Finally - - a nice spring day!
5/20/06 7:49 am.
47º F, Sunshine, NW wind 4 mph.
Good morning,
Looks to be a pretty nice day a-coming. Weatherman says we may have some showers this evening, then a few days of nice weather with the temperature rising to at or near 80º F by the end of the week. Hope so, the lawn really needs a trimming and we really need the water to disappear. While Lake Michigan is very low, most of the streams and rivers are at or above flood stage. Nothing serious, more like a normal spring, only it should have been a month ago.
My diagnosis of the brake problems on the van were correct. The left rear brake had the brake pads separate from the backing. It sure chewed them up! Other than being a dirty process, brake dust ain’t clean, the repair was pretty straight forward. I am glad it was not as serious as I pictured it could be. As it turned out, I still had three of the four brakes working properly, explaining why the idiot light on the dash didn’t illuminate.
Actually, after I started reading the repair manual, I could disable the rear brakes and use only the front, as the brake system is a split system. Maybe next time. The hardest part of the whole procedure was folding and unfolding my legs. Seems my knee caps don’t fit into my armpits very well anymore. My hips also took a beating. I really feel like a very old man trying to stand up after being down for a while.
There is some other maintenance I could/should do on the van. Not the least of which is to clean out the interior. It has been a long, wet winter the past month or so. Maybe I can do the maintenance while the lawn drains so I can cut it. There is no want for things to do around here! Biggest problem is trying to figure out what to do first!
This has been a tough week for folks in the Kewaunee area. Friday afternoon last week a sophomore boy, 16 years old, went missing. About suppertime authorities found his car in the river. Apparently he drove down the hill to the river, lost control, and it sounds like he rolled the car and it went into the river at the crossing. He had just received his driver’s license a short time ago. Since the river is at flood stage, they think they have located his body, but have not been able to recover it yet. Several cadaver dogs have marked the same location and underwater cameras have "seen" what the officials believe is a body, but the divers have been unable to locate it and bring it up. I can’t imagine what his parents and family are going through. I still don’t understand why a 16 year old kid has his own car either. Guess I just am old-fashioned.
Thursday this week, some graffiti was discovered in one of the girl’s bathrooms, indicating that yesterday "4 will die" on one of the walls. The school was looked down and a sweep was made through the building.
Yesterday, all of the students were searched as they came in. Later yesterday, they identified a girl student that had done the deed along with apparently a second student involved in the "prank." The authorities take a very dime view of these kinds of pranks since they consider them felonies. The two girls involved are in the expulsion process by the school system and one has been arrested, facing some jail time, and the other is being detained as I understand it. What ever happened to real pranks that were just mischief? You know .... like turning over outhouses.
Yesterday was my little boy’s, Thor, birthday. Sure do miss him along his brother and sister. Wonder what they are doing. Where they are. And all of the things parents worry about when their children are involved. It is especially hard when I don’t know why the chose to estrange themselves from their Dad. Makes no sense to me.
Time to get the day a-going. I smell the muffins a-baking.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
47º F, Sunshine, NW wind 4 mph.
Good morning,
Looks to be a pretty nice day a-coming. Weatherman says we may have some showers this evening, then a few days of nice weather with the temperature rising to at or near 80º F by the end of the week. Hope so, the lawn really needs a trimming and we really need the water to disappear. While Lake Michigan is very low, most of the streams and rivers are at or above flood stage. Nothing serious, more like a normal spring, only it should have been a month ago.
My diagnosis of the brake problems on the van were correct. The left rear brake had the brake pads separate from the backing. It sure chewed them up! Other than being a dirty process, brake dust ain’t clean, the repair was pretty straight forward. I am glad it was not as serious as I pictured it could be. As it turned out, I still had three of the four brakes working properly, explaining why the idiot light on the dash didn’t illuminate.
Actually, after I started reading the repair manual, I could disable the rear brakes and use only the front, as the brake system is a split system. Maybe next time. The hardest part of the whole procedure was folding and unfolding my legs. Seems my knee caps don’t fit into my armpits very well anymore. My hips also took a beating. I really feel like a very old man trying to stand up after being down for a while.
There is some other maintenance I could/should do on the van. Not the least of which is to clean out the interior. It has been a long, wet winter the past month or so. Maybe I can do the maintenance while the lawn drains so I can cut it. There is no want for things to do around here! Biggest problem is trying to figure out what to do first!
This has been a tough week for folks in the Kewaunee area. Friday afternoon last week a sophomore boy, 16 years old, went missing. About suppertime authorities found his car in the river. Apparently he drove down the hill to the river, lost control, and it sounds like he rolled the car and it went into the river at the crossing. He had just received his driver’s license a short time ago. Since the river is at flood stage, they think they have located his body, but have not been able to recover it yet. Several cadaver dogs have marked the same location and underwater cameras have "seen" what the officials believe is a body, but the divers have been unable to locate it and bring it up. I can’t imagine what his parents and family are going through. I still don’t understand why a 16 year old kid has his own car either. Guess I just am old-fashioned.
Thursday this week, some graffiti was discovered in one of the girl’s bathrooms, indicating that yesterday "4 will die" on one of the walls. The school was looked down and a sweep was made through the building.
Yesterday, all of the students were searched as they came in. Later yesterday, they identified a girl student that had done the deed along with apparently a second student involved in the "prank." The authorities take a very dime view of these kinds of pranks since they consider them felonies. The two girls involved are in the expulsion process by the school system and one has been arrested, facing some jail time, and the other is being detained as I understand it. What ever happened to real pranks that were just mischief? You know .... like turning over outhouses.
Yesterday was my little boy’s, Thor, birthday. Sure do miss him along his brother and sister. Wonder what they are doing. Where they are. And all of the things parents worry about when their children are involved. It is especially hard when I don’t know why the chose to estrange themselves from their Dad. Makes no sense to me.
Time to get the day a-going. I smell the muffins a-baking.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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