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Yesterday I took the grinder to the front gate. It's a long story but now it's opening and closing good. I spent the rest of the afternoon doing touch-up painting on it. I thought that it looked good. It was good to get back to piddling around the place. It's been 5 weeks.

Today, my back hurts a little bit so I'm doing nothing this morning. I'll meet my wife in town for lunch and then I've got some running around to do. Later I may mix up a couple of gallons of spray and go kill some of the weeds that have sprung up around the house. I'm waiting until next week to spray the whole yard using the little tractor. Spring is here.
 
Hi all, finally got the cabin security door and frame painted, now just have to make 13 bolts to thru bolt it on the work cabin. I think the snow is gone up there so I think I will try to go there next weekend and install the door and hook the spring piping back up.Marty
 

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EastTexFrank said:
I spent the rest of the afternoon doing touch-up painting on it. I thought that it looked good.
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Wrong!!!

It looked pretty darned good in the late afternoon shadow. In this morning's sunlight it looked horrible and I mean horrible. It seems that I used the wrong color paint. I used black satin and I should have used flat black. When I did a test strip yesterday and let it dry it looked like a perfect match. Crap. There goes my week-end. I'm going to have to do the whole freekin' gate again, both sides.
 
I'm off the entire weekend.
Just talked to sonny boy Ty for 2 hours.
Lots of wonderful changes going on in his life.
Jeff is happier now than he's ever been minus Ms. Germany. She told him when their engagement broke off that he would never be her "financial partner".
What a slap in the face.
Well Daddy is BMOC at USAir.
Goodbye!
He's finally coming to grips with that after 6 months being depressed.
Life sucks sometimes.
I love my kids and grandies and would do anything for them.
❤
 
Recovering from a grueling day yesterday. I have a small 2 bedroom house sitting empty for sale 3 hours away where I'm from. My realtor was in one day earlier in the week and it was fine. She went back the next day and water was running downstairs from a leaking pipe so she shut the water main off until I could get there to repair it. No damage to the house as it was pouring onto the concrete floor and straight to a sump hole.

So I left here at 740am. Drove 3 hrs. Got to work as soon as I got there. The pipes behind the washer were also leaking so I swapped them out. I got to work soldering copper pipes to reassemble them only to discover that my propane torch was acting up. After 2 hours of swearing at it I went out and bought a new torch and finished putting the pipes together then turned on the water only to get soaked from a copper pipe elbow that popped off a pipe above my head. Of course it was behind the tub surround so I ended up ripping that out to access it only to discover the pipe was too low to access from there. On the other side of the wall is the kitchen. Crap, do I want to get into tearing out the kitchen counter and lower cabinets to access it? Nope. I ended up cutting an access panel in the back of the kitchen cabinets and busting through a wall to get to it. At first I thought it froze and split like the one behind the washer. It had only separated where the pipes were soldered together. Easy fix. Cleaned it up and re soldered it. Done. I left after 7pm and got home around 1040pm. Loooong day.

Today we went to the city to pick up some clothes for our oldest. He's 16 and is understanding what it's like to shop with women. He turns to me and asks "How come a guy can walk into a clothing store and come out with 3 shirts and 4 pairs of pants in 10 minutes but it takes women an hour to buy a pkg of socks?" I just looked at him and said "Son, welcome to the life of an adult male"

About then, my wife and daughter were in the makeup aisle. Oh great. There goes another hour. So I mention to my son...and this is another one of those father son educational experiences..."Son, notice how there's 4 aisles of make up for women beauty products and only one shelf for men? That's because men are just naturally handsome while women have to spend hours in front of the mirror applying makeup to feel beautiful" The trick is to make your woman feel beautiful without all that war paint. Lmao.
 
