What are you doing today?

Ongoing topics on interesting subjects, what did you do on/with your bike (or other things)?
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Re: What are you doing today?

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Framing an addition/carport on my barn. Also planning on putting the heavy iron fabrication stuff in there. The anvils, steel table, big vices, etc, that all hold shit too heavy for me to deal with! :lol: :lol: My good truck sits outside and I don't like that. Can't fit it in the barn with the travel trailer and tractor in there. Hard on me to climb scaffolding and ladders all day since I do all this stuff by myself. :mrgreen:
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Like an idiot I recently built a pool deck because it was cheaper to do it myself…my body told me over the course of two weeks that it was in fact not cheaper and to get a second job next time! Lol
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After several years of excellent service, the 1964 model D (neighborhood runaround and yard tractor) suddenly lost all oil out of the front transmission front drive, allowing the large ball bearings to rattle free. Made quite the racket running down the street at midnight 😇.
Pulled into the barn leaving a trail of oil.
Time to diagnose!
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Shot some paint on this oil tank, and yes I left the dents in it. :lol:
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It's January in East Tennessee and we have the first snowfall of the year. It may not seem like much to you ol' snow shoes, but here in Knoxville , with its ridges and poor drivers, + the cross roads of two major interstate highways, I-75 & 40, this town comes to a slithering halt with two inches of accumulation. Ha !. I'm retired, so I don't hafta go nowhere, just stay home and watch the cats sleep....
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The dishwasher broke, now I got the job....
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What you do as a pensioner, poison pigeons in the park, get on the neighbors' nerves, and steal the good Lord's time... :lol:

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No water from the tap here all day long, german thoroughness strikes again. Everything is perfectly regulated, but still no running water... :shock:

You pass the time with some positive music, what else do you have to do, Germany 2025!
(Only chance to survive is beer from a can...) 8)



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You probably write a lot of nonsense over the years, but please let it be said...

Despite all these years, it's still James Brown, I can't get away from his music, sorry...

The Payback (1973) 8)



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Old N0 24 got a new set of pipes tonight. Going to get cold tomorrow night, -4 F they say.
Now I got to clean up the sooty mess...
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Hi panhead_kicker,

It would be illegal to still use such an oven here in Germany. In the garden yes, in a building, forget it! :x

Here you even need a written license to shit in the forest. Without this it will cost you 80,- Euros Cash if you get caught, Germany 2025!

Apropos Cash...

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The other night, there was a very nice docu about the band ZZ Top on the german TV.

I am a fan since their first album, in our circle of friends we watched the boys in the year 1986 in the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund.
50.000+ fans getting crazy... 8) 8) 8)

My fav. record still is "Degüello" from the year 1979, for me the best album of the band, there is no better music, never!

Mike
PS Rest in peace, Dusty Hill :(

* In later years I learned, that the "Degüello" was a horn signal, used by the mexican army. And the signal stood for "No mercy, not even for the defeated soldiers!"
(The cover of the record tells the story...)

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Re: What are you doing today?

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M1956G wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2025 9:24 pm The other night, there was a very nice docu about the band ZZ Top on the german TV.

I am a fan since their first album, in our circle of friends we watched the boys in the year 1986 in the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund.
50.000+ fans getting crazy... 8) 8) 8)

My fav. record still is "Degüello" from the year 1979, for me the best album of the band, there is no better music, never!

Mike
PS Rest in peace, Dusty Hill :(

* In later years I learned, that the "Degüello" was a horn signal, used by the mexican army. And the signal stood for "No mercy, not even for the defeated soldiers!"
(The cover of the record tells the story...)

Back in the 1970's I was in high school when ZZ Top first started out. There were rock concerts just about every weekend at the Providence Civic Center and my friends and I went to as many of them as we could afford, so I saw ZZ Top about three times back then. I saw the "Fandango", "Tres Hombres" and "Degüello" tours. They were a straightforward blues-rock power trio and really had the Texas southwestern theme going on, with cattle and vultures on the stage. They really rocked the place. Billy Gibbons was (still is) a great guitarist and Dusty Hill (R.I.P.) and Frank Beard really pumped the rhythm along. I always had a lot of respect for that band. You never heard about "tabloid" stories about any of the guys. They just made a lot of money and put it into the band, keeping it going strong. When MTV came out and everything was about videos they reinvented themselves and really made the most of the medium. The music was still hard driving, but a little less bluesy, with lyrics and imagery of hot rods and hot girls.
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Re: What are you doing today?

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Post by hydra74 »

nice day for a ride!

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Re: What are you doing today?

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Post by panhead »

But a bit cold
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