Scooting Off
Saying goodbye to my beloved scooter and the Aprilia Futura from our early dates, both little used up here.
Tag: Vehicles
There Be Race Cars, Part Eight: Kitty
There be race cars, part eight: Kitty, a diesel-powered BMW.
New Trailer
A big enclosed trailer for the race team, fitted out by Agent Smith.
There Be Race Cars, Part Five: Pegamoose (BDR6)
There be race cars, part five: Pegamoose, the Bus’s replacement.
There be Race Cars, Part Four: The Bus (BDR4)
There be race cars, part four: the Bus, from its debut to its end at Sonoma.
There be Race Cars, Part Two: The 002
There be race cars, part two: the BMW 002, which became two cars made into one.
Midge V2.0
Midge was stolen, so we flew to Colorado to buy and drive home Midge 2.0.
Mini Addendum
The Mini finds a new home, after a saga and a half.
The Mini
A semi-sonnet to the neglected Mini, looking for a good home.
Midge Was Stolen
Midge, our Earthroamer, was stolen from our mechanic’s yard in Livermore.
Sunday Panorama
A Sunday panorama inside the trailer.
Midge and the SCU Lightning Complex
Midge, our 2007 Earthroamer, comes in handy as the SCU Lightning Complex fires burn around us.
No more static
Agent Smith replaces the dying amplifier in the M Coupe, and no more static.
The Small Idiocies
The road committee, and why no one can help us remove a burned-out car that’s sat across from our south border for 15 years.
Everyone needs a green Ferrari
A short video of Dino, our little green Ferrari tractor. And yep, he’s a diesel.
Tree Removal
Agent Smith and his dad take down a dying gum tree, and the stump ends up in the Pit of Sarlacc.
Meet Chompy Jack and Dumpy McDumpface
Meet Chompy Jack, our new trencher, and Dumpy McDumpface, a Yanmar C-20R from Craigslist.
Now Open: Purgatory Heavy Equipment School
Visitors get to try out the excavator and other toys at the Purgatory Heavy Equipment School.
Why excavator?
Why excavator? Because dig.
Houseaversary (Bonus Post)
Two years since we first found this house, spent learning to drive Giggles the skid steer and moving spoils.
Learning to work with Tony
Agent Smith gets the hang of Tony, our new tractor for the steep hillsides.
Tony Arrived This Week
Tony, our new 1990 Hesston 80-75 tractor, arrives, and day one includes a trip to the vet for Happy. He’s fine.
The Auto Works
The race cars that get worked on in the garage, and why the garage mattered more than the house.
A peek inside
A peek inside our garage, and the discovery that its frame was originally a quarter of a school building.
A man’s got to know his trucks’ limitations.
The mini truck digs itself in on the hill while hauling trash, and getting it back out takes a come-along, a bigger truck and a race against the fading light.
Vehicles and such
Our modified Mini Clubman sold, leaving us with “just” five cars, plus a little red tractor and a golf cart that need some love.
We has a truck!
We bought a grey Ford F150 4×4 out in Fairfax. Now it just needs a name, and not “Rosie.”