I am up in Michigan 'city today and for a few days probably. The ladies who do the renting for me did not give me much encouragement on rentals for this summer. But the Mayor has basically opened it up for us his proclamation is ambiguous and not helpful. The grounds people are moving in and trimming and doing all the stuff as usual to make the place look great for the season.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Nobody seems to have a good short term picture at this time. They did kind of open up some in Vancouver, Canada last weekend.

I did not see one person with a mask on and the police warned about two thousand people for not keeping their distance from each other. Age group looked to be twenties to thirties. Few a little older. Nice summer day but they do still have the virus there. Then again when you are in that age group nothing is going to get you.

A rental cottage is a pretty safe place to go in my opinion. Even if the virus is still around. People might even be driven to get out of their houses mentally.

A friend of mine thinks gas pump handles are a real possible point of infection. As the virus can survive up to two days on the trigger bar. He could be right. I would not like store door handles. If any virus where local.

Even without it I find myself thinking. I take my credit card and tap it to pay for something. Who washes their credit card off before putting it back in their wallet? Usually people will mentally bet on one senario over another on most things. With this virus issue I find not so much. Wait and see is about it for most people.

Today got a new reservation yesterday....first since Virus Pandemic.

Woo hoooo!

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

So the year is nearly over for the vacation rental business. People were prevented by governmental decrees from renting most of june but new people came in and rented in a later time slot, some still. The big house has suffered the most because of the virus. People tended to rent it as extended family and friends so they did not rent as much with all the isolation required. We also offered aggressive discounts for the remainder of the rental year. It looks like the income for that property will be slightly higher than last year but probably not enough to cover increases like property tax.

The smaller and smallest units did better than usual it appears. My latest plan is to refinance my main residence and buy another small cottage in the complex in Union Pier Mi with the other one. These little 500 sf cottages are connected end to end and were built in the 30s. They are quaint and made a lot more money than the big house this year.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Good to hear it went not that bad overall. As with most things it can usually always be worse. Or better.

The cottage rentals where hurt here. As our provincial borders remained semi closed for the summer season. Tourists where also told not to come.

We are reverting to a stronger sealed bubble status here again fairly fast now. As the contaigion level of the virus with the fall conditions is increasing fast. Just outside our bubble. Until an effective vaccine is developed and delivered. Cottage rentals in this province are likely to remain very depressed.

You can drive to a sealed line and look into a province being Quebec. That will have six thousand new cases or more a day in a few weeks. Where with some good fortune we will continue to have none. Being community spread virus. There has been an effect though.

So many people want to move here that cottages sell the first day listed usually for asking or higher. Same issue with any house put on the market. You can enter if you own a cottage here under strictly enforced isolation for a few weeks. . You can enter here if you buy a house and prove you have sold the one you had. I estimate in as soon as one week.If you are outside and even if you normally reside here. You will not be able to get back in. So cottage rentals also look pretty grim for next summer as well at this point. At least in our huge bubble.

Well you know this is America. Its all about the money.

The local governments here are heavily funded by casino taxes so they are not likely to shut that off if it can be avoided at any cost.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Pulled the Pin 2 weeks ago and moved to place we bought in St Augustine Beach, FL....NYC House will be cleared out and on market in Spring of 21. Got out before 2nd wave hit NYC and much safer in St. Augustine Beach, plus 32ft wide 4th floor balcony on the Atlantic is great for morning coffee.

That sounds nice!

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Tom. In general money has trumped the welfare of people for far too long in the majority of north America.

Some retired doctors have been going into politics here in Nova Scotia to pay back for the medical system. That made their careers better in many ways.

Instead of hacks as politicians. They seem to be stronger on ethics, Common sense and even produce budget surplus. So the province is not always on the endless debt train.

Sounds good. Docs do have to take the Hippocratic oath. I think most of them take that responsibility seriously.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Somewhere along the line I spoke to my mechanic and discovered they had only bled one spot on each caliper. There are two bleeders per caliper so there is undoubtedly some air in there preventing full pressure in the lines. So that will be corrected when the brakes get bled.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Wow ~ that guy would instantly become my ex Mechanic ~ it's your RACE CAR and he did a halfassed job on the brakes ?! .

Back when I was 14 Y.O. I got a job in a backyard shop, 2/3 of the works were building used cars out of pieces, we'd sell them for $250 or so (this was long ago obviously) yet the boss man told me the first day 'I will accept zero short cut in brakes, steering or suspension ~ I don't want anyone to die behind a $250 car ' .

Good words to work by and he taught me a lot, easily as much what NOT to do (by his bad examples) as what TO do .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

As usual Nate, you make good points.

Unfortunately I am the type of guy who will stick with someone who is honest even if he is not perfect.

I don't know of any other shops I can trust who will work on the bewildering parade of oddball cars I seem to be attracted to.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

O.K., fair enough .

I've had to re do so many others works over the decades, steering, suspension and brakes are no short cuts in my book .

My new (to me) little trucklet has RABS and the brake fluid is dead black, I want to bleed them out but the book says some special tool is necessary, my son, who works on Ford police cars all day says to just use my pressure bleeder .

Once you've had the brakes fail whilst underway you get religious about servicing them .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Seems most members are holding things together fairly well in this virus situation. Although a little more stress than normal also is there for many.

I am just watching changes here that are somewhat hard to comprehend. For perhaps the first time in years. I have also slowed down enough to more carefully examine many things. That has proven an interesting journey so far.