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Arielle said:
Love to see an old truck, or old car, back on the road.
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You betcha! Recycling at its finest, eh?
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Cynthia12 said:
Canuck, Had to show my DH the photos of the old truck. He wishes he had the old 1926 Model T he had back in the day, just sitting in the back of the yard. His dad..sold it for a load of coal while he was away training in the military.
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He sure was disappointed when he got home, but mom and dad stayed warm.
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I would agree...times can be tough and I think given the same choice, I'd rather come home to Mah and Pa still chugging along. Too bad though! Them Model T's are way nice to go for drives (slo mo) in.
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Joke:
It's Friday night...been a loooooong week...enjoy yer rootbeer...
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Joke:
One says to another, "Windy, isn't it?"

"No," the second man answers, "it's Thursday."

The third guy, listening in, pipes up, "So am I! Let's grab a beer."

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada
 
Good news......we did not loose all of the wheaton and blue wheaton ameraucanas after all. Despite the power outage from the ice storm two weeks ago, DH decided to keep incubating them. He tossed some of the eggs because of no development but he locked the rest down last night and today he saw some rocking. He said that was the first time he saw that when hatching. So we may be getting some blue egg layers after all....that is if we get hens..
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We also found someone hatching PBR and we are picking up 10 chicks on Monday. It is so exciting. I purchased a incubator earlier this week and have 18 BO and some of our own mix eggs. This is my first hatch by myself and I am trying the dry hatch method....They will lockdown mid-March. I have reserved more eggs for the Easter Hatch Along....everything is coming up chickens. Now DH and I are in competition who has the best results.

I am on a hunt for a cabinet incubator.....need more hatching capacity.
 
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pickitfarm said:
Good news......we did not loose all of the wheaton and blue wheaton ameraucanas after all. Despite the power outage from the ice storm two weeks ago, DH decided to keep incubating them. He tossed some of the eggs because of no development but he locked the rest down last night and today he saw some rocking. He said that was the first time he saw that when hatching. So we may be getting some blue egg layers after all....that is if we get hens..
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We also found someone hatching PBR and we are picking up 10 chicks on Monday. It is so exciting. I purchased a incubator earlier this week and have 18 BO and some of our own mix eggs. This is my first hatch by myself and I am trying the dry hatch method....They will lockdown mid-March. I have reserved more eggs for the Easter Hatch Along....everything is coming up chickens. Now DH and I are in competition who has the best results.

I am on a hunt for a cabinet incubator.....need more hatching capacity.
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Good luck with your hatch and in your competition.
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CanuckBock said:
Heel low:

Have to laugh, because today's LOW is tomorrow's HIGH. Minus twenty Celsius (-4 Fahrenheit).


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Pic I took this morn, it looks cold but is only -20C (-4F) not the -40 fer tamorrah.


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Thought you all might like to see a glacial boulder I drive by each week...funny how glaciers just dump these...wherever!

Got a great big pot of chicken soup stock on the boil. Soup will go down real well this weekend, make me warm within fer doing meh chores.

Now they are predicting lower than originally stated temps. Forty below for Sat and Sunday with a windchill, saying -50C (-58 F)...not the worst we have seen, been -53C (-63 F) here and we managed it all. Not all springy sprung but we do get on by.


So with the nasty weather and both my spouse and I chomping at the bit to get some things completed...it is always a challenge to find good interesting projects to do where you can avoid being outside for any extended lengths of time but still be AMUSED! Chores are one thing that are always done, but playing, well that is quite another. You can be a tad more picky your poison!
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Good time of year for Rick to do some of his more inside truck projects. Right now, he's getting a bunch of parts put together (cleaned up and painted) to send out to have the one of our two 1928 One Ton Chev's wooden spokes done up.


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This is the unit he is working on now. That's old girl dog Makins...Inspector Makins!

Lots of neat things on these old trucks, like the inside of the headlamps were slivered and in this case, the glass is clear and the reflector is rippled. Opposite in the 1936 Chev Maple Leafs...the reflectors are smooth and the glass is textured...makes a rock flying up rather a bit more expensive...is that an improvement or a way to make us pay more for PARTS...Hee hee hee...planned expenditures in running a truck that cost the consumers more...hee hee...
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Rick has done up some (what I find interesting) work...he refurbished the fuel canister....I find things like this neat because, well new vehicles use different technology than back then. One of the canister's leaked, so we had to go hunting in some rather odd places to find an old one that was still good to clean up and use. The worst fear is always that parts will not be available. Best when we find new old stock, but there are some places that have reproductions you may purchase...better than none at all!


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I also like learning things like the major difference on the 1928 engine from the 1927 engine in the Chevrolet one ton was the push rods are now covered...on the '27 they were open (dangerous and probably harder to keep clean too!). Engines back then were babbitted...lead was used. Only a few people that we know of now even know what we are talking about when you mention "babbitted." LOL


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So when the weather says nasty and it's gonna be forty below out...what you other "old folks" doing besides like Rick working on the indoor projects such as cutting threads in nuts and bolts with his taps and dies, cleaning and painting parts, OR like me, tossing more straw, adding more cracked corn to the rations, and making chook soup??

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada
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Very nice pictures.
I've had a lot of old cars and trucks but just can't find the time to work on them any more.
I still have one more to sell, a 74 Porsche 914.
My first car was a '50 Dodge, Wayfarer Sportabout convertible with a flat head 6 and fluid drive transmission.
I'll have to find the picture of my grandfathers first truck, a Diamond T.

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Congratulations on the rain out west.
Praying for those that are in the ice band of the next storm. I hope it gets cold enough tomorrow that ours will be more snow than ice. I'm right on the line between ice an snow.
I'm running the generator today to make sure it's ready.

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Not a lot of pictures from Daughter yet and only got one short text this morning.
Here's a few.

World's largest religious temple


Temple of a thousand faces


Ta Phrom


Nom nom


Bayon


One of her cover pics
 
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