They’re huge… Well not usually as big as a St. Bernard, but some of them are bigger than some St. Bernards.
I knew one very well, who was supposedly half German Shepard… But you’d never know, cos she looked exactly like this.
She came from a breeder, but via a shelter, and I don’t believe they’re always right.
The vet said, when she was a puppy, to be prepared, cos she was very big and might reach 100 pounds.
Before she was put on weight maintenance kibble, she reached 165!
She wasn’t obese… her vet just said not to let her get bigger. She dropped to 150 for the rest of her life.
I’m not going to say she was completely calm… she had her wild moments, and could be overly protective, when she worried about “her” children.
But overall she was a sweet, gentle and very loyal companion.
My wife, our dog and I went to Lincoln City today and for lunch, my wife and I tried that restaurant you mentioned a while back. Since it was a Tuesday, we had the tacos. It was great! The food and the ambiance. Thanks for mentioning it.
So….
My 2019 Ford Ranger was booked in this morning for the recall check to the rear differential to be assessed for the cracking that can occur to these types.
The day started badly when it failed to start due to the battery being crapped out. The battery has been getting a bit weak, but this is the first (And will be the last) time it has done this.
So I jumpstarted it using my jumpstart power pack, no problem, off we go.
The bonnet (Hood) had failed to latch properly due to the release catch being stuck across, and I failed to spot that it hadn’t latched as I didn’t do the post-close-tug-test like I normally do because I was an idiot, so the bonnet came open when I was on the dual carriageway.
Fortunately I wasn’t going much over 50mph, so it didn’t go high enough to damage the hinges, but it went high enough so I couldn’t see where I was going.
Again fortunately, I was right near a layby, so I was able to pull off of the road safely.
Got the bonnet closed and latched properly, and got to the dealer where I got the truck booked in and collected the loaner vehicle, a ’24 plate Ranger Wildtrak, 3.0 litre, V6, Automatic (Diesel). Essentially the new version of the model I have.
Got halfway off of the estate when I got a phone call, I still had the keys to my truck in my pocket…….
Went to collect my Ranger this afternoon, and pay for the new battery I’d got them to fit. Like a lot of modern vehicles, the battery type/capacity/CCA etc. has to be registered with the BCM/ECM due to the charging systems that are employed on some modern vehicles. I’d been quoted just over £340 including VAT (Sales tax @20%) and fitting.
They gave me an invoice for just over £480…..!!!!!!!!!!!
Naturally I disputed the invoice and told them what I’d been quoted.
It turned out that there had been some confusion as the vehicle was also in for the warranty work, and they’d used the wrong metrics, probably the internal Ford Corporate one.
They gave me a new invoice for just over £297……
That is one of the reasons I dislike using that dealership, but they are the main Ford dealer in the area, so not much choice really.
I thought I had a bad car month…. My battery went dead one evening. I got a jump and drove it. It was fine the next day… till it died again.
Luckily I pay for the more expensive AAA (road service) cos the regular kind won’t come out a second time for the same problem. Got a another jump and drove it to my mechanic.
I thought my battery was expensive at almost $200. Yikes. But the difference is that I drive a somewhat shabby 27 year old Saturn. But it runs well, honest!
….
I also had a weird brake problem, but only very occasionally… maybe once every few weeks. I’d had the brakes done less than a year ago.
If I stepped on the brake pedal, the engine would rev, and the car wouldn’t stop till I stomped again very hard on it
I asked them to take a look while they had it.
They discovered a leaky rear cylinder, and replaced it.
….
On the way home, after picking it up, the “occasional” brake problem happened over and over… by the time I got home the car wouldn’t stop at all. I was terrified!
If I turned off the engine I’d be in the middle of the very narrow street, and half a block past my place. I only had seconds to think, so I threw it into reverse…. managed to get home, and the brakes worked in reverse.
My mechanic came and got it… He drove it for a week and the brakes worked!!
But they also went over it and discovered.a vacuum leak near the master cylinder, and fixed it. Bled the brakes, tightened a few things. They think the problem was a leak in the vacuum assist.
Didn’t charge me that time.
Very nice.
But I sure hope they’re right!
Brake issues are never any good. It does sound like it was a vacuum leak causing the issues. When the brake pedal is pressed and the vacuum is dumped from the servo (Booster), the leak would cause a vacuum leak at the intake manifold so air can get into the engine and bypass the ‘Mass Air Flow’ (MAF) sensor, or cause the ‘Manifold Absolute Pressure’ (MAP) sensor to read low, depending which one your car uses. What this then does is creates a lean condition which will cause the engine to rev higher due to the way the ECM controls the engine. A vacuum leak is one of the main causes for an engine having a high idle speed in modern vehicles. Back in the days of carburettors, a vacuum leak would just cause the engine to run poorly, and possibly stall at idle.
