FLYING CHUNKY MONKEES

This is a radio controlled airplane, approximate 48" wingspan. It has a .46 cubic " engine. They had problems keeping it running, so it never got to fly today. I have been into the sport several times, but it is expensive, ESPECIALLY SINCE I AM GOOD AT CRASHING THEM!!! The 3rd picture goes with this story, but had a problem with this picture being deleted, so when I reattached it, it came up front. So therefore, I changed the title of this blog from CHUNKY MONKEY to FLYING CHUNKY MONKEES, lol.


This is Saturday & I have to drive the drunks to the Catholic Commodities, so I am getting commodities also. Boy, I sure am relishing this WHOLE CASE, (12), OF BEN & JERRY'S milk shakes. I put them in the refrigerator already to drink one when I get home today from the campgrounds. We also got canned goods of peas, green beans, etc., plus Romaine lettuce, plus a loaf of rye bread, & a pkg. of Jimmy Dean sausage. I never considered myself poor, but according to their income level I am entitled to them.

After taking them back to the junkyard, I headed to town to take pictures of the Elk's BBQ cooking. But on the way, I saw the gate open to the RC, (Radio Control) field. One guy there with his son. I liked the father's shirt, so here it is.


On my way to the Elk's I saw a guy with a clipboard out there with this F-84 fighter. It was new around 1948 & used in the Korean War. The guy was a teacher & they have a project of high school students repainting the airplane to have it looking nice for Memorial day. The lettering still has to be done & a few odds & ends.

Hot here today. Supposed to get some rain today or tomorrow. You can see some clouds in the picture of the F-84. Last night I saw lightning & heard thunder north of us. We sure do need the rain here. All canoe trips have been cancelled because of low river water.

Computer speed? Well, we have 2 free Wi-Fi spots here at the moment. 1000 Trails just put in a dish to receive a signal from a satellite, but I found out that a DSL phone line is faster than off of a satellite. You can test your speed by going to http://www.testmy.net . Look for DUAL TEST on 1st page. Then click on SERVER 1 on the next page, & then it will start testing. I tried it with both Internets here, plus on has both wireless & with Ethernet cord. Realize that this will not always be a constant speed as there are variables on the Internet.

If you'd like some more interesting info about wireless Internet, go check out information from my friends Jim & Chris at http://www.wifisavvy.com

OK, time to go swimming. Have a nice day. Ron

P.S. The drunks are behaving themselves. One in Detox, one with no money to buy beer, & the other never gives me a problem anyway.

May FULL MOON

May's FULL MOON is here now. I didn't use the tripod, so not as clear as I'd like it, but it is the 2ND different month in which I have been in the junkyard to take pictures of the full moon.

Do full moons bring trouble? Well, maybe we should ask 2 drunks. One I signed papers for him to go to Detox center & they took him away last night. The other one got mouthy with me after I took a video of him laying on the ground & then after he got up he was staggering around. I wanted proof he was drunk also. So then he got mouthy with me & told me he was gonna destroy my camera. We were in town 3-4 miles from the junkyard yesterday afternoon, so I made him walk home. He got in 7:30AM this morning with shorts, no shirt, & carrying his shoes. I asked him if he wanted to go get his food stamps, but he didn't reply. AT LEAST HE DIDN'T GET SASSY WITH ME, WHICH IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HE DRINKS ALCOHOL. The one who went to detox was so drunk he wanted me to take him to get more beer. When I refused, he left on his bicycle. So as I went to town to sign papers for him to go to detox, I saw he had fallen off of his bicycle & was sitting up in the grass beside the road about 1/4 mile away. Later I found out a sheriff's deputy & ambulance went out there to see if he was OK. Well, 2 drunks down & hopefully the other will just be calm, even if he is drunk in his room. Dear Lord, help me survive these drunks.

Time to go swimming. 90 degrees here. Ron

JUNKIN'

Not much going on. Cleaned some aluminum this morning sitting on a chair under my awning. Even though I started early, it warmed up fast with the sun hitting me. I moved the legs of the awning out to the ground so I wouldn't have to duck to go under them. YOU HAVE TO WATCH WHERE YOU WALK AROUND HERE! Greg asked me this morning how much longer I'd be able to stay here to watch his place for him & I told him I'd like for him to come back as soon as possible. As you can see, LIVING CONDITIONS AREN'T TOO GREAT HERE.
Here is the pile of aluminum I cleaned. 18# @ .55, so I got about $5 for my work, which isn't enough considering I had to take it off of the trailer also. Then it had to have any glass taken out, any screws taken out, & any rubber or grout removed. So I guess I'll just watch the guys & come here to the campgrounds to be on the PC & go swimming.
I call this MOTOR HEAD POST. If I could have taken it to scrap, I could have probably made more than $5. Right after taking this picture, I went inside the fence to take a picture of the 2 friendly German Shepperd dogs, but they ran away from me when they saw the camera. I have a friend who has a neighboring white Pit Bull who runs away from cameras also.

