2025: What are you doing today?

[58 Yeoman]

Tony, the last house I'd bought in 1999 was built in 1936.  It was a really nice English cottage style, and I bought it from the original owner/builders daughter. Some rooms had four layers of carpeting, with the bottom being reduced to a sand like quality.  The latest carpet was shag, ala 70's style.  The daughter lived next door to her mother.  I asked the G-man how to get rid of all the carpet, he said to cut it into two foot strips, roll it, tie it and put out a couple every week for pickup.  Took a while to get rid of it all.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

Tony, the last house I'd bought in 1999 was built in 1936.  It was a really nice English cottage style, and I bought it from the original owner/builders daughter. Some rooms had four layers of carpeting, with the bottom being reduced to a sand like quality.  The latest carpet was shag, ala 70's style.  The daughter lived next door to her mother.  I asked the G-man how to get rid of all the carpet, he said to cut it into two foot strips, roll it, tie it and put out a couple every week for pickup.  Took a while to get rid of it all.

Phil, We have been cutting the carpet up like you mention for a long while.  We ordered another trash tote container and we put 1 trash lawn bag full of carpet and padding in each tote per weekly pickup. When we travel to metro Phx area to our Mobile home park , we take 4 or 5 bags of stuff in lawn trash bags. We place them in the dumpsters at the mobile home park.

We had a phree trash day for residents last week.  We loaded the F350 with carpet, padding and metal duct work that was removed from this house. It was a community clean up weekend for Holbrook. Many tons of garbage was hauled into the trash transfer station from various neighborhoods. This could be done every 90 days to help clean up the Holbrook area. Its pricey to have trash hauled off here. So folks just pile shat up in their yards.

[enjenjo]

Picked a batch of Morrell mushroom in the yard yesterday. Enough for a couple meals. I am started cutting up what is left of my HHR.

[jaybee]

Oh yum, Morrells! Lots of woods around here, but it's not really morel range. I've been seeing an older couple out mushroom hunting every night as I leave work.

[58 Yeoman]

Wow, Frank.  I've lived in this wooded area since 2008, and I've found exactly TWO morel mushrooms.  I used to hunt them years ago when I lived where I grew up, but don't know who owns what property around here, so I buy them from hunters.  There's a lot for sale around me, just haven't had time to connect yet.  I did call one local, but she said she was out.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

A few food items in our house are not popular. Likely due to growing up in the desert?  Mushrooms and shell fish will make my wife exit the room. Weird, she is Cheecago born? Only lived there 7 years. 

I have the bathroom vent fan operational. Photo of the attic work. Had to set a electric box (lower left) to supply power to the fan switch. Very quiet fan. It will hold a half sheet of paper towel to the vent screen. Not a crapper roll paper sheet. Real paper towel. These new exhaust fans for bathrooms, do not simply "come on".. They ramp up in speed slowly, About 3 seconds or so as the fan speed ramps up. The new fan I installed in the bedroom bath is the same way. Different brand and cfm rating.

Rained overnite here.  We have another tire kicker on our park model trailer in Sun City. Maybe this guy will buy it? He is a single guy, we are told.

2nd photo: rolls of carpet and pad removed from this place.

[chimp koose]

Did the last welding on the chopper frame . Chain tensioners are finished . tomorrow I pull the engine and paint the frame.

[kb426]

C.K., what color of metalflake?
LOL. By the way, pics or it didn't happen.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

I accidentally pulled a few fence posts out today. LOL

Gate entrance to my back yard is too narrow 10 - 11 feet.  I am opening it up to 14 feet. We have a call into a guy for an estimate on breaking up the concrete. My tired bones dont want to break up concrete.. That narrow strip of concrete shown in F350 with chain on fence post. About 30 feet of concrete to remove so i can widen up the entrance.

Main corner post I easily jacked it out of the ground with a bottle jack.  No concrete around it for some reason.

Other posts were pulled via the F350.. Last photo shows I throttled the truck up slightly.

[chimp koose]

frame is painted rustoleum semi gloss black . Metalflake is going on the tank and fender!

