Good Morning!!!! 46F @ 6:30AM. Generally cloudy. High 51F. Winds SE at 10 to 20 mph.
Radar is currently showing rain overhead, but not enough to show in the gauge yet. Winds were very calm yesterday, but now are picking up. Weather guessers are predicting rough going in the mountains, PH, be careful out there.
Managed to get a pretty heavy piece of equipment off the floor and moved a few inches yesterday. That first inch up is always the hardest. Read somewhere that hardwood wedges were helpful, so cut a pair of them from some oak plank I had laying around. Slicked them up with bee's wax, and they worked perfectly. Then got the nose of my longest pry bar under, and up she went. Got it far enough from the wall that I can get the hydraulic dolly under that side, but first I want to put new rubber on the bearing surfaces of the dollies. I didn't do it last time and they were really hard on the paint of the machine. U-Haul has a nice 12' heavy duty drop gate trailer for about $35 a day + insurance, so that looks like the way to go from here on. Just need a few days of clear weather for the trip, something not in the current 10-day.
Spent a couple hours looking for a new primary care physician down south, still without any luck. There are plenty of doctors in the 60+ age category, but the last thing I want is to have to go looking again when they retire in a year or two. All of the younger ones are no longer taking new patients. Today I'll widen the search to include Santa Barbara city and see if that helps.
Got the backpack sprayer out and got through about 10 gallons of off brand RM43. Spent a lot of time looking for the two 2.5 gallon jugs of real RM43 I know I have, but they must both be down in Orcutt. Got through the last gallon just as the sun was setting, with just enough time to enjoy some Mozart on the back patio.
A fifteen minute walk from the new digs there's a pretty good used media store (we used to call 'em record stores, and this one has literally tons of old vinyl in stock). I went shopping there with some friends last trip, and came away with a double handful of CDs for the collection. At checkout, the owner starts piling on more CDs for free. Odd things like singles, that Mozart I just mentioned, even some pop, which I'll pass along to someone that likes that sort of thing. They got a
nice write up recently in the local paper, and I hope they can stick around for a good, long time.
Another inside day stoking the woodstove and cleaning up some paperwork. And packing. Always more packing...
