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It has a bunch of new gear as well: new fifth wheel, some of the airlines, the air bags, wheel seats, AC.

This truck has won some awards as well in its career: 1st Place @ Louisville KY in 2013 in Antique Combo Class and it won Large Car Mag & Movin’ Out trophies at Carlisle, Pa.

Year: 1986
Make: Kenworth
Model: K100
Type: Semi – Sleeper Cabover
Class: Class 8 (33,001 lbs. or more)
Mileage: 700,000
Vehicle Title: Clear
Number of Axles: Tri
VIN (Vehicle Identification Number): 1XKEDB9X2GJ367416
Engine Make: Caterpillar
Engine Horsepower: 400
Fuel Type: Diesel
For Sale By: Private Seller
Transmission Type: Manual
Transmission Speeds: 13 Speed Over Drive
Tire Size: 24.5″
Suspension Type: Air

I’m not sure if this one sold or not, but I’m pretty sure not, because no one wanted to pay what was being asked yet, but I can get a hold if anyone really needs to ([email protected]). He was asking $35,000 US for this used semi tractor show truck. The bids got as high as $28,600.

Peterbilt with Mountainous Sleeper

This custom semi with a big studio sleeper with, it looks like, a dome skylight (or so I thought — actually, Andrew Wilkinson pointed out on the Facebook page that it’s actually an in-motion satellite dish and air conditioner), is called by its owner “Size Matters.”

I think when it comes to sleeper quarters that might be true. With the front of this sleeper lowered, it looks like the rugged outline of a mountain climbing up from the grill to that dome skylight peak.

This particular custom Peterbilt tractor was at the 2008 Mid America Truck Show.

After some digging around the internet, it appears this sleeper was the work of ARI Legacy Sleepers, an Indiana-based custom sleeper company (Shipshewana). They have this truck and a number of others in their photo showcase of tractors and trailers. They do custom sleepers and factory conversions.

I should mention they do pretty much everything. Bed/dinettes, various woods for their tables and other interior fixings, halogen lighting, sound systems, pretty much whatever you can think of for a custom sleeper.

So after we wrote this article, Andrew Wilkinson pointed out that the dome on top is a satellite dish and right behind the dome is an air conditioner.

He also noted that he thought the fiberglass nose cone on the trailer made him suspect this truck was being used as a specialty car hauler. Thanks, Andrew!

Visit Legacy Sleepers or view our update page for this Peterbilt (click here).

How Many Wes Anderson Characters Can You Name?

Film trivia: Wes Anderson has created some of the most memorable characters in recent movie history, and how many of these characters can you look at and think of a scene with them doing something characteristic from a movie, and think also of how many times that has popped up in you mind before. These pictures are the handiwork of Marina at Marinaesque (visit it for all kinds of whimsical art and images).

Yes, well, there’s movie buffs and there’s movie buffs. How many of these Wes Anderson characters can you actually name? Try our Wes Anderson film trivia quiz.

First some hints:

1. This eccentric writer of unusually proseatic wild west novels scintillated into the frusculating dusklight in a convertible, killing the boys’ dog.
2. Competition for #6 in the affections of Estelle. Although “a two-bit chartered accountant,” still a sensitive man who could talk some jive in a kitchen.
3. This female character had a history not known to any of her family. She was married to the man studying #12.
4. This younger brother ran out of nuts and into the arms of a smoking train staff.
5. If you haven’t seen this early Wes Anderson film, you should rush more to video stores.
6. Perhaps the most royal of these characters, also the first one to go.
7. Another character who went the way of Royal after being reunited with his long-lost father (perhaps, but this is disputed and doubted).
8. Don’t “cuss with him.” Even if you “are.”
9. 10. and 11. These three need to improve their fire safety drill times, but they are loyal to their pet.
10. (actually 12, but this word processor won’t allow me to format it that way): An interesting specimen.

Well, how did you do? Were these hints enough? If not, let us know on the social media page, and we’ll provide some answers once enough people had had enough time to have fun guessing! Thanks for playing our Wes Anderson film trivia game.

How Many Football Teams Can You Name?

Football is unarguably the greatest sport ever played in North America. Anyone who has played football knows the meaning of being part of a team, accomplishing things as a team, how everyone has a role, how you can’t do your job if the other guy doesn’t do his, how the whole team depends on every player — every part of itself — to succeed. It’s a — some might say — beautiful sport.

So how about NFL? The National Football League. How many of these teams can you name? You’re going to have to know them pretty well to be able to identify them based off these pixelated images of footballs imprinted with their logos. Depending on how you guys like this game, we might run more football games. So try your luck. Guess at as many as you can on the social media posts.

Once you have guessed — and only after you have guessed — don’t ruin the fun for yourself — here are the answers:

1. Detroit Lions
2. Cleveland Browns
3. Green Bay Packers
4. Indianapolis Colts
5. Jacksonville Jaguars
6. Kansas City Chiefs
7. Atlanta Falcons
8. Miami Dolphins
9. Minnesota Vikings
10. New England Patriots
11. Buffalo Bills

How did you do? Nomatter how many you got, thanks for playing this NFL game. If you have any game suggestions for football or any sports in the future, also let us know. Thanks for playing! Blogunity

Soccer Players: How Many Can You Name?

This is a collection of artist and t-shirt designer Dani Nyari’s designs based on soccer — or “football” players portraits. Nyari has a very bright, clear, but interesting-because-it’s-somewhat-obscured-in-style style. He does lots of subject, including products — he’s worked with a lot of companies you would recognize.

