Jump5fan's Blog

[jump5fan]

well yesterday we went to the doctor down in bryn mawr. after we got home we did some stuff around the house and then had dinner. after dinner we moved the lathe out into the garage so now we can walk though our livingroom which is great. we are going to be getting more fire wood today. well got to go, bye!

[jump5fan]

yesterday was cool. we got more wood and then after we got home our dad and my brother spent some time cutting all of the wood that needed to be cut. i got a haircut so thats cool. we went to the shooting range yesterday too which was a lot of fun. there was another guy there shooting so after a little bit our dad went to talk to him and when he came back he said the guy had a AR-15. the guy was really nice and let my brother and sister and i fire a few shoots with his rifle which was alopt of fun and it was nice of him:). i shot my brother's SKS and got four hits with open sights from 100 yards and i also got two hits from 100 yards with a .22 rifle. well i guess thats all for now, bye!

[jthomas1600]

The coolest gun I've fired is a 10 gauge riot gun--short barrel, pistol grip, five rounds you can fire as fast as you can pump. I would love to fire an AR15.

[jump5fan]

i've seen riot guns before, but not a 10 gauge gun, that is big.

[jump5fan]

boy it warmed up over the last couple days. i think it was in the 80s yesterday. i moved the conversion van up closer to the garage so we can work on it. i removed the alternator and it is seized which i guess is why the engine was sqeeling whenever it wass running. some of the spots on the van where i had repaired rust are rusting again so i am going to have to take care of that at some point. well got to go, see ya'll later!

[jump5fan]

well yesterday was fun. we went to the recycling place and we worked on cleaning the deck for a little while. we had some storms go though the area. i am going to have to start thinking about getting my license soon because my permit exspires soon. i am starting to work on my bike that i am rebuilding. i am stripping the paint from the frame and then i am going to repaint it but i haven't decited on a color yet. i am going to get my skateboard out and try learning some stuff. i can ride around and stuff but that is pretty much it right now. one reason that i sort of lost interest i guess is i'm afraid of falling and getting hurt. i am going to have to work on getting over that though because i know i am going to fall. well got to go, see ya'll later!

[jump5fan]

well they are calling for rain tonight so i am probuly going to cut the grass today. yesterday was cool because our dad was one of the medics on standby for part of the filming of transformers 2. well got to go, but i might post more later, bye!

[jump5fan]

Well not much is going on right now. my brother and I rode our bikes a little bit yesterday and we did some stuff around the house. It rained pretty hard last night which is good because we needed the rain. Well I guess that is it for now, later.

[jthomas1600]

[QUOTE= i am going to get my skateboard out and try learning some stuff. i can ride around and stuff but that is pretty much it right now. one reason that i sort of lost interest i guess is i'm afraid of falling and getting hurt. i am going to have to work on getting over that though because i know i am going to fall. well got to go, see ya'll later![/QUOTE]

You're worried about getting hurt??? I'm 41 years old, man when I fall it hurts, and it hurts alot longer than it used to. I just try to skate with in my limits. Last month when I went back to work both my knees where skined and last summer I sprained my wrist, but I try to be careful. I'm missing one knee pad or I would wear them--guess I better get some knew ones. Any way, good luck with your board.

[jump5fan]

You're worried about getting hurt??? I'm 41 years old, man when I fall it hurts, and it hurts alot longer than it used to. I just try to skate with in my limits. Last month when I went back to work both my knees where skined and last summer I sprained my wrist, but I try to be careful. I'm missing one knee pad or I would wear them--guess I better get some knew ones. Any way, good luck with your board.
Thanks :)

[jump5fan]

well right now i am trying to defragment my computer and it isn't working. i was able to get it working the other day and it ran for i think 35 hours without really getting anywhere so i stopped it and now i can't get it going again :confused: i still have to cut the grass, i didn't yesterday because it was wet. well got to go, see ya'll later.

