Catchin Up . . .

On my third day of antibiotics.  I'm coughin less and enjoyin it more.  Not quite ready to go to the Y just yet, but I should be ready by the first of the week.


I spotted this crocus tryin to bloom on the way to the mailbox this morning.  Didn't seem real anxious to make an appearance just yet.


I took this one morning last week on the way to the mailbox.  Fortunately they were just starlings and not vultures waiting for me to collapse in the middle of the street.  I was feeling that was a definite possibility that day. 


I don't know how much expertise it takes to break a pole that high up, but someone did.  The newspaper said some people got into an argument in their car and ran into the pole.  

 
I don't know any of the details of this mishap.  Those are pretty steep ditch banks.  Wouldn't surprise me if that car has a bent frame.  Wonder if a cellphone was involved or maybe a deer . . . 

 
This is a close as I have been to BIG tires they make here.  They are for mining trucks.  They are 13-1/2 feet in diameter and fit on a 63 inch hub.  They retail at $10,000 each . . . unless you can find them on sale somewhere . . . I've heard they use around 60 different rubber compounds in each tire.  I don't think I ever thought about how many different types of rubber are used in tires of any size of type.  

If you go back to my March 2012 posts, you will see what an early and great spring we had then.  Not hearin any global warmin this year . . .