Here we go!

Starting my travel day. I will be on the road for the next four weeks.  Traveling to Los Angeles, Fort Myers Florida, Seattle and then to Wichita Kansas.

Wish me luck

Happy Easter

I hope that you all had a happy Easter!  I was up early this morning and headed out and got coffee and breakfast burritos.   Then I sprayed off the patio and helped Candy in the kitchen with things that we need to get prepared for Easter dinner.

Took the weedeater to the rock wall in the back yard, cleaned out all the dead grass and dead plants from last year.  Re-stacked  the firewood on the side of the house and then raked up all the leaves and pine needles.  Clark came out and bagged it all up for me.

We ate at 2 PM sharp, both the boys were here we had ham and all the fixings mama did a great job!

Hood is done

So the hood is done for now.  It still needs a little alignment but I'll let the body guy worry about that.  He's going to have to pull it off again anyway to paint.

Front Porch

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April 18 8:05 PM sounds from the front porch

Work

I ran by the shop on my way home this evening from work.   I am just about ready to primer the hood and wanted to get a few pictures before I did.

Rats

More damn rats making their way through the neighborhood.

Thanks for the update

Wednesday evening, April 16, 6:40 PM. I am looking outside and it's snowing. Not really sticking to the streets yet. It's Colorado so I shouldn't really be surprised.

It was a beautiful morning so I got my ass up and walk to work today.  I guess I should've checked the weather reports because I didn't know we were expecting snow.  I packed up at the office about 5 PM, Candy came and picked me up. It wasn't snowing yet but it was raining pretty good.

I worked over at the shop this last Sunday. Pulled the hood off yet again, put it up on some sawhorses and used aircraft paint stripper to strip the paint off.  Worked  great, got all the paint off the underneath and top of the hood.   I took the grinder with a wire brush head and cleaned off any remaining paint and primer. Now I just need to do a little finish sanding and pound out and putty up a few small dents that have. Then I will prime it and put it back on the car.  

My next project is to do the same with the door jams.   Since my paint guy won't be ready for another month or two, at least I can get all that I can get done before hand.

So let's see I spent all of last week in Austin Texas. It was definitely springtime in Texas , the ditches were full of blooming wildflowers and the temperatures were in the high 70s.

For the next couple of weeks I have several trips planned. Going to be spending some time on the road.

So this entire blog post has been dictated.  I did it on my phone using notes and the microphone. Pretty cool!

Sunday night blues

Got out and did a quick hike this morning, felt good to get out.   I left the house around 7AM and only came across one other person on the trail today.   Ended up doing 4.8 Miles.  When I got home I loaded up Mable and took her over to the dog park.   They have put in a new dog obstacle course and who would have guessed that Mable was a natural.   Candy had taken her yesterday and was telling me what Mable could do so I had to see it.  She manged the see-saw, bridge and the up/down wall.

I headed over to the shop for a couple of hours and tinkered around.   Then we headed out to the Movie.  We saw Noah, interesting story line.

Later

Play Time

Wow, it has been two weeks since I stopped to put anything down in the blog.  Just busy, lots of projects
and not enough time.  I have to make a business trip next week so I spent most of the day working on the Ranchero.  Last weekend I hung the front bumper and found that I was missing the outer mounting brackets. I found a set on ebay and bought them.  They arrived on Thursday and I worked that night and got everything bolted up.

Last week I had a guy come over and help me pull the windshield and rear window.   Actually he did all the work.
 
Today I pulled the bumper, splash guard and grill.    I collected all the window trim and the grill pieces and sent them off to the polisher.   I am scared that something may happen to my trim parts.  I shouldn't be, but I will never be able to replace them, if something gets lost or bent up.  After I got everything pulled from the front end, I sand blasted the bumper brackets and painted them all black.   Also spent a good portion of time today adding rubber gaskets in holes where wires run through.   Don't want them rubbing and shorting out.

Back Again

I have been crazy busy as of late and just haven’t made any time to get entries into the blog.   I was traveling two weeks back and with work it has just been insane.  This is a good thing, don’t get me wrong.

With everything going on I am now back to finishing up the basement remodel.   All I had left was the bathroom and didn't want to do anything until I got the shower done.   About 2 months ago we had gone to the home and garden show and found several companies that do bath remodels. 

They can reface/replace the walls with panels.    We got estimates and went with Bathfitters.  They tore out the walls and hung new concrete board and then placed the panels up with glue, sealed and hung the new door.  They were done in a day and it looks great!  I will never go with real tile again, just too much work to keep up with.

With the shower being done, we went out on Sunday and found a new vanity, sink and faucets.   It took me about 4 hours to tear out the old and replace it with the new.   Candy picked up some paint today, so maybe by the weekend I will have the bathroom done.

When I get a chance I have been over at the shop working on the Ranchero.    I think I have solved my concerns with the hood.   The previous owner cut a hole in the hood so that he could use an aluminum hood air scoop.  It looks cool, but not the look for me.   I had been looking for a replacement hood and found a couple but they wanted several hundred dollars and it would be the same or more to ship it.

So I did find in Denver a 1958 Ford hood off a Ranch Wagon.   I picked up today and this evening I hung it on to check that it would fit and to see if I would like the look.   I do like it so need to pull it off and sand and primer it.  The 1958 hood has a different look than the 57.  The 58 actually has a hood scoop look to it.