BadAV

We moved back to my hometown after I retired; population is maybe 40,000. But we moved around through the years and lived in some pretty big cities - El Paso and St. Louis being the largest. We spent 23 years in the St. Louis area so we are used to "busy".

Hoxxy, thanks for the input. We are just coming for a quick visit, leaving next Thursday, to look things over and see what we think. The wife won't be retiring until next year so we won't be looking to spend those couple of months there until 2020 at the earliest.

HOXXOH

I grew up in a town of about 8,000 that was about 12,000 by the time I left home. After I got married, we moved to the town of 1,000 where I worked and then later to the next town 3 miles away, but also 1,000 people. My next move was to Phoenix pop. 500,000 not counting the attached suburbs. Now it's 4,500,000 total with suburbs and still growing. I could never move back to a small town again.

In the same manner and deep voice as the Arby's commercial, I say about Phoenix: WE HAVE the HEAT

teebee

rkj427

H1, found this little doozie of a song...……………… thinking that it may help with Husker football, basers, and anything else which may get you down...……..

teebee pretty cool thing to do, meeting up with folks from the Land of Fruits and Nuts out there in the land of endless smoke...……

spent sometime this afternoon watching the Tour Championship, good for the game of golf that Woods won again, and he looked similar to being as capable as he was prior to all his mishaps and injuries...……

more tomorrow, going to try and watch the Lions handle the Patriots...……………..

Shaolin Crane

Killing some time in Paris before my next flight. Data is spotty for me so here's a couple pics

ruxvette

My favorite drinking toast:
Here's to heat,
Not the kind that burns down shanties,
But the kind that pulls down panties.

ruxvette

Great pics, sha...

Huskerman

Gives me reverence just looking at the pic of that beach......and the graveyards.......I will go over there one of these days.

Nothing turns a head faster then a 67 Corvette......glad you got to meet up with some Vette folks..... how cold at night is it getting up there?

Waiting to see what this week will bring work wise.... supposed to rain tonight so that will put a stop to a lot of the work. Naps will be in order..... Ruxy....careful that could get you in trouble if you were thinking of being a supreme court judge....... and I hope you never slapped some nice girl on the behind and said .... nice tush......or other similar wording..... or any other crazy college stuff that went on back in the day....... being Sargent at Arms is a pretty big job so you better stay with that........

Have a splendid day Hammers.....

teebee

teebee

Yea shoa, those pictures are sobering, but makes me feel proud of the sacrifices we made. We meaning our fathers and grandfathers.......

rkj427

A father put his 3 year old daughter to bed, told her a story and listened to her prayers which ended by saying:"God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, and God bless Grandma and goodbye Grandpa.

"The father asked, "Why did you say goodbye Grandpa?"
The little girl said, "I don't know, Daddy, it just seemed like the thing to do."

The next day grandpa died…!

The father thought it was a strange coincidence.

A few months later the father put the girl to bed and listened to her prayers which went like this: “God bless Mommy, God Bless Daddy and goodbye Grandma"

The next day the grandmother died…"Holy Moly," thought the father, "this kid is in contact with the other side."

Several weeks later when the girl was going to bed the dad heard her say: "God bless Mommy and goodbye Daddy."

He practically went into shock.
He couldn't sleep all night and got up at the crack of dawn to go to his office.
He was nervous as a cat all day, had lunch and watched the clock.
He figured if he could get by until midnight he would be okay.

He felt safe in the office, so instead of going home at the end of the day, he stayed there, drinking coffee, looking at his watch and jumping at every sound.Finally, midnight arrived, and he breathed a sigh of relief and went home.

When he got home his wife said: "I've never seen you work so late; what's the matter?"

He said, "I don't want to talk about it; I've just spent the worst day of my life."

She said: "You think you had a bad day, you'll never believe what happened to me this morning.... My golf pro dropped dead in the middle of my lesson.

Huskerman

That's pretty funny....... I think I will bequeath unto Rocketman.....a well known hybrid baser, the honorable title of Head Joker....... along with that title comes some free Pappy's......but not too much......and an occasional stand up hour of comedy in the Barca Lounge...... behind the chicken wire screen fence for his own protection if his jokes are lousy........ so take a moment to hoist a cold one in the direction of Detroit or in any direction......and give him a hearty atta boy!

More awards will be given as soon as I can think them up......... in leu of trophy's or money to well know charity's we are donating money to my C7 Z06 fund......or my C8 ME GS fund if it gives me some wood....... thank you all for sharing.....

ruxvette

Ok, hammertoes, the topic tonight is lug nuts and, in my frame of mind, I don't need no fricken rocket j squirrel for emphasis...
The LSDHL has a 2013 Escape (I can't even say ffffoooord) and they have a lug nut issue. As in lover's nuts. Well, to be honest, they swell but don't turn blue. So, short story long, the savvy sumbitch I am, I knew about this problem. I had even purchased a new set of shiny nuts. My intention was to take the new nuts to the (ffffoooord) dealer for the next service and tire rotation. But I forgot. The folks at the dealer left a polite nut note on my bill saying, roughly, "Hey, big boy, your nuts are swollen and need to be replaced. Oh, and by the way, we torqued your old nuts to 100lbs...over the 100lb spec. Have a nice day".
Holy jumped up geehosafats them suckers were tight and horrible to get off.
Whew, ok, I'm done.
But, goddammittall...

teebee

ruxvette

Ruby Begonia?

teebee

ruxvette

Here come da judge, here come da judge...

wayback

Hey Ruby, did you change your name after you removed your nuts?

rkj427

remember a song that would be fitting of the newly renamed GS'er called Ruby.................

You Tube

BadAV

It's not just the Escape; same issue with the F-150. I replaced mine with Gorilla.

The Dodge Charger and ilk also have the same style of lugnuts, but they seem to hold up better than the Ferd ones. I do our rotations so the only time a shop touches the lugnuts is for inspections and when new tires are put on. The first time a shop touched my F-150, 2 of the 24 lugnuts went bad. So far, all of the lugnuts on the wife's 2014 Charger remain good.