Good Morning!!!! 46F @ 8:45AM. Sunny to partly cloudy. High 54F. Winds NNE at 10 to 15 mph.
I bet your boy is proud of that cabbage, Kyle! If Drew grew 'em that big, he'd need a semi-truck to get 'em to the food bank!:laughing:
Lots of seat time moving snow out there; Don, do you need a winter vacation to help 'em out?:confused2:
A lady in the process of purchasing a house in my area asked our neighborhood Facebook group how we dealt with the stress of living in wildfire country. That led to a very informative discussion covering everything from sprinkler systems and debris removal to plant choices and insurance. Lots of helpful info; more homework to do for me.
Finally got around to replacing the clutch master cylinder in the Vanagon yesterday. Took about an hour mostly fumbling my way through it. Didn't spill much brake fluid bleeding the system at the master cylinder, but got a nasty surprise when I went to bleed the slave back at the transaxle. The bleed nipple was hard up against the mineral based insulation that surrounds the fuel tank, and there was no way to get the cover off the bleed nipple. I had to use a spoon to collapse the insulation and make clearance, which told me that the supposedly new slave cylinder had very likely never been bled. And from the looks of the master cylinder I took out of it, it wasn't new, either. I got it working better than it had been and now it goes into gear a bit easier, but from the color of the fluid that came out I should go back in and keep bleeding it until it runs clear. Yes, good help is hard to find...:irked:
Last time I came back from town I noticed a rather large manzanita bush had fallen into the road just up from the cul-de-sac. The trunk was badly burned and I'm not sure why the fire crews didn't take it out when they came through, but there it is. I have some branches to move down to the firewood lot anyway, so this morning I'll get the tractor out and take care of the manzanita, too. Then while the bucket is still on, I'll shovel the ashes out of the campfire pit and haul them down to a little gully I'm trying to fill up. The ashes should be out out out after last week's rains. Then the forks go back on so I can finally load a fresh pallet of firewood into the garage. That's enough to get me to lunch, and maybe a nap...:thumbsup:
