neighbor just applied for permits for an addition. There will be inspectors coming around before long. Things can sure get convoluted :lol:

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Yes they can. I kinda sweated a shed that I put up w/o a permit as well as a fence and covered patio. It was all built to code but I didn't get permits. But I never heard from anyone and it never came up when I sold.

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I figure code is the minimum quality, right? I'm saying, building below code deserves the wrath of the gov't. Build to code w/o a permit and you're just shorting your county of free money. Oh, I'm sorry. I meant you're just not paying for the inspector you didn't need anyway. I've been turned in a time or two and the impact was minimal due to the quality.

We had a hail storm that damaged 5,000 house (aluminum siding) in Nov '94. The county smelled money and began requiring a building permit to install siding. Yeah right! What's being built and what are they protecting? I hadn't heard about that trumped up BS, was doing a house, and an inspector came next door to a porch job. He walked over and asked if I had a permit and I laughed and said "You're kidding, right?". I asked what the fine was for no permit and he said $75. I told him sounds good to me. I did a heap more houses, never got a permit. I'd rather give up $75 on each house so I can jump from house to house and keep on making money rather than wait a couple weeks or more to be allowed to start

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[QUOTE=special-K;9183506 I hadn't heard about that trumped up BS, as doing a house, and an inspector came next door to a porch job. He walked over and asked if I had a permit. I laughed and said "You're kidding, right?". I asked what the fine was for no permit and he said $75. I did a heap more houses, never got a permit. I'd rather give up $75 on each job so I can jump from house to house and keep on making money rather than wait a couple weeks or more to be allowed to start, after spending nonproductive time down at the county offices.[/QUOTE]

That's why I didn't get permits. Why should I pay the money grubbing county to send their clown out to tell me if my stuff is up to par or not? My stuff isn't up to par... It's better.

I've still got the oak tree stump next to the pool. It has proved to be a worthy advisary. 3 guys, a tractor, a 4 wheel drive truck with a winch, Jackhammers and saw's all afternoon. It won't budge. They're going to have to grind it. It aint givin up.

I saw the funniest thing today. My buddy Sonny is an electrician. He was checking the pool house panel and was walking out and opened the gate and the entire fence just fell over. He just stood there with the gate in his hands looking like WTF? :lol: It was priceless, I only wish that I had a camera to record it. I must have laughed for 10 minutes.

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Spent a crapload of cash today . First picture is from the internet second is the unit I bought , my cousin who passed away about a month ago bought it last year . His wife called asked if I was interested in it as she has no use for it. My bil is buying the smaller Deere he had also about the same size of my current BX25 .

Guess I won’t be looking for another truck for a while :lol:

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That's a really nice tractor Mark. I was looking at those Kubota's and then saw the prices and ran like a scardy cat. I'll bet that bad boy put a dent in the ole wallet.

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Yes it's big investment that I wasnt planning on . But I really needed a bigger tractor as I tend to overwork my little bx on a regular basis.

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That's a nice rig. I really like the backhoe attachment. Although I really dont have a need for one, it would come in handy this year. We have a row of 10 cedars that died and I have to get them out of the ground and burn them.
Hopefully mine will pull them out.

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The thumb on the backhoe will come on handy for moving logs around

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Night before last, a friend of mine texted me to see if I wanted to hit the road for a look at another 1969 camaro. This makes several trips we have made looking for a solid driver that wasnt full of mud and priced decently. So we pulled out at 8 am yesterday for a town near E-town Ky. We got there around lunch to look at this car. Red on red and at best it was a 10 footer. Not the worst I have seen, but not without issues. The guy was a dealer/flipper and had a lot of inventory scattered around town getting ready for Pigeon Forge next month. Some of his cars in the garage with the red 69 were super nice cars. So before we could get away, the guy said, "I have a Lemans Blue one in a garage in town. It's not priced like this one, but its a really nice car." Jeff almost said forget it. Long story short, the hunt is over, the car was nice, the price was livable, and he is happy. No more road trips, Woohoo.

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^^^ I don't know what he paid for it but that looks like a real nice car. They don't ALL have to be numbers matching Z28s to be desirable. The way I see it, that car is much more enjoyable than something you would be afraid to drive and park near another car.

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[quote=Boog;9185317]^^^ I don't know what he paid for it but that looks like a real nice car. They don't ALL have to be numbers matching Z28s to be desirable. The way I see it, that car is much more enjoyable than something you would be afraid to drive and park near another car.[/quot
10 yrs ago, you could buy a nice z28 for what he paid. But you are right, they are so overpriced it's not funny. You are hard pressed to build one cause solid roller prices are crazy. I am afraid that the c10s are gonna follow suit. I'm seeing that already . Freakin Ebay and Barrett Jackson. We unloaded it at his house and he took me home in it. It is a good ride.