Morning Cup Of Coffee And Weather

I'm watching for one of those vans -- I actually want a cargo version. Trouble with those is they tend to be formerly commercial and have been used and abused!

The company I work for has one in the back lot that has less than 10,000 miles on it and is a few years old --- but its the exception, and I don't think they will be selling it any time soon.

The 10 speed transmission feels very strange to drive...even more so than CV

 

I think former commercial vehicles can be the very best or the very worst. A year ago vans were going for $20K over MSRP with 60K miles on them. The 12 and 15 passenger busses were also in high demand My 7 passenger luxury van didn’t have a lot of demand and I got a good deal on it. The husband was going through a divorce and she was going to get the actual sale price. He sold it for the least he thought he could get away with.

 

The fall colors around here are gorgeous. I took this picture of Timms Hill from my front porch.

IMG_1830 by Tour 931 posted Oct 14, 2024 at 6:26 AM

 

Yes, we went from very little color to peak in about a week.
Got out Saturday afternoon to take a look from the air near Mille Lacs Lake, MN

 

This was taken from Timms Hill on September 29 on way home from CICO Flash 931 yard nestled in the trees.

 

Yep that’s home sweet home! You should have stopped by. I took this picture looking back at the tower a few minutes ago.

IMG_1839 by Tour 931 posted Oct 15, 2024 at 5:28 AM

 

Maybe next time, it is a very beautiful area !

 

wonderful photos....Makes me ...what...whats the temperatures?

The van stuff -- yeah its still bad. The crap being produced by the car companies today has a lot of people opting for older vehicles. I am seeing the periodic white cargo van (old chevy's) but they sell fast. If I do what I"m thinking about doing, i definitely need one. Or a used ambulance, but those have usually spent so much time idling...even if they are lower mileage (they never are) they are high time. Which is worse.

We'll see how tomorrow goes --- its the "big day" for a huge project that is coming to an end. God help me.

 

This was last night’s full moonrise over the Ring School. It’s a slight teleview from my front porch.

DSCN2647 by Tour 931 posted Oct 17, 2024 at 4:59 AM

 

Well, that was pretty fun!

In 2020 I was on the forum pretty much every day, sometimes (often) several times a day. Then, when I was displaced at the job finding real work my involvement changed -- but I still visited the site several times a week if not daily.

When I 'hit' the site and found it offline a few weeks ago, I'm just glad it wasn't in 2020!

I can't wait to hear from my friends to see what happened while everyone has been away....

 

It was great to finally find the forum back online today. Thanks for assisting the home nest in getting things working again. Hopefully a new server will help avoid a repeat of the long downtime.