Maggie’s What's Your View II

Thanks @Tallahassee
Sent that to my grandson.

He has some challenges was a preme. He absolutely loves trains, train history, pictures stories and shows.

He could easily run a train museum in my estimation.

Please keep any train related pictures coming.

He recently went to DC on vacation and had a blast at museum and riding the in the Tubes all over.
We stopped at the Casey Jones Museum a couple years ago, if you get a chance to go there, it is a neat little place.
 
Final photo dump from a training on the west coast… Cool but I’ll take my oak dominated dry sites….
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Ooh! That last picture gives me the itchies! The Poison Oak is still green there.

We were farther South today and the Poison Oak had changed to a brilliant Red in the Yolla Bolly Mountains.
lol your not the only person that has told me that. I'm lucky enough to not react to it. I'm lucky on that side. Type 1 beetus offsets it lol
 
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Pictures from the annual Harvest Festival. Biggest crop around here other than timber is hay, which is harvested in June. Anyway it has become a large car show, with over 100 entries. Here are a few:

32 Ford Coupe. Talked to the owner, engine is a bored and stroked 331 cubic inch putting out 435 hp. With a fiberglass body, the car weighs 1950 lbs. He said "it gets kind of squirrelly when you put your foot into it".
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36 Chevy pickup. The flame detail on the door was incredible.
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41 Willys with a Ford 427 SOHC.
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50 Studebaker pickup
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Some more from the car show.
64 Nova with a 427 big block.
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A 'Hot Rod Lincoln' with a flathead engine.
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69 Mustang. Woman who owns the car now said it had been her parents car and they bought it new.
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Parked on a side street because of its size, one of my favorites. 1960 Diamond T log truck. From when it was bought new it was driven by one man who put 3,000,000 miles, yes 3 million miles, on it over 30 years or so. Beautiful truck.

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I built some computers back in the day the heat sink compound and butt paste are the same stuff ?

Zink oxide if I remember correctly.
lol I thought you were joking, I didn’t realize that was an option. I’m not sure if it’s the same or not. It may have zinc oxide in it. I know it forms sort of like form your own gasket putty.
 
Came home from dinner to find the semi-feral orange kitty who’s supposed to be keepin’ the varmints away from the house passed out asleep on our front porch with an interloper!

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They both jumped up when we turned on the porch light…like teenagers gettin’ caught making out!

If I wasn’t so worried about that dang skunk sprayin’ the house I’d have tried to run it off, but decided to let ‘em be.

I had 9 skunks take up residence under a porch at the back of my house. Caught 3 with a live trap until they got smart and avoided it ….even with some tuna as bait. 🤔
So I got some short pieces of rebar and stuck in the ground vertically by their exit , wrapped it with fishing line and treble hooks. Called it “ The Halo of Death “ ! Their only escape was a fatal funnel.

Got them one by one until all were all gone. Did the final wet work with .22 shorts to their head. Yep ….ALL of them sprayed , I have a gas mask that worked.
They make a product called “ Skunk Off” that breaks down the foul stench somehow when sprayed liberally mixed with h20. Filled their entrance with cement , no more skunks 👍
 
East Twin Bay, Perry Island, Prince William Sound, Alaska
Geomagnetic storm two nights ago. Last boating trip of the season.
 

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