Pellet heads!! What's up today?

Leaves are bad, acorns are worse!

 

Nope, not this year. Can't during the week because I we are undergoing ISO recert audits this week (I'm an integral part), so can't take off from my day job. And then I work at night too. Weekends are for getting stuff done like mowing, fighting poison ivy, working on house etc. Plus, since I ride alone these last three years, there is no reason for me to go; the past two years I rode thru the blvd at 9 am on Saturday to get my picture taken, never stopped, just kept on heading north. I don't need anything, certainly am not there to look at girls, don't like crowds (or people in general), and there are way too many idiots doing stupid stuff on the road. I'm also not out to be seen and I've been to Laconia every year since early 90's, so I know what I won't be missing.

I will do a little riding, but plan to stay away from the area. Saturday night I'm lined up to go on a Sunapee dinner cruise with some of the local HOG chapter. Don't even know if I'll ride to that as I don't usually ride at night (in the dark) unless it is a well know route and road.

 

This "Juneuary" weather is great for working in, but this getting up to 60 F in the house is starting to suck.

On and off showers not real helpful for trying to get my drapery brackets painted outside either.

Managed to get the dinning room drapes/brackets and rod all done yesterday.

Another part of the project in the books.

Today is still a ?????????????

Not sure what we are gonna do today.

Still a fair amount of work left.

Painting
One set of drape brackets left to build.
One drape rod to machine and polish up.
Some baseboard to cut and tack in.

The one window left to do gets valance only as it is close to the stove and there can't be anything hanging down.


Ahhh well.

Just pick something and get after it.

 

Amen to all of that. Laconia has turned into a glorified swap shop and most of it junk. Seems like there is just not as much up there to do with bikes anymore. If you want t-shirts, its your place.

I have been up once in the past 4 years (last year) and was bored within an hour. People watching is OK for a short time but even that is best on weekend nights. I would have liked to see Steve Tyler last night but the thought of a general admission concert at a drive in that will be a drunk-fest has lost its appeal to me. My younger years I would have been all over it, but today its not worth the hassle.

Ride Safe sister

 

Well, havnt experienced that one and dont want to but I take your word on it....

 

Very tasty

 

I think I see your retirement plan right there.....Willies Bar and Grill

 

Pete this is very good too

 

I'd prolly drink and eat the profits

 

Since its retirement, that's the plan.

 

Funny how that seems to happen in a blink.

Rode for year after year with nothing except goggles in front of my face and a skull cap on my head.

One July day a sudden storm hit on 9L and it felt like bee stings and June Bugs hitting me front on. Did a 180 to the bike shop and bought a wind screen, biggest one I could find. A very pretty purple it was to match the Mercedes Plum Purple the bike was painted. Went to an approved helmet shortly after.

 

My windscreen is only 6.5" - but it keeps the worst of bugs and light rain away (it is a recurve, so directs a lot of the airflow just up over my head). Still get plenty of wind in the face though. I tried a taller windshield (actually it came with this bike) and I really didn't care for it so sold it - I was glad I had kept the screen from my previous bike!

 

ABSOLUTELY...!


Dan

 

Thank you soooooo much, Darlin'.......

(I'm just too old school for that stuff... gloves are about it for me..)


Dan

 

I can Like only some of this. The rest is Unlike

Good luck with the new doc. That is never fun changing doctors for anything.

Enjoy your Fathers day on the water with Joey

 

Yesterday was not a real stellar performer from a progress standpoint.

Managed to get one more wall section painted that included taking the T stats and the smoke alarm off the wall to get a good job.

Got the last two pieces of steel formed for the last window brackets as well.
Picked up the last piece of aluminum tube (Drape rod) and did the machining on it to get it all fitted with a wood insert in each end to accept the Oak Finial on each end.

Weather has been unpredictable this week with Boomers blowing up by early afternoon and getting things wet outside.

Maybe today things will be a tad better and I can get some more baseboard cut and fit.

Here are some pix of things.

Worked sweet stuffing a wood dowel into the alloy tube and securing it with a set screw.

Drill the dowel and screw the finial into the end and snug it up.

Gives things a finished look and keeps the drapes or rods from getting dislodged from the brackets.

The tube and brackets for the LR window (still working on them) Cost $41
That was for the formed 14 ga steel pieces and the tube.
The finials are just under $10 a set

Pretty good deal compared to the store bought stuff, especially the sturdiness of the custom made stuff.

Gotta get the painting behind the Quad done before hanging the drapes.

Figure we can scoot the big screen out to gain access to the wall, then get the paint done as well as the brackets mounted and the baseboard done as well.


Then comes the final on the big windows.

Gotta take the entire setup down and paint the areas of the wall between the windows and then paint the brackets.

The outer tubes need to be fitted with the dowel inserts to accept the finials.

The WEST END JOB will likely take a day or more to get it complete and stuff rehung.

Once the main paint work is done we need to repaint the vent on the li'l whit and finish the faux stone paint work on the wall behind the stove.

Getting excited about having this task done.

 

Good luck with the med stuff.

Never fun to deal with these things.

 

Jt, that doesn't sound like an enjoyable Saturday.

Snowy, you're getting there.

As for this old critter, my girls got me one of those tinker-toy sets called a smoker which is the equivalent of torture. It is one thing for me to get down another entirely different thing on moving around while down or getting back up. I might get it together by the end of the weekend.

Looking at a few pages of documentation on an ArmV8 processor, might spend a couple of dollars and get a Raspberry Pi to play with.

 

Ah you, are going to run a non profit, is it going to be a 501-c3 educational one?

ETA: got the numbers a bit mixed up.