Hobie Hartkins

Time will tell but you might be right. This latest variant doesn't sound any worse than a common cold but that doesn't mean the next one won't be bad. 
Raining today but my Ninja got ridden 3 days in a row before this. I'm still getting used to it but felt pretty comfortable yesterday. The biggest thing I don't like is that I don't feel like a redneck on it. Oh well, after the novelty wears off I'll trade it for a dirt bike. 

Happy St. Patrick's Day everybody.
I picked up the Ninja yesterday. All I've ever driven the past 45 years is older beat up motorcycles. It was amazing to ride a sport bike....especially something new. 
Maybe Hoss can figure out how to post a picture of it. It is a 2022 Ninja 400 that is metallic gray/metallic black. If you look up different colors, it is the only one with green stripes on the tire rims. I love it but I think it is only a phase. I plan on trading it in for a dirt bike next spring. I just had to do this once in my life. It is fast!

I've seen a couple stories about a new covid variant coming out. I haven't heard anything about it being anything to be too concerned about yet. 
I'm supposed to pick up my Ninja on Thursday. 

It's amazing his career survived the goofy gimmicks that WCW came up with for him such as Gator and later the Diamond Studd before WWF called him up. Vince and the creative team would at least let wrestler's have a say in their character in the WWF unlike WCW at the time. Kevin Nash and the Undertaker as well both had goofy gimmicks in WCW before hitting it big in WWF. 
Scott passed away last night after several hours off of life support 
Since AT&T is turning off 3g network this month tracfone sent my dad a smartphone to replace the ancient phone he had. I had a fun 3+ hours yesterday showing him how to at least make calls on it. Why the  couldn't they have just sent him a flip phone. And he makes everything out to be harder than it actually is and boy did I have a banger of a headache when I got home. He should've been happy they sent him a $100 phone for free and that he finally has a phone that has a signal away from the interstates instead of  the whole time.

Though I felt like telling her good luck finding someone else to mow her lawn and trim her hedges for $20.
 
  I would've told her where to put her $20, her yard and what to do, once she got it all up in there!

Unfortunately it looks like the years of alcohol and drug abuse finally caught up to wrestler Scott Hall aka Razor Ramon. He's on life support after suffering 3 heart attacks after hip surgery. 
Edited 9 hours ago by Spike
This shows you how long I've been out of it! I remember Scott Hall from WAY back but didin't know he and Razor Ramone were one and the same!!  

Like Rosco told Boss, " Boss, I'll never say never again...never!"

It won't do that down here, this late in the year!  

I hope you had a good birthday Jeb!
 

I hope you had a good birthday Jeb!
 

Unfortunately it looks like the years of alcohol and drug abuse finally caught up to wrestler Scott Hall aka Razor Ramon. He's on life support after suffering 3 heart attacks after hip surgery. 
Edited 9 hours ago by Spike
This shows you how long I've been out of it! I remember Scott Hall from WAY back but didin't know he and Razor Ramone were one and the same!!  

oh Roger....! Just when you THINK you know somebody....!!  
 

oh Roger....! Just when you THINK you know somebody....!!  
 

I am definitely not a spontaneous person but I stepped out of character and cancelled the order for my dirt bike that is taking forever to get here and bought a bike they had in stock. It is my first new bike and my first sport bike, a 2022 Ninja 400. Not exactly a redneck bike but I'll probably trade it in next year for a dirt bike. I just want to experience one for awhile. It wasn't any more expensive than the dirt bike I have been waiting for.

You folks will probably laugh at this, but just to keep my astronomy skills sharp, every Jan 1, I start going through my annual checklist that includes every constellation and major Solar System object....
And no, I'm not making this up....
Tonight I saw Uranus with binoculars. 
 

Can Cooter come by and fix up my old Trans Am? LOL.

This is exactly why every town needs a Cooter. If you roll your car over several times and then it falls down a ravine into a river and floats to the next county and catches on fire while going down a waterfall then gets stolen by a bank robber then crunched in the crusher after being confiscated by the police....it's no problem....Cooter will go to the crusher, pick it up and it will be as good as new later that day and all he'll ask for is donuts and beer. 

I feel you Spike! I've had similar troubles myself! 

I did that once. Oil went everywhere under the hood!

Hi Burl. Good to hear from you. The only Dukes events I have ever been to were through Northeast Ohio Dukes so I don't know how crowded the other ones are. I would guess pretty crowded. 

Fixed it for you. 

Sorry about the font. I can’t log into the forum on any computer and can’t type well on my phone. So I typed it out and emailed it to myself and then cut and pasted on the phone. I guess the font got messed up. 
 
If you highlight the text it becomes readable. 
 
 
 

I'm hoping to take my family to Cooter's place soon.  I saw that Catherine Bach is going to be in Luray on May 14/15.  There is also a car show that weekend.  I'd love to meet both Cooter and Daisy on the same trip, but I'm a little concerned about the crowds.  Have any of you been to one of these events, and if so, how were the crowds.  If it's so busy that you can't get through the line to meet Daisy or Cooter, then maybe it would be better to go on a "non special" weekend and just meet Cooter in a more relaxed atmosphere.  What do you guys think?     Option 2 is to go to both Pigeon Forge and Luray on one of the weeks that Cletus is in Pigeon Forge.  I'm in central Kansas, so Pigeon Forge is almost on the way to Luray.   Other things I plan to do are Monticello, Mt Airy, and the graveyard of NA$CAR (North Wilkesboro).  Any other can't miss stops along the route?  Thanks in advance.

It's actually Moat, Mote is a tiny particle
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I got a lot of yard work done today and split some firewood and took a dirt bike ride....and surprised my wife by doing laundry!