Sunday, January 24, 2016

Skills?

 This fellow has them, at least he's got this one nailed down very well.......

Very Skilled

Dave shared this with us at Coffee yesterday morning.....go ahead, watch it more than once, we all have.  I can sometimes seem to make curved lines with a a straightedge, can't imagine how he can make properly curved lines freehand.  After the many lies and less serious fabrications around the big tables at Diamond's, some of us made our way downtown to Scooterville for Cabin Fever 2016.

A good crowd coming and going, anything for many of us to break winter's spell and dream of riding in the open, much warmer air.  Back a few years, I'd ridden a couple of times with the Minn-Max Twin Cities Scooter Club and many of their members drifted in and out while I was there.  The previous owner of my Morphous among them (he's still got his Scarabeo for sale).

 

 Jonathan mentioned the yellow Grom in the shop, so I had to poke my head in there to see that.


 

I had a pink one just like this Buddy.....and I do miss it......the whitewalls were a bit more demanding cleaning-wise than ol' Coop was comfortable with though.


Note the Corazzo sign..... items were all marked down and I hadn't paid much attention to anything on the racks for the first couple of hours that I was there.  Then and I have no idea why, the brown leather jackets caught my eye.  I so wanted to be Just Like David but it was not to be....nothing on the racks fit me.  I'm sure my checkbook was much happier that I walked out of the establishment with only the Hepco/Becker saddlebag units and w/o that very fine, so wonderfully soft and luxurious leather riding jacket too.  At this point, I'm STILL not in the Corazzo club and I was thaaat close.


Today's most exciting development has been the late afternoon turkey migration.  The birds have literally spent a good part of the day on a piece of the lawn that I plow to prevent snow drifting over the driveway.  It's essentially a grass parking lot and the birds, when they weren't picking the crab apples out of the tree, were out there foraging.

The first ones were quite orderly because they hadn't yet noticed me in the window.


Here are a couple of fliers, more in the middle of the pack, they decided the gate opening a bit too restrictive, flying over the fence instead.


 This last one is in flying form, ready to taxi, landing gear almost up.



This afternoon I see that we've got a single row of turkey tracks ......on the garage roof.

8 comments:

  1. Wow that was pretty amazing! Hell I can't even paint my nails withput making a tragic mess.

    Love the orange scoot. Have you checked online anywhere for a javket in your size? I like brown leather more than black, it just looks softer somehow classier.

    Thats a lot of turkeys if you want to scare em away do you open the window and holler "Roasting pan, stuffing & cranberries!!!" I think if I heard that & I was a turkey I'd be gone. ;)

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    1. Dar, good idea with the feast alarm for the turkeys. They are adapting to our presence, take longer to get excited and don't fly as far. Pets before too long?

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  2. Yep, definitely a cool skill to have that....seen similar videos of Beemer gas tanks getting similar lines....

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    1. Definitely something I appreciate, that level of hand/eye coordination. Sort of on Auto pilot in a way.

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  3. Time to start practicing...

    I've been thinking of painting the Beemer but I would lose all of the cool pinstriping. That's where everything stops and I don't think about it again for another year...

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    1. That would stop me as well Richard. I know that pinstriping is often laid out with tape as a guide, even then manipulating that narrow tape in nice flowing spline curves looks too difficult for me.

      I like yours the way it is.

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  4. The Groms are interesting. While I think they might be a hoot to ride, I wouldn't want to ride them far.

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    1. I don't know Brandy.....relatively easy to imagine a week to some far off exotic locale on one.... :)

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