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Chris, I just started taking it about a week ago. I had been taking esomeprazole for a couple of years. So so results with the latter. A previous Dr. of mine had me on Dexilant, which worked very well. He told me that it was the strongest available. The Insurance company put a stop to that, can't eat into their corporate profits. Norm, great work. The gate looks very nice, and the porch has good style and color. Got home from the big show up in New Era. Thirteen cars, at least we out numbered the tractors!
So, recently while watching the boob tube, a Pampers diapers commercial came on with background music of the song Stand by Me in it. I didn't recognize that particular cover of Stand by Me, or the sound of the artist, so I wanted to find it. I love the cover, the guy's voice, and his guitar playing. There is some incredible sound coming out of his guitar, especially near the end. As our resident guitarist, I'm curious what Norm thinks about the guy's guitar playing?
Chris, I just started taking it about a week ago. I had been taking esomeprazole for a couple of years. So so results with the latter. A previous Dr. of mine had me on Dexilant, which worked very well. He told me that it was the strongest available. The Insurance company put a stop to that, can't eat into their corporate profits. Norm, great work. The gate looks very nice, and the porch has good style and color. Got home from the big show up in New Era. Thirteen cars, at least we out numbered the tractors!
Dan - Thanks for the response. I hope you have good luck with it. I took one about an hour before trying to eat some Chicken Soup last night. It did it's job, no belly ache, nausea, or vomitting. That was the 1st time I had been able to hold down any food since Monday. It was certainly nice to be able to eat without getting deathly ill. I'm not going to rush anything, small portion of something bland for dinner tonight.
Stand By Me. I think the guitar playing is very good but it stops there. Our band used to play that song many years ago. What this guy did destroyed the song. He does not know how to sing - he does know how to yell which seriously detracts from any notion of a a nice rendition. Nope, I think overall he sucks eggs.
Stand By Me. I think the guitar playing is very good but it stops there. Our band used to play that song many years ago. What this guy did destroyed the song. He does not know how to sing - he does know how to yell which seriously detracts from any notion of a a nice rendition. Nope, I think overall he sucks eggs.
Thanks for your critique Norm. I do not have enough knowledge to judge someone's guitar skills. As for the rest, to each their own, thats what makes the world go round! 👍
Tucked indoors for the night.
2nd coat, one side of 15 of 37 total
Boards (15) are removed from saw horses in man-cave each morning, saw horses placed outdoors, boards moved outdoors, stain/seal applied outdoors & allowed to dry as long as possible during daylight hours, this procedure is repeated bringing planks back indoors nightly.
It takes a minimum of 48 hrs for stain/seal to dry. I perform a great many acrobatic maneuvers shuffling boards & saw horses. These boards will dry an additional two days before the opposite side is stained/sealed. All boards will receive two coats in this manner. I'll examine each board to determine which side goes up/down & which end to cut before making the cuts. After planks are fastened to deck, I'll apply one final coat (I think), I may apply the 3rd top coat in this same manner, as well. I know I have stringers, webbing & foundational boards to replace &/or sister i.e. a couple newel posts need their underlying support braces/brackets rebuilt. This is going to take a long time.
Beautiful morning. I understand the rain threat has gone away and we're supposed to have nice weather all week. I'll take it. Now if I could only get something done in the hour I have to myself in the afternoons.
Chris are you back up to pizza yet? How about 5 alarm chili? Seriously, I hope you're doing better, and staying better.
One thing that gripes my bottom is when you go to a website and it has to verify that you're a human. I actually find irony in that. Telling a computer that you're human so it lets you look at a computer. Now, I've never been denied for not being a human, but it's the principle of it all.
Got out of work a little early yesterday so I went home and cleaned up a little before I went to Awful house. I met the odd people there but didn't stay long. Their son and grandson were there as well. The grandson was very nice and polite and normal looking. The son, I may have told you before, is a leach and lives with them and drives their car and gives them nada. Besides that he's a slob, and a fat slob. He kept calling me "Mark" even after I corrected him. So there was no joy in lunch and I soon departed.
After Walmart today I'm gonna try to fire up my tractor. It's been sitting under the porch at Mom's for a long while. I'm hoping I can get enough juice into the battery so it will start, then I will just leave it running all afternoon. That guy is almost 10 years old and it has somewhere around 20 hours on it.
Okay time to get ready for the day. Hope everyone has a great one!
Mark Mike - Which tractor? Brand, Model, Year? Diesel/Gas? Buy it new? 2 hrs/yr? Glad you'll have some nice weather for some time. Our next rain looks to be next weekend. TS Gabrielle making a turn to the NE (no threat), but Disturbance 1 (directly behind Gabrielle) could prove threatening - need to formulate another steering committee. Time for me to sling a brush.
