Glad the truck is back in shape & running! That is good gas mileage!Most of my Halloween stuff is old, well about 40 yrs old. But I do have one of those spin around things out of tin with wooden handle, about 4 in. wide, handle on top. Can't even remember what it does. Think it just makes noise! I'm so tired. Made 4 pumpkin pies,2 apple & 1 pecan pie today. DD will be coming for her birthday tomorrow!!She never wants cake for her birthday always pumpkin pies. Of course my folks get some & me too. I freeze mine, just slice it & freeze. Have a fun Halloween tomorrow!! Jan

Dude, great posting. We have mucho rocks in our shade garden as well. Now, however, I must suggest that you don't need to haul 400 #'ers all the way back from CT to MI! Wait, let's trade! I'm in NW MI and have that size and MUCH BIGGER, willing to trade for rare and unusual Hosta. I might even be persuaded to help with the load. I have an electric gearmotor device that attaches into the trailer receptacle on the back of my pickup truck. The load plate lowers right to the ground, roll, drag, or comealong the boulder on, then it swivels it right up to the back of the bed of the truck to be pushed, drug, or otherwise persuaded in so the door can be closed. This last step is needed as my driveway is very steep, so can't have boulders rolling out the back and on down the driveway. Wouldn't want to hurt the sugarbush down there at the end. Seriously, CT is a long way to haul boulders from. We have plenty right here in MI if ya know where to go, and I have them right here on the property. Some of my neighbors actually 'mine' them for sale!

Pretty simple reason actually. People waste thousands of dollars on silver bullet parts swaps all of the time, and then when they are unsuccessful they show up at a shop and now they don't have any more money to spend. In fact they often times act as if the effort required to test correctly is some kind of a scam because someone told them something like "all they needed to do was spray a little penetrating oil somewhere". Meanwhile these same people who cut down on our routines have no idea that there is a real way to test and prove what is wrong, and it doesn't even take very long to do it. I don't suppose you have ever been in the position where you spent several hours figuring out a complicated diagnostic situation, only to have the customer then come into the business, after you have proven what the vehicle needs, and be met with an angry and distrusting attitude. I can't tell you how many times someone else has arm chaired a diagnosis, or else under cut the repair pricing once the diagnosis is made when they have not made the investment up front for the education and equipment that was required to identify the root problem. Many times in these cases a customer will treat us like we did something wrong, because they have been misinformed by a third party for whatever reason. BTW, I am relaxed, and I know you really didn't write that to be confrontational. Just remember this, every time something like that happens in the business, and not on some web forum, it costs a small business real money that can never be replaced. In the end it impacts the employees of the business in both continuing education as well as tooling and equipment that they need in order to stay up to date with the technology that is already on the streets today. Some day, and in many ways that day is already here, cars will routinely be presented at the shops with problems that the shop and its techs are not trained and equipped to solve. BTW, its the same symptom, not the same problem unless she somehow got your old door ajar switches into her truck. VBG.....

I remember reading that...but it's still just as funny.... I am completely surprised that I didn't find a post from me on there...My DH has done a few things during our 42 years that I tell on him every now and then. patti