BADUNAME37
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Those of you who have spouses that join you in your hobbies, you are very fortunate. I cannot get my wife to shoot or hunt to save my life! I've bought some of my guns with the thought that she might like to shoot them. NO Way! So, she kind of has her own hobbies (quilting, sewing, always doing something), and I kind of have my own.
I discussed getting a motorcycle last year (at 54 years old), however with my spine condition and constant pain, all the vibration would really do me in. A friend took me for a ride through and around town last year and when I got off the Harley (he has the one that was like $16,000), my pain was worse than ever from the vibration.
We've discussed touring the country in our small station wagon or in my full-size work van, or even possibly driving to Alaska! However with me nearly out of work (self-employed) due to my health and my dwindling business over the past two years or so, living on my wife's salary is just not enough to do anything other than just keep afloat, paying monthly bills!
I try to be as prudent as I can with spending money on ANYTHING! Just the thought of my work van getting up in miles is now concerning me, things are starting to go on a 2003 van I bought new and now has about 85K miles on it. Just this morning one of the automatic transmission cooler lines was so rusted and corroded that it got a major crack in it. I barely made it home from town (four miles away), when I pulled into the driveway and saw a long line of fluid and felt it and saw it was red, I nearly had a stroke. I don't need to have my tranny run out and have me burn it up without knowing there was a leak! Before I called the wrecker with the flatbed truck, I checked the fluid level, at least it still had enough fluid in it to mark up to the FULL marking! I tried about five times as the transmission dipstick is about five feet long! After that, my wife and I prayed.
Sorry, I had to get all that off my chest.
I discussed getting a motorcycle last year (at 54 years old), however with my spine condition and constant pain, all the vibration would really do me in. A friend took me for a ride through and around town last year and when I got off the Harley (he has the one that was like $16,000), my pain was worse than ever from the vibration.
We've discussed touring the country in our small station wagon or in my full-size work van, or even possibly driving to Alaska! However with me nearly out of work (self-employed) due to my health and my dwindling business over the past two years or so, living on my wife's salary is just not enough to do anything other than just keep afloat, paying monthly bills!
I try to be as prudent as I can with spending money on ANYTHING! Just the thought of my work van getting up in miles is now concerning me, things are starting to go on a 2003 van I bought new and now has about 85K miles on it. Just this morning one of the automatic transmission cooler lines was so rusted and corroded that it got a major crack in it. I barely made it home from town (four miles away), when I pulled into the driveway and saw a long line of fluid and felt it and saw it was red, I nearly had a stroke. I don't need to have my tranny run out and have me burn it up without knowing there was a leak! Before I called the wrecker with the flatbed truck, I checked the fluid level, at least it still had enough fluid in it to mark up to the FULL marking! I tried about five times as the transmission dipstick is about five feet long! After that, my wife and I prayed.
Sorry, I had to get all that off my chest.