Good Morning!!!! 62F @ 5:00AM. Plentiful sunshine. High near 80F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph.
If it breaks 80F today, it'll be the first time this year, and one of the earliest times it has done so.
I don't know what's in
this stuff, but it works really well. I had one of those split skin things on my thumb, next to the nail, before I started the concrete work yesterday, and by the end of the day, it was larger and really sore. Three applications and a good night's rest later, the soreness is gone and the wound has closed up.
Yesterday's market rebound put a quick end to my attempt to do some bottom fishing. But with four more deaths in Washington state, I don't think CoVid-19 is anywhere near done with us yet. Thanks for posting good, practical, advise, Ron. No more handshakes for me, at least for the foreseeable future.
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Got an early start yesterday, at least for me, and was mixing concrete again by 9AM. Would have started earlier, but I took some time to make a sheet metal collar to form the concrete at the top of the post hole. It came out surprisingly round, up until a bag of concrete slid in the bed of the side-by-side and turned it into an oval, and remained somewhat misshapen in spite of my best efforts to repair it. Didn't end up using it anyway, and just dug out a little dirt from the edge of the hole when it got almost full, and 80 bags of concrete later, all the posts have nice round pads of concrete around them, with the posts mostly centered. Used every bag I had on hand, and could have used a few more. But by the time I was out of concrete, my butt was making a third track and my back was looking forward to a strong adult beverage or three. for purely analgesic reasons, of course.
The old concrete mixer pretty much ran all day yesterday, with only one hiccup when the lever used to tip the drum came off. All that vibration loosened the nut on the bolt that secures it, but the junk bin held a nyloc replacement that should be more permanent. I think a couple of tack welds could also quiet some of the rattling the things makes, so maybe I'll find time to do that today, too.
With the warmer temperatures over the next few days, I'll try to get a few things on the van painted, if the wind ever stops. I'm already seeing 20 MPH gusts this morning.:confused3:
Think I'll get the braces off the solar grid posts today, and get the drain line laid and buried out at the shipping container. Somewhere in there the building inspector is supposed to show up; maybe they'll have a time window posted on their web site a little later.