Was going to do yard work today but was saved from that fate by rain. So last week I shot an antique Winchester I picked up, after checking it out loaded some 32-40 black powder. I had a couple FTF and the primers were backed out about .010. Monday I ordered a .010 oversized locking bolt and broke it down and cleaned it. the firing pin was sticky and I'm sure contributed to the FTF.
This morning after getting rained out I bore lapped it as there were some pitting going on but not to bad, none on the lands only some in the grooves. I started with 120 grit then 180 finishing with 240. The old barrel has some shine to it now. The new locking bolt showed up. Just finished putting it back together. Tomorrow I'm going to shoot it again. Marty
 
Worked on a choke cable for my '67 Jeepster for about 2 hours. I replaced the existing one that didn't work. New one doesn't work either. I think it needs to be rerouted a completely different way so it can be shorter and a more direct action.

I have a very mechanical friend (he's actually a rocket scientist, builds motorcycle, etc) and he is going to give me a hand with it. But I think I already know what SHOULD have been done in the first place and what I should have done the first time!
 
I sprayed weeds around the house and the pool. Just enough to get it back under control. Next week I'll hopefully get the whole yard done with the little tractor and the 60 gallon sprayer.

I wasn't too enthusiastic about it but I did get the whole front gate repainted … all the same shade of black. We'll see what it looks like on the next sunny day. It looked great in the late afternoon shade with no sun but we've been there before.
 
Early to bed, early to rise.
I'm beginning my new schedule at work today.
Some tell me the 12 hour shifts are going to kill me.
I'm ready.
It won't be that bad as it's only 3 days per week.
 
Enjoying another week day off.
I'm going to like this.
I'm getting so sick (pardon the pun) of hearing "coronavirus" it's like mass hysteria x100.
This too shall pass.
Yup.
 
Removing the camper cap from the Dodge so I can haul a load of 2" Clean gravel to the Ozark ranch. This week end the wife and I will begin the process of reclaiming our Homestead there. We haven't been at the ranch for 4-5 years now. It is a wreck.

Plans are to mow the main yard. Fix the driveway, including new culverts. Re-attach to the power grid. That will take several week ends but hopefully by April we can put the new RV on the place and spend some time there.

This is our SHTF place and we should have known better. But life, as they say, gets in the way of your best plans. In our case, the adoption of our two grandchildren changed everything.
 
Enjoying the warm (for this time of year) weather and holding down the fort. State and local governments here are starting to panic over the Chinaman Virus and closing and cancelling almost everything.

We currently have only two confirmed cases in the whole state, yet listening to them talk you would think we had a half a million. Sheeesh.

Oh, almost forgot. I just put a Pork Roast in the oven. Looking forward to sinking my teeth into that.
 
TiredRetired said:
Enjoying the warm (for this time of year) weather and holding down the fort. State and local governments here are starting to panic over the Chinaman Virus and closing and cancelling almost everything.

We currently have only two confirmed cases in the whole state, yet listening to them talk you would think we had a half a million. Sheeesh.

Oh, almost forgot. I just put a Pork Roast in the oven. Looking forward to sinking my teeth into that.
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The wife came home from the hospital missing some parts, including her gall bladder. So, she cannot have it. Neither can the grand daughter.

I used to make a Cranberry Apple Pork roast which was to die for.
Oh do I miss pork!!!!
 
It's raining. Nice sloppy mess as we still have 2 feet of snow on the ground.

I did a bit of work out in the garage on my son's car replacing the inner rear bumper bar.
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Gong soon to my first rehab appointment fallowing rotator cuff surgery...

They say this is going to hurt.. But after a sling for 4 weeks, I say bring it on..
I am so looking forward to sleeping in a real bed, not a recliner. With my right arm in a sling simple things like going to the bathroom are not so simple. Heck I can not even button up my jeans, have to wear one of a few zippered jeans I have to be able to close them up.. And that zipper is so in the way when you have to urinate, as your willy gets drug one handed out and over that darn zipper.. :whistling:

I am ready to move on from here, and very soon!!

Regards, Kirk
 
TGIF!
I've got today off.
This weekend is my first ever working back to back 12 hr shifts.
Hopefully I'll survive lol
I'm going grocery shopping today and will see what's going on with this toilet paper situation.
My son Jeff said yesterday that the aisles were empty at Kroger, Meijer and Walmart in Defiance.

