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Hey, that's not a mythtake!
Nov. 17th, 2011 08:50 pmI love Mythbusters. Watch it regularly. Never thought I would see a segment that made me go all "dude! totally not a myth, I've seen it myself!" Tonight they were checking out a Youtube video showing someone loading a big excavator-backhoe onto a truck without a ramp, by using the excavator's bucket as a balance arm.(see it here) The Mythbusters were all agog about it and blown away when Adam was able to do it..but I saw a guy do this not once, but four times! Martin, the fellow who came to the farm to bury our mare Phaedra, and again when Kismet died, has a big excavator, and he unloaded and loaded it onto his truck just the way the Mythbusters did. It was totally cool to see; takes a real master of his machinery to do something like this.
In other news, I spent two hours in line to get my snow tires put on today. I was determined not to repeat my mistake of last year, when I waited until the first snowfall. I had to wait for over 6 hours and then paid almost twice what my regular tire shop charges. So this morning I got going and was at OK Tires before noon. There was already a 6 car lineup, going out onto the street; they were pretty organized and had us all listed in order. A couple of people tried to jump the queue, but were quickly put in their place...at the back of the line. heh. I took a book to read, got a coffee from Terra Breads, and just enjoyed the down time. So now I'm set, which is good because it's cold enough tonight that the rain might just turn to snow before morning.
I did laundry, made potato and leek soup, and Mac and Cheese for tomorrow. We'll be happy to have something hot and nourishing after a day of cleaning stalls, I'm sure. Right now I'm happy to be home, snug and warm and about to watch Bones on TV.
In other news, I spent two hours in line to get my snow tires put on today. I was determined not to repeat my mistake of last year, when I waited until the first snowfall. I had to wait for over 6 hours and then paid almost twice what my regular tire shop charges. So this morning I got going and was at OK Tires before noon. There was already a 6 car lineup, going out onto the street; they were pretty organized and had us all listed in order. A couple of people tried to jump the queue, but were quickly put in their place...at the back of the line. heh. I took a book to read, got a coffee from Terra Breads, and just enjoyed the down time. So now I'm set, which is good because it's cold enough tonight that the rain might just turn to snow before morning.
I did laundry, made potato and leek soup, and Mac and Cheese for tomorrow. We'll be happy to have something hot and nourishing after a day of cleaning stalls, I'm sure. Right now I'm happy to be home, snug and warm and about to watch Bones on TV.
