vollychief

Not today but last weekend I got my desk mostly complete. After staining and many rounds of poly and sanding, I hit it with finishing polish and a coat of buttery wax. I have to cut out and stain/poly a couple small shelves but it’s now usable.

I enjoy scuba diving, traveling, flying (have an Instrument Rating), photography (mainly of the critters that I see while diving), and most recently, working out. 
 

 
From Indonesia in October 2018
 


 
From Philippines in March 2018. 

For the dremel used the polishing tool that looks like a cone for any scratched parts on the inside of the spokes & a wheel shaped pad to get between the bolt heads. For just polishing in between used a drill & the mothers cone (it is larger)...went in from the backside with it, I also have some Ryobi cloth polishing attachments that work. Mostly used my drill attachments otherwise my polishing pads on my 12mm SK would have been torn up.  Owner is not in a rush so am finishing up the larger tires Sunday morning. Will try to remember to take a picture of all the different attachments. 

Clean Engines are Happy Engines.

It wasn't today, but on January 23rd I did a quick wash on this one in preps for a funeral of a firefighter on a neighboring fire department.  Fortunately it was inside with outside temps in the low 20's.   Two members spent 6 plus hours on it back in July to get it parade ready.  That helped a lot! 

I work for the Farm Service Agency within the USDA and I'm a volunteer fire chief. 

I work for the Farm Service Agency within the USDA and I'm a volunteer fire chief. 

Full time Career FF/Paramedic

Soon as they got the polisher back in stock I will give you a update on how everything goes 

broken heart

How can my feet smell and my nose run...

I freakin' love donuts.  Especially day or two day old glazed. 

I adopted this little guy at 4 weeks old, because his mother passed away.  Chocolate lab mix.
 
 

I worked on getting things together for my fire department's ISO review in a few weeks.  An ISO review determines how effective a fire department is and insurance companies use the information on how much to charge you.  The lower the number, 1 to 10, the more effective the fire department is. 
 
 

That's why we have kids!  To embarrass them!  

Why is it so much fun to embarrass your kids at home knowing they are the ones will be picking out your nursing home? 

Why is it so much fun to embarrass your kids at home knowing they are the ones will be picking out your nursing home? 

Why is it so much fun to embarrass your kids at home knowing they are the ones will be picking out your nursing home? 

Went to a cars and coffee and saw this:
 

I hate you.  

She was ….. !!

I don't want to speak for Jimmy, but I'm willing to bet it was something like .

This poor little Lotus needed some serious help ! I was at a car show and I met this nice lady that was blown away how beautiful my paint was on my Mustang I brought to the show. She asked me "how did you get your paint so perfect like that"? After a short description on that matter she brought to her car and said she had a detailer buff it out for her but it still has some scratches in it. YIKES I said, a detailer did that to your paint !? She said a friend of hers did it, I said he should no longer be your friend. !! Most of the car has been wrapped with Expel, just to make it that much harder on me. So after many hours on the Lotus, needless to say it is now the beautiful Green color she should have had in the first place. Although she does track the car at events, it will hold up pretty well. 2 step paint correction with Adams polishes, Liquid paint sealant, B Glaze, Americana, Deep Wheel Cleaner, VRT.  

Thanks for all of the help and suggestions!  I washed with Technu when I got home.  So far, so good. 

I vacuumed my dog's hair out of my Dad's truck.  Love my dog, love my Dad's truck, don't love my dog's hair in my Dad's truck.