Fingers crossed that they’ve got the root cause this time, but it sounds like to me they have.
Many years ago, I had the brake system on a 12 ton lorry dump all the fluid from the Master Cylinder at the side of the road when I was about ten miles away from the depot. It was an ‘Air over Hydraulic’ system on them. I called up our garage on the two way radio we had fitted to the vehicles in those days, and they told me to drive it back as “You’ve probably got one or two brake applications left.” Fortunately it was a manual (They all were in those days) and a big six cylinder diesel engine, so plenty of engine braking. I drove it back to the depot through the town (Which included a fairly steep hill with a set of traffic lights at the bottom, and one set three quarters of the way down), and didn’t touch the brakes once. I did manage to time my approach to both sets of lights so I didn’t have to try to stop!
Fun times! That’s about all I got when I was driving a customer home before we worked on his 1956 T-Bird.
Turn here! No Brakes! Always a great time coming up with alternative ways to solve problems. I have a few minor patents just because of things like that.
Replaced a water pump and serpentine belt on my Chevy SUV a few weeks ago. Now I’m fixing a few things so it will pass a smog test and I can renew my registratrion. Replaced the MAP and MAF sensors, now I’ll put in new plugs and clean the throttle body. Since I quit wrenching and tow truck driving professionally over 50 years ago, YouTube is my friend. There have been just a few minor changes since then. 😉
Well done you! There’s less and less things that the average owner can do on modern vehicles unfortunately as everything goes electronic control and the use of specialist tools and things. I watch South Main Auto and Pine Hollow Auto Diagnostics YouTube channels (Along with a few others) and the main thing I take from both of them is MAF/MAP/Oxygen sensors must be OEM, or a known genuine brand, for them to work correctly. Cheap parts from eBay or the parts store never work right and sometimes make things worse.
My Ranger needed a new front wheel speed sensor, and before I could tell the mechanic I wanted an OEM Ford one fitted, he told me that he was going to order an OEM one. Some mechanics also know why some sensors have to be OEM!
I learned from today’s London “Daily Mail” that (one of our favourite artists) Edward Hopper’s painting of “House By the Railroad” was the inspiration for the Bate’s mansion in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.”
The set has been added to over the years, and has appeared on movies and television in various guises.
Two of many movies are “Invitation Of A Gunfighter” (Yul Brynner / 1964) and “Modern Problems” (Chevy Chase / 1981 / painted pink) and it has appeared on television more than once on “Murder She Wrote.”
It’s still part of the Universal Studio tour.
Those are some of the most wonderful dogs i have ever been around.
Looks like a Great Pyrenees.
They’re huge… Well not usually as big as a St. Bernard, but some of them are bigger than some St. Bernards.
I knew one very well, who was supposedly half German Shepard… But you’d never know, cos she looked exactly like this.
She came from a breeder, but via a shelter, and I don’t believe they’re always right.
The vet said, when she was a puppy, to be prepared, cos she was very big and might reach 100 pounds.
Before she was put on weight maintenance kibble, she reached 165!
She wasn’t obese… her vet just said not to let her get bigger. She dropped to 150 for the rest of her life.
I’m not going to say she was completely calm… she had her wild moments, and could be overly protective, when she worried about “her” children.
But overall she was a sweet, gentle and very loyal companion.
Daisy chain! I bet there’s a queen in there somewhere!
Why do they need that? They can fly. Ants do that because they can’t fly
As far as i know its just the ants and bees. They do that to protect the queen when a hive moves.
Soldier ants are famous for it. You probably need a colonial species to see that kind of behavior.
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So what kind of reception do you get on a butterfly plate?
It kind of flits in and out.
Next question(s):
Does he rent them or sell them?
Is the beach a place where people think “Gosh, I’d like some bone china plates?”
“And I guess I’ll have an en electric clock, too.”
,
Wow, man. It’s hep. Can you dig it?”
Vincent VanGogh
Oh, that sailor…
Yeah, Rap music does that to me too.
Um…. (blush) I… think… you should take a closer look at the picture before you say that.
I soitanly did!
Weird — I did a reply to a statue of a man holding his hands to his ears, with Vincent Van Gogh as a title.
It shows up as I’m replying to you, but it’s hit and miss. Some kind of a glitch?
Are we entering into the Twilight Zone?
Outta sight! I can dig it!
That was me 60 years ago!
I do have a glue…
sixty five for me; that’s just why I posted it….one of my fondest memories was being in the models department with a whole buck in my pocket
We only could get what they had at the PX.
Except when I wanted to build my Dad’s ’56 Buick Electra, I got to order it… probably from Montgomery Ward.
Believe it or not, me too.
But I mostly built modern cars, not planes… that’s why I still want a Studebaker Hawk.
