Been a long time since I updated. A lot has happened. Got the Jeep painted, still need to finish that project up. We lost Aunt Babe this fall, she was 95. Died peacefully in her sleep at the nursing home. She was in a lot of pain, it was time for her to go. Kyle graduated Briar Cliff last spring, now is working as a Goalee Coach for Men's and Women's soccer at Iowa Lakes Community College in Spencer, Ia, and taking an on-line Masters Program course. Allen is working for a shingle delivery company, driving a truck and unloading shingles at job sites. Seems to like it, about a $3 an hour raise over Armored Truck job, plus no more 60 hour weeks, and overtime when he does get over 40. Plus benefits. Can't beat that. My job busy all year, finally slowing down a bit. Joined a praise team at church playing guitar, does me good to learn a few new songs each week, play with the group. Managed to work in a banjo and a mandolin song here and there. Perhaps I can get the Dobroe out and figure something out too. Would like to play fiddle a little, but one of our members plays fiddle, and her temperment would not tolerate someone else playing too. Good group tho, good dynamics. Got the garage up for Maureen and Kevin, three stalls wide and two deep, room in the roof. Nice looking, but it is huge. Working on fixing my place up to refinance it, so I can deed off the 3 acres the trailer sits on, give it to them. They want to build a nice house out here, get rid of the trailer. Can't say I blame them, certainly gotten our money's worth out of that old wreck. Got my Goldwing fixed, the alternator decided to give up the ghost last spring, and it only comes out from inside the engine, so you have to pull the engine and dismantle it. Over $1000 at the bike shop...no thanks. Decided to fabricate some brackets and hang a small alternator off a Kubota tractor on it. $150 and it runs fine now, all kinds of power. Wanted to make it to Cassoday Kansas to the bike rally, but never got a chance until October, then it was too cold. One more run in November, but Maureen and Kev in St. Louis that weekend for a wedding, so they can't go...don't want to go by myself, not that much fun. Will run the corn furnace this year on what I had leftover from last year. Corn prices are high, and with this summers drought, not much available. Cheaper to buy propane than corn. Ought to put corn in my pasture and harvest it myself, but don't really want to buy implements and corn pickers and all that. Found a nice car trailer this summer, has a 12,000 lb winch built in, new tires, etc. Very reasonable. Kids got me a storage shed, spent a month evenings and weekends assembling that. Want to insulate it and run wiring to it, move the cats out there and get them out of my garage. They are so hard on it and everything in it. Tired of finding cat puke and piles everywhere. All my cats intact, Yowler had an injured leg for a month, but it is healing up. Mittens in good shape, as is Smoky, Butterscotch, Pipsqueak. Maureen's outdoor cats are Sis, who managed to get her tail injured last spring, so now has a bob-tail, Squish, who is black with deep yellow eyes, and Doc, who is lanky black and part Siamese. She also booted Eloise outdoors (calls her Chicky) and sometimes Nova comes outside too... much happier, too many cats indoors in that small trailer. Diamond T locked up the engine this summer, towed her out here and parked it, haven't had time to look at it. Down on the food chain a ways. Trying to finish up Allen's truck, fixing the heater motor. Need to get the bodywork done, that rust-free box we picked up a few years ago is getting a pretty good amount of rust... he want's to Line-X the exterior, has talked about it but never got estimates for it. I want to get the Grasshopper in the shop this winter, pull the engine and install new oil seals, and head gaskets, it blows oil so bad it is hard to keep it going. Got the gasket set, haven't had the time. Someday I'd like to get to the Thunderbird...found a good body man near the Kansas border, he is working on Kyle's 79 right now. Get that done, the T-Bird is next. Then paint the Diamond T, then Allen's El Camino... sometime down the road I'd like to get to the Ambulance, and the Gremlin.... so many cars, so little time... OK, best close for now, time to get an Inspection report done...