[jthomas1600]

I mowed my grass yeasterday. I was about 1/2 done when it started pouring, so I put everything away. By the time I got everything put away it stoped raining and 15 minutes later it was dry again, so I got everything back out and finished up.

[jump5fan]

I mowed my grass yeasterday. I was about 1/2 done when it started pouring, so I put everything away. By the time I got everything put away it stoped raining and 15 minutes later it was dry again, so I got everything back out and finished up.

i love this time of year partly because of the weather and stuff.

[jump5fan]

Boy it was hot yesterday, I think we had 90 in the shade. They are calling for it to be jjust as warm today. The pocono 500 is this afternoon so that is cool. I cut the the grass yesterday which wasn't as much fun as I thought it would be. we went to the recycling place yesterday and I drove and my left arm got a little sunburned. My brother and I went riding yesterday evening. I'v been practicing a little bit with my skateboard. I can rotate the board around 90° so that is cool. I can't practice in our driveway because it is a gravel driveway, The only place that I can practice right now is on our deck and the cold-ah-sac. I have two new favorite tv shows, John and Kate plus 8 and Doctor Who.

[jthomas1600]

Ya gota hate the one arm sunburn man! Did you go to the race or just watch it on TV? Dr. Who, personaly I don't care for it too much, but it's another of my wifes favorites. I saw your list on my space though and I too like all those dirty jobs, how stuffs made, myth busters etc. I also like any thing to do with the ocean and maritime.

[jump5fan]

Ya gota hate the one arm sunburn man! Did you go to the race or just watch it on TV? Dr. Who, personaly I don't care for it too much, but it's another of my wifes favorites. I saw your list on my space though and I too like all those dirty jobs, how stuffs made, myth busters etc. I also like any thing to do with the ocean and maritime.

we watch the race on tv but i really want to go to one of the pocono races someday.

[jump5fan]

Well yesterday was just as hot as saterday. I think it got up to 96°F at one point. We got the cover off our pool and the water isn't that bad whach is good. We don't have a pump hooked up yet so we are going to work on that today I think. We have a DE filter that one was looking to get rid of (cause he bought a new one) so we got it. we never used the DE fiter last year because we were about to witeriz the pool in two weeks. I did take it apart though and i clealed it out really good and sewed a couple spots of the filter that were toren. Right now we have the filter in place but we have to pit the DE powder in it. We have a powerful pump that came with the filter but it doesn't run right so we are working on that. Nascar raced the new COT cars at pocono yesterday which was cool. I think thr COTcars might be quiter then the other cars because we can normaly hear the cars from our house buy this time we couldn't. Welli guess that is all for now, catch yall later!

[jump5fan]

ok so here is what is going on. i am sick right now so that isn't fun. we went to look at a 1994 saturn that someone is selling for $1000 but it needs work so we aren't going to be getting it. we had a couple storms come through on saterday and we got a lot of rain. i almost stayed home from church yesterday because i wasn't feeling good but i decided to go anyway because i wanted to go to church. we saw a lot of motorcycles yesterday including a couple choppers which was cool, we also saw a Aston Martin which was awsome:yep:. on the way home we stopped at a couple yardsales, my brother got a paintball mask for me to use when we play airsoft. we also got a flute for i think $15 and it turns out that when new this flute might have cost between $400 and $500 :o. when we got home we cut down two trees that were in the way of a anttena that our dad is working on. we got the pool up and running about a week ago. we had a little trouble with the pump and filter at first but it is working great now. my brother and sister and i are getting into arctry and my brother found a lefthanded bow at a yardsale yesterday a lot like the bow that our dad has, the only differences are that our dad's bow is a little bigger and it is righthanded. well got to go, see ya'll later.

[jump5fan]

yesterday was kind of on the cooler side so we did some stuff outside. we are havinmg trouble with our phone for some reason but we have one phone that is working but we have to find out why the other phones aren't working. i updated the firmware on my camera the other day so that is cool. we are still looking for another car but so far nothing yet. it will be mostly for our dad to use for driving to work and back home but my brother and i will be able to drive it too. i am hoping we will be able to find a car with a maunel transmission for two reasons, the one being they sometimes get better milage and the other reason is i want to learn to drive a stick shift. i am really really hoping that the gas prices come back down soon becasue i still want to get the conversion van back on the road but it doesn't get very good gas milage. well got to go, see y'all later!

