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You Yanks sure take Halloween seriously ...
You Yanks sure take Halloween seriously ...
Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback
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famous bob
mopar misfit
not me !
To be honest its getting bigger and bigger over here, too. :batman:
1967 'cuda
Dropped on Head as a Baby
I still remember a few of the houses I trick or treated at when I was a youngster. It was sort of fun getting the bejeezus scared out of us. It's the one time of the year when you have the opportunity to amaze the kids that come over. I usually don't decorate outside for Christmas because I hate the cold weather.
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1967 'cuda
Dropped on Head as a Baby
Bob you must be one of those Boo, Humbug types. LOL.
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Those decorations are going to be awesome.
1967 'cuda
Dropped on Head as a Baby
I refuse to be satisfied until I hear someone crapped their pants! LOL. #-o
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Nebraska, huh. Yeah. I've been two weeks in Kearney in january, I believe. It was AWFUL! Snow, freezing and high winds. Brrr!
I was amazed to see the coal trains, though. Not going political here, but MY GOD, the amount of coal the big cities in the east consume!
famous bob
mopar misfit
most of the coal plants are so clean burning that you can`t even smell them now.
R4Sedan
Larry
John, I always enjoy seeing how you decorate for Halloween. Please post pictures when your get your front yard decorated.
1967 'cuda
Dropped on Head as a Baby
As much as I despise putting up with the Winter cold, I pity the folks that live farther North. It's hard for me to visualize New York city with several feet of snow. I've never been there but it seems that traffic congestion would be a nightmare.
The vast majority of what I see trains pulling across Nebraska is either grain or coal. Most of the coal seems to be going East.
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1967 'cuda
Dropped on Head as a Baby
I'm not one of those big tree hugger types but I remember back in the 70s when places like Los Angeles ran smog alerts. Some things have changed for the better.
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1967 'cuda
Dropped on Head as a Baby
I have to admit I get a kick out of them trick-or-treaters. The community is small enough that most people feel safe. The look of amazement on some of those little kids is priceless. I hope that our place will be one that they'll remember fondly as they grow up. I know I still have a vague memory of some of the spookier places in town back when I was a kid.
I'm not sure if I'll be able to capture very good images of our place after dark. I've been messing with and testing the lighting to get things set up right. Today I went to Menards and bought a half dozen of those solar pathway lights. They had them on sale for 75 cents each. When I got home I saw that FedEx had dropped off one of the projectors I bought off eBay. I guess I'll have to start monkeying around with the stuff around dusk tonight.
We have 3 computers here but Teresa's computer is all screwed up. It tends to happen after her grandkids have been over. They didn't chew on any of the cords but I suppose they found ways to delete important Windows files when they were hammering on the keyboard. I still need a third computer to mate with the third projector. As a sideline I fix computers (free of charge) for folks around town. I suppose I'll have to spend most of today trying to repair hers.
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Did you finish the other house project or just taking a break from it for a while?
mopar383
Well-Known Member
Nice ride ! I love the color !
Win/win situations: You get to play hot rod, your son picks up the bill... Just damn...ly... awesome...,John....
1967 'cuda
Dropped on Head as a Baby
I WISH!! No, we're not done with the house yet. We're still slowly making progress but I'd been ignoring so many other things while we were totally focused on the house. Now I'm trying to play catch up with the things that I couldn't get to before. Nothing major for house progress recently. With Winter coming soon I'm trying to make sure I've got my projects that are outside taken care of.
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1967 'cuda
Dropped on Head as a Baby
Thanks mopar383. My son would have preferred that I'd have built a Dart like your '72. I think he sees the similarity between the roof-line/body shape of those Darts and the B-body Mopars.
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Aren't you going to ask what the heck I was doing for two weeks in Kearney? 
1967 'cuda
Dropped on Head as a Baby
My ability to focus on one project at a time sort of sucks. Juggling several makes life interesting. I seriously doubt I'd ever have a chance to mess with most of this stuff if my son didn't want to keep upping the ante on his goals.
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1967 'cuda
Dropped on Head as a Baby
Aren't you going to ask what the heck I was doing for two weeks in Kearney?
I have to admit, - that thought DID cross my mind. I usually wonder why anyone ever comes to Nebraska. I've heard of folks here going to Sweden for vacations but that seems a lot more sane than coming to Nebraska (during Winter) for the same reason. LOL.
The only times I ever go to Kearney is to go to the drags. They do have a 1/4 mile strip there.
So... - What in the heck brought you to my neck of the woods? Are you a psychologist doing field studies of deviant behaviors?
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Ha ha!
No, I'm an engineer. We were commissioning a machine at the Eaton plant. It was a total disaster and we ended up spending weeks on end in that HELL of a factory, spending BIG bucks only to fail in the end.
Ate at Hardee's a lot, though. Never seen so many calories in one wrapper before or after. And one night we ended up in some college dorm party. Good times. BFF after that, my two colleagues and me.
Fascinated by the museum that arches the I-80.
No, I'm an engineer. We were commissioning a machine at the Eaton plant. It was a total disaster and we ended up spending weeks on end in that HELL of a factory, spending BIG bucks only to fail in the end.
Ate at Hardee's a lot, though. Never seen so many calories in one wrapper before or after. And one night we ended up in some college dorm party. Good times. BFF after that, my two colleagues and me.
Fascinated by the museum that arches the I-80.
1967 'cuda
Dropped on Head as a Baby
BWAAAH HA HA!! I've never been in the Eaton factory but it's not uncommon to see old technology still in use. Many of the factories are still using remnants of machinery from the 1940s. After WWII ended the equipment made to support the war effort was re-purposed to produce commercial goods. They're still being used today. I spent a number of years upgrading industrial equipment in factories to meet OSHA and EC standards. I'm not making fun of them. They got the job done. But it was frustrating at times. A lot of people really resist change even when it's beneficial.
One of the factories I worked at averaged 1 amputation every 6 months over the previous 10 years. Another one averaged 1 amputation every 4 months. Accidents resulting in amputations were no longer a concern by the time I was finished.
Ya, unfortunately the cattle aren't the only ones around here that look 'corn fed'. I never went to any dorm parties but I did consume my fair share of barley pops when I was young.
It's not exactly the Smithsonian but it breaks up the monotony if you're driving down I-80.
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1967 'cuda
Dropped on Head as a Baby
After several failed boot attempts I ran some diagnostics on Teresa's computer. Crap! The hard drive is kaput. I ordered a 1 TB replacement off eBay. I still need to hunt down our 64 bit Win 7 disc so I can get the system back up after the new hard drive arrives. If everything goes well I should have her computer up and running in plenty of time before Halloween.
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