What did you do today?

Yesterday I learned that my garage door opener has an overtemp cutoff. I only had the opener for over 35 years.

Let it cool off and it works fine.

interesting.
 
I passed out getting blood drawn. My body's pretty convinced that blood is supposed to stay inside and objects (quite violently) whenever that rule is broken by people with needles.
 
2-Bit Speed said:
I passed out getting blood drawn. My body's pretty convinced that blood is supposed to stay inside and objects (quite violently) whenever that rule is broken by people with needles.
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Had that happen when I was a kid... Not a fond memory :)
I'm not sure I would have done well with old timey doctors; I think I prefer needles.
 
Volunteered for, and donated 96 homemade cupcakes to, an event for the local children's home.

Sprayed my eyeballs with gasoline. This happened later, not at the event mentioned previously.
 
Fiveslide said:
Volunteered for, and donated 96 homemade cupcakes to, an event for the local children's home.

Sprayed my eyeballs with gasoline. This happened later, not at the event mentioned previously.
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I had to read that twice. First read I thought you ran into the meanest and most ungrateful kids in the history of the world!
 
Ugh!!!! Last day on Oahu. Back to the PNW, back to finishing summer projects before the weather turns and back to working on the canopy for the RV-8. I really want to get this airplane finished and flying. But some parts of the build are just a slog!
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Went to the beach. It was less cheeky there than the Lollapolooza crowds iykwim.
 
Harvested honey again. 6 gallons on the year from one hive. I'm beginning to understand why @Racerx is giving it away lol. Next year I'm going to leave the supers on longer and only harvest once. Cleaning up all the equipment sucks. Put a mite treatment in that hive, so any honey they make from here on out they get to keep.

I also managed to find and mark the queen in the split I made a while back. I've been looking for her for a month. They've got about 3/4 of a deep box filled out. They might make it.
 
scraped/cleaned window trim of 5 windows in prep for prime/paint. It's easier to get to those windows now that the overgrown and dying bushes, etc have been removed.
 
Finished an oil change on the RV-10. Donated one fresh quart of oil to rinsing out the oil pan. (Didn't close the oil drain before adding the 1st quart - doh!). Did a little work on improving the baffle seals on the -10. Mowed grass. Fertilized grass.
 
Jim K said:
Harvested honey again. 6 gallons on the year from one hive. I'm beginning to understand why @Racerx is giving it away lol. Next year I'm going to leave the supers on longer and only harvest once. Cleaning up all the equipment sucks. Put a mite treatment in that hive, so any honey they make from here on out they get to keep.

I also managed to find and mark the queen in the split I made a while back. I've been looking for her for a month. They've got about 3/4 of a deep box filled out. They might make it.
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What you using for.mite treatment? I usually use formic. But it's later in the year.
 
Racerx said:
What you using for.mite treatment? I usually use formic. But it's later in the year.
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Apivar. Count was pretty high, so I wanted to get it going. Didn't know at the time it was going to cool off like this.
 
Jim K said:
Apivar. Count was pretty high, so I wanted to get it going. Didn't know at the time it was going to cool off like this.
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Trick to cleaning equipment...let the bees do it.
 
Racerx said:
Trick to cleaning equipment...let the bees do it.
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Yep, exactly my first stage. Once done extracting the supers and bottling all reasonably recoverable honey from the equipment the frames get put into boxes at half the normal spacing (5 in 10s, 6 in 12s, and are set out without a top cover about 75 ft in front of some active hives. Same with the centrifuge, strainer baskets and bottling buckets. In a day or so depending on weather they have it all cleaned up and put to use, then to storage for the frames, a quick wash/acid disinfecting of the equipment and away it goes into storage for next time.
 
Jim K said:
Harvested honey again. 6 gallons on the year from one hive. I'm beginning to understand why @Racerx is giving it away lol. Next year I'm going to leave the supers on longer and only harvest once. Cleaning up all the equipment sucks. Put a mite treatment in that hive, so any honey they make from here on out they get to keep.

