In Saturday’s blog I showed you a picture of a big buck deer that was standing in our yard looking in the window at Terry Friday night. He came back with a bunch of his friends on Saturday night, and our porch camera got video of at least two big bucks, maybe three, and a […]
As I said in yesterday’s blog, I adjusted the carburetor on my old Chrysler, and it was idling much better but still dying when I stopped. When I put the air filter back on it wouldn’t start at all. A couple of blog readers told me they believed adjustment I had made was okay when […]
I said in yesterday’s blog that I was going to try to adjust the carburetor in my 1952 Chrysler and asked what could go wrong. Well, I found out. I took the oil bath air cleaner off the top of the carburetor and adjusted the idle and the richness as much as I could, and […]
Years ago, country singer Dan Seals released a song called My Old Yellow Car. Anyone who grew up poor and drove beaters when they were young could relate to it. I know I sure could. My first car wasn’t yellow, but the rest of it rang pretty true. These days, I have an old yellow […]
I’m back with more questions from blog readers. While I try to answer all questions individually, I also share some here occasionally. Q. I have a question about the classic car you bought. It was made long before the days of unleaded gasoline. Do you have to add some kind of an additive to the […]
In an effort to introduce my readers to other authors and their work, every week I run an Author Spotlight, sharing information about an author, their work, and how they go about writing their books. MJ Witt grew up in South Dakota’s rugged Black Hills, where self-reliance, hard work, and respect for the land shaped […]