What did you do today not on your truck...

[72 tigger]

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

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by 72 tigger

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

Thank you.

[Stocker]

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

[GOPAPA]

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

[Getter-Done]

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

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

I am just a little slow at going Forward

[Boog]

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.

[Steeveedee]

Originally Posted by Boog

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.

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...

[LT7A]

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.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by Boog

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.

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.

Originally Posted by Steeveedee

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...

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.

[FleetsidePaul]

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.

[GOPAPA]

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

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by GOPAPA

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

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

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. 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.

[Willowrun]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

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

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

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by Willowrun

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

It could also be called stupidity. 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.

[special-K]

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.

[FleetsidePaul]

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.

[special-K]

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.

In progress picture

[72c20customcamper]

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 .

[LT7A]

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.

[LT7A]

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

[special-K]

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper

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 .

You paid in sweat equity today, I bet. It sure felt hot down here today.

Originally Posted by LT7A

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!

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

[Willowrun]

Nice, clean work on the stairway shelves.

[FleetsidePaul]

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

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

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.

[special-K]

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.

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

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

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

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.

yo momma dint raise no foo'

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.

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by special-K

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.

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.

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.