Skunked Again

I paid for me and my brother to go on a chartered salmon fishing trip on the Columbia river today.

Two other guys joined up to fill up the boat and both of those guys wound up catching a nice Coho salmon. I had one on but lost it before it got to the boat and the same thing happened to my brother. The weather was surprisingly nice and the rain held off until we were literally getting in our rigs to come home.

I only got about 4 hours of sleep last night. I got home and went to bed early but had trouble getting to sleep. 5 A.M. came real early. When I got home from sitting in that boat for 7 hours, I came in, sat down in my recliner and was out for 3 hours.

. The only reason I woke up then was because the wife had dinner ready.

What A Beautiful Day. Wait, What?!

Looks like somebody found some extra money while the government is shut down yesterday.

It went from this,

To this,

You can see the shit falling out of that “Cloud” at about a 45 degree angle.

Yeah, tell me again that’s a fucking contrail. I’ll believe my own lying eyes thank you very much.

Native American Hero’s Day. Not indigenous people’s day.

Peter Pitchlynn, (ChoctawHatchootucknee, lit. ’Snapping Turtle’) (January 30, 1806 – January 17, 1881) was a Choctaw military and political leader.

Bear Claw’s great great grandfather. Bear is descended from a proud and educated people.

More info through these links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pitchlynn

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=PI013

Tell Me Again How Wonderful Automotive Technology Is….

I’m sure most of you are familiar with the venerable Old School Chevy Small Block Thermostat and housing.

Two bolts, one gasket and one hose clamp. Everything is right up front and on top.

My Wife’s 2004 Ford Focus has a plastic thermostat housing, which at $150, has already had to be replaced TWICE because it cracked and started leaking.

Now get a load of this fucking horse shit,

@andrewsarocha

Engine coolant flow control valve. You can find these on the Silverado & Sierra 1,500 3.0 lm2/lz0 inline 6 diesel also on the 2.7 L3B four cylinder gasoline turbo. Other engines include the new 2.5 four cylinder turbo found in the new traverse/acadia & the three cylinder found in the trailblazer & trax. #enginecoolantflowcontrolvalve #chevrolet #fyp #thermostat #coolant

♬ original sound – Andrews Arocha

Whoever came up with that fucking nightmare should have had the taste slapped out of his mouth.

I swear on my Mother’s grave that if I somehow manage to outlive the old Dodge truck I drive right now, that I am going to scour the internet until I find a reasonably priced early 60’s Ford truck that isn’t rotted out and I am doing whatever it takes to make it run and drive.

I absolutely will not pay money for one of these later pieces of shit for any reason.