Good Morning!!!! 44F @ 6:30AM. Sunshine and clouds mixed. High 56F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.
Looks like we're in for a bit of a dry spell and a sunny weekend. Time to put the sprayer back on the side-by-side and go after all the weeds sprouting up where they shouldn't.
Some of my mechanic's favorite excuses are that the parts either didn't come or not all of them came or the wrong ones came, L4N. Happens when I order parts myself, too. Easy to understand, since unless you have the old part in your hand, you have no idea what the new part looks like, and as long as there's something in the box, it should be OK to ship it, right? :confused2: Except when the gasket should be in there, too, but you don't double check your catalog to see that and don't put the gasket in. Nobody double checks their work these days; they don't pay us enough to go to all that extra trouble...:shocked:
Speaking of my mechanic, before the holiday he said he thought that the van would be running this week. Serial disappointer that he is, he didn't get the new transmission gear until this past Monday, so now it's at least another week before the transmission will even be ready for installation. He's not replying to my question about when the gear was ordered, so he'll get to talk to the bad cop when I drop by today to see what's going on.
More turn downs on the homeowner's insurance yesterday, and with pretty much all options exhausted, it's looking like a Nationwide subsidiary called Scottsdale will be my only option. They get lousy ratings on Yelp!, but seem to be financially solvent on A.M. Best and Moody's, but both give negative outlooks for their future. Probably because they're still selling policies to people like me. Hard to understand how they miss turing a profit, as my new premiums will be 230% more than my old one. One post I read recently suggested buying your own fire engine and keeping it in your garage. Since you live there, you meet the ISO standards for a fire station, and your Public Protection Class will improve to the point where you can purchase insurance again. Except the 24x7x365 part; I guess you'd have to start ordering your groceries in from Amazon.:laughing: I also read that in 2014 the insurance companies purchased the formerly independent ISO ratings organization, and coincidentally that same year the ratings criteria became much less forgiving. Nothing like letting the fox watch the hen house.
Yesterday, I got the steering damper mechanism installed on the old motorcycle and it worked, so this morning I'll take it back apart, lubricate it, and find some better screws and nuts to put it back together with. I'm missing the parts that make the position detents work, but I'm hoping I can find a pair of ball bearings and springs at the old time hardware store in town that'll be close enough. Oh, and groceries, too; haven't had a nice green salad with dinner for a couple weeks now.
Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!