[jthomas1600]

Still no car??

[jump5fan]

Still no car??

Not yet, but we are still looking.

[jump5fan]

well i rode some more yesterday which was fun. i'm not sure how far i rode but it was around two hours. i saw a bunch of deer while ride, including two fawns:). i am still riding our dad's mountain bike because I am still working on my mountain bike. we are having trouble with our pool pump again so we need to work on that. the other day my brother and i rode to the top of the dovelipment where we live. we have gone half way up many times before but this was the first time we went all the way to the top. part of the way i had to push my bike up but it was still fun. the view from the top was awsome, the only thing is i didn't have my camera with me. i have to find a way to carry my camera with me when i go riding. i was wearing jeans when i started riding this year but now i am only wearing shorts and none of them have pockets. i am going to buy a bike computer thing sometime soon so i can keep track of how far i ride and stuff. i'm going to look around before i buy one because i want to make sure i buy a half decent computer. the westend carshow is today but i'm not sure if we will be able to go because we have stuff to do around the house and plus they are calling for thunderstorms today. well got to go, see ya'll later.

[dogfood]

dude, your blog is one of the more interesting ones on here.
are you allowed to place a gun on your bike when you go riding?
i have a friend who's son does that, hes also got a spotlight on his bicycle helmet and some sort of battery in his back pack, so he goes hunting on his bike at night.

[jump5fan]

dude, your blog is one of the more interesting ones on here.
are you allowed to place a gun on your bike when you go riding?
i have a friend who's son does that, hes also got a spotlight on his bicycle helmet and some sort of battery in his back pack, so he goes hunting on his bike at night.

i don't need to carry a gun and besides my mom and dad wouldn't let me. i also am not into hunting but i am into guns. i sometimes ride around as it is getting dark. when i do i put a powerful spotlight on the handlebars of my bike. the fun thing is that this spotlight is brighter then some car headlights:clap:.

[jthomas1600]

So I know your a race fan and I don't know if you caught this. There was an indy race yesterday in Iowa and several of the racers donated their winnings to flood victims. Pretty cool.

[dogfood]

So I know your a race fan and I don't know if you caught this. There was an indy race yesterday in Iowa and several of the racers donated their winnings to flood victims. Pretty cool.

yeah i think scott dixon was one of those.
as a fellow kiwi, we are quite proud of him back here in new zealand

[jump5fan]

So I know your a race fan and I don't know if you caught this. There was an indy race yesterday in Iowa and several of the racers donated their winnings to flood victims. Pretty cool.

I didn't know there was a Indy race yesterday, that's cool. I am into Indy racing but i am more into NASCAR right now.

[jump5fan]

well yesterday was kind of slow. my brother and sister and i when bike riding which was fun. while i was riding our dad's bike i noticed the left crank arm was coming loose so i checked it and found that i could pull it right off the bike, luckly it didn't come off while i was pedling real hard. i walked the bike about half way home and then i was able to coast the rest of the way home. i rode a couple other bikes too, including one of the three speed bikes that we have. i had never really ridin a three speed bike before (exsept in our driveway) so that was fun. later on i was about to fix the crank arm on our dad's bike. i was going to go to bed early yesterday but John and Kate Plus 8 was on til 11:00PM, i need to go to bed earlier but all the good TV shoes same to be on between 8:00 and 11:00, i think i just need to work on deciting that i need to get to bed realier and that that is more inportened that TV. Well got to go, see ya'll later!

