somebody say muffin?!

 

My boss is so thoughtful!

 

Hey mornin doc. Just finished breakfast. Bacon, eggs, fried taters & toast mit ner grape jelly. mmmm

What's shakin today. No king?

 

No King today....takin a day off.

 

Cool. Thinkin about layin low today myself.

 

 

That's appropriate Wayne....I'm thinkin a nap is soundin pretty good.

 

time for a patty's day celebration......albeit, short.

 

50 pages behind, think I'll just look at the pictures. Anything monumental happen while I was gone?

Talk about lucky. Nice trip through Iowa and Misery to Kansas. Funeral day, 72 DEGREES! Lunch before funeral, sitting with a bunch of relatives on a second floor Italian restaurant balcony, watching preparations for some parade that afternoon (those folks were sure lucky, too) and listening to the rumble of a bunch of Harleys, and a lot less two wheel sewing machines. Felt good to see a bunch of sporties, RKs, and a couple Glides cruising around the little town of Atchison. In the 15 years since I'd been in that part of the country, almost all I remembered was gone. Even the rickety old narrow bridge across the Missouri River (lived just off the end of it on the Missoura side while Dad was in Korea - shack had no running water either). Almost every farm in the area had a big barn when I was a young man, very few now, replaced by steel sided pole barns. A lot of those big high barns were for drying tobacco, but guess that isn't grown there much any more. Next morning, loading the van for the trip home, got the windshield iced over by freezing drizzle for a few minutes, but that was the only precipitation on the way back. Northern Missoura to north of Des Moines got up to 3" of snow during the night, but by the time we went through, roads were dry. Woke up this morning to freezing rain and sleet, van's iced over, road iced over - not going to stock up on groceries today. Snow tonight and tomorrow, up to 4" forecast. Minnesota... Don't think I've ever slipped through bad weather like this trip, and Saturday was a downright freaky weather day, not that anyone complained about 72*.

Back roads in that part of Missouri tend to be roller coaster hills and real twisty. It can feel real fun to run those hills at 80 mph, but seeing as how some of them are steep enough at the top to limit pavement visibility to less than 50', the chances of rear ending a farmer on a tractor or T boning a cow are good enough that you won't get away with it for long. I learned that a long time ago on the old 305 Honda; it'd top red line in high gear downhill, but even dropping to 30 at the crest of those hills could give you some exciting moments on the downside. As a kid when the roads were mostly gravel, thought it was great fun when my somewhat risk taking Dad and uncles would go sideways trying not to hit something going about 60 mph slower than they were. Yeah, they wrecked a few cars...

Daughter and grandson at the restaurant Saturday. Wish a Harley had been in the pic, were several passing below us. There's a Can Am at the left, lot of trikes there, mostly Harley, but a couple Tri-Wings, too. Lot of old folks...

 

Nice pic.... looks like a good time. Got my 383 stroker kit home yesterday Pistons had some corrosion from sitting in a basement for so long. Cut open an old oil container I had sittin around and they're currently sitting in an oil bath. Soon as I get a transmission in my ford, gonna tear the c10 down for a frame up. Thinking a set of vortec heads, comp cam, edelbrock intake and holley carb should put the engine around 4-420hp