What did you do today....other than work on your car!?

[Under Pressure]

My son surprised me with an early Fathers Day present and took me to the Indy 500

 

[YY1]

Did you have to duck any flying tires?

 

[Under Pressure]

Of all my years of going to races have I ever seen a tire go so high over a catch fence.
It cleared the stands thankfully, and hit a car in the parking lot

 

[69a100]

I'm going to be working on making the deck look better! Pisses me off that they didn't prime before paint, just makes more work for me to fix!

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Pressure washed, made some repairs, got more repairs to do but wanted to get some protection down! At least it's now covered and more protected than it was, would like to get more done today, but the shoulders are dead sore!!! This paint is thicker than Kilz Primer!!! I wanted something closer to the color of the house, not bad for throwing a dart while blindfolded!!!

 

[dadsbee]

Heading into week 2 with the Temps +/- 30C. No rain prior, during or in the forecast. A month or more early but spent the morning getting the island suppression system up and running. There's more than one use for a water slide pump!

 

[Fran Blacker]

Island suppression system????

 

[dadsbee]

Island suppression system????

Fire suppression Fran... it's like walking on Rice Krispies cereal up here!

 

[Pops1967GTX]

Repaired Window screens 2 down 4 to go

 

[fewillys]

2001 JCB 85 hp Perkins Diesel ...... Ahh have not worked on a Perkins since our shop was an authorized shop back in '80-'82 . Jeeeeeez a lot changed in 20 years . These have a well deserved rep for being difficult to wrench on ... ugh 14 hours to change cooling hoses and figure out a couple of intermittent shorts - and that was without it having a computer on board . Very happy to have this one done !

 

[kiwigtx]

Tried a Fiat 500 for size....just in case one comes up cheap.....

A wee bit small for me.

 

[YY1]

Me too in that version.

I do fit in the 500x but it's not nearly as roomy as my Renegade, that's built on the same platform.

 

[dodgedifferent2]

Helping a family friend shut down his Hosta farm so he can move 600 miles away :-(

He had over 3000 different styles of Hostas. I took about 100 different styles home which will make a nice Hosta garden.

 

[Fran Blacker]

Helping a family friend shut down his Hosta farm so he can move 600 miles away :-(

He had over 3000 different styles of Hostas. I took about 100 different styles home which will make a nice Hosta garden.

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We call them deer food.

 

[Cranky]

I'm having a good time....
not....garbage sale day 1 and I'm getting rid of some garbage so I guess it's a good day

 

[69a100]

I'm having a good time....
not....garbage sale day 1 and I'm getting rid of some garbage so I guess it's a good day

As long as you pocket some coin, it's always a good day!
Still workin on the deck, and picked my first squash/Zuck of the season, watermelon style!

 

[Cranky]

As long as you pocket some coin, it's always a good day!
Still workin on the deck, and picked my first squash/Zuck of the season, watermelon style!
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Cool. Yeah....got rid of a few large items like a generator that fried the generator but man, the 14 hp engine still ran good. A lot of the stuff I had accumulated was from off the side of the road! Pocketed 300 bucks today and there's still some stuff left so might set up again in the morning for day 2 but sure won't spend much time out there as I did today. Biggest thing I like is the space it freed up. One thing I'm seeing is stuff I forgot about sticking out there to get rid of.

 

[69a100]

like a generator that fried the generator

How does a generator fry a generator, did it use Wesson, Mazola, or Crisco???

 

[Cranky]

How does a generator fry a generator, did it use Wesson, Mazola, or Crisco???

The gen section fried on it's own.....don't know what exactly happened to it but since I lost power during the 'great Texas free' last year, I scrambled to find a working generator and finally found one but my power had been down for 8 hours when I finally got it out of the box and running. The power was out for 24 hours to the minute so it wasn't a failure but a planned shut down. Anyways, never took the time to try and find out what happened to it and since it was 25 years old, just decided to see if anyone wanted a good running 14 hp engine and put it in the garbage sale.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

Back of the property….

 

[Cranky]

Did 300 or so in the garbage sale.....think I'm gonna have a couple of beers....