[jump5fan]

Well yesterday was cool. I did a little driving when we went out to get Chinese food and the latest Paper Shopper. After we came home and ate we did some stuff around the house. In the paper shopper there were two cars for sale so we called about the fist one which was a 1992 dodge shadow for around $1000 but it had already been sold. We called about the second car which is a 1989 Honda accord for $700 and after talking with the guy on the phone we decided to go look at it. It was around 8:00pm or 9:00pm when we left to look at the car and we didn't get back home until almost midnight. we took the car for a test drive and decided to get it. I had seen Honda accords like this one before so I already knew what the car looked like but the car turned out to be in pretty nice shape. the we are buying the car from is the second owner of the car but he and the girl that he bought it from took very good care of the car. The interior is very clean and so is the outside. The only things wrong with the car a cracked driver side mirror, a thermostat that might need to be replaced, air conditioning that doesn't seam to work (might just need to be recharged), and the valve cover gasket needs to be replaced but other than that and a few other small things everything seems to be fine. the car is that is a automatic and I was hoping we would be able to find a car that had a manual transmission but that's ok. I think we are going to be going to pickup the car and do the title transfer and stuff on Saturday. our church is having a VBS meeting this evening and we are going to be going to that. Well got to go, bye!

[jump5fan]

boy i need to work on updating this thing more often. well we took the car to be inspected but it didn't pass because of a couple bulbs being out, some springs need the rear brakes that needed to be replaced and the front ball joints need to be replaced. we replaced everything but the ball joints. we are going to take the car somewhere else to be inspected again because we think the first place might not have been complaty honest. they said that the horn wasn't working but when we left we tried the horn and it worked and our mom remined our dad that we had stopped going to that place because of similer stuff. i was chacking the car last night and the one bulb that we replaced was burned out so i am going to go out and try to find one of the old bulbs that still work and put it back in. our dad and my brother and i drove it a little bit the other day and it is a fun car. my brother and i have been riding a lot lately, the day before yesterday i taped our one GPS recever on our dad's bike which i am using and when i was done riding it said i had rode 16 miles and i rode some more a little later so i think i rode a little more then 17 miles. the nut that holds the left crankarm on our dad's bike keeps coming loose (infact it fell off while i was riding the other day but i found it) because the crankarm is aluminum so i need to ask our dad if he thinks we can fix it and if we can't i am going to but new crankarms. well got to go, see y'all later!

[jump5fan]

well our dad took the honda to work the other day on it overheated on him. i was looking at it the next day and found the fan for the A/C system was damaged. it was bent in such a way that the fan blades were hitting the radietor and the fan itself would not spin. i was working on removing the fan and ended up damaging the radietor and most of the coolent leaked out. we bought a new radietor on ebay yesterday and we are also going to be buying a replacement A/C fan. on the 4th my brother and i were riding around and stopped to watch some people setting off a smoke bomb thing and they invited us back later that evening to watch them set off fireworks which was a lot of fun. well got to go get ready for church, bye!

[jthomas1600]

[QUOTE=Jump5fan;3266476] , the day before yesterday i taped our one GPS recever on our dad's bike QUOTE]

That's cool. I've never heard of any one doing that. Does your GPS reciever also keep track of speeds? 17 miles is a pretty good ride.

[jump5fan]

[QUOTE=Jump5fan;3266476] , the day before yesterday i taped our one GPS recever on our dad's bike QUOTE]

That's cool. I've never heard of any one doing that. Does your GPS reciever also keep track of speeds? 17 miles is a pretty good ride.

the gps that i was using doesn't but the unit that my brother uses does, it is really handy.

[jthomas1600]

[QUOTE=jthomas1600;3268037]

the gps that i was using doesn't but the unit that my brother uses does, it is really handy.

So how fast can you go? Do you have any big hills by your house? I live in S E Texas and it's realy flat. But I used to live on the Oregon coast and I love bombing down hills as fast as I can.

[jump5fan]

[QUOTE=Jump5fan;3268038]

So how fast can you go? Do you have any big hills by your house? I live in S E Texas and it's realy flat. But I used to live on the Oregon coast and I love bombing down hills as fast as I can.

we have some flat areas and some hills (we live at the bottom of a small mauntin). i have hit 37mph on a muatin bike and my brother ahs hit 47 which i think i can beat if i go down the same hill with my road bike.

edit_ those speeds can get a little scary sometimes on a bike.

