Coming along

Caulkboy and Red came over Saturday after all the rain and helped me put the siding on the addition to the garage. Now all I have to do is put a little trim on and I'll be good to go.

Also Saturday while it was raining I had the chance to put my new bike back together. I got the motor back from the crew at B&J last Friday and I have been chomping at the bitt to get it going.

Once I got it started and run it through about five heat cycles it was time to take it out in the yard and see how it was going to feel. It felt pretty good but I think I might have to go to a different carburetor and silencer , but I was pleased with the results so far. Oh just a note to anyone thinking of modifying and old bike. A KT 250 sold brand new in 1975 for $940 , I have at this point spent $3160 and done a lot of the modifications myself. To me its worth every penny.

Golf 7/25

Tuesday was hot and dry , a perfect day for golf.

I had a stellar day for me. Only 2 par's but a fine day to say the least. Henry played well but had one of those days where he didn't score well. Dave was off and for him it was probably a bad day. A guy ask if he could play with us and we said fine. This guy could play , but by the time we got done with him he sucked the big one. I'll bet it takes him 3 months to get his game back. Hey he ask us , we didn't ask him.

Mini Rods

This is the Mini Rod class or as I call them the Lawnmowers.

I don't know who thought it was a good idea to put a 550 c.i. motor on a lawnmower , but thats what we got. A fun class to watch because these guys don't have a clue where they are going to end up.

This is Larry Koester the pilot of the "Foot Loose" mini rod. This is one of my favorite drivers in all motor sports.

After loosing his legs in a accident he continued to drive. He jokes about it as the name of the tractor says. I have heard him say that " we lost by a foot" and " the competition had a leg up on us ". In the photo he is grinding the tires for a little more traction.

More from the pull

If you ever wondered what it looked like to haul one of these monsters?

Well the best I can describe it is Roseanne Barr in a pair of size 5 Blue jeans.

Pretty damb tight don't you think.

Redneck Anniversary

If you goto a Tractor Pull for your anniversary..... well you know. Troy and Julie celebrated their 11th anniversary Saturday , but we just happened to be going to the Super Pull of the South in their home town , Chapel Hill Tn.

Here they are pictured in front of a tractor with my favorite engines , the Allison aircraft engine. To Cool.

These motors were used in WWII fighter planes and at one time they said that you could buy them from the military for about $250 bucks.

They were used in racing boats for a long time and then made there way into the pulling tractors. A lot of fun to watch a vintage 12 cylinder motor that has been around longer than I have. More to come.
Patsy is feeling much better and is mean as ever.

What a week!

Tue's was about as hot as you could stand. 105 heat index , but the scores wasn't as hot. Henry had a bad day as far as his score but made some good shots. On number 6 he hit a line drive off the tee and it hit on top of a rock wall and ended up pretty good. I got in to the double boggie trend and stayed with it all day. Thats the way it is some times.

This is a picture of what you get to look at in the hospital. Patsy will be in the hospital the next couple of days trying to get over a case of pneumonia.

This is the third time in a year that she has had this. I don't think she has ever gotten over it the first time. She will be trying to quit smoking when she gets out and I hope to help her.

Golf 7/11

This Tue's was nice and hot. Just right for a golf game. I guess? We all shot pretty good and some lied pretty good to do so. We need to give the Beast a big hand for paring two holes in a row.

Trey shot really well, if he would quit chasing the girls and play more he would be the shit. I don't see that happening though.

When I'm not playing golf or putting on siding I'm building on to the garage. I'm building a junk hole so I can get the cars back in the garage. This will last about two weeks and then I will have to build on again.

4th of July weekend

The boys and I and Henry took off Monday to play a little golf out at Henry Horton state park.

It was hot as hell , but that helped the beer go down better. I know it looks like Barry is in deep thought about his putt , but is really trying to figure out why he out drove me by 80 yards and I had a tap in par and he's putting for boogie.

Here we see the Beast in a little trouble next to the green. A well placed shot ended up stuck in this tree trunk. Don't feel to bad for him though I think he still got his par. I had a similar situation on #6 where I placed my lob wedge about 10 foot up a tree. Good riddens. We had a Ball.
Barry ...97
Troy ...104
Henry ...107
Cpt ...110
This brings us to the 4th. The "siding guys" had a job to do the morning of the 4th. Now I'm going to tell you we we're hung over , it was hot ( about 98) so we wasn't having a lot of fun. We knocked it out and went home for some much needed showers and proceeded to drink and try a new kind of firecracker.

This is "the Works" a toilet bowl cleaner you can get at the Dollar General store for a buck or two. All you got to do is take some aluminum foil and make some balls about half as big as a marble. Put 8 or 10 of them in a plastic bottle ( water,gatoraid,etc.) then pour the Works in the bottle. Just enough to cover the balls. Screw the lid back on and get the hell back. In about a minute the bottle will expand to 3 times it's size and then blow like a 12 gauge shot gun.

This is the remains of one of the bottles. Every time we set one off we would giggle like a bunch of school girls. This was cheaper than fireworks and it made us laugh. You can't get any better than that. If you use toilet bowl cleaner for fireworks , you might be a Red Neck. I love that shit.