When it gets Cold ,.......... What do you have to Do ???? .......

We put on a sweater and still enjoy a cruise-in or car show as usual here in sunny FLA.

I fire up the wood burner in the garage.... always a project in there...

At the pit shop we turned on the breaker yesturday to make sure the system was working, and it is. For home and hearth, we got the wood in the shed and keep the fires burning til April. The 1952 44 Massey Harris gets a break from the wood splitter and parked in a shed til next year.

Four gallons of Jim Beam, Five gallons of home made hard cider, Six cord of wood, I put a new roof on the house in May. One steap ahead of you Vanish. It never ends on the east coast either!

I managed to find the floor in my shop yesterday ,,spent over 9 hours cleaning got about 9 more to go and i might be ready to start messing it up again ...

Winter? What's that!!!
I've lived in Southeast Texas all my life.

Shovel a "Bit" of snow and turn the garage thermostat to 70 degrees and have fun in there!

This time of the year I'm super busy, cutting wood, leafs , still mowing 31/2 arces, cleaning out the sheds

We have sort of a reverse schedule from our vanner brothers up north. They work on their vans all summer because it's to COLD in the winter. We work on our vans in winter because it's to HOT all summer!!!!

But either way I now have a 1100 Sq. ft. shop out back with it's own heat and air.......

10 cords of wood is laid in and the boiler is going now to warm the house and the wife up when she gets out of the cooler at work, and I am in shorts like it's still summer. Still debateing on what corner of the pole barn to close in and heat for the winter.

Looks like I am getting a new 66 Econo 4x4 !! will know Monday.Then hope for snow..

Got 20 cords on the ground, but have to split it. Have to fix the wood bin, barn, garage, the Scout, and Ester.

Did start the garage repair this weekend though. The doors are done along with the electrical. Now I just have to organize it and put everything away.......I hate moving. Did drop 1500 feet though, shouldnt get as much snow.

almost done with the wood pile. friday nites in the garage insted of car cruzz...

Wife and I and 7 cars from local car club are going to a show at Lake Como, a nudist colony north of Tampa. This show usualy draws over 150 cars. NO CAMERAS ! Sorry guys!

I swear it takes 6 months to get between January 3rd and March 15th. That 33 mile (each way) commute sucks twice as much once white flakes come down.

Maybe clean the basement, paint the master bedroom, clean the offices at the shop and hopefully get rid of a bunch excess (damaged/wrong size) inventory at the shop. Thank you Craigslist.

Oh, if the body shop ever gets around to finishing my A, we'll be talking about bumpers, battery isolators/switches, driving lights, inverters, electric radiator fans, fusible links, sound systems and, of course, amp-meters and wiring harnesses.

Yes body shop prison I know it well LOL

Sounds like its not only my part of the woods. What is it with body guys? I took my sportsman down for paint, took allmost a year and a half?!! I did 80% of the body work. The only reason I took it somewhere was to get it done quicker, Had no time to finish too many hours at work.

Back in '75-'76 mine was held "Hostage" for over 18 months!!!! Boy was that hard to take!!!! $5K Later she came out a different looking girl! Body shop prisons should be "OutLawed" IMHO!!
B.W.

G-Man wrote:Yes body shop prison I know it well LOL

At least with yours they're doing some fancy ass stuff. Mine is just a pound out the flaws, re-do the bondo where required, prime 'n paint. I know, it SOUNDS easy, but they aren't replacing sheet metal or putting in gullwing doors and such.

Are you suppose to bitch at them every week and hope they don't do a hurry up job? This shop is basically a one man operation and I'd like it done correctly. I just hope they put it on the front burner before next spring (which could happen if they need a quick infusion of dinero). I guess if it gets to be March and it's not in the front of the line, I'll turn into "That Guy".

Mine was in a friends body shop for 22 months and not only did he do fantastic work but I could work on it anytime I wanted(was nice when the weather was bad)oh and we did sneek in a complete V8 conversion while it was there! Bill

Working today on leafs and going to cut some wood, cleaning the basement to make room for the wood also

I hope you mean leaf springs and not yard work

I hope they spring your baby out jail soon Chris. I can't wait to see it.

I look forward to the fall and winter, the summer temps here are really tough on old cars, especially Earlies. We had 85 days this past summer with temps over 90 degrees.

Working on the van and hunting season will keep me busy