Good Morning!!!! 62F @ 5:15AM. Sunny. High 88F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Today a cooling trend starts that runs through the weekend, which also brings a chance of rain. But just enough to glue all that dust down to whatever it's clinging to now.
I had carpal tunnel surgery when they went in to pin a broken bone in my wrist, Bird. The surgeon that did the work left the pin extending out into the joint, and a year later a real doctor had to go in and fix it. In my experience at least, doctors are no different than mechanics, plumbers, or any other trade or profession, in that there are good 'uns and bad 'uns. The only difference is that thanks to the AMA, there's no Angie's List or Amazon rating system so you can find out which is which.
Containment on the Dixie Fire has grown to 75%, and good progress is being made on the other fires, too. Last week there were 15,000 firefighters on the lines, now it's down to 11,000. They think Lake Tahoe is safe now as well.
Neighbor suggested a quarry that might have sand, and they had four different kinds. They even deliver, but the phone call with the details never materialized. Just another sign of the times, I guess. I'm on hold doing any more trench filling until that's worked out, but it was kinda nice not ending the day all covered in brown dust for a change.
After fiddling away most of the day catching up on paperwork while waiting on that phone call, I said to heck with it and got busy rigging the water level sensor up to the big tank. First job was to mount the two side stops for the ladder, and the inner tube rubber strapped to the ladder ends really helped keep things in place while I drilled and screwed. So thanks for the suggestion!
Drilling a hole in the tank and putting the wire through was easy, but the bulkhead pass trough fitting wasn't long enough to make it all the way through the heavy wall of the tank. It was almost 5/8" thick! I found a spot facing tool and tried it out, but without a pilot, it just skidded all over the place. Didn't want to take the time, but ended up cobbling one together from stuff in the drawer, and it worked perfectly. There was plenty of wire on the sensor to reach the junction box, and the electrical end went smoothly, too. Back down at the pump house on other end of the wire, I measured continuity, a good thing the float switch was still up out of the water. But it wasn't out of the water by much, as all that pumping has the tank within a couple hundred gallons of full. Today I'll get the other end wired in, so more fiddling around in the pump house.
COVID-19 numbers are way up in the local hospital, so it's back to masks, hand sanitizer, and social distancing on today's grocery run. That same neighbor texted me saying he hasn't been feeling well lately, but he hasn't been tested yet. I plan to avoid him for the next couple of weeks, just to be safe.
Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!