Pellet heads!! What's up today?

Opposites attract, she was a city girl and I will always be a country boy. we other than a few things have totally different interest, I let her do what she enjoys and vice versa, we still do plenty together but we don't over crowd each other. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

The boss is a people person, I am not. We have been married since 1971.

 

Storms moving through here at the campground cooling things down nicely. Nighttime shot of our campsite

 

Hey bogieb , any update on if you figured out the auto setting on the "new" a/c unit?

 

Looks like the holiday is ready to end. Having it in the middle of the week is sort of odd because it messes with schedules, but to be honest, I don't know how else it could be done. We didn't do much at all, certainly nothing "holiday" related. Didn't even BBQ. Too hot to go or do anything.

 

I'll find out today. If it is going when I get home it worked, if not, it will be hot and I'll turn it on manually.

Just a little illustration on what a couple of hours cooling in the morning can do:

Yesterday morning I left the house at 7 am - I closed up the windows just before I left and the house temp was 74*. The windows had been open, with fans going since about 9 pm the night before. I got home about 11:30 am and the house temp stayed at 74-75* until 1:30 (when the sun begins hitting the south and west sides of the house). By 3:30 indoor temp had reached 82 degrees and I started up the A/C.

This morning I left the house at 4:30 am and the house was at 78* (69* outside). So, I figure it will hit 82* earlier this afternoon that yesterday, so set the AC to go off in 10 hours (from 4:30). Should start up at 2:30 - assuming I finally got the button pressing right.

 

I wasn't allowed to because someone else always gets this week off (and no, not my boss)

 

spent yesterday assisting with a trenching operation to provide power and communications to our tractor shed. don't need much down there so we just ran dual 2" PVC. planning to install fiber to all the buildings for IP cameras.

I started this trench digging under the saw mill roof in decent material with my 25HP boomer tractor. got too tough for that as soon as I was clear of the building - a tumbled stone layer. Sean got his 570 Case, went about 5 feet and blew a packing on the swing. He wasn't making any progress anyway. Moved to the Koering 465 excavator with a 1 yard bucket. Now we're talking! in 100 feet we got out of the stone and into a beach sand layer. I left at about 4PM, overheated. But we had layered sand / pipe / sand / warning tape / decent material / and tumbled stone to the 100 foot stretch, and hauled away the extra material. the rest is dug, and all we need to do is lay pipe and cover as it's all sand.

We'll finish it Saturday. Sunday a replacement deck building party at my son's.

Had a nice picnic lunch with everyone that my Kathryn put on, with some help from a couple other of the girls. much appreciated burgers, macaroni salad and some other sides.

 

The wife and I took this whole week off. Been at the campground since last Friday, gonna go home later today to check on things and we gotta watch the grandson tonight then we will come back to the camper tommorow morning and stay until Sunday.

 

Ac in that camper? We tent camp but avoid the summer. Spring and fall for us. Have camped at 20 degrees. Brrr!

 

You'd be guessing wrong..



Dan

 

We raced with Bentley back in the mid 2000's....Silver Crown & some midgets. Crazy but really a lot of fun. Helped us get sponsorship from Boot Hill Saloon when we raced the Copper Classic in Phoenix in 2005. Bottom pic...that's me in the back w/ the sunglasses on. Racing w/ JJ Yeley for 4th at lap 65/100 and cam broke.

 

At least they are helping out. How much is the compressor?

Mine ended up being just a recharge....hopefully. As I mentioned, it held a vac so thats a good sign. IF it were the compressor, I was going to wait until I had the timing belt done as the real majority of the labor would have been done anyway to get to the belt.

 

YUP, learning not to miss a perfectly good opportunity to keep you mouth shut is priceless. Havnt mastered that yet but better at it......

 

I took the same time off but ended up in the office for 40 minutes to fix someones screw up........I happened to be in the area when I found out so popped in to make sure it was fixed right..........

 

I'm on salary - I don't get breaks. However, I can run out for a couple of minutes when I need to. I was in at 5, will leave at 6:50. be back by 7:15. I can't sleep in anyway - even on weekends I wake up early. Plus, there is a reason I get here early - traffic will add another 15 minutes easy to my normally 45 minute commute.