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Date:         Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:51:00 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: The Squirrels are back!
Comments: To: Michael Elliott <j.michael.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <448B8ED0.3050601@gmail.com>
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Mr. Squirrel should do quite well at the local community college.

Jim

On Jun 10, 2006, at 10:32 PM, Michael Elliott wrote:

> Hi all! Mrs Squirrel and I don't actually hibernate during winter, > it not being nearly cold enough in SoCal to require hibernation, > but Mellow Yellow, the electrical banana, goes under a cover and > dozes with trickle chargers keeping its batteries alive while our > attention switches to other things. In fall and spring, I are a > stoodent at the local community college, working on earning that AA > degree that I coulda earned when I was a teenager, but was not then > interested in having. Mrs Squirrel has started a new enterprise > this year which has taken most of her attention while I have been > cracking books. Winter, of course, is the time for seemingly > endless social affairs revolving around holidays of both the > Christian and Jewish flavor. Mrs Squirrel has more uncles and aunts > and sisters and nieces and nephews and kids and grandkids than > anyone I have ever met, and they all feel compelled to get together > at least once a month to meld into a multi-celled life-form around > a dinner table. > > To each season its own, and summer is the season of camping. And > for starting, and hopefully completing, those pesky Westy- > improvement tasks that were left unfinished the previous season. > Among them: install a Norcold reefer (got the solar in last season > to keep the reefer running); replacement of the poptop canvas; > replacement of the windows' front scrapers, seals and -- while I'm > at it -- some sound-deadening material on those hollow oil-drums > that pass for doors; and installation of that darn cruise control. > It mocks me, O yes it does. Every time I pull its various parts > from the box and hold them every which way, to try to solve the > mystery of how to hook it up, I know it is watching me with a mad > glint in its eye, enjoying my frustration, knowing that I know that > somewhere, in some auto graveyard in someplace hellish like Otay > Mesa, there is a bit a stamped metal that would slip easily over > the shaft of the throttle body and receive -- gently but perfectly > -- the end of the servo chain. I gnash my teeth and rend my garment > (it's an old t-shirt that I am rendering into a shop rag, anyway) > and vow that I will not let this cheesy third-market cruise control > get the best of me. But while it watches, it whispers in a sly > voice, don't worry, no one else has actually gotten theirs to work > either: they lie, they fake photos. > > I am beginning to think that the true mark of the man is not > whether he single-handedly installed a Subaru engine into their > Vanagon, but whether he got this GOSH DARNED CRUISE CONTROL HOOKED UP! > > But I ramble . . . . > > Mike Rocket J Squirrel Elliott > > bueses wrote: >> on 6/9/06 2:46 PM, Roger Sisler at rogersisler2000@YAHOO.COM wrote: >> >> >>> Hello Rocket. Have a nice hibernation this winter? Good to see >>> you back >>> online.:>) >>> >> >> I want to know how he turns the list off for the winter? How does >> he waste >> his time when not messing w/ the yellow banana? Eating the stored >> up nuts w/ >> Mrs. Squirrel? >> >> Grin, >> >> Tom-I also missed & welcome back Mr. Squirrel! >> >> p.s.- TGIF >> >> > > -- > Mike Elliott


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