[58 Yeoman]

I rented an electric jack hammer for a half day to do about 25' of sidewalk.  That was enough for me. Then used my SCUT to haul off the concrete chunks to dump into a ravine on the property.  Still have the four end pieces to do when I rent the sod cutter to cut out the sod, then putting down rock so we don't have to cut that area. We'll have some kind of flagstone spaced as a walkway.  This is behind the garage where the backup gennie is installed, just about where I'm standing.

[chimp koose]

Well I removed the original ( I thought ) sprocket from the bike today to change over from the original 6 30 to 5 30 chain . The new sprocket was Identical to the old one and the old one can not be very used as it showed no signs of wear . Spent money on a sprocket I don't need but on the plus side I have most of the chain I need . Never really looked this stuff over before but it looks like the chain was changed with the sprocket ( actually had to be as its non stock 5 30 ). I am going to pressure wash the engine before it goes back in , then its time to hang the chains . I tried cleaning with that Dawn spray on dish soap and it appears to work pretty good .I also bought some stuff for cleaning Stainless steel appliances . It contains acetic acid , so I am going to try it on some inconspicuous place and see if it plays nice with aluminum . Anyone have other product suggestions that would work well for the clean up ? I have oven cleaner too , left over from the last engine cleaning I did .Our school car show is in a few weeks and I would like to have engine in , chain on ,speedo functional , and brakes working before the show . That would basically leave wiring and paint to finish . Getting pumped to actually FINISH a build as the last few I have started ended up sold before completion ( life gets in the way )       

[Crosley.In.AZ]

I have used Simple Green with good results on dirty greasey stuff. At near full strength or slightly diluted with water.  It the grime is hard dried , kinda baked on, the Simple Green does not work on that too well in my eggspearience.

Road trip on wednesday. 510 miles round trip... On the I-40 we saw a 1964 Impala low rider (on trailer) . It was white, chrome wire spoke wheels with tiny tires.  1969 RS Camaro on a short car hauler.  Then a 1971 ish Blazer 4x4 , no top,  on a another short car hauler.

My hearing aids are in repair shop jail. LOL ..  Make sure you type louder so I can read this stuff. Costco has the aids.  Sent into repair under warranty.  Months ago both aids seemed to stop providing sound to my ears.  The various chimes worked when you push the buttons for louder - lower, on - off.  Like the microphones quit working.  Now my right aid is doing the smae thing again.  SO , both aids are in the repair shop.

I must have told my wife 9 times yesterday: I can not hear you.  I can not understand you.  People do not understand hearing impairment unless you suffer with it.  I have extreme tinnitus too.  Without the aids , my ears ramp up the tinnitus noise .

[chimp koose]

cleaned the engine with Dawn spray on dish soap . The stuff worked well ! Spray on ,rub it in and rinse off . Engine was not super dirty so a paint brush a gasket scraper a brass pipe cleaner style brush and some elbow grease and it cleaned up well . Engine goes back in tomorrow . Also buffed out the rear wheel spacers and rear caliper mount .

[Crosley.In.AZ]

I am gonna wait for the estimate on $$$ to demo the concrete.. To rent the electric jack hammer is $125.00 a day plus a charge for the bit.  I found a rental company in Winslow AZ, 35 miles away.

Tonight I argued with a Rustoleum spray can of flat black paint. Tip clogged up. Its  only been 2 yrs since I used that can. Sheesh.  Could NOT clean the spray tip out to spray black paint. I had another Rustoleum paint and that tip worked !

Happy to report our park model mobile home  in Sun City has SOLD !  Money is in the bank.  I dont need that job at Walmart now. 

I lightly trimmed the tree in the back yard.  I cut most of this tree down last year. It was half dead, very messy leaves and seed pods.  I bought a Harbor Freight electric 16 inch chainsaw a couple weeks ago.  On sale of course with the HF  Inside Track club discount.  It was 60 dollars plus tax.  It is new , the chain is new and sharp. This chainsaw cut this tree up like a mad dogg.

I plan on building a table top for the tree stump.  So I cut the tree  down to table height.