I finally did it...................

Yes it is true, I have been shopping Ebay for a number of years, almost as long as Ebay has been around.

Today I finally won on Ebay.......

Got a brand new set of seat covers for the front bucket seats in Her Bronco for $75.52 and am I proud. From the distributors it would be twice that much.

So now I am a happy Ebay customer.
Now you all that are using Ebay all the time, this is nothing, but to me, it is indeed a worthy moment, right along with the first time I paid a bill on-line.

And that's what I did tonight, while I

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FOR UNCLE JOHN-JOHN

Here is a picture for my Uncle John-John down in Sunny Florida way........

just some snow coming down, ground covered with ice and snow, Momma's car covered in snow.....

If only we had a miniature horse sleigh, we could have a sleigh ride tonight. Temp is 18 F so I think I'll just pass on the ride.

Oh well, time to go home and get on craig's list.

Little Princess

ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE OZARKS!!!!!

Well today was another one of those perfect days in the Ozarks. Clear Sky, bright sun, and cold. The thermometer on the back porch read 16 this morning. Little cool but not as bad as has been.

Now that cold is too too much to the Jeep, Sungoddess, the Kid, his sister and the Ole Rag Top, but it wasn't too bad.

So this afternoon in the famous FORD garage, it's a comfortable 50 degrees. Warmer than the last time the Jeep was here, but it is perfect temp inside for when the weather outside is 104 F with humidity of 95%. Not that it ever got above 30 today outside, just remembering last summer.

Of course the Sharks angel had the water to her house freeze this morning. Seems some animal has dug under her back deck and made a nice hole under her skirting exposing the incoming water line. To fix it, had to cut away part of the deck, so that won't get fixed until it warms up to at least 60 outside. I didn't take a picture because the wind was out of the north, and her deck was on the north east side and it was too cold to operate a camera.

But the best news is that the Bronco is getting fixed.

I recently blogged about wiring that is everywhere except where it is supposed to be and how I had to call the Jeep (which involves having two or three of his lites before I can talk to him = so I can understand him) and discuss wiring.

Well as you all know we have two broncos:

this one:



which we are rewiring so it runs correctly and the battery doesn't drain overnight.
as you can see it is a wiring nightmare....



We also have this one which runs to beat the band and the one the Little Princess helped me fix the door on. This is the one I commute to work in everyday... the one we bought for the Barngoddess1, but has been delegated to me due to a 3 speed tranny and plenty of shifting involved. Here I am working on that one:



SO FINALLY IT DAWNS ON ME....MUST BE TOO MANY LITES...OR NOT ENOUGH

Both of the Bronc are the same year - 1966 - both have 302 V8 engines --

BOTH HAVE THE SAME WIRING................

DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So open the hood of the Green Bronc and wire the White bronc the same way..........

Forget the magnefying glass, the tiny wiring diagrams and the color coded charts, just compare Broncs.

Guess that's why I am not a mechanic at Ford...................

So another day ends with me at my favorite auto parts store getting parts for the White Bronc so it can be wired the same as the Green Bronc.....
Rowdy... the parts guy was off today, so I didn't get to spread my cheer with him.

But today..we did

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4 the Bus, NOT the Long Roof Fan

I saw this van the other day on my 60 mile venture that turned into a 120 mile venture.

Thought of the Long Roof and quickly clicked a picture. Now mind you I was at a traffic light and stopped, so it was easy to point and click.

So Long Roof, after I got home I realized it was a Chebby not a Ford,

Found two more on Craig's List Spgfld MO for sale, but alas only Chebbys

So BUS is the Chevy fan, so this is for you................



maybe for BBB too... didn't he used to be a chevy fan, all Luminas?????

no matter that the Long Roof can click pics driving.....
hell I can't even talk on the cell phone and drive.....

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MONDAY WAS BETTER

Yep, after Broke It Day, we had to have a reprieve and we did.

Woke up to 30 degree weather, better than that 50 stuff on Broke It Day...

The great government we have has given me a holiday to relax and enjoy,

The Little Princess has no school today either, so we got to hang out together all day and do quite a bit.......

Got the battery out of the gator and to the garage for charging.

and then after getting the feed bin full of corn, we got to work on the Bronco.

Now the Barngoddess has kind of taken over the white Bronco has hers because it has an automatic tranny. So the Little Princess and I worked on the white Bronc for most of today.



Got the roof firmly attached correctly, got some wiring that was bad pulled, got our fingers smashed by wrenches and socket sets. Worked on the door,



and didn't get like this guy did:


all greasy and dirty,

so we had fun together, got a lot done, and enjoyed the day...

that's why we can really say we

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today

BROKE IT DAY, January 18

So forever and ever it will hence be known that January 18th is now called:

'BROKE IT DAY'

January 18th this year falls on Sunday, and in Florida it was bright and sunny, and in Missouri it was bright and sunny. Only difference was about 25 degrees.