[jthomas1600]

[QUOTE=jthomas1600;3268039]

we have some flat areas and some hills (we live at the bottom of a small mauntin). i have hit 37mph on a muatin bike and my brother ahs hit 47 which i think i can beat if i go down the same hill with my road bike.

Man at those speeds you need to make sure and keep the wheels on the ground -- a wipe out would be nasty. Crashing at 47 mph would be like jumping out of the car as you're driving down the free way.

[jump5fan]

[QUOTE=Jump5fan;3268040]

Man at those speeds you need to make sure and keep the wheels on the ground -- a wipe out would be nasty. Crashing at 47 mph would be like jumping out of the car as you're driving down the free way.

we are carefull. riding that fast on a bike can get a little hair rising sometimes.

[jump5fan]

i am exicted because we are going to be going to Harry's U Pull It in a little bit. we need a couple parts for the Honda. well got to go get ready, see ya'll!

[jthomas1600]

I thought "harry's u pull????" It took me a minute but I'm guessing it's a junk yard. They are pretty cool. Good luck finding what you need.

[jump5fan]

http://www.wegotused.com/index.htm

yep, pretty cool place.

[jump5fan]

i went riding yesterday evening. i rode for a little more then a hour and a half and went around 17 miles. i have been riding the mountain bike a lot more then my road bike lately, partly because the mountain bike is more forgiving then the road bike. i finished stripping the paint off of my mountian bike frame and i sanded and primed it, now all i have to do is decide what color to paint it. i checked the fedex website and the radeator should be dilivered sometime today. monday is the start of VBS!!!! well got to go but i will post more pics of the honda.

[jump5fan]

i beat my record, rode 22 miles friday in a little more then two hours! VBS starts today and i am finly excited. i wasn't really all that excited up till now for some reason. i am still a little nervus because this is the first day and we have to get everything together and find out what we are doing. we drove the honda to church and stuff yesterday which was cool. one of the coolest things about this car is that the fuel gauge neadle hardly moves at all! i love this car. it is a lot of fun to drive. we are going to have to bleed the brakes sometime soon though. installed the new dadeator on saterday and we changed the transmission fiuld. it still seamto be shifting a little rough or something but other than that it is a nice car, it would also be nice if it had a little more power but it's ok. i will be helping with the outside games during VBS and my brother will be taking pictures. well got to go, later!

[jthomas1600]

Hope VBS is going well. How many kids do you have coming? Our VBS was about a month ago-- I got home right as it was ending.

[jump5fan]

Hope VBS is going well. How many kids do you have coming? Our VBS was about a month ago-- I got home right as it was ending.

VBS is going great! i'm not sure how many kids we have coming but last year we had around 400 kids and we might have that many this year too.

[jump5fan]

boy it was hot the last couple of days. vbs was great! they had 461 or so kids and 200 something people who helped out. around 100 kids ether exspted Christ or redeticated their live which is so cool!1 i took around 1200 pictures. a lot more has been going on too but i am going to have to post more later. bye!

[jthomas1600]

I'm glad to hear VBS was such a success. Does your church have a follow up plan where the parents of the kids that made decisions for Christ will be visited and invited to Church? VBS is always a good oppertunity to get new families to church.

[jump5fan]

I'm glad to hear VBS was such a success. Does your church have a follow up plan where the parents of the kids that made decisions for Christ will be visited and invited to Church? VBS is always a good oppertunity to get new families to church.

you know what, i'm not sure, they might.

[jump5fan]

well yesterday was kind of slow. it rained off and on all day so we stayed inside. we got about a inch and a half in rain. i am learning to play the flute which is fun. i was having a lot of trouble just figuring out how to blow and stuff but then i got it a couple times and in the space of a hour i went from not even being able to blow into the flute right to being able to pick up the flute and blow and i get a sound. i can't play anything yet but i am going to work on it. well got to go, catch y'all later!