No military planes, except for one gooney bird (C47) cos I loved them. I think mine was a civilian transport plane, though we’d flown in an AF one.
When I was 13, we rotated back to the States from Libya.
My Dad decided a teenage girl shouldn’t build models, and wouldn’t bring mine. He threw them away, and gave my supplies to my brother.
End of my modeling career. When other girls said they’d done some modeling, I wanted to say “Me too!” 😁
Yeah, but which Studebaker Hawk?
Golden, of course!
My plastic model was the brand new ’58 and I liked the fins … but hey, a ’56 or ’57 will do.
Not having won the lottery, and over 60 years later, I can’t be too fussy, you know.
I had the Studebaker Lark. I was disappointed because I wanted a Champion Like Dad drove!
Sad! There are some great lady modellers out there.
Red Green, the early years…
Cujo…
Wow! A Binford 5000 mower!
does look like Tim the tool man , doesn’t it?
,,
..
I bet there’s a movie involved here…
I think know the movie.
You can tell by the DeLorean model in the top picture.
So…did those cars and trains shrink when they got wet too???
Great shots of how it was made.
The locomotive could be a “Cagney” some of them are still operational.
Yes!
I’m thinking the top picture is…
My first impression, which I suspect is waaaayyy wrong, is
I’m still wrong, but now I have no idea who she is. I expected sort of a “then and now” approach, but … … not so much this time.
I thought it was her as well.
Nice eyes. Was she as unhappy as she looked in the pics?
I’ve never heard so… she had a very successful career, and I think second marriage.
Would you want to play second fiddle to Bing and Bob?
In the first one she was billed above Bob…. Not the 2nd one.
And since a lot of their dialogue was ad libbed, she learned to give it right back as well.
I think those were happy times for her.
Hell, yeah! But then again, I wasn’t a glamorous Hollywood star, so I’m not as picky. 😉
AHA! There’s a positive side to the cone of shame.
How to create a private dining room.
.
Ooh! Ooh! I know this one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c412hqucHKw
for some reason, I can only post the link
Incredible movie.
There are scenes you can’t forget if you try .
Did someone hit him with a forget me stick?
Change of subject.
My wife, our dog and I went to Lincoln City today and for lunch, my wife and I tried that restaurant you mentioned a while back. Since it was a Tuesday, we had the tacos. It was great! The food and the ambiance. Thanks for mentioning it.
Not a problem. Best place that i know of in LC for fish tacos is J’s Fish n Chips.
“”Join Starfleet” they said! “See the Universe!” they said!!”
that’s one of those highly technical Starfleet vacuum cleaners issued to all Starships
“Suck me up, Scotty…”
So….
My 2019 Ford Ranger was booked in this morning for the recall check to the rear differential to be assessed for the cracking that can occur to these types.
The day started badly when it failed to start due to the battery being crapped out. The battery has been getting a bit weak, but this is the first (And will be the last) time it has done this.
So I jumpstarted it using my jumpstart power pack, no problem, off we go.
The bonnet (Hood) had failed to latch properly due to the release catch being stuck across, and I failed to spot that it hadn’t latched as I didn’t do the post-close-tug-test like I normally do because I was an idiot, so the bonnet came open when I was on the dual carriageway.
Fortunately I wasn’t going much over 50mph, so it didn’t go high enough to damage the hinges, but it went high enough so I couldn’t see where I was going.
Again fortunately, I was right near a layby, so I was able to pull off of the road safely.
Got the bonnet closed and latched properly, and got to the dealer where I got the truck booked in and collected the loaner vehicle, a ’24 plate Ranger Wildtrak, 3.0 litre, V6, Automatic (Diesel). Essentially the new version of the model I have.
Got halfway off of the estate when I got a phone call, I still had the keys to my truck in my pocket…….
It’s been a stressful morning!!
How’s your day going?
We’ll try to get some money fluid later today…
Our 37 years old car’s just fine.
I’ll bet most of us have done something like that.
At this post, i’ts not quite light yet. My day hasn’t been long enough to go south yet.
Went to collect my Ranger this afternoon, and pay for the new battery I’d got them to fit. Like a lot of modern vehicles, the battery type/capacity/CCA etc. has to be registered with the BCM/ECM due to the charging systems that are employed on some modern vehicles. I’d been quoted just over £340 including VAT (Sales tax @20%) and fitting.
They gave me an invoice for just over £480…..!!!!!!!!!!!
Naturally I disputed the invoice and told them what I’d been quoted.
It turned out that there had been some confusion as the vehicle was also in for the warranty work, and they’d used the wrong metrics, probably the internal Ford Corporate one.
They gave me a new invoice for just over £297……
That is one of the reasons I dislike using that dealership, but they are the main Ford dealer in the area, so not much choice really.
Gosh.
