I just recently learned about balancing lawn mower blades. Best friend has a balancer so I can borrow that probably. I did get this jig thing to hold the blades in various angles & keep the grinder in a repetitive plane

 

good evening missouri.. nothing new down my way.. been a bit under the weather so havent got much of anything accomplished.. i will be driving down to livingston texas next Thursday to watch john get his diploma .. how time flies seems like just a bit ago he was a little kid playing in the spring catching sunnies

bj have a good time at the f100 show, give ginger a few pats on her head for being a good dog....

sounds like everyone is staying busy thats good.... ya'll enjoy the great weather, i know i am

 

Today we (my gearhead geezer buds) went to lunch in Rhineland, about 5 miles from Hermann. There were 21 of us today. After we ate we went to three different places where one of the guys has cars stored. I counted 38 cars all total. About 34 of them are very nicely restored cars. Mainly he has 2-seat Thunderbirds, Mustang convertibles, and Mopar muscle cars with a couple of Model A's mixed in. The A's and one Chevy truck of 1920 something vintage have manual transmissions. One of the drop-top Mustangs has a manual trans. All the rest are automatics. He told me that he just doesn't care to be shifting gears. He says that nearly all of them run and drive. He only started one though. A 1969 Charger RT. The Mopars are two RT Chargers and two Super Bees; all very nice cars. One Model A roadster was a national award winner a few years ago. I can see why. It is better than exquisite.

We're fortunate in that when we go see the sister-in-law near Sevierville, she knows all the back roads and how to get around down there. She's lived there her entire life. She even lives in a house that's been in her family for several generations. You've heard of living in the last house up the holler? That's where Vickie lives. The road ends right in front of her house. Man, she can get us from point A to point B usually without getting on TN-66, the main road through Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, and Gatlinburg. Without someone like her driving and using back roads it can take a LONG time to go down that main road. Like sometimes a couple of hours to get from I-40 to Gatlinburg, a distance of about 25 miles. Note: I say TN 66 but if you go to Gatlinburg without turning off you'll actually be on 4-5 different numbered roads. It just changes nomenclature every so often. It's TN-66 up at I-40 and US-441 in Gatlinburg and some other designations in between.

FWIW, when you came down 66 and crossed the French Broad River if you take the road (Alder Branch Road) about a mile later to the left/east you'll come to the Alder Branch Baptist Church in about 1 1/2 miles. My great great (some number of times) grandfather's brother started that church and my said ancestor and a sister left there and came to Lebanon, Missouri way back in the olden days. The cemetery next to the church has so many Atchleys in it that I lost count. It's just purely a coincidence that Sherry has relatives down there and I have (very distant) relatives in the same area. Even though she lived nearly all her life in/around Chicago she was born in Maryville, the southernmost town in the Knoxville metropolitan area and has relatives all over that part of Tennessee.

Anyway, it's well after midnight there so you (BJ and Dave2) are most likely sound asleep by now. Enjoy the trip.

 

Keep each other out of trouble? More likely compound the trouble if they are together. Have fun down there.

Mike, does your friend want to get rid of a 55-57 Thunderbird. I've always wanted one.

It's Friday. Got a run in this morning now off to work soon.

 

Good Smoky Mountain morning,
It's a brisk 43° here this morning. Took Ginger for a nice long walk so now it's time to get cleaned up and head to the show.
I agree Atch traveling around Pigeon Forge can be trying. I try to move around early mornings if possible.
You have a safe trip RC. Is Johnn coming back with ya?
Enjoy your weekend everyone.
Guess I better getter done!

 

Good morning youins. I hope everyone has a great day!

 

Joe,

I doubt it but I'll ask. He's been collecting them for many years. I'm pretty sure that I saw two 57's and one 56. As well as four of the later ones (late 90's - early 2000's). Also he probably knows where any exist that might be for sale. I'll check with him on that too. I also know some other folks that might know of any for sale.

 

Photos from the 2026 Ford F 100 Grand Nationals

https://photos.app.goo.gl/KHAwL6FgU535hBPT6

 

Thanks BJ. Nice pix of nice trucks.

 

Wow BJ thanks for the pics, looks like a ton of very nice vehicles there. I got up early ran errands all over the place and all the way down to Nixa. Finially home and mowed before it rained. Now to go work on the pool shed some more.

 

Evening all. It's been a busy week that's for sure. Between meetings, doctor appointments and so on I seemed to be out of the office more than I was in. Next week won't be much better but at least I stay busy.

 

Well I got all the north side T&G/carr siding boards stained with Penny's color choice. Minwax polyshade (stain and poly finish) satin vintage blue. I am sort of thinking that Minwax Marine Blue might of been better. So we shall see once I get that boards back on the wall.

I am doubling down and mashing the gas tomorrow and doing the complete other side. Also have to run the indirect lighting for that side.

 

Morning fellas, taking the HD out for a lil while this morning. Going to the local HD shop, they hist a bike blessing every yr. Might do a lil ride from there but then wife wants me to work on the house...

 

It is Saturday, take the wife ON THE BIKE with you and go get the bike blessed. Clean your Guardian Bell, Gremlin Bell, or Spirit Bell or what ever you call it. Take the BBS (back seat BOSS) to lunch and then for a little detour on a nice back road cruise. It is a Saturday, enjoy it and the fact that your own a HD. You know wind in your hair, bugs in your teeth. Lol

 

My lawn mowing plans flew out of the window when I heard it raining early this morning. As you all know I don't do "work" on Sundays so that means it will be Monday at the earliest on the yard. Maybe I can borrow some goats in the meantime. Or get one of the farmer neighbors to bring their baler over.

I'm still hoping for clear weather this afternoon so I can get our H-D out for a ride. It hasn't been started yet this year. I hope that the battery tender that's been on it all winter has done its job.

Sherry's in the Chicago 'burbs this weekend. It's a race between the granddaughter and me for first place in Sherry's heart. I'm afraid I come in a distant second.

It's getting close to lunchtime for BJ and Dave. They probably need to go sit down somewhere if they've been walking around looking ar Ford trucks all morning. Sure hope that they are having a ball down there in the Smokies.

BJ & Dave, did you take a fishin' pole with you? I see people killing worms in that Little Pigeon River regularly.