Sittin' Here Lookin' Forward

Waiting....waiting...waiting.  It's all in the wait for some plywood to come my way. The expansion is stalled for a while, until something comes through. There's a couple if leads out there, and now I have to be patient to see if they work out.  Until then I'm still slowly cleaning out.  This last week saw a trailer load of junk go to the dump, an old TV go to someone who could use it, and the preliminary assessment on a couple of old mowers hanging out in the yard. One has a rotten deck, but runs good, and luckily the other had a good deck, and a motor with a LOT of rod knock. The two shall become one, and then become some funding for Stray Cat.

My Diagnosis? You need a new fuel pump! or five...

 The First automotive project of the season was a Birthday present for My brother John. Plugs and wires in his Olds Minivan. A basic job, but a good start to a hopefully busy season.  Coming up I need to renew my ASE cert, and  the end of the semester means summer vacation from my teaching  job at the college. Also my buddy keeps talking about  opening a shop. That may mean some freelance diagnostic work for me as I'm his electric guy. It's all good. I like doing diag, and I haven't had much of a chance for a long time. 

Other projects, like the home foundry, the motorized bicycle, and the VW have been waiting for warm enough temps to let paint dry, and cement set up, and the like. Not to mention I'm still on 10 hour days, and that makes it tough to have enough motivation to do much of anything after work.

Totally random pic of the Blues band that plays every year
 at the Watkins Glen Vintage festival. Yes! On the roof!
By the way, Maria's sells killer Italian Sausages during the event! 

So for something of interest, I'm passing on a link to a museum In Allentown P.A. that a friend of mine, Dave Reese, is involved with. It's a really neat place called America On Wheels Click on the name to follow the rabbit hole to the museum's website with all kinds of cool pics of cool things. I gotta visit someday!    

Keep on Truckin....into Spring

The weeks are flying by! The weather is trying to cooperate with us, and I've taken just about every chance I've had to be outside working on the shop. By the time I've gotten back inside at night, I've had no mental capacity left to sit down and write a post. (Some would argue, with good reason, that I barely have the mental capacity to write at any time)
So let's see. Last weekend was great for building. I managed to get the main floor structure done on Saturday. The overall footprint of the expansion will be 7 feet by 20 feet as dictated by a Black Walnut tree that is bigger than I can cut down. It's all sitting on cinder blocks that I levelled, and some pretty hefty 6x6 beams, and some 4x6 beams on top of them. On Sunday I managed to get the framing done for both the end walls, and that's where it sits now. I need to get either some plywood or OSB board before I can make any more progress. I have some leads on those things, but I need to wait and see how they develop.

The walls, waiting for plywood
 so they can be put in place.

In the mean time it's all about cleaning out stuff. I spent a lot of this saturday hoeing out junk, and filling my in-law's trailer with crap-o-la I have held on to for wayyyyy to long. The shop is looking better, even with all the homeless stuff waiting for the expansion to get built.
Kinda boreing, but it's all I got between overtime at work and the regular April weather that keeps everything cool and wet.
I know things are dragging a bit right now, and I hope to get things revved up soon. I just gotta be patient, no matter how itchy I get sitting here thinking about all the stuff I want to do. Keep dreaming, things will be coming soon.