Good morning!!!!

[Looking4new]

Talk about pushy door to door salesmen, back when I was about 12/13 Mom had a vacuum cleaner salesman come to the door. When she opened it ( swings inward) a little he stuffed his foot into it so she couldn't shut the door. Well on the corner of the kitchen counter was a claw hammer and after she politely said 'NO' many times and tried to shut the door which wouldn't shut because his foot was in the door, I grabbed the claw hammer and let him have it on the top part of his instep. HARD! He pulled his foot back and I told Ma to shut the door. She says you hurt him. I said he got his foot out of the door didn't he? Win, win for us. I didn't give a dam if I hurt him. She had cookies baking and they were more important that the bogus vacuum cleaner he was selling.
I think door to door sales people are just there to 'case' your house anyway.
NOBODY gets into my house that I don't want in it. I usually stand on the deck which is about 4' higher than the driveway and I stand about 6'4" tall, long hair and beard with tattoos on both arms. Intimidating to say the least. My standard question as interlopers are getting out of their car/truck is, "You must be lost". If you are on this property then you are lost. Please leave. (Polite the first time). Second time not so polite. Along the lines of GET THE F$%^ off my property! Third time I just call the cops.
Religion pushers, I let Junior handle. He has a saying that makes them run.

 

[daugen]

nice blue sky out but way too cold
so puttered inside
more cukes planted, these are all the 3 to 4 inch ones you buy in a pack of five or six in supermarket.
My favorites. But at .75 to a buck a piece, I'll likely just eat them off the vine.
these will be planted and grown up a trellis
when i try to post it says a 5.12 mg file is too big.
uploaded image is too big

clearly doesn't like me.
I wonder if the machine is telling me something.
next, I will just disappear like Navalny....
perhaps it doesn't like cucumbers, gives it gas
mine are burpless, so there

pics later

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

My approach is to dive deep in customer's issues, do engineering and cost analysis together. Rather often we together discover that ROI for new machine will be unnecessarily long, for such guys it's better to go for smaller model or second hand.

I am not selling but rather "waiting order to fall in my hands".
Till now I doesnt had a single sales guy. But 5 service technicians. Looking on my competitors which have opposite picture I can tell you that dirty hands service technician (who doesn't control his mouth very well) is selling much better than smooth and shiny sales-boy.
We are working with industrial customers only, highly specialized and focused. There is some market with lower level craftsmans, too, that's where this new guy will work


Really hate those hyper-salespersons, which doesn't respect my personal space, doesn't take my no for answer etc

I like this approach.

Hope BMW comes out of hibernation ok.

Daughter is beautiful.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Happy B'day Sassy!

Popgadget, that looked like quite the job. I hope you had some help lifting things in place to stab a bolt to hold. Hope wifey is happy with old trusty vehicle. That Parilla was really cool back then. It looks about what a GP bike in the day looked like. Did the engine have a belt to drive the cam, or was it a bevel gear shaft? I rode an RD400 to school my junior and senior year.

I tell every biker who will listen, During the day ride with your highbeams on, to make cars think it is a locomotive coming down the track.

Drew, sorry about all your toils with the makeshift greenhouse.

 

[sodamo]

63°F and .58 inches rain. Sun forecast for this afternoon. That would be so nice. Need to start drying out.

Guys won H&F. A nice back and forth game, we were fortunate to prevail.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Texas Wildfires. Sad and serious. I heard if they can't snuff them out by Sunday it is looking like dry windy conditions will kick them in high gear again.

https://satlib.cira.colostate.edu/event/texas-panhandle-wildfires/

This is mostly ranch territory. There are quite a many stories coming out. If there are green wheat pastures, they are cutting the fences to let cattle seek safety over the green fields. Neighbors helping neighbors.

 

[Popgadget]

That Parilla was really cool back then. It looks about what a GP bike in the day looked like. Did the engine have a belt to drive the cam, or was it a bevel gear shaft? I rode an RD400 to school my junior and senior year.

I tell every biker who will listen, During the day ride with your highbeams on, to make cars think it is a locomotive coming down the track.
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The Parilla had a gear drive camshaft that was mounted high on the engine, but still had short pushrods and rocker arms.

I agree about lights. If you look at the picture of my wrecked Sportster, you’ll see the tail light is on. About the only thing on that bike that wasn’t stock (or period correct) was the Hella headlight reflector and super bright white LED bulb. And the tail light is proof that it was on at the time of the accident.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon Helo,
Beautiful bike, nothing like Deutsch engineering !!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I tell every biker who will listen, During the day ride with your highbeams on, to make cars think it is a locomotive coming down the track.

I drive my car in the daylight now with the lights on. However, just a few moments ago, someone coming other direction just weaved over into my lane, I had to brake hard, they were swerving for a trash can sitting at the side of the road. apparently they thought a head on collision was safer than possibly scraping the side of a trash can.

 

[daugen]

got all the plants back out in the greenhouse, a pleasant 84 in there now
planted a flat of elegans lilliput zinnias
then fed the birds
now sitting and resting before helpers show up
old friend just called sounded awful, tested pos for covid today, so he sure isn't coming.
but another younger helper can so will have enough hands.

Will be raining tomorrow, but good day to work inside rv and hook it up to water and see
that everything is just dry as a bone.
dry as a bone with the water turned on.
maybe

no weather below freezing in ten day forecast

still can't post pics, keeps saying too large.
guess I'll go back to the regular camera and see if that makes any difference.
what's with these HEIC files?