Sunday, October 19, 2025

A few pictures

 

Ornamental cabbage

Fancy fence around the garden

Ornamental chilies. They also had chiltepin (small, round bird) peppers but I didn't get any pictures.

Regular cabbages. Beds used both red and green cultivars.

Garlic chives

Lacinato or Tuscan kale

The landscapers also tucked the a tomatillo and cherry tomato plant into an odd corner.

I saw this in Pawpaw, Michigan. We were getting gas when a 1970-ish F-150 pulled in. Very lumpy at the low RPM he was running and my nose told me that he was either running dead-rich or he was running a cam designed for MUCH higher RPM. The truck was in plain black with a red, vinyl interior. It was plain-jane, base everything.

For the record, a base 1970 F-150 has a curb weight of 2800 pounds while a stripped 2025 F-150 weighs more than 4000 pounds.

I asked the gentleman what was under the hood. 

He replied, "Nothing special, just a slightly warmed-over 460 V8. Why? Do you want to look at it?"

I agreed that I would love to take a peek at it. With his permission, I took this picture.

After filling the tank, he drove out onto the main road. He had to keep feathering the clutch to keep it from stalling out. Once he had it pointed straight down the road he gave it some gas. It looked like the Star Trek USS Enterprise hitting warp speed.

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