Morning coffee

[lalessi1]

Funny how weather is so different across the country. Sunday it was 21 here, close to a record. Yesterday it was 82, tied a record. This weekend.... 77 and mostly sunny Saturday and Sunday?

[Ford Blue blood]

Yup, frozen in last Friday, 74 yesterday even higher today......?

[RICH MUISE]

I was clearing out my huge backlog of emails this past week and finally got to the end, where I found an email sent to me last September from a member here (Monte Shrauder) from Midland, Tx. Midland is due south of Amarillo, about 235 miles, with Lubbock being half way. Anyway, Monte and his wife are from Kansas and go back there frequently, through Amarillo. It seems his wife was on a return trip last September when she saw "a really nice looking dark gray '57 Ford" north of Amarillo on hwy 87. He asked if it was me. Yep, more then likely as that's one of my frequent drives when I want to get out for an hour or so.
Pretty cool being recognized out on the highway.
Monte is going to give me a shout the next time they're in/through Amarillo, so it looks like I'll get to meet up with yet another '57 forum member! That's cool too!!

[Ford Blue blood]

Been so quiet here....everyone asleep or in the throngs of Super Bowl preps.......being a Packer fan my interest in it is luke warm at best.  Might have watched it for the commercials but even those are politicized and I shall remain quiet on my feelings of Lady Gaga....

[racton]

I am in Ohio and we have a clear day.33 degrees...Im taking my 93 years old,WW2 combat veteran paratrooper,to breakfast in the 57..........All enjoy your day................

[lalessi1]

We are heading to a party, a "cochon de lait", in other words a suckling pig roast. Weather is off the charts beautiful. I couldn't care less about the game other than the board squares I have. Looking forward to the event.

It sure has been quiet here.

[Ecode70D]

     This time the weather liars were telling the truth.   They said that we will be getting snow up to 12 to 17 inches and it will be blowing at 50 mph.  It's dangerous to walk around outside with things blowing around..  We have been having off and on electricity.  Now we have the lights back on but no phone and no TV.   I can live without the phone and TV, but we need the electricity for heat and the water pump.  I have a stash of water and fire wood , but haven't had to use them yet.  There is absolutely no traffic outside on the highway and visibility looks like it is about 20 feet.  We have plenty of food candles and spare batteries.  So things are not that bad.           

[Jeff Norwell]

It's cold here.
It's Canada.

[RICH MUISE]

wow, stay warm my friend!
It's been shirtsleeve weather here. Only one minor snow event this year so far, lol, of course that was the day I decided to hit a casino in Oklahoma, and didn't get home til 6 am because the 2 1/2 hour drive took 6 hours!

[Ecode70D]

It's cold here.
It's Canada.

     Jeff .....I asked you before to keep all that white stuff up there in Canada where it belongs.   How come you are letting it slip down to here? HAHA
      I can't see my garage from the back windows and can't see the highway out the front windows.

      Rich....  It sure is nice and warm in the house.  My phone and TV are working again also.  I'm  glad that I don't have any place to go to.  Things are looking good.

[Limey57]

Sometimes you gotta let the youngsters give you a bit of a push:



Pushed the Ranchero out to tidy the garage & just could not get it back in the garage so had to use the thumping 75bhp and 1300cc of my wife's Ford to push it back in the garage, it's too heavy for me to do on my own!  Made the clutch smell a bit mind you............

[RICH MUISE]

Pretty clever. How far are you from having it go in and out of the garage on it's own?

[Limey57]

Pretty clever. How far are you from having it go in and out of the garage on it's own?

I collected the engine last weekend and have just started building it back up, only to discover wear in the harmonic balancer........  Placed a sizable order with Summit today for all of the various bits & pieces that you need but overlook in the early stages, $300 later I'd ordered a handful of bits that will seem like nothing when they arrive.  At times like this I'm glad I don't have a joint account with my wife.

The downside is it's cold here (okay, it's always cold, but it's colder than usual!), we've got snow showers at the minute & there's no heating in the garage.  I want to have it finished for May as there's a big American car and hot rod meet going off about ten miles away & want to drive it there.

[RICH MUISE]

"At times like this I'm glad I don't have a joint account with my wife."
Yep, that's probably the best advise I could give to newlyweds..........separate accounts, and keep your nose out of theirs.
Good luck. We've had a milder than normal winter so far here in N Texas.

[RICH MUISE]

It was 87 degrees here Saturday!! Today is freezing rain.
Just about all of my projects have come to a screaming halt this pass few weeks....'57 included. We've been house hunting, just about worn out from the looking. We may know today on one I'm actually kinda excited about. We made an offer late Saturday and it wasn't that far from what they were asking. We got word from their realtor they were coming back with a counter offer today. I hate the thoughts of moving at my age, but it's what the wife wants. The upside is we'd be moving out of the slums to a really nice neighborhood and I'll actually have a real 2 car garage and maybe even a shop.
Still in the garage there is a classic El Camino....I guess the current owner is a car guy.
Why are we moving at our age?? My wife's cousin from Phoenix is now alone and is preparing to move here with us. She's selling two houses in Phoenix (1 already sold). The house we're in now is way too small, so she and my wife are buying the new one together.
If it happens, this new venture is going to put some serious dents in my time for at least the next year, including my planned trip to Florida next month.
My replacement speedometer is scheduled to be delivered today!!