Ishrub
That's my name ....built like a truck
- Joined
- Feb 18, 2016
- Messages
- 8,858
- Location
- Duffy, Canberra, ACT, AUSTRALIA
- Ride
- 2x2010 ABS Roadsters, Sprint ST 1050 ABS, 3x250s
I have been off line a while. Apologies to anyone posting or sending messages and awaiting my responses as I dropped off the forum but it is time to re-emerge like a phoenix (or a dung beetle) from the effluvia of life.
I have been in process of preparing to move back to the a remote bush block in the NT from Canberra and have been unable to commit to usual response and access to the internet.
Family issues with my elderly parents have also kept me pretty occupied and focussed elsewhere with medical appointments etc.
They are both still here and living at home but Mum at 92 is very anxious and like Chicken Little on Steriods.
Dad is 94 with memory issues and has been having falls in the last week and was hospitalised yesterday for tests and has admitted it has made him lose his confidence.
It appears that my first trip back to the NT will not occur until late June now so I have a bit of time to visit the forum.
Been trimming the collection before my eventual return to the NT.
My '79 BMW R100RS sidecar and a heaps of extras that has been in my "family of friends' for the past 35 years is going to a new home.....but staying in the family. My mate of 35+ years is buying it off me with the possibility of return later when settled. He has known and ridden with the original owner and me and is a side car enthusiast too over the years, so it it not too hard to part.
It wouldn't be the same without the 16 year old furry co-pilot I had put down in Nov last year. (But I'm hanging out for a new co-pilot and still have another two sidecars to fit to bikes though!
I used to have 50 water buffalo on my 250 acres so I might find a new co-pilot yet!
I have been in process of preparing to move back to the a remote bush block in the NT from Canberra and have been unable to commit to usual response and access to the internet.
Family issues with my elderly parents have also kept me pretty occupied and focussed elsewhere with medical appointments etc.
They are both still here and living at home but Mum at 92 is very anxious and like Chicken Little on Steriods.
Dad is 94 with memory issues and has been having falls in the last week and was hospitalised yesterday for tests and has admitted it has made him lose his confidence.
It appears that my first trip back to the NT will not occur until late June now so I have a bit of time to visit the forum.
Been trimming the collection before my eventual return to the NT.
My '79 BMW R100RS sidecar and a heaps of extras that has been in my "family of friends' for the past 35 years is going to a new home.....but staying in the family. My mate of 35+ years is buying it off me with the possibility of return later when settled. He has known and ridden with the original owner and me and is a side car enthusiast too over the years, so it it not too hard to part.
It wouldn't be the same without the 16 year old furry co-pilot I had put down in Nov last year. (But I'm hanging out for a new co-pilot and still have another two sidecars to fit to bikes though!
I used to have 50 water buffalo on my 250 acres so I might find a new co-pilot yet!
I understand the "dealing with parents and the associated medical issues"; tis the reason my Bride and I settled in Tucson, Arizona vice Las Vegas... 2 miles from my in-laws. Good to hear your BMW is off to a good home (reminds me of my 1971 Buick Skylark I said I would give to my Uncle "IF" he could get out of hospice care (he loved my car)... needless to say he's had it for the past 10 years...