[jump5fan]

well yesterday was kind of slow. i worked on my road bike for a little while and then did stuff around the house. i mowed the yard the other day. i downloaded all of the pictures and videos from my camera the other day which took a while. my brother and i are going to be taking our drivers tests near the end of august so that is cool, well i guess the is all for now, bye!

[jump5fan]

yesterday was interesting. my brother and i practised parellel parking for a little bit and after it got dark i got to telescope out so i could try recording the ISS since it was going to be going overhead. i never ended up seeing the station which was a little disapointing but i am going to try again sometime soon. i got my mountian bike back to gether the other day. the chain is really short becasue it was from a different bike. right now it is a single-speed mountain bike that only has front brakesand no reflectors. i rebuilt the rear wheel and i switched the steel rim with a aluminum rim, the problem is that the rear wheel wobbles really bad so i need to fix that. it is a ten-speed bike but i am thinking about trying to add more gears (mainly lower gears). my brother and i watched the movie dragon wars on tv the other night but i only saw a little bit of it but it looked interesting. well got to go, see ya'll later!

[jump5fan]

for some reason it seams to be getting harder to update this this. we watched the opening ceramony for the olimpcs which was one of the coolest things i think i have ever seen. i am excited because this is the first year that they are doing BMX as a olympic sport. i am going to try BMX sometime. i first need to figer out what would be a good bike to buy. i worked on cleaning the conversion van engine yesterday which took longer then i thought it would. well i guess that is all for now.

[jthomas1600]

If you haven't been into BMX before and don't know the riders check out Dave Mira--he's my favorite of all time. He's a great rider, but he is also a clean cut all - American - never in trouble - good role model kind of guy. He does some sick tricks to though. He doesn't appear to be on the team which doesn't surprise me as he has been around for a while--he's probably in his 30s. My oldest boy had a Haro when he was younger--they're a good bike, also Redline, GT,.. just check on line.

[jump5fan]

If you haven't been into BMX before and don't know the riders check out Dave Mira--he's my favorite of all time. He's a great rider, but he is also a clean cut all - American - never in trouble - good role model kind of guy. He does some sick tricks to though. He doesn't appear to be on the team which doesn't surprise me as he has been around for a while--he's probably in his 30s. My oldest boy had a Haro when he was younger--they're a good bike, also Redline, GT,.. just check on line.

i'l check them out, thanks. one guy who i have started watching is bestwick,.

[jump5fan]

boy a lot has been happening lately. the biggest thing is that my brother and i got our drivers license yesterday! about a week ago we went on a tour of a jail in jim thorpe which was cool. a couple days ago the honda started making a lot of noise at lower speeds and we found that the timing belt wasn't tight but i was able to fix it. On monday we went to the west end fair and the demo derby which was fun. I recorded a lot of the demo derby with my camera and I am goi to try to upload them to myspace. they are having a monster truck show on friday but I don't think we will be able to go because our dad has to work that night. Well got to go, bye!

[jump5fan]

well i got my drivers license about a week ago! i have already done some driving by myself on some quite local roads which was fun. tropicle storm hanna is going to be coming by our area tomorrow and it looks like we are going to get between 3 and 7 inches of rain so i spent part ofn the day cleaning out the gutters. i am getting tired of my hair bying short so i am going tpo get it grow long again. i am building another computer and i'm almost done, i am just waiting for a video game card to come and i need to buy memory. i think i am getting sick too which isn't much fun. well i guess that's it for now, bye!

[jthomas1600]

Congrats on the drivers license. Too bad about the rain. It looks like Ike may be headed to my house--t is too early to tell for sure though.

[jump5fan]

Congrats on the drivers license. Too bad about the rain. It looks like Ike may be headed to my house--t is too early to tell for sure though.

thanks. :)

[jump5fan]

i upgraded my computer, i took the hard drive from my computer and put it in a fast computer. i had to buy a graphics card and i still need to buy memory (right now i am using memory from the gaming computer. because of the way our dad is working he won't be able to drive us down to church tomorrow so my brother and sister and i are going to go by ourselves. i am really nervus though for some reason, probably because i'v never gone that far from home by my self for that long before. well got to go, see yall.

