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Eric, With the crews ahead of you, there seems to be a never ending check list of thing for you to do.
Thanks for checking in Bud.
Had a pretty good day today. My eyes seen to be in good shape, I did order two pair of glasses.
But.... when we were getting in the truck a woman came up and said someone had hit our truck and then just left. It looks like they probably let a shopping cart go that hit our truck, two small dents just behind the left rear tire..
Evening Tim. Good eye ware is important. I was a commercial electrician and instrumentation guy for a pharmaceutical company for 40 years. I started out just mechanical for the first few years then went to E&I. Things were constantly being updated, especially as far as controls were concerned. I don't miss any of it. So nice to be at my own place the majority of the time and not having to meet anyone's schedule bedsides my own.
Sorry about your truck. It is always something. My son called with bad news this morning that I will not go into but just to make a point that we all have a story going on.
Thanks Steve, and sounds good on the old job. The last few years before I retired, I was in Transmission and Protection sort of a tier two trouble shooter and did a lot of traveling. I worked on just about everything the telephone company had. It was a good job, lots of verity and lots of beautiful places to see. But it was time, the company was changing the people that I had to work around didn't care about the job. I'm glad I retired I love being on own schedule, I don't miss.
And as far as the dent in the truck, the eye glass place had a computer malfunction, and we had to return an hour later to get things paid for. That's when it happened, darn it.
Good morning WA...Happy Hump Saturday...gonna be a soggy day here...boomers with possibility of hail...hope MA Nature is treating you better!!!
Tim...glad all went well at the Eye DR...It wasn't too long ago you got some metal in your eye if I remember correctly. Keep those safety glasses handy!!!
Evening Tim. Got the last of the Oak stacked in the bottom of the barn this morning. Looks to be about 23 face chords. Spent time going after dandelions later.
We made a couple tool purchases this week. I bought a Dewalt 20v heat gun, and Maria bought a Milwaukee M12 pop rivet tool. We bought the tools only, no batteries.
We have both brands, and extra batteries for both. The heat gun is mainly going to be used when we are working on our drip irrigation system. I have a feeling it will probably become the heat gun of choice. At least for small jobs.
We have been digging up and putting flashing around some of the trees, grape vines and lining the inside of the raised garden bed we have been working on. We have been pop riveting the ends together. My old tool takes me two hands to operate, Maria can't do it.
The Milwaukee tool, is effortless. Holy Cow that thing works great!
ThongTastic Thursday Washington, Tim and all the crew. It looks to be a beautiful morning with sun and about 75° and storms in the afternoon.
Off to the Sammich Factory for my Friday!
Going to go to work today for the water well association exploring for a water leak. We are if nothing else going to replace the ring around a main line valve and pressure reducer. We do have a leak that we need to find, the soil around here is very sandy, so the water is going down and not coming to the surface. It's going to be a little hard to find but I have a plan, at least to isolate the leak to a shorter area.
Going to go to work today for the water well association exploring for a water leak. We are if nothing else going to replace the ring around a main line valve and pressure reducer. We do have a leak that we need to find, the soil around here is very sandy, so the water is going down and not coming to the surface. It's going to be a little hard to find but I have a plan, at least to isolate the leak to a shorter area.
Good luck with the leak Tim. One local town that contracts with the next town over for Sewerage Treatment...has been searching for a leak for 3 years...figure it's costing them around $100,000 a year in increased costs.
Well, today did not turn up a leak but we did get the can changed out and the top is now above ground level. It also has a much better lid, so that part was a success.
I'm afraid the leak or what may be several small leaks is going to be hard to find.
Evening Tim. Sounds like a challenge you have.
Those Dewalt tools are pretty nice. I have a couple. The power riveter is a good thing as well if you have to do many. I had to buy a manual rivet gun that would except 1/4" rivets when I was working on that truck topper.
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