I thought I had a bad car month…. My battery went dead one evening. I got a jump and drove it. It was fine the next day… till it died again.
Luckily I pay for the more expensive AAA (road service) cos the regular kind won’t come out a second time for the same problem. Got a another jump and drove it to my mechanic.
I thought my battery was expensive at almost $200. Yikes. But the difference is that I drive a somewhat shabby 27 year old Saturn. But it runs well, honest!
….
I also had a weird brake problem, but only very occasionally… maybe once every few weeks. I’d had the brakes done less than a year ago.
If I stepped on the brake pedal, the engine would rev, and the car wouldn’t stop till I stomped again very hard on it
I asked them to take a look while they had it.
They discovered a leaky rear cylinder, and replaced it.
….
On the way home, after picking it up, the “occasional” brake problem happened over and over… by the time I got home the car wouldn’t stop at all. I was terrified!
If I turned off the engine I’d be in the middle of the very narrow street, and half a block past my place. I only had seconds to think, so I threw it into reverse…. managed to get home, and the brakes worked in reverse.
My mechanic came and got it… He drove it for a week and the brakes worked!!
But they also went over it and discovered.a vacuum leak near the master cylinder, and fixed it. Bled the brakes, tightened a few things. They think the problem was a leak in the vacuum assist.
Didn’t charge me that time.
Very nice.
But I sure hope they’re right!
Brake issues are never any good. It does sound like it was a vacuum leak causing the issues. When the brake pedal is pressed and the vacuum is dumped from the servo (Booster), the leak would cause a vacuum leak at the intake manifold so air can get into the engine and bypass the ‘Mass Air Flow’ (MAF) sensor, or cause the ‘Manifold Absolute Pressure’ (MAP) sensor to read low, depending which one your car uses. What this then does is creates a lean condition which will cause the engine to rev higher due to the way the ECM controls the engine. A vacuum leak is one of the main causes for an engine having a high idle speed in modern vehicles. Back in the days of carburettors, a vacuum leak would just cause the engine to run poorly, and possibly stall at idle.
Fingers crossed that they’ve got the root cause this time, but it sounds like to me they have.
Many years ago, I had the brake system on a 12 ton lorry dump all the fluid from the Master Cylinder at the side of the road when I was about ten miles away from the depot. It was an ‘Air over Hydraulic’ system on them. I called up our garage on the two way radio we had fitted to the vehicles in those days, and they told me to drive it back as “You’ve probably got one or two brake applications left.” Fortunately it was a manual (They all were in those days) and a big six cylinder diesel engine, so plenty of engine braking. I drove it back to the depot through the town (Which included a fairly steep hill with a set of traffic lights at the bottom, and one set three quarters of the way down), and didn’t touch the brakes once. I did manage to time my approach to both sets of lights so I didn’t have to try to stop!
In case you see this…. Thank you.
I understood at least some of it! 😁
Nerve wracking, I’m sure, driving a huge truck through town with uncertain brakes!
Fun times! That’s about all I got when I was driving a customer home before we worked on his 1956 T-Bird.
Turn here! No Brakes! Always a great time coming up with alternative ways to solve problems. I have a few minor patents just because of things like that.
Replaced a water pump and serpentine belt on my Chevy SUV a few weeks ago. Now I’m fixing a few things so it will pass a smog test and I can renew my registratrion. Replaced the MAP and MAF sensors, now I’ll put in new plugs and clean the throttle body. Since I quit wrenching and tow truck driving professionally over 50 years ago, YouTube is my friend. There have been just a few minor changes since then. 😉
Well done you! There’s less and less things that the average owner can do on modern vehicles unfortunately as everything goes electronic control and the use of specialist tools and things. I watch South Main Auto and Pine Hollow Auto Diagnostics YouTube channels (Along with a few others) and the main thing I take from both of them is MAF/MAP/Oxygen sensors must be OEM, or a known genuine brand, for them to work correctly. Cheap parts from eBay or the parts store never work right and sometimes make things worse.
My Ranger needed a new front wheel speed sensor, and before I could tell the mechanic I wanted an OEM Ford one fitted, he told me that he was going to order an OEM one. Some mechanics also know why some sensors have to be OEM!
I learned from today’s London “Daily Mail” that (one of our favourite artists) Edward Hopper’s painting of “House By the Railroad” was the inspiration for the Bate’s mansion in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.”
The set has been added to over the years, and has appeared on movies and television in various guises.
Two of many movies are “Invitation Of A Gunfighter” (Yul Brynner / 1964) and “Modern Problems” (Chevy Chase / 1981 / painted pink) and it has appeared on television more than once on “Murder She Wrote.”
It’s still part of the Universal Studio tour.
This must be a different artwork. This one’s “Hourse by The Railroad.”
Apparently if you put a saddle on top you can ride it.