what a shit day

found out about this

http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20111130/BUSINESS01/111139980

Roseland Plantation B&B and Wedding Chapel is their Facebook page. let them know what you think

i think id come totaly unhinged in this situation. what a smug asshole.

i found that only after seeing that my friends shop and life is literally in ashes now.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=14029

im trying to see if i cant auction a painting or tattoo off and send the money to him, this shits brutal

in less depressing news i started drawing a pretty rad panther that ill post when i start the tattoo, as well as a few garden gnomes riding snails with crazy stuff going on..



a little tease of a progress/process shot

in better news sarah finished some cute socks, go check it out over there--->

im sorry.....

absolutely nothing worth even sorta mentioning happened today.

I went to work and didnt realy do anything.

I came home and watched some tv.

The end.

lame right?

almost december lol

yikes!

kinda saving up rear axle photos but check this out!



no wonder it wouldnt turn! haha. the old center section out of the rear end we are rebuilding for the ford haha.



and conor is in the christmas spirit this afternoon :)

not alot going on today other then tearing the rear apart the rest of the way to just a bare housing and measuring for seals/bearings and the like. should go together pretty quick after everthing gets cleaned up hopefully.

bling bling

alright got it all buttoned up this afternoon, just needs the glove box half of the latch and new gauges to fill the holes and its good to go :)



its incredibly hard to get a good photo of :\



but im trying



love how the old square gauges look with it all together, this photo is pretty off from the right colors but oh well. i think ill have one of my photo savy friends come over and help me shoot the car when its all "done"



before



after



installed! its just some little teeny tabs that hold it in so im thinking later down the road i may put some magnets to hold it a little firmer and hide my 'real' radio behind it. that way i dont have to put it in the glove box and i have no need to ugly up my dash.

i guess ill keep you posted on that :)

something in the air....

Suit up!

Saturdays bloooooooooooow

Ok well maybe just this one, and totaly literal. Driving to work this morning up the interstate the wind looked just shy of fast enough to rip the art off of the billboards as i drove past them while just barely drafting off a big ford truck.

it was all i could do to keep up speed, that wind was brutal, on the way home when i hit some banked turns i could feel it swipe under my car. it felt like it was going to roll me, tiny honda and all :S

but it didnt, and i made it home safe and sound.



in real life brutalness i blasted Stevens lower stomach this afternoon, and a bit on the ribs



crummy iphone photos as always,but its just in progress so oh well



couple more sittings and a quick bit of touch up and this ridiculous family crest tattoo will be done!



ate some pizza when i made it home and headed downstairs to start in on putting the dash for the tudor back together after finaly getting it back from paint.



fresh paint and chrome ready to go together!



there are less bolts holding the new chrome trim on then the stock ones, but they have these thread in bolts with nuts instead of little tiny screws so im figureing its prolly just as secure if not more.



a pretty quick install i cant believe how much heavier it is with all that chrome on it haha.



along with the ashtrays i have yet to put the hinges and latches on the glove box so i had to hold it up for a look~see




new paint, new chrome and that stainless i polished up a while back looking good!



all set to get the rest of the hardware painted and tweaked so i can bolt the rest together before finding a nice spot to sit it out of the way until its time to pop some new gauges in it, wire it and put it back in the car. hopefully ill have complete pix tomorrow :)

BLACK friday...ish

hit up target last night, line was a good 1/4 mile if not a full half. haha crazy





behind me



around the corner!



finally there! only 30 ppl at a time allowed. went pretty easy actauly, thank god.



not enough sleep and it was time for husker football!



after a good 30+ miles at 10 mph on the interstate all jammed up we seem to have all gotten here at the same time :0



row 1 seat 4! sooooooooo close to the field!



watching the game from this perspective was so different then my typical vantages' very cool.



$3 hot dog was of course had, must be a dollar a bite? was a good game and we headed out.



grabbed some dinner and watched the new muppet movie, very good btw.



some more quick mall action for Sarah to show me what a girl like her mightlike for christmass :)



us being so attractive in a wall sized mirror at the mall haha

yikes....

So i seem to have forgoten to blog the last two days. I'd say I'm sorry but I'm not. I spent blogging time laying around on the couch with Sarah watching movies instead. time well spent? i think so :) Any how, what happened the last few days?



i started this neato dragon tattoo



ate this awesome ham centered dinner with my family minus jon and his kin



Kris came up with the great idea of pumpkin pie+ whipped cream+ puppy chow. yum! only thing it needs is a little chocolate syrup on top :)



then it was onto turkey day with the whole family!

i was to busy stuffing my face and playing with my super cute niece to bother with more photos ha.



then we headed out to show jon the 46, we decided we may as well shoot some guns with matt while we were there :)



Sarah taking care of business with a little 22 pistol



moving onto something a little bigger!



a ruger gp 100 .357, blued of course ;)



knocking them down :)

Im sure sarah will have more/better photos but thats all ive got :) I had a wonderful day and am entirely grateful for everything I've been blessed with.

go check out Sarahs blog for more, im off to help bake before heading to some midnight shopping and the Husker game tomorrow!

maybe ill take some video to pot on tomorrows blog :)





hopefully this wont feel like a license plate i want to tear in half after the game haha, saw this in a parking lot wednesday

process

ran out of things to paint on...







wrapped some muslin around a scrap board id painted some randomness on a year or two ago and tapped it tight.




and painted a skull of course, colors make me think of cory rogers for some reason.



just sorta experimenting and waisting time so i but a thick-ish glaze over it to see what happens.



then i decided i was hungry and would document that process













i know right?



holes at the store being dug



welded up rear being loaded into the pickup solo style



said weld



random hotrod shot because it was a random part of my day

started tearing into the rear to rebuild......well all of it. im curious how much of this i will even keep :S



rusty :S



took some effort to get the drums off...



axles out!



the tube, the axles and possibly the backing plates are all im keeping at this point. may end up with new backing plates to. lol geesh.