Commercial Items Identified on my Commute

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I see a lot of interesting commercialitems on truck on I-75. When you make the commute many times you start to see the same items over and over again. Sometimes it is huge equipment tires, sometimes heavy equipment of different types. I see these huge blocks of aluminum going North. I think about what the mill must look like and where it is going. And how much aluminum foil a block like this will make. Using the Tesla Full Self-Driving (supervised) allows me to look for these things on the highway. The FSD also helps me through the crazy stop and goes. Easily over 70MPH and then sudden traffic at dead stops, frequently. I see accidents every trip. It is amazing there aren't more. A side note- aluminum foil has a shiny side and a dull side. The reason why is that the foil is folded as it goes through massive rollers. The shiny side is the side that faces the steel roller. The dull side faces itself - aluminum.

A lot has been going on. The weather has been nice. A couple of big things happened as well.

Douglas and Becky got married. The wedding was nice and it was good to see folks. Everything went pretty well. They planned well and there was a lot of attention to detail.

We ended up putting Rosey down. She was not getting better. In fact, her rear legs were getting worse. She couldn't move her legs at all the last few days. The asprin helped for a while. We took a chaulk gun filled with ground-up horse aspirin and unflavored yogurt or milk and we could get a few asprins into her at a time. She was eating and alert, but she just couldn't stand up, even when we lifted her. Bob and DJ drove their backhoe over to dig the grave. That was big help. RIP Rosey. Bonnie and I both weeped. We are one of the few people who own a llama sling. We have used it on three llamas. Two llamas we lost eventually, one Bonnie saved using the sling and the TLC.

I have my tractor ready for mowing. I like to wait until the first week in June to allow the ground nesting birds a chance to hatch and all that. So I am only a little late. It is good work to do in the evenings after work.

I had a flying lesson or two. I am handling more of the work load and I am getting better at flying. One of tricks seems for landing is to "let the ground come to you. Don't fly the aiplane to the ground." That seems sort of weird but it is very meaningful. The plane goes in for its annual inspection tommorow. I will be removing access panels and cowlings for that Monday evening. I will have pictures.

Today I am making gates for the new pasture. Of course I am getting carried away. I did firewood yesterday. I have a lot more of that to do.

Some old guy (Jack Corson) stopped over and was telling us how his dad milled the lumber for our barn from trees on the farm with a car engine powered portable mill back in the 1930s. He is a big steam power enthusiast out in Indiana these days. He took pictures of the barn and remarked that there are that many left. He left us a video and we gave him some chocolate chip cookies.

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