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None of his Hudsons did, but this 59 Rambler. Not real wood, just decorative trim. Ultimately, this became my first car. I think I paid a $75 repair bill for the transmission (3sp on column) and dad gave it to me.

What ever happened to space cadets?

That is why they pass out balloons and helium canisters to the passengers to keep them busy inflating the balloons. Boeing recommended backup plan.

You will want a remote control boat, preferably submarine, when you have to retrieve the drone off the lake bottom.

I have an EGO blower, string trimmer, edger, and hedge trimmer. Would drool over the mowers as I walked into Ace or Lowes, but my Honda mower would never die! Looks like I am safe. This month I retired my mower and hired a lawn service. While I do incidental hedge trimming, the blower still gets a lot of use as easier than sweeping sidewalks and patio slabs between lawn service.

I initially rejected it until he gave me the details on the nail. Did reject the cabin air filter and ac duct deodorant spray (checked Amazon and changed the filter Nov 2023 and even used AC/Delco). These were OEM tires. Questioned him as heard on AWD that all 4 tires have to be replaced due to the uneven wear (20,000 miles on other tires). He indicated "No" so, since I typically don't engage AWD and default to FWD, like required for FWD, the new tire will be on the non-drive rear. Will run it and in 10,000 miles (next rotation) the OEM tire should probably be replace and will buy a set of 4 at that time. A little trick...While they are filling this one with nitrogen, Costco has free nitrogen. The OEM tires came with regular air so went to Costco, dropped pressure to 20 then filled to 35 spec. Repeated 3 times over month so now have nitrogen for free.

Needed perking up. Took car in for oil change, tire rotation. Need a new tire as nail discovered in sidewall. Kept wondering why it lost air, never flat - more like 28 when others were 33-35. Didn't see a nail in the tread so assumed was a leaking valve. Interior sidewall is difficult to inspect.

With my parents project I used my flatbed scanner that I still have, but several issues. While would load 3 at a time, it was so slow. While photos could be scanned at 300 to 600 dpi, small negative and slide scans required bumping it up to 2400 dpi minimum. The other issue, scanned in jpg (default) or tif requiring even longer scan times - but more adjustments available in LightroomPhotoshop than jpg. With the box/camera setup, much faster despite one at a time and shoot in RAW. Was blown away when started bringing out detail in the shadows or under exposure that wasn’t even apparent when projected on a screen - but somehow recorded in the RAW photo. It doesn’t matter which method I use, flatbed or light box, they all need final finishing in Lightroom. While heard of the light box method, already had most of the components, camera, lens, video led light, white poster (foam) board for internal lining, so tested the concept with a cardboard Amazon box heading for recycling. Was blown away with the differences noted above so built box with a couple modifications. Wood is rigid, but added footpads so wouldn’t rock on table. Also, while heat was never an issue with an LED light source where would be with incandescent, did notice a temp rise, so designed the fan cooling with a low decible computer fan that accepted a USB power source. Did design a foam tunnel with upper and lower air pull by the fan but a flat surface raised off the back wall that is the back surface directly in from the slide opening so the fan doesn’t show through the slide.

Like I did a few years ago with my parents slide collection…give the digitized files to my brother and sisters. In this case, give the files to my kids. In both cases, had many photos of their early life events.

This file skipped because of total size of the three. Full computer tethering and control camera from computer to avoid camera shake from touching the camera.

Last week in another thread, noted got material to build a lightbox. Done? Now getting setup for project medical recuperation/ limited activity to convert hundreds of slides of slides to digital. The one illustrating the setup is Disney Hall of Presidents from 1974. Interesting, that fan has a thermostat on it so cuts off after hot air expelled.

It'll rub right out.

Pics or it didn't happen.

Get with the program. They are sitting there each afternoon watching the shows on their big screen TV, AND they surfing the web ordering from Amazon on their smartphone. Only exercise is running to the door each day when the Amazon truck arrives.

I cheated. My pool is across the street, along with boat ramp and tennis courts. I let the HOA take care of it, and I simply walk across the street. My HOA fee is only about $60/mo, where don't know how much a pool guy would cost. or the chemicals if I did it myself. I just contracted for lawn maintenance for $180/mo as I finally "retired" my lawn mower. As noted earlier,discontinuing the HOA + lawn maintenance + home insurance actually makes a condo fee affordable, and it would even include a pool at a minimum. Including cable/internet would even make it more enticing.