JMichael
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Looks like I'm a couple of weeks late to the party. But conditions haven't really changed for us over that time. We're not on lockdown but with all the tornadoes of late and crappy weather in general, I haven't had the boat out yet this year. I gave it a good cleaning from stem to stern. Discovered my onboard charge had a crack in the housing so I applied a generous coat of 3M 5200 over the crack to keep moisture out. Replaced both batteries, and added a rubber bottom and some aluminum cleats to help hold my starter battery in place. Installed a liner in my 6 gal metal fuel tank and replaced all the fuel line and connectors (o-rings were shot in almost every connector) from my tank to the motor as well as the internal line inside the motor up to the fuel pump. I didn't replace the one piece from the pump to the carb. It would require pulling the carb and pulling the carb required pulling the starter. Too much hassle when it's not apparently leaking because the motor is purring like a kitten once more. Replaced my spare tire, greased trailer bearings, changed gear oil in lower unit. Mounted a new rod rack, put new line on all my poles, and went through my tackle box and added some new purchases to it. Then I started on the mower. Changed oil and filter, installed sharp spare blade, sharpened the now spare blade, and fixed a slow leak in one of the rear tires. Next I started on my little shop. Built a couple of stands for my grinder motors. Dug out and tuned up some of my sharpening equipment and sharpened about a dozen carbide saw blades as well as the knives from my thickness planar. Cleaned and organized my shop to the point that I'm seeing parts of the floor that haven't seen the light of day in a long time. I'm debating whether I really want to enlarge my shop now or not. It seems there's never a shortage of things that need to be done when I take the time to look. Some times I wonder how I ever found time to do actual paying work before I retired. But all of this has taken a back seat to recent events as we just discovered yesterday that a life long friend of mine was murdered in his sleep two nights ago, presumably for money. And that is very shocking news in a town of less than 2500 where we seldom hear of a violent crime being committed.
