Morning coffee

[RICH MUISE]

I got home last night about 7. Too tired to do any posting. Would have been home earlier, but my wife told me it was snowing in Amarillo, so I holed up in an OKLA. casino for 3 hours waiting to see if the snow built up.............sounded like a good excuse at least, lol.
3820 miles, with only one minor issue that Lynn fixed for me when I got to his place. More later....got so much to take care of today.

[RICH MUISE]

Oh crap!!!!!! Just watched the news..........really hoping Bill and his big family gathering are ok......tornadoes have ripped thru Birmingham doing major damage. Watching the news there is widespread destruction, but I did not see any neighborhoods that looked like Bill's on the newscast. Bill's family was having a surprise birthday party for him and flew in from Texas and Colorado. That's why my visit with Bill was only about 3 or 4 hours....didn't want to take him away from them for too long. This was the storm that I never went thru after leaving Bill's that he was expecting and said I should think about holding up there for a few days. Keep your fingers crossed or do your prayers for him.
BTW, Bill and his wife are old school...no cell phones, so if local phone lines are out, he may not be able to communicate except for his visiting daughters.

[mustang6984]

Well...ya missed out on steak, mushrooms and baked potato at my place...shoulda sopped by!   

Glad you had fun and no major issues or weather annoyances.

[hiball3985]

What a great trip Rich. Home safe and not on a tow truck  Lifes good.

[lalessi1]

I think pretty everyone on the forum is jealous of your road trip! Great meeting you and seeing/driving your car. Glad I could help if only a little.

[djfordmanjack]

Great to hear!
Now Rich. you must have slept enough, and you need to go make a real pot of coffee, and then select your pics and  fill your travel report.
we want to KNOW and SEE everything in detail, ASAP !!!
It is so awesome that you made the trip in these times, that is totally cool !

[Ford Blue blood]

Rich thanks for the kind words.  We did have a wonderful time with the girls and grandbabies.  Survived the storm, not even one twig down.  We did have to hit the storm shelter, small one came in close (2 1/2 miles) and I put everyone in it just to be sure.  We did loose service, got it all back yesterday evening.  I suspect that was caused by the mess a couple miles away.

[Fairlane62]

Rich,
Sorry I was out of communication during your trip.  My best friend since 1st grade passed away after a long battle with Covid, so I was out of pocket for awhile.  Maybe we can meet during one of your future trips to Oklahoma.

James

[RICH MUISE]

Please keep me posted on any OK shows coming up. Only ones I know about are NSRA in OKC July 9-11, and reliability run (Crossmembers OKC) Oct 2. Sorry to hear about your friend. If Santa Fe is doing their pancake breakfast / car show July 4th, I won't be doing the OKC July 9 show.
Strange you used the term "out of pocket" the way you did........meaning not available. My wife and I had an argument several years ago about the meaning of that term. She used it the way you did, and I think most people (or just me, lol) use it to mean an expense that is covered by the individual rather than a company reimbursed cost. Do you know my wife?
Another way to look at it:
If you use the term to mean not available, it doesn't make sense.
If used to describe an expense category, it doesn't make cents.

[Fairlane62]

If you use the term to mean not available, it doesn't make sense.
If used to describe an expense category, it doesn't make cents.
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Rich, you have way to much free time on your hands, maybe you need to go back to work.  Hmm, if its "free time" does that mean it takes no cents or no sense? 😁

James

[Fairlane62]

Rich,
Is your wife's family originally from the South?  Out of pocket meaning unavailable was a common phrase when I was young, so it may be more of a Southern phrase.  My Daddy and Grandpaw and their contemporaries also used the phrase.  Grandpaw was born in 1883 and Daddy in 1919 so the phrase has been around a while.

I always figured it was based on if you misplaced something from your pocket such a knife, keys, etc. They were "out of pocket" but you would eventually locate them again.  Example:  Coon dogs would sometimes get lost running a coon trail and we knew they were somewhere in the woods, but they were "out of pocket".  So we would lay a jacket on the ground and come back the next day and they would be curled up on the jacket.

James

[CobraJoe]

Well, I figured that winter is over as it was 70* here today and I figured it was a good day to go topless. So I  pulled the Bronco into the shop & yanked the top until fall. Then I and removed the plow and I pulled my "winter" tires and wheels off (37") and put my "summer" tires and wheels on.


It still amazes me how little the 37's look compared to the 44's:



After a short ride I put it up onto the lift, but boy, it sure felt good to go out and do something different during COVID.

[mustang6984]

Shoulda left the 44's on in back, and the 37's in front...had that nasty hot rod look! LOL!!!

[Fairlane62]

That's a mighty fine looking Bronco. Do they salt the roads where you live?

[CobraJoe]

That's a mighty fine looking Bronco. Do they salt the roads where you live?

Thank you very much.
They sure do, plus they use Liquid magnesium chloride which is extremely corrosive.