Good Morning! 76.2F @ 7:45AM. Weather Underground isn't very talkative this morning, holding back on its forecast. But I don't need 'em to know it's gonna be hot, about a hundred, with maybe a thunderstorm over the mountains.
I think you've got it backwards, Drew. Since I got my tractor, time just flies by. I think the wheels are making the earth spin faster, and now the days are shorter! :laughing:
Good thing we've got a weekend coming up soon, Buppies, so you can stay inside and lounge around in the new A/C!
No, that's not the quarantine scene from Close Encounters. It's the van in the spray booth, ready for the evening's business. Yesterday the big money was to be made selling masking tape, Eric. Got all the doors and windows masked on the van, and found a new use for those cheap plastic painter's drop cloths. They're a lot easier to use when blocking off large odd shaped openings, like the driver/passenger doors, than paper. They don't tear, they're easy to cut, and you can see through them to where they need to go. The do tend to blow a bit in the breeze, which can be exasperating, but overall they're the hot ticket.
And speaking of hot, I was dripping wet by the time I finished painting this morning at about 2:30AM. But then I soaked my shirt through by 10AM yesterday, so that's not sayin' much. Got the plastic on the spray booth and the fan in place just at dusk, with the van tucked neatly inside. Moved the lights a little farther out on the ends and didn't miss the bad lamps on the front end too much. But the big surprise is how well the fan worked. Actually, it worked a little too well. I left extra plastic on the roof and wall sections so I could just roll them together to make a seal. Stationary store binder clips keep things from unrolling. Or at least that was the idea. A couple minutes after the fan started roaring, the booth had inflated like a dirigible, and the walls and roof ballooned out to the point that the clips started popping off. I thought I could get away without an exhaust vent, but even after I added one I couldn't keep the clips together. Unfortunately I didn't figure that out until after the first coat of primer was on, and the open seam was facing the garage. One of the motorcycles was uncovered and I'm afraid it got a pretty good dose of overspray. Got most of it off with a little bit of reducer, but there's lots more work there I'm sure. Other than that, the wacky jury rig worked out really well. I could see the paint going down, maybe not exactly where I wanted it, but that was my fault for being so out of practice. It had cooled off enough to start painting by 10PM, and I was finished by 2:30AM. Three good coats, only a few bugs, a couple of runs, but with me that's just par for the course.
I knew it was gonna be a good day when I found my missing quarter inch drive wrench hanging off a nut on the paper dispenser. It had been AWOL for at least a week, but had been hanging out patiently there just waiting on me to get back around to working on the dispenser again...
Three hours sleep isn't much to go on, and I think I feel a nap coming on...
