Axle Shaft U-Joint….Jeep Cherokee

Posted on by April 28, 2019

Clicking…popping….weird and bad noises.

That’s not a good thing when the rest of the Jeep is getting closer to being “dialed in”.

When you can crawl under the beast and diagnose the problem without a….problem….it makes things easier to know how and what to fix.

I have a bad u-joint.

So….I’ll pull the hub….pull the axle….and replace the joint.

Simple.

I’ve done it before, too, so it shouldn’t be a bad job.

Or….at least, it should be a familiarly bad job.

Sometimes when you know what’s coming, the worst job is bearable.

This one should be a piece of cake.

A big ‘ol greasy piece of cake.

I Put My Jeep In Four Wheel Drive….

Posted on by April 27, 2019

“Fail” is so relative a term.

I put my Jeep in 4-Wheel Drive the other day to get out of a slippery place in the gravel.

MACHO!!

It worked….and I got off the little hill.

I don’t take chances on the mail route.

It’s bad enough when things go according to plan….day after day after day after day after….

Boring is encouraging when excitement adds to my stress.

I am constantly encouraged delivering the mail.

What I mean is….THIS FREAKING REPETITION GETS BORING!!!

But….I’m thankful for boring.

Gratitude.

That’s what it’s all about.

These guys all got stuck because they sought out a situation where they might get stuck.

Just let me get home at the end of the day.

Let me see the end of the endless piles of paper and cardboard.

Let me live.

And….thankyou for FOUR WHEEL DRIVE.

It’s kind of cool.

And….check out another great detail from the video….all these Jeeps seem to be RIGHT HAND DRIVE!!

DO I NEED TO GO TO AUSTRALIA TO GET SOMETHING NEW TO DRIVE ON THE MAIL ROUTE?!!

DO I NEED TO THROW ANOTHER SHRIMP ON THE BARBIE (I know that may not be how to spell it….)?!!

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The Bee

Posted on by April 25, 2019

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There was a bee in my mail Jeep the other day.

That happens a lot.

I’m a bee magnet.

I’m a sitting duck.

But….on the other hand, it’s a beautiful sign of the warmth that Spring brings when the bees are back.

It is….a good thing.

The bee flew around the back of the Jeep….desperate to get out….and, finally, after lowering all the windows and pushing it towards freedom with some of the mail I was preparing to deliver, I got it out of the Jeep and back in the breeze.

Before it flew out, I thought, “this bee is going to sting me because it can’t figure out how to get free….”

How to get free.

Of course, because I have too much time on my hands while I’M DOING MY JOB….I thought that we all tend to want to bite or sting when we panic over how we’re going to escape.

The most agitated and disappointed people are sometimes the angriest over what they perceive as an inability to get “free”.

We’re all living lives of “quiet desperation”, though….right?

We need to get free of the things that agitate us.

We need to get free so that we don’t bite or sting the innocent people around us.

We need to know that we aren’t “trapped”.

It was just a bee.

A bee who wanted desperately to be free.

I need to figure out how to encourage the people around me to realize that they aren’t trapped.

I need to live a life that exhibits the best example of “being free”.

I need to keep my mind limber and expansive and…..free.

I need to set the bees free.

Free?

Sounds good to me.

A Stop at Willoughby…..Twilight Zone

Posted on by April 24, 2019

Here’s the Twilight Zone episode that John Batdorf was singing about in yesterday’s blog post.

Willoughby sounded pretty great until (SPOILER!! SPOILER!!) I realized you had to die to get there.

That sucks….sort of.

I’m all about escaping crappy bosses and bad situations….but….I don’t want to have to die to get to “Willoughby”.

Die so you can be greeted by some barefoot fisher-boys?

Nah.

I’ll take the POST OFFICE for now, thankyou very much.

You would think that in the Twilight Zone you could just take some mushroom tea or something and end up in Willoughby.

Die?

Nah.

Push….Push….Push…”Willoughby” by John Batdorf

Posted on by April 23, 2019

I’ve loved the group Batdorf and Rodney for years….and here’s a recent one from John Batdorf.

Bloom where you’re planted…..and…get back to the place you love.

A View to Carry Me

Posted on by April 18, 2019

I’ve been places and seen things that carry me in my memory.

That’s a treasure….to have good and transformative recollections.

Those are the riches that no banker can repossess.

Here’s a family traveling in Alaska.

Nice.

We’ve had a lot of great experiences as a family…..but some of the best have been traveling.

How do you get “away”….if you don’t just go?

Just go….right?

The video is by Lifestyle Overland….link to their YouTube channel HERE.