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Recent content by Jimway

  1. Jimway

    First Time

    The highway up to the pass summit is a two lane blacktop. There's some up grade and down grade and gentle turns to the left and right. As I crested the summit I rolled off on the throttle and came up out of the tucked position to glance backward. A nearly fatal move as it turned out for the wind...
  2. Jimway

    First Time

    What I had to do that day was run up to a little mountain town in the next county which had a small landing strip. I loaded up my saddlebags and canvas backpack with the latest shipment and then would hi tail it back to Uncle Si's place. It was a very quiet landing strip even though it was only...
  3. Jimway

    First Time

    Funny you should mention that song because part of the 'First time' involved what we used to call Giggle Smoke or Goof Butts or even Muggle. Later on it became Grass or Weed or lots of other names. It didn't get outlawed till the late thirties if I remember correctly. I never had much use for it...
  4. Jimway

    First Time

    Of all of the firsts in a persons life, one that usually takes place sometime in one's teenage years stands out above all of the rest. It is a first that changes your life forever and introduces you to an experience more awesome and grand and a bit scarier too than what you might have ever...
  5. Jimway

    First Time

    Gonna throw this one out there in memory of Ranger Dave. Boating season is nearly upon us again. In fact, I've gotten into a little project that I took down to the boat ramp to see if it would repel water after a whole lot of modification. Having learned from getting water above the hull and not...
  6. Jimway

    Second test drive!!! OUCH!!!

    Have you been able to get the water from on top of the lower unit yet?
  7. Jimway

    Second test drive!!! OUCH!!!

    Greetings. Task your fishing buddy with making a few passes where the incident took place with his latest fishfinder or side scan. The new one's are awesome on the images of the bottom. The lower unit should stand out from the background. We recovered an approximately 3x4 flat engine hatch from...
  8. Jimway

    New member checking in !

    Oooo, I like that.
  9. Jimway

    Legend of Wilbertson Hill

    Greetings my friend. Yes, I am still affected or is it effected or maybe infected with work which is a four letter word. You are on the list for an autographed edition of the first in a series collection of short stories. Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that the truck is all back amongst the...
  10. Jimway

    Legend of Wilbertson Hill

    The spare tire under the trailer was held up by a cradle. As I was ducking down as far as possible, I could see all kinds of daylight on the other side of the underneath of that trailer. There was a big flash and I felt like I had been hit by a wild baseball pitch. I don't remember pulling back...
  11. Jimway

    Legend of Wilbertson Hill

    I flick the cigarette off to my left at Tommy Lee and smile. I advance the throttle half way. Tommy Lee blips his throttle repeatedly. Rrriiinnggg ding ding goes the Yamaha. I study FMJ with steely eyes, hand at the ready on the lever. FMJ drops her arms. Tommy Lee enjoys a sleight lead as he...
  12. Jimway

    Legend of Wilbertson Hill

    So I'm there at the top of Wilbertson Hill first thing in the morning. I pick up FMJ on the way. A few of the neighborhood kids are showing up. I do my best to look intimidating in my aviator glasses with a pack of Lucky Strikes rolled up in my left 'T' shirt short sleeve. Wibertson Hill roadway...
  13. Jimway

    Legend of Wilbertson Hill

    So as the first week of jail er ah school drew to a close, Friday came along. One of the wonderful things about Friday morning was a little thing known as Show and Tell. I figured that I would drop a bomb on everyone and show up in the Cherry Bomb. Little did I know that the new kid in class...
  14. Jimway

    Legend of Wilbertson Hill

    I tell D that "Me throat is dry as toast". The visitors look on somewhat incredulously but silently as she drags a chair over to the liquor cabinet and quick as a wink mixes up a little snort just for me. I gently rub across the gash across the top of the machine. You have to go back a to just...
  15. Jimway

    Legend of Wilbertson Hill

    If you Google the 'real life monopoly car' at the Wheels Through Time museum, you can get an idea of what the car looks like. She sits pretty low to the ground. She was hand built by some young fiend with his own three hands. The motive power came from a hay swather (Google a Hesston 110 hay...
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