So we need to cherish the little moments in life when we see something special.
One of the original founding members of the band Deep Purple, Ritchie Blackmoore, got on stage to play one song.
The one every single one of us remembers from when we were young and wild,
Smoke On the Water.
Yeah, the sound and the video aren’t stellar but there it is, possibly for the last time ever.
He called me and woke me up this morning. It was 10:00 so it wasn’t early by any means, I just stayed up too late last night.
Anyways, he tells me they took his Pinky Toe off after all. So he has a new Indian name, Old Nine Toes.
I started to call him Pinky and asked him if he had ever heard of the cartoon Pinky And The Brain but he had never heard of it.
Too bad. It would have been perfect.
He says they took the toe because the bone had turned black, which ain’t good and that theye were planning on going back in and cleaning it out again. said he was so full of antibiotics that he wouldn’t be afraid to eat Gas Station Sushi.
I didn’t talk to him too long, I wasn’t all the way awake and was needing some coffee real bad.
He sounds good though and I’m sure he is making some poor nurse’s life miserable just for fun.
He’s an ornery fucker but has a heart of gold when it counts.
I’ll give him a call either Friday or Saturday to check on him again, it sounds like he is going to be in that hospital for a while yet.
Thanks for the prayers and well wishes.
Whoever did all this belongs in jail anyway!
Well, the ornery fucker is still alive anyway.
I thought he was supposed to have surgery on his right foot yesterday and I didn’t hear anything so I just called his ornery ass. Come to find out the operating room was busy yesterday and I caught him just as he got back to his room from surgery this morning.
True to form, I heard him barking at a nurse about diet cola so I jumped his ass and told him to be nice.
They didn’t take his little toe off, yet. He had a huge abscess on the bottom of his foot that came in from the side and they cleaned all that pus and shit out.
He hadn’t talked to his doctor yet and he’s not so sure they might not have to take the toe off just quite yet. It depends on if they can get the infection under control.
It’s not a good situation for him because he literally just got to South Dakota and doesn’t have any friends or family there so they are going to have to have someone come to his place to do wound care when he gets out.
He can’t reach his feet so someone is going to have to clean and dress that big hole in his foot and he doesn’t heal well down there in the first place.
I worry about the old cuss and our nickname for me is the Catholic Grandmother.
I lived with mine in my later teen years and God Bless Her Soul, I found out later that I literally almost gave her a nervous breakdown because I was so wild.
She worried about me constantly.
I can see why now.
He mentioned that someone had suggested starting a Go Fund Me for him and he wants nothing to do with that. I’ll let that go for right now and wait to see what comes of all this first.
He’s as stubborn as I am and I make a Missouri Mule look like a Walmart greeter.
So I told him to be nice to the nurses and I will give him a call later to see what the Doc said and what he is looking at going forward. He and I both appreciate the concern and prayers of everyone, even if he won’t say it out loud.
Refer to my stubborn comment above.
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It is absolute chaos in the West Pacific right now. Typhoon Dolphin making landfall in China; Tropical Storm Chan-hom heading towards mainland Japan; and THREE MORE systems spinning around the Mariana Islands, all at the same time.
James Hettfield and Kirk Hammet from Metallica playing air guitar in the crowd at a Judas Priest concert.
I can count my true friends on one hand and still have a finger left to pick my nose with.
I’m going to save it for my next family gathering.
Looks like not only is it still around, it’s in great shape too!
But Wait, something ain’t right here!
I can remember having to look hard to find the plastic model of that thing to put together when I was a kid.
It was an off brand model and I had to go to an Honest To God Hobby/Model shop to find it.
I was pretty determined though and I finally had the little box in my grubby little hands.
For nostalgia sake I just looked it up and something caught my eye right away.
A detail that I didn’t remember from so long ago.
In the video above, this version quite obviously has great big, Fire Breathing V-8 engine in it.
All the pictures of the original model I just looked up show it having a Straight 6!
Doing some quick internet searching, I re-discovered that the original full size cae car did feature a Straigt 6 and was built by the Monogram Model Car company, based off of a model car in 1969!
The Red Baron was a custom t-bucket hot rod built in 1969.
The project was designed by Tom Daniel and built by Chuck Miller at Styline Customs.[1]
The car was inspired by a Monogram model kit that Daniel had designed which was on display at the 1967 Chicago Toy Fair.[2] Seeing the popularity of the kit, Monogram arranged to have a full-size version built. It is currently at the Smith Collection Museum of American Speed in Lincoln, Nebraska.[3]
It later inspired a Hot Wheels car.[
So the picture of the model I found was made by the Atlantis model car company but the original was made by Monogram!
It also featured a Straight 6 engine.
So if the original is sitting in a museum in Nebraska, then someone has built another one, with the fire Breathing V-8, and it’s currently running around.
So I had to do some more digging and I came up with this,
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Details about this vehicle – decoded from the VIN & CLASSIC.COM curators.Year1923Make-Model Family-Model Generation-Model Variant-Model Trim-VINOK2063597568Mileage-Originality-Engine-Transmission-Drive Type-Vehicle Type-Body Style-Driver Side-Doors-Color Group (Ext)-Color Group (Int)-
A timeline of events that we’ve detected for this vehicle.
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Pretty interesting and quite the Rabbit Hole to fall down just from looking at one video that brought back old memories.