My Facetruck thread.

[Killer Bee]

well, our momma dove lucked out again.. one egg rolled out but the other hatched..

even through all the rain we had last week, the survivor is looking good..

and one thing I noticed, she's not flogging me everytime I go through the door..

guess we're buds now

[Steeveedee]

Originally Posted by Killer Bee

well, our momma dove lucked out again.. one egg rolled out but the other hatched..

even through all the rain we had last week, the survivor is looking good..

and one thing I noticed, she's not flogging me everytime I go through the door..

guess we're buds now

You 'splained to her that you like roast dove, right? We had some California finches that nested in the rafters between the blocking on our front porch because the blocking was only on one side. Little birdies kept falling to the ground. My wife got grossed out over the dead birdies. Once they left for the season, I blocked up the inside edge of the rafters. No more dead birdies on the porch.

[68bowtie]

Originally Posted by Killer Bee

well, our momma dove lucked out again.. one egg rolled out but the other hatched..

even through all the rain we had last week, the survivor is looking good..

and one thing I noticed, she's not flogging me everytime I go through the door..

guess we're buds now

I have a little buddy outside my shop too.

[special-K]

I've discovered bird nests in some crazy places. It's amazing how fast they can be built.

[davischevy]

For years We had an open 50'x50' shed at work. The barn sparrows took that over.

WE closed the shed in, but it still took years to plug all the holes so they couldn't build a nest.

[Liz]

Happy Easter

[davischevy]

Happy Easter to all.

[Killer Bee]

Hoppy Easter from the Bees!

Mrs. Bee is in the kitchen wrapping some fresh dove with bacon.....






just kidding

do have a fat Honey Baked ham though!!!!

kids colored their eggs yesterday and found them all this morning

[special-K]

I hope everyone had a Happy Easter.

I had been leaving the door to an outbuilding slightly cracked open to air out a while. One day I'm in there and a wren had built a nest in one of the motorcycle helmets I had hanging on the wall. I figured let it have it's babies in there. My wife probably wouldn't be riding with me till after they hatched anyway.

[Killer Bee]

well, I guess I underestimated momma dove, she did manage to hang on to both babies so far

guess the broken egg shell I found at the base of the gutter was just rolled out with the trash..

and oh boy I have a lot of poop to wash down once she's finished up there..

[special-K]

Bad renters. Always leave the place crappy.

The first local antique truck club show was supposed to be this Saturday. The roads aren't washed off quite well enough from winter for me yet. Well, looks like I'm not the only one concerned about taking my truck out. Cancelled, due to snow forecast for Saturday! Holy smokes!

This is a show by the local chapter of the ATCA/Antique Truck Club of America, Old 40 chapter. It's early for a show around here, but too wintery has never been the issue. Spring Carlisle is coming up. I hope spring is!

[Boog]

What was that last snow storm named Waldo? They'll run out of names before the snow season is over! Ya'll get ready for another one.

[Dustmaker65]

Not sure how all of you guys are liking this year so far, but I think it is sucking big time! Bass tournaments have started and the high for this weekend is upper 30's!!! Possibly more snow on Sunday to boot!

Girlfriend is in Houston this week with highs in the 90's.... she is really rubbing it in too. But she has to come back Monday in the snow! Show her...lol

[davischevy]

I'm a little melancholy tonight.

I just found out one of my friends passed.

Bob was a street rodder from way back. He retired from Alcoa in Little Rock when he was 55, and moved here 25 years ago.

After he built his house and shop, he searched for and found a 1946 Chevy Fleetline Aero Sedan, to build his streetrod. He put around 300,000 miles on that old Chevy.

I have been joining him for coffee and going to shows with him for most of that 25 years. We weren't super close, but understood each other, and had some long talks about life.

When Google announced they were going to launch gmail, he told me I should get my company email. I wasn't big into email at the time, and ignored him. One day he came to the coffee shop and handed me my email address. Yep, he got tired of waiting on me. Even then, I didn't realize the importance of the address. I'm sure, today, I would have no trouble selling the address davisconstruction@gmail.com (It ain't for sale.)

He was a tough old guy. He had been fighting Cancer for 10 years. The last couple of years were especially bad.

These times sure affect you perspective on life.

RIP Bob Grenough, strodder@gmail.com

[flashed]

Cancer SUCKS but Im beating it . Sorry to hear about your friend , R.I.P .

[Boog]

Ya'll had a long friendship. He sounds like a great guy. May he RIP.

[special-K]

Sorry to hear about your friend Bob. You've made me realize how many friends I have like that, people I know through work, hobbies, just being out and about, back in HS, Harley riding, traveling, etc ...including this place. I am a personable guy and have a zillion acquaintances more than I have good friends nearby. I have a lot of people I care about to be hearing have died in my future. So I better get used to dealing with that. Not that some have not already passed, because I was the young guy the older guys took in because of the shared interest. You expect the older ones to go first, although never nice to hear. And it's not unusually to hear of people my age passing now...mostly heart attacks and cancer.

