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Monday, December 3, 2012 - San Antonio Mechanic Shop, San Antonio NM

Eared Grebe, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, November 30, 2012
Eared Grebe, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, November 30, 2012

Time for a tuneup

About the only thing I've done to this poor old Lazy Daze tuneup wise is change the spark plugs years ago. Salvador is going to change the plugs, install new plug wires, distributer cap and rotor. And change the transmission fluid, also long overdue. Things are so hard to reach on this big V8 in a van chassis this is a two day job so I get the dubious distinction of sleeping here again with my head 10 feet from busy US 380.

Nightcamp

Site 10 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM

Sell Them Down the River

Brown had in his camp a fine-looking Negro, who said he had run away from his master in Platte County, Missouri, because the man was going to sell him and his wife to a dealer who would take them south to the Louisiana sugar plantations. The average Missouri Negro looked upon being sold south as one or two degrees worse than being sent straight to hell. This viewpoint was fostered by the masters, who always threatened, when things went wrong, to sell them down the river. ...

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