Over The Hill Gang , Old Farts with Young Cars

[RubyCamaro]

Good morning crew. Nice morning here already in the low 70's. Our robin with the nest under the carport has raised one set of babies & is sitting on her nest again this morning. I guess we will try to get out & take a little cruise in the Camaros today.

Pics when the paint is done Skipp. Hope you guys have good weather Norm. Post up some videos. Have a great Saturday everyone.

[dianeokie]

Getting ready for the Hot Rod Power Tour kickoff drive to Charlotte on Friday! Most fun you can have in your car for a week with thousands of others. Anyone else going?

[69supersport396]

Have fun Diane! I did a few legs of PT06 when I lived back east and had a blast. Don't think it will every come out this way.

We were told of a planned water outage overnight and was to be restored by 6:AM this morning. Guess what, it ain't.

[69supersport396]

BTW, it's starting to look like a pool.

[RubyCamaro]

Lookin' good!

[GnyaTek]

Originally Posted by RubyCamaro

The bad news is I don't seem to be able to get clients to show up consistently in Springfield. If that does not change I might not be able to keep my Fridays in Springfield.

Is it possible that folks are more likely to cancel on Fridays due to long weekend plans (especially with summer nearly upon us)? Perhaps moving the Springfield office day to a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday would have a better attendance?

[RubyCamaro]

That is a thought but I don't really have the option to choose like that. Friday is when space is available. I suspect it will improve in time. It just need to build up enough clients to book them more heavily then if a couple don't show up it is not so big a deal. It is just a matter of whether or not they will give me the time to let it build.

Well today's plan ended up being totally altered. By the time we got ready to go for a cruise, Springfield was completely encircled with heavy rain/storms. We never got a drop of rain but literally any direction we would have driven, we would have run into heavy rain. Soooooooooooo, We went & bought $7 worth of creek rocks & did this:

[69supersport396]

That looks cool.

[RubyCamaro]

Good morning. Going to be a hot & muggy one here with a chance of rain.....................again. I am undecided about whether or not I want to try to put a coat of Meguiar's NXT Generation wax on Ruby. It would be very exhausting with near 100% humidity and I need to go see my dad. We'll see. Have a good Sunday everyone.

[69supersport396]

Hot one here today. But the humidity is only 16%, so it's not too bad. Hope I can finish my Chevelle project today.

[abaucom21]

'Supersport', pool is looking good and please keep the pics coming. What are your thoughts on landscaping? In your climate would think you will need a little shade somewhere. Ruby, sounds like you really enjoy working in the yard. I have a cousin (she is like my sister) in Florence SC who sends me pics of her yard and it is a work of art.

As for me, when I was 18 and left for college in Miami, vowed I would never mow another lawn (and have never mowed again). At age 14 parents retired to NC and had a 1/2 acre lot. At first it was a treat as I grew up mostly in officer's Air Force housing or at times when my parents were separated a city apartment in San Francisco. NC, I helped plant hedges around the parameter, a few magnolia trees, some fruit trees, climbing vines, what fun. Stopped being fun to maintain over the years and those hot humid summers mowing grass, and clipping back what nature intended. However, must say that after parents pasted away and I sold the house in the mid 1990s those hedges were 6-feet high and the magnolia trees about 40-feet high.

Only once as an adult did I attempt to alter nature. For four years in the late 80s early 90s when I lived in NYC I bought a weekend summer cabin in the Catskills just outside of Phoenicia NY about a 3-1/2 hour drive from midtown. Perfect weekend retreat from the hot summer city. Heavily wooded, back to nature. Of course first thing I did was lay stone paths, added landscape lighting, new deck, and planted 100s of bulbs, etc. Learned quickly not to mess with nature. As soon as the bulbs sprouted, varmints ate everything. The new deck was just the size for one bear to coming knocking on my door in the middle of the night which would freak out the pets. I traveled with my city cats and one small dog and purpose of the deck was so they could go outside (supervised) and enjoy a little sun. First fall, falling leaves scared the city pets and they wanted nothing to do with nature after that.

I learned that I slept better with city sounds like trash trucks and sirens. Bug noise like crickets kept me awake as I was waiting for them to go silent like in every monster movie (bugs & birds always go silent before something bad is going to happen). Now I live in an urban high-rise near a major hospital. I can see the green stuff from a distance, and sirens and emergency flight helicopters lull me to sleep.

[RubyCamaro]

LOL abaucom! I was rained on a farm so that little project was not too big of a deal to me.

Well, it took a lot to talk myself into action in the high humidity. It was oppressive. For while I stood in the garage & looked at Ruby pondering my potions & level of motivation & energy to function in that heat/humidity. Finally I decided to try to do the RainX on the windows. It started to rain by then & temps came down some. Si I started on the waxing. It took me most to the day but it is done. Ruby is beautiful but I was too pooped to care about taking any pics.

Mike cooked some steaks & after eating I took me a nice long, hot, lavender infused bath. My back hurts a little less after my bath but I am totally spent.

I dread this week sooooooooooooooo badly. It is the week for the Huge CMA Fest in Nashville (formerly Fan Fair) and it literally takes over the whole town. Many roads will be closed & I will have a nightmare getting to work. Hummmmmmmmmmmmmm, maybe my back hurts too much to get up in the morning????????

Hope everyone had a nice weekend. Good night.

[RubyCamaro]

Good morning crew. Something has me sneezy this morning and my back still hurst, but I guess I will get my butt ready & try to figure out how to get myself through all the detours to work. HAGD all.

[RubyCamaro]

(insert sound of crickets) Quiet in here. An average day at work. I'm still sore from the weekend work. Getting tired now. Nighty night.