[jump5fan]

ok so i decided that i am going to church after all. they are calling for it to be really hot and humid today, like around 95 or 100 down near church. well got to go, see ya'll later.

[jump5fan]

we went to the beach the other day. we left around 6:00am and went to Long Beach Island in NJ and spent the whole day there. i was in the sun for and hour or two before i remembered to put on sunscreen. i put on sunscreen and then forgot to use more though out the day so i spent most of the day in the sun and got sunburned pretty bad. i was wearing a tank top though so my back didn't get burned but my legs, face, and neck did. i was really red yesterday but I'm not so bad today. my legs and neck were the worst and every time i would bump something or rub my legs they would hurt. other then that we had a lot of fun i was hoping to find a shark tooth but never did, when we got home i found out that you normally don't find shark teeth in NJ. the water was so warm, i wish i thought to bring a thermometer. on the way home we saw a new 2009 Dodge Challenger R/T which was so cool! well got to go, see y'all later!

[jump5fan]

well i upgraded to a slightly better computer but that my hard drive started acting up but i was able to get everything off that i needed and i formated the drive. insted of just installing windows xp again i decided to try something different. i installed Fedora 9 which is interesting to say the least. we are starting to work on all of the firewood that we have. my brother and sister and i moved a lot of wood and split and stacked it only to find out we did the wrong pile, so we had to move all that wood back. we are working on the right pile of wood now,. well got to go, see ya''ll later

[dogfood]

so, has all your skin peeled off yet?

[jump5fan]

so, has all your skin peeled off yet?

no not really, it is starting to though.

[jthomas1600]

Last summer we went to the beach and my son put lotion on himself--said he didn't need any help. The next day he was sun burned in splotches. There was an area or two where you could see like a hand print. It was one of the funniest things I've seen.

[jump5fan]

boy for a couple days i couldn't figure out why i couldn't log on, here my name was changed.:rofl:

[jthomas1600]

And now your blog is in the Z's. Nobody will be able to find you. So how's driving going? How are all the car projects?

[jump5fan]

And now your blog is in the Z's. Nobody will be able to find you. So how's driving going? How are all the car projects?

driving is going pretty good. a couple times our dad couldn't drive us to church (had to work the night before) so my brother drove us down to church and then i drove on the way home which is about 45 minets of highway driving. the car projects are going good too. went to u-pull-it and got a anlternatorfor the conversion van, a thermastat housing for the honda, and another fender for one of the other minivans. we also got a horn to replace the one on the honda as it isn't very loud.

[jump5fan]

well a lot is going on right now. we are in the middle of moving some furnature around and right now we can hardly walk through some parts of the house. we saw Dr David Jeramiah a couple days ago which was relly coolwe are also working on the firewood. we have most of it split and stacked but we still have some mor to do. the chainsaw that we were using isn't running right so the other day i got out two older chainsaws that we have out and worked on them for a little bit. we have two homelite saws and a crasftsman saw. i got the craftsman saw working and we got a chain for itso it is ready to use but the other saw has yellow stuff coming out of the engine so i am going to have to work on that. our main saw is a older homelite saw (this is the one that just started acting up) and it is my favorite. all of the parts are made of metal (all newer saws have a lot of plastic parts). i took the covers off and degreased and cleaned them and put it back to gether. i am starting to get into restoring old chainsaws and stuff. i fired up the conversion van and moved it around the other day. this van is amazing. the gas in the tank is atlest 3 or 4 years old and insted of a car battery it has a boat battery but i charged the battery for for a short time and tryed starting it. it cranked 3 or 4 times and fired right up. i rolled it to the end of the driveway and then pulled it back up with the voyiger and did that a few times to make sure the brakes weren't stuck. i then rolled to the end of the driveway again and drove it back up. the brakes need work as the pedle goes almost to the floor but it seams to be running fine. the exhaust smells really bad (old fuel) but it sounds really cool because it doesn't have a muffler. i was able to get some wheel spin which was fun. my birthday is coming up at the end of the month so that is cool. well got to go, see ya'll later

