What's up today (bullchiting) thread.

Burned last evening and again today. Right around 65 in the cave now.
Painting the workshop walls again.

 

any time death comes this close it makes you think

 

Got the oil changed in muh mower. Could be mowing in 4 or 5 weeks.

 

I contemplated evening the weeds out on Monday but did something else.
Sunlight changing to the positive quickly now

 

well lukem, I got 3/4 inch of ice thick enough even grass is frozen.. spent four hours sanding ice skating rink I mean drive way

 

March 13th.
plenty of daylight this morning leaving the house @0515 and I watched the last of dusk fade away from the upper inlet of a turbine ~1845.
Loosing the morning daylight sucks for us early risers.

I've morning daylight on my side this weekend atleast, scrambling to get a turbine crew in for the muscle to pull a few combustor cans, and replace a little seal.
Anybody that ever whines about working on a car engine, quotes are $18-20k, for a job that should take less than 20hrs.
I could make it happen for under 5k, but they ain't cuting me a check for the difference

 

I had two millwrights on T&M today doing some weld repairs and they were gung ho on breaking flanges.
one is a younger ,taller, hard working, Gomer Pyle sounding gent, and the other older than me but sharp and a doer - something tells me the older guy wanted to see something new, but neither would ever come back if I sent them into the manway to align a seal that is a confounding PITA

 

How did your plowing and clean up go rottiman ? How is your elbow and arm doing, and feeling while your doing stuff?

 

Shoot he should be charging you for putting up with ya!

Gary

 

Don't know how much it means, but I just checked the forecast for the whole month and everyday is above freezing!! Unheard of!

Guess it's an early spring.

 

I see now that after two weeks, they just list average temps for the highs.

 

I am still smelling that sawdust smell that I had mentioned a couple weeks ago. It went away for some time, but the last two days, I can smell it again. Primarily at the computer station in the cave seems strongest, but even throughout the house on main floor.
I even went up into the attic above the 2nd floor to see if the chimney was leaking but the smell was very faint up there. The chimney was worked on a couple years ago, converted from brick to block but only the last few feet through the roof.
99 does not smell it at all!

The only way I can describe it is it smells like old dusty wood (like from inside a wall) that has been fresh cut on a saw.

Annoying!

If a chimney leaks, shouldn't the smell be distinguishable as wood stove smoke??