I think you are on to something, Carabu Al. Except I think you should create your own system and make your fortune off all 3 people who buy one!

 

The guys are almost done with the steps here, and they look very nice. My sister and her husband tore all the carpet out of their house and replaced it with hardwood flooring. The flooring is of a wide variety, and it reminds me of a good barn loft floor. It looks real nice, if that is what you like. It is not my thing, but it's not my floor, either.

 

Susan's med tests are scheduled for the first week of July, so that puts a bit of a crimp in my attendance............i will figure something out about visiting some of youse guys when you get home.

Love the sig pic Sco..............T, i can relate

 

saw a lot of drivers last night throw caution to the wind........80-90 mile an hour was the norm.........I am governed to 68, but the down hill is where ya can get in the worst trouble.........I stay back and rarely get caught up on a another icc bar........That being said A safe following distance is just that.....

 

Well, you just keep remembering that and we'll be jabbering for much longer!

The truck that caught on fire ended up not having anything hazardous. The fire was started by the brakes. Big ooooops.

Both of the trucks involved in the second wreck went crispy. Unfortunately, the driver of the rear truck went crispy, also.

 

Bummer, Herb. It would have been a gas with you along!

I found that pic to be quite appropriate.

 

My Dad bought one new, loaded, Power everything, auto, ac; they usually got about 15mpg and it was a slug. Went on a night trip with brother and Mom; he got about 15mpg on a tank, and then I drove (gas crisis days, most stations closed at night, '73 or '74 I think). I didn't go over 65, let it slow down as much as 45 on some of the hills, didn't use the brights (car would actually bog a bit when you hit the brights, just like ac compressor kicking in - was in winter, no ac), and I got 35mpg. The souped up one I had got in the 30's burning rubber. Another reason I've souped up several cars (before computers), always got better gas mileage. Before 'puter control, slug engines were inefficient; I had V8's getting better mileage than the same car with a 6. Had some stock V8's that were doing good at 12mpg, too.

 

That's been seriously tried with electric cars; some folks were saying they were dangerous 'cause no one would hear them coming. Guess they don't pay much attention to gas engine cars, some are so quiet you barely hear them in a garage, are silent in a parking lot.

 

That's why I got wet the next time, too, had to get the umbrella out of the van. I gotta remember to take it out next time - or get another umbrella for the house. Used to have a neat little one for the cage, but the wind caught it a while back and it sprayed umbrella parts like shrapnel, never had one do that before.

 

haha....have an SUV with the push button start and stop. Can't tell you how many times I've locked it and walked away from it with the controller in my hand and left it running. Walked right in front of it and didn't hear the engine running. Wife's car is like that, too....can't hear the darn thing. Wife says I can't hear anything..tell her I've never left my bike running and walked away from it.