{"id":55920,"date":"2021-08-20T05:32:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T12:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=55920"},"modified":"2021-08-21T06:20:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T13:20:06","slug":"hi-ho-hi-ho-its-off-to-work-she-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=55920","title":{"rendered":"Hi Ho Hi Ho It’s Off To Work She Goes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr.’s are saying not to worry about the bird flu because it’s tweetable.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It’s been a week since Mary came down with the crud, and today, she went in for the afternoon.\u00a0 While she was not 100%, she thought it good to make an appearance.<\/p>\n

At 7:00 AM, we did our coffee thing on the patio.\u00a0 School is now in session, but the rugrats do not get there until about 8:00 AM, so it is quiet.<\/p>\n

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Calm and quiet over Casa Valencia’s southern forty acres!<\/p><\/div>\n

While Mary rested to get ready to go to work, I pulled out some old veggies and planted new eggplants, beans, lettuce, and other goodies.\u00a0 I even sat on the southern patio at the other end of the pool and cleaned up the flowering plants, plus ran a drip line into the “hidden ferns.”<\/p>\n

We enjoyed some Special K cereal, and then she was off in a cloud of dust and a hearty “Hi-Yo Silver.”\u00a0 Precious rumbled off with the tailpipes shooting back flames, reminding me of the car in “Grease.”<\/p>\n

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Do You Remember? Perhaps the most threatening car ever committed to film, \u2018Hell\u2019s Chariot\u2019 was the property of Scorpions leader Dennis \u201cCraterface\u201d Stewart \u2013 until Danny beat him at Thunder Road and won the papers to the 1949 Mercury Series 9CM. With original Firestone tires, Touch-O-Matic overdrive, and that glossy paint job, the car is literally flames. And that\u2019s to say nothing of the razor-sharp hub-cap spears that did so much damage to White Lightning.<\/p>\n

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We need to put flames on Precious!<\/p><\/div>\n

Fun fact: this was one of two versions of Hell\u2019s Chariot that Eddie Paul created for Grease. The other \u201949 Mercury used for stunts was originally a hardtop and underwent Paul’s huge customization job. After Grease, Hell\u2019s Chariot appeared in the films Used Cars in 1980 and Streets of Fire in 1984.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I jumped in The Silver Fox and went to BB&B to get some sheets for Robin’s Nest.\u00a0 While we know we have sheets somewhere, they are in a box, likely in the She Shed.\u00a0 While I was there, I got some other goodies, including an electric egg-bite machine, pictures to follow.\u00a0 I could not resist!\u00a0 I was informed later that BB&B is off-limits to me unless accompanied by an adult!<\/p>\n