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Bad neighbors. Anyone have them? Right now I'm blessed with the greatest neighbors anyone could ask for. It wasn't always that way. One house I had was set back a good hundred yards from the road. Come HS football season my mailbox would take a hit on Friday nights when there was a home game. Word around town it was the neighbor teen doing it with his beater truck. I started pulling the post up Friday evening and replace it Saturday morning. For 3 weeks I did this and didn't weed whack around the mailbox. I located a basketball sized river biscuit and placed it right behind the mailbox for the next home game. Next morning the mailbox was gone but there were three vital fluids left leading me to his house. Coolant, motor oil and ATF. Never a word was ever spoken about this and the mini boulder was in the ditch about 100' down the road. Scratches to beat the band.

Not the best but I managed to get a few photos of a big whitish dot. The sky was hazy with some clouds blocking Jupiter completely. With the zoom eyepiece I used on this scope I go from 71x to 214x. I could make out the clouds but the phone camera didn't. Probably since I tried to get the moons too. Should have taken a quicker picture to capture the colors.

I had the 10" manual scope set up just inside the shop and went there at 01:00 this morning, opened the garage door to view Jupiter. It's very hard to take pictures without a tracking telescope. Today I set up the computerized scope and will try tonight. The 6" scope doesn't give near the views of the 10" but having it take care of keeping the object centered allows me set the phone up and get it placed just in the right spot. I'm watching for the Starlink trains but haven't seen one yet.

All my drain plugs have little Harbor Freight magnets stuck to the outside of the plugs.

Is that the first drain for the magnetic plug? They do attract a lot of black stuff. At least no big chunks.

Changed the oil and filter in the Tundra yesterday and rotated the tires this morning as well as going over the underbody fasteners. Everything looks good for the trailer pull south in 20 days. It's no wonder the 5.7L lasts so long. A skosh short of 9 qts of synthetic oil changed ever 5,000 mile it should last forever. I did a 3 qt drain and fill of the ATF and rear axle lube last month. I'll do a tranny drain and fill every year now. With 23k miles it's been 100% trouble free. I'm glad I got the last year for the V8. I'll most likely be due for an oil change while south but no way taking it back to the dealership. I found a shop in Gulf Shores that will let be in the shop working with the mechanic for the OC and tire rotation. He's going to get tipped well. Both my vehicles have canister filters so it's super simple to check the filter for metal. Just like the 300 has. So far the Tundra the Fiat and both 300s are not making any metal. The Tundra made only one tiny aluminum speck this time. The first only a few and some gasket sealer. Each time is less. Most likely left over from manufacturing.

I like those. Especially the all gray one.

Well put, Fishfiles. Well put.

It's about time. This blocking of the roads is BS.

Talk about unsprung weight.

BTW. Honda designed the most boring car I've ever driven. The Civic. My oldest has a Civic Type R and it's the total opposite.

Me? Stopped at my Mom's and traded her cars. Civic gets the B1 service tonight. Tomorrow, drive the 72 miles back and cut grass and give her the Honda back. Boooring.

Having my morning cup and looking at the moon right now. Packing up and headed home this morning.

I would but I'm currently in Eastern PA and the only light you see when you look up are street lights and Police helicopters.

I used to have a Honda Element. Max towing weight of 1,500#. First trip to get river gravel in my 4x8 HF trailer I asked for 1,000#. I was rather shocked when my weigh ticket showed 3,100# over my net. Wife said it wasn't that far of a drive so off we went. She had river gravel everywhere.

I remember reading about this. Ram like every other manufacturer advertises a payload number base on a very specific stripped model. Ford actually got sued over this trick since they never sold or even built the model they used to calculate their advertised payload. So, the dealers tell the buyers the truck will handle the weight based those numbers just to make the sale. The camper dealers tell the new Ram owner the camper will work based on the dry weight of the unit to make the sale. I think in this case the camper with nothing in it exceeded the truck as sold GVWR. IIRC the center of gravity for the load was too far aft as well. The owner starts off by loading the camper up full of stuff and then sticks a heavy electric bike on the back. I ran into all this when I bought our Tundra and travel trailer. When I head south for the winter I'm within a few pounds of having my Tundra at GVWR. My CAT scale numbers showed by truck to be 40 pounds over so to come in under that I moved a 38# camp grill from the bed to the rear of the trailer which also reduced the tongue weight. Read that sticker inside the door.

That one is somewhere between 16ga & 12ga material. I'm leaning towards the 12 with #4 shot myself.

You guys have fun and share the pictures. We always enjoy them.

Either West Marine or J&M Tackle in Orange Beach had a setup like that on display. It was "busy" to say the least.

https://moon.nasa.gov/resources/13/apollo-11-seismic-experiment/

Went out last night with the Big 10 inch.

That kinda outdoes the coat hanger stuck in the wood siding of my parents home. We think Mom dropped a coat hanger while hanging laundry to dry and Dad found it with the lawn mower.

This picture would drive the Harley crowd crazy. No tats.

A guy that I worked with had a brother in law with an excavating company . BIL used to take his two year old son on the dozer with him. The child somehow fell and was crushed by the dozer track. My working buddy wasn't thrilled that his nephew had a bulldozer etched into the child's tombstone.

The T and A I'm thinking of isn't Trans Am.