[dogfood]

congrats on becoming a greek/roman god

[jthomas1600]

I don't know much about David Jeremiah, but I catch his radio broadcast "turning point" some times in the car. As far as chainsaws go I would recommend one of these. They may cost a little more than others, but they're generally what the pros use.

http://www.portable-electric-power-generators.com/images/powertools/husqvarna/HUS_3120xp_lg.jpg

http://www.stihlusa.com/graphics/chainsaws/chainsaw_features.jpg

[jump5fan]

well not much is going on right now. tomarwo is my birthday and i will be turning 21. one thing that i hate is now the older i get the faster time seams to go. we got a lot of rain the other day which changed over to snow overnight which was cool. not enogh to cover the ground, just the cars. my brother took a ride up the mountain and i guess just a couple hundered feet above us they had around 8 inches of snow. well i guess that is all for now, bye!

[jump5fan]

i'm 20...

[jump5fan]

and now i'm 21 :)

[jthomas1600]

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r222/donz2001_bucket/birthday_dog.jpg

[dogfood]

welcome to old age.

[jump5fan]

well a lot has been going on lately. i am 21 now. i voted which was very cool even though the guy i voted for didn't win. i also bought a new toy, a Hi Point 9mm carbine. i haven't fired it yet but i am hoping to do so soon. we are cutting down and removing some really big trees for a freind of our dad's. we borowed a trailer for moving the wood so that is cool. the trailer that we have isn't built for carrying heavy stuff but with the other trailer we can carry a lot more wood. we are in the middle of moving stuff around in the house so right now everything is a mess. well got to go, bye!

[jump5fan]

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r222/donz2001_bucket/birthday_dog.jpg

welcome to old age.

:) thank you.

[jthomas1600]

Since i had never heard of hi point firearms, I checked a few websites. I see some for a round $100. Did you get that kind of a deal? Let us know after you have gone through a few rounds what you think. I checked a firearms review site and it sounds like they're pretty good guns considering they're so cheap.

[jthomas1600]

So you had a birthday and now you're too old for a journal??? It's been 10 days since you've posted anything new. Sorry about your cat. Being the person that actually finds the dead pet is especially hard. I hope you're OK man. How's the car projects going? How's the driving?

[jump5fan]

So you had a birthday and now you're too old for a journal??? It's been 10 days since you've posted anything new. Sorry about your cat. Being the person that actually finds the dead pet is especially hard. I hope you're OK man. How's the car projects going? How's the driving?

the car is going good. i am in the middle of replacing some of the hoses on the engine. we have had two of them blow so i am replacing all of them. i can't do any work on the car right now because of weather but it looks like saterday and sunday are going to be a little warmer. also we need to order a hose off of the internet because autozone doesn't have it. to get to the hoses that needed to be replaced i had to disconect a lot of the vacuum system on the engine. i like working on cars but it isn't as much fun when it is cold outside. well got to go, see ya'll later.

[jump5fan]

well lets see if i can get back into updating this thing. a lot has been going on lately. we took a lot of clothes to the good will store about a week ago so that is cool. there is a problum with part of the airbag system on our one van that i need to fix. i am going to have to remove the drive side airbag to replace a wire that connects to the airbag. i have never worked on the airbag system before so this will be fun. i got the honda back up and running a while ago so that is cool. my brother and sister and i went down for church on sunday and i probbly should have stopped to get as before heading home because the whole way home i was checking the computerand it was showing how far we could go with the fuel that we had. by the time i pulled into the driveway it siad that we only had enough gas to drive 2 miles. well i guess that is it for now, later!

[jthomas1600]

Dude, where've you been? I love reading about your auto adventures--it brings this guy to mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-Lnfpulwjc&feature=related