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| HANGING OUT IN A COW CLUSTER |
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| SO FAR OUR SQUIRRELS HAVE BEEN BEHAVING THEMSELVES |
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| NICE TO SEE A BOARD AND BATTEN REFURBISHING JOB DONE ON THIS BARN |
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| SPOTTED THIS SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO GRAY WOOD VIPER THIS MORNING |
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| LAZY DAYS |
1. Go to O'Reilly auto parts and write a check for $50 dollars for oil, filter, kitty litter, hand cleaner and scented tree.
2. Discover that the used oil container is full. Instead of taking it back to O'Reilly to recycle, dump in hole in back yard.
3. Open a beer and drink it.
4. Jack car up. Spend 30 minutes looking for jack stands.
5. Find jack stands under kid's pedal car.
6. In frustration, open another beer and drink it.
7. Place drain pan under engine.
8. Look for 9/16 box end wrench.
9. Give up and use crescent wrench.
10. Unscrew drain plug.
11. Drop drain plug in pan of hot oil; get hot oil on you in process.
12. Clean up.
13. Have another beer while oil is draining.
14. Look for oil filter wrench.
15. Give up; poke oil filter with screwdriver and twist it off.
16. Beer.
17. Buddy shows up; finish case with him. Finish oil change tomorrow.
18. Next day, drag pan full of old oil out from underneath car.
19. Throw kitty litter on oil spilled during step 18.
20. Beer. No, drank it all yesterday.
21. Walk to 7-11; buy beer.
22. Install new oil filter making sure to apply a thin coat of clean oil to gasket first.
23. Dump first quart of fresh oil into engine.24. Remember drain plug from step 11.
25. Hurry to find drain plug in drain pan.
26. Hurry to replace drain plug before the whole quart of fresh oil drains onto floor.
27. Slip with wrench and bang knuckles on frame.
28. Bang head on floor board in reaction.
29. Begin cussing fit.
30. Throw wrench.
31. Cuss and complain.
32. Clean up; apply Band-Aid to knuckle.
33. Beer.
34. Beer.
35. Dump in additional 4 quarts of oil.
36. Beer.
37. Lower car from jack stands
38. Accidentally crush one of the jack stands
39. Move car back to apply more kitty litter to fresh oil spilled during step 23.
40. Test drive car
41. Get pulled over and arrested for driving under the influence.
42. Bail $200
43. Car gets impounded, go get car from impound yard. Pay impound and towing fee $350.00
Money Spent: $50 parts $12 beer $75 replacement set of jack stands
Total cost of oil chang $687 and only 150,000 miles to the next oil change.
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When we volunteered in Olympic National Park the rangers suggested a daily dose of vitamin B-1 during our stay. I never had a problem all summer.
ReplyDeleteI would have thought that viper was an Ontario crocodile. But then, might could have used something for scale.
ReplyDeleteAh, those squirrels are being good, but summer's just starting! Have to try that B1. Thanks, John Huber. I always enjoy your pictures, Al, and look forward to your posts.
ReplyDeleteThe mosquitoes here have arrived big time due to all the rain we have had to endure. Two day ago I got 15 bites in ten minutes while at our garden and yesterday it was 23 bites. I am not gng back today, I need a break from all the itching.
ReplyDeleteAs to the B1 brought up earlier. It does not work, at least not for me. Perhaps it depends on the individual. Over the years I have tried weekly intramuscular shots of a combination of different vitamin B's. Made no difference. I read about photographers for National Geographic using the B1 pill to keep mosquitoes away. I took one daily this past winter in Mexico for five months and it made no difference.
Yesterday someone told me to eat a piece of garlic everyday and that that would keep the pests away. No thanks.
Love that first cow cluster shot.
I don't think I've seen cows all sleeping together like that before - great shot!
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