Good Morning! 57 F @ 8:15 AM. Sunshine and a few afternoon clouds. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. High 77F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.
Judging from the snow in Ohio, it seems I got out of there just in time. :laughing:
David, that sounds like quite a journey. Just sit back, watch the scenery go by, and leave the driving to someone else!
Got the new battery in the Yamaha yesterday but the bike still wouldn't start. Thought it might be stale gas, so swapped that out and still no joy. But by that time the battery was run down, so I put it on the charger and went on to other things. That involved emptying the boxes I dragged home from Ohio, the four in the garage full of tools. Looks like I'll be able to swap out my 1/2" drive SAE sockets for Snap-On, and I'll never run short of 3/8" drive extensions. A brass suede brush was perfect for knocking off the decades of dirt and light surface rust and now most look like new. 2" and 3" Brown & Sharpe outside micrometers got the same treatment, and fill a hole in that measurement range. Several nice hammers, too, and between the two 16 oz. ball piens i brought back I'll be able to make one good one. Rust got the head on the one with the good handle, and the handle was cracked on the one with the good head. :confused2: I left behind lots and lots of shotshell reloading stuff as I don't do much of that, but will have to find a place to put the metallic cartridge components that did make the trip. Probably a hundred pounds of lead for bullets now resides in plastic buckets on the back porch. A few shooting books by folks like Phil Sharpe, Jack O'Connor, and Ernest Hemingway (yeah, THAT Hemingway) are now on shelves where they belong, awaiting their time on the night stand. I also uncovered several old Christmas and birthday gifts I'd made to both my Mom and her partner that had apparently never been used. One will be a backup to my Cuisinart food processor, as it's identical and purchased at the same time. Same for a nice folding skinning knife. Then there was Grandpa's switchblade knife, probably taken off some thug when he was a Columbus, Ohio cop. Never did find his blackjack though, which I remember seeing as a child when cleaning out his house after he passed.
Also took some time to prepare photos of the old man's gun collection, then sent them off for an appraisal to Rock Island Auction Company. They're still back in Ohio with the neighbor, as shipping in and out of Kalifornia would have been a real PITA with the laws here. We were going to put them in the same auction with the household goods, but they're all too good and somewhat rare (pre-'64 Winchester Model 12 shotguns and Model 94 and 70 rifles, several Anschutz 22s, a sweet Belgium Browning over and under 20 ga., and several high level competition custom rifles). I'm not expecting a fortune, but more want them to go to people that appreciate them for what they are and will put them to good use.
I reassembled a nice set of fireplace tools this morning while waiting for breakfast to cook, and will tackle the dinette table after I finish this. Also decided to give the Yamaha another try, and this time it fired right up. I'd set the battery chargers to come on one day a week for 12 hours while I was gone, and apparently that wasn't enough. The one in the BMW dirt bike was nearly flat, too, and two days on the charger have failed to revive it.
