Good morning!!!!

[Looking4new]

I remember $100.oo/week clear money driving a dump truck. $0.499/ Imperial gallon for gas. 24 bottle box of beer for $2.50.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon,
Ken, great job on the Halloween decorations!

Paul, I’m pretty sure you’re going to enjoy that splitter! I bought a used rental unit from HD many years ago and I can’t tell you how much work that thing has saved me !

Today I took the bush hog off and put it behind the barn and put the chains on , I know it’s early for that but I always end up doing it in November and my fingers are always cold. After that I put the counter weight barrel on and greased all the fittings. I managed to get a little shop time in after that and started to blank out pieces for the arms on the rockers !

I can assure you Sophie and I never were even in same state let alone neighborhood when it comes to some incomes mentioned

David, I apologize for posting incomes, that was probably very bad taste on my part and not appropriate!

So the beast is chained up for the winter !

Unfortunately the Giants look really bad today Thomas !

Have all have a good evening !

 

[daugen]

Yes we had the gate locked at the Galveston State park at night but it could be opened with a code that the campers were given at check in. Had to use it a few times

I saw a padlock on the chain, did not inspect if it was digital but don't think so.
sure gate code is fine. You just can't lock folks in.

just had to dime out my neighbor for barking dog, which was setting off other dogs around here. Big dog, not sure what type, looks skinny but when I went to walk around front of my rv it started barking at me. Nope, not going to happen. Not with a dog that big. Front desk sent someone immediately and no noise since. Guess I'd better peek out again and see if still tied up out side.
is that a great dane?

 

[m7040]

I remember $100.oo/week clear money driving a dump truck. $0.499/ Imperial gallon for gas. 24 bottle box of beer for $2.50.

We struggled in the beginning in the US as most do I think. Luxury was walk up 4th street in Long Beach for a mile to get a 10 cent ice cream.
Had a cheap Volvo on payments and never used a garage for service since, we could not afford that. Go to the Western Auto parking lot and wrench on it in the parking lot hoping they would have some cheap parts to fix it.
We met a lot of friends in that time period and we also traveled a lot in the Volvo since gas was 17 cents a gallon bringing our sandwiches with us and not staying overnight anywhere
Later on the salary improved but then we had the expense of 9 kids so we were still in the poor house. Some of you may recognize that
Wife's skills in saving money and cooking from cheap ingredients saved the day.
Garage sales were life savers.
Mental health services for some of the kids consumed large amounts
At one time we owed hospitals a huge sum of money but fortunately our company being self insured covered it after we were denied coverage. Big thank you to the CEO that took pity on us

Fortunately we are comfortable in retirement

 

[daugen]

dog started barking again. Office said they'd be glad to move me.
So I called back and said yes please. Spent five minutes inside putting everything away, and then stepped outside to find the offending rv and dog gone.
nothing but an empty spot.
meanwhile I had put all the hoses away. Back out they came and I plugged everything back in.

talked with nice lady next to me who is from Houston and they are traveling in retirement. She has a Winnebago version of my rv, three feet longer, and clearly fancier. She says no problem pulling their Jeep Cherokee with the Ford V10.
I'm thinking I really need a tuneup, at least a set of new plugs.
Have a miss and stumble at idle, mild but there

 

[scott_vt]

Good Evening Drew,
Looks like a Great Dane to me !

 

[wngsprd]

We saw the comet last night about an hour after sunset, very low in the southwest...so just a reminder if you're interested.

 

[sodamo]

Scott, no apologies needed. When I went back in the Army it definitely wasn’t to make lots of money, but I knew I’d make enough and long term I couldn’t outlive my retirement. I can remember being a senior in HS and one day my Dad telling my Mom that was the day he could have retired from Army. My hat’s off to you (or anyone) going a different route and being successful.

 

[sodamo]

We struggled in the beginning in the US as most do I think. Luxury was walk up 4th street in Long Beach for a mile to get a 10 cent ice cream.
Had a cheap Volvo on payments and never used a garage for service since, we could not afford that. Go to the Western Auto parking lot and wrench on it in the parking lot hoping they would have some cheap parts to fix it.
We met a lot of friends in that time period and we also traveled a lot in the Volvo since gas was 17 cents a gallon bringing our sandwiches with us and not staying overnight anywhere
Later on the salary improved but then we had the expense of 9 kids so we were still in the poor house. Some of you may recognize that
Wife's skills in saving money and cooking from cheap ingredients saved the day.
Garage sales were life savers.
Mental health services for some of the kids consumed large amounts
At one time we owed hospitals a huge sum of money but fortunately our company being self insured covered it after we were denied coverage. Big thank you to the CEO that took pity on us

Fortunately we are comfortable in retirement

Funny how looking back, the joys of the memories overcome the aches of the actual struggles.

 

[daugen]

I've been trying to source name brand coil packs for my 2019 Ford V10.
prices range from 110 for no name to 275 for NGK to 650 for oem.
can anyone suggest a good place to order these?
I don't trust Amazon's parts matching yet
Want to do the plugs but seems like ideal time to get new coil packs
particularly since I have a miss
something is amiss...so let's throw some parts at it.