When bumpers really bumped

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Steve Mays

Several months ago I bought an old (’77) pickup truck. Just for fun and hauling stuff. Like me, it’s a little beat up.

While stopped at an intersection today, waiting for the light to change, I got a little bump from the car behind me. (A Hyundai, I think.) In my mirror I saw the woman making cringing “I’m sorry” signs so I just smiled, waved and drove on. Don’t know if it did any damage to her plastic car (and don’t much care since she wasn’t hurt). It was just a nudge but who knows how much damage it would have done had I been in a ‘nice’ car.

Traction

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Steve Mays

Bought some sand bags to improve the traction over the rear wheels. To keep them from sliding around I built this little keep-your-sand-bags-from-sliding-around thing.

Pickup is home

Posted on November 29, 2018 by Steve Mays

My first gardening run. Hattie is digging up the yard looking for moles. My job is to fill in with top soil. No long have to use Barb’s Lexus for this chore.

Update: January 5, 2019 – Plumbers cut up the old acrylic shower-tub in one of our bathrooms to make room for a walk-in shower. Contractor hauled off most of the old shower but didn’t have room for some.

So I tossed it in the bed of Minty Fresh (along with some other junk) and hauled it away. Pre-pickup, that would involve paying someone or borrowing a truck. How did I ever get along without a pickup?

On your radio dial

Posted on November 27, 2018 by Steve Mays

I have not listened to a radio station in years. Some of that is attributable to the iPod and the iPhone and some to the decline of local radio. But as a teenager in the 60s, radio was a huge part of my life. Great memories of WLS in Chicago and, later, WWL in New Orleans.

How familiar that radio dial with its five pre-set buttons. If your station wasn’t good enough to get one of the buttons, well, that car wasn’t listening.

The video clip above is from the pickup I recently purchased. Hadn’t bothered to turn the radio on and wondered if it worked. Don’t imagine I’ll do much listening in the truck but I kind of like having it there. For old time’s sake.