Other than a trip to the PO and a bit of cooking have been worthless all day. Hoping tomorrow will be better. Till then… 
Got out this morning and did some more cleaning up on the back south wall. Caulked the last few seams and thought I got the last of the staples pulled. Did some cleaning up out back, moved some of the tin and started getting the area cleared and cleaned up where the next section of porch roof is going up. Got a bit more cleaned up under the sheds and around the work area for the trailer frame. Uncovered and moved a bunch of metal cutoffs and bits and pieces from the east end of the trailer and started preping the area to put in a tire retaining wall. Got to get the tractor out and put the blade on it to do some other landscaping first, hoping to get to that sometime before the next rainy season, so I can route the water away from the trailer on the north side. Lot more cleaning up before that gets done but every bit gets it a little closer.
Went in, cooled off a bit and then did lunch and took a break afterwards for a couple of hours, then went back out and finished scraping loose paint off the south wall. Got the bucket of exterior primer/sealer and after stirring it up good put a good heavy coat on the south wall and recoated part of the east wall that I had painted with interior last week. This was when I found all the staples I had failed to pull this morning. Will have to get them out before the finish coat, but at least I can see where they are now. Hoping to get the lower west wall prepped tomorrow but depends on how much time other things take up. Will see when it gets here.
For now am gonna go and do a bit of reading and then call it a night. Till tomorrow…
Got up tired and not gotten any better as the day went on. Got a call from a friend about his computer going out about midday and after talking to him for a bit suggested he bring the hard drive from the old one and the replacement machine over as he is on dialup and we’d hook it up to the network and get the needed updates and stuff installed and go from there. Which we did. Still having some trouble with notepad launching on boot up but upon running avast on a boot scan it gave both drives a clean bill of health. He’s got SuperAntiSpyware running now and will let me know what it finds tomorrow. Guess if it doesn’t find anything will be registry time. Think I am gonna find something to read (and the problem isn’t just finding something to read but to find that particular book I WANT to read) and then make an early night of it. Till tomorrow…
Did the Calcis trip this morning. Got the new freezer installed and the old one loaded in the truck to bring back and check out. Picked up an old iMac from Cat’s aunt while down there and have been playing around with it since we got back. It’s an old 350 mhz g3 and has some problems with the video but is still mostly usable. Got some updates running on it at present, trying to get it up to 9.2.2. 
Still got a couple of updates to go to get there but getting closer. Not sure how current an os it will run. I found some old ram and upgraded it from 128 mb to 389 mb or some such. The hd is a 6.3 gb and may try upgrading it too at some point just for giggles.
Back from getting the iMac a bit closer. It’s doing the 9.1 to 9.2.1 update now. Only one left to do and it’s already downloaded, just got to get it to 9.2.1 to go to 9.2.2… Still haven’t found a current browser that will work. Tired iCab but tis just a slow and cumbersome as I remembered it to be. May see what linux distro’s will run on it as most of them will run current browsers. Or I can condemn it to the junk pile as it should be and get on with working on something useful. But where’s the fun in that…
Guess I need to go out and load the table parts back in the truck so they don’t get wet in case it does rain tonight, so till tomorrow…
Twas one of those day in which I had little energy, so other than a trip out to post a package and a trip to Wally World to get stuff for Cat’s mom, nothing but meals got done. Gonna try to make a trip to Calcis tomorrow, energy level allowing. For now am gonna go back to my couch after finding another book. Till tomorrow…
Got some of the work platform cleared off, at least enough for me to be able to get up and do a bit. Got the contact part of the springs coated with grease and then put back together. Got one spring assembly put on and bolts pulled tight. Got the other one in place but was getting tired and took a break. Came in, fixed and ate lunch, then took a book and nap break. Got up and did a bit on the computer and then after getting garbed for the mosquitoes went back out to the trailer frame. Located the elusive last bolt (seems like the last one is always the one that hides) and with only a few hammer blows got the other spring assembly put into place and bolts snugged down. Next will be to finish welding the 2 supports beams onto the hitch and making one last check on all the welds. Then it’ll be time to turn the frame over and reattach the axle and start the building process yet again. Just in time to buy another tag for it, and haven’t yet had it out on the road with the last two. Maybe three will be a charm…
For now am gonna see what I can put together for supper. Till later/tomorrow…
Got up when I heard the rain, went out and moved the grill and now soaked charcoal under shelter, then came back in and fixed coffee and then breakfast. Afterwards went back out and took a half a sheet of 5v tin and with a couple of logs and a 15 lb maul formed a gutter looking thing that I hung under the edge of the tin roof on the back porch. Another piece of tin propped up with a cement block created the downspout that funnels the water into the ditch. Placed 3 pieces of semi solid oak decking, that I took off the big trailer due to rot, as a walkway out and over the ditch. Now we can get out without getting dripped on, at least from the roof.
With the rain moving in looks like we’ll be doing something other than going to Calcis. Been needing to get back to work on the trailer/camper, so guess I will spend at least some time out there, cleaning the area up and getting ready to finish welding the frame. Till later…
After I posted the morning blather, did a bit of reading, then fired up the kerosene stove and cooked (boiled) between 4 and 5 pounds of white potatoes. Cleaned up the Weber grill and started some charcoal and grilled some burgers and dogs, while cooking some baked beans in the microwave. Ate lunch and then went over to the folks house and after talking and fighting with the cat for a while, picked a sack of tomatoes and got some sage and basil plants to put out. Came back home and after unloading and putting stuff up, went out back and worked on the back wall some more. Got the plywood cut and in place and seams caulked then put the trim back up and did a bit more filling and caulking. Came in and fixed a big batch of potato salad and put it in the fridge to cool and came in to the cool part of the dwelling and read a while. Warmed and ate supper and about the time we finished the neighbor on the corner started shooting off fireworks, so Cat and I sat and watched it for a while from the upstairs window and then got the yard chairs and went outside and sat and watched for a while longer. I guess they shot them off for an hour or so. They had some nice aerials of the professional type too. Lotta money up in smoke. Not sure what the morrow will bring, guess we will figure it out when it gets here. Till then…
Went out this morning to finish caulking the south wall so I could paint it, after getting run in by mosquitoes last night. Did a bit of caulking and then got the ladder out to get up and take the metal down where I had a flue run through. discovered that I had put the metal up prior to putting some top trim on. As it’s all put on with screws, no problem says I. I get the rafter end piece taken down and discover a large active red wasp nest behind it. Well since they didn’t swarm me when taking the first piece off I decide to try to work around them and see if I can get the 2×4 off the bottom. The long screws screeching out irritate them some but they stay on the nest and I get that piece off which exposes the screws at the top of the metal. I start taking the screws out of the metal and they get most upset and all pose to go into launch mode. I decide that retreat is the better part of valor as I am on the top of a ladder and there are many more of them than me, so get down, clean up and go to the store for spray. Get back and spray them and am able to get the metal off. Locate and cut pieces of 2×4 to screw around the edges to attach a piece of plywood to and screw them in place. Measure the opening that I now need to fill and after spend some time digging through the piles discover that I’m gonna have to piece 2 sections to fill the opening. Tis quite warm by this time so I retreat to the cooler recesses of the dwelling and after a cooling draught of Dihydrogen Monoxide came in here to post this bit of blather about mostly nothing. Gonna sit with a book for a bit and then get back at it, as I would like to get that back wall painted today. Till later…
