Good Morning!!!! 64F @ 5:00 AM. Abundant sunshine. Visibility reduced by smoke. High 88F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
That's quite a rig, Kyle, even to the color coordination. We took the neighbor's goose neck trailer to the scrap yard yesterday, and I couldn't even tell it was there on the trip down and back. The first and last five or so miles are pretty bumpy country roads, too, but we only had 500 pounds of steel for payload.
That one and only water truck delivery was pumped to the high tank via the drain line, Eric, so that should have purged it. I've also fed the low tank a couple hundred gallons from the high tank, again through the drain line. But what I can do, since the trench is still open, is lift the drain line and sort of walk it up the hill starting at the bottom, and that will maybe force any bubbles up the hill and burp them into the high tank. I also haven't tried to draft water from the high tank with the fire truck yet. That's the whole reason for the high tank, and as soon as I get the trench filled in I'll move the truck within suction hose range and we'll see.
Those Rowan berries look an awful lot like what we get on hawthron trees here, Eric. Wonder if they're in the same family. Do Rowan trees have thorns like hawthorns?
I haven't seen it mentioned in the Austin dialog yet, but my guess is it has the same kind of problems with homelessness as most towns in California. Chico, CA is one of them, too, but in the last election, five of the seven city council seats were won by folks that feel offering a hand up, rather than a hand out, is a more appropriate response to the problem. First thing they did was ban a state run hypodermic needle hand out program, and the next thing was was ban camping in public parks. The parks have been destroyed, physically, by transients: filth and needles everywhere, feces and trash in the waterways and creeks, crimes including murder in the parks. But a lawfirm filed a suit against the council and got a stay in enforcing the ban until the city can come up with an alternate housing plan for the homeless. Apparently in another case in another state supreme court it was ruled that you can't arrest people that can't afford campground fees and who insist in camping on public property. So now even small towns across the country are being forced into housing people at taxpayer expense. That kind of legal maneuver does nothing to help the homeless, it only prolongs and enables their squalor, drug abuse, criminality, and poor decisions.
We made out pretty well at the junk yard yesterday. We were all set to snag a pile of brand new rectangular and square tubing, but the forklift driver said it belonged to the owner who had just purchased it for one of his projects.
Still lots of choice for alternates, and I think we're good for the grizzly frame now. We even found a 1" grid mesh made from really heavy wire that will work fine for screening out soil. I was able to get the front part of the grizzly tacked together and up on some sawhorses to finish welding. Had to stop when the wind kicked up and blew the shield away, though. So that's on the agenda for first thing today.
