2021: What are you doing today

[chimp koose]

My pushrods are here ! My pushrods are here! Engine to go together soon . Some assembly required .

[RipVW]

The New Pushrods are here, The New Pushrods are here at last your somebody Mr Chimp!!!

[chimp koose]

rip you kill me !

[purplepickup]

Sorry to hear about your mom Frank. Mine passed a few months ago and I still have things I want to stop by and talk about with her.

[chimp koose]

Found out today that one of my machining students from last year finished at the top of his class in a post secondary trade school for machining. He got a scholarship too !

[kb426]

I just checked the thursday results at Barrett Jackson. Looked very healthy to me. Most of last weeks Mecum was the same. I don't know what's driving the market but it looked higher than 2 years ago.

[Rochie]

So sorry to hear about you Mom Frank. I lost mine many years ago and she's still in my heart.

[58 Yeoman]

I cremated a skunk today. There has been one coming around at night and stinking everything up to high heaven. I smelled it at 10pm the other night and looked out and saw it. Got the rifle loaded and went outside but it was gone. I set three live traps last night with sunflower seeds, and sure enough, it was in one this am. Shot it with the rifle, then threw it on a large fire.

The trick is to use live traps for squirrels, etc., so they can't raise their rear ends to spray. It hardly budged when I went out twice before shooting it. I had a 15' rope tied to the cage in case I had to drag it. * skunk got it untied and pulled it into the cage to sleep on. That went in the fire, also.

[kb426]

Good story, Phil. I hope I never have to use those skills. I have skunks that get close because I'm close to the country. They usually stink and leave.

[58 Yeoman]

I live in the country, and we were overrun with raccoons for a couple years. I would live trap them and give them to a farmer friend. He'd release them, then later use them to train his coon dogs. He knows a farmer up the road from me who killed over 80 raccoons in just a couple days. He said he shot them in a feed lot. He also said the smell was terrible, and the farmer had to use a front end loader to move them to a ravine. Geez.

[chimp koose]

Veteranarians will not remove the scent glands from a skunk around here . We found a baby one too young to spray quite a few years ago and inquired about it as we thought it might make a neat pet . Knew someone who had one back in the 70s . We ended up collecting it and releasing it farther away , it was too cute to shoot . :oops:

[idrivejunk]

Well I'll be, my today story fits the theme, kinda. I got assistance from an animal however. In the blink of an eye. I could make a case for divine intervention, for who knows the alternate ending?

Shaking off the week in my '69 this lovely early spring afternoon and trying not to crowd ailing brakes much as I descended into an old river valley... there was a brief occurrence.

At the bottom of that hill is a sharp right then left. An S curve with good visibility of oncoming traffic except for about a second long blind spot at the apex of the second curve of the dogleg. A little downhill straight to the bridge and well...

Its there that I get what little G jollies I can on random occasions. No faster than mommyvans who live nearby go, just enough to feel. Not two lanes wide, but not always just one. Then burp the gas to rack pipes on the bridge rails before stop sign at dead end.

Coming to the bottom of the hill I see a chicken boldly crossing the road, coming out of the woods headed for the coop at nearby house. This wise old roaming rooster picked up the pace after crossing the center line but not before.

Cautiously I rumbled past thinking well no jollies today. Now move the sunvisor, you're about to face west. I entered the curve and was flanked by police cars in the very blind spot. Continue slow rumble, check rearview...

Somebody just went straight at that first curve after the bridge and had a white pickup buried in trees. Of course then at the stop sign alone, I paused to look around the visor and wonder:

If I were an ancient Egyptian or Mesoamerican, what deity's temple would I rush to with great offerings? Hmm. It was a little thing, no flinching just... I think I said thank you chicken.

But thats what I et for lunch. Mysterious ways and what-not, I tell you what. Grape and I and our freedom intact, we putted away. No loud stunts before home, just glad to be us and thankful for the spot from above.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

We have skunks here in the neighborhood.  Smell them a few times a month.  I had one walk across the street in front of my truck about 1 month ago.

For the record:  I loaded my tools and retired Ver 2.0 on friday March 26th.. Last transmission I built was a high zoot 4L80E transbrake  unit. I hear there is 1200 HP turbo engine going in front of it.

My wife retires Ver 2.0  next week.. She did 30 yrs at a guberment job prior to this current job.

[enjenjo]

Mom's funeral was today. She will be cremated as was her wish. We had a family meeting of my siblings and me, some I had not seen it over two years. We made a couple important decisions, like no more discussing politics. And other similar pledges.  All in all it was a sad but happy day.

[kb426]

Tony, I remember Don Garlits saying "retirement is easy. I've done it many times." I bet this time is the right time.
Frank, it's nice that you had a family meeting that didn't end in the Hatfields and McCoys.