The Toledo Diocese are dispensing the faithful from attending mass, but stating services will still be held.
Also, the Knights of Columbus are not having their fish fry dinners inside the hall, but rather having side door pick up only, and fish only.
 
Woke up this morning to pouring rain so I don't know what I'll do today.

Yesterday my back felt so good that I emptied all the sacks of top soil that have been sitting in the bed of the pick-up for almost 3 months. I took them all down to the barn and stored them on a pallet. While down there I checked the fuel supplies. I think I'll make a run for diesel and gas today if this rain ever stops. My back feels pretty darn good after yesterday so maybe I can get back to living life.
 
Getting packed up for the scout camp out at the cabin. Good place to be away from all this coronavirus bs. We're only taking the senior kids to work on more advanced programming skills with them. Tomorrow will be a very relaxing day as they are going on a 6km hike unsupervised. Us leaders stay back at the cabin.

I hit the gym this morning. Then picked up a couple things needed for this weekend. Now to finish packing. I might try sleeping outside. I have a heavy duty arctic military sleeping bag with a water/weatherproof exterior shell that's supposed to be able to keep me alive at -40 without a shelter. Temperatures at night are going to be around -10 celcius.
 
EastTexFrank said:
Amazing, isn't it? When I went to the store a couple of days ago, it was hand sanitizer that was missing. One brand of toilet paper was sold out but that looked to be a stocking problem as there was plenty of every other brand. The idiots are out and about.
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The hand sanitizer was in several places in the store and plentiful.
There was also no facial tissue, paper towels or paper dinner napkins.
The breakfast cereal aisle was very low, as was the aisle with pasta and sauces.
I had to stand on my tip toes to get one of the last jars of Newman's Own sauce lol
Frozen foods section was nearly out of frozen pizzas.
The dairy was ok, eggs running low, cleaning supplies low too.

I used the cashier check out, which surprisingly they had 5 open with actual people.
The woman told me it's been nuts for 3 days now.
There is to be a delivery of toilet paper coming in around 6pm today.
I'm good on the bog roll as I normally buy it in bulk anyway.
 
I was at Walmart this morning. The only aisle empty was the toilet paper and paper towel. But people were lined up with shopping carts full of food at every register. People are nuts. With 5 kids in the house, we always have a good supply of everything. Especially living out in the sticks. If we had to, we could survive comfortably for a month or so. Sure, we'd run out of milk and eggs but the 3 freezers are full. The pantry is full. And this is before all the craziness this week.
 
The rain quit just after noon so I let it dry out for a couple of hours and then headed off on my fuel top up run. I should have enough diesel to get me through the year even if I get to working the place hard this summer. I've only got 40 gallons of gas but rotating the stuff has got to be a real pain. The only things I use any amount of gas for is the Gator and the generators if needed. The little amount of gas for the small engines doesn't count. Besides, if I need it I can get it.

I was due to get my whole house generator ordered this month but with the stock market going all over the place we decided on no large purchases until we can see what we are looking at. Oil prices tanking doesn't help us either. Don't get me wrong, we are a ways from being in the poor house but all the uncertainty is unsettling, even more so than the virus.
 
This morning certainly didn't get off to a grand start.
First of all, I didn't get the best night's sleep.
Sonny boy number 1 decided to call me after midnight and talk while sipping whisky.
This went on until well after 1am.
Finally I said; "look here you, I love you but I have to be up by 6:30 in the morning"

Then I went to the kitchen to make coffee. Filled the reservoir on the Keurig, turned it on to heat the water, plopped a cup in ... ready, set, go.
Walked into the bathroom and thought to myself hmmm that coffee coming out sounds extra loud/different.
Yup, coffee flowing out into the bottom, then all over the counter top. :hammer:
I forgot to put the cup in place.

So, if you're having a bad morning, just remember! things can only get better.
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