50+ thread

Morning all!
Gotta sneak in some yard work today. Not my favorite thing to do on my day off. But can't make myself pay someone to do it for me.

 

Good Morning everyone.
Thanks again everyone for the awesome welcome!
Still waiting for summer here in VT.
52 this am with a week of 90's two weeks ago, the big temp swings are killer.

So I asked the family to not get all look who's 50 birthday stuff. Had not heard from the daughter for the last week. Last night my daughter was here late, the wife works 2nd shift she's a lna and I could hear them banging around downstairs.
Up this am to a fridge full of food kinda thinking something may be up?
I may be 50 today not positive.

How many here got the big 50 treatment?

Happy birthday bud!

 

My wife loves to surprise me, I hate it. Walked in to a room of people yelling surprise! My close friend was smiling cuz he knows I hate surprises and he was just soaking it in, his revenge.


A while back we were clearing out a storage room and he tweaked his back, bad enough to go to the ER. So I made it my job, no, my duty to make him laugh as much as I could. The last was when the ER nurse ask if I was related and I said I was his "life partner" he was in pain...ah best friends

 

hey bill baby sitting wild birds for my friend thats a rehaber i thought you'd get a tickle out of that. i told her about the birds you rehab she laghed and said the ones i'm babysitting are the ones your birds eat. i got a blue jay, grackle, 2 wood peckers, 6 sparrows, and a couple finches i think her and her husband are our best friends and he had to go to hospital for 4 days and since i'm out of work i volunteered.

 

Afternoon boys. Lunch is done and now yard work calls.... gonna melt

Happy Birthday Jeff and be glad you have people who care about you.

 

Afternoon everyone.
Welcome Jeff!

Hit recyclers this morning and now trying to finish up prepping my shell for paint.
Good seeing you @Marty65 , thx for the x bars. They look like they will fit my project.

 

hey susan got up and got work done early while it was cooler. now sitting in ac being lazy

 

walked the girls and went grocery shopping this morning..... off to the yard

 

grocery shopping sucks at any time of day. it usually makes me feel ill whenever i see the total. eating healthy is way more exspensive.

 

Yes I am lucky!! The wife, daughter and granddaughter are in the kitchen cooking. Son in law is putting out signs and rearranging the back yard for parking. Today is actually his bday so we will be doing them together. I spent the morning cleaning the house to help before anyone was up. Kinda my norm on Saturday mornings anyway.

 

happy birthday hope you have a great day

 

Just got done of day #3 of cleaning and detailing my Camaro now it's relaxing time until the car show !!

Just tried starting my Camaro up with the mufflers on and still drew a crowd of people wanting to know who's got the race car LOL!!!

 

Front came through. Went from 63 degrees and dry to 82 and instant sauna.

 

Yeah it did

 

I can relate!! The feel like temperature is 104* down in Dixie!

 

Yuck, that's some THICK air.

 

Lol!! Yea Rob you have to really camel up!! Meaning stay hydrated. I've lost all my fat from over eating during holidays, and winter this last week at work cleaning up after the storm.

 

Here in the usually hot IE of Socal it is a very cool 67 degrees and overcast . Clouds are hanging low maybe 2500' , can't see the 10k ft peaks around my area

Funny thing is just the other day it was 97 degrees and clear skies

 

My son in law is here with the family, they live near Tampa. He was complaining about the heat here in Southern Maryland, Its about 94 and uber high humidity right now. I had to chuckle, Southern Maryland is known as the "land of pleasant living" and air so heavy you can chew on it. I love it, better than shoveling snow!

 

We have the same "Crew"

Service director let loose on up-sales on WARRANTY and we now have a 75,000 mile curb instead of 100k Still tried "shoving $hit" through today and they lost

I would NEVER work percentage , other than that....just make it a career choice and do not do the "Bounce" 5-10% more of nothing is still nothing and we have techs,writers and even trainers that have whimpered back...

I "fall back" on wrenching when needed BUT if the right "RIDE" came along ,that sitting still in one place would be history