A little better this week

 Hello everyone,

This week moved along a little better. Not much done on the van but got some other things done. The van’s on hold while I’m waiting for the electrical parts. The battery isolator showed up yesterday, still a few more things.

I built that double sided step stool for the shop, that took me a couple of days. It’s hard to get in the top of the big cabinet in the pictures, and when I let my wife help “organize “ the shop, she put stuff she would use in that cabinet. It’s made out of 3/4” plywood, so I cut the circles out of it to make it lighter, and it ended up looking kind of cool!! Two for one, form and functionality!

Wednesday the wife and I kind of took off on an adventure. Drove up north and bought myself a lifetime National Parks card, and then went farther north up into Michigan. Had a nice time, ate a very nice brewery, that happened to be closed to indoor dining but they let us eat inside anyway! It was just us and the owner’s, nice people and good food!

Thursday my middle son and I finally returned the tv the boys bought me for Father’s Day. We had it outside under the pavilion and it worked about 6 weeks and went dark. We had another tv so we just changed it out and put it behind a couch in the house and kind of forgot about it. He had purchased a warranty on it so it was kind of a fiasco but we got her done!! Ended up with a much bigger tv for my shop and it only cost me $150. The difference between the 43” one and the 55” one. Not too bad.

So, the tv is installed but we were having problems solving the surround sound setup. It works but not in surround sound mode. I’ll eventually figure it out. Maybe........

We’re supposed to get some significant snow fall in the next few days and so I wanted to get the tractor ready. I usually remove the mower deck because it’s wider than the bucket. This time I needed it off anyway because it had a broken wheel again( this time it was me!). Removed the deck and put it up on the work table and started whittling away at it and hopefully it’s repaired.

Not too pretty but repaired. The wheels are set that way to slide it back under the tractor, I may not do that just yet. I’m going to order new blades this year and I’ll probably do that now, and get a little ahead of springtime work.

Well, I think that’s it for now.

Talk to you soon,   

TVI