I mounted an old milk crate to the $100 Elite yesterday. I did a super professional job ... Old hose clamps and cold water clamps are how the pros do it, right?

The snowblowers that never failed to fail me this year, have been put in storage. They will be sold off in the fall and replaced by an Ego electric snow blower. I’ve been really happy with the Ego mower and leaf blower. I ordered the weed wacker, should be here tomorrow. I’m going all-in on the cordless electric yard…

Last Saturday I got the sense that the battery in my scooter was getting weak. I ordered a new one Sunday. Sunday night the scooter died on me and wouldn’t restart. Fortunately I was only four blocks from home, so I simply walked home and retrieved my truck to drag it home. Tonight I installed the new battery. As soon…

I’ve been more or less absent the last couple weeks. Things have been good, just super busy. The flury of activity culminating with the birthday party for my now three-year old little one yesterday, and today helping one of my best friends move from his post-divorce tiny apartment into the house he bought. Like I…

Can’t beat a yard of mulch for $20. This supply yard is very generous with their yardage as well.

By request of Noodles (I think), is this really cool knock-off Micro Machine of a VW Schwimmwagen. Thanks to Vdubyajohn for IDing what it was for us.

Small child approves

Today for V8 day, we have a 1:24 model of the blown hemi V8 in Big Daddy Don Garlits’ Swamp Rat X. It’s a great model of one of the coolest V8 engines of all time.

A quick Micro Monday before bedtime. This one came from the RAOK batch from Pixel last week, featured by request of FryGuy. It’s a knock off Micro Machine, but a decent one, of a ‘59 Caddy.

Drivers needed for rallycrossing shennanigans. I’ll be there. Master Mario will be there. I think Birddog is going to be there too. We need 20 registered drivers by midnight Wednesday to make the event happen. We are well short of that. If you’re anywhere nearby, you should join us for the cheapest funest action on…

The $100 Elite runs! I reinstalled the in tank screen fuel filter, pulled the in-line filter back out of the system, and got rid of all the extra slack in the hose. That all was preventing fuel from being drawn down to the carb. The first fire up took some doing, with the help of carb cleaner, but now that I’ve run…

I picked this Speed Machine set up pre-liquidation at TRU. Legos are only 5% off, so I’m glad I didn’t bother waiting for the sale. As great as the Speed Machine sets are, the ones trying to look like actual cars don’t quite work for me, but prototypes look more like spaceships, so this one very much works for me.…

A while back Pixel mentioned that he had some Micro Machines and 1:144 Racing Champions that had previously been glued to (I think) a car dashboard, and he wondered if I would want them. Loving all things tiny diecast, I said yes of course. Tonight, while trying to figure out what I should do for Micro Monday, I found…

This popped up on my Facebook feed today, from several years ago. Forgive the quality, this was taken on my old QWERTY slider phone.

It is Fur Face Friday, after all.

I would like to tell you about the time I almost killed myself. No, this isn’t a story about depression or suicidal thoughts. This is simply a story of a dumb teenager … fortunately not quite dumb enough.

I went to Farm and Fleet today to buy some jeans. For those of you not familiar with this midwestern chain, it’s exactly what it sounds like. Usually if I see an interesting vehicle there, it’s something like a cool Squarebody Chevy. I like the cut off whoever’s gib that drives their Lambo to Farm and Fleet.