Someone on Mastodon shared this photo of a spectacular sunset.
I couldn’t see the sunset for the wires so I used the Pixelmator Repair Tool to remove them.
Haven’t found an app or program that does this trick as well. Took less than 5 minutes.
Spotted this on the kitchen floor this morning. The prism effect was created by a beveled glass window. The pattern is the result of the light passing through one of those plastic crates. Didn’t last long.
For our 40th wedding anniversary Barb wanted a wind sculpture by a local artist, Michael Mistler. Today Michael — with help from our friend Adam — installed the piece. Afterwards I chatted with Michael for a few minutes about his art.
You can see more of his work here.
Not sure which is worse. Having several great old vehicles you know you’ll never get around to restoring… or to have the time and talent to restore old vehicles but no good prospects. The red and white beauty is a 1975 International Scout II.
The green truck is a 1971 Ford Bronco.
And this wicked window is in a 1961 Scout 80.
From Mr. Wolf: “It is a 1949 Lincoln Club Coupe built to race in the 1950 La Carrera Panamericana, driven by Jimmy Hicks. Rediscovered sometime around 1999 in a junk yard in San Jose, it was restored and raced in the 2006 & 2007 Panamericana. It is currently powered by a warmed-over Ford FE 390, and since the T10 4-speed manual blew up a few days ago (right smack-dab in the middle of downtown Palo Alto, in the middle of the road, at rush hour, in front of a high end open-air restaurant. With my wife in the car.) I am in the process of swapping in a 5-speed. Turns out the shop that installed the powertrain put in a driveshaft that was a few inches too long, which caused the mainshaft/output shaft to snap right in half. Oops! Hey, if you’re going to break down and cause a massive traffic problem, you might as well do it in style, right? As soon as I am able to get it to a point where it stops blowing up every time I drive it, it will be out on the racetrack!”
What’s better than being an interesting person? Knowing interesting people. Like my friend George who is all tingly about finding and buying this 1954 GM Motor Coach. He plans to restore it and — if I understand correctly — live in it. I don’t know the full history of the bus but I think the interior had a factory conversion but is no long in good shape. Looks like a big project but George wouldn’t want it any other way. The bus had been sitting (Sedalia, MO?) for a long time but George managed to get it running and drove it back to Jefferson City. To be continued.
