Good Morning!!!! 48F @ 4:30AM. Cloudy skies. High 58F. Winds light and variable.
Still no rain in the 10-day.
I don't think I've ever seen greener grass than that, Eric! Is that on the other side of the fence?:laughing:
Good to see progress on the vaccine front. A neighboring county has received 2400 doses but has only dispensed 120 of them. Each one takes 15 minutes to administer, there are 8 hours in the day, so they can only give 32 shots a day.
I might jump an inoculation class if they keep dragging this out until June.
It's a "don't call us, we'll call you" deal in this county.
Paid $7K for a full survey, including three corners, in '19, Mike. They also drove stakes every hundred feet or so, and did the paperwork at the county recorder's office. Hope you get off a lot easier.
Good pump and outhouse stories, folks. How quickly we've come to take running water for granted now adays, huh? Back in high school, one "friend" pushed a porta san over onto its door while a buddy was inside. That friendship never recovered.:laughing:
Thanks for the Shars link, Paul. It was an expensive visit, but I'm looking forward to the new boring bars, and a deburring tool to replace the one that broke the other day...
Finished the updates on the two firewood pallets yesterday morning just about the time the UPS man showed up with the new phone. The data migration took forever, and got stuck, so had to zero out the phone and start over. It ran most of last night, and looks pretty good this morning. Still hasn't been able to activate on the cellular network, but it's difficult to do when the cellular signal is so poor. Might have to wait for a town trip to do that. The OtterBox case fits great, though. And the new zoomed screen feature is just what these old eyes needed. I can read the fine print again!:thumbsup:
Got the 200 hour checks/maintenance on the
M62 done, too. It was just a filter change on the hydro system, but that filter was on so tight it bent the handle of my filter wrench. Fortunately it was the kind with the notches cut around the rim, and I was able to break it loose with a hammer and drift. And in spite of what the shop manual sez, I didn't need to drain the fluid just to change the filter, but I did lose a couple of quarts. I also changed the engine oil and filter. The tractor didn't come with any maintenance records, so there was no way to tell when it had last been done. Or even if it ever had. The book calls for the first change at 400 hours, but after almost five years, it was way past time.
Got a quote for homeowner's insurance yesterday, and it's worse than I thought. $4800 for fire insurance only, another grand for the liability and contents coverage. This is with a $10K deductible, the $5K deductible was even dearer. Very tempted to go without, but in the long run, I don't think that's a very smart thing to do as fire seasons will only get worse from here on out. Insurance broker gave me two more companies to check out, so I'll do that today, but I'm not holding my breath on finding anything more reasonable.
Caught the second episode of a new series called CalFire. It's covering the 2020 fire season in California with video and interviews shot on the fire line. It's interesting to listen to the stories by both firefighters and homeowners, and see the tactics in action. But it's also an eye opener, in that when a fire grows past a certain size, there's not a lot that can be done except maybe try to light a back fire to rob it of more fuel. And that sometimes ends up making the situation even worse if the wind changes.
