The other day I held the door open for a clown. It was a nice jester.

(get it?)

I worked outside most of the first part of the day, we left the house mid-afternoon, and just got home (7:15). So I'm catching up on the news from Paris. Sad and infuriating. It's hard not to have vindictive thoughts.

It took me a little over an hour to get the axles out and at least half of that was getting the differential cover off. (I already had the truck jacked up and the wheels off.) It went just like the YouTube video I watched. In fact, I think I may have had the same diff.
One of the things we did this afternoon was take the two axles to The UPS Store and sent them off to AZ Diff, and they'll arrive there Wednesday. I don't know how long it will take them to ship the new axles to me, but I'm hoping to have them here no later than the first of the following week. And by then I should have rec'd the new radiator and have it installed.
Note: this pic just shows the diff with the cover off. I know what a differential does but have no idea how they work. I think it's magic.

After lunch I finished up the framing on the chicken coop. I may change one little thing that will make the siding go on more easily, but I'm ready now to begin making the roof joists. I'm not quite sure how the assembly happens. The ridge beam is held up by the joists and the joists are held up by the ridge beam.
I think this part of the construction process requires that Pam be up on a ladder at the other end, and that adds a level of intrigue to things.

We went to Kohl's to buy a new vacuum cleaner. You know life is good when your wife says, "Thank you for the new vacuum."

Because we're significantly north of Phoenix, and because Oregon does that crazy daylight savings routine it gets dark here a lot earlier than in AZ.
Because we live outside of Elmira (unincorporated), which is outside of Veneta (pop. 4,657), which is well outside of Eugene (pop. 159,190) there's almost no ambient light. So if we drive home at 7:00 p.m. it's really, really dark.
We've learned from experience to turn on the porch light when leaving if we think there's even the smallest chance we'll be home after the sun sets. Otherwise it's hard to find the door, never mind the key slot.