Good Morning!!!! 75F @ 4:30AM. Sunny. High 102F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Air quality is pretty good now, but the wind is out of the northeast, and it's likely to get much worse.
Good to hear from you again, Ted. Sorry to read the knee isn't doing better, but glad you got some rain. Isn't it monsoon season down there now?
August 1. July has been a scorcher, I can't wait to see what August brings. Out of the frying pan, into the fire?
Sounds like a pretty challenging ride, Bruce. Especially with the heat. Did you soak your jersey to stay cool?
Finally got some clean air yesterday, and made a start on the wiring. Mostly prep, laying out and marking a path to uncoil the wire, and doing a little clean up in the garage. Decided to mount a junction box on a pair of t-stakes, so found a couple of bent up stakes and got them straightened out, then wasted 45 minutes looking for the stake pounder. I'd put it somewhere I wouldn't lose it.
By then it was lunch time, and too warm to work in the sun afterwards. FedEx had dropped off the new drive shaft for the red bike, so I went up the hill to get it. The Knack box was unlocked, and the mail man had left two parcels in it, but the drive shaft was left laying in the driveway. Glad we don't have porch pirates in this area, that would have been five hundred bux out the window. The day before I'd installed a new exit sensor on the gate, and the side-by-side didn't have any trouble tripping it. A fox had left his calling cards on top of the hockey puck shaped sensor, making is territory.
U-joint on the new drive shaft is nice and tight, so that should be the end of the vibration problem with the old one. Had to call a friend for help getting a circlip into place, got schooled in proper use of fingers and screwdriver. Then the usual routine fighting the rubber boot around the u-joint to get the four bolts installed, and got lucky with a magnet stick when I dropped one by mistake. By then I was too tired, hungry, and hot to wrestle said boot back onto the mounting flange of the transmission housing, so adjourned to the patio for a margarita and a cool shower.
Still no sign of Stubby, and it looks like his girlfriend Tasty might have a new friend. She isn't sharing her meal worms with him yet, though.
Can you find the helicopter returning to base after a long day fighting the Dixie Fire?
Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend.
