Ha...true enough. Vapor lock. Why does it smell like gasoline in here??
Carry a fuel can and a funnel just in case. And the extinguisher.
Posted on 04/22/2020 4:23:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
My neighbors hunt. They can survive in the forest, hills, lakes, and rivers, here in Indiana. They understand the world of nature, its vicissitudes and savagery. Appreciating its transcendent beauty and cadences, they also accept its fierce cruelties. They do not worship nature. They seek reconciliation with it that they may endure and protect their loved ones. They admire the natural world, its towering majesty and microscopic complexity, but they do not hold it on a pedestal, pristine, and viewed from a distance. Theirs’ is a realistic appraisal of nature and its vagaries, and what they require to survive.
Coming from the Bronx, I was acquainted with riding the subway or bus or navigating the busy and often treacherous streets of New York. There I learned to survive in the city, but I knew nothing of hunting, fishing, or surviving in nature. Coastal elites have disdain for those schooled in such things. They assume that food, water, and other necessities and amenities just appear. They lack awareness of the complex grids, structures, and platforms that maintain their comforts. The sources of the electricity that powers their computers and air-conditioning. The gasoline that fuels their cars. They do not appreciate those who make these daily, secular miracles possible, the commonplace wonders of modern, electronic civilization.
Many Hoosiers preserve food. Some steam or pressure can. Or dehydrate, pickle, freeze-dry, smoke, or salt items. Knowing how to farm, they cope with caterpillars, aphids, and cutworms and guard against hedgehogs, fungi, and lack of rain.
Some have gas tanks and generators. They have water filters, propane stoves, purifying tablets, first-aid kits, pick-up trucks, drills, hammers, and wrenches. They can repair a car, a machine, or a leaking pipe.
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I went through a chain every few months on my Z-1. It was the fastest thing on the road and I was young and foolish.
Ha...true enough. Vapor lock. Why does it smell like gasoline in here??
Carry a fuel can and a funnel just in case. And the extinguisher.
My 1976 Grand Prix SJ with a 455 got the piss beat out of it and probably for good reason: loved the way it sounded and it beat almost every single one of my friends cars.
My '75 Cutlass Supreme 350 Rocket was a screamer and at candy apple red got me a lot of speeding tickets.
Then there was my 85 Trans Am that had an LT1 crate motor under the hood that twisted up the unibody so bad the doors wouldn't open on it, LOL!!
Did I mention my 1996 Jeep Cherokee with a 4.0L High Output and Nitrous on it yet? That thing was a blast to drive. Made the Mustang fanboy's cry.
In the mid 80s I had a Trans AM Recaro and almost killed myself in it. My only real “wreck” and my last “Sports Car”/
I also have been cutting my own hair, cooking more more, and just ordered a bread machine to start making bread. Agree that the one of the only upsides of this pandemic.
Good luck finding yeast at the store.
Amazon has yeast. And they are charging almost 4 times as much as they did a few months ago. Half again as much as LAST WEEK! It’s still cheap at King Arthur Flour, but they’re OUT. :(
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