What's on your agenda for today?

Weirdest thing, just selling one of my items, the guy tells me he can't make the that day because he has to do a 48 hour shift, long story short, I ask if he's a firefighter, yes he's a Lieutenant. I tell him because of nostalgia, I'll hold it for him and not sell it to anyone else. Now we're having long text conversations. Talk about bad timing. Received pics of him in and out of full uniform. He had to do an emergency run while we were chatting messaged me when he got back to the station. I've got to cut off these chats, I already told him, I wasn't selling me, just the tv.
 
Today is fix-it, and cantaloupe day. I spent most of yesterday mowing...it was almost like cutting a hay field after all the rain in the past few days. One of the mowers was running rough, and I traced it to a loose spark plug wire, so I'll go out in a few minutes and fix that. Then, I looked in the garden, and there are at least a dozen big cantaloupe that are ripe and ready to pick. After I fix the mower, I will gather those up and take the excess to some of the neighbors, and probably take a half dozen up to town to the Old Folks home...will give them a nice treat.
 

Trash day here....Have mowed some, the dirt blowing in my face is the pitts.

I'll probably stay in out of the heat the rest of the day and read, dog could use a bath, maybe, maybe not....lol....such an exhilarating life.
 
Ameriscot said:
Sorry Ossian. That's a real pain in the bum. I'm lucky I was able to get in the the NHS dental group in Dunoon.
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Surely, you mean 'pain in the gum', Ameriscot?

Sliverfox said:
ACCK,, hate dental work,, best of luck on that tooth Ossian!

Was thinking on trying new recipe for zucchini relish today.
Should get up & be doing something. .
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Many thanks, Silverfox. I am looking forward to it.
 
Re: today's agenda
Good afternoon to all- Well, let's see. this morning I made arrangements for us to take a short two-day trip over to Louisiana for a fishing trip later this month- I do love visiting that state, if I can avoid meeting up with the local law enforcement folks- they ought to name an elementary school after me- I've left enough money for speeding tickets there.
I put a lovely big rack of ribs on the Big Green Egg for slow smoking for supper- I just got rib hungry, so I bought me a rack, brought it home, rubbed it down with seasoning, nd put it over a slow smokey fire.
supper ought to be good tonight.
that's what I'm doing today.
good evening to all- Ed
 
Going to pick up our new (used) car and leave the dealer our current car. Ordered a special bike rack for our heavy electric bikes and will pick that up as well. Then we are picking up Aussie sis in law at train station who will stay with us another few days. Might take her to tour a castle tomorrow that she hasn't been to - Inveraray.
 
Ameriscot said:
Going to pick up our new (used) car and leave the dealer our current car. Ordered a special bike rack for our heavy electric bikes and will pick that up as well. Then we are picking up Aussie sis in law at train station who will stay with us another few days. Might take her to tour a castle tomorrow that she hasn't been to - Inveraray.
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I hope you like your next car. Enjoy the castle with your sis n law. I am thinking of getting another car myself; a used one of course. Mine is just so old and things are going wrong and I'm so tired of it. My brother is helping me to get it. I may go look today or tomorrow.
 
Thanks! Our current car is 13 years old and our mechanic keeps saying we need to replace it - even though it only has 85K miles on it. It always passes it's annual MOT (physical exam so we can legally be on the road), but he says the underside is rusting out due to our location next to the sea with all the salt. It would cost a fortune to fix it.
 
Enjoy the new car, Ameriscot. And Inveraray, although tomorrow's weather does not look so great.

I'm off for a walk at Largs - a smallish coastal town on the Clyde estuary - for some dog watching. Like people watching, but much more interesting! :)
 
ossian said:
Enjoy the new car, Ameriscot. And Inveraray, although tomorrow's weather does not look so great.

I'm off for a walk at Largs - a smallish coastal town on the Clyde estuary - for some dog watching. Like people watching, but much more interesting! :)
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Thanks, Ossian. Weather not looking great. We were hoping to take sis in law to Iona for a couple of days, but not a great place to go in the rain. Inveraray isn't too far from us and she's never seen the castle.

Enjoy your walk in Largs. :) used to stop there often when I picked up hubby from Prestwick every Friday night - he commuted to London.

Just got a call from dealer and we can't get car until tomorrow. They have to hook up lights for when we have the bikes on the rack, and a part didn't arrive. Complicates matters a bit. Guess we'll just take the train in to get sis in law then go to dinner. So Inveraray is delayed till Friday.
 
Ameriscot said:
Thanks! Our current car is 13 years old and our mechanic keeps saying we need to replace it - even though it only has 85K miles on it. It always passes it's annual MOT (physical exam so we can legally be on the road), but he says the underside is rusting out due to our location next to the sea with all the salt. It would cost a fortune to fix it.
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My car is 17 years old and I've had it 8 years. It has 159,000 mi. on it. It still passes the exams here, too. Mine has very little rust but the AC is not working and needs an entire new AC system, one window won't go up or down, the ABS doesn't work, one side has 2 big dents in it, a lot of the paint has chipped off the front bumper. I think I am going to go back to where I got this and see what they have if they are still there.
 
