Cuzzin Ricky and I took our show on the road yesterday. First stop was the campground where Rick bought a box scraper a few months ago. It was missing one of the scarifier teeth but the campground owner said he'd let Rick know if he ran across it, and he did. The bike in the photo was parked in front of one of the cabins - big Suzuki with all the proper dragbike stuff, but streetable. It had the name of a shop in North Carolina painted on the front fender that probably built it, but I couldn't imagine riding that bad boy all the way from NC to Indiana. Very cool bike regardless of how it got there.
Next stop was a mower shop where TVI works, that would be my cousin and Rick's brother. Rick was looking for a new mower and I shot the breeze with TVI. He sent the motor out on his Harley project and expects it to get it back soon. When he does, he'll get his oil tank designed so I can weld it up for him.
We ate lunch at a bar just down the street from the mower shop and feasted on pork tenderloins. I had their Italian style - damn fine sandwich! Not your run of the mill tenderloin by any means, but I could do that one again.
Coach Jen took me to another gym after our boxing class to show me a weight rack like she wants for her gym. It's all made from 2x2 tubing - be easy enough to make, all straight cuts, might be worth putting a roll of wire in the MIG machine to make the job go faster, rather than TIG welding everything.
The temps got up to about 90 again yesterday, but I did manage to paint the flag on the mailbox project. The missus made her decision on what's to be done with the mailbox, so I now need to make a bracket to mount it on the bell post. I'm going to prime the mailbox today, but I won't put the finish coat on it until I get the bracket made and get ready to install it.
What I need to do now is find a Harley mechanic that I could take the Sportster to and just get it finished up, because at the rate I'm going, it won't be ready to ride this year. I need to get back out in the shop, but between the hot weather and the Missus worrying about me being out in the heat, progress is slow, even by my standards. I'll just keep plugging away and what gets done, gets done, at least until it cools down a bit.
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I can get that Sportster running.
One way or another, I'd really like to take it for a ride on my birthday this year.
install a car airbag onto the side of the mailbox so when the juvenile delinquent drive by to smash it with a baseball bat the airbag will deploy firing out a container of fluorescent blue dye... all on security cam for use to watch a bunch of times. don't call the United States Postal Service on them just fix it.
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