Good morning!!!!

[txdon]

Good morning! 27˚F heavy frost, cloudless sky heading to the 60s. Ice on the patio is all melted, knee swelling is down, back to the gym and proceed with my own self PT. The Dr. will have to see lots of flexibility at my 3 month appointment in March. I figure the fall set me back about 3 weeks that I'll have to make up some how.

Mom's Dyson stick vac was short cycling. I took all the filters out and blew them off with high pressure air. That seemed to fix the problem as it ran for 23 minutes continuously with beater bar attachment. Mom will be glad no $100 battery is required and my wife was glad to get the house vacuumed during the timed test run.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Crank is done

 

[daugen]

glad your knee is better Don. No going backwards...

watching the ice melt on my truck in the warm morning sun. Will be headed out in a bit to get gas and run some errands.

made progress calming unhappy church member down, seems while I was away for 7 years in NC he was trying to rise through the admin
ranks and felt the legacy/old guard held him back. His approach is a bit aggressive; I'm going to work on that and hope to corral his current negative energy
into something positive. Yes, I told him to tone it down...
Comes with the territory.

need to ask lady at apple orchard shop nearby what apples will keep for the longest, and start stocking up. Sometime in March they run out.

great pics Kyle. Even greater skill.

 

[Popgadget]

Nice work Kyle. I was wondering how hard the crank was, and hoping it was just surface hardened, so drilling it where it was broken wouldn’t be so bad.

 

[wngsprd]

Mom's Dyson stick vac was short cycling. I took all the filters out and blew them off with high pressure air. That seemed to fix the problem as it ran for 23 minutes continuously with beater bar attachment. Mom will be glad no $100 battery is required and my wife was glad to get the house vacuumed during the timed test run.

Did you wash the filter with running water? That's what mine shows for regular maintenance.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 64F @ 7:00AM. Sunny. High 77F. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph.
Still no rain in the 10-day.

Wow, you folks were busy busy busy over the weekend. Took a long time to catch up. Sorry about all the ice. That's tough no matter where you are, but if you're not even used to driving in snow, ice is impossible.

Glad your knee is OK, Don. Don't worry, you'll catch up, too.

The trip started off Thursday on a frosty morning, but by noon it was time to shed a layer and go to lighter gloves. The interior mountains and valleys along the way were mostly green from the December rains, but most showed signs of drying out, and few had any wildflower color to show. We had nice weather all weekend, with highs in the mid 70s F and light winds. Morro Bay is a cute little town, evenly split between the tourists and fishermen with a very active harbor. Would be a great, safe, family friendly place to live, but when I checked the real estate listings, even a modest 1100 sq. ft. home would cost almost a million dollars. We found some great restaurants and made pigs of ourselves, bringing home lots of leftovers.

Lots of otters in the harbor, this mama had a baby with her.

Lots of interesting street art, though this seat looked a little hard.

Morro Bay is named for the morro rocks in the area, which are a string of nine volcano cores that stick up from the surrounding landscape. We were able to walk most of the way around this one at the beach. People had built up little piles of rocks around the base on this side of it. There must have been a hundred of them.

The zebra bike ran great as always, though the LED headlight bulb somehow came adrift and needs attention. And yesterday at the last gas stop I caught my foot on the bag behind the seat when I was getting on and knocked the whole thing over. Sent myself sprawling but the riding suit absorbed most of the blow. And a nice young man helped me get it back up on the wheels. He did most of the work because my feet kept sliding on the spilled gasoline. It's due for a valve adjustment and also needs a brake flush. And since I can't remember when it was last done, I'll change the final drive and transmission oil, too. First I wanna get the touring bike off the lift, so I'll finish it up this morning.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

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Crank is done

What are we looking at Kyle? Looks like you tapped a bolt hole on the end of a shaft.

 

[sodamo]

60°f and .31 inches rain.

Back in the caretaker unit today, nipping away at details.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[daugen]

ran all my errands, enjoyed driving the truck though what a pain trying to park in tight supermarket lot.
Stopped and got apples on way home and a promise to let me know when they are running out and I can stock up.

decided to fire up the instapot and got several varieties of flavored sausage (chorizo and andouille) and all kinds of veggies.
Put it all in, turned it on and could not get the lid on. Struggled with it a dozen times. Makes no sense, worked easily last time.
Finally stared at the tiny print on the label and it was upside down. Sigh. 180 flip, chick chick.
geez, forgot the mushrooms, but maybe I'll add them later so they don't disintegrate.

went back and added a pouch of lentils and another one of black eyed peas. Good protein and can use less meat

Lovely relatively warm day out. Soon to go back in deep freeze but this is sure nice.

 

[daugen]

saw something new in Giant bakery, whole grain croissants.
One currently in toaster oven warming up but the little bit I nibbled was buttery and good.

will let you know how the next snow does, if it's under six inches. Any more and the rock flinger gets started.