Nothoing like finding a house with a good solid roof.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Hensley" <spitfiresuz@141.com>
To: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@gte.net>
Cc: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: aw nuts!
> Funny stories! Reminds me of when I was about 8 or 9 and my dad and I
drove from Canada (where we were living at the time) to Charleston, WV
(where we
> had moved from and my birthplace) to pick up his Ferrari 250GTE he had
stored down there in someone's yard. I remember it being night time and my
dad and
> his friend were opening the hood in the front yard under a trouble light
to see if the car would start. We all jumped when a racket sounded as the
hood
> was opened -- the squirrels had been storing their nuts in the hood
insulating blanket and they all fell out as the hood was moved.
>
> Also, I went to look at a TR6 for sale near Conroe, TX this spring. It
was in outside covered storage for 10 years and when I opened the bonnet,
the
> WHOLE engine cavity was packed full to the brim with leaves, twigs, old
rags chewed into felt, and other stuff. There was a nice round cavity over
the
> driver's firewall area where the possum who turned the engine area into an
apartment spent his days sleeping! I couldn't even get the stuff pulled up
to
> see the engine -- it was packed in there so tightly. I took a pic of it
since I had never seen something like that before!
>
> Those funny critters!
>
> (And speaking of critters -- I was coming back from Home Depot tonight
with some fittings for the motor home drain and almost stepped on a huge
snake on
> the front doormat of the shop! It was dark and we have not put a light up
there yet -- guess what our very next priority is! It appeared to be about
a
> 5-foot-long gopher snake, and as I backed up to let him go off, I almost
stepped on a little bitty one. For Gosh Snakes!)
>
> Hope ya'll's day was less adrenaline-producing (unless you were racing),
> Susan :)
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