!!!! SEPP to Boot: Stephen's Experience (BEL)

In my experience, you should be ready to do the 'Fonz' trick with the starter at an increasingly more frequent rate until you finally replace it...

Coydon Wallham wrote:In my experience, you should be ready to do the 'Fonz' trick with the starter at an increasingly more frequent rate until you finally replace it...

Fred showed me the how-to, and I have the feeling I'll be perfecting my own version of it through the winter. :)

Seriously, I frequently wish that all the vehicle problems I've encountered could be solved by smacking it a few times with a hammer.

BRK #112

This afternoon, there was plenty of work happening up at the Lab. We spent most of the time at the Pump House location:
(this is the view from the pond/Animal Paddock)



Gee, I'm sure glad I had a chance to test out my brand new boots in the mud today.

Seriously though, these are boots I acquired after receiving BRK pledges. Thank you all very much, once again...!



Back at the pump house... Caleb examines his dry-stack stone protection of the water pipe. He's done a fine job as project lead on this one.



Finally: at the close of the day, I marveled at the murky skies to the east, while the sun was at our backs.



Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day...!

BRK #113

The winter chill has clearly set in here at Wheaton Labs. We had flurries throughout the day, and it seemed to grow colder as the day went on. Last night was the coldest night we'd had in a few weeks, and it didn't dissipate after the sun rose, either. Bundle up...!

This first photo might look a bit odd... It's the plastic sheeting we used to surround the pump house...! The project is nearing its end, and this was one of the last steps prior to back-filling and surrounding the structure with soil. It's been an elaborate process, but everyone here can agree that it will be one of the absolute sturdiest structures ever built up at the Lab. Caleb, the project lead on this, jokes that he's going to install a hammock in there once it's all done.



And it's another sighting of the elusive Rocky Mountain Hirsute Dipshit! Perhaps in the winter he sheds his bright orange headgear for more subtle, insulated fare as the temperatures cool. In any case, this was his appearance as we spied him operating some excavating equipment up in the mountains...



Finally: as per usual, Thursday night is board game night. Fred won both our current favourite game, The Quest for El Dorado, along with a dice-chucker called Ship, Captain, & Crew. Grey came out on top of the heap (in this case, a heap of crabs) in Crab Tactics. Lots of fun this evening. Here's the score sheet for Crab Tactics, a game I've been developing off-and-on for about a month and a half. Seems like it has promise, and at least it's been fun for everyone round the table.



Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day...!

BRK #114

Happy Friday, everyone...!

The hero of the day was Caleb:



While seated in that machine - Rex, the excavator - he transformed this...



Into this:



The rest of us - Grey and SEPPer Julia - were faces down in the muck, filling in trenches in the places where Rex wouldn't easily fit.

But maybe I ought to back up a bit... The trenches were part of the well system up at the Lab. The cistern itself stores water, and then runs lines to the hydrants and an overflow out to the nascent Lab Pond. We wanted to fill the trenches prior to the first hard freeze, which was forecast to happen this coming week. So we diverted our energies from the Pump House project to tackle this, hopefully before Monday. To sum it up: we were successful, and I daresay primarily through Caleb's efforts behind Rex's controls. Thanks again for all your work, man!

Finally: here's a shot of another of those brilliant orange larches, this time from the bottom of a trench, looking up:



Thanks for reading, enjoy your day, and make the most of your weekend...!