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Same here, high winds and sideways rain and it was over in about 5 minutes. Carport's still upright.

I guess Michigan guy is going to buy the truck. He gave me the no. for his bank in Michigan so I could call and verify that he was good for the money, and he already called Underdog about hauling it to Michigan.

...and we've got high wind and severe thunderstorm warnings for today.

We raised tobacco when I was a kid, that was many years ago. And my Dad and grandfather would make a plant bed in the woods. I don't know why it was in the woods, maybe the richest dirt? Anyway, they cleared a spot, tilled the soil good, then cut 4 poles to put on all 4 sides of it. They sowed the tobacco seeds inside and covered it with a big white cover like cheesecloth. I guess so frost wouldn't kill the plants when they came up, and the poles kept the cover off the plants. And they would always put tomato seeds in it, so when everything came up they had enough tomato plants for half the county. Dad grew his own sweet potato slips too, but he would just put a sweet potato in a hole in the ground and cover it with sawdust and it would sprout lots of slips. He still had a little plant bed for tomatoes and peppers every year too, long after we stopped growing tobacco. Still had enough plants for everybody in the neighborhood. But when I was a kid many years ago there was 6 of us in the family and our garden covered a half acre, there wasn't much we didn't grow.

Thank you Vlad.

Thanks, I will do that. I just happen to have an old tire out here, but I probably need more than one to make a tower, right? I do have a huge flower pot that I was going to plant one in too.

So another guy came by today to look at the big green International that runs now. He was Fredericksburg guy, who was acting as an agent for Kentucky guy, who was acting as an agent for Michigan guy. Bottom line, he was very impressed with it. He called Michigan guy and told him it was nice, started right up, and the pictures didn't do it justice. And I didn't even wash it or anything, still had inch deep dust on the hood. Michigan guy said he would call me later this afternoon.

Never tried carrot chips, but I never met a sweet potato I didn't like. We make sweet potato fries- or chips- a lot. I never planted sweet potatoes but my dad grew them every year, and Zina just ordered some sweet potato slips from somewhere so we're going to plant a few this year. I never planted any because they take up so much room.

I made some French fries yesterday. They tasted as good as they look, they were the cat's ass!

It's got 3 or 4 long pins driven into the ground on both sides to anchor the bottom but the whole top part sways back and forth. We've had a lot of unusually windy days here, unusually strong winds, and I was just afraid that eventually that back and forth motion would wear through the screws in those corner braces, creating a domino effect and eventual catastrophic failure of the entire structure. Pretty big words I'm throwing around there, eh? 🤣

I was thinking 🤔 of just taking some of the side panels off. If I did that I could see what the neighbors across the road were up to again too, I can't see them now 🤣

I didn't want to close it off completely, I asked the guy when he put it up if it was going to take off like a kite the first time the wind blew. He said "no, that's only when you close them in".