What did YOU do today?

[Rick W]

Did ever mention I love Craigslist and marketplace? I hate Facebook and Zuckerberg, but marketplace is growing on me.

This morning I picked up four almost brand new (still had a new tire smell) 185/65/14’s for my converter dolly and the ‘Raith, both of which are still dreams. $120 for 4 almost brandy new. 18 miles away, not much gas.

I went to my Shoney’s shed guy, and he mounted two of them and one of my 235/75/15s for the Towncart for 60 bucks. Rims had to be dismounted too.

While I was waiting for him to do the work, I browsed marketplace, and I found this tri-ball Pintle for $25.

Home Depot $97:

40 miles up and 40 miles back (1-1/2 hours total, 90% 75-mph interstate), about $15 in gas, and I got it for $20. I know I know, but I had to get it, I was down to like 20 hitches.

In between, I set up some little sawhorses to start work on the aluminum channel, and to hold the casket. I have to take the tub out of the casket to remove the handles for the paint job. I need the casket off the Road Ranger step trailer to fix the upper deck.

After those years of being injured and sick, I like it when the dominoes are falling forwards instead of backwards…

 

[Rick W]

Oh, and my steel balls have been shipped….

 

[19Walt93]

Well, today I haven't done crap. Tuesday I had my right hip replaced and I'm on "rest, exercise, and walk" to be followed by don't do anything fun for 3 months. I know I can count on you guys to post smart ass stuff to keep me entertained.

 

[pjtoledo]

ya got me beat. the best I did was drop a hitch insert on my foot. toes are turning purple now.

 

[Uncle Gump]

ya got me beat. the best I did was drop a hitch insert on my foot. toes are turning purple now.

Just don't go visit @Rick W shed of miracles... you may not survive the impending hitch insert avalanche.

 

[rumblecloud]

Started working on my spare tire carrier - the one under the bed in the back. What a mess.
Ended up grinding off half of the attaching nuts and bolts, drilling out a couple of hinge pins.

It's back together, but still ain't happy with it.

I have to heat the shop up to about 60 so I can paint the different parts. While the heat is building I end up having a few too many beers and forget what it is I am doing...it's a vicious circle

 

[Uncle Gump]

Hell... I don't even need beer to forget what I was doing.

 

[Fast Eddie]

Started working on my spare tire carrier - the one under the bed in the back. What a mess.
Ended up grinding off half of the attaching nuts and bolts, drilling out a couple of hinge pins.

It's back together, but still ain't happy with it.

I have to heat the shop up to about 60 so I can paint the different parts. While the heat is building I end up having a few too many beers and forget what it is I am doing...it's a vicious circle

Yes, but what I don't hear is you complaining

 

[tw205]

In a moment of weakness

I brought home this sweet little girl. I’ve had cats for many years. I use to travel for work and cats are easier to leave alone for a couple days at a time. I lost my little man chair buddy last spring and I swore no more. The loss was too much. But here I go again.

 

[bilbo]

In a moment of weakness
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I brought home this sweet little girl. I’ve had cats for many years. I use to travel for work and cats are easier to leave alone for a couple days at a time. I lost my little man chair buddy last spring and I swore no more. The loss was too much. But here I go again.

What a cutie, congratulations!

We’ve kind of adopted a cat that decided to squat under our shed. I’m severely allergic to cats so we can’t have them inside or anything, but outside is ok. She is going in to get fixed tomorrow so we had to crate her tonight. She’s not thrilled about that but we can’t have more kittens, two litters is enough.

We had an appointment for her a couple months back but the day before she had to go she seemed to disappear. We thought she maybe got picked up by someone or hit by a car. Then a couple weeks later she was back again.

I hope she comes through the spay ok as she’s really a pretty cool cat. It’s been neat to go from her being scared to death to now readily coming up to me wanting pets.

 

[Uncle Gump]

Seems like the cats that color are the best mouse'rs

 

[scotts90ranger]

Yeah, my male cat is that color and he'll catch anything... one time he came to me with a diseased almost bald mouse, I chucked it in the garbage or something and he went off in a puff mad and came back 5 minutes later with a different mouse... apparently birds are too much work as I've found piles of feathers next to a partially stripped bird here and there, now he just catches and leaves those... got a squirrel once and it was just missing a hind quarter...

Yesterday I cleaned the shop some and finally found somewhere to stash my vise and grinder that are on pedestals to go into the floor receivers in the shop, my rolling cart has 2" channel iron on the bottom with a little overhang on one end so I welded on some steel strap to go inside the tube and C clamped the posts to the uprights, close enough for now!

Tonight I cleaned more then got the truck camper in the shop so I can pull the side panel off the drivers side since it's bubbling up behind the sink... not looking forward to that job... not to mention losing like 8'x18' of shop floor space for however long it takes... I have about a month and a half...

 

[Snoranger]

In a moment of weakness
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I brought home this sweet little girl. I’ve had cats for many years. I use to travel for work and cats are easier to leave alone for a couple days at a time. I lost my little man chair buddy last spring and I swore no more. The loss was too much. But here I go again.

I got 3 of those things earlier this year. (2 of them are laying on me as I type this.)

I told the story already, so here’s the short version. I voted we get a dog, my wife and daughter “comprised” and now we have 3 cats.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Surprise surprise, it's worse than I thought! I was hoping to just peel some of the side panel off and fix just behind the sink... turns out it's the whole bottom half of the drivers side, most everything was just attached to the fiberglass skin, battery mostly floating, water heater held up by the skin, etc... gotta figure out how to get the two windows out on that side, I think they're held in by the screws on the inside... going to be a lot of busy nights if I'm going to get it finished by the beginning of March... Guess I get to brush up on my woodworking skills, at least I have a table saw...

 

[racsan]

picked up 7 40# bags of softner salt, guy before me got a whole pallet in his F150, wonder what that was- price & weight. yikes! $8.50/bag for the “red” variety. (better for high iron) went to the next town for breakfast, snowing here. Heater works pretty good when you drive over 10 miles. Top off the fuel before we head home to hibernate. Not sure how much snow we will get, I doubt much. Just gonna leave the weight in the back. Just in case.