"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today." - Will Rogers

It's been another long, busy, and hot day. We hit 106 here in Sun City, which is Arizonian for "Don't leave anything metal sitting in the sun." Guess who forgot that axiom.

We're fans of the NPR radio show Car Talk and I "liked" their Facebook page about a year ago. Like their radio show it's a combination of fun and informative. Yesterday I saw that they'd asked people to post pictures of their interesting car & trailer combinations so I sent them my pic of the Falcon and the teardrop. Early this morning I saw this:

Look how many people "liked" my combo!
My life is now complete, I can die with a smile on my face. I've made the Car Talk site.

By 7:30 I was at the metal shop where Pete (a bit of a personality) welded up some holes on one fender, the tailgate, and the good (left side) door. He's 83, a man of few words, but a cracker jack welder. He worked in the trades as a steam fitter for 60 years before retiring in 1994. I asked him where he worked. "All over the world." Then nothing.
Not a conversationalist.

I came home to spend some time in the garage doing body work on the fenders and tailgate. I'm still missing the filler/hardener ratio more often than getting it right, but the only consequence is wasted filler because it set up too soon to use.

The kids came over a little after 10:00 to help load the bed and cab onto Lyle's trailer. Tomorrow I'll take the bed down to the shop where I took the classes, they'll help unload it, and then I wait for Spencer to call and say the two patch panels are installed and the 60+ holes drilled by a previous owner in the cab's interior are welded shut. Friday I'll drive back to the metal shop, back the trailer & bed up to the shop's back door, and Pete will do some welding on it, repairing a couple of rust areas and welding closed even more holes somebody drilled.

Why two different places for welding? The cab work requires more time than one session and Pete will only do about an hour's worth of work at a time.

The son of a college classmate who served several tours in Iraq and Afghanistan said on Facebook this morning that he didn't want people to thank him for his service today. He wrote that Memorial Day is about those who died in service to their country and Veteran's Day for acknowledging those who served but did not pay the ultimate price.
Never thought of it that way. I'm not sure it's ever wrong to thank someone who served or is serving, but I get his point of giving special attention to those who died in combat.