Good morning all, and welcome to May! Now it just needs to warm up and start acting like May. Chilly this morning!! Anyhow, thanks to everyone that stops by and says hello! Let's get this party started!

 

Good morning Pat..

 

I made it!

 

Hello Pat. Up to 50 over here.

 

Good morning everyone! Finished up a two day trucking job late last night. It was a good little gig but fuel negated over half of my profits. This is beyond ridiculous. I pulled my first load through Genoa, NE on Thursday morning and diesel was at $4.86. When I came through with my second load two hours later, it jumped to $5.09. Back in February, I was paying $2.92 at that same station. I remember back in high school/college, we were all going to buy little diesel cars because the fuel was typically a quarter cheaper than gas was. Then all of a sudden it jumped up to be a quarter more expensive one day. This feels like 2008 all over again. Problem is, my biggest expense was cheap beer for parties back in those days.

On a lighter note and now that I'm thinking about my college days... I'm surprised my friends and I survived bachelorhood at all. Here's some of our tamer stats:

We once had a party at my house and all of my furniture got destroyed... It was still less than a $20 loss.
A friend borrowed a Mazda pickup I owned at the time then decided to get a DUI and got it impounded. The tow bill cost more than what I paid for the pickup.
We were so broke that we made our own fun. We used to sneak around neighborhoods and take Christmas lights off of houses and put them on to the neighbor's house.
We had an early 90's 4-door Bonneville that we got enough guys to go in together on when $500 cars still existed. We turned it into a convertible with a sawzall and drove it to the police station to ask if it was legal. The cops were cool with it.
In order keep our drinks with us at all times and avoid trouble with the cops, we would put our beer/mixers in little gas containers to conceal. We thought we were pretty stealthy but the plastic we likely ingested probably didn't do us any favors.
Toward the end of my college career when I had finally gotten a job, I would pull my bed in front of my door to keep party house guests out of my room. The sound of drunks hitting that door/floor was as sweet as rain drops on my window.
We had a party room set up in the basement of our house complete with a beer pong table, a couch, stacks of old tires to sit on, a dirt bike, and a dentist chair we bought from the college for a buck.
The retired old timer they had for campus security wouldn't bust you for having alcohol on campus as long as you shared with him.

 

The "good old days", Kenny.
Reminds me of one time in high school, a friend took a 56 Ford Fairlaine and we made it into a convertible. Back then (1960) we used hand hacksaws.

 

We were going to take the kids sledding this past winter and my wife talked about how everything was flat where she grew up so they didn't go sledding as kids. I asked her how anyone even got to school back then if there were no hills to walk up both ways.

 

My walk to Jr High school was not quite a mile. If it was a mile, I could have rode a school bus. Which stopped about a block away.
Had to cross railroad tracks and a busy highway. Was fun putting a penny on the tracks and finding it squished after a train passed over it.

 

Good morning and happy Sunday, everyone!

We lived a block away from the grade school growing up. I only remember mom giving us a ride to school once, maybe twice. Back then, it still snowed in the winters, so you'd be walking in a foot or two of snow. I even remember wearing bread sacks over my socks because my shoes had holes in them haha. What's more fun is I live a few doors down from my childhood home and I'll likely be making my kids walk to that same school. The circle will be complete.

 

Good morning 'Braska...Happy Saturday #1...hope y'all had a great weekend!!!

May the 4th be with you!!!

 

Morning gang

 

It was too early for Pat, Neil.

 

Good morning, everyone! Got chilly over here today!

I'm more of a "revenge of the fifth" kind of guy, haha!

 

Good afternoon guys! Sorry I wasn't around yesterday, started afternoon shift this week, and we were pretty busy last night. Not so much tonight. Had a pretty busy weekend, getting rid of a tree I cut down, yard work, seeing the grandkids, drinking beer! Did finally get time to start playing with the 67, need to do some fixes to the box body work before I spray high build.

 

Good afternoon all, another evening on the rock pile. Actually running units tonight. Was hoping to get fence posts on the back end of the shop put in today, but its just a bit too cool, hopefully tomorrow. Need to get the go-carrt I bought for the grandkids tore down so I can get it, and my new radiator support powder coated.