What did you do today

[Electric Miner]

Inventoried the freezer this afternoon. I have 20 pounds of boneless pork shoulder, a half a boneless pork loin, a vacuum pack of St. Louis ribs (3 racks), 2 whole beef briskets, a ten pound pork belly (and I just started curing an additional ten pounds of pork belly for green chile bacon this morning), and about 30 steaks of various types, mostly t-bones, ribeyes, and tenderloin. I also have a bunch of boneless chicken breasts and hamburger.

And I'm at home with just my wife and her mother. The neighbors can't come over, due to the ongoing "distancing", and the kids are stuck in CA.

[Miguel Loco]

More fun with the "El Corona"...... progress! It's almost time to start getting a little excited....

Dash and new wiring harness



The sweet climate control box we built so I could keep the stock lever controls in the dash



Fenders hung, lots to get plumbed in



Starting to look like a real motor



First time the fenders have been on in 15 years

[G Dog]

Nice work and it seems to be progressing well.  I don’t know how to build a car and wouldn't know where to begin.  It looks complicated.

[Hawg]

Nice work and it seems to be progressing well.  I don’t know how to build a car and wouldn't know where to begin.  It looks complicated.

+1 on the nice work. It would be intimidating if you've never built one before. When I was about 10 and working with my dad we built a truck for a customer. We drug three Chevy trucks out of the junkyard. Picked the one with the best cab and stripped it down to the bare frame and built it from the ground up. That was around 1967. IIRC he got $300.00 for building it. That was my first excursion into building. I built several since then but I would be lost on todays electrical systems.

[mazo kid]

The only "building" I ever did was with the help of a couple of friends who had built a '32 roadster for drag racing. They helped put a rebuilt 283 Chevvy in my '35 Ford 5 window coupe. I went out to the farm one night and one of them had already reversed the 15" Lincoln wheels for the rear. Fun times!

[Miguel Loco]

The only "building" I ever did was with the help of a couple of friends who had built a '32 roadster for drag racing. They helped put a rebuilt 283 Chevvy in my '35 Ford 5 window coupe. I went out to the farm one night and one of them had already reversed the 15" Lincoln wheels for the rear. Fun times!

Fun times indeed! We grew up in a great time.

[Len]

The only "building" I ever did was with the help of a couple of friends who had built a '32 roadster for drag racing. They helped put a rebuilt 283 Chevvy in my '35 Ford 5 window coupe. I went out to the farm one night and one of them had already reversed the 15" Lincoln wheels for the rear. Fun times!

Fun times indeed! We grew up in a great time.

Yeah, we did things, using our own hands and brains and what ever material that was around. I still live that way, but pitty the new generation that seems all at a loss.

[Electric Miner]

Worked on the garden railroad today. Have the layout mostly weeded. In the middle of leveling existing road bed. Then I have to put in road bed for the new Fog Bottom bypass. I'll post video. We have a lot of upgrades to the train layout area this year. The hill inside the main loop is getting retaining wall and terrace. Most of the outside of the track area is getting pavers or flagstone.

[G Dog]

Fun times indeed! We grew up in a great time.

Cheap gas, too.  We were the most mobile generation in the history of the world.  We got around.  High times.

I grew up in the LA area and it was snow ski on Saturday and surf on Sunday.  A thirty minute drive would put you where you could legally shoot yer guns any time you wanted.  I wouldn't  go anywhere near that third-world shit hole now but it sure was fun while it lasted.

I had a pretty cool Lionell set up as a little kid but my electric train days are long behind me.

[Yolla Bolly Brad]

Cheap gas, too.  We were the most mobile generation in the history of the world.  We got around.  High times.

I grew up in the LA area and it was snow ski on Saturday and surf on Sunday.  A thirty minute drive would put you where you could legally shoot yer guns any time you wanted.  I wouldn't  go anywhere near that third-world shit hole now but it sure was fun while it lasted.

I was born and raised just north of the San Francisco Bay Area. The suburbs there were a great place to grow up in the 50's and 60's. And in the 70's it was a good place to start a work career with housing still being affordable for people with blue collar wages. The geography and climate of California is still beautiful but pretty much everything else  sucks.

[mazo kid]

We have been mostly doing indoor things for the last few days. It has been very windy and temps only in low-mid 30s, rainy and snow squalls too. Today was still windy and cool, but at least the sun was shining. Maybe tomorrow will see us outdoors again.

[G Dog]

Easy weather here in NW CA.  Up in the Coast Range a high of 78 F today and tonight we’re bracing for a low of 50. Down on the water where I’m headed for the night we’re looking at 66/44 … and that’s all I’m going to say about that.   

[Captainkirk]

Snow on the cars this morning, and salt on the roads. Still working every day so not much has changed except the traffic on the roads.

[ShotgunDave]

I actually got out of the house today, to get food for our reptiles. It was 86 here today and I actually wore shorts! Looks like the rain we've had, is gone for now.

[Miguel Loco]

Fun times indeed! We grew up in a great time.

Cheap gas, too.  We were the most mobile generation in the history of the world.  We got around.  High times.

I grew up in the LA area and it was snow ski on Saturday and surf on Sunday.  A thirty minute drive would put you where you could legally shoot yer guns any time you wanted.  I wouldn't  go anywhere near that third-world shit hole now but it sure was fun while it lasted.

I had a pretty cool Lionell set up as a little kid but my electric train days are long behind me.

Yup G Dog....I remember buying $1 worth of gas and driving around half the night. Cruisin' Main Street.