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Well, to begin with it is not my machine, it belongs to my brother but he doesn’t have the room to store or use it on his small downtown lot so I basically have it on permanent loan – a good deal for me! I’ve looked into various improvements in stability but they all cost too much or have other drawbacks – for example Kubota makes a box that hangs off the back of the machine that you can fill with weight but it sticks out quite a ways and costs over $600 – hardly a cheap fix. Thankfully my lot is either flat or very gently sloping and it’s pretty easy to keep things under control – I’ve had it up on three wheels many times but it does so very gently and predictably so it’s not as scary as it sounds and I always wear the seat belt. In the photo all I was doing was lifting that pile of lumber a couple of inches with one chain so I could slip another supporting block under so it’s no surprise that it tipped a little.

A little yard organizing before the snow flies – the tractor can be a little tippy without the weight of the digging attachment on it:

-3C at 10:00AM on this fine Canadian Thanksgiving holiday Monday, and the sun is finally getting high enough to start melting the frost off the Bimmer’s roof – almost time to put it to bed for the winter:

That’s not a bad price considering the provenance of the car’s mechanicals, and what the real ones are costing nowadays…

Somebody with deep pockets did a great job on this replica of my all-time favourite car but something doesn’t look quite right on the rear detail – looks like a fuel tank hanging down between the exhaust snaps – otherwise perfect; also your last photo is of a Maserati interior. Now here is a Ferrari I could live with if I had the means and the environment – gorgeous car yet still with a measure of practicality:

I guess the fish aren't safe anywhere in France when you are on the hunt - mon dieu, 555...!

Try living above the Arctic Circle during the all-too-brief summer months when the sun doesn’t set at all – that can really get one’s head turned around…

Rare perhaps but a pity that it is so ugly...

It’s really not as heavy as it looks and it’s a good wheelbarrow that rolls easily and is well balanced – a heaping load of dirt or gravel would be far heavier.

Notorious English gangster from the 60’s-‘80s, Freddy Foreman, dead at the ripe old age of 94 – a good innings for one in his line of work: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=CAESiAEB6zswFVw90hJu3gb6zUmrAdGNY31CtLs6PO23DU-PPEtQvCQvIePXn9pimgelS16yEB3o1ba7wguts3lRT_T12IvIz2SMP2UyW36Qsu1RG778xvAUSGFdzJc0WkD-9GNQNJZE-JX6sDiZtPpA9MM-Iz0p8xk4546fypF5lRy3WqbsDH7oTLzG&ved=2ahUKEwiwiJDr1a-XAxXYDjQIHRyuE5cQg-AKKAB6BAglEAE&uoh=2&usg=AOvVaw3mPjPFaFHLEPwbiCpo0ZD0

Spent the afternoon processing firewood – from the pile to the splitter inside the tent, and then through the wood hatch and into my basement until it was full – now I’ll do a couple more rows inside the tent:

So the wind shifted around to the north last night and we got a few flakes of snow which didn’t last long this morning – but it sure took care of that group of trees by my sheds which lost most of their leaves overnight and the rest this morning: And the sky cleared off early in the afternoon, leaving us with a lovely day:

Took the Merc for a 150 mile highway loop yesterday to finish burning last year’s gas out of its 95l tank as it didn’t get driven much this year and it’s time to put it away for the winter:

#2 and #6 are big ones for me – my town has grown too quickly and the road improvements haven’t caught up yet, and you couldn’t pay me to go grocery shopping on a Saturday afternoon…

I get a sore back and numb wrists just looking at these guys…