I took R to school yesterday morning and as I sat in the line waiting for time for him to get out I felt the car idle wonky and the engine sounded a little "tinky". I got home and when I parked I noticed the temp gauge had gone up a lot and when I opened the hood there was a stream of coolant spraying from the bottom hose. Thankfully Napa had one in stock in town so @stryeyz grabbed it and brought it home for me.
It took me about half an hour in all to get it swapped due to the radiator taking forever to fill up again. I fought with the shitty hose clamps as well for a while but in the end managed to get it fixed. I'm REALLY glad I caught this before it lost all the water and seized.
Poor J had a torched eye, all swollen and puffy likely from him and R rough housing on the trampoline. We think he mashed his face into it and got the pollens and crap all in it. Eye drops and antihistamines and a day at home was what he got. He printed himself out an eye patch on the 3DP and wore that in the afternoon. By evening his eye was finally better looking.
We got a few sprinkles in the morning from the various clouds rolling through. Just a small smattering of drops was all I saw.
My new flight deck and reserve container arrived mid morning and I instantly got to setting it up.
I pulled my reserve from the other container, swapped the bridles, then spent a while figuring out how to get it fit correct inside. The new Ozone deck has a LOT of space in it for the reserve, WAY more than the Gin container.
I LOVE the setup of this one. I have tons of room for my instruments and the popcket on the lid lays in my lap in the harness and has the radio in it. A bit later in the day I hooked it up with the harness and got it setup right. It works perfectly that I was able to velcro the carry handle to my chest strap on the harness so it will keep it right where I want it through take off flight and landing.
My old Gin Yeti UL container that barely fit my reserve and had minimal spots for instruments. I'm thinking I will try to sell it to help pay for the new one.
Printed out the handle for the trowel. I have a very hard time with threads, they always end up shitty and get broken by threading the cap on... something I have to figure out.
The bees needed more syrup so I got a gallon of water and 5 pounds of sugar mixed then set outside to cool. It took a number of hours for it to be cool enough for me to fill their feeder.
By 2pm I was on launch as there were a few okay cycles coming through but from the EAST. I could see the clouds all around and the flat bottoms showed lift and thermals around.
The clouds looked like they would have winds with them and I got setup in hopes they moved my way and brought something with them.
It was a really frustrating hour trying to kite my wing as the winds were the most uncooperative, like a toddler holding up its nose at something.
The few times I could get the wing up it would be for seconds then the winds would switch and I'd have to kill the wing.
I had my eyes on the clouds as they moved around and a few nice sized ones came by but they had ZERO winds with them. It was obnoxious.
There were numerous clouds that were more than big enough and the biggest moved nearby and I watched the shadow move up the valley towards me, then a tiny blip of wind and then nothing. I looked up to the east and saw my eagles circling in lift up at 500 ft agl.
It seems that the clouds had built in the plains and as they moved northeast the thermals hit the terrain near the city and disconnected from the ground. So none of the clouds that moved over me were had a core still attached. I finally gave up when I saw the bus turn across the highway which meant R would be home soon.
The syrup had cooled enough so around 5pm I got it poured into the feeder then stepped outside to finish weeding the garlic. I got through all the rows but I still have to go back and cleanup along the fence which is still invading the row.
The sheep were quite happy for the munchables.
I edited the code for the coop door and will hopefully have it basically working for now. I have to plug it in and see if it WILL work right. No season changes just straight open close time. Soaked for a bit but skin problem had me out early again.
Boys to school in a while, will hook up the coop controller soon in hopes it works right, vegetation fires are popping off on Pulsepoint which doesn't bode well for the region, winds look like shit so I likely wont get kiting in but I have to take the chainsaw up and hack the stumps all down.
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