I also managed to find and mark the queen in the split I made a while back. I've been looking for her for a month. They've got about 3/4 of a deep box filled out. They might make it.
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I'll gladly take some honey off your hands bruh
 
Flatiowa said:
Yep, exactly my first stage. Once done extracting the supers and bottling all reasonably recoverable honey from the equipment the frames get put into boxes at half the normal spacing (5 in 10s, 6 in 12s, and are set out without a top cover about 75 ft in front of some active hives. Same with the centrifuge, strainer baskets and bottling buckets. In a day or so depending on weather they have it all cleaned up and put to use, then to storage for the frames, a quick wash/acid disinfecting of the equipment and away it goes into storage for next time.
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I must have exceptionally lazy bees. I left my decapping tub and tools out for a couple days last time expecting them to clean up, and they never did.
 
Put a new starter on the exmark 60" zero turn. My mom mows the 2 acres that need mowing and she was hounding me to get it fixed. She enjoys it. I hate it.
 
Coast Guard festival in Grand Haven, dinner in Saugatuck, then tossed a 15lb'er on the smoker around midnight.
 
Ultimate “I own a private plane” flex (that doesn’t mean what other people think it means, it’s just a 172…):

Flew to another country yesterday (Canada) to watch a baseball game and then came back the same day.

My 15 month old son did great and mommy wasn’t TOO exhausted by the end. IMG_5494.jpeg

Also, PIREP: the Porter FBO at Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport (CYTZ) knew when I was coming back and had my plane pulled right up to the door! I was a bit nervous about firing up right there, but they assured me that after the Navajo that started up there last week, I’d be just fine in the I’ll bugsmasher!

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Bob Noel said:
hope things are ok..
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As good as they’re going to get for a while. No readily identifiable fractures. Radiologist is remote, so I’ll get confirmation later today.

Bike appears ok, I’m going to be one dark bruise from the shoulder to knee on the right side. Luckily, very little road rash since I went down in some mud that greased my slide.
 
TCABM said:
As good as they’re going to get for a while. No readily identifiable fractures. Radiologist is remote, so I’ll get confirmation later today.

Bike appears ok, I’m going to be one dark bruise from the shoulder to knee on the right side. Luckily, very little road rash since I went down in some mud that greased my slide.
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Laying the bike down is never fun, but that mud will be your friend in your memory. When I laid mine down, my hands hit the white line and I rolled quickly into the grass for a softER landing. Still not fun, but I’m glad to hear the bike isn’t trashed and you’ll heal.

My advice: get back on ASAP. I’ve seen too many guys lay it down, not ride for a while and then it starts to get in their head and they give it up altogether. I kept riding a little while after mine, and now selling my bike is one of my big regrets!
 
flyingpreacher said:
Laying the bike down is never fun, but that mud will be your friend in your memory. When I laid mine down, my hands hit the white line and I rolled quickly into the grass for a softER landing. Still not fun, but I’m glad to hear the bike isn’t trashed and you’ll heal.

My advice: get back on ASAP. I’ve seen too many guys lay it down, not ride for a while and then it starts to get in their head and they give it up altogether. I kept riding a little while after mine, and now selling my bike is one of my big regrets!
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I’ll be back on it as soon as possible. Not my first crash, but from a physical pain standpoint, this was the worst.
 
TCABM said:
I’ll be back on it as soon as possible. Not my first crash, but from a physical pain standpoint, this was the worst.
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See how dangerous that exercise crap can be? Cut it out an you'll live longer.

Just visited the Skagway Museum. Leaving in an hour to go dog sled mushing.
 
X3 Skier said:
Flew post annual Ercoupe check flight. Ops check OK. One minor squawk on the gas gage float. Should be ok with a new o-ring. FCF tomorrow.

Good to be back in the air.
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It's great to hear good things about another Ercoupe.
I went flying in mine today with a (pilot) friend - for a beautiful flight along the Atlantic Coast of Delaware and part of Maryland. We actually did the entire "Atlantic" coast of Delaware, which really isn't all that much. I did get to log 1.4 in the Coupe today.

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Flew my Cessna 150 to breakfast and back , a little too hazy for my liking.
 
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