Good Morning!!!! 64F @ 6:45AM. Sunny. High 72F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
I was awakened about an hour ago by the wind causing the range hood flapper door to bang in the kitchen. Got up and went outside to retrieve a large sheet of cardboard I'd been laying on under the firetruck yesterday. It had only gone four feet from where I'd left it, but it was on its way to nowhere.
Did some paperwork yesterday to start, filtering out receipts on the solar power system to up the cost basis for this house at tax time. Then the last realtor showed up with pretty much the same story as the others told. Properties are in short supply, but demand is down because both interest rates and asking prices are way up. Add to that the super high cost of homeowners insurance, and not many buyers are left. Still some people are either financially blessed or have to move into this area for one reason or another, and the only way to tell if a property will sell is to get it on the market. A neighbor passed along another realtor's name, but after a few minutes on the phone with her I was still left thinking the first realtor I interviewed will do the best job. He was supposed to have a proposal to me on Monday, and unless he screws it up, he'll get the job.
Got a tank of RM43 sprayed before a neighbor showed up to work on the firetruck. He'd brought along a spare fuel pump, but we couldn't get anything to come out of the tank. Used my transfer pump to empty the tank and got seven gallons, so it wasn't for lack of fuel. I heard bubbling in the tank when he blew through the fuel line, so there must be some kind of check valve in the line. There's a 1/4" pipe thread plug in the bottom of the tank, so we'll use that to run a new line to an inline filter and then on to a new fuel pump and into the carb. Probably get everything from Amazon and finish it on the next visit.
Ran another five or six tanks of RM43 before the side-by-side overheated and I had to stop. Not a new problem, but one that wasn't remedied by replacing the water pump last year. It's not a problem until I start running up and down the hill at slow speed while spaying. Easy to live with because I don't spray with it very often. If the wind calms down I'll finish spraying this morning, otherwise tomorrow.
Power washing and limbing on the agenda for today.
TGIF gang!
