Tractor fixin' (Updated)

 "When someone is properly grounded in life, they need not look outside themselves for approval." - Epictetus

Tractor Bits 'n' Pieces (updated with a couple more pictures)

 "If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this manner in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled." - Epictetus

Yanmar 155D Tractor update

 "Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those that are to come.

Existence flows past us like a river:  The 'what' is in constant flux, the 'why' has a thousand variations

Nothing is stable, not even what's right here.

The infinity of past and future gapes before us - a chasm whose depths we cannot see

So it would take an idiot to feel self-importance or distress.  Or any indignation either.

As if the things that irritate us lasted." - Marcus Aurelius

Air Compressor Room - Part 6, and a bunch of completely unrelated stuff

 "You could leave life right now.  Let that determine what you do and say and think." - Marcus Aurelius

"Fixing" The Yanmar Tractor Steering Knuckle (Update)

 "Remember that all we have is 'on loan' from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission - indeed, without even advance notice.  Thus, we should love all our dear ones, but always with the thought that we have no promise that we may keep them forever - nay, no promise even that we may keep them for long." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Yanmar Tractor re-assembly

 "Every hour be firmly resolved... to accomplish the work at hand with fitting and unaffected dignity, goodwill, freedom, and justice.

Banish from your thoughts all other considerations.

This is possible if you perform each act as if it were your last, rejecting every frivolous distraction, every denial of the rule of reason, every pretentious gesture, vain show, and whining complaint against the decrees of fate.

Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life?  Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more." - Marcus Aurelius

(I've Got) The Yanmar Blues

 "If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means.  And when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated." - Epictetus