Started the long drive home. GPS tracking was there, but I didn’t download the tracks tonight, so the memory filled up and started deleting from the beginning. It was a long day - only had about 4 hours of sleep, but made it just fine.

Today was the memorial service and burial for James Austin and Levi Masalin.

Today was calling hours for James Austin and Levi Masalin. The family had a private time first, then from 4:00 to 8:00pm was open to the public.

This morning I was working on the tranny, but afterwards decided to take off and cut a tree for Larry. Jarry and Isaac were able to help, and was very thankful for that! Even still, it took us 4 hours to get this down. The tree was over the house, and there wasn’t room to drop it. So, we had to cut and lower limbs as we went. Just takes time to do all that. Plus, being on such an angle made it difficult to climb. Thankfully, all was well in the end!

Started working on the Corolla today—pulled the tranny and started taking it apart. Didn’t take long to find the bad bearing, and thankful it wasn’t too hard to get to. Later I put on new struts in the back and a new clutch. Thank you, Fred, for all your help in getting this done!!

Congratulations, Ricky and Tiffany!

Finished driving to CT today, and made it for the rehearsal.

Day of driving. Left at around 4:00 am, and arrived in Bainbridge, PA at around 6-7:00?

I went to spend some time with Jamie, Chris, Sarah, Josh, Teresa, Paige, Sally, Ian, Bob, Valerie, Doug and Audre. But I didn’t get pictures of them all… probably because not everyone had a cow. I’m not sure why.

Worked on the dyno today (re-packaging things to help get it out of the wind.) The idea was that I’d get better mileage on the way home. I don’t think it did much to help, though it might have.
After, I took some shots / videos of Dwight planting sweet corn with his 4020.

Left Mike’s at around 6:30, heading to Monroe, WI to pick up a dyno for Dr. Dyno. All in all, things went well. I had to take the front of the trailer that the dyno was on to a local welding shop (Davis Welding—the “only” pigeon racing trailer manufacturing company in the USA—they were very busy but dropped things to help me out for which I was very thankful!) to have the tongue lowered for towing behind my car (you’ll see pictures tomorrow). They dyno towed well, though I did feel it for sure (it was about 1,600 pounds.) Made it to Grandma’s with no problems.

Drove down to Madison to spend the night at Mike’s. Great day to drive, and it was only about 8-9 hours today, which was refreshing.

Drove from Coeur d’Alene to Fargo, ND.

Procrastination may include waiting to replace light bulbs in the office until you need to buy them by the case (and install 6 new ballasts…) But it’s good to do them all at once, too.

Finally got the bike out and took it up Canfield after work. Beautiful day—was so good to get out!
Watch in HD if you can…