Hey 19 - Random Thoughts: In the year 2525...more or less
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Got a notification about a "like" of one of my replies on twitter last night. Went to look at it; it was a reply to a post from Brock Purdy back in 2022...and the "like" was from Brock.
I should probably pay more attention to the weather forecast. Had garden work planned. Going to jack up and brace my old redbud tree that slumped down too low and blocking garden walk. Damn hot and humid. Will post later to confirm I DND.
Edit: That was a couple of hours ago. Forgot to hit send. Taking a break. DND. Wonder how old the bottle jack is that I am using?
Edit: That was a couple of hours ago. Forgot to hit send. Taking a break. DND. Wonder how old the bottle jack is that I am using?
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I think my yard is the greenest it has ever been for the end of July. It was really dry up until the middle of June but since then we're been getting rain on a pretty regular basis.
Just saw this photo. Wow, you can sure tell they had a lot of land to spread out in so didn't worry about going up.
If you ever get to the Saylorville township, there's a place called Spooky Acres that sells this type of stuff on the side of the road. Cash or venmo.
Friend called me up to ask if I could change a sparky plug on her Sonata for her. Car parts store said engine light was for sparky plug #2. Managed it without stripping any threads. Dad Boxster was a "If tight is good, tighter is better!" when it came to wrench work and that lead to more than a few stripped threads. I outgrow that later in life. 
Not being my dad, I dug out my old Craftsman torque wrench. Additionally it amuses me when friends who are not "car peeps" think I am a "cars peep" for wrenching and knowledge. And I am really not!
Sidebar: Yikes. The guy who did these plugs last must have over torqued the **** out of them. Did not actually have to put a cheater bar on the wrench but it was close!
Not being my dad, I dug out my old Craftsman torque wrench. Additionally it amuses me when friends who are not "car peeps" think I am a "cars peep" for wrenching and knowledge. And I am really not!
Sidebar: Yikes. The guy who did these plugs last must have over torqued the **** out of them. Did not actually have to put a cheater bar on the wrench but it was close!
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Y'know, googling the address, I've driven past there many a time, but heading north, so I was driving on the other side of the road. I'm going to have to check that out.
Spooky Acres Farm & Bakery | Des Moines IA
Spooky Acres Farm & Bakery, Des Moines. 461 likes · 42 talking about this. Spooky Acres Farm & Bakery is a family run roadside stand. We are providing a variety of baked goods.
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Yeah if we're heading to Saylorville sometimes we'll swing thru there. Neat business for sure.Y'know, googling the address, I've driven past there many a time, but heading north, so I was driving on the other side of the road. I'm going to have to check that out.
Spooky Acres Farm & Bakery | Des Moines IA
Spooky Acres Farm & Bakery, Des Moines. 461 likes · 42 talking about this. Spooky Acres Farm & Bakery is a family run roadside stand. We are providing a variety of baked goods.
Might have to give that a watch having worked some on the recovery/rebuilt for the flood damage reduction effort.
You are allowed to turn left and cross the road.Y'know, googling the address, I've driven past there many a time, but heading north, so I was driving on the other side of the road. I'm going to have to check that out.
Spooky Acres Farm & Bakery | Des Moines IA
Spooky Acres Farm & Bakery, Des Moines. 461 likes · 42 talking about this. Spooky Acres Farm & Bakery is a family run roadside stand. We are providing a variety of baked goods.
Well, I made it back from RAGBRAI. FIL was in the hospital so I cut the ride short.
My takeaway is that Velo is fat and needs to do something about it.
My takeaway is that Velo is fat and needs to do something about it.
Or maybe he was waiting on something else.....
I moved this here because I didn't want to hijack the other thread. This phrase reminded me of something I used to participate in back when the online DMR forums were still a thing (15-20 years ago). There were a group of us that were...erm...more progressive than some of the others, and we had some folks in the forums who were convinced that our group was going to hell. So we decided to do it in a handbasket...and that became a catch phrase for us; we were the handbasket crew.
