Good Morning!!!! 40F @ 6:30AM. Cloudy with a few showers. High 53F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Rain moving out this afternoon leaving partly cloudy skies, and not coming back anywhere in the next ten days. Mid 70s by next weekend. Sure hope we get to have a spring this year, as last year we were in the 90s before the end of April.
Glad you're OK today Thomas. I've slipped a time or two on the stirrup step on the Kubota, especially when my boots were wet. Easy to twist something on the way down, and we don't bounce like we used to, either.
Good to see you bouncing back, too, Randy. Ellen will never replace your wife, but there's no reason you shouldn't start making new memories with Ellen.
Mostly, I just don't understand why people insist on throwing bottles out the window, spreading glass all over the road. Takes a big piece to kill a car tire, but sure plays heck with the thin, skinny bike tires. And it stays there a long time, until the county comes along with a sweeper. Then the same people wonder why bicyclists don't stick to the white line, where all the glass they put there hides out. To you rub your tires with your fingers to brush the glass off? Started doing that back in the days of tubular tires, and still do it. Just not as easy to reach that back tire these days.:laughing:
I'd sure hate to be without my RTV. I'd never pay $25,000 for a new one, but then I quit suffering drive off depreciation a long time ago and always try to find something with a few years on it. Can't imagine trying to haul gravel/dirt in a golf cart, or even getting up the steep terrain here in one.
Sounds like you had a busy day, Kyle. Glad your back held up for the track and field event. Were you replacing seals/o-rings in that cylinder? Would you do it again yourself, or take it to that place Don uses and let them do it instead? Asking because my Kubota is gettin' pretty long in the tooth, and it's only a matter of time before it'll be my turn.
I also don't understand why voters tolerate predatory practices in government. Like Drew's robot traffic ticket, or bad treatment/ridiculous fees at the DMV. I'm starting to see big jumps in vehicle registration fees come through that were gifted to us by legislators in the last session, and you can bet I'll remember in November how they got that way.
Got the mag and generator cleaned up and installed back on the old motorcycle yesterday. Relieved to find that they both passed the electrical tests recommended in the manual. At least they did after I repaired one of the test leads; the end just came off in my hand! No wonder, it's gotta be at least twenty years old by now.
The felt wiper for the points cam is long gone, so I'll try to find something that'll work at McMaster today and get that on order. Than go back out to the garage and squint some more at the points, hopefully finding the sweet spot where they break at just the right time.
Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend!
