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Posted on 05/03/2008 8:48:06 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
We can't get it off the truck... the hitch lock appears to work a little too well. It's rusty and stuck. But we'll solve that tomorrow when it's light.
Tomorrow I'll clean it and start stocking it with our stuff before we move it out into the pasture. That will be the fun part, making it a little homey. :~)
Of course you know....you now have a “guest house” for visitors/mooters...
Many Catholics have distorted the Pope's message that the only way a vote for any pro-abortion candidate is EVER justified, is for a proportional issue on the part of the opposing candidate. But since the Republican candidates, by and large, do not support anything that causes nearly as many deaths as abortion does each year, there IS no proportional reason for voting for Obama, or any of the other pro-abortion Democrats.
It's REAL hard to convince some folks though, because they're still thinking, I guess, that they're voting for their Grandmother's Democrat party, when that one died in 1972.
I thought the Pope and the Bishops had been making it pretty clear what the Church taught on abortion.
I’ve been chatting with a good Episcopalian friend of mine. I’ve told him I don’t question his faith, but don’t understand how he comes to his decisions to be a liberal democrat.
We've had our own trailer dramas this week. We've been packing boxes of our worldly goods, and putting them in the V-nosed cargo trailer for the last year and a half. SirKit decided that he wanted to take that trailer on down to MS to get it off our driveway, and to get some more stuff out of the house before we start the remodeling. He has been monitoring the weight balances, to see how much more we could get into it, and we had to do several shifts to get it right. Then he realized that he didn't like the old hitch, so he bought a new one, and installed it.
He took the trailer down off the braces yesterday,and we filled the tires. Then he realized that the tires may not be able to handle the full load, so he called to see if we could get four new heavier duty tires today. He hauled it over to Pete's Tire Barn this morning, and on the way, got the feeling that the hitch wasn't handling the load very well. He'd already bought a load-balancing hitch, but had never installed it. So, after getting four new shoes for the trailer, we took it to an RV place, and they installed the new hitch assembly, having to call a welder to complete the job. SirKit had suspected that would be the case, and he couldn't have done that anyway.
On the way to the RV place, the truck started making a funny noise, so after dropping off the trailer, we took it to the Ford place, but they couldn't work on it today. So we left it overnight, and we're just praying that it's something REALLY small, and that they can fix it in the morning. We were supposed to have been in FL on the 13th for SirKit's sibling reunion, but we missed that. We're going to get there just in time to spend the last week in the condo with his older brother!
But the bright spot in all this is that I don't have to serve Jury Duty on Oct. 6th, so we can stay down there longer, if we want. I got my Duty postponed until April, so that took a LOT of pressure off. We've been trying to get out of here for a week, but if all goes well, we can be on the road to MS tomorrow afternoon!
Aw geeze... I hope it’s a small problem indeed, and the trailer is better and balanced.
This old trailer started out swaying quite a bit when we got on the freeway, so we slowed down and didn’t go above 50 most of the way. It got better after awhile, it’s been sitting for a long time and the tires probably had quite a flat spot that got worked out.
You’re right XGI, I do have a good guest house now! Or will, when I get it all fixed up.
Simple. In our civilized world, we expect the women to kill rats like that on sight. Please don't disparage hard-working pigs by comparing them to that oxygen thief.
Good point about the pigs.
Exactly. Should be a bounty on such heads, too.
Oh, they've been clear, but some folks like that 'weasel clause' of 'conscience', and they'll use it to justify most anything.
That’s gonna be handy for lots of things, I think.
Neato.
Just popping in to retrieve my half-liter of Coke.
See y’all back in the new hole.
New thread posted here:
The Hobbit Hole XXXVII - ...Down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed!
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