Alright as we get dumped on with snow here, I think we're in to the 2' range now, I'm reading others stories about having there cars out and about. I'm jealous. All I can do is sit in my car and make Vroom sounds untill the snow melts and the TB/WP has been changed. March/April will not come quick enough.

Got my diff. fluid changed, oil changed, car waxed, interior cleaned, test pipes in place. Now I'm just waiting to check the PS lines and change the TB/WP and inspect the head gaskets for major leaks. Then bring on Spring and a new driving season.

So I'm jealous of you guys driving yours. But absence makes the heart grow fonder, right????? So when I start her up for the first time in 2005 I'll be smiling more than you guys who drive yours everyday, right?????

And now, back to the tundra.

 

You know, I was just thinking this weekend during a fun run in clear warm sunny skies in the huge redwoods that I was so fortunate to be living in an area that allowed such antics during the winter. But then I have also lived in Hawaii and been thinking that all day every day all year long. Look at it this way: you have a steady state of unsteadiness with seasonal change, so you are never bored. I would use the opportunity to do as you are doing, to catch up with all the maintenance I keep putting off on my shark. I think I'll go for a drive tonight....it is warm...and clear....and I don't want to fix my gremlins now.

 

It was 89 degrees at my house yesterday. Dropped the top.

Today it's a more comfortable 75...

 

Randy will you adopt me? Rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain

 

Hey at least you get to sit in yours and do all your winter projects, mine are 2000 miles away.

 

Yeah it wa definately a warm day yesterday.
I am probably one of the few people with AC on the coast in San Pedro, (Orginaly from Atlanta)
so I used it for about a half hour to speed up cooling for the night.
Yep a perfect cozy 72 degrees when I went to bed.

 

Boo, hiss. My car is on jack stands waiting for the right day. At least I have bad weather to keep me doing maintenance on her. If the weather was always nice, I'd never want to stop driving her.

Besides, Spring makes me fall in love with her all over again. Bwaahhhh, tpppp, bwaaaaahhhhhh, tppp, bwaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh, tppp, bwaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh, tpppp, Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Catch me if you can. Roof, roof

 

There is something to be said for mild winters with temps in the 60-70 range in the days, and 40-50 range at night... Come to think of it, it's like that all year round.... Oh well, just another day in paradise... It's so hard....

Um Curt,

Having lived in Brockport for a little while of 1.5 years, I am familiar with Rochester weather.. Now I can say that you are taking it like a man... Oh, by the way, you will not be ahead of us daily driver folks, as we will have logged many more hours of enjoyment than you, and it is just a lame thing about pampering these cars... You know that they just love to be driven daily... All the rubber bits that get hard and crappy, and the oil sitting cold in the engine, and the motor just silting up, and the cobwebs growing in the intakes, and the tires cracking, and , and , and.........

Oh, am I rubbing salt in the wound..? Don't feel so bad, just drive up the ridge road on a white out gust, and tell everyone that you are happy 'cause your sharkie is in storage...

Gotta run, the sun is shining, and it's 50 miles to the house, and it's only 70 F and......

 

Booooooooo hisssssss. I'm going home and sitting in my car while it is covered in the garage. Maybe I'll read a copy of Excellence while I'm in there. Can't see me now, can ya. At least the miles stay down for resale value?????????????

 

Well at least I've got my BMW for winter Rear Wheel Driving fun. I love doing doughnuits in parking lost without roasting the $100+ per corner tires. Plus it helps me learn what to do when the car slides around corners at the track. So there. H ah ha ha ha h

 

Sure... That's why mine has 235+k... All the better for the resale...! I'm gonna get buried in it...! Resale....? Sounds like a "furrin" word... Darned "Furriners"

 

Danny Wegmann must just LOVE you....!

 

I'm jealous of you guys that have cars that run.

 

Curt, at least you get to sit in and work on your shark. I don't have a garage and today was a delightfully warm 35. I think I'll go grab a beer and stare at my boxes of project parts.

 

Hmmm--

I spent the last couple weeks in North Carolina and then in Indiana. Indiana days started near zero, warmed to a tropical 25 by mid afternoon. Left Wednesday morning at 4am in light snow, and a refreshing 25 degree heat wave. I guess it needed to warm up some to allow it to snow. Two driving hours later on frozen/slick roads in a rental Explorer 4WD, another couple hours of airport fun, and I was in a first-class seat on my way home. Mid-afternnon here saw 85 on the outside thermometer. Normally too warm for me but way perfect after the time frozen east. Today, I pulled the battery maintainer and rolled the car off the suspension blocks so I could take a dash down to the haircutter. Took the long way home...



In the last month we've had over four FEET of rain. A mudslide three doors down from our driveway gate managed to cover the rears of three homes below us. Part of the public road is closed until the city can figure out how to get new soil to support it again. That's not going to be easy. So I had to sneak out over a fire access right-of-way. A slide was cleared off of that access so we can get in and out.

Every "paradise" has its pluses and minuses. Easterners have weather extremes on an annual basis. Here, a dead-of-winter day means that it barely makes 60. Hurricanes and tornadoes are standard fare for many. We depend on a little earthquake someplace in the state every once in a while to help manage the migrant population from those colder regions. Housing costs here are through the roof, but heating and AC bills are nothing compared to the eastern states. In the end, most folks live in the same area for their whole lives. Family ties, a job, or lack of exposure to other areas makes staying put the easy way out for many folks.


I -really- enjoyed the drive this morning. The maintenance list stuff is going to have to wait for another day.



Cheers!