51F and partly cloudy @ 13:30. That should be the high for today.
Yesterday's high was 67F, which set another record for the high temp on that date.
Up late today, was out in the garage until around 03:00 last night, got to bed around 04:00.
Yesterday would have been a perfect day to be cutting down plywood sheets with the circular saw so that they are easier to handle. Only problem is that I'm not far enough along with the plans to know what they need to be cut down to ...
I contented myself with checking the tire pressure in The Woman's ride and airing up those up (all were low) Stuck the code reader on it as well and read the current code P0174 - lean condition - and cleared it. We'll see if that was a fluke and whether it comes back. So far it hasn't.
Aired up the tires on ther Sprinter while I was at it and checked on the plywood in the back. It appears I have a pretty good leak at the roof vent. Will need to handle that at some point, probably with some Lexel.
Woman also took advantage of the nice weather: She was out working in the garden rolling up weed block that we never got around to taking up last year at the end of the season.
Emptied out the buckets of cat litter and compostables into the bucket on the Kubota and hauled that up to the compost pile and buried it.
Decided to take advantage of the nice weather so I graded the driveway with the box blade and pulled a little material from the crusher run pile to fill in the chuck holes that were starting to form.
Trip down to Canal Fulton the other day ended up being rather illuminating. Noticed that there is a new Tractor Supply going in next to the Belle Stores on Portage. Having a TSC within a couple miles of home will be very handy I'm sure. Wish it was a Rural King though.
Tuesday evening I got 99% of the gum and varnish cleaned off of a 3/4" straight router bit that was included with the router ... that will come in very handy after the "unfortunate incident" the other day.
Failed to get the dovetail router bit sufficiently tight and it walked up in the router collet while I was routing a slot ...
I'd be lying if I said that there weren't any adult beverages involved in that fiasco.
Tuesday I got a notification that the four 4' LED lights had come in up at Menards in Kent and being as I was itching to get the slots done I headed off to pick those and JB Weld Wood Putty up to fix the disaster.
Spent $20 on two tubes of JB Weld ... and just about the time I was pulling out of the parking lot it hit me: why not just use a straight router bit and route out a larger slot and glue in a dutchman and then route the dovetail slot in that ?
I have the bit (mentioned above)
I have the glue.
And I have a piece of 3/4 x 3/4 x 8' pine molding ... which looks like it almost matches the table top color-wise. By the time I hit the on ramp I had convinced myself. The JB Weld will be going back.
Stopped by the grocery on the way back and picked up some potato chips for The Woman and a couple of cans of cat food for the furry beasts until we can get out and do a proper restock at the pet store.
Woman had baked a few more potatoes and had the meatloaf and gravy warmed up by the time I hit the door.
She actually had a meatloaf sandwich Tuesday night, a definite sign She was on the mend ...
After dinner that night I got the slots cut in the piece of ply for the pipe clamp rack.
Three pieces of 2 1/2 clear tube cut and edges cleaned for the quad blast gate manifold.
Relief holes drilled in blast gate parts and some sanding done on those to remove what was left of the glue.
Last night after I finished grading the driveway, I realized that I hadn't been over to the barn to check the live trap so I headed back out and ran over with the Kubota.
Sure enough, there was a 'coon in the trap.
Scooped him and the trap up and brought him back over for some swimming lessons.
Once that was done I came inside and had a meatloaf sandwich which The Woman had fixed.
By the time I was done with that it had gotten too dark to dispose of the 'coon so that got left for today. A rather distasteful task to be sure, but much better than the alternative.
Spent more time working on the blast gate manifold last night. Got the last two pieces of clear plastic tube cut.
Also got upper and middle pieces of the manifold glued and screwed together:
These were the parts that had split.
Cut some strips of wood from a 2 x 4 to serve as a pattern/template and stuck those on the bottom piece of the manifold with some double-sided tape and then routed out a recess to form a channel for the dust and air to flow through:
Recess completed:
That bottom piece will get some 1/2" thick strips glued to its sides today that protrude above the top edge, allowing the two other pieces to be placed on top to form the blast gate manifold assembly.
Also started working on a couple of pieces last night to make a swing arm for a drop down vacuum hose that will be attached to the lumber rack on the wall. Sanding mostly, still need to layout the pattern and trim it out with the jig saw.
Hope everyone is having a decent Thursday ...
decided to plow driveway with pickup for the speed to roll the snow further...work well.
