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My Friend is a Tote Mixer

I know. You think I have lost it. How could a tote mixer be my friend? However, if you ever had to live in a spray paint booth like I have for 15 years, there is a good chance that you would get it. I paint anywhere from 15-20 vehicles every three or four months. It helps me make ends meet. When I found out about the portability and convenient use of tote mixers, I immediately knew I had to get one. It saves me all kinds of time and labor to have something like this at my disposal. I guess, I am further proof, that it takes all kinds.

May 15, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

I Need a Tote Mixer

Being the compulsive and obsessive individual that I am is really becoming a problem. I have a collection of 22 vintage automobiles and I work daily to keep them in mint condition. I now feel it is time to add a few more coats of state of the art paint to deepen the sheen of each of them . I will need a tote mixer to carry this off efficiently. I have my own private spray booth. When I’m there spraying one of my vehicles I feel like a prominent plastic surgeon practicing his skill. Most others would look at something like this as being arduos labor. I feel like a Van Gough when I,m doing it.

May 12, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

Furniture Retail Software

I’m sitting here waiting for someone to produce software to maintain some of the things for my twenty-two vehicle collection. I swear, some of these cars sit in an air controlled and dust monitored garage and have no one driving them, but they still get filthy. Don’t ask me how. Now they have furniture retail software, event managemant software and whatever software. I think it’s time my work load got reduced. So, listen all you software writers and creators out there let’s get a move on. I’m ready to push some buttons and put down the polisher and the rags.

May 10, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

Funny Wedding Cake Toppers

Not everyone can find humor in the serious things in life. Thus, when I attented my good friends wedding reception and got a load of his wedding cake, I nearly died laughing. This guy swore for decades that he would never succumb to nuptials. Yet here we were arriving at the reception hall after the chapel and there it was. The most hilarious of all wedding cake toppers. It was a bride dressed in her gown holding a shotgun to the head of a groom dressed in prison stripes and chained from hands to ankles. Most attendees totally got the picture. The bride’s parents weren’t very amused.

May 10, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

Durable Vinyl Binders

When you live in a narrow little world as I do strange tings happen to you. Take the situation where the value of my day depends on the codition of my vehicles. If I find a dent or a mechanical problem with one of my cars, it’s as if there’s a serious illness in the family. I keep better records on the autos than I do for my own health. I have the most durable vinyl binders I could find to keep a dossier of each vehicle. I have been likened to a medical doctor keeping charts on his patients in hospitals. Maybe I need mental help.

May 06, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

Same as the Manitoba Carpenters

People come in and out of my garage on a daily basis. Word gets around the neighborhood of my vintage auto collection. I get tons of compliments when they see a vintage vehicle totally restored. I received a comment last night that I aprreciated more than any before. A kind gentleman told me that my work was likened to the Manitoba carpenters where he was raised. If you ever have the privilige to see their work, you will know why I was so pleased to be mentioned in the same conversation with them. When my boy was playing little league baseball, he made an over the back catch and my brother told him he was like Willie Mays. Now, I know, first hand, how good that must have made him feel. This was the same type of compliment.

May 04, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

3 Ring Binders

Nowhere on earth will you find better use of 3 ring binders than an auto parts store. You go in there and just beneath the counter, there they are. There are probably anywhere from fifty to seventy five of them hanging there burgeoning with catalogues from hundreds of manufacturers and distributors. I honestly think parts stores would no longer exist if it weren’t for the service the binders afford them. Like magic they contain every conceivable part for every conceivable vehicle. There is enough information in those binders to rival the Library of Congress. Tell the truth. Where else would you see them better utilized?

May 03, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

Unsecured Business Loans

I am at my local bank so often that many customers walk up to me seeking a service. I have to tell them, I’m also a customer. When you deal in autos, the banking becomes part of your daily routine. A car loan is totally secured by the vehicle itself so the terms are rather uncomplicated, no payments, no car. When it comes to unsecured business loans, it comes down to having superior credit or an idea your banker really has faith in. In today’s economy, these things don’t happen so easily. You need guidance and preparation if you are seeking one. This is why you need people like Hawkeye Management.

May 01, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

Wedding Decorations

After attending more weddings than I would have liked to, I realized that eloping with my bride all those years ago was actually wise behind my tears back then. When I see what people spend on wedding decorations and all the hoopla these days, it makes my skin crawl. Surely some people think my obsession with vintage automobiles fits right into the same abusive category, but I disagree. My cars have sustainable and even increasing value. The extravagance of these weddings is gone the instant the wedding is over. I must remind myself that we all have different desires and value systems.

May 01, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

Luxury Wilderness Resort

Please now, don’t get jealous. Supress that green monster. I will tell you a tale of bliss. If you are the envious type, DO NOT read on. I go to my garage and shine up my ’59 Eldorado convertible and I call my wife and tell her to pack us two bags for a week-long getaway. I can feel her excitement over the phone. An hour later we put the top down and head off for this unbelievable luxury wilderness resort. The ride in my boat of an automobile felt like we were on a magic carpet. The weather was balmy and the skies were blue as blue can be with an occasional puff of cotton cloud here and there. We arrive at our destination as evening is falling and the chateau briand I ordered ahead of time is served to us on a sizzling iron skillet.

Apr 27, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

Wedding Cake Toppers

It should come as no surprise that when my bride of 40 years and I renew our vows next month that I wanted to select one of those wedding cake toppers that are special made. You know it has to be of the two of us in my prize 1935 Auburn Roadster. I simply will have it no other way. We are fixing to have the time of our lives and I want the occassion to reflect our lives as closely as possible. Since we both love that car like it was a child of ours, it has to be part of the proceedings.

Apr 26, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
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