Why you ask, well a long story falls short of really telling the whole story, so indulge with me for alittle while.

1. To start with, I had to move small square bales for the Barngoddess. Now I always use the Big Little Mule in moving those bales, [here is a picture of that mule when it broke down one day];



but today, it was sitting over by the garage, and as I was on my Deere moving those big round bales, I decided to use it to move the little bales.

WRONG MOVE LET ME TELL YOU:

The Deere is supposed to look like this:



But it now looks like this:



No Prob.........

Online to Grandpa's Tractor Parts and 136 dollars later I have a new exhaust manifold heading for the farm via the big brown truck.
See I am starting to talk like a parts guy.............. aghhhhhhhhhh

So after putting the deere to bed in the hay barn, Barngoddess and I went over to a ladies house and proceeded to remove a large chest freezer from her basement. The chest freezer is about the size of one of the ones we had on the original Haven Lee Farm. The only access was the outside steps that were steep and narrow. Now the Little Princess and her Mom had gone over and removed all the frozen, thawed, frozen, and now thawed stuff from the freezer (have to read earlier post - has to due with power outage due to ice storm).

No prob..... Sharks angel calls her friends and they arrive and we just pull that old freezer right out of the basement without a bit of a problem. On the trailer and home.... great..... into the garage and in place... perfect....

The one thing that didn't go wrong today.

So all four of us decide to go pick up a 5 wheel gator that I am going to fix up and sell on Craig's list. Needless to say, we had the stagecoach trailer on the Little big mule, and I decided to use it to bring back the gator. Barngoddess said I needed the big trailer, but I remarked (oh did I ever not live this down) it'll fit, no prob......

So the four of us drove 60 miles, only to find out that the gator did NOT fit between the side rails of the stagecoach trailer.... gator was 6 inches too wide..... a guy thing about six inches.

So back home, dump the stagecoach trailer, load the big trailer, and 60 miles back ....... glad diesel is only 1.99 here.

So load the gator, strap it down


photo by Little Princess

and realize I have no lites on the big trailer... NO LITES as in tail lights or turn signals, NOT THE KIND OF LITES THAT THE JEEP INDULGES IN........

So here it is 4:00 and we got an hour run home, hoping no locals or state boys are around....... made it home before sunset, so we were safe.

So parked in the yard is the Big little mule, with the big trailer and this 5 wheel gator......

Trying to get it started to get it off the trailer,


photo by Little Princess

I run the battery down, so Little Princess drives while I push it off the trailer and into the hay barn.

Battery removal time and we are ready to proceed..... BUT WAIT THERES MORE

My Brothers: The Jeep and The Long Roof Fan along with The Kid (Jeep's son) take their jeeps and Long Roof (now this is down in Florida folks) out to run in the mud and have some fun.....

Well the Jeep goes and gets stuck right off the bat.......



and kills the motor so now he has water in the exhaust......... so much for the CJ2

But wait along with the CJ2 is the CJ5, so what to do, CJ5 pulls out CJ2 RIGHT?????

WRONG:



Here sits the CJ2 in the water, CJ5 blew a clutch, and the whole crowd had to wait until the Long Roof Fan went back to his long roof and parked it so the help crew would know which one of those forest roads they were broke and stuck on.....
At least the Jeep had a Jeep pull the Jeep out of the woods



But it sure has to be humiliating for the CJ5 to get pulled home by a pickemup and it looks like a TOY pickemup at that, and the CJ2 to get pulled by (egawds) a mini van????????



At least the Long Roof didn't have any problems!!! or did you??????????



Head over to the Longroof's blog to read the full story of that Florida caper...

http://oleragtop.blogspot.com/ and to see picks of that clutch that went bye bye..

So THAT IS WHY JANUARY 18th will be Broke It Day.

Now let it be said that:

the BUS didn't break anything on January 18... you can't break anything if you don't leave your house.... just look at Dolly Parton hair all day..........

the BBB didn't break anything either.. he can only break stuff if his wife gives him permission to do so..... so the BBB only broke the tops off of more of them lites while enjoying his pool....... so we are lead to believe..


If all can be fixed, not a problem, that's why we

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YES IT'S COLD!

Yes it is cold here at Haven Lee Farm.

But I guarantee the cold here doesn't feel as cold as the cold felt in Ormond Beach Florida.......

It was 5 above this morning on the back porch.

It is now zero on the back porch.

But that is normal for us.

How cold can cold be in Florida when you are used to 70s.............?????????

Longroof and Jeep and the Kid......... need my carharts now?????????????????

Betcha Longroof does get to the beach on Friday.
Reminds me of the time the Barngoddess and I took the Motor Home on a Florida vacation one January.
Went to Destin Florida and camped on the beach at some State Park.
By golly we had our coffee on the beach, wearing our carhart bibbers and coats, but we had our coffee on the beach.....
record 32 at Destin that year.

Glad we ain't coming down this time...............

Love you all and even when it's cold you can still

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