My latest Adventure, update 7/11/21

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and just because we need some 9mo old almost 10lbs of cuteness again.



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and here this KITTEN is with our full size domestic that is 13 years old and like 12 lbs. ( yep she is fat. ) and he is actually taller than her now alredy, and he can reach the whole of is front paw onto the counter buy standing from the floor.




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so a family friend that is like a brother stopped on his way from washington state to maine and back. had a nice new truck that he was driving. ( had like 500 miles when he left home)


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while here he ended up with a new toy that we got to play with a bit. we ended up greasing, and snugging up bearing on the trailer this rifle is on while he was here so it would make it home safely.





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also in preperation to the airguns of my sister in law going back to her i grabbed this little guy, and although fun is not quite what we where looking for, so i will be on the hunt for something a little different, although this one isnt going anywhere.



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she had the hanger break on the denali about an hour from home. it either finished breaking the muffler, or just allowed it to fall , but the pipe was dragging.



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our god daughter was following her at the time, and they had jb weld, and a bikini top between them, so seeing it was just the hanger she took the bikini string and tied the hanger to the frame several times and drove it home!


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ended up the entire inlet of the muffler was broken out.





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and i know it isnt pretty, but it should last as long as the rest of the pipe around it and i will have it all replaced later. but it cost me very little, i get to tow a trailer back for the guy, the shop i had put it on originally wanted over 200 to replace the muffler, which is more than they charged to replace the muffler and delete the "y" after the muffler in the first place!.



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so on the astra, it had two 100% brand new tires on one side, that i put on the front when we got it. the other two ended up having more tread than i remembered, but where getting some dry rot, i will keep the better one as a full size spare just in case, but had another pair put on the front.




this tire swapping was going to happen either way, just so happed that it reminded my why the night before i look it over to get done.



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the old



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the new ones that where on the car and the ones i just put on have very similar tread patterns i reilized after the fact, the new ones have a little more cuts in the main blocks witch should help with snow/ wet traction a little.



old on left, new on right.


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new on left, old on right


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and something i didnt expect about a mile from home, my first 2dr astra sighting!! wife talked with someone that lives there and it is apparent they are not car people and didnt have a clue as to what they had.


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also finally got the car out of the garage and in the barn so we can park what we drive in the garage and not have to brush snow as much.


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and because he is so huge and cute!!!





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THOSE EYES!



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well lets just see how stupid i have been the last few days. i have ordered many things of the want nature more than the need, and it has been so long that i dont even feel sorry about it, the tv above was just part of the start. and just to punish myself i am gonna list it all out! lol prices after tax, warrantee, shipping ect as to what i paid to have it in my hands.

we dont have cable/sat and we havent had anything great for phones (usually 200-250 specials like our current moto g6 ) so we use our phones alot, and watch dvd/blu ray ect. so decided to get stuff that was a little higher than low end and actually enjoy what we get.



started with the tv above.

LG c1 55 OLED 1,299.99 (1,680)
Motorola One 5g ace x2 299.99 (875)
phone cases/screen protectors ( 30)

today i added a bunch more

lg 4k player 180
4k cables 30
a few 4k movies 40 (275)

Klipsch R-12sw sub 190
magnetic charge cables for the new phones 6pc x2 50
wall mount for new tv 50
solar battery charger/maintainer 25 (340)

Marantz 5015 av receiver 1,299 (1,380)

ar 80% receivers x3 (160)

16'' ar build kit 280
10.5 ar build kit 280 (550)


ouch right about 5,300 and i have a few more things i am planning on

need to get the tower speakers worked on, should be about 300.
a couple of sig romeo 5 for the ar builds about 100 ea. so another 200

so should be just shy of 6k! yay for stupid! lol. but so far we are very happy with the new phones, and once fixed with the sound equipment the living room will be bitchin!

only about 1k over what i was figuring as the guns were a splurge, and tax a warranty's added up to more than i expected.
 
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So a few updates. First I added a little something to the Tahoe. They are wired to the stock fog harness, then did the 6on high so they are with the fog switch and automatically with the high beam.



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And parts of the new entertainment started showing.

New player to take advantage of the 4k tv


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The new replacement av unit. Which is same as the old one just updated. 4k more HDMI, Bluetooth ect.


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And the new replacement sub to replace the 150watt 10" that failed.



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Then started in on the towers


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Got them stripped down for repairs


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New titanium diaphragms for the tweeters, to the old


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And the original crossovers



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Got sent out and rebuilt with new capacitors and such



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The size of these horns and tweeters with my Ryobi 18v

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Swapping some new parts



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The refurbished equipment in a freshly rearranged room. The new tv, receiver, new sub, player, and referbed towers


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With all the covers on as it will stay most of the time.




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