This is my buddy (& neighbor) Anthony’s latest 4×4 ‘toy’. He is the son I don’t have!
He just got back from 4-days at a mud-racing event at the ‘Lebanon‘, Maine, ‘4×4 Proving Grounds‘. I heard him get back. I went to see what the truck looked like.
He was trying to get it up the ramps but the parking brake wasn’t working — at first. So, I offered to chock up the back wheels. Good plan — we both thought. We started with a large rock — the biggest that I could comfortably heft.
Well …. That didn’t go exactly as planned. Gravity can be so persistent. It worked for a minute or so, THEN it started rolling over the rock. Anthony, a REAL COOL DUDE, was not fazed in the slightest. As we follow the truck SLOWLY rolling into one of his other trucks (the red one) he keeps shouting at me: “Don’t stress, don’t stress … that truck is garbage!” Yup, it rolled into the red trunk with a very solid & satisfying THUNK. Anthony just looks at it & says maybe just the lights.
Well we lucked out. The lights didn’t break. Some minor damage to the grill, but you can’t even tell. Check the photo.
He then found a big chunk of wood — that he had cut earlier this year.
He also managed to FIX the Parking Brake. He is one heck of a mechanic. Handiest guy to have across the road!
So, he drove it up again. Brake held. I put the block of wood underneath. You can see it in the bottom picture. I found another smaller block of wood & chocked up the other back tire too. It held.
We were happy.
My daughter, who watched much of it from her window, commented when I came in: “boys will be boys“. I reminded her that this could have been her brother — my son. He used to quite the hell-raiser. But, he, UNLIKE HIS DAD, has grown up!
Click to ENLARGE. $77.87 for 3.71 pounds of Turkey. $20.99 per pound.Click to ENLARGE. $13.13 for ONE Turkey drumstick. $8.99 per pound.Click image to access their Website. The ‘Co-Op Food Store’.
Don’t get me wrong. I LOVE this ‘Co-Op’. It is MY type of store. Has an amazing selection of great food — food I love. Lot of Indian & Mediterranean food. They invariably have a good selection of Samosa — & I am a sucker for samosas (despite them being high in carbs). SHOPPING for lunch at the ‘Co-Op’ is the highlight of our way too frequent trips to ‘Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center‘ (DMHC) (though, ALAS, none of them are for my benefit per se). They have always been EXPENSIVE & I joke that while I love it, I am glad I don’t live close by because shopping there would bankrupt me (especially their cheese prices).
Well, these two items today were an EYE OPENER.
Wow.
Obviously SOMEONE is paying these crazy prices.
Guess who?
Mainly those that work at DMHC — doctors, in particular.
ENOUGH SAID.
Guess who PAYS THEM?
ENOUGH SAID.
And to think we have kids who go to school, in the U.S., most likely even in Lebanon, HUNGRY.
No, I didn’t buy either of these. I couldn’t afford that. AMZN shares are WAY DOWN. SMILE.
I bought two spinach Samosas for $8.99. That was expensive, BUT …. I have to eat. SMILE. I only ate one. Saved the other for later.
Maybe I really should have heeded the wishes of my ADOPTIVE PARENTS. I should have become a doctor. Well, I could NOT have. I am not smart enough by a quarter. SMILE.