This is James, a friend of Greg's on his 1950's Case tractor. It runs on LP. Not pretty, but it has power & we moved a big commercial backhoe yesterday with it.

According to the weatherman, it is to be in the upper 80's all week here with no rain in site. I took a cool shower today & plan to go swimming after I get off the PC. Hope you are enjoying the weather yourself. Hope to hear from you as to what you are doing, not fwds. Ron

Cycle-Recycle

Yesterday's blog got 4 replies, 2 of which asked me if I was really camping in the junk yard & one who asked me if I was afraid. One reply said, "The latest one you sent was so funny!! The pic's are great on it as is your writing too. I forwarded it to some of my people. I got a new item for you to put on your bottom of your e mails, signature that is. = When you dream in color, it's a pigment of your imagination.
I know, your welcome!!" (Jo thinks I live such an interesting life). Other people have envied me also. It's not all roses though. I have to put up with some thorns too, LOL. [Last night I was dreaming I had lost my computer & was about to go crazy looking for it, thinking someone had stolen it, UNTIL I WOKE UP & REALIZED IT WAS ONLY A DREAM, THANK GOODNESS!]

Last night after putting on yesterday's blog , I went to Karaoke at the Elk's Club. As usual, I got the camera out & took some pictures of different people singing Karaoke. Then a club officer asked me to take a picture of him with a lady, which I did. Then another guy told him that I was the one who was hauling away their used french fry grease & had the blue bus that uses it for fuel. He said he remembered meeting me at 2 auto parts stores & thought I was crazy for using used french fry grease for fuel, but now that he has seen me at Elk's a number of times at Karaoke & is happy I haul away their used french fry grease, he has decided I am OK. Then they asked me to join the Elk's, which I explained I couldn't afford it, so the guy of whom took his picture asked the other guy if he'd pay half of my dues for one year, which he said yes, so I filled out the paperwork. I KNOW THEY ARE ALWAYS DOING THINGS TO GET MEMBERS IN CLUBS. Of course, I obligated myself to take more pictures at outings they have, which could in turn give me more photography business.
Back to the junkyard last night, a drunk was mad at me because I didn't give him a ride to town. I had told him in 1 hour I would be ready. Then I had to go hunt him down & tell him, only to find he had driven the truck to his house, which was against the rules, & then when I told him for the 2nd time I was ready to go, he stopped to talk to another drunk for 5 minutes, so I drove off leaving him. Now when I got home last night, there was a newspaper hanging on my door, "WE NEED TO TALK!!!!!", so I called the junkyard owner & he said to pull all the keys out of the trucks so the drunks have no vehicles to drive. They were all still asleep this morning when I left for doctor's appointment, so guess I'll hear from them when I get back, LOL.
On my way to appointment this morning I saw this used motorcycle being used to hold mailbox in front of a motorcycle repair shop. In Indianapolis, Indiana, on East 10th St., there is a used motorcycle parts store named "Cycle-Recycle", so it fit here very well for my subject.

Here in the 2nd picture is a garden tractor made into a train at a lawnmower shop. On the other side of the engine was the names of the "ENGINEERS", which I imagine is the names of family members. Notice, it has a 2nd seat for a "BACK SEAT DRIVER", LOL.

Doing well running on veggie oil today. It is supposed to hit 88 here today.

Do you believe this?

I am camping at the junkyard now & have been for about a week, so there are over 400 fwds. backed up & I don't have time to read them. In front of the bus UP IN A TREE is a strange looking item. A horizontal board, a painted galvanized bucket, & what appears to be a lid off of some kind of feeder to keep rain out, but it is turned up vertical, so that wouldn't do much good, so I asked Gregg what it was for. He told me he has a SNOWBIRD TALKING CROW. He used to keep him in the house, but as he grew up, he put him outside with wings clipped, BUT THEN ONE DAY HE FLEW AWAY. But he comes back every once-in-awhile in the winter time. Gregg knows it is the same bird because the bird knows his name & all the dogs names, plus some other filthy words. Gregg puts corn up there for his arrival in the fall, but there are also chickens out here in the junkyard that fly up there to eat also.

