Category: Rookie

  Seasoned Rookie with Murph, The Seasoned Rookie. I’ve been a bad rookie. The last several months I’ve found myself. shall we say, distracted? Who am I kidding. Valentines day is coming up, a time for love, romance, vomiting, and all that other great stuff. Why not discuss my dilemma here while we can talk […]

  Seasoned Rookie with Murph, The Seasoned Rookie. I thought I knew what I was doing.  I was wrong. So begins a song entitled “Waterfall”, the story of someone doing something that seemed like a good idea at the time. So began my afternoon. For those of you reading in the Midwest, you may recall […]

  Seasoned Rookie with Murph, The Seasoned Rookie. Greetings, Rookies. Something many of us have to deal with from time to time is separating and reuniting tire and rim.   The reasons for this are manyfold. Sometimes it’s a case of vehicular improvement: A jeep owner in the campground next to us has nicer tires than […]

    Seasoned Rookie with Murph, The Seasoned Rookie.   Greetings, Rookies. Last spring we embarked on a major project. In a period of six weeks, the Rookie and some very close friends constructed a new-to-me Suzuki in my backyard. We handled painting, sanding, gaskets, driveshafts, thousands of screws, and gallons of fluid. After spending […]