Three more days.

I just gotta get through three more fucking days gentlemen.

Starting Friday I am off for 9 glorious days.

I’m not going to the fucking beach and I’m not going to fucking Seattle.

Thank You Lord, the Wifely Unit has an ulterior motive but it works for me.

We are driving about a half an hour North to Woodland Washington, (Home of the Lamiglass fishing rod plant) and staying at a hotel right off the freeway for a few days.

There is a new Indian Casino 5 minutes South of there at Ridgefield, just off the freeway, and we are going to hang out there for a few days next week.

In the mean time, before and after that little excursion, it’s gonna be all about this,

I can’t hardly wait.

Thanks fer stopping by.

Yeah, you just stay out of the water princess and I’ll fetch that for you.

Looks to me like the lower ball joints just weren’t built to take that kind of punishment.

Geeze, really?

Dammit!

He was supposed to open for Ozzie this Summer, Ozzie has had health issues, postponed all those tour dates for a year and now this. Seeing Megadeth in concert is high on my bucket list.

There is an interesting bit of trivia at the end of this that I didn’t know but God Bless ya Dave and here is to nipping that shit in the bud and a speedy recovery.

Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine says he was diagnosed with throat cancer

Dave Mustaine has been diagnosed with throat cancer.

The Megadeth frontman revealed his diagnosis on Twitter Monday.

“I’ve been diagnosed with throat cancer,” tweeted the 57-year-old. “It’s clearly something to be respected and faced head on — but I’ve faced obstacles before. I’m working closely with my doctors, and we’ve mapped out a treatment plan which they feel has a 90% success rate. Treatment has already begun.

“Unfortunately this requires that we cancel most shows this year,” the rocker continued. “The 2019 Megacruise will happen, and the band will be a part of it in some form. All up to date information will be at Megadeth.com as we get it. Megadeth will be back on the road ASAP. Meanwhile, Kiko [Loureiro, guitar], David [Ellefson, bass], Dirk [Verbeuren, drums] and I are in the studio working on the follow-up to [2016’s] ‘Dystopia’ — which I can’t wait for everyone to hear. I’m so thankful for my whole team — family, doctors, band members, trainers and more. I’ll keep everyone posted. See you soon.”

Megadeth is celebrated as one of the most influential and respected metal bands of all time. It has sold more than 38 million albums worldwide, as well as earn seven Top 10 albums and 12 Grammy nominations. Megadeth earned a 2017 Grammy Award in the “Best Metal Performance” category for the “Dystopia” title track.

Now for that interesting bit of trivia,

“… Mustaine also shared that Clint Eastwood continues to be a source of inspiration for him as an artist.

“My favorite Clint Eastwood movie would undoubtedly have to go back to [1966’s] ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” he explained. “Of course, I like the ‘Dirty Harry’ stuff, you know, ‘Make my day’ kind of thing. But I think the character that Clint had developed — I mean, he didn’t even smoke and he had used that cigar as a prop. And it just shows how a really good actor can do improv, take something and make it work… I can’t even remember the last record that I sang that I haven’t had a picture of him in the vocal booth while I was singing. He gives me that snotty… kind of attitude, you know?”

Just one more reason to like the guy.

And now, one of my all time favorite’s, Dave has always been way ahead of the curve.

This song is from over thirty years ago and is still relevant to this day.

I’ll post the lyrics below this, read ’em and see if you don’t agree.

It started and ran on the third serious pull.

The really weird part is, after I had put a new pull cord on it and gave it a couple of test pulls, I swear it sounded like it was trying to fire up, before I even put gas in it!

I can only guess that it was hitting on the Marvel Mystery Oil that I had douched the shit out of it with.

I had taken the plug out and completely filled the combustion chamber plus I had turned it over a few times with the plug out and some had run back in under the valves when they opened. I had also dumped a bunch in the tank and down the carb yesterday and let it sit overnight.

That is some amazing stuff, it cleans aluminum like nobodies business too.