Here is a nice sign I found in the junkyard. One of the drunks I am watching over claimed it, so Gregg, owner of the junkyard, paid Bebo $3 for it, so now I'm thinking of attaching it on my bus for all the other campers to enjoy. Seems every camper has to have something different to be individualized. Some people spend quite a bit of money on different decorations. I think people will enjoy my sign, LOL.
Here is one of the trailers of a drunk I am watching over to make sure he doesn't steal things to buy beer, cigarettes, etc. The trailer DID have siding on it. But with summer heat coming on, he tore the siding off so he could get a breeze. NOW THAT WAS ONE REASON!!! The other reason was to have aluminum to sell to buy beer. Today all 3 of the drunks I am watching over are "DRUNK"!!!!!
Debbie, the mgr. here at the Thousand Trails Campground says there is a special place for me, BEING ABLE TO PUT UP WITH THEM!!!

I don't know how much I will be able to get to the campgrounds to get on the computer, so please don't send fwds. I am now over 400 behind. Have a nice day & PRAY I MAKE IT THROUGH WITH THESE DRUNKS,,,,,Ron

HERE'S MY PRIDE & JOY

Many years ago I got a job with "ABC PICTURES", traveling taking bowling team pictures. The job was seasonal & I am no longer employed by my friend Joe, but he gave me this picture & we shared other interests such as flying radio controlled airplanes. SO THIS IS MY "PRIDE & JOY". Wanting to take a new picture of it rather than just copying a picture, which reduces quality, I called Johnson & Johnson to see if I could buy a bottle of Pride furniture wax OR EVEN AN EMPTY BOTTLE!!! They told me they have NONE EVEN THEMSELVES, so if one of my friends out here have a bottle of Johnson Pride Wax, which was sold in the 1950's, please let me know.
Well, I guess part of my "PRIDE & JOY" is my "CASTLE AT THE JUNK YARD". Right beside the bus is a LEAN-TO, metal roofing being held up against 2 trees. Nice & shady, plus the wind has blown through here making it feel very comfortable. Guess I'll have to bring my TV outside to watch. Was too hot in the bus to watch TV today, in the 80's outside, over 100 inside the bus. I heard on the weather today, that the 90's are returning to Florida, so guess I'll be coming here to the Thousand Trails campground for free day passes to go swimming to cool off.


I don't get paid anything for a little work I do at the junk yard. Today, I helped with wiring a trailer for about an hour. But I did receive 9, yes "nine" new T-shirts, ALL ALIKE, lol, so if you see with one like this on, don't accuse me of wearing the same shirt as I wore yesterday, LOL. The shirts were given to the junkyard by Catholic Relief who couldn't sell them & other items. So now Anita gave them to me. Benzamycin is a jell medication for Acne. Looks like the main ingredient is Peroxide. I just bought a bottle of Peroxide last week, as I got an e-mail of what all Peroxide can do for you.
When I was at Wal-Mart, a couple in a motor home pulled in beside me. I IMMEDIATELY GRABBED THE CAMERA for this picture. This a 1950 Jeepster. Don is a Shriner & spends a lot of time "DRIVING MILES FOR CHILDREN'S SMILES". The shriners do a lot with free services for children in hospitals. I personally know of 2 cases, where it didn't cost the family any money. One child was trying to light a charcoal fire with gasoline. Blew up in his face. Shriners helicoptered him 40 miles to 1 hospital & then on a private jet from Charlotte, NC., to Cincinnati, Oh., so GOD BLESS THE SHRINERS. I also have 2 personal friends who are shriners. One is an e-mail friend, Danny, who will see this, & has been a clown at the Kokomo, In. club.
Until next time, have a nice day,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Ron

Blue Skies over Blue Heaven

I was disappointed that there weren't any pretty puffy clouds over the bus when I took the picture, but then I heard from the weatherman that there was no moisture in the air all the way from Florida to Duluth, Mn.

So I came back for a day to Peace River campground or so before going to the junkyard so I could get some picture work done. The campground is getting SO EMPTY!!! It was SO EMPTY that I was able to get the closest campsite to the clubhouse, which means I can work my wireless Internet from the bus, while I watch TV, (see Direct TV dish beside bus).

Also a friend came by, who makes crafts, etc. to sell. I traded golf balls that were already drilled to make Dingo Ball game for a flag holder, which turns in the wind. It was really windy all day yesterday, but just a light wind this morning. Beautiful blue skies this morning also. Supposed to be in the 70's again today, so it is very comfortable. Have a good day,,,,,Ron