My best best forever best friend from youth, also a carpenter, had moved to Marin County, CA in his 20s and we had stayed in touch through all the changes. There is a very beautiful third person involved in this friendship. In HS she was his GF, then mine. She is why I went to CA in the '70s. That didn't last and later on he ended up out there with her, broke up for a long time, and ended up being together in Portland until he was diagnosed with lung cancer and died within a month, back in '13. I had always hoped he and I could end up in business together. We were soul mate buddies and the odd thing was there was never a bit of animosity between Peter and I over Kim. I was very happy for them. She couldn't have found a better man and same for him with finding a woman. They were perfect for each other and I had moved on long ago. Poor Kim had to deal with him dieing so fast and we talk more now that he's gone. When he passed it really affected me. To what point I was not aware of at the time, yet I knew it had. I stopped cutting my hair and grew a long pony tail, for instance, same as good old steady Eddy Peter always kept from youth. One day I decided to cut it off to donate to Locks Of Love and I now see it as Peter giving something to kids with cancer. He had a good heart. Not sure he ever yelled at anyone in his life. Just the most easy going kind strong man this world needs more of.
R.I.P. Peter Sutton, you were the best

[Ol Blue K20]

My condolences and I understand how you feel.I had a friend pass last week. It makes you sit back and think a while.

[Dustmaker65]

Sorry for you guys lost in good friends.

[Boog]

Just last week a young guy i know took his life. As far as i know he didn’t have any health issues. He had a pretty wife and two teenage girls. Nice little family ya know. My nephew played golf with him the day before and didn’t notice anything unusual about him. They were buds since kids. My nephew is the one who found him. He was 45.

[Ol Blue K20]

Originally Posted by Boog

Just last week a young guy i know took his life. As far as i know he didn’t have any health issues. He had a pretty wife and two teenage girls. Nice little family ya know. My nephew played golf with him the day before and didn’t notice anything unusual about him. They were buds since kids. My nephew is the one who found him. He was 45.

It makes you wonder what could have been so bad. My condolences.

[davischevy]

Bob wouldn't want any body shedding tears. He was a matter of fact kind of guy.

I am very fortunate that my kids are into cars and trucks. They go with us to events. It's a good thing because my friends are "aging out". I don't know about you guys, but I think the attraction of this site is we can reach outside our normal stomping grounds for people with the same interest.

Tim, I have brought this up before, but, it is interesting to me how the surnames are common to your area and here.

Sutton is a common name here.

[Chevyland]

[QUOTE=davischevy;8235473]

but I think the attraction of this site is we can reach outside our normal stomping grounds for people with the same interest.



Very true!

When you meet someone off this site
That you ‘kind of know’
Through posting etc etc
It makes it easy
So when you do meet, it is a truck ‘talkathon’
All the guys I have hooked up with,from the site have become my long distance friends, that I really enjoy connecting with.
Usually though text.
And, hopefully we will meet again, in person at some point

[special-K]

Originally Posted by davischevy

Tim, I have brought this up before, but, it is interesting to me how the surnames are common to your area and here.

Yep. I might have told you that grandfather Hicks was an insurance broker in Baltimore and when the depression hit, when my dad was 4, he took the money and ran off to St. Louis. He remarried, so I guess I have half brothers and/or sisters out that way I never met.

We have Davis Rd within a mile from here. There's Davis Chapel nearby. My friend Waldo Davis in town is a mechanic (retired now) who was always big on military vehicles and as a result we have always had some pretty wild Humvees running around, as well as the Blazers and K30s. My old friend Jimmy Davis from near Cumberland and I go way back. We have a member here, Steve Davis, who doesn't do much of any posting but builds incredible Chevy Trucks and lives up in the area my mom is and is from. Just south into WV is Davis, WV, a very beautiful old town in the mountains. Many people migrated westward to areas similar to where they left. I got the feeling rolling through the back country of the Ozarks that I wasn't far from home at all. Only in my 20s and I remember thinking, "I could retire here". If you road around Garrett County, MD you would see what I mean.

My most recent girlfriend's dad was from Lee's Summit, a Lowery. Joined the Navy and went from there to NSA at Ft. Meade, MD. Any Lowerys migrated down your way? He was a good sort. His dad was a carpenter who she said put a new roof on his house at 70. Maybe not so unusual now, I expect to be doing such things, but this would have been quite a few years ago when a lot of men were about done by 70.

[special-K]

Oh yeah? Figures. I think came from early settlers in the new frontier.

Hey other Larry, does Facetruck share our information? I'm having a get together with some of my fed buddies and you are invited to come along and entertain us with anything you'd like to add to this topic. Should be a fun time. Please do come