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I like bolts. Bolts are good.
Had a Chevy Blazer back in 2001... had 3 bolts holding the engine block in place.

One oil change my mechanic told me, "It's time to get serious about finding a replacement."

Seems one of the bolts was sheered off. A stiff breeze would likely finish the job on the third... and there was no way one bolt would hold that engine in place.

I really liked that car. The engine had over 200,000 miles and was raring to go for 3, but the body was disintigrating. If that 2nd bolt didn't break off, the windshield was a couple milimiters from rusting out.

Driving it in weather was... an adventure :LOL:


That would be GM "engineering". Think: planned obsolescence. It's how they sell you moar.
 
I recently read an article about sleep habits before we had electric lights. It was often the case where humans would go to sleep at sunset then wake around 2-3 am. They would tend to the fire and other tasks and back to bed for sleep. The modern 8 hours of continuous sleep is not normal!

I feel better knowing waking at 2-3 is normal 😂. We are normal 2 -3 am club!


I read that this was what they had concluded about the habits of prehistoric people, too. They might stare at the night sky, grab a snack, get a piece-o'-ass while the rest of the cave was asleep, and then dozen off until dawn. Perhaps there is something to be said for it still.
 
I recently read an article about sleep habits before we had electric lights. It was often the case where humans would go to sleep at sunset then wake around 2-3 am. They would tend to the fire and other tasks and back to bed for sleep. The modern 8 hours of continuous sleep is not normal!

I feel better knowing waking at 2-3 is normal 😂. We are normal 2 -3 am club!
You body gives you a glucose surge around 3 or 4 am. Preparing your body to handle the morning.
 
I like bolts. Bolts are good.
Had a Chevy Blazer back in 2001... had 3 bolts holding the engine block in place.

One oil change my mechanic told me, "It's time to get serious about finding a replacement."

Seems one of the bolts was sheered off. A stiff breeze would likely finish the job on the third... and there was no way one bolt would hold that engine in place.

I really liked that car. The engine had over 200,000 miles and was raring to go for 3, but the body was disintigrating. If that 2nd bolt didn't break off, the windshield was a couple milimiters from rusting out.

Driving it in weather was... an adventure :LOL:
I like big bolts and i cannot lie
 
I read that this was what they had concluded about the habits of prehistoric people, too. They might stare at the night sky, grab a snack, get a piece-o'-ass while the rest of the cave was asleep, and then dozen off until dawn. Perhaps there is something to be said for it still.
I thought they were making cave paintings?

Then had to get up in the morning to work at the quarry. This is what i was taught.

 
I recently read an article about sleep habits before we had electric lights. It was often the case where humans would go to sleep at sunset then wake around 2-3 am. They would tend to the fire and other tasks and back to bed for sleep. The modern 8 hours of continuous sleep is not normal!

I feel better knowing waking at 2-3 is normal 😂. We are normal 2 -3 am club!
Don’t forget they had to milk a cow or two, get the critters fed and tend to any other chores BEFORE they fed themselves. I grew up listening to my grandparents telling stories of life on the farm. Even though I was only a couple generations removed, It felt real and normal. My granddad would rise at 3-4 every morning. In bed by 9. It’s what he did all his life and it never changed.

Granddaughter duty all day. Need to replace a fixture, so gonna knock that out early. Found a Mushroom/wild rice soup recipe gonna whip up tonight. It’s soup weather now.

I didn’t have a dog in the fight, but that World Series was the best I’ve seen in ages.

Have a wonderful Sunday…and now the MZ——

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PS….we need to STAY on Standard Time!
 
Today was a good day.

Started off with a hare brained scheme with a friend. We’ll see how it shakes out.

But I got an early start and got the solar kiln almost all the way framed out. I’m certainly not an expert carpenter, and I’m sure some of you may find fault with how I’m building it, but I feel pretty good about it.

when I got to a stopping point, I split some firewood and then went up into the woods to see what kind of havoc this week’s wind did on the ash trees. Took two pretty good ones down. They were across the trail and as I tried to clear it, I realized that one of them had a huge poison ivy vine going up the side.

I’m super allergic, but chainsaw it very carefully use an ax to strip it off the trunk. It had a shit load of little branches coming off, and I know that the roots have the most concentrated oil.

As soon as I was done, I stripped off my clothing and washed it and took a shower.

Then an early fire , dinner and now watching the World Series. Go Jays!
In one of my last bouts with poison ivy it was spreading what seemed to be weeks later. The doc reluctantly gave me prednisone and told me to back track and find the source. The not cleaned tool banister doorknob…. No way PI is in your blood stream. Still getting worse I re-nacted the day. I always put my car outside the garage when I work. That day I volunteered to clear out years of volunteer weeds and trees in front of my neighbors front porch. A little acetone on a clean rag and cleaned the arm rests and steering wheel in the car. Finally stopped the spread.
One of my worst bouts with PI and how I refuted the source and spread theory was one Christmas morning. My girl and I slept on the floor at her sisters. The house was full like 20 of us. On the floor Reece the chocolate lab that resembled his name slept with us. Remi was there for a while too. I woke up itchy and by mid day covered with the stuff. I don’t know what I took home with me that could have been spreading it or reenforcing it but I was weeks with the stuff. How I got it was Christmas Eve Pauli had the dogs out running loose in the Poconos chasing deer. Must not need leaves on the vine to get it either. Sometimes now I feel afraid of dogs I don’t know where they’ve been.
 
Due to the nature of plastic though, I don't anticipate the manifolds to be usable on a 70+ year old car. 🤣
Ya know, you got me thinking about this. The 95 year old ford has a Bakelite distributor that I believe is original. I know there's a lot of Bakelite from that era that's still around, in various old collectible stuff. Anyway, In 70 years I'm not going to be worried about any of it! :ROFLMAO:

Cold one out there this morning. We had frost setting on everything at 10pm last night, and it didn't get any warmer. Took down the last few bean poles and fences and tomato supports in the garden. This morning made 4 passes over it with the tiller. Looks like nice fresh black dirt again. All the detritus is ground in and buried, save for one or two corn stalks that popped up near the surface. It probably didn't need tilling, but looks better now.

Might scrounge up some lunch. It's feeling like that time already.
 
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