We bought ours new in 2003. It still looks nice but the computer system has a glitch that doesn't affect the running of the car but it beeps Engine Fault when you start it. It's annoying but would cost a fortune to put on a brand new computer. Heater only works on high and we've had it fixed twice. But our mechanic has told us the last 2 or 3 annual MOT and service to get rid of it. He says it's not the miles it's the age. And we do live right on the sea and don't park in garage, so salt on undercarriage.

The dealer is only giving us £100 on trade.
 
Ameriscot said:
Thanks, Ossian. Weather not looking great. We were hoping to take sis in law to Iona for a couple of days, but not a great place to go in the rain. Inveraray isn't too far from us and she's never seen the castle.

Enjoy your walk in Largs. :) used to stop there often when I picked up hubby from Prestwick every Friday night - he commuted to London.

Just got a call from dealer and we can't get car until tomorrow. They have to hook up lights for when we have the bikes on the rack, and a part didn't arrive. Complicates matters a bit. Guess we'll just take the train in to get sis in law then go to dinner. So Inveraray is delayed till Friday.
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That is a pity. That kinda spoils things a bit for you. But hopefully it will be all ready to go tomorrow.

Largs was wet and not much fun! Quick walk in the rain then home.
 
Took sis in law to Inveraray castle yesterday, then got the call that the car was ready to pick up in Glasgow. Dinner out on the way home.

Today I'm taking sis in law to the ferry and she'll meet up with her daughter who lives in London and they'll go back together before mum goes back to Australia. Grocery shopping and getting back to my workouts this afternoon.
 
I drove our new (to us) car today. Husband had driven it back from the dealer in Glasgow. The automatic gears looked a bit odd - R N E or M. But no P for park. Dealer called it an automatic but upon reading the manual have found it is a semi-automatic. Automatic clutch. But the hand brake must always be used, just like a manual (which I've never driven). So I have to learn how to do a hill start using the hand brake. Shouldn't be a big deal, but I had a bad experience back in high school when my dad was trying to teach me to drive a stick shift. I had stopped on a hill and couldn't get it going and the car kept going backward. The cars behind us had to keep backing up. When I finally got it up the hill, I pulled over and declared that's the end of driving a non-automatic car.

So I've got to develop a new habit when having to stop and start while going up a hill, and we have a lot of hills. Fortunately, I'd already developed the habit of putting on the hand brake every time I parked.
 
Ameriscot said:
I drove our new (to us) car today. Husband had driven it back from the dealer in Glasgow. The automatic gears looked a bit odd - R N E or M. But no P for park. Dealer called it an automatic but upon reading the manual have found it is a semi-automatic. Automatic clutch. But the hand brake must always be used, just like a manual (which I've never driven). So I have to learn how to do a hill start using the hand brake. Shouldn't be a big deal, but I had a bad experience back in high school when my dad was trying to teach me to drive a stick shift. I had stopped on a hill and couldn't get it going and the car kept going backward. The cars behind us had to keep backing up. When I finally got it up the hill, I pulled over and declared that's the end of driving a non-automatic car.

So I've got to develop a new habit when having to stop and start while going up a hill, and we have a lot of hills. Fortunately, I'd already developed the habit of putting on the hand brake every time I parked.
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I tried to drive a non automatic a few times, too, and couldn't get the hang of it but I may have not given myself enough time to learn well.
 
Ruthanne said:
I tried to drive a non automatic a few times, too, and couldn't get the hang of it but I may have not given myself enough time to learn well.
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I've tried to learn to drive a manual 3 or 4 times and gave up. My licence here is for automatics only. But unless I am going up a hill, it's driven like an automatic, no changing gears unless I choose the M option. Otherwise it's on E for easy. And there's no clutch that I have to do anything with.

Parking is different as well as I have to leave it on E to park, or R if parking facing downhill. And to start it I have to have it in N.
 
Ameriscot said:
I've tried to learn to drive a manual 3 or 4 times and gave up. My licence here is for automatics only. But unless I am going up a hill, it's driven like an automatic, no changing gears unless I choose the M option. Otherwise it's on E for easy. And there's no clutch that I have to do anything with.

Parking is different as well as I have to leave it on E to park, or R if parking facing downhill. And to start it I have to have it in N.
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OMG, that's too much for me!
 
Like most Brits, I learned to drive a manual car. No synchromesh on first or reverse, so you had to 'double de-clutch' at times. It just became natural. I've only ever driven automatic cars in the U.S. and I missed the control that you get with a manual. Still, it was one less thing to worry about when driving on the other side of the road in a strange country.

(I don't think that stalling is a problem with an automatic car, but my wife's car will re-start automatically if you stall, simply by depressing the clutch.)
 
Capt Lightning said:
Like most Brits, I learned to drive a manual car. No synchromesh on first or reverse, so you had to 'double de-clutch' at times. It just became natural. I've only ever driven automatic cars in the U.S. and I missed the control that you get with a manual. Still, it was one less thing to worry about when driving on the other side of the road in a strange country.

(I don't think that stalling is a problem with an automatic car, but my wife's car will re-start automatically if you stall, simply by depressing the clutch.)
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Stalling is not an issue with an automatic.

My husband, of course, always drove a manual but when we got married we had to get automatic for me.
 

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