That sux

But it gave me an excuse to try out the big new mini-Ex.

For All you wing-wipers out there

Then when winning was the most important thing:

This is what it took to get a B-17 in the air.

How to stay out of prison

Amazingly enough, it works for not getting shot by the cops, too :-)

It's starting to look like

People who enjoy their "White Privilege" are going to live here...

Covered over is the 60 years of powdered animal waste and straw.
Ceiling removed and 60 years worth of rat and mice sh!t shoveled out the back door.
The knob and tube wiring- along with the mice-gnawed Romex with bare conductors on 20 Amp breakers are gone.

The walls are closed in and we have modern wiring.

Branch circuit

Now you see one of the reasons Knob and Tube wiring is illegal-

More timewasters

Hadacol was another patent medicine of the 1940's

Isn't she special.....ed?

Well back to drying out the water heater closet.

You can get anything you want

At Alice's restaurant...

Jezus Kerist-

0bama just shredded the Constituent by his illegal ...illegal alien amnesty tonight...and all the Republicans can muster is that 'there will be severe penalties" 


Really?
Are you people f*cking serious?
"Severe Penalties" (stern-faced smiley).......

Jezus...
Slut down the Government---and mean it this time.
The last time you did this.. you WON the Senate if you can think back two years ago....

But probably not. Like most Liberals- your memory only goes back as fr as the MSM lets it.

Cut to the chase

Against Taxpayers wishes, in the dead of the night using every dirty trick they needed to get the votes.

On this Veterans Day

We find a poem about WWI from a PVT. S.O. Balderick

The German Guns by Pte S O Baldrick

Boom, boom, boom, boom

Boom, boom, boom

Boom, boom, boom, boom

Boom, boom, boom.

Oh- wow. It's been over a week?

Sorry.  Between reworking the downstairs of the farmhouse and real work and living 77 miles away from the farmhouse...time gets away.

Hey! How about all those butthurt Liberals?

Too bad the Republicans are going to roll over and show how "nice" they are and "accommodating" to the Democrats instead of giving them the same treatment they gave us when they got a complete majority on 2006.

This isn'r your normal Haloween video

You know, the one where you're watching something or playing a maze and some ugly face jumps at you.

This one is just creepy. Maybe because it knew it was before I looked at it, or maybe it's because it's Japanese and they*DO* do creepy so well....even when they don't want to.

"Now who's the jammy bahstard?"

Seeing if a FB video embeds here:

Post by BenchWarmers.

"Look at them, they're made of chicken- you can eat them and they're f*cking chickem-- or don't eat them and eggs come out their ahss!"

Is this the real life? Is this just________?

How well do YOU know the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody?

Burning through my limited HughesNet allotment tonight

At the farm...
Did you know that Dr. Frankenfurter (Tim Curry) was a Brit?

Squirrel update

I found out here in Texas that squirrels have their kits, pups, squirrleings... in the summer- I guess so they're ready for the winter.

I thought I had a momma squirrel building a nest in the kitchen wall, but saw her two young ones watching me put in the floor joists for the *coff* temporary accommodations while we sell the doublewide and build the new house.

Now I can't just block off access to that part of the wall  so they can escape when ready.

They just better escape before I get that part closed in.

So we have oak trees..

Lots of Burr Oaks.
And squirrels.

I need to set up a bird feeder so I can get fresh meat every day.

Got nothing...

Have a free video with adult situations.

From a RACISTout of touch Conservative....

Tough shit, you did it to yourselves.
Now learn to live with another Senate run by Democrats.

You've spent all year calling anyone who wants common sense laws from you as "wacko-birds" racist who are going to revoke black voting rights, pandering to the amnesty crowd and doing everything you can to piss us off......
NOW it's dawning on you -less than 45 days from election day- that you're not getting money or support from the Tea Party.

Tough shit John Cornyn the ONLY republicans getting my vote are all conservatives, staying in the state of Texas.

I'm starting to wonder if that Jeep is possesed,,,

And it's name would be Cletus or Joe-Bob instead of something sexy like Christine,,,,,,,
Because I just can't get Joe Walsh out of my head lately-

Dear Radisson Suites,

Anheuser-Bush, Nike, Wheaties, Castrol and the Special Olympics.....

You certainly picked a slippery slope to take a moral stance.
Now tell me when you're going to force rap concerts, low rider shows, car clubs, Phat booty competitions and the like to stop pushing the misogynistic, violent and drug pushing that goes on in every rap song In my limited knowledge?