Mike - I'm doing better since starting on the new medicine on Friday. I have been able to hold down small, bland meals on Friday and Saturday without a belly ache or nausea. I definitely think the medicine is helping and that I'm trending in the right direction. Thanks for asking! Good luck with the tractor this afternoon. If it's been sitting a really long time you might want to get the old gas out of it, especially if the gas wasn't treated with stabilizer.
Norm - Glad you have dry weather in the forecast for the coming week so you can keep chugging along on the staining/deck work. Good luck.
No plans for me today. Just trying to rest and get some strengrh/energy back. Hope everyone has a great day! 😃
Two applications of Cabot Australian Timber Oil on the bottom & three coats on the top is overkill. I'm moving forward w/ one application bottom & two applications top.
What a fun afternoon I had after we returned from Walmart. Charged the battery for a half hour or so and the tractor fired right up. Although five minutes later I tried getting off with it still in gear and it died, and wouldn't restart. So I drug the battery charger out into the yard and another half hour later it fired right up. Did a little digging, moving, leveling. Rather pleased.
Norm I've spoken about the tractor before. It's a John Deere 1025R. Endloader/backhoe. It's a compact garden tractor. Bigger than a riding mower but not a big hoss. Runs on diesel. It actually has 41 hours on it. Whoa.
Tomorrow I think I'll work over at the shop. I haven't done anything there in a long time. I need to make more space so I can get a couple more cars over there and out of the way. I also brought the chain saw home and maybe I'll cut down a few small trees. I've been wanting to do that for a while.
--Hi guys, haven't been on in a while... Glad to hear Chris and Mike are on the mend- Norm doing great work, though sounds like lots of pain?
--Well the old F100 is giving me a bunch of trouble. It acted up on the trip down in Kentucky at Lloydfest. Bunch of good ol' car guys helped and it ran good again on the way back. But, Saturday I took it on a trip downstate- ran good on way down, shut it off and came back a hour or so later and seemed to be stumbling- running out of gas... etc. Then seemed to straighten out and headed home. Decided to take US 127- that was a mistake. Was running just fine until just past the Alma exit- then wouldn't pull itself... UGH, can't get off- next exit is about 8-10 miles. Well starts running fine again and head on my way, i figured at this point I would get off in Shepherd and see about leaving truck at gas station and call wife to pick me up. No quit again a mile or so later. Now no start at all acts like out of gas, though I know it wasn't. I have 4 friends in the Alma area, none of them home- so finally I called a wrecker and got towed to a restaurant and got ride with wife back to Harrison.
-- Next day we went down with my 06 F250, towbar and tools, etc. Hooked up old truck and towed it home... I started a thread in Joe's tech editor column about this issue. It's really a problem. I am going to have to get serious and drop tank and maybe get another Back home again...
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Before all that trouble with F100 I went to the County Sherriff auction and bought this fine POS for $200. Why?? I Dunno!! Actually I figure I will take it to scrap yard and make a little- not that much though.. actually wish I hadn't bought it. This maybe the rustiest truck I've ever seen. With a little
tickerin' w battery etc I got it running!
Mike - Thanks. I simply couldn't recall what make & model you had. That's a handy little tractor.
Greg - Thankfully it wasn't raining when you broke down, eh? I'm following your other thread. Sounds like you need to drop the tank maybe new fuel lines as well?
Before all that trouble with F100 I went to the County Sherriff auction and bought this fine POS for $200. Why?? I Dunno!! Actually I figure I will take it to scrap yard and make a little- not that much though.. actually wish I hadn't bought it. This maybe the rustiest truck I've ever seen. With a little tickerin' w battery etc I got it running!
Beautiful day and I slept good last night. Need to take it easy today so I can go to the car show tonight and then go to bed early for work tomorrow.
Greg! I need that truck. Is it an 04? Is it a V6? People are very proud of their Dakota's around here and parts cars are non-existant. Wow seeing rust like that makes me homesick.
I second Norm's evaluation. Sounds like trash in the tank clogging up the sock filter. Do cars that old use sock filters?
Guess I'll get my day rolling. Hope everyone has a good day. Monday and I'm staying home!
Norm I've spoken about the tractor before. It's a John Deere 1025R. Endloader/backhoe. It's a compact garden tractor. Bigger than a riding mower but not a big hoss. Runs on diesel. It actually has 41 hours on it. Whoa.
Mike - I'm glad the tractor started for you without too much trouble. I was not familiar with that Model and looked it up. That's a really nice sized machine, I'm sure you can do quite a bit of work with that.
Before all that trouble with F100 I went to the County Sherriff auction and bought this fine POS for $200. Why?? I Dunno!! Actually I figure I will take it to scrap yard and make a little- not that much though.. actually wish I hadn't bought it. This maybe the rustiest truck I've ever seen. With a little
A museum worthy example of the brutality of Michigan winters.
