6.10.2021

Jim worked in the moulding factory this morning - preparing boards to glue.  These are for the baseboard piece...

Gluing...

He then headed to the metal shop to see if he could break the seal on the Tiger Cub wheel to get the broken valve stem off...

Took some work but he did it...

The valve stem just deteriorated - hard to believe the Tiger Cub is 20 years old!  Plus, it's kind of had a rough life here.  Our yard is looking great now but it didn't start out that way and there are still plenty of rocks and obstacles.

At this point, Jim headed to Saratoga to drop off the window glass to get that ordered.  It takes a couple weeks to come in so he wanted to get it started.  He came home after that, ate lunch, and then headed out for his afternoon errands.  He stopped and bought some new valve stems and then went to Bobcat to talk to them about rebuilding the excavator where the bucket attaches.  The previous owners had used the wrong size pins and hadn't greased it.  Jim bought new bearings and some other parts he'll need to work on that.

Once he was home, he put the new valve stem on the wheel and was able to get the tire resealed...

Tiger Cub has its wheel back on and Jim did some greasing while he was at it.  

Jim also did a little more assembly on the car lift.  These are part of the safety system - definitely important!

We haven't had a nachos and beer night in forever so we decided to head to Saratoga this evening.  Unfortunately, the place we went for nachos changed their menu so we went back to our old standby and tried their nachos there.  We topped off the night with a cup of ice cream at Ben & Jerry's - perfect!  We were amazed at how many people were downtown - the streets were full of parked cars, lots of places had new outside eating areas - it was fun to see life there again!

High 74/Low 53 - gorgeous!