I changed the oil yesterday and shined the thing up a bunch.

It’s smoking in the picture because it had only been running about a minute and it was still burning all that shit out.

It smoked pretty hard for two or three minutes and then it cleaned up.

I had another stroke of luck earlier today when I ran up to the local parts house to snag a couple/four cans of Brake Clean.

Just inside the front door was a display with all kinds of small engine part goodies.

I couldn’t tell you if it was there the last time I was but they had a bunch of shit that I needed right there that saved me a shitload of hassle.

A new pull cord and handle, a new air filter, they even had the one I couldn’t find for the tractor, carb gaskets and all kinds of shit. I snagged a bunch of it, including the carb gaskets and two new diaphragms because I just knew I was going to have to rebuild the carburetor on the damn thing.

Nope.

She’s a runner by God.

Thank you, by the way.

Amazing.

A running 5 horse engine is worth more than what I paid for the whole thing so I’m as happy as a blind lesbian in a fish market.

Now I have to fix the hopper , finish cleaning it up and it’s good to go!

I sent Cederq a couple of bumper stickers a while back and he just rediscovered them as he is starting to pack up and get the hell out of South Freakin’ Dakota here pretty quick.

I get a lot of comments about the faded one on the back of my Caballero, he is doubling down.

You know as well as I do that some people are going to be tailgating the shit out of him trying to see what that says going down the road.

Good one dude!

It separates the timid ones right out.

Here’s wishing you the best of luck and it was totally cool talking to ya finally.

PS, say Hi to Guido for me.

I’d like to think not.

The Good Lord provides.

Of course Irish is going to be laughing his ass off because he was absolutely right on the money the other day but I’d still like to think somebody upstairs is trying to look out for my tired old ass.

I have actually been kind of wanting one of these for a while now but after the last two days of yard work kicking my ass, I was really wanting one.

I just never said anything.

As Fate would have it, while I was hauling my Sister In Law’s patio furniture to her new place, I drove right by an Estate Sale.

Yeah yeah, I know.

There was rusty old shit out in a field right in front of it so I knew there was some kind of treasure there calling my name. After I dropped her shit off, I hauled ass back to the nearest ATM, grabbed some cash and hauled ass back, it was almost 5:00 in the afternoon and I figured I would be cutting it close.

As soon as I pulled into the long driveway I knew I had struck gold. There were several rusty old riding lawn mowers lined up against a fence.

I parked, jumped out and walked right past my treasure but not without scoping it hard on my way by.

First I had to see what else they had.

Oh yeah, some old guy just like me must have passed away and there was rusty old shit all over the damn place.

I could have dumped a paycheck there no problem.

It took some serious ass self restraint but I wound up with an old Huot drill index with some drill bits in it, a small Rigid pipe vise and this little diamond in the rough,

Yeah, it’s old and fucked up.

 I’m going to have to patch some rusted out sheet metal.

I also could’t begin to hazard a guess as to the last time the thing actually ran, I don’t even know if it will turn over.

I also have no idea what condition the chipper section is in.

But I do know I certainly could have used the sonofabitch the last two days in a row and it would have saved me fifty dollars in recycling fees alone.

I hauled all 3 items off for forty dollars.

They wanted $35 for the shredder, $7 for the drills and only $4 for the pipe vise. It needs an upper jaw.

I am already out of room for all this crap and the Wifely Unit is completely in the dark about this one so far.

You know the old saying about it being easier to ask for forgiveness sometimes….

I’m going to drag the old, really fucked up Walk Behind tractor out of the shed, dismantle the damn thing and get rid of anything I can’t find a hole to stuff it in. I will be keeping the gear box for sure. That’s just to make room for the David Bradley tractor. All the implements are a whole ‘nuther issue.

Yeah, I’m an incurable Pack Rat, I know.

I also know that if I can get this fucking thing running and working that it will pay for itself over and over again.

It would be REALLY interesting if I could find a way to mount the prick on the front of the David Bradley and use it’s motor to power it but that would be quite a feat.