Good Morning!!!! 49F @ 5:15AM. Sunny with gusty winds developing this afternoon. High 68F. Winds NW at 20 to 30 mph. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.
Gosh, Bill, I can't even imagine having that much snow around a house that it would be up to a window! Looking forward to your pics. In case misery loves company, it takes me at least two hours to get the hackhoe onto my Kubota. It's a home made hitch, so I have no one to blame but myself, but it's a lot more solid than the 3PH abomination from Nardi, and safer for the transmission cases, too.
The suspense has us all on the edges of our chairs, Don!:laughing:
Somehow I knew you'd have a better deal on Oil Dri, Rick. Amazon's free shipping isn't always free, huh? :confused2: Gonna see if I can find a local source when I go into town this week.
It threatened rain all day yesterday, with dark clouds overhead and a drop or ten once in a while, as if to say "see, I can rain anytime I want. You sure you wanna start that job now?" I did, and I got the last two mounts for the transaxle changed with little fuss. No rusted fasteners to contend with, fairly decent access, and it seemed to go back together just fine, too. Since I was on a roll, I got out the spare tire and used the jack to lift it into place under the front of the van, between the wheels, and it just barely fit. The stock wheels are 14 inchers, and I went to 16s to fit over the disc brake conversion. Tire diameter increased a little, but the 16s are almost two inches wider. Had to move the mounting bracket for the spare holder down, and will have to re-rig the fastener/hook at the front as well, but the spare does fit after moving some wires and hoses around. Also found where someone used some wire to hold in a stainless steel coolant pipe and provided no padding, which would eventually wear through and cause a leak. So that's on the agenda to address today.
Right about supper time it did finally rain, more of a drizzle, but it seems the rain gutters on the van collect the water and dump them right where one would crawl to get under it, so I had a wet shirt before I was done under there. Finished the day by filtering the contents of the ultrasonic tank back into the Krud Kutter jug through coffee filters, just watching the rain come down as the KK s-l-o-w-l-y dripped through the funnel.
Got word that the neighbor had the staples taken out of his leg were the chainsaw bit him a couple weeks ago. Said it hurt like heck! Then he told me he had chainsaw chaps on when the accident happened! Said it shredded the chaps, but without them he guesses he'd have lost is leg.:shocked:
