In my never ending quest to continue to eating dinner, I, actually “we” (with the help of J. Lockwood at Bitter Gravity)  moved my blog over the the URL I have been sitting on for a while so people could find it.  I also added a Frank the Welder facebook page.

It seems odd that some folks have trouble finding contact info for “FTW”  when it seems that someone you know must know me. Right?   I may have fixed your go-cart when you were a kid.  I sure remember Ernie.

Ernie isn’t his real name. He was born with a lot of problems, so many that his parents dropped him at the curb and peeled out.  He changed his name to Ernie to honor the folks that adopted him and took care of him as best they could.

His knee has been getting worse lately. His darn leg is 1-1/2″ short because of that knee just grinding itself to pieces.  Ernie has to walk all day because it hurts less while walking.  But that is making the damage worse.  I guess you walk till you can’t bare it and hammer the booze till you pass out.  He keeps his hair combed and his clothing clean and pressed and wears his high school ring with pride.  I can see where he started isn’t far from where he was yesterday when I caught up to him.   He is afraid to get surgery even though someone offered it to him. He can imagine things being worse.

I welded up his walker yesterday.  I would have done it sooner but the guy is hard to find.  He said “you really made my goddamn day” so it was really worth it.  Honestly, I got more out of it than he did.

I am working on FB-10’s, a certain reproduction bike, fixing a mistake I made and fixing mistakes other folks made this week.  The damp weather has been causing me to stare out the door into the clouds a bit when I pass by the door (it’s usually open) .

So this time of year is pretty busy and I thank you folks for all the business.  I will put up some random pics here and see if that part works.

I like the new Header.. I think it makes the room bigger.