Good Morning!!!! 66F @ 7:00AM. Sunny. High 94F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
I don't know about you, Don, but I'd worry more about how whatever that thing is got into the house than what it is. It doesn't appear to have any teeth, fangs, or stingers, but something else that does could just as easily come in the same way
I don't enjoy holding people accountable to their commitments, Ed, but I'll do whatever it takes to get the van project done. Unfortunately, that just happens to be one of them.
It's always past beer-thirty somewhere in the world, Rip!:drink:
After several weeks of 100F+ weather here, Eric, I wonder if we haven't had enough summer already to go around?:laughing:
I have mixed feelings on that, Wng. If the park land was just left as it is, there wouldn't be as much need for park personnel to maintain it. And the more a site is developed, the more people it draws, and the more care it takes. Somewhere in there is a balance, but I think in too many cases we've gone way to far to the overdeveloped side, creating a maintenance mortgage that is very difficult to justify. One example: the gift shops, restaurants, golf course, swimming pool, and acres of motel rooms in Death Valley NP. They spoil the view for miles away and bring in ugly Americans from all over the country, some of whom don't have enough common sense to carry water with them when they venture out into the desert. Then the taxpayers get to spend even more money on search parties and helicopters to drag the lifeless bodies back to civilization. In that same park, millions of dollars in damage has been done in the last year by flash floods because infrastructure was mistakenly placed in ancient floodplains and arroyos. Instead of moving it to higher ground, it's all being rebuilt because it has "historical significance". London Bridge has historical significance, too, but it's not in London anymore!:laughing:
Found some nice stainless steel screws to replace the lost hardware on the van's dash, but they needed trimmed to length. The blade on the bandsaw needed changed, so it was time to get out the fixture and reel off another 95" of saw blade and braze it together. Never ceases to amaze me that that little spot of silver solder can hold up to all that twisting and chewing the blade does in use, but somehow it does. And what a delight it is to use a sharp blade; it goes through everything like a hot knife through butter. Ahhhh.
Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!
