This post is going to be mostly photos. This is a picture of me in front of the Beast 2.0/. I had a lifted 2001 F250 pickup with a 7.3 Diesel engine, but I sold it to a friend who wanted it for a project for his son. A pack rat had eaten through the wiring harness, but Beast now runs and is getting a lot of loving care. I bought a 2011 F250 that was gas powered and nice for running around in but did not have the towing capacity that I needed, when the opportunity to buy this F350 diesel pick up came up, I sold the "Tin Lizzy" and am putting the proceeds of that towards paying off the Beast 2.0. If you know me you'll know that I give my inanimate objects pet names. Clyde the motorcycle was actually the first vehicle that I did this with. But the new bike has a name too. Although I do not have much time with it, I have been using big Red to describe it to me. Once I get it to Texas and and ride it a little it may get a new name. Right now I am thinking it is a she, but you never know. Beast, Tin Lizzy and Beast 2.0 are all female vehicles, bikes are different, and Clyde liked the name Clyde from the first time I used it. So for now it is big Red.
Now for some more pictures. I started working at the Mills county community center as a volunteer a few weeks ago. I really enjoy it. I help assemble the Meals on Wheels lunches that they send out, and wash pots and pans for the cook. Since I am off work until the end of November this gives me something to get up and do. They serve lunch and I help do that, then I wash dishes and then head home for my lunch. I have changed my diet a lot, picture shows it too. I have lost about 50 pounds since January.
Here are a few pictures from the community center. The first one is Billie with the plant that the folks who come for lunch got her for the work she did fixing food the week that Anne, the cook was on vacation.
The rest are of the folks that gave it to her and the community center. It is a beautiful facility and nice to visit and to work in.
The next pictures are of a porch that my friend Dean, and I (I didn't do much but hold tools and watch to make sure that the saw and welder sparks didn't start a fire) are putting together at another friend named Chuck's house. It was quite the project and the framing is all box steel. The boards are composite wood.
Well that is just some of the things I have been doing while not working. It isn't much, and I am getting a form of cabin fever, but I am relaxing, and getting my blood sugar under control, and continuing to eat regularly and well. Tish has made several meals, she calls them "Dave" friendly. Meaning that diabetics can eat them without messing up their sugar. I am still under a doctors care, and still taking insulin shots. I hope to be done with that soon so that I can go back to work. The last series of pictures are of food that I have cooked for myself. I am learning to use an air fryer and intend to take that and a small refrigerator along with the micro wave on the truck. The air fryer uses 1700 watts but I think the invertor in the truck will handle that load.
This is a picture of the liners that I use, makes it a snap to clean up.
I got them off Amazon and I will post a link later. Going to do a whole entry about air frying my food I think
