All work in the shop has been on pause the last few weeks as I have been putting in the time working for money and coming home beat. I want to change that. I need to change it. But getting the time in with my family is also a priority, and when the quality of that is at a minimum because I am so tired, then there is certainly no time to work in the shop, too.
Seeing the sights of the city has been amazing. Logan has been very busy this weekend with yard sales, people in the parks, walkers, runners, cyclists, the protests, the market, and other things. It is beautiful to see all the activity. Motorcyclist weave carefree through the traffic, while pickup trucks go about with canoes and other floatation apparatuses loaded up. My wife’s sister will be out in July, and she is a good friend to all the family, so that is exciting. It will be, surprisingly, her third trip to America in recent years. Everyone has ideas of activities planned. When she was last here, she was getting a feel for the lathe and really enjoying it. I should prepare some blanks for her, or maybe just get things ready to show her how to make her own from one of the logs on the pile out back.
My day off is upon me tomorrow. My plan is to get the trailer ready to get firewood logs and sawlogs with. I need to get those rolling, even if it is a trip down in the mornings before working, then work all day after. That’s two trips to Logan in two different vehicles per day. Oh joy. Then come home in the evening and unload and get ready for a trip again as soon as I can manage it. Just one a week would be sufficient to make a massive improvement upon what I am doing now! And we sure need the firewood! Okay, that is me speculating on what to do. Tomorrow, I need to mill up some replacement boards for the trailer. I need to do one of the stakes to replace a broken one and would like to do some thicker ones all the way around but will have to see how I can fit it in time-wise tomorrow. There is more to it than just cutting the boards. Especially where I don’t want to replace the bolts and will have to use the existing lengths. A bit of drilling required for that. Not troublesome. Just more involved. If I redo the stakes at the front, I can rely on them for the weight of the logs on the pulley I have to mount on top for the winch because of the weird place I have to put the winch to get it to work on the trailer. It gets hitch mounted, but to do that, I had to get a double receiver that is meant to hold a trailer and a bike rack simultaneously. Madness! All of it, really! But using the pulley allows me to move it up and down and adjust the travel of the line when needed to load the logs. That can be good as they seem to approach around eight hundred or more pounds each. It is a messy business.
Well, the battery is getting low on the computer, and I have llamas and goats waiting on their food. It is summer, so I daily scythe fresh grass and load it into their feeder with the tractor. I am working my way along the roadside across the street at the moment. It is good to have that grass getting used, and honestly, so much easier than trying to stake any of these animals out. But first, another coffee, and some time with Missus.