"I build engines and attach wheels to them." - Enzo Ferrari

After two days of partial respite we're back to all rain all the time. We're down in a bit of a valley so it's rare we feel the wind, but today we do.

I worked for a couple of hours in Fred on the wiring. I got the breaker box installed, the holes in the 2x4's for the wiring drilled, and the first couple of runs done. I need to get the rest of the boxes before I go further.

But the REAL news of the day...

I used some 400 grit sandpaper on the ignition points and that did the trick. She fired up with a vengeance. In fact, I had to immediately shut it off because the throttle was stuck wide open and the engine was racing. I got that freed up and kept it running just long enough to back it into Barnette.
At least one wheel's brakes is binding up, the thermostat housing gasket leaks, the fuel filter is a hot mess, the gas gauge doesn't work, the brake pedal doesn't come all the way back out....
But! it's indoors, it runs (at least until it dies), and I can work all those issues out.
God and I had a heart-to-heart talk immediately after what you see here in which I expressed my deep gratitude for his grace for this poor fool who's in over his head on so many things.

I wrote the above earlier today. We're now sitting in a Motel 6 in Clackamas, 30 minutes away from the airport. Pam's flight leaves at 5 a.m. and mine at 5:30, so we decided driving up today and spending the night was better than staying home and not going to bed at all. We'll have to leave the motel about 2:45, so even here it hardly seems worth it to go to bed.

Pam will get to Grand Rapids at 3 p.m. I'll get to San Juan, P.R. at 8:30 p.m. and then have a 90-minute drive across the island to Ponce where I'll be staying (and speaking). A small group will meet together for b'fast at 7:30 the next morning, then I teach a seminar on leadership from 9:00 to noon. Lunch with seminar attendees, then the afternoon & dinner with the pastor & wife and one of the church leaders & wife.
Yeah, by the time I get to be Saturday night I'm going to be beyond tired.
Preaching Sunday morning.
There's more, but I'll write about that as it happens.

It might be bedtime.