Hot August Nights with Coffee & Tea.

[Major 2]

Looks very good Major, did you source the parts and turn the wrenches?

[DeaconKC]

Good morning folks. We got home last night from our visit trip, got the truck unloaded, us unpacked and then just crashed. 1400 miles all told, but well worth it, as getting to see the newest g'niece [boy, she's a tiny thing!], tons of lovin' from her two older sisters, and then went to see my Aunts in the St Louis area. One is on Hospice now, so it was probably the last time to see her in person. Nice visits, good weather, overall, as nice a trip as you could have.

[Major E A Sterner]

Looks very good Major, did you source the parts and turn the wrenches?

Yes,I found another Magnum with the same color and used that to fix mine.I paid $2000 for the donor car, If I had bought the parts new and had them painted it would have cost twice that.Plus the donor car had other parts I can use. Once I'm done stripping it for parts it will go to the salvage yard.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are ready.

'Tis 61 and overcast. "Cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning. Showers likely and a slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning  then a chance of showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the middle 70s. Light and variable wind becoming north 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 60 percent."

Slim

[Major 2]

    I hate scammers 

they are in full swing right now....

I got an email scam from a friends hacked email account

Claimed he had Covid, could not talk in the phone due to sever sore throat.
Claimed, Doc. said " he could not go out for some reason"   

Scammer wanted me to buy an American Express Gift card, for his nephew's B' day ,

no amount requested just " to buy a card "and he would me pay back....

yeah right!

it came from his email but also linked to the scammers G-mail account, had I responded.

point being his email is hacked...and is sending to his contacts, another mutual friend got it as well.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are ready.

'Tis 48 and fog. High of 76.

Slim

[Delmonico]

Went to the infectious disease clinic and got a new bag of antibiotics, battery change change the outer dressing and a blood draw, one thing nice about picc lines they can get blood out of them with out having to make another hole.

[DeaconKC]

Good evening folks, rough day yesterday. Tripped going to my Doctor, hit my head on a brick cornerstone, got into the Doctor's office covered in blood, bleeding like a pig. Wound having to get a dozen stitches in my scalp. Definitely could have done without that. No concussion thankfully and being spoiled by the Missus. Think I will grab some coffee.

[pony express]

Well, Deacon, I guess it you're gonna have an accident like that, having it while you're already going to your doctor is...ummm... "convenient". Glad you're all stitched back together and doing better.

[The Trinity Kid]

Greetings from Africa.

Weather has cooled down a few degrees this week. Down from highs in the 110-115 range into the high 90s. I'll take it.

The new unit replacing ours has arrived. Now it's just a matter of getting them up to speed and getting out of here.

As far as other excitement goes, I spent all morning in the wing of a plane changing a pair of O ring gaskets. In any other connection in that part of the wing it would have been 10-20 minutes, but of course it had to be the most difficult one and took 5 hours. And I got soaked in JP-8, so that was fun.

Glad to hear everyone is still on the plucking side of the daisy circle.

—TK

[Major 2]

Sad for your topple KC, glad your mending .... also, Glad you are rebounding too Del.
and good to see your headed back Stateside Kid, welcome home.

Headed to the museum shortly, been slow at the gate lately just trickle attendance since school re-opened.
Vacations are over, I suppose the next surge will be the snowbirds.

An 82-year-old gent messaged me, with his collection to sell, an Enfield musket, Cavalry saber,
a d-handle sword and BP rifle of some sort.
I'll see if he can forward photos, my assumption is they are CW era replicas

That's the news at this juncture.  Coffee's on

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Thanks for the coffee.

'Tis 60 and partly sunny. "Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Highs in the upper 70s. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent."

Slim

[Delmonico]

Decon, I hope you are doing ok.  Trying to do some cleaning around here wife is off with craft friends and GD in hiding in her room with friend/friends, not sure how many have showed up, she turns 18 on Thursday.  I'm thinking of getting me a mechanics stool on wheels to use cleaning, I can now breath bent over but the back won't take it at all, not really sure if the antibiotics are doing there job, got MRI scheduled the 12th but it could be done earlier if need be. 

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are ready.

'Tis 60, cloudy and fog. "Humid. Cloudy. Showers likely in the morning. Thunderstorms also possible in the morning  then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the middle 70s. South wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent."

Slim

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are ready.

'Tis 65, hazy and cloudy. "Humid. Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning  then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the middle 80s. Southwest wind 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent."

Slim

[The Trinity Kid]

Greetings all.

Another hot and muggy one in Africa. 98, heat index of 115. A bit toasty for my taste.

Had a big inspection today. Customs and someone else from a long acronym agency that I couldn't spell even if I wanted to. They gave the white glove treatment to all of our greasy equipment that has sat out in the dust storms for the past 4 months. Took a lot of cleaning. I got to be the team lead on a couple of pallets, despite being the most junior ranking member of the team. I think I did okay at it.

—TK

[DeaconKC]

Howdy all, been gimping around here the last couple days as the Missus takes care of me and keeps me on a short leash. Much better today, actually got out and ran a couple of errands. Got some iced coffee and gonna watch the Cardinals game in a bit. TK, you take care out there.

[Russ T Chambers]

Last weekend of the summer is creeping up.  That means here in Reno/Sparks it's the smell of BBQ ribs and later the influx of alkali dust! 

The Burners are packing up and heading out to the Black Rock Playa for a week of Burning Man.  They'll be back around the 1st with vehicles a common shade of light grey from the desert dust.  That means bottled water is rare to be found, and next weekend you won't be able to get near a car wash.

The more sane people will be found in Victorian Square in Downtown Sparks this weekend.  Sampling BBQ ribs from over 20+ rib cookers and other food vendors.  Plenty of ribs, beer, grilled corn, crafts, and other pleasures are all to be had in a more civilized atmosphere. 

I'm opting for the latter as it has facilities and is free.  The former costs over $500/person to get to cook in the sweltering desert with no shade and nice alkali dust storms.

Let ya know how it goes next week when all settles down.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are ready.

'Tis 54 and cloudy. Fog in the creek bottom. High of 77.

Slim

[Major 2]

Slept in, thanks for the coffee enjoying mine now.
Actually, I was up just before dawn being cold nosed by Blaze.
Once he made his plumbing check and I mine, I went back to catch another few winks.

Hoping for your recovery KC