Who are soccer “playmakers”? Well, Nyari defines them this way to all the sports fans who might be seeing his work for the first time: “A player in football who leads attacks or brings other players on the same side into a position from which they could score. He often plays centrally between the opposition’s defence & attack. He has also been known as a trequartista, regista, enganche, meia-armadror, meia-de-ligação, fantasisti, rifinitore, or false nine depending on cultural origin and/or position.” Soccer sports fans, what do you define a “playmaker” as in your sport?

How many of these famous sports celebrity faces can you name?

Make sure you count how many you can name before you proceed to these answers:

Top row:

1. Didi
2. Suarez
3. Messi
4. Zidane
5. Rivelino
6. Franscescoli
7. Zico
8. Pirlo
9. Gullit
10. Totti
11. Cruyff
12. Xavi

I’ll also point you towards the work of Nyari (click here) and his t-shirt (not only t-shirts though, but bags, pillows and more) designs (click here).

 

Basket Weave Mitts (Free Pattern)

How about this crochet pattern for fingerless gloves? Here’s a stitch pattern that creates a basket weave look on one side and a ridged look on another. The RS side looks basket and the WS looks ridged. These crochet mitts are very popular with a lot of crocheters, and we wanted to find some good crochet patterns for them. Our starting point was these green basket weave ones in the picture above. Just the right amount of puffy softness, interesting but very clean and regular patterning and texture, and room for individual customization — any colors you want, and you could modify the length when you crochet them.

Those green ones up top were featured on the Interweave Store. They are the work of the crocheting hands of Laurinda Reddig. This pattern is available for $3.85 for the gloves pattern right from the original publication or $15.00 for the whole ebook. The link for this is at the bottom.

There’s also a free option. It’s by crafter Sarah Reed on the Crochet Me blog on Bloglovin’. Basket weaves are already a pattern that create an interesting appeal for the eyes, whatever you put them on. Laurinda Reddit used these basket weaves and made her gloves. Then Sarah Reed used that and adapted it to make her gloves. Are you the next crocheter to make something and pass it on to the crochet community?

What you’ll need:

Yarn (Laurinda recommended 5 ply (12 wpi) sport yarn weight) around 328 yards (300 m)

Hook (3.75 mm recommended)

This will make mitts 7.5 or 8.5 inches long and 8.5 or 9.5 inches around. Fabric will stretch to fit.

Conceptual overview of the crochet project:

This crochet is a bit tricky, but one works the pattern by skipping 3 stitches on the RS rows and working post stitches in 3’s. Also, you’d work in front of the stitches you’ve already made. Then you work post stitches around the stitches you skipped. The WS rows are worked back post stitches and behind stitches. Some of the difficulty comes from having to find the post stitches in amongst the other stitches.

When all the rows have been crocheted, you seam up the side of the glove, leaving a space for the thumb (an opening in the seam).

For details about the pattern, visit Interweave Store for the $3.85 pattern (click here) or visit Crochet me for the free version (click here).

The NeverEnding Wildflower (Free Pattern)

With this free endless flower crochet pattern, you can make a flower as big or small as you want. You could make it tiny enough to decorate a tea kettle (or even a tea cup) cosie, or you could make it expand until it was the size of a giant round blanket or throw rug. The possibilities are endless with this crochet pattern.

How this pattern started out was the crafter / crocheter Rebecca (over at Little Monkey Crochet) because she wanted to find a way to make a “giant flower” and this is what she came up with. The real interesting bit for this pattern is that the petals don’t just pile on top of each other (which can also be an interesting look), because between each round of them there’s a round of increases. Nice one, Rebecca! This free flower crochet pattern stays the same height when it’s layed down.

You will need: H (5mm) hook (unless you prefer a different size because you’re using larger / smaller yarn), any yarn (the picture at the top, as you can tell looking at it, uses worsted weight — that flower picture is one that’s 8 inches across.

Conceptual overview of the crochet project (rated “easy”):

You will start out by making the first round with double crochet and a slip stitch. Then you’ll make the first round of petals around this wheel. When you make your petals, you were ignoring another loop available there, and now you’re going to use that ignored loop: you work around Round 1 again (with another color, generally, to make it easier to tell the parts apart while working). Continue to add rounds to the wheel, then, when it’s big enough, fasten off and weave in the ends.

To get more details on this free crochet pattern, which can be used for afghans, throw pillows or just about anything else crocheted, visit Little Monkeys Crochet (click here).

Little Crochet Flowers (Free Pattern)

Look at that little yellow crochet flower picture. See how adorable it is, with five petals all the same size as the center circle. Image if it wasn’t just the one, but a bunch scattered or laying over top of each other. This is a great crochet project for people who don’t want to have a big piece of fabric in front of them at the moment. You can just work on these little crochet flowers! While you’re making a flower that can be used in a scrapbook or piece of clothing or a blanket, you’ll also be improving your crochet skill and keeping your hands busy.

The free pattern for these flowers was actually invented by a scrap-booker at Scrapbook&Cards. She used the flowers to make full page size mixed-media collages. Now thanks to her, you can learn to crochet these flowers for free.

What you’ll need to make this crochet project: 2.5mm crochet hook, #5 yarn (this picture has cotton perle yarn, but you’re advised to use a larger hook and heavier yarn the more of a beginner you are.

Stitches used:
Chain, slip stitch, single crochet, double crochet, loop (or “stitch”). You’ll also have to use a slip knot to start the flower and be able to fasten off at the end of a crochet.

Conceptual overview: You’ll tie around your needle and start to crochet around that knot, joining in a circular pattern until you have the wheel-like circle of the center. Then you’ll single and double crochet to add on petal by petal. After you’ve added 5 petals to the center wheel, you’ll fasten off and you’ll have a little flower in your hand.

For full details about this little flower crochet pattern, visit Scrap Book Cards (click here).