Money & Chores

Got a fair amount of work done on the engine -- turns out the valves were sticking and the manifold gaskets were leaking badly, so both those things had to be done as well as normal maintenance stuff like oil change and headlamp adjusting and inspection. Many hundreds of dollars later, it's all good.

Joe used his jigsaw to square the corners on the access door opening so the new frame I got would fit. Then I cleaned carefully all around the opening, scraping off old putty and paint and dirt and petroleum jelly and cayenne pepper. Put rope caulk along the edges of the opening and anywhere that looked open. Used butyl putty tape all around the frame edge, then squoze the door into the opening. Drilled new holes and screwed in about seventy-eleven screws. Done!

I feel so handy! And it looks great.

Have been ruthlessly chucking out stuff and will be doing a flea market next week. Sold a bunch of books to DBN today, and took the rejects to the new Montford Books (was Readers Corner, where I worked). They didn't want anything for cash so I'll take them to the flea market, too. Am going to try to wholesale my good wine to one of the wine guys around.

Busy busy. Leaving here two weeks from today.