What did you do today?

[8ntruck 8,884]

Over the last couple three days, we've been playing 3 dimensional magic tiles.  Mrs 8N wanted her sewing room moved.  This involved moving desks, tables, and shelves between houses and between basement and main floor.

 

To help with the shelving swap between the house and lake house, I woke Pack Rat, the AC B-110, up from his winter nap today tow the garden cart between the houses to swap the items.

 

This tractor has a very grabby clutch.  It is very difficult to feather the clutch enough to NOT carry the front wheels off of the ground for a few inches. I've tinkered with this machine enough to get it usable, but it is far from where I'd like it.  Today, i decided that the clutch will be the next thing I'll tackle.  

[ebinmaine 78,940]

Morning tasks:

 

A#1 not negotiable. Drink coffee. 

 

Then, tractor fun... we're headed to the garden area this morning.  

 

 First - rip garden surface. 

Then whatever conditioning Trina decides... Re-pile rows, mounds or whatever...

 

Plant. 

Add manure. 

 

Then, a few trips from the front yard, around the far side of the barn, to the garden, hauling the mulch I made with the Mackissic chipper shredder. Busy day coming up. 😀

 

[rjg854 13,061]

1 hour ago, ebinmaine said:

Busy day coming up. 😀

Never fear,

Trina is here.

 

[ebinmaine 78,940]

1 hour ago, rjg854 said:

Never fear,

Trina is here.

 

 

You're darn tootin'

 

[squonk 46,628]

Tore out all of the old weed paper and an old trampoline fabric out of the garden. Then had to move 4 bucket loads of mushroom dirt and topsoil from the driveway to the front flower bed with Elvis. Halfway through I was thinkin, "Is there enough gas in this? "  Nope! 

[Sparky-(Admin) 25,331]

  Went with a friend for my first ride of the season. Around 115 miles, went up into Massachusetts and back. 
  Good ride, bike ran well. No idea why but the right front turn signal busted off. Duct tape repair on the side of the road got me home. 
 I don’t have GPS and we both wanted to avoid all highways, so I scribbled directions for all back roads on paper and shoved em in my pocket to be referenced when we stopped 

 

 

 

 

[ebinmaine 78,940]

14 minutes ago, Sparky said:

Around 115 miles, went up into Massachusetts and back. 

 

Pretty country up through the southern Quabbin region there. 40 minutes up Rt 202 and you're near my mom's place.  

We'll be down the weekend of the 13th to help her out some.  Stop by for 🐻 coffee.  

[19richie66 17,883]

Went outside to dream. Can’t wait to get this building done. 

[8ntruck 8,884]

I was hoping to get the pontoon ready to go into the water today.  Didn't go to well.  The engine started without a whole lot of hassle.  Had the garden hose earmuffs over the water intake, but there was no indicator stream.  I pulled off enough cowling to check the hose between the engine and nozzle.  Yup, it was clogged - with a piece of water pump impeller.  I cleared that, and started the engine with the hose not connected.  No water - in fact, it was dry when I took the hose off.  I pulled the thermostat cover - everything dry in there.

 

I'll guess that the piece of impeller was from the one that failed last year, not the replacement I installed.  I was only idling the engine on the earmuffs, so the water pump flow might have been insufficient to fill the cooling system.  The next step is to take it down to the boat ramp far enough to get the lower unit underwater, start it up and give it some revs.  Ran out of time to do that today.  Got to get a rebuild kit coming - just in case.  Seems like an impeller ought to last more than a year - I don't run it dry.

 

"Tomorrow, tomorrow, there's always tomorrow.  Its only a day away."

 

 

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[Razorback 1,322]

I got a couple of rows of Roma 2 Italian flat green beans planted. Watered them in using a 12V source, an RV water pump, and rainwater collected in a 275 gallon tote that is by my shed. I also watered some lettuce, kale, collard greens, and water melon that got planted yesterday. Took the time to run lots of ater on the compost pile.... almost emptied the tank. So, I moved the pump to another tank down the hill by the house and am refilling the tank by the shed.

I still need to get a 4th tank to put at the high side of the garden. 

These RV pumps and totes come in real handy with the garden.