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A Leak, A Repair, And A Busted Bolt
On my way to work today I noticed smoke coming out from under the hood. A bad sign on most planets. When I got into work I noticed that the “smoke” was in fact steam from all the antifreeze in the engine hitting the very hot engine block. After work I went to an autoparts […]
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Anyone Want a Used Dog CHEAP??
Stupid, stupid dog. We had out of town guests this weekend, and Mudi always makes a right old pest of herself. Banging a the door that they are staying and wanting to play at 3 in the morning she is just a royal pain. So I decided to put her outside; bark, bark bark, right […]
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I Got A Nail Gun
Since I got my pride and joy, no not the kids, the compressor. I have been feeling the need for a framing nailer, not just any nailer a porter cable FR350. I love those; Christy says that I’ll just shoot my eye out. However, I struggle with the concept of 200 dollars for a nail […]
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Farmers Market
I have lived in Salt Lake for 3 summers now and I have always wanted to check out the Farmers market at Pioneer park. Well, all suspense aside next time I want to go to a Farmers Market I will drive to Logan or some other Farmers’ Market Salt Lakes was more of a Hippie […]
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Where Are Those Darn Keys.
The Carvers had a 24th of July BBQ party. It was a BYOMeat really, really fun. We had fireworks and drinks just a great evening. At the beginning Christy got nervous about some illness that one of the kids had there, so she had to go home and look up information. No big deal. So […]
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I’m a Genius
My son told me so last night. We were trying to figure out dinner; I finally got sick of the waiting, talking, and discussing. So I went to KFC and came back with a bucket. Logan saw it and his eyes got huge as he yelled “Dad! you’re a genius! What a great idea for […]
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Mowing the Lawn
An exercise in agony. I tried to mow the lawn last night, and it dang near put me in an ambulance. Our neighbor had said that she would send her boys over to do it, but I didn’t want them to have to clean up my mess. Between the gate and the vacation it hasn’t […]
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Worst Drive Ever
That horrible desolate “well-maintained” (please note the dripping sarcasm) stretch from Gallup to Cortez. We were only on it for an hour from Farmington to Cortez, but it still was way to long. The day started off with me and Logan going and washing the EDV to remove all the white “sands”. As we came […]
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White Sands My Butt!
Try White cement. There are two things (probably more, but for the sake of the story) about the Las Cruces are that everyone knows about White Sands Missile Range where the first Atomic weapon was detonated and White Sands National Park where they try to pass concrete off as sand. This post deals with the […]
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EL Pinto and the Temple
Today we left Cruces for Albuquerque. It was an ok drive the road was not to bumpy and the EDV rides pretty smooth, so the ribs weren’t as bad as they could have been. The temple was quite nice some of Nolan’s family was there; his brothers David and Charles and sister Diane along with […]