Hope you get the fuel issues lined out on the F100. I'm sure you'll have it running like a top by springtime! Good luck!
Two steps forward and one step back. After a couple positive days in a row on Friday and Saturday, I had a bad day yesterday. I'm sure it was probably my own fault, getting impatient and eating more solid food than my stomach/system was ready for. Hopefully today will be better.
Greg, that second truck is definitely a piece of ***** lol.
On the first one, perhaps you could red jug the fuel under the hood for a while and test drive a lot. You would, if successful, isolate the problem to the lines and the tank.
I bought a Husqvarna chain saw a couple years ago and paid big bucks for it. It's a piece of junk. Between the three saws I've owned this one is the worst. The best one was my lowly Poulan and it lasted me I think 6 years. The Husq's latest problem is the pull cord/recoil has gone tango uniform. This after trying to get the thing started for 30 minutes. The Craftsman I had previously, that had such good reviews, lasted me about a year. I know how to take care of my stuff. My friend has a Homelite from the 80s, it will never die. So much for this new ****.
Beautiful day out. Would be a great day to cut a few small trees down and dismember them. Eh, another time, with another saw. I have spent a lot of the day with Tiger. That's all that matters.
Don't think I'll go to the show tonight. I'm tired and peeved. No sense it going for only a few minutes then coming home and going to bed. If it weren't 40 minutes away it would be a different story. I don't think it's more than 15 miles, but with the traffic and the ridiculous red lights it takes forever. Not feeling it.
Chris that's too bad you had a relapse. Just talk yourself into being better. Mind over matter. If that doesn't work, chicken soup.
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Chris that's too bad you had a relapse. Just talk yourself into being better. Mind over matter. If that doesn't work, chicken soup.
Mike - Sorry for the troubles with your chain saw. When I was in Highschool I worked for a lawn maintenance and landscaping company. All the employees wanted to use the Husqvarna or Stihl equipment, everything else was crap. However that was 50-years ago. Sounds like their quality has really gone downhill!
My Doctor's assistant called on behalf of my Doc asking how I was doing and to provide some info on my blood work. I gave her the ground truth on my status, and then she told me my white blood cell count came back elevated and he might want me to come in for another blood draw. She's going to tell my Doc what I said about my current condition and then they're supposed to get back with me on whether I need to go back in.
Greg, do you have Hagerty for the F100? They have towing included for distances up to I believe 100 miles, after that, you have to up your coverage slightly. Are you up to date on your tetanus shot? Chris, sorry for the relapse, hope the doc can figure it out. Norm. regarding tractor pics, well I was gonna. Had a shot lined up when a military type truck came in to the show, and I had to move. Enough of a distraction that I never got back to the tractors for pics.
So, we have a couple of engine swaps going on in these pics, one is the Buick GSX drag car. It has a 532 Olds stroker in it, along with a bit of nitrous. Number two, is that ratty looking yellow Mustang, which originally came with a 170 c.i straight six under the hood. It now has a Mitsubushi Eclipse engine and fwd transaxle transplanted in to it. Why? damn if I know. Gotta give him credit for the albility to get it done though. The Military looking truck, is a home built to some extent, not sure if it was previously from the army, but he added the canopy, paint, and the chushioned seats in the back. He does take people up into the Silver Lake dunes with it. https://photos.app.goo.gl/Yjtt1njJjgdQ9CHY9
So, we have a couple of engine swaps going on in these pics, one is the Buick GSX drag car. It has a 532 Olds stroker in it, along with a bit of nitrous. Number two, is that ratty looking yellow Mustang, which originally came with a 170 c.i straight six under the hood. It now has a Mitsubushi Eclipse engine and fwd transaxle transplanted in to it. Why? damn if I know. Gotta give him credit for the albility to get it done though. The Military looking truck, is a home built to some extent, not sure if it was previously from the army, but he added the canopy, paint, and the chushioned seats in the back. He does take people up into the Silver Lake dunes with it. https://photos.app.goo.gl/Yjtt1njJjgdQ9CHY9
Dan - Glad there was at least one pic with your car in it. I love the color combo more and more each time I see it. You picked a real beauty! 👍
My Doctor's assistant called on behalf of my Doc asking how I was doing and to provide some info on my blood work. I gave her the ground truth on my status, and then she told me my white blood cell count came back elevated and he might want me to come in for another blood draw. She's going to tell my Doc what I said about my current condition and then they're supposed to get back with me on whether I need to go back in.
From an armchair's length, it shouldn't be surprising to see an elevated WBC count after what you've been through. What's far more important is to determine the type of WBC (Neutrophils, Monocytes, Eosinophils, Basophils & Lymphocytes) & the total of each.
