The model comes without the raised white lettering on the tires. And I seem to remember reading that the owner of that model painted the white lettering on his truck.
The truck in the Wal-Mart visitor center has raised white lettered tires.
Posted on 12/30/2011 8:33:35 AM PST by JustaDumbBlonde
I gained a pound just reading that post! I may add that to the menu of cabbage and black-eyed peas for New Year.
That's not very nice.
I sorry ...
As I am in the process of picking the colors now, the outside rims will be pale colors of pink, green, yellow, translucent clear. I’ll be doing transparent butterflies.
The two in the center will be “in flight”, about 18 inches long, facing one another. The four midway from the wings of the center butterflies will the butterflies will be sitting on a “twig”, facing the center of the table. The table will be 12 feet long. The colored tips of the buttflies will match some color of the rims. Artists picks, not natures. The glass section will b 32 wide set in a 2 inch wooden frame. As soon as I finish one butterfly, I’ll learn how to post and let you see what the insect looks like. I’m just completed one stain glass project, and being the kind of individual I am, I think I can accomplish anything. (I’m married to an engineer so he’ll figure out how to hold the glass in place without destroying the the scene) I want the guests to be able to see through the table to the floor below.
As I am in the process of picking the colors now, the outside rims will be pale colors of pink, green, yellow, translucent clear. I’ll be doing transparent butterflies.
The two in the center will be “in flight”, about 18 inches long, facing one another. The four butterflies will be midway from the wings of the center butterflies to the beginning of the glass “rims” will be sitting on a “twig”, facing the center of the table. The table will be 12 feet long. The colored tips of the buttflies will match some color of the rims. Artists picks, not natures. The glass section will b 32 wide set in a 2 inch wooden frame. As soon as I finish one butterfly, I’ll learn how to post and let you see what the insect looks like. I’m just completed one stain glass project, and being the kind of individual I am, I think I can accomplish anything. (I’m married to an engineer so he’ll figure out how to hold the glass in place without destroying the the scene) I want the guests to be able to see through the table to the floor below.
It is very “nice” weather down this way today - more blue skies and going to be 70 or near it. 65 right now.
JADB- That is a real nice solar setup. Can you post all the little details for those of us who are interested?
...sure beats the murky day here...freezing rain with temps right around 32. Lovely.
Happy New year to all....may this year be the best of them all...
my inhouse failures this year has been my amaryllis...one bulb bought last year after Christmas...I think its only going to send up leaves, no flower...and 3 old bulbs that bloomed well last year...I watered them sparingly thru out the year and just nothing is happening....oh well....my success has been my Christmas cactus that put out flowers since just before Thanksgiving and still has one on it today...
Happy New Year and good luck this year.
The truck in post 91 has different wheels and has chrome outside door mirrors and possibly a difference in the seat. So there must have been 2 issues of the truck, making it even more rare.
The truly collectible die casts are those like this one, that were only made in very small quantities and usually not offered to the public. Good luck to you and Peggy in this re-arraingement of your lives, and Happy New Year.
The model comes without the raised white lettering on the tires. And I seem to remember reading that the owner of that model painted the white lettering on his truck.
The truck in the Wal-Mart visitor center has raised white lettered tires.
I can't claim to be real knowledgeable on all of the workings, but basically any unconsumed power that our system generates feeds into the electrical grid. We do not have any storage (battery) capacity, so when the sun goes down we get our electricity from the grid as we always have. Right now, battery storage of the current we generate is prohibitively expensive -- a battery bank would have cost twice what the system costs.
Our solar panels are manufactured by Mage. Mage is a german company that is recognized as producing the highest quality modules, and in 2011 they opened a plant in Dublin, Georgia, so we were able to purchase a product that was made in the good ol' USA.
Since we are tied into the grid, Entergy requires that our system have a breaker that stops our system from feeding power into the grid in the event of a power outage. That wasn't really attractive to us. Why be able to generate power you can't use in the event of power outages??? Anyway, to get around this, we had a generator added to the system. Our system has to 'sense' a grid before it will produce power, and when we start the generator it fools the solar system into thinking that the grid is up. I apologize at that tortured explanation, but I don't have enough understanding to explain it in technical terms.
I'd be glad to try to provide any other details that would interest you. :)
Very nice! It is nice to see fresh garden veggies in January. Enjoy!
“Tonight we are going to have homemade biscuits with a homemade savory sausage gravy ...”
I gained a pound just reading that post! I may add that to the menu of cabbage and black-eyed peas for New Year.
I am going to make Great Northern beans with a Ham bone left over from Christmas. Had a lot of meat on it..
We had a family friend that used to make us fried chicken, she used the grease to fry the flour to make the white gravy. And yes, She made home made biskets in an iron skellet.. Good stuff.. She used to make my son (baby) eat fried chicken livers.. UCK! He could eat 20 of them.. Uck again...
Thanks for all the info. I had noticed the rusty scratch on the side and the antenna difference. My cousins live near the WalMart home office, so maybe next time I am in their area, maybe I will go see the truck. I have photos of many famous cars or cars of famous people so it would be neat to add Sam’s truck. Sam’s truck really looks to be in nice condition, actually.
Yummy! Talk about comfort food!
I baked a ham sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas and used the bone and leftovers for a dutch oven full of split pea soup. So hearty, all you need is a good hunk of bread to go with.
If you ever want to do a soup or beans and don't have a ham bone handy, this stuff makes an exceptional broth. You really can't tell that you didn't boil a ham bone, and it is not overly salty. Prior to finding the Vigo, I used Goya and the Vigo is way superior.
Did you add them to your insurance and did you have a big generator for power outages before this installation. Can you run electric heaters or electric over off the cells?
I told myself I was going keep the seeds under $100 this year.
Yeah right.
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