Checking in

Yesterday I said to Cliff, "Your sister Charlene will be calling me soon."
"Why is that?"
"Because I haven't updated my blog lately."
And just like clockwork, Charlene called this morning.  She's the one who lives in St. Louis.
"Have you been traveling?  Is everything all right?" she asked me.
Well, everything is fine, and no, we haven't been traveling.  But every day seems to be "same old, same old", and I don't want to tax my brain trying to come up with something to share with the world.
I do, however, need to put a slideshow on this blog of Cliff building a structure on which he will eventually put the half-ton hoist he bought for a bargain price earlier this year; because Charlene's husband's tractor, the Mahindra, plays a large part in the adventure.  Now, some of you may have seen this already on Facebook or Tales, and I doubt most of my readers will find it very interesting.  But it's for my sister-in-law and her husband.  So there.





This thing is still a work in progress; we'll see how it all works out in the end.  
Oh, Cliff says there's one thing he misses, now that he's retired:  Fridays!  You know, that feeling you have all day Friday at work, knowing that you're going to have two days off?  He misses that.

What's Cliff up to?

The temperature is above 100 degrees, but Cliff is in his shop.  He isn't doing anything strenuous, though.  

He is working with a teeny, tiny piece of a tractor part, a piece of ....

a freshly-cleaned carburetor from an Oliver 550 tractor!  

I realize this is a terrible picture, but hey... deal with it.  

I go out to the shop from time to time to eat a freezer-pop.  We've found out freezer-pops don't taste nearly as good, eaten in an air-conditioned house.  There's something about the way a hot day melts them, turning them to brightly-colored syrup and slush, that makes them yummy.   
Iris doesn't want to leave the air conditioned house, but she also doesn't want me going outside without her.  So she suffers the heat with me.




Here's a brief snippet of Cliff working on the carburetor.  In the background you'll hear the roar of a fan, and Tom T. Hall singing on the XM radio.  
I hate the way Youtube puts links to unrelated videos at the end of my videos.  Does anybody know if there's a way I can prevent them doing that?