Temptation!

[lloyd3]

Finally got home Sunday after a nearly 2-month stay up in Nowhere, Minnesota (very near to Frostbite Falls).



When I left there early Saturday morning (last) is was overcast and cold. While buying gas in extreme northern North Dakota (at the very last exit before Canada), it started to blow & snow and I realized that I didn't have nearly enough coat on. Contrast that with what the exterior thermometer in my 8-year old Mazda was telling me as I crossed back into Colorado from Nebraska on Sunday afternoon (87-degrees!).  Four hours later, as I pulled into my driveway, it was still in the low 80s here.  Heavenly, I must tell you.



Now, not entirely heaven because my yard is completely covered in leaves that need raked and bills that need paid, there is also a freezer that is making suspicious sounds which indicates the need for a defrosting  (it all waits for you, right?).

Two days of driving too-fast (interstates are pretty wild these days, with average speeds in the mid-80s) leaves me a bit jaded for a day or two, but by Tuesday (yesterday) I was coming back to life, so-much-so that I made a lunch date with a buddy to get caught up (& to get some hunting supplies needed for my next adventure which is coming up shortly). Anyway, the "temptation" component of all this is that lunch with this buddy usually involves my '68 car, which is happily slumbering under it cover now.  If I didn't have so-much going on, I'd have dragged it out for a fun November toot! The weather here is supposed to be good for another 3-4 days and it would be a blast to finally get a Fall ride or two in for a change.



It's effectively Indian Summer here right now and man...that is just so tempting.

The freezer be-damned!

[Kern Dog]

I was at a buddy's place today, light to moderate rain most of the day. We were putting 3 point REAR seat belts in his 69 Coronet. He offered to buy lunch, so he chose to drive his '68 Dart despite the rain.



This picture was from weeks ago.
Today, it was wet. It must have impressed any car guy that saw us out on the road in wet weather just driving the car like any late model vehicle.

[lloyd3]

I'm certainly impressed.

Cleaning up after a drive in the rain is always a big job.  Not impossible mind you (and it can actually be fun) but...it's real work to do it right.

[lloyd3]

Well...I finally did it:



Headed out to lunch on a Fall day.



After lunch, got it greased and the fluids topped off (which is a free service provided by my local GreaseMonkey. [Note: my son worked here for almost 5-years & the boss is a car nut.]) for it's long slumber. I even bought some fresh fuel stabilizer.



Colorado in November (some years).



Back to bed...

[b5blue]

night night 

[lloyd3]

Postscript:  Uncovered the car and took it to a nearby home for a visit with a fellow I met while hunting last week. We got to chatting in the parking lot of the hotel we were both staying in and he asked about some help with his hunt. Now...get this, this gentleman is 86-years old and he's hunting elk alone (his partners crapped-out on him and he went anyway). We were hunting in the same area so I gave him my cellphone number and told him to call if he needed assistance. As it turns out he didn't need any (he didn't kill).

Long story-short, it turns out we're neighbors of sorts and he's a car guy (has a Cadillac-corvette, look that one up, only made for 2-years), he'd also lost his wife last year(ugh!). Had a nice visit, swapped stories, compared cars, drank some decaf and headed for home. It was dark by the time we were done and I quickly discovered that my highbeams don't work any more, at all. Low beams are fine, but high beams are pitch dark (pretty spooky on our deer-covered roads). Made it home, put the car back under it's cover, added more Stabil (had to buy more gas, of course) and now I'm headed back out hunting again today. Lots to do here next spring, eh?

Tune-ups, and hopefully only new lamps needed (& not switches).