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team scooter

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  1. Take one route going up, the other going back. However, I'd tweak the Wisconsin route a bit.
  2. Mrs planted the usual amount of pepper and tomato plants this year, but for whatever reason, we're hardly getting any tomatoes. Luckily the local roadside farm stands sell pretty good tomatoes so I can still get my salsa fix.
  3. Theres no one that hated their employer more than I hated my previous employer. And as bad as I wanted to tell them how awful they were as employers and human excrement, I chose to spend a month making myself irreplaceable, then just sent a text on a Monday morning saying "I quit" with no explanation, and at the worst possible time of the year for them. And never returned any of their dozens of calls or messages. With the job market such as it was two years ago, when I interviewed for my current job, they hired me on the spot. Wow, been here for two years already? I have to imagine they checked my references, though I never asked.
  4. I only buy Top Tier and I'm drawn to Kwik Trip. (might only be local) They're popping up everywhere around here, have clean restrooms, nice convenience stores and great coffee. A Kwik Trip was even this morning's destination for a coffee and a donut.
  5. While on road trips, I have destination tunnel vision. Every minute we're not on the road is another mile/time missed towards our destination. Plus we usually have the dogs with us, so our restaurant choices are whatever fast food restaurants are available when we need gas. We have a system. I'll fuel up the car while Mrs gets the food. And we all go potty (including the dogs) before we get back on the road.
  6. We'll need to keep this house in southern Wisconsin so Mrs and I can meet up, once in a while, halfway in between.
  7. Our sons are already fighting over us. One son lives down south and already bought a HUGE house with an inlaw suite over the garage. Our other son is bidding on a property up in the north woods with a huge chalet and a separate guest/in law cabin.
  8. Yeah, Mrs wants to retire south. I want to retire north. Not sure how that will work. But my argument is, if the weather keeps changing, northern property values will go up when people start migrating to cooler climates.
  9. There are still folks at work that are getting it. They take a week off, then need to wear a mask and social distance for a while. The consensus is, they catch it quickly, it totally knocks them on their butts for a few days, then they seem to recover as quickly as they catch it. Though they're weak for another week or two. And they don't recommend the experience.
  10. Mine is a 2017 with the 155 HP motor out of the Mazda 3s. Check to see if the new, higher HP higher revving models still need/recommend using premium.
  11. The Miata will knock and the CX will lose HP if I run regular in them.
  12. This morning while filling the five gallon can for the motorcycle, I paid $3.79 per for regular. I was using the same premium gas as the mowers (from the same can) in the motorcycle, but found (for whatever reason) the bike seems to prefer and run/sound way better on the 87 octane. Sadly the two cars we drive the most, prefer premium.
  13. Good morning. We've been up since Maggie woke us up barking at the crop duster skimming over our roof top.
  14. On our quest for a beer and a burger the wife and I saw something similar yesterday. Across the street from where we had lunch we saw this small brick building and underground cellar/creepy portal to hell. As we got closer we saw wasps flying in and out of the bricks. When Mrs got TOO close, they became aggressive and started swarming. So we cut our exploration short and got the heck out of there.
  15. IMO theres better platforms for a 500+ hp motor. When we got our Miata 4/5 years ago, I had plans to install larger brakes, suspension goodies, supercharger, etc, etc. But after driving it for a while, I found it was great (at least for me) as is. Its the old ''Its more fun to drive a slow car fast then a fast car slow".
  16. They seem to wander in the road in the morning. Then in the afternoon they're no where to be found. Thanks for the replies.
  17. What kind of birds these are? Every time I take this back road, as I crest a hill, these guys are scattered all over the road near a farm house. Last weekend I almost hit one with the motorbike. Yesterday in the Miata, we stopped and took a few pics. We tried looking them up without any luck. Thanks.
  18. Storm left a nice long soaking of much needed 2" of rain. And then it moved on earlier then expected. So I wont need to change my morning ride plans. Plus I'd much rather dodge some puddles then deal with the clouds of dust we've been dealing with.
  19. Its coming in fast. By the time I snapped the pic and sat down to type, it got scary dark. Need to head back out and secure everything that might blow away.
  20. Lots of thunder and lighting last night/early this morning, but only a quarter inch of rain. Tonight's storm looks to be a concern. Guess our new roof gets it's first real test.
  21. The roofer has been working since Wednesday on our roof. So we've been needing to move my truck around to get it out of his way. And everyday, before and after I get home from work, he makes another offer/barter to get my truck. At first, he thought the finished roof and $5000 out of MY pocket was a fair deal. Nope, I don't think so. So, last night when he finished up and we were paid him the remainder of what we owed him, he offered me $12,000. That's $7000 grand less then I payed for it when it was new 18 years ago. I guess staring at the truck from the roof all day made him fall in love.
  22. This. Even if they steal our other two auto trans cars, Mrs and I will still have the two manuals to drive.
  23. Lol, interestingly it sat in my yard for nearly a month before he started working. I think he enjoyed the free storage. The neighbors thought it was all mine and I was starting a new business.
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