Good Morning Gurus!

Good Friday Gurus!

My last day of work before vacation. I cannot promise that I will wake up early enough to start a chat next week. So if anyone wants to do the honors, that would be great.

I'll jump back in the following week.

Anybody gots any groovy weekend plans?

I think I will start by getting my house clean enough for the tax guy to come and to our taxes. I had a great freelance year last year, so I predict I will be writing a check for a grand or two. Sucks.

Have a great vacation!

It is snowing like a madman here, looks like something out of Currier & Ives. So a good weekend to hunker down and get back to work on the car. Valve cover gaskets are next - hope to get the oil leak solved before tackling the headers.

Spring finally gets to N.J.
Still a little cold, but the roads are dry and salt free.
Time to get the 07 out of moth balls and on the road.


Enjoy your vacation.

vacations are fun... especially when you do absolutely nothing for a week... I kinda wish I knew what that was like.

Our vacation:

March 12 - Fly to Nashville(3p, CDT); Drive to Atlanta for dinner with HS buddy; Stayed in Valdosta, GA (arrived at 12:30a)

March 13 - Lunch with Peace Corps friend of Bastet44; arrived in Sebring, 5:30p; Dinner with friend from Ohio, my brother and his wife, finally home by 10p!

March 14/15 - 12 Hours of Sebring

March 16 - Drive to Nashville, left 9a, arrived, 10:30p (CDT)

March 17 - NCM (did sleep in a bit, tho)

March 18 - Slept in, processed some 400 digital pictures

March 19 - Checked out, did some small errands, airport. Left at 7p CDT arrived in LA at 9:30p, PDT, arrived at home at 10:30p.

March 20 - Back to work...

Gotta run!

Sorry, no enjoyment for me. Landscaping the back yard. Lugging railroad ties, and shoveling rocks. That is why I call it "prison labor". Honestly, I would rather be at work. But I could use a break from making TV commercials and driving 100 miles a day. I'll be glad to come back to work when the week is over though.


I did get to drive the Vette last night, and plan to keep it well lubricated during the week, if possible.

My Ruby was a little cranky with me yesterday. Low idle and a new buzzing rattle in the steering column. Neither was present after warmup though. Hopefully I can take a day and do some minor projects I have been meaning to tackle.

A new piece of interior trim at the top inside of the windshield, and replace one of the pot metal sun visor supports.

I have new floormats and a cargo area mat I can put in. A buddy gave me a dash mat, but I don't care for them. Not sure if I will install that or not.

And I got that headliner material from Tobijohn, so I might even attempt to redo the headliner. But we'll see.

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I feel your pain. Back in '06, I put in 600 feet of paver edging around the house and garden, and built a little retaining wall. It was in the 90's and humid the whole time, and involved a lot of digging and pounding with a dead-blow hammer - projectile sweating was the norm.

http://bradprestonmusic.com/Photos/Garden2006/Pavers1.JPG
http://bradprestonmusic.com/Photos/Garden2006/Pavers2.jpg
http://bradprestonmusic.com/Photos/Garden2006/RetainingWall.jpg
http://bradprestonmusic.com/Photos/Garden2006/Garden3.jpg

And some years back, I put in about 22 tons of rock - ugh!

I'm hoping for a mellow weekend. Just reading about all that yardwork makes me tired.

I'm a little perturbed at the moment because my email provider seems to be down. I need to call them to find out what's up.

My wife owns a landscape company and plant nursery. She does that about 280 days a year. Plenty of people willing to pay not to have to do that. I do lots of it around the house. Just general maintenance though. Working on the cars for me is the never ending project. Save and spend, save and spend. From my experience, it's always cheaper to buy a car in mint condition than buy a fixer upper and let it nickle and dime you. Just like it's usually cheaper to buy someones completed project than do the project yourself. .... I know , I know, Let's not forget the fun and experience factor. I'm working on the parts list now for all the vehicles.

Your back yard looks absolutely stunning, Brad! I am jealous!

I think Brad's yard is bigger than our house! And it's so beautiful!

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Thanks a ton! It was a lot of work over the years, but now it's not bad to maintain. We put a sprinkler system in last year, so my wife (who was our sprinkler system - LMAO) is ecstatic now. We get a lot of people stopping to pay a compliment or ask questions when they walk by, so there's some satisfaction in all the sweat.

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I totally agree. One day we'll have to do a pics from around the yard thread.

I'll try to do a before and after post this week. I don't think it will be that much different, but what the hell....

It's all dirt now. It will be dirt, rocks and railroad ties by next Friday.

Assuming I don't have to spend all my money on taxes....

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Thank you, sir!

One of the "advantages" of living in MN is 6 months of no yard work - looks a lot like this today:

http://bradprestonmusic.com/Photos/NoGolfHere.jpg

Watering season....

Are those little birdhouses in the snowy picture? They're cute!

My industry is off for Good Friday. Ran at the beach this morning and will race on Saturday. It cooled off a bit but still in the low 70's.

Changed a couple fuses, topped off the R34a for summer driving, checked the fluids and cleaned the inside.

I don't buy anything from the TV, that being said, about a year ago, I was watching CNBC and they showed a new product.
"MagicJack". Hadn't seen it until 3:30am one morning, purchased it for $39.95. It pluges into the usb port and a telephone plugs into it. Works off the computers high speed internet and not the phone companys products. Free calls, local and long distance...very interesting product.

This is NOT an ad for www.magicjack.com

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Yep. The one on the right is about 60 years old - my wife's grandfather made it. I had to do some remodeling on that, too - LOL!

BTW, I got my static cling in the mail earlier this week - thanks much!

Cool!

And glad the cling arrived! Let me know if you need anymore!

css - why the hell are you doing landscaping when there is a foot of snow and 5' of permafrost?

Brad - the yard is beautiful! How much land do you have? I am guessing about an acre.

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Thanks much! It's only about 1/3 acre - it's a corner lot, so it looks bigger than it is. Especially on hot yardwork days :-P

my mom's house is on a 1/2 acre... the back yard was at a slope, not steep, but enough that when pushing a mower, it got REAL heavy!

So tractor time it was!

When I used to drive distances, I would plan things only the lotto could pay for. one of those was an ornate, water feature ladened back garden/oasis. It woulda been cool.