Night Moves

Spending all weekend trying to best utilize the weather, I ended up having to relegate some things to Monday night after work.

The tractor's got lights right?

Yeah it has lights, but once you try to use them, you realize they weren't really meant to be used. I need to do what my dad did and rig up some old car headlights on the front and maybe mount the current lights out back (reverse is very dark at night). Maybe mount some KC Daylighters on the front?

Jen would kill me, but they'd work nicely. They even come with a nice little toggle I can mount in the dash of the tractor. Hell. I've practically convinced myself.

I only did the front yard (dunno why. wishing now I did the back too). I hadn't cut the grass or mulched the leaves in a few weeks. I figured a quick trip around the yard would give me a little head start if/when I got to it this weekend. Unfortunately the sun doesn't come up for nearly another hour, so I really don't know how well I did.

After the yard it was back to the pool skimmer.

I have to admit. The expansion joint caulk made me nervous. After the super-duper adhesive experience I had with the pool tiles, I was a little nervous using some other caulkable pool thingy. My fears were unfounded. This stuff was great. Almost too great. It came out of the tube like warm butter, which I thought was pretty amazing for a silicone based product. It flowed into all the depth and gaps and leveled itself out nicely.

It didn't take long to realize I was going to run out. Unfortunately it took until this morning to realize I should have simply put a thin layer down inside all the joints to seal in the bottom of the gap, then gotten more to finish off the job later. Instead I tried to do a couple of the joints completely and left some of them completely undone.

And now it's pouring outside. Worse case scenario (I hope) I have to do it again. At least I'll know how to do it and how much I'll need.

- b