Drizzly Day, Pulaski Handle Repair and Fresh Caught Crab

Posted on November 5, 2022 by Bob

Saturday November 5, 2022 Guerneville CA.

Drizzle

It was drizzling lightly when I got it going today, so it was mostly a stay in the house day. I should of done some house cleaning but I didn’t, not my favorite thing to do.

Pulaski handle replacement

I did want to get the new handle epoxied onto my Pulaski head. I didn’t quite get the right handle so I had to do some filing on the one I had to make it fit. I watched a YouTube video on it before I attempted the job and it was a good thing I did or I might have had epoxy all over everything.handle

 

I got the new handle pounded onto the head and now it is ready for the epoxy to be applied.pulaski

 

I sealed the handle with clay to keep the epoxy from running out the bottom and set it up to pour the epoxy in and got that done. It should be ready to use in about 24 hours. There were no epoxy leaks, fortunately, or there would of been a big mess.epoxy

 

Fresh crab

About dark my brother Tom came by. He had gotten up real early and went out on a fishing boat to do some crabbing and was successful. You can’t get it much fresher than that. Two crabs all cleaned and cooked and ready to make disappear. I ate one and saved the other for later. Yummy.crab

 

Nice day.

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Rims and Tires for the Old Van, a Visit and Rat Control

Posted on November 4, 2022 by Bob

Friday November 4, 2022 Guerneville CA.

Looking for rims

I drove on into this tire shop to see about getting some rims for my old van. They had some, but not really what I wanted but finding the old style seemed to not be working out, so I settled for the newer type ones.les

 

I made an appointment for next week to get four new rims and two new tires that should fix the old van up. I couldn’t just buy one of the newer ones cause then they wouldn’t match, such is life. :O)

Visiting Joe

The tire shop wasn’t far from my friend Joe’s place so I stopped at his place on the way home.

Joe always has something of interest he’s working on and we shoot the bull a lot.joes

 

I spent a few hours chatting with Joe and had coffee too and a couple of his friends came by so we had a time of it.

Home again

I headed on home and arrived around five, so I let the chickens into the front yard and sat with them for awhile until it got chilly and I went in the house.birds

 

Rodent report

The rodents a have been into the rat bait for a few days now and are starting to eat more of it. They are eating the bait cubes I crushed and mixed into the plaster of Paris and flour that didn’t do them in before. When I checked the bait today, it looked like they were not eating any of the cubes but making a good dent on the crushed stuff. I think these two are two of the three born last summer and are some of the ones getting into my attic. Something must of gotten the other one.raqts

 

If they disappear and the noise goes out of my attic, then maybe I’ll be able to say the bait is working. There are some other rats feeding here also so they’ll have to disappear too.

Time might tell?

Nice day.

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