My AS is My Favorite Tool

[John&Vicki]

Originally Posted by ROBERT CROSS

...."you can't do anything, 'til you decide to do something"
RLC

Hey, I'm *retired*! Personal hygiene has become optional - and you want me to actually *work* on this OCD thing?!

Trying to decide whether to shave or not today,
Poppy

[SteveSueMac]

Originally Posted by Birdmaestro

Trying to decide whether to shave or not today,
Poppy

You're retired. Shavecation!! :-)

[John&Vicki]

On the good news front I retrieve the trailer from the Sheep Barn on Monday. Time to install a new skylight and some of the items filling the two boxes in the garage. I sure wish I had the skills that some of the consummate craftsmen here have. I blither through - but I've discovered it takes about twice as long when you have to do things 2-3 times.

The temperature is on its way to 1 degree later in the week. Hopefully the furnace can get things to a comfortable level in the tin can, say 35 degrees or so.

Poppy

[mutcth]

Poppy, seeing those Porsches makes me think - whoever gets your Airstream from you when/if you eventually sell it will get one hell of a trailer.

If you have electric, you can always plug in a small catalytic electric heater (which isn't a bad thing to have when you travel anyway) to help heat up the trailer to work inside.

Tom

[goshawks00]

Poppy it's not to late...!! You can change. Really you can, if you want to!
I learned to over come my of heights by taking up sky diving..
Then again years ago when I did a lot of duck hunting, I started carving decoys... Friends offered to by them, and long story short I went from a hack to winning a ' best of show ' at the World Carving Championship ' OCD got me. So I quit carving. Got into falconry which took me on a long journey, and ultimately to breeding raptors in captivity, a passion i am still deeply involved in.
Then came our first AS, a 66 Safari in major disrepair... two years later it's done, polished and languishing in our garage waiting for spring. So now it is slowly being squeezed out of the barn by another needy trailer this time a 54 FC.
Now then the point is there will ALWAYS be a project that will quite innocently pull at you, it will only need a little work, then soon like some invisible Anaconda tightening its coils, it will indeed become your new addiction. Don't fight it , enjoy it... heck take that Porsche roadster throw a hitch on it and make a fine vintage tow vehicle out of it. Like jumping out of the airplane it will show that you really are in control of your 'issues' hehehehe

[John&Vicki]

Originally Posted by mutcth

Poppy, seeing those Porsches makes me think - whoever gets your Airstream from you when/if you eventually sell it will get one hell of a trailer.

Tom

Thank you, Tom, that's a very fine compliment. I do consider myself to be a custodian of the rolling stock (and other things) that I'm blessed to enjoy and I try to pass it along in better condition than I received it. Probably win some and lose some.

Poppy

[John&Vicki]

Goshawks...

Thanks for the encouraging words. Maybe I should go jump out of an airplane (just kidding - I love to be overly literal).

I think the key at this late stage in life (Speaking of late stage, I was chewing on a taffy candy today and commented to my wife that it had something hard in it. I threw the hard piece out of the car window into the parking lot at Ace and finished the candy. As we drove away I noticed that there was a tooth missing. After a while, my acute sense of deductive reasoning figured out that I had thrown the tooth out the window. Being an ever curious aging couple, after running a few errands, we decided to go back to Ace (Ace is the place) and see if we could find it. Sure enough, it was right there where it had landed. I'm expecting great things from the tooth fairy tonight. But I digress.)

I think the key is to *channel* the OCD in constructive ways. Perhaps someone mentioned that.

Poppy

[ROBERTSUNRUS]

Hi, well actually I'm not. I have a 1959 Ford Galaxie 4 door Town Sedan that I have owned since 1977. I have somewhat restored it twice. It's nice, but what I call a driver. I tell people that at 100 yards it looks like a show car. I also said that if I can't drive it, I don't want it.
We bought our trailer brand new, but it didn't take long for me to find things that I felt Airstream, should have done, or could have done better. So I slowly made these up-grades. One day my wife said that she wanted the living room remodeled, [in our trailer] so I did it. My wife says that I take too long because I want it perfect. I wish I had more time and better equipment so I could do it better. I just try to make things nice, but not perfect. So sort-of OCD or actually not!

[John&Vicki]

Bob...

I actually taunt my OCD sometimes. I restore my cars to a #1 level then drive them to a #2 level. A month before my '67 Porsche Rallye build won best in class in the Concours on the Avenue in Carmel I raced it on the track at Portland International Raceway. You probably know how maniacal they are about *clean* at concours events. That was a fun challenge - they get dirty on the track. As it turns out I'm a better detailer than driver.

Poppy

[tevake]

Can't speak to your skill as a driver, but your cred as a detailer is certainly Bourne.out by the pics of your cars, especially the polished finned underside of the 356 block WOW NICE. Fanatical, but nice
I'm stoked to hear of your using these pristine cars, as many that nice become trailer queens, good on ya!

I'm also into Porsche cars a bit. Just to the extent of trying to keep two driver 911SCs running well on Kauai , which is mostly a DIY effort.

Are you on the Pelican forums also? That is my other online community.

I have recently joined in here as a new owner of a 345 motorhome, picked up in south Fla. a couple of weeks ago, now in New Mexico on the way to northern AZ. Perhaps we will cross paths in the SouthWest.

I'm sure I won't face the challenges you are wondering about, as looking nice, running well and fun are good enough for me.

There sure is a lot of country out there to explore :-)

Cheers Richard