Good Morning!!!! 42F @ 4:30AM. Partly cloudy. High near 65F. Winds light and variable.
Glad the fire department responded so quickly, Chris. Scary that so many of you find yourselves in fire weather this early in the year.
May be a little late, Ted, but maybe buy half the mulch you need now, put it where it'll do the most good, then keep an eye out for sales/discounts on the rest. Only half the gamble that way.
The problem I've found with those HF assortment packs is that I always seem to need a size of whatever that isn't included in the assortment. And I'm running out of room to stack those boxes.
Still catching up, but glad to see the saw running so smoothly, RS. Even happier about Drew's CT scan.
And more good news from Jay and Peg.
With CA1 closed at Ragged Point, we thought we'd make that a good turn around spot for a ride up the coast on Sunday. Everyone else stayed home and we had the road to ourselves. The weather was beautiful, too, but the temps put an edge on the wind. Finished the day by walking around the corner to pick up a pizza and enjoying another nice sunset from the motel room.
My buddy had spotted a two acre parcel that was reasonably priced that was supposedly located outside Santa Margarita, so we planned to swing by to check it out on the way home. Only trouble was it was a hundred miles "outside" Santa Margarita, but with another lovely day on tap, we said why not? The big reward wasn't the property, but the superbloom we stumbled across half way across the valley. Hundreds of acres packed with yellows, oranges, purples, and blues, a real artist's pallet. A perfect place for a picnic.
We continued on to the middle of the Carrizo Plain, through many more fields of flowers, including those in the Plain itself. The house was nestled up against some rolling hills, and was tiny as expected, with a front porch almost as big as the home. The shop was huge, if only the place was a hundred miles closer to the nearest grocery store, and in a more temperate zone. It spends most of the summer simmering in 100F + temperatures.
Yesterday's ride home was uneventful. With a couple hundred miles on the clock past engine break in, I set the cruise control at the speed limit and kept an eye on the MPG bar chart. It steadily crept up to 40 MPG and stayed there, letting make the 450 mile run without stopping for gas. The cruise has a radar distance following gadget in it, so the car would slow down when I came up on slower traffic, then speed up again all by itself when I pulled out to pass. No more fumbling with buttons.
Got a call while I was on the road yesterday from a Ford dealer way up in Susanville, CA. About two months ago I'd inquired via email about a Transit van they supposedly had on their lot but had never gotten a reply. The salesman on the line said it had just been delivered, and asked if I was interested. I said I'd like to see the window sticker, and would call him back if I was. Turns out it's the same van all right, but with additional charges of $6k, and another $2k worth of worthless options, he's not getting a call back. Talk about greed being out of hand; I hope he sits on that van the rest of the year.
The contractor was busy while I was gone, having gotten the building permit and inspections needed to make more progress. As expected, the portion of the chase below the chimney had suffered more water damage, and several rotted 2x4s had to be replaced, along with all the sheathing under the stucco. Hope to see more progress as the week progresses.
Happy Hump Day, folks!
