Late September on the lake

 Heather and I took the boat up to the lake for a couple hours today. It was beautiful out on the water.

 We went for a swim while we were there. Willow went too, but isn't really a water dog.

 On the way back to the dock, we saw not one, but TWO bald eagles. I think they are mates because they pretty close together.

 They were in the same area as the one I saw earlier in the year, so they must live there.

Willow doesn't mind wading, but she isn't real big on swimming. After swimming, she has to get out and find some dirt to roll in.

New Molly

This is Molly, our new Hereford heifer. Heather, Lisa, and Jim picked her up today.

Chair #2

This is what the second chair base ended up looking like. The shorter skirt DOES look better and still had plenty of support for the legs. I added a cross bar for a different style of wheel.

Dining room chair experiment

 I had an idea to get the broken chairs back in use. We needed another one since Heather moved back anyway. It was a fairly easy to build a base and add legs with casters to it.

It doesn't tilt or swivel like the original one did, but maybe won't break like the original one, either. I think the next one will have a smaller skirt on the base, though. This is a bit of overkill for the structural support that a chair needs.

Fixing the brakes again

 I started off this morning by putting new wheel cylinders on the back of the truck. I should have replaced them when I put new shoes on it a couple months back, but just didn't have the extra money then. The electric impact made wheel removal much easier.

 The first side came apart easily and also re-assembled fairly easily. This always makes me nervous. Today was no exception. The other side fought me every turn.

I did get it changed with no bloodshed, but ended up with sore fingers. They will be fine tomorrow.