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[DebW]

Your new Stihl probably has auto chain and bar oilers on her. Check your book to make sure what after maint you need to do. Just like with a bike chain, too much oil can be bad. Drags a lot of extra gunk into the housing. They kind of fool proof them these days. (for fools like me) The handle is wide enough to put your foot in to hold it down when starting. (Had a neighbor guy about 12 yrs ago slice the heck out of his thigh starting one - eeewww. Oh, the stories I could tell about him.) I like the easier starter too. I've got a 270, runs like a champ. I like that I don't have to take the fuel cap off to see how much I've got left - nice little window on the side. The carb shouldn't flood or vapor lock either - there's a wonderful little sensor to keep it in check.

<<scrape, muffle, screet>>
The dragging of little feet as Cindy ushers her inner tomboy back in it's cage...

I wasn't implying that I was going to oil the chain like a bike chain. It has auto-oilers, so just keep the reservoir filled. It must oil sparingly, though - makes me nervous that the chain doesn't feel very oily. For starting, I generally use the handle-butt between the knees method, and I always wear my kevlar chaps and hard hat with face shield.

[KnottedYet]

Lise - I'm not a good one to talk about age differences. Everyone I've had a crush on/dated/"married" has been older than me. All of them.

I'm sure there's some deep and meaningful insight there.

(probably that I'm just so much more mature and spiritually developed and intelligent than everyone my age. *snort* )

[Kitsune06]

Lise - I'm not a good one to talk about age differences. Everyone I've had a crush on/dated/"married" has been older than me. All of them.

I'm sure there's some deep and meaningful insight there.

(probably that I'm just so much more mature and spiritually developed and intelligent than everyone my age. *snort* )

Heh. I tried that one.


After the peals of side-splitting laughter and tears finished, she asked if I really thought that was the case.

...cue more laughter.

What?! Was it something I said?

[KnottedYet]

Kit - actually, in your case I think it's probably true.

[Kitsune06]

You might think so, but you don't have the pleasure of trying to live with me.

Trust me, after a year of bike-soiled dish towels, bike/mechanic/outdoorsystuff cluttered house, drama, money issues, mania and mayhem, I understand the laughter, and you might, too In lotsa ways, I'm 'very' 20.

[kelownagirl]

310 pages.... wow... I've been busy back to work and got behind on reading TD. Was going to skip it but saw that BMO3 managed to entire thing so thought I'd better get caught up.

All I can say this evening is:

"'tis a braw, bricht, moonlicht nicht t' nicht." Not sure if the spelling's right though... My dear Scottish Grandpa taught me how to say that when I was a wee bairn. I remember my favourite movie when I was a kid was about some Scottish kids who find a baby and try to look after it themselves. Can't remember what it was called. Mid 1960's? Anyway, I LOVED the way they said "wee babby".

Lise - my ex and my SO are both 10 years older than me. Kelownaguy is 56 and is very athletic and active. We do tons of active things together and although there's a chance I will spend some years alone after he's gone, you never know. I'm certainly not going to let something like age stop a good relationship. I'd take a mature man over a young idiot anyday.

[KnottedYet]

SOMEBODY is practicing the organ LOUDLY in an apartment building at TEN OCLOCK IN THE FRIPPIN' NITE!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAG!

(and their playing sucks) I'm about ready to track them down and give them a pair of earphones and say "stick these in your organ!!!"

[DebW]

SOMEBODY is practicing the organ LOUDLY in an apartment building at TEN OCLOCK IN THE FRIPPIN' NITE!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAG!

(and their playing sucks) I'm about ready to track them down and give them a pair of earphones and say "stick these in your organ!!!"

Speaking of organ music, there was a time I was sleeping in the woods and had to put up with someone's organ music. I was laying in my hammock between 2 trees about a mile from a road listening to bad organ music. Kind of strange. That sound really carries.