flash, you need to convince Chuck to come up to Michigan for the Woodward Dream Cruise. If not the cruise, then one of the weeks leading up to it. That would be so cool.

That would be a cool road trip ,I will try to bend his ear .Which he may have been befofe when he worked for one of the big auto magazines .I will see what he thinks if I can remember.

No road trips planned. Second weekend in September is Frankenmuth Autofest, can't miss that.

Tony, I could have used your expertise at bending metal rods at multiple angles. Mounting that base plate on the car was not fun. You have to drill holes through the front frame rails to mount the base plate. Three of the holes are blind holes, inside the hollow part of the frame. They give you 3 nut plates with a heavy wire welded to them. You have to fish it up through a hole in the bottom of the frame about a foot and half away from the bolt hole.

Took longer than I thought, doesn't it always. I was probably being too fussy about getting it lined up to the exact same spot on both sides. Have to finish trimming one of the air dams to fit around it then finish putting the front end back on.

I'm only 28, but I'm convinced that if I retired today, I'd still never be able to finish all my projects.

28, well I only have a few years on you Derek, like 30. It's amazing all the things you can up with when you have the time. Been in this house 10 years this fall and we've been doing changes, upgrades the whole time. Still don't have enough time to do all the things I want to.

Think I went too far this time. Yesterday my son decided to do some landscaping for Lynda. So we pulled out a bunch of old shrubs with the truck and a few logging chains. Also pulled up the 6"x6" landscape timbers out front. Decided to use them around the parking pad we put in for the motorhome last year.

Do you know how much a 20' long 6"x6" landscape timber weighs? I have no idea were they bought them but some of them are huge, and of course they're soaking wet from all the rain we've had. Also chopped off and pulled up some roots from the maple tree. One we took out would make a nice tree. 6" around before it forked in to two 4" roots. They were running along the surface and had to go. The big one had lifted that 20' landscape timber several inches off the ground at one end.

Today we had 10 yards of topsoil delivered to cover the fill used to make the parking pad. 10 yards is a lot of dirt! Wasn't delivered until mid-afternoon so we only got a few yards moved, that pile still looks awful big. Worse part is shoveling it twice. Once into a little trailer behind the lawn tractor, then a second time to get it back out of the trailer. Hopefully it doesn't rain too much tonight, we did cover as much as we could with a tarp.

Messed up my knee Saturday crawling under the car putting the base plate for the tow bar on it. Shoulder aches from chopping roots and shoveling dirt, time for another cortisone shot. 6 pack of beer and I feel good. Red Wings won last night, tomorrow is another day and life is good. It shouldn't feel this good to abuse yourself the way I have the last few weeks, I am on the downside of the hill age wise, pretty damn close to the bottom I guess.

Anyway that's my boring tail of the last couple days. Hope you all are doing well and enjoying life.