Carmichael at Loretta Lynn's 2012

Alright, listen up. Ricky Carmichael lost his NASCAR Truck ride. Evidently that's a good thing. Seems that he's been riding the qualifiers for the Loretta Lynn's 2012 national and surprise, he's is qualified. This is a great chance to see the G.O.A.T. (greatest of all time) moto-crosser. We should start planning now to make rendezvous points so that we can car-pool, as entry to Loretta's during the nationals has been $25.00 per car-load. Too bad we can't get Bubba (a.k.a. the Highway Patrol) to show up so RC can hand him his ass just one more time.....

Q.O.T.W.

From Mennonite Mike.....

"Hey! Dickheads have feelings, too!"

This Is So Cool.....or Hot.

We found this Biolite Camp Stove the other day over at Silodrome . Silodrome is an awesome website and this stove-thing is amazing.

Dumbest Thing You've Done This Week

After a torrential rain last week and some flooding of the basement of the old Post Office I was going to move the de-humidifier to another area to do work. It was plugged into an outlet about nine feet off of the floor. The appliance was plugged into a three-foot long junction box/extension, because the de-humidifier has a six-foot power cord. Most all of the plugs here at the P.O. are either in the floor (literally), or 9 feet up a wall or column.

Instead of going to get a stool or a step-ladder I thought to myself, "Self, just grab that cord and snatch it deftly out of the wall and catch the box when it comes down." Best laid plans of mice and men and all. So, I did that.

When I yanked back on the appliance cord that four-way junction box separated from the 3-prong plug, flipped end over end and caught me between my upper lip and nose. Hilarity ensued. Cue the Benny Hill Chase music . Been a long time since I've had a bloody nose.

Of course I spun around like you always do whenever you've done something amazingly stupid, even though I was completely alone. I fully expected Zeke to be sitting there with some sort of editorial comment.....

Bumper Sticker of the Month

"Religion is for people that are afraid they're going to hell."

Cheap Therapy

I have this stack of snapshots that lives on the top of my microwave. There are all sorts of pictures. Past cats, current cats. Motorcycle rides with friends. Cool dogs that I've known or met. The woman. Family.

Whenever I'm in that down mode I'll pick up that stack of prints and just thumb through it. After that, all is better in my world. It's way cheaper than therapy. And drugs.....

Quote of the Weekend

Our good buddy Jesco was busy texting with his smart phone around the campfire a couple weeks ago.

Our own Mr Tact, aka Captain Dick asked him, "Hey Jesco, when you text and use that half a thumb, is that considered short-hand?"

Tough crowd, tough crowd.

Hips 3

Another easy one, but what year?

Live Blogging.....

It's homecoming night here in the big Dick-son. A bit after dark I fired up the coals and roasted a couple ears of corn and grilled some chicken whilst listening to the Dickson County High School football game from across the way. The stadium is about a half mile away as the crow flies, and I was able to recognize half-time due to the music breaks.

I also recognized the end of the game when the band played the Alma-mater and there was a sing-along and a big cheer after that.

A few minutes after the Alma-mater, while having a bite of dinner on the loading dock, I listened to the roar and rubber squealing of pick-up trucks and sub-compact racers leaving the high-school grounds. Some major teen testosterone. Soon after that those same vehicles were bombing about down-town here.

Hey, don't get me wrong, I was that kid. But, what I'm hoping is that after the overnight hours leading into Saturday morning, I don't see that news story about that horrifying tragedy of a crash that kills two or three or four students just after their high-school homecoming game.

Hips 2

A sleek and classy girl, very well refined.....

Hips

All car designers have always had their own ideas about body-work, and I have always thought that about car fenders specifically. From the time that I was a kid I always thought that it was very sexual in nature. I mean, how can you look at a Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa and not think of someone like Sophia Loren? Seriously.

So, over the next few days we are going to have a run of gorgeous hips from the car show last week-end at the O'more School of Design in Franklin that Sam and I attended. It's a great venue for a car show, what a beautiful campus.

If you'd like to try a guess in the comments as to what each image of the car with hips is, that might be fun. But I can't promise any real prizes here, 'cause the Skate Truck isn't really very well sponsored. Prizes could maybe be a cold beverage for a correct guess when I see you, or perhaps a light snack, or a used fishing lure, or maybe a hale and hearty hand-shake of congratulatory nature, just depending on who the guess-ee might be.....

So, we'll start here with a really easy one, everyone should get this one. If we were really talking sexual, these hips would be a Mae West sort of BBW.

Seriously.....