Heading South

The vehicle is all packed . Loaded up with books, birding gear and a wide variety of fishing poles . We leave for Florida in the morning.

Thinking about spring!!

I saw these hanging on the wall when I was snapping away. opening day is in a little  less than 4 months.:-)

Restocking

I still buy a lot of lures but I do make some of my own .I turned a few today and posted a couple of old ones waiting for new hooks. The work shop lives up to the name of the blog. I'm supposed to be finding my grout float which has taken a walk or fell off the work bench.

Planet Jr.

I have posted pictures of this before. I don't know how old it is . A friend gave it to me about 35yrs ago. Its  was ancient then. It has a new handle made from ash. Today the front wheel needed a little tuning up. Now is greased and ready for the spring. The gray around the nut is generic never seize.I just put a little lube on the shaft of the bolt.

Fred Flintstone Food Processor

I bought this about 40 yrs ago for a buck.All the pieces were there and it still works . I grind clams, pork for sausage,bread crumbs, what ever.Today I made some ham salad.
I still would be trying to figure out how to put my Cuisinart together. This is cleaned up and back in the cabinet.

Kaboom

I didn't think to take pictures of the garage door spring after it launched itself across the garage at the speed of light.
The cable had broken weeks ago but a recuperating hip replacement kept me from repairing until yesterday.There appeared to be enough extra cable to reuse the old cable . I guess it was a bit to short because when I closed the door after the first repair the U-bolt broke and the spring went flying into the front of the garage.
Its a 9 foot door so it looked again like I needed 13-14 ft . I bought 16 ft of 1/8 galvanized cable and a new 1/4 in. U-bolt.Now with the extra cable I was able to adjust the spring pulley assembly to match the other side.  The spring seems fine even though it looked like a abused slinky when I picked it up off the floor late yesterday.  The parts cost me about 20 bucks. and i was done in less than an hour

Yesterday I was working on it for 3-4 just to save a buck. Oh well I guess I will never learn.

Late Fall Bounty

Everything in this Kale and Sausage soup came from whats still in the garden except the pig.