Monthly Archives: May 2018
Business Is Booming . . .
I spent the morning and afternoon working on a couple of different things. First up I continued to sort through more stuff, separating things into ‘Stay In The Rig’ and ‘Go To The Storage Room’ piles.
Second were new knives to be posted on the KnivesByLaClaire.com website. Business is booming and they’ve sold all the knives presently on the site, so we’re restocking and adding a new line of knives made from USA blanks. So that’s going to keep me busy for a while.
Once I decided that I wasn’t going to be ready to take a load over to the storage room today, we drove over to Pho 20 to have dinner. As in the past, we started out by splitting the House Crunch Salad. Then Jan tried a new entry on the bill of fare, the Spicy Teriyaki Chicken, a hotter version of the regular one.
Since I had my half of the salad, I lightened up with the White Chicken Meat Pho, but without the added veggies this time.
And as in the past, the owner, Sherry, had left a present for us. She knows how much we both like Hot & Sour Soup, and although it’s not on the menu, she’ll make up a big batch and leave it in the freezer until we come in. Some good eating this weekend.
Now that I’ve got the last of the electronic parts in, I’ve come up with a way to mount the actuators on top of the valve bodies. I’m going to use U-Bolt clamps like these,
to hold the actuators and stainless steel band clamps to secure everything to the valve body. At least that’s the plan, but we’ll see how it goes.
Our daughter Brandi looks to be having a really good time down in the Dominican Republic, along with her friend Chantelle.
From left to right, that’s Chantelle, Brandi, and a friend to be named later.
I did want post some of the artwork done by my niece Stahlie. Actually she’s my first cousin once removed, but according to the genealogy sites, she’s still called my ‘niece’.
A very talented young lady.
And beautiful, too.
When he’s not playing hockey, Landon’s playing soccer, just like his mother did.
Lowell sent over his soccer team photos for 2018.
Thought for the Day:
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Up On The Roof . . .
Cue The Drifters.
That’s where I spent part of today at work , , , up on the roof. I was installing a solar-powered LED motion detection floodlight light like this.
The bright lights in the background at the office causes the camera to darken down the foreground of the parking lot too much. So it looks like this.
I tried putting a piece of cardboard over the top of the camera lens to block out the background lights, but that just reflected the IR LEDs back into the camera, actually making things worse.
So we decided to install a couple of motion sensing lights to brighten up the parking lot, so I got to try out my new ladder.
Since we started RV’ing, I used a Cosco model like this.
It telescopes to make a 13 ft. step ladder if necessary. It’s very sturdy . . . and very heavy, almost 50 pounds. And it’s kind of overkill for what I need.
So I found this one on Amazon for about $80.
But then it folds down like this.
I picked it up yesterday but just left it in the truck to use today. And it worked out great. At 24#, it’s half the weight of my other one and very versatile, since with 3 hinge points it can be configured into many different setups, including a stepladder and scaffolding.
So far I really like it.
The push buttons I ordered from eBay came into today,
the ones that I’m going to use on my Remote Dump Valve System so hopefully I’ll get to start wiring it up this weekend.
Tomorrow we’ll probably move some more stuff over to the storage room and then have dinner out.
Thought for the Day:
The Older I Get, Seems Like The Earlier It Gets Late.
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