Thunderbird Club

[JIO]

Interesting. Looks like an easy fix is to trench a two foot deep by about three foot wide “drainage” ditch about a foot off the road. Anyone stupid enough to cut thru the lawns and not use the provided driveways or paved pull out to do a three point turn will learn the hard way. Just be sure to have plenty of towing company business cards on hand.

I like that tact - would help the tow-drivers stay busy!

 

[Gaolee]

Good you were going slow!

A person I knew back in Ohio suffered from the British roadster disease. He had an MGA. At one point, he got passed by a wire wheel and tire. Turns out it came off his car's rear axle. Those cars were nose heavy enough that it wasn't immediately catastrophic, although three wheeled handling was sub-optimal.

 

[GonePlaid]

I’ll stick to the open face roast beef with mash and gravy..

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[GonePlaid]

I like it. Other than the work aspect!

I did line certain areas with some decent rocks to scare off getting in the grass or cause a reminder on their car that off-roading is best left to professionals.

Here is a good example of what happens prior to rocks. (Hopefully this link is secure and none of you take over my macbook.) It looks more finished now due to some drainage work I forced the sewer company to address.
For reference, our property begins about midway of that partial drive/backup/turnaround space all the way next to the house across the street to the very edge of our neighbor's drive on this side. It looks like the end of the street that just died out, but is actually ours (to maintain) not the street. The street does just end, but that's not my fault or problem. Us and the lady across the street already have from our properties provided that little backup spot.
New video by Donnie

Do you have access to any quicksand? Just sayin'.

 

[dagrev]

Interesting. Looks like an easy fix is to trench a two foot deep by about three foot wide “drainage” ditch about a foot off the road. Anyone stupid enough to cut thru the lawns and not use the provided driveways or paved pull out to do a three point turn will learn the hard way. Just be sure to have plenty of towing company business cards on hand.

Something like this?

There is actually a curb that runs along the far side of the video now. Looks like a street, but that was what I could get out of the sewer district and more than they were going to do initially. I was going to, and will at some point, concrete that section at the end when we redo the drive. It will then curve out to the end of the street and will have a definite look of a drive and not a street. I was planning to do it this year, but the supervisor heard that I was gonna do that and he said that he was thinking of (paving) that section in front of our Concrete Drive. I told him to forget about what he heard and I will worry about that later, so go ahead and repave it. We have a blacktop curb on the "end." It certainly looks better. (We were getting public water on private property. The guy that used to live down the street was an architect and let me in on some of the Code secrets here in town. When the sewer district was mumbling about why they would not be able to get to it, I pointed out their own verbiage, and he said yeah, we'll have to fix that! Within a year it was done.

 

[GonePlaid]

Interesting. Looks like an easy fix is to trench a two foot deep by about three foot wide “drainage” ditch about a foot off the road. Anyone stupid enough to cut thru the lawns and not use the provided driveways or paved pull out to do a three point turn will learn the hard way. Just be sure to have plenty of towing company business cards on hand.

I would venture a guess that a large percentage of drivers have no idea wuttinnahell a 3-point turn is. Used to be a part of the driver's test in FL-back when I got my license...In 1961!

 

[MCF]

Interesting. Looks like an easy fix is to trench a two foot deep by about three foot wide “drainage” ditch about a foot off the road. Anyone stupid enough to cut thru the lawns and not use the provided driveways or paved pull out to do a three point turn will learn the hard way. Just be sure to have plenty of towing company business cards on hand.

Donnie’s moat.

 

[JIO]

Bond Girl got a well needed 'break' that began last Saturday night. Somewhat timing, luck, and standing on the X as it is developing, our drummer Phil knows Rudy Columbini, the mastermind behind Music City SF and with that connection & the fact that Rudy really liked our presentation - we're going to have a monthly show at his awesome SF venue. Which as you'll see watching this vid (from 7 months ago- much has progressed since then) is a mega-enterprise. SF is in dire need of this and hopefully it can help herald a re-birth of a music-scene here. And we're going to be part of it - woo-hoo!

If Rudy's "miracle" takes full flight (and I hope it does) - I could imagine The Nasty Habits playing here! Reality starts with dreams and desire! Seeing what Rudy has accomplished so far gives me hope for the future of live music in SF.

 

[Basvarken]

Oh wow!
The Brooks DDB (aka Double Duane Bird) is Bass Of The Week over @ NoTreble
Such an honor to see my creation featured on their site!

Bass of the Week: Brooks Double Duane Bird – No Treble

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Check it out (and maybe leave a comment at the bottom of the page ;-) )

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Where’s the entrepreneur in your household? Buy a tow truck, a few dozen flat tire plug kits and a bag of nails. Throw the nails in the off road area, put up a sign for Donnie’s Towing and tire repair service and charge a hundred bucks a tire to fix the flats of the goofballs that turn around in your yard. Once city council sees that it’s a profitable business they’ll want to take over the operation.

Yeah, right after they take over the land there!

 

[RedVee]

I can’t turn down lamb when I’m in the Middle East. US lamb stinks.

I've never had any I wanted more of and always wondered why the fascination with it. But I'm low class. The best wine I ever had was vintage Boone's Farm, so there is that.

