For Avus

The following is written by Himself regarding photo's in last post:
The cylinder head you're viewing is from the front cylinder--(#2)-- of a early example of Fabio Taglioni's fabulous 750 Ducati bevel drive V-twin. It is the first one I've dug into and am quite impressed with the castings, quality control and mainly the beautiful mechanical design. Wonderfully made silent bevel gears are everywhere. The desmodromic update came soon after, and honestly, I'm glad I'm not dealing with that complicated "improvement"! I probably don't have to tell you this engine was the precursor to all the Ducati twins built since!

Next on the agenda--2 Goldstar 500's--One a very rare racer--I couldn't afford even the insurance!!!

By the way, I'm guilty of reading over the shoulder of Vita and really enjoy your tales and beautiful images.

Nice "talking" to you,
Himself--or--HH

Like Humpty Dumpty

These photos are clues for Himself when he is ready to put all the bits back together again.

April Showers Bring Slugs

This morning Himself took Heidi out for her first "exercise" of the day a little before 5:30 a.m., and good thing, too, because it soon started pouring buckets. He took off for work on his 13th (not all of which run) motorcycle, a relatively modern Suzuki. Maybe from the 80s? Oh, dear. Anyway, it was wet when he left, and here I am having finished my two cups of coffee, still waiting for pages to load, and the clothes drier to quit. Why does itunes keep popping up? It's a mystery to me.

I felt guilty setting new plants out yesterday, because I'm sure the slugs probably ate them last night, and if not, they'll probably finish them off this morning. I believe I need to buy a new little blue star creeper, because I see no sign of it now. If only these showers would spread themselves out to cool off some of the hot summer nights, then probably the slugs and the flowers would fair better.

This little bird is sitting on her nest in the parking lot of the repair yard where Himself works. He took us by to see them. The enterprising employees set some traffic cones around the eggs to protect them from being crushed by huge and heavy construction equipment.

Katana Folly

Why? When some person, who knows how many owners ago, decided it would be just the thing to buy a bunch of "high performance" parts to soup up their Suzuki Katana, which already works perfectly, and goes faster than any amateur human ought to ride, what were they thinking? I believe it has been unridable ever since.

My brothers used to talk crazy about souping up engines of motorcycles, but it was all hypothetical, so I know a little about how that sort of thinking works, but it was just talk. An amusement to entertain themselves, which is where they are superior beings to whoever followed through on crazy talk by ruining this poor defenseless Suzuki Katana.

While Himself was off on one of yesterday's test rides, I got a call to bring the trailer and pick him up. Thank goodness he was all right. The throttle had stuck wide open when he was accelerating (just like a Toyota) and all he would say to me was that it went REALLY fast. He used the kill switch to stop the engine, and was able to just pull over to the side of the road. He thought maybe he would quit bad-mouthing kill switches.

Poor Himself! He tried so hard to make the thing work, fixing all sorts of mistakes and spending all his free time for the last month and a half to help out some kid who'd gotten stuck with someone else's mistakes, not to mention helping the once nice motorcycle, and he really had hopes. But no. The poor helpless defenseless motorcycle is still good for nothing except maybe drag racing.

Hello Everyone

Just wanted to say hi, and don't know if I can get this to work well enough to visit everyone. Everything takes forever to load, then the connection gets cut off, so it takes an extra forever to reconnect. Oh! Gotta go! Love ya!