Please tell me where this slope stops?
Is it when the public isn't complaining?
Is it when you become knowledgeable of something happening?
Is it when something happens that "might' hurt your bottom line by having a bunch of whiny Liberals threaten to boycott you(even when you know they don't use your product)?

Well, Bud- you were my go-to choice, but I'm going to have to stand by my ideals too (the one that says a beer company should sell beer, not force people to do things).

Oh, look!  Lone Star isn't affiliated with you :-)

Change orders

We are working for a really (really) rich school district at my current assignment.
Our plans called for the electric and data to be installed as per the prints.

The school electric engineers didn't like how the conduit was routed, so they made us change it....five times.
The 'Big Guy' loves to charge the shit for change orders, so he doesn't care.

We (Actually the guys doing the hard work) finally got it approved:

Then when I had to move some of the plumbers soils pipe to get back to a trench that had another change....  I found out they were using cast iron.

So I asked the plumber...
ME: This district isn't hurting for money-
HIM: Nope, and they don't care how much they spent on your change orders in the MDF rooms.
ME: So why are they putting that cast in that's going to rot away in 40 years?
HIM: LOL, you're not the only one that asked. We tried to let them let us us PVC, it's even in the specs that it can be used, we even had part of "A-bldg" done and they made us take it out.
ME: Oh,,,, ASO someone hase a relative that's in the cast iron supply bussiness.
HIM: Yep, most likely, and it's a cheap, crappy product that won't last 25 years.










ALSO:
On tomorrows To Do List-
Finish spreading that 60 yards of calichie** I got for free (+ the $750 it cost for delivery)
Either I use the farm tractor and box-blade or I rent a bach-hoe.

Well, lookie there....

I was pulling up to the trailer to back into the yard when I saw what I thought were vultures in the field behind.
Then I saw the wattle.

There are five of them, but they started moving off as I was taking the pic, so you can only see two one each side behind the tree.

Looks like I'm getting a turkey tag this year.

A quick walkaround

I've decided to at least upgrade the electric system to 12 volts and use a 12-6V resistor for the gauges.
1957 Willys with original hurricane engine.

I need to shorten the steering shaft a good 4" so it's not in my chest.
I need to get the original steering wheel and replace that after market one.

It's only rain people-

I know we haven't had any in six months, but it's only water on the roads, not oil.

AND another driving tip from Kurt--
You CAN pass a big yellow school bus when it's traveling down the road.
Seriously, PASS! IT!

Speaking of rain- We hit it coming back between Cheyenne, WY and almost to Pueblo, CO.
When you're towing a `57 Willies with a tow bar, it will hydroplane at over 65 MPH.

So we're back

Left fri. nite and got to Cody, Wy about 24 hours later to pick up a Jeep I talked myself into buying.
Yes it was a drunk bid on E-bay that I figured someone else would out bid me on.

So I picked up my 57 Willies Jeep and got here about three hours ago.
I don't even know how much I spent on saving money instead of having it shipped.

Now I know why he didn't include any pics of the dash, since it's missing everything but the central speedo/gauge cluster (just fuel and oil). Now I need to find out id the 6V system needs any kind of exciter or resistance to start charging.

It needs a brake job, new wiring, wiper motors and the steering shaft shortened about 8", because I can hardly steer and I know any females in this family would be having boob interference... because that's how high and far the wheel reaches.

BUT it has brand new tires :-)
And should still run when the Iranians, Norks or ISIS get a nuke on a missile that can barely make it (because that's all it needs) a couple thousand feet above the Rockies.

Two sox go in...

One comes out.

WTF? Seriously I put in one pair of sox, two shirts and two pair of Jeans because I'm going to the farm after the (unpaid) safety meeting tomorrow.
I got ONE sock out and it's not hidden in either shirt or pair of jeans that I can find.

I killed my yeast :-(

So we try another packet and if that doesn't work- we have campaign yeast.

They survive better, but make drier wine.

Wine spodd-odee drinking wine, wine, pass that bottle to me!

So we meet our little yeasties, who have been doing a bang-up job in their little dark pot all week and start preparing for the next step.

I would say I racked the first ferment into the second ferment chamber, but in actuality- I scooped most of the big floating things off the top and poured the rest through a strainer into am enameled two gallon pot.

Then I poured the whole thing through a filter I made from the sleeve of a worn out shirt (after steeping it in bleach-water Friday night.

After straining and coaxing the rest of the fluids out of the strainer, adding 2 cups of sugar and about another quart of distilled ware, we got about two gallons.

Coloration-wise, I'm going to call it a nice shade of Magenta