Good Morning!!!! 71F @ 5:30AM. Partly cloudy. Areas of smoke and haze are possible, reducing visibility at times. High 94F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
The old industrial Consew here does one straight stitch but does it very well, through almost any imaginable thickness of cloth or upholstery. It's about to get a workout if the van ever gets back and I can start working on door cards. The foam and vinyl are already here...
Smoke, smoke, and more smoke. Most of it from the Mendocino Complex, which is now the largest fire in California history. Several others are contributing as well, including the Donnell Fire and now the Murphy Incident, burning in the shadow of the Chips Fire not far to the east of here. The Chips burned 71,000 acres in 2012, and it took the winter rains to finally put it out.
COD: GOES16
Installed the air box on the old BMW yesterday, then dug out the carbs and found one had been completely disassembled but not cleaned, and the other untouched. Don't remember doing it, but I must have. Very stressful time, so not surprised at the lack of memory. A nice surprise was finding a box with all the new parts needed to do the job. And I broke down and ran the body and top through the bead blaster, supposedly a no-no because it takes off the finish and clogs the ports, but with the ultra fine bead I'm using I didn't encounter either problem. More of the same today with the other one.
Wife's sewing station, middle and left machines are embroidery units. The middle unit has software that runs on Windows XP. While we don't do much embroidery, she does quilt labels on them. Her serger is on dining room table along with lots of fabrics. She usually gets quilts ready to be quilted and then rents time on a long arm machine. She has the leaders with zippers so setting her quilts up on the long arm is fairly quick. She also uses the middle machine in the photo to quilt (releases feed dogs and uses a special foot, even has special gloves). I think it is called free hand quilting? 
