I worked all day yesterday with the splitter, stopping just in time to get it back to the rental place by their 5 p.m. closing time. Pam helped me for much of the morning, bringing rounds over to the splitter so I didn't have to get up/down every few minutes to fetch more.
When we started the biggest of the three piles remained. Because I'm a newbie at this I can't look at a pile of rounds and translate it into cords of stacked wood. What I do know is that someone driving by our place would think we ran a firewood business. It used to be we looked out and saw nothing but fir trees. Now we look out and see piles of cordwood.
The clock had run out before the rounds, with about two dozen left that I'll split by hand. And to think I used to go to a gym to work out in order to stay in shape.
Today I worked on Casa de Cabras. I got all the roof sheeting up except for the piece I should have purchased but shorted myself. I got that final sheet and two rolls of roofing. That will all go up tomorrow, well before Friday afternoons rains, precip that's supposed to continue through the weekend.
I also got the south wall's exterior done. First, roofing "felt" (I don't know why they call it that, a total misnomer), and then the cheapest cedar fence boards I could buy, nailed horizontally. The goats could and would push right through those fence boards, so I'll use the left over field fence on the inside of the walls to keep them from doing that.
I like the way the wall looks. It's 8' long, so the 6' fence boards are laid in a tiled pattern. When I get them treated with the vinegar & steel wool application I'll take pics.
Actually, I took pics of the wood piles. But apparently our satellite internet is SO slow that emailing those pics from my phone to my laptop takes forever. Frustrating.
Speaking of frustration, I got a call from Leroy this morning. That would be the guy who said he'd install my transmission two weeks ago. He called today to tell me the speedometer connection on the tailpiece is for an electronic sensor, not a mechanical one like my original.
So I contacted Jay, the guy in South Carolina who sold this replacement to me, but not before re-reading all of our emails back and forth. Uhm...I made it very clear I needed a mechanical connection.
Long story short. Jay can supply me a mechanical tailpiece, but for an addition $800, more than twice what I paid for this entire tranny.
So I called Leroy back and told him to install it. I'll have a couple of options. I can try to find an aftermarket speedometer unit that takes an electronic feed. Those come as part of an entire cluster of gauges, look really cool, with a stock look but digital readouts, but are very pricey. The other options is to get a basic GPS unit that gives a MPH reading.
I'm liking that option, but I am NOT happy with either of the two men I've paid not a few dollars, and who have both over-promised and under-delivered.
We're watching Poldark (recorded), the new season having just begun. We won't be watching the Great British Baking Show, because for reasons no one can figure out, the BBC refused to offer the two ladies who host the show an increase in their contracts. As a result, after having just lost their #1 revenue show, Top Gear, the BBC has let go of their new biggest revenue producer. Go figure.
Do you know the spiritual, "We Gonna Have a Good Time"? It's a personal favorite that we'd sing from time to time at Pathway. I've had it in my head for days. I can't do it like this, that's for sure!!
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