Congratulations <8>.

Thank you, Ram-a-Lamb.

Congrats 8.

Congrats 8!

Happy Friday fellas.

^Dang Layabouts! You probably have time to smoke churchills, too!

Walked the dog 3 miles. Then got on the treadmill and ran 3 more.

My Friday is over... time to relax, but they're still finishing up the yard and I don't want to breathe that "sigh of relief" and plop my ass into that deck chair with a glass of hooch and a cigar until they're done and everything is cleaned up.

My little buddy Tank is itchin' to play out there.

Sprayed the foundation around the house yesterday to keep the critters and bugs out with it being Fall, they all wanna place to refuge like an Illegal Alian... Now the SOB's went high and setting off the security camera's around the place...

You'da been OK if you had a truckful of lawnmowers and yard equipment.

I always answer "I have no idea" and then they have some BS reason. One was "your license plate is mounted crooked." Another was "your headlights aren't aimed level" One was "i thought your windows were tinted too dark" That one was at night, and I had no window tints. Several were "safety checks" But most were you didn't use your turn signal. Those were always the cop coming up behind me on a straight road and I'd made no turns for 5 miles. One was "you didn't put your hazards on when I pulled you over" Never a valid reason

I can't tell you how many times I've blown in the breathalyzer. Zero times when I've actually been drinking. All the times when I've been driving a poormobile. I've even been stopped after two beers and a burger at 3 Floyds for turning right on red on a no right on red intersection, told the cop where I was coming from and where I was going and still didn't make me blow into the straw. But if I wasn't driving a new car you'd be damn certain I'd be getting a field test.

I went up to the hood to dig around a couple junkyards this morning. Found a 2010 Hyundai Accent hatchback in one of them and a little crosscheck of part numbers on my phone said the hood and grille would fit my 07. Hood was $60 and the grille was $55. Riddle me that. They had a core charge for the hood, so I swapped it out in the parking lot and got $5 back. Hood and grille were both dented/beaten/broken, but I made em work. If it stops raining I'm gonna put a chain around the top radiator support and around a tree and put the car in reverse. Hood almost fits, but the latch is about a quarter inch off from the catch pin. Donor car didn't have a front bumper, so I gotta live with what I got. But I'd like to get the hood to properly latch. Right now it's held shut with a ratchet strap.

When pulled over and asked, "Do you know why I pulled you over?"

Answer: "I really don't know, trust issues?"

Boy, I hope so.
Ram approved on post #2.
Very relieved.

Nice! Did you have to replace the chimney piping?

Whatever it takes!

Never catch me doing that.

Mornin Ya'll, its a brisk 33 with a high of 60 today an partly cloudy...

Fug Fug Fug Dis Cold Chit!!!

New place has the tankless hot water heater. It's not instant... still has to go through the lines, but once it's going it'll stay hot.

Howdy Dowdy gang.

69 on the way to 88. Dog walk completed.

Finishing touches being applied to the back yard. They haven't worked on a Saturday... I think the boss is a bit peeved they aren't finished and so now they're working on a Saturday. Prolly wants the other half of his money.

Bass-turd!

Beautiful late summer sky with a high of only mid to upper 80's.

Might go buy a new suit, shirts and ties today. Got rid of all of the suits I owned when I retired and lost a lot of weight. I have gone down in size from a 48 long to a 42-43 long jacket and a 32-33 pant waist. That's the reason I am only going to go to Brooks, no where else.

They sell suit pants separately from jackets, and I can get a real good, untailored fit, for both, there. If I were to try to buy a rack suit, the jacket would fit without alteration, but it would come with 36 waist pants, which would have to be heavily tailored- down to a 32-33 waist. This never looks or feels right. So, I'd rather just start out with both a jacket and slacks made to the right size. More expensive there a than a very nice rack suit, but still a lot cheaper than a custom suit.

So, I am thinking about a charcoal grey suit, one white shirt and one off-white/cream shirt, one black/grey tie and one yellow tie. Might throw in a blue shirt too. Maybe a belt and some sox as well.

On the other hand, I could really just use the day resting more/recuperating in the recliner that I'm sitting in as I type this.

We will see...

Nice to see you have retained that particular skill-set.

49, wind chill 43. Breezy dog walk next.

They're Cardinals fans. They deserve to be wound up

especially after that Botched 9th inning yesterday...

No!!! I want the Cards to advance, my wife is kinda a Cardinals fan, her mom & dad are... but best of All I hold case of beer wagers with these local Cardinal fans and over the years I've drank allot of Free Beers do to Cardinal Fans!!!