I’m always momentarily surprised when I hear from you guys that eating lamb isn’t common in the US.
Growing up here it was commonplace, though probably less in the last decade since the price has skyrocketed. It used to be a cheap ish staple. I guess chicken has taken that slot now.

We have a lot of sheep here, about 75million. I remember hearing we were outnumbered 3:1 by sheep anyhoo.

Last time I had lamb was yesterday. Caught up with my sisters for lunch, I had a slightly confused (multicultural) lunch.
Lamb souvlaki: 3 lamb skewers, bread ( seemed more Lebanese than pita) hummus, and fatoush salad (Lebanese). I had it with an Irish Guinness.

 

[MCF]

Oh wow!
The Brooks DDB (aka Double Duane Bird) is Bass Of The Week over @ NoTreble
Such an honor to see my creation featured on their site!

Bass of the Week: Brooks Double Duane Bird – No Treble

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Check it out (and maybe leave a comment at the bottom of the page ;-) )

Congratulations Rob!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Oh wow!
The Brooks DDB (aka Double Duane Bird) is Bass Of The Week over @ NoTreble
Such an honor to see my creation featured on their site!

Bass of the Week: Brooks Double Duane Bird – No Treble

www.notreble.com

Check it out (and maybe leave a comment at the bottom of the page ;-) )

Maybe'd!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I’m always momentarily surprised when I hear from you guys that eating lamb isn’t common in the US.
Growing up here it was commonplace, though probably less in the last decade since the price has skyrocketed. It used to be a cheap ish staple. I guess chicken has taken that slot now.

We have a lot of sheep here, about 75million. I remember hearing we were outnumbered 3:1 by sheep anyhoo.

Last time I had lamb was yesterday. Caught up with my sisters for lunch, I had a slightly confused (multicultural) lunch.
Lamb souvlaki: 3 lamb skewers, bread ( seemed more Lebanese than pita) hummus, and fatoush salad (Lebanese). I had it with an Irish Guinness.

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I've found that with things like gyros and souvlaki, it's great. Here in the states when I've had a dish that was mainly just lamb, my stomach was always annoyed later. In Europe it was always fine.

 

[Thumper]

Ironic that I love lamb. Less ironic is that a lot of lamb is raised here in Utah, but in grocery stores I can only buy New Zealand lamb.

 

[JJR58]

Oh wow!
The Brooks DDB (aka Double Duane Bird) is Bass Of The Week over @ NoTreble
Such an honor to see my creation featured on their site!

Bass of the Week: Brooks Double Duane Bird – No Treble

www.notreble.com

Check it out (and maybe leave a comment at the bottom of the page ;-) )

And so deserves that recognition.

 

[RedVee]

I've found that with things like gyros and souvlaki, it's great. Here in the states when I've had a dish that was mainly just lamb, my stomach was always annoyed later. In Europe it was always fine.

It is a fatty meat.
Great as a roast leg which used to bd a common Sunday lunch, shoulder (esp in Greek restaurants).
Growing up cutlets were popular and forequarter chops we had every week.
Lamb rump is nice, and lamb shanks with mash and gravy is super nice.

One thing I like to do is to get a lamb leg butterflied by a butcher. Marinade in olive oil, lemon juice, garlic and rosemary. Cook it on the bbq grill. Takes half the time of a full thickness leg and tastes great sliced. I always try and get the bits with the burnt edges.

 

[MCF]

It is a fatty meat.
Great as a roast leg which used to bd a common Sunday lunch, shoulder (esp in Greek restaurants).
Growing up cutlets were popular and forequarter chops we had every week.
Lamb rump is nice, and lamb shanks with mash and gravy is super nice.

One thing I like to do is to get a lamb leg butterflied by a butcher. Marinade in olive oil, lemon juice, garlic and rosemary. Cook it on the bbq grill. Takes half the time of a full thickness leg and tastes great sliced. I always try and get the bits with the burnt edges.

Back in the day here in Cali, there was a small fine dining chain called the Velvet Turtle. They served a very nice rack of lamb that was popular. The chain folded by the mid nineties. I’ll occasionally have a small portion of some at a Basque place in Bako appropriately called Woolgrowers. There are dozens of fast food Mediterranean grill places these days, but the quality of the lamb they serve is awful.

 

[Gaolee]

I would venture a guess that a large percentage of drivers have no idea wuttinnahell a 3-point turn is. Used to be a part of the driver's test in FL-back when I got my license...In 1961!

That's because cars now have such insanely small turning radii that you don't need a 3-point turn, I guess. I still do that sometimes, but when I have rear wheel drive, it's easier to pop the clutch, light 'em up, and do the uey that way.

I hope you are out of the way of Milton. It's a pretty crazy storm season this year.

 

[GonePlaid]

That's because cars now have such insanely small turning radii that you don't need a 3-point turn, I guess. I still do that sometimes, but when I have rear wheel drive, it's easier to pop the clutch, light 'em up, and do the uey that way.

I hope you are out of the way of Milton. It's a pretty crazy storm season this year.

IME, most 'drivers' seem reluctant to fully turn the steering wheel. Dunno why. I haven't owned anything with a manual trans since ~1995, but it wouldn't do that(tandem axle Freightliner, 350 HP, 9speed direct)
AFA Milton, I'm outta the forecast direct path, but we're gonna get an arkload of rain. I'm 'supposedly' just outside of the flood zone. We'll see.