Oct 4th AM - Granpa's Helper

Didn't do much on Tuesday, but did get the lawn mowed. I also worked a little on the rock walls for the motor home parking spot. I am now at the stage of "finding" rock that close to the right size and shape for the wall. Once I happened to run across a few pieces I move them over to the wall area. I still have quite a bit of wall to finish.

Yesterday I moved the wood I split Monday into the wood shed. I didn't stack it, just threw it on a pile in case it rained. We got a few very light sprinkles in the morning but that was it. The pond is now back down to about as low as it has been while we have lived here. There is a 60% chance of rain tomorrow. Hopefully we will get a good long shower.

The guy at ARSEE who took over Tate & Lyle (Staley) as a client called yesterday. Actually we had been trading phone calls for nearly a week. He wanted to discuss some work T&L is proposing for an area where I designed reinforcing some years ago. I need to get on the stick this morning and go through my computer files to see what assistance/insights I can provide. I gave him copies of all my files before retiring, but it is really difficult to find things in other people's files, especially because I was not a very organized person.

While it was sprinkling I did some work on water hoses for the motor home. The motor home currently has a triple filter system. Water is filtered through a 10" "string" filter to get out the worst of the stuff, then through a 10" carbon filter, to get out finer material and to improve the taste, and finally the drinking water goes through an under sink filter. All that was great until we started using a water softener. I want something to filter stuff out of the water prior to it entering the water filter. I'm adding a 10" string filter prior to the water softener. I will remove the cartridge from the onboard string filter. (I'm removing the cartridge to help minimize loss of water pressure because of all the filters.) This is all work with water hoses that are outside the motor home. I tried some quick disconnect hose fittings and they appear to work well (no leaks), a pleasant surprise. I still need to make up one more section of short hose that will connect the pre-filter. Once it quit raining I had other things that needed my attention. I will finish up if it rains tomorrow.

Kathy had post surgery follow-up Doctor's appointments yesterday. All went well. I got to be the chief baby sitter from a little after 2 PM until she got home, around 3 PM. Lydia was just a ball yesterday. She was in such a good mood.

I did a little grading on the motor home pad and trimming on the cedar tree next to the pad. I've trimmed the heck out of the tree, and torn up some of its roots doing grading. It will be a near miracle if it survives all my "attention." I also did some more clean-up work. I have a pretty good sized burn pile ready to light.

My helper

 Kathy brought her out to see what she thought of the tractor when I was driving by the front porch. Her shirt says, "Grandpa's Little Helper."

I loaded up the outdoor wood boiler yesterday. I'm going to start the fire in it this afternoon. Tonight's low is supposed to be 45 then 40 Friday night and 34 on Saturday night and 36 Sunday night. We have already had an overnight low of 40 and didn't mind not having the heat on but the highs aren't going to be as warm as they have been. It is supposed to get to 75 today, 55 tomorrow, 52 on Saturday and 54 on Sunday. The forecast is for it to warm up some starting next Monday.

Time to get some breakfast and get going for the day. Hope all of you have a great day. May God bless you and yours.