Tuesday Torque: Show Week At (Cancelled) American Thresherman Show

A memory, just so we don't forget about our engine shows.

Adopters Are Being Checked Out...

... for Godiva and Betty Boop, and it appears that they will be going out the door.  They don't know that their lives will soon turn upside down again.  Sisko is oblivious, too, that he may soon be moving on.  It is going to hurt us more than it hurts them!

Back To The Old Foster Doggy Grind!

Free Air Show Thrills!

 One of the joys of living in the country is seeing a free air show every little bit.  Today it was a helicopter!

Racehorses Of Steam

 Buckle Up!  Thank You, Merle!

Foster Schip Update

All three of the fosters at our house are ready to move on to a permanent home when the right matches are found.  Godiva would be quite happy to stay with us forever, and she fits in well with our dogs.  Someone, somewhere is a match for little Godiva, and they will have a great life together.  One of the neat things she has learned is to use the ramp to get up on the bed and back down. Our dogs are accustomed to jumping, and we got a ramp to keep them safe because of their age. Godiva knows nothing about jumping up on a bed, so the ramp was a natural path for her.  She loves to lie in patches of sunshine. She does not like rain or hot days.

Betty and Sisko are little firecrackers.  They had come in from playing a few minutes before this photo and went straight to their kennels to rest. Both of these dogs will need someone with plenty of energy. Sisko plays rough with Betty and he grabs her by a hind leg when they are wrestling.  Betty is smaller, but she can dish it right back and make Sisko back off when he gets too rough.  

Brass Man Bart: Colonel Bogey!

Gotta say again; You're gonna love this one!

Done Plumbing, At Least For A While, We Hope!

Ford's Plumbing was out again this week to work on the perimeter drain and replace the broken segment under the basement slab. We had mission creep occur and they also replaced a gutter drain line that was damaged many years ago.  Everything is Hunky-Dory now, and our lives can return to the regular programming.

Tuesday Torque: Cletrac Collection

I always enjoy seeing a Cletrac at a show, but I don't know much about them other than they were made in Cleveland.  There's enough history in this video to get our knowledge going.



John In Philly: I was looking through photos at Pinckneyville and came across this high-crop version of a Cletrac that was shown in 2014. I started looking for videos and could not find one. This is a rare bird, but others do exist.

Revisiting...

No Pinckneyville, Mt. Pleasant, or Rollag this year.  Here's one from Rollag last year.



Vicarious Grinding Thrills!

Epic Tree Fails #32

Garth, over in the Netherlands is putting together some great compilations of tree cutting mistakes and accidents.  There are always ladders, often kickbacks, and some barberchairs.  If you are cutting trees, take a class and learn the techniques you need to avoid barberchairs, and always escape from the stump when the tree goes into motion.  As you come up on the 4 minute mark you will see a man create a barberchair that gets really tall, and he stands still, evidently not understanding what he has created.  It is a fatal pair of mistakes.