WU says mostly cloudy and 74F @ 12:30 ... but I'm seeing lots of sunshine out the window. Calling for a high of around 80F today.
Seedlings watered that needed it yesterday, plus some got fed. Peppers coming along:
Set out broccoli and cabbage in the shade to start hardening them off a little:
Got 3 bills scheduled online for payment.
One of them was the last payment on the Cub ...
Refilled both suet feeders.
Then headed up to the shop to start on the loader lift cylinder.
Got the gland nut on the cylinder to come loose just using the pin wrench and 3' pipe cheater bar. Had a very distinctive "pop" sound when it came loose.
Disconnected the hoses, removed the bolts from the pins and pulled the pins out and took the cylinder over to the small welding table where I let the hydraulic fluid drain out into a plastic container from the Chinese place.
While that was occurring I worked on cleaning the grease and residue off the cylinder body and when it finished draining I unscrewed the gland nut the rest of the way and took the cylinder over to the parts washer and pulled the rod/piston out of the body.
Got the body and the rod end all cleaned off and took them back over to the small welding table. Set the body on a 5 gallon bucket to drip-dry and clamped the rod into the vise to unscrew the nut that holds the piston on the rod.
Couldn't get the nut loose just using a combination wrench, needed the 1/2" air impact which was down at the house.
So I located a seal kit which I had in stock and headed down to the house to verify it was the correct one for the lift cylinders. Turns out it was so, I gathered up the 1/2" impact wrench and sockets and headed back up to the shop.
And that's where I left things.
Woman spent most of the day weeding in the garden. Then She went over to the neighbors to meet up with a mutual friend that is recovering from cancer.
Had Her run down to the corner and pick up 6 gallons of gas for the Cub on the way back.
Removed some electric fence insulators off some t-posts while I waited for Her to get back.
When She got back I refueled the Cub, which just filled both tanks.
Was too windy to do any spraying.
So I called it a day.
Spent some time on the phone with Amazon resolving the first real non-delivery issue I think we've had.
Item was purchased from a 3rd party seller on April 18th who provided all the tracking info. Estimated delivery date originally 24th - 26th. Seller showed package was picked up UPS within a couple of days of the order being placed. When I checked on it a few days after that it was showing the package was "delayed". Checked again last night ... now showing package was delivered on April 23rd.
Yeah, no ... that didn't happen.
So I spent probably 30 minutes on the phone, mostly waiting to get routed to the right department. Once I got there, the lady I spoke with said they would either issue credit to the method I used to pay (takes longer) or an Amazon gift card (basically a credit to our Amazon account, happens quickly) so I took the latter.
Woman has been around back doing more weeding in the garden.
Agenda for today:
Use what is left of glyphosate in the sprayers to spray the western edge of the new forsythia bed, assuming the winds remain calm.
Then maybe get those remesh panels put back up on the sawhorses and get those sprayed with phosphoric acid to kill the rust.
Front needs mowed again, like down at Mike's place the grass is growing rapidly.
Then back up to shop later for more work on the loader lift cylinder.
Hope everyone is having a decent Wednesday ...
