Day 562

I ignored the alarm in preference for sleeping in (that won't happen tomorrow).  I woke up about 8:15 and did some surfing before getting up to do the pet stuff and have breakfast.  After breakfast there was a little more surfing before getting to work.

I went outside and used the compressor to put air in the trailer tires and the truck tires.  I wanted to do it in the morning while it was still cool.  When I went inside I decided to start casing up the guns.  I had planned on doing that tomorrow, good thing I didn't wait.  I took a lot more time than I thought it would.  I left them all in the guest bedroom.  I may move them into the trailer tonight.  I haven't decided yet.

All that took until about lunch.  After lunch and a little more surfing we took Lucy to Circle C.  She did 16 retrieves.  It was low 80's, but really sunny.  I stopped and fueled up the truck on the way back.

When we got back I decided to lube the trailer hitch catch.  I'm hoping that will take care of the unhooking difficulties.  While I was going that, the clip holding on the latch handle fell off again.  I decided to fix it for good (I couldn't find the clip anyway).  I used the vise, with a two foot pipe on the handle, to squeeze the end of the handle.  That gave me enough room on the pin to drill a hole and use a washer and clip to hold the handle on the pin.  Hopefully that's a permanent fix.

The hitch pin on the trailer was really rough and rusty.  So I used the Dremel and a steel brush to clean the rust off.  Then I spray painted it bright yellow.  I'm hoping that the color will allow me to see when the pin is off the latch.  That should make it easier to release.  Of course the paint isn't going to last very long.  If nothing else the pin is smoother now.

The rest of the afternoon was surfing.  I didn't do exercises and of course there's no mail.  It's after dinner now.  I think I will do exercises, because I'm not sure I'll be able to do them tomorrow.