Thoughts on the Morning
- Got up early enough to wake the rooster today. Since it’s going to get quite hot this weekend, we, meaning Irish Woman, figured it would be a good idea to get all the outside work done this morning. So today I truly did more before 9 o’clock than most people do all day.
- Girlie Bear is going to have a sleepover tonight. I need better hearing protection
- Weed whackers are tougher than Vibram Five-Finger shoes. Maybe I ought to wear boots when I’m doing yard work, but I hate wearing shoes in the summer and those are the closest I can get to barefoot. And girls dig scars, anyway.
- Shadow does not care for the weed whacker. I eventually had to put him in the house because he would scoot past me to bite the head with the spinning bits, causing several yipes as he got nailed in the nose with thick plastic line going around at about 200 rpm.
- We sold the extra 36 packages of shingles that have been sitting under the carport for months this morning. I now have a mantra running through my head: I do not need a new gun, I do not need a new gun, I do not need a new gun…..
- Someone bring me the head of a Chrysler automotive design engineer. In order to replace the fuel filter on either of our cars, I have to replace the entire fuel pump.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 26, 2012
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auntiejl
/ May 26, 2012We recently had to replace the battery on our Buick minivan. Shop down the street had much more reasonable labor prices on top of the battery cost itself. Hubby had first gone to a local dealership, since we have a friend who works in the shop there. But $82 an hour for labor? Oy. However, the battery is apparently buried. Hubby walked the whole block to the shop on the corner where he ended up taking the van, and the owner there apologized and said he was going to have to charge more for the labor (an additional $12 or so) than he’d originally estimated, because of the where the battery hides. “I can see why they wanted to charge you $82 an hour in labor, though,” he said with a chuckle.
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Anonymous
/ May 26, 2012Re. the fuel pump, is it worth either blowing high pressure air against the normal direction of flow.
Or (assuming an electrical fuel pump) run diesel through it with polarity reversed on the contacts.
CAVEAT: I have used both methods on units with fine stainless mesh filters. Fibre/fabric filters may not stand up to this treatment.
ps I NEED a new gun, I NEED a new gun, I NEED a new gun….
/ducks, runs & hides from Irish Woman……
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daddybear71
/ May 26, 2012I talked to a mechanic, and he suggested putting a bottle of fuel treatment in each of the next tanks of gas. That should dissolve anything that’s gumming up the filter.
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Bryn
/ May 26, 2012Re. the fuel pump, is it worth either blowing high pressure air against the normal direction of flow.
Or (assuming an electrical fuel pump) run diesel through it with polarity reversed on the contacts.
CAVEAT: I have used both methods on units with fine stainless mesh filters. Fibre/fabric filters may not stand up to this treatment.
ps I NEED a new gun, I NEED a new gun, I NEED a new gun….
/ducks, runs & hides from Irish Woman……
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Mad Jack
/ May 26, 2012Girlie Bear is going to have a sleepover tonight.
Which is the karmic retaliation for you getting up at the butt crack of dawn and working around the house, thus making the rest of the civilized world look like a pack of loafers, slackers and bar flies. You might have avoided this by buying the new gun that you know you need but are refusing to buy or even acknowledge the need for – a position that I truly do not understand in a man of your caliber.
We have thunderstorms and cool temperatures in my neck of the woods, by the way.
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LabRat
/ May 26, 2012Vibrams are awesome and we wear ours until they fall apart, but they won’t protect your feet against anything tougher than a small rock.
As the owner of two oxlike foot-stomping dogs I should know… (the third one is a gentleman and never stomps on my feet.)
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tooldtowork
/ May 29, 2012Need has nothing to do with it, WANT has everything to do with it. I’ve really got to stop buying guns that I want.
Who am I kidding?
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