Tuesday
- did a bit of work at home, and smogged the Explorer. Still not
feeling 100%. I probably shouldn't have done all that work on Sun and
Mon. Oh well.
I had intended to change out the spark plugs, but after looking at the
stuff in the way on the right side of the engine, didn't. It's probably
not as bad as the old Pontiac's which called for removing the engine to
change the plug, but there is certainly a lot of stuff there. I am
going to take it in to the mechanic to get the cooling system flushed
anyway, and a new serpentine belt put on it, so I'll ask him to change
out the plugs at the same time. It's just about 200,000 miles, and time
for a little TLC.
Even without the new plugs it passed, though I should look at the
report to see by how much.
Later:
It passed with flying colors, actually. The worst was the NO, where it
measured 239 out of an allowable 761 at 25mph. Not too bad. At 15mph is
was only 93 out of an allowable 508.
Monday
26
July
2010
Monday
- finished moving the forty bags of sand and gravel out of the
explorer. My back hurts.
Sunday 25
July_2010
Sunday
- Feeling a bit better, did a selection of yard chores, including
buying a lot of base and sand for placing those pavers I bought a
couple of years ago.
Book #51 was
Blown
Away, by Herb Payson. This was an interesting and well written
story about a families sailing to the South Pacific in the late 1970's
and early 1980's. It's episodic - most of the book was originally
articles Herb sold to sailing magazines I suspect, but that adds a bit
to the charm. One can dip into the book at any point and laugh at
Herb's hapless antics.
Picture of
the Week
Photo
Notes: The beach
at Cayucos, looking north from about 7th street.
