Moving along

 Hello everyone,

Pretty much the same as last week. I’ve ordered a bunch of parts for the bike, even got one very cool piece for the sidecar. This is the spare tire wheel lock.

It was a little expensive but about 1/2 the price I’ve seen them sell for in the last couple of years. I also signed up for a local auction and hope to pick up some parts there also.

I’ve got everything ready now to start cutting wood.

That job will start tomorrow. Outside work is always good here!

Still waiting for the tile for the kitchen catastrophe. I’ll start on that when the wood cutting is done.

No concerts for a while, but have several weddings to attend in the next couple of weeks.

Well, I think that’s all for now.

Talk to you soon,

TVI

Just the usual, until this weekend

 Hello everyone,

The past couple of weeks have been slow progress on the bike and just mowing and weed whacking etc.. 

BUT, this past weekend was a big switcheroo! Started out on Thursday, took the grandson out for his birthday to a go cart/ game place and had an absolute blast!! Everyone but his mom came,( she had school meetings unfortunately), and our youngest son( who lives in Tennessee).  We played laser tag, raced go carts, ate pizza and just had a blast!!

Got up the next morning and drove to Cincinnati, and saw Billy Joel Friday night!

It was a great show! We’ve seen him several times now and it is always really good!

So we messed around Saturday and ended up spending the night at a winery. Pretty nice place out in the country, got up early on Sunday and drove to a park just down the street and spent a few hours there. Went for a walk, had an extra cup or two of coffee and then drove to Dayton Ohio.

We drove to Dayton to see the 2021 Motorcycle Cannonball Race. If you’ve never heard about it, look it up! These are all pre 1930 motorcycles, that they drive about 250 miles a day for roughly 14 days! These people who are the riders, are all tougher than boiled owl, as my brother would say. There were 88 drivers that started on Friday in Michigan and on Sunday the were still 84 running bikes. There were 9 women also racing! The oldest bike was a 1909 Harley, and the oldest rider was 84!! I’m telling you that still, sitting here this morning writing this, I am absolutely amazed that these people on these bikes do this every couple of years! These bikes are worth a fortune, and most of the time you only see them in museums, and yet, here they are out racing for 3600 miles!

After spending the afternoon and evening with these people and listening to all the stories and joy, I’m quite inspired to finish mine, and get some joy and have some stories to tell as well.

We’ll, I think that’s all for now, today is travel home day. I’ve got my parts list made up for the bike and should have everything ordered by the weekend for the next few steps in the process. Wood cutting starts this week as well. Still waiting for the tile to come so that project is still in the offing.

Talk to you soon,

TVI