Darrell

Yeah, there's something wrong with my trials bike, as it just won't do stuff like that!

I rode for many years without a MC endorsement; the entire time I was in the Marine Corps and for a couple years after. I finally decided I really should go take the test and get legal, so I rode my Harley Lowrider down to the local California DMV to take the riding test. The instructor came outside, took a look at the bike, asked me if how much I'd ridden it, and then signed off on the test without me ever starting the bike. By that time I'd been road-racing for several years and had owned quite a few bikes. But since then I've taken a number of riding classes, mostly high-performance classes on the track. I've learned things (and ignored things) in every single class. The most fun class of all was a trials riding class taken from a former world champ. That one was eye-opening.

Just three? I must be at around 30! I had a model airplane come after me one day and slice two fingers down to the bone several times. I thought a had a picture, but can't find it now. It was pretty ugly, though.

Keep it at my house. Be sure to leave the key in case I need to move it around. I've had my wife for 43 years, and have owned one or more bikes continuously for 48 years. She knows that bikes are part of who I am, and luckily for me, she enjoys riding with me on nice days. I've had a few close calls, but then I've had close calls in the Marine Corps, in cars, out in the woods, and walking across the street. No one gets out alive, you may as well have fun while you're here.

And I was shocked at how expensive they'd become!

I'm seeing primers for sale on-line at about $100 / 1000 shipped. And they're Russian-manufactured. Given current events I wonder how reliable those would be. I've been looking for H1000 or Retumbo for some time without any luck, but I often see other powders available.

My Lee Pro 1000 is 25 years old, I guess, and it still works well. But it sure won't still be running long after I'm gone!

Funny how you said "not Dillons", and half your responses tell you to go buy a Dillon. I never wanted to spend that much on a press, either, but then I don't load thousands at a time. I generally use a Lee turret press, which works great, or a single stage press. But I also bought a Lee progressive that I use for a couple of pistol rounds. It works fine, and I have no complaints with it. You can buy a bullet-feeder for it, but I just manually place the bullet. I have no experience with the Dillons, and I don't doubt for a second that they're superior, but for those of us on a budge the Lee works pretty well.

BLASPHEMER!!!!

I go past the local co-op fairly often, and have bought a few things there but never paid any attention to whether they had dyed diesel or not. I'll stop and talk with them. Thanks! I don't burn a lot of diesel in my tractor, I buy 25 or 30 gallons in jugs every few months. Still.....

I've always used pump diesel in my tractor, as I really don't burn all that much doing chores around my property. But with the current price of fuel I'm thinking that saving the $0.28 a gallon in taxes might be worthwhile. I know I cannot used dyed fuel in my pickup truck, but what other rules apply? Do I need a special permit to buy dyed diesel? And how do you find the stuff? I don't think I've ever noticed it for sale anywhere around me.

LSN (local shopping network), Craigslist, Cycletrader, eBay. I look at LSN and Craigslist daily, just in case there's something I didn't know I wanted.

Back in Washington I fed the little buggers, (squirrels) every day. Even made little feeding stands in the trees. They'd be on the stand while I poured out sunflower seeds. But all the sudden they decided to show their gratitude by invading my garage and chewing on stuff. I felt badly about it, but I started trapping and shooting them. They'd have been fine if they'd just stayed outside and left me to the inside, but alas. All my fault, of course, I just didn't think ahead.

Here in Crab Orchard we have four or five inches on the ground, and it's still falling. 60's and sunny yesterday! Don't like the weather? Wait an hour.

I'm with you.... but. I fly model airplanes and I have to say that the electric powered models are more reliable than the fuel-powered models, and much less trouble. The electric motors and batteries fail less frequently than the engines do. On the other hand, typical flight times for an electric model are around 5 minutes whereas a glow-fuel engine plane can go 20. Battery and motor tech has come a long way, and I expect that it will eventually be safe in an airplane for short-duration flights.

Thanks. The range I use doesn't have those special requirements.

Please forgive my ignorance, but what is "qualification" and why is it desirable?

Nuclear power plants can supply the power, but the left hates nuclear as much as coal. And of course there's more to it than just generating power, it must make it to your home, too. I'm counting on dilithium crystals.

From Wikipedia: TransCanada Keystone Pipeline GP Ltd,[14] abbreviated here as Keystone, operates four phases of the project. In 2013, the first two phases had the capacity to deliver up to 590,000 barrels (94,000 m3) per day of oil into the Midwest refineries.[15] Phase III has capacity to deliver up to 700,000 barrels (110,000 m3) per day to the Texas refineries.[16] By comparison, production of petroleum in the United States averaged 9.4 million barrels (1.5 million cubic meters) per day in first-half 2015, with gross exports of 500,000 barrels (79,000 m3) per day through July 2015.[17] The proposed Phase IV, Keystone XL (sometimes abbreviated KXL, with XL standing for "export limited"[18]) Pipeline, would have connected the Phase I-pipeline terminals in Hardisty, Alberta, and Steele City, Nebraska, by a shorter route and a larger-diameter pipe.[19] It would have run through Baker, Montana, where American-produced light crude oil from the Williston Basin (Bakken formation) of Montana and North Dakota would have been added[12] to the Keystone's throughput of synthetic crude oil (syncrude) and diluted bitumen (dilbit) from the oil sands of Canada.

I'm interested in it, but I live pretty far from Chapmansboro. If you happen to head east along I-40 one day, or have a friend coming east, please let me know.

Pravda (and Tass) are available in English on-line. Go take a look. It's hard for me to imagine that people actually believe all of that, but then they are taught from the time they're in preschool that the US is horrible. Same thing in N. Korea where TV's and radios receive a single, fixed frequency, so they receive only the government propaganda organs. This morning Pravda has an article about the US-funded bio-labs, all located on the Russian borders, and another about the US plans to get a nuke into Ukraine for the Ukrainians to use. (But we don't want to try to enforce a no-fly zone because of fear of escalation, go figure.) Yesterday there were gloating articles about Russia's success with hypersonic weapons and the US's failures and the surfacing of a Russian boomer with 160 nuclear warheads off the east coast of the US. And yes, our MSM have serious political leanings, too. There's a CNN article this morning about why gasoline prices are so high. They mention Ukraine and other reasons, but don't mention closed pipelines or decreased pumping and exploration here.