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In my Town called Toyota post, showcasing a blue Toyota that's absolutely plastered with plastic toys, and doo-dads, I mentioned another similarly encrusted car, I see elsewhere in Fairview; here it is. Doesn't look anything like the Toyota, and not just because it's red. The artist's hand has been trying for quite a different effect, using stickers; sort of short on the sides, and back, and long on the top. The auto-motive behind this kind of folk art is clearly individual expression, so I'll let the photos of the car speak for themselves. Click the images to enlarge them.

The 1980s-era Winchester Burley bicycle trailer I've been using for a few months finally packed it in today. A steel tube ripped. This steel tube was welded at a right-angle to both tube segments which held the wheel axles. It ripped just below the welded join with the axle tube for the left wheel. It took a good hour for the tube to rip all the way through. As the rip progressed there was less-and-less to hold the left wheel at a right-angle to the road surface; the loaded trailer box was pushing down, and the unbraced axle couldn't maintain a right-angle, and was hinging upwards, driving the top of the wheel towards the side of the trailer box.