bluesman2a
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So things are FINALLY starting to cool off here in Atlanta, the last week or so is the first time the AC has stopped cycling every 15-20 minutes since back in April. I don't know about you guys, but this is the time of year when I start to come outta the semi-hibernation induced by 100*+ shop days.
I guess I'm just wanting to wax philosophical for a moment. This is my absolute favorite time of year. Crisp nights/mornings, Indian Summer days, the air is drying out a bit, fall is just around the corner. We've been having quite a drought here, but when I think of the deep blue skys we had this weekend, I have a hard time trading that for even such badly needed rain.
So the wife and I made good progress this weekend on some great garage projects:
1) Work crew finished our new, little barn on Saturday and this morning we primed and painted the floor. Sherwin Williams makes a deck/patio paint that I've had good luck with in the past on plywood floors. Final coat should go down in a couple of days when I get back into town.
2) I got half way through a brake-job on the neighbor's Expedition. She got all new slotted rotors and the rear was a snap, but the front requires bearing replacement and I didn't have the spindle-socket and didn't know the torque-specs for the new bearings. Some idiot shop wanted to charge her like $300 for JUST putting 4 new rotors on, replacing pads and front bearings!!!
3) Did a general shop clean-up and re-org. I've been doing a number of small/simple projects, and with the heat the last couple of months it's been easy to just throw everything back in there and not clean/straighten. The last big thing is that I pulled down a bunch of poorly installed peg-board from the walls. Reorganized all my rolling racks and regained some working room.
4) Met one of the few neighbor-couples we haven't previously met and I found that they are really cool people, even got to chat a bit of gear-head with the husband.
5) Mostly the wife (with a little help from me) raked out all the new dirt areas, got rid of the roots/rocks, put down some seed, and spread straw over it all. I told her I do the heavy lifting, but she's the queen of the yard and she'd need to take care of it all before it started eroding. This was her first project like this, and I'm not much help, but I think she did a heck of a job.
6) I worked on getting a bunch of smaller pieces of over-pour picked up and stacked for removal.
Finished it all with a little alfresco dining on our back patio around sundown. Of course both of us are a little sore, but I can't imagine a better garage weekend, it had a little of everything in all the right proportions.
So anybody else have a good garage weekend?
I guess I'm just wanting to wax philosophical for a moment. This is my absolute favorite time of year. Crisp nights/mornings, Indian Summer days, the air is drying out a bit, fall is just around the corner. We've been having quite a drought here, but when I think of the deep blue skys we had this weekend, I have a hard time trading that for even such badly needed rain.
So the wife and I made good progress this weekend on some great garage projects:
1) Work crew finished our new, little barn on Saturday and this morning we primed and painted the floor. Sherwin Williams makes a deck/patio paint that I've had good luck with in the past on plywood floors. Final coat should go down in a couple of days when I get back into town.
2) I got half way through a brake-job on the neighbor's Expedition. She got all new slotted rotors and the rear was a snap, but the front requires bearing replacement and I didn't have the spindle-socket and didn't know the torque-specs for the new bearings. Some idiot shop wanted to charge her like $300 for JUST putting 4 new rotors on, replacing pads and front bearings!!!
3) Did a general shop clean-up and re-org. I've been doing a number of small/simple projects, and with the heat the last couple of months it's been easy to just throw everything back in there and not clean/straighten. The last big thing is that I pulled down a bunch of poorly installed peg-board from the walls. Reorganized all my rolling racks and regained some working room.
4) Met one of the few neighbor-couples we haven't previously met and I found that they are really cool people, even got to chat a bit of gear-head with the husband.
5) Mostly the wife (with a little help from me) raked out all the new dirt areas, got rid of the roots/rocks, put down some seed, and spread straw over it all. I told her I do the heavy lifting, but she's the queen of the yard and she'd need to take care of it all before it started eroding. This was her first project like this, and I'm not much help, but I think she did a heck of a job.
6) I worked on getting a bunch of smaller pieces of over-pour picked up and stacked for removal.
Finished it all with a little alfresco dining on our back patio around sundown. Of course both of us are a little sore, but I can't imagine a better garage weekend, it had a little of everything in all the right proportions.
So anybody else have a good garage weekend?
first time I have had enough room in there for a full sized vehicle in at least 6 months 
