Thursday, February 26, 2026

Day 3719

 I woke up at 7, played games, and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  After breakfast I went outside to finish spreading gravel.

The first step was to look for the remaining bare spots.  It turns out that I got most of them yesterday.  Plus, there were only a couple of big ones.  I loaded up the cart and covered most of them.  A half filled cart covered the rest.  If I'd known that yesterday I might have finished up then.

After putting everything away I went to the garage to work on the trailer.  I cut the ends of the four axles.  The trailer looks pretty good now.  I don't want to start the latches until I have the chain tomorrow.  Instead I tried to find stuff that I could use to make a front jack.  I couldn't find anything that I could use.  After sitting and pondering things for a while I went back to the house.

 While surfing I had an idea.  I could probably find cheap jump rings to connect the latches to the chains.  That would save me the $15 for tomorrow's chain.  I found some for under $5.  They are coming tonight along with a bunch of food I ordered.

It was lunch time and I didn't feel like leftovers.  Also, there was an email saying there was a package at the post office.  We decided to go to Doc's.  There were stops at HEB (for bananas, Amazon's are lousy) and the post office.  Doc's was really nice.  There were only 6 or 8 people there and it was happy hour.  I had an alcoholic root beer slushy, too.

When we got home i got on Amazon and Aliexpress looking for things to use as a trailer jack.  I was unsuccessful.  Eventually I gave up and watched videos.  That lasted through dinner (leftovers).  Then I went back to surfing.

The groceries and the jump rings came.  The jump rings are going to be perfect.  The package contained Ellen's mini-Audi.  It's being charged.  We ended up with three bags of groceries and 8 bottles of water.  At this rate we won't need to buy water at Costco any more.  

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