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Well, I hope it's the starter, but... I tried to turn the crank pulley with an adjustable wrench a while ago and it would not budge. At all. I'm going up there tomorrow with some tools and a breaker bar and see if it'll come unstuck.

That's what I do on the computer, I always smallerize the pictures before I post them, but I don't know how to do it on the phone, or if you can. I can crop them, but they still seem to be just as big. I kind of hate to delete pictures too, but when it's a picture of a goat that I posted in 2014 I figure nobody is going to look at it now anyway, so off it goes. The only ones I haven't been deleting are the "a girl in a car" pictures 😂.

We decided yesterday that what we really ought to do is trade both of our cars in and get a GOOD pickup. Zina's been talking about getting something bigger for a while, since we haul 3 dogs around most of the time anyway. Her CR-V is almost new and my Impala is a 2016, but it's like new. We just don't need it, and it only has 77,000 miles on it. A 4 door pickup would be nice, but as we all know pickup prices are just crazy high! I looked yesterday at some local dealer websites and a half decent used truck was like 30 to $40,000. Crazy! Anyhow, here's a girl just waiting for a hood to sit on.

It has a four speed in it, but I couldn't get up enough speed to push start it. The parking lot was too flat, I only managed to get it from one parking spot to the next. I thought maybe that might at least unstick the starter, but it didn't. Neither did tapping it with a hammer. Come to think of it, I better check to see if the engine locked up, maybe the starter is good. But the starter acted like it was hanging up once before though, then it finally started, and it hasn't happened since, until yesterday.

Stuff happens. Could have been worse though, it could have been yesterday when it was sweltering hot. We went to the Home Depot store to pick up a freezer that we got last night and the starter locked up on the truck. Now we're waiting on a ride because there was no room in the rollback truck. $120 to tow it from Lynchburg to Concord.

These guys barked at a squirrel. I can hear Zina yelling at them from her desk all the time. She had me put these bird feeders on the window where she can see them from her office, and the little squirrels can jump from the deck railing onto the feeder. They're so high off the ground I had to use the stepladder to put them up there. She yells at them, I think it's hilarious.

That's just one of my poorly photo-chopped pictures. The grill in the back is real though, that's when I took it home and before I painted it and put the chrome stack on it. I used it for a grill before, but I had taken it down to Moore's Machine and had a lid put on it. They put the offset fire box on it too, but it's only good for a shelf. It's way too small and placed too high to actually work as a smoker. It's still my favorite grill though.

When I was deleting pictures today I ran across these. I was wondering how I moved that grill before, this was pretty smart thinking- I took these wheels off of 2 old garden tillers that I had in the junk pile and clamped them to the grill's hind legs. Or it might have been the front legs, I don't know. But I don't have any wheels in the junk pile now, or even a junk pile, but I'll figure something out. It's the grill I use the most.

My current situation -

Yes, him and Mack were barking at it at first, I don't think they'd ever seen one before.

That's the truth Bob, they worry about going electric, they keep on trying to get SOMETHING, ANYTHING, on Donald Trump, and they keep trying to figure out a way where everybody else has to pay for the student loans, they worry about everything except what they should be concerned with, God and country. Do they care about the good of the country? Doesn't seem like it. Are they really worried about fentanyl? Why then do they continue to let illegal aliens pour in unmolested? I jokingly said Jimmy Carter used to say after Obummer that "well, at least they can't say I was the worst president ever anymore", now sleepy joe comes along and says "y'all ain't seen nuthin' yet- hold my beer!"

It might have been, I'm not sure now.

Deleted a lot today. I think I had 240 pages of attachments when I started yesterday. If anybody reads an old post and wants to see the picture let me know, it's probably still saved on the computer.

I've been making a little progress on the smoker shed. I worked on it this morning until the heat got to me. I've done about all I'm gonna do anyway, now I just need to recruit some help to get the other grill over here. Looks pretty good, I put the shelf up and spread some gravel around the perimeter today. I'm going to put the other grill on this side, in front of the green shelves. I'm going to stack the wood for the smoker on the shelves. I've got the stew pot stand in back, with an old satellite antenna under it, and the fire "barrel " is some truck wheels that came off a B53S Mack mixer stacked up. I put a "beware of dog" sign up because Roman bit the neighbor the other day. Right on his ankle, broke the skin too. This one- And here's a girl on a car over at the Winfall car wash.

I just saw a post the other day explaining how to manage your attachments and delete pictures, but of course I can't find it now. Anyhow, I could get on the computer and delete pictures willy-nilly but everything works a bit different on the phone. I can't get on the computer much now anyway because the internet here absolutely sucks and Zina needs it for work. I don't want to call hughesnet again like I had in Gladys because they- whoever "they" are- keep saying the new fiber optic high speed internet is coming to this area soon. So back to the pictures- I started going through my pictures I'd posted yesterday, some as far back as 2008. I went through I don't know how many pages and checked well over 100 pictures to delete. And when I did I got a message saying something like "sorry but we can't find what you're looking for now". So I started over and deleted a few, and what I discovered was that if I deleted pictures on one page at a time it worked fine, but if I tried to delete any more than one page I'd get that same message. So I went through about 20 pages of attachments and deleted quite a few, but it's a pretty time consuming process.

I need to go get 2 2x4s to make a shelf in my smoke shed. Might as well go by the bank and apply for a personal loan first I guess.

It might not be the "proper" way, but I have welded a few beads across the back of the wedges too, so they would clamp tighter. Whatever works, eh? Never had any DOT man look at anything that close.

If I had put the same size tires back on my pickup, they were almost $200 apiece. And they were "off brand" tires, not Cooper, or Goodyear or something. The ones I put on it were about $150 apiece. When I had the mud bog truck in the 90's I remember paying 150-something each for a set of 12.50- 38 Super Swampers. And I had a set of Q78 Super Swampers, a 36" tire, that were $148 apiece. And the gas, I remember well when people would pull up to the pump and get a dollar or 2 dollars worth of gas. Now you spill a dollars worth just putting the nozzle in the gas hole.

Yes, I just paid over $200 for an Interstate battery for the car.

Yeah, we were talking at Winchester last year. I think MH Fred was thinking of selling his too. I was thinking about buying one, but I think it was Ken who reminded me that getting in and out of them doesn't get any easier and I'm not getting any younger. I'd want something like that GMC with the 6-53 that I thought was for sale but wasn't in Macungie anyway. Then I could look cool and make lots of noise.

This heat's been something else! Went to Gladys yesterday and burned some trash and Zina's old desk while I was there and thought I would melt. When I go to the garden here I can only pick a few green beans and have to come inside to cool off. Then I go pick more. They're hard for me to pick because when I bend over for very long my back hurts. And I can't squat down to pick them like you normally would, because that makes my knees hurt. We have so many we've frozen a lot, cooked a lot, and given a lot away, but I'm not complaining about that!

I saw a bullnose for sale on Facebook earlier today.

Rhasler was from Farmington, N.M. I don't know if he's still on here, he was a moderator but didn't actually get on here and interact a lot. I think someone took offense at him being a moderator because he moved one of their posts to the VIP Lounge and he stayed mainly off the forums after that.