in the house to eat, 2nd time a fire has been lit in the new Weber kettle.... the 1st time we used the new one, , everything we made on it came out tasting weird.... meat, potatoes and even the sweet corn we made that time, made Hobo style.. no weird taste this time. the old Weber went to my son.... nothing wrong with the old one, except my wife saw this copper color one that she just "had to have".... this one has all the frills and bells and whistles... thermometer in the top, fancy scraper for the ash and stainless bowl for the ash....instead of an aluminum tray that half gets spilled before the spring clips that hold it in place, can be spun outta the way...... I usually just fling the old ash into the lawn, anyways..... spread it as far as I can when emptying.
spent the rest of the day going to Farm and Fleet for a new tongue jack for my trailer, and tried to get some (used to be) most basic of the basic briggs and Honduh parts (carb gaskets and air filters) but they don't carry much parts stock any more.... I aint paying "freight" on gaskets that cost less than $2 each.... and good luck finding someone at the "small engine" counter there anymore, even during "bankers hours" to begin with. so came home and ordered the Briggs parts I needed from Feebay with mostly free shipping. gonna check the Honduh stealer a block from work for what I need for the GX160 thats on my power washer...... (a ripoff from Uncle Willie and his trailer follies.... . dontbuyahondaanything)
also delivered the hide a bed couch we picked up at yesterdays auction to my mother in law, we had to take a couch out of the back family room, take it to the curb, then take the one that Donna (my wife) thought we were replacing, to the back family room, before we could bring the replacement into the front living room....
spent the rest of the day working on the "junk-haul" from yesterday's auction...... If I had known we would be gettin a couch that would eat up my whole truck bed and that we would have to make a return trip with the trailer anyways, Id have bought and brought home more than I did.... passed on an 8hp 3 stage snowblower that looked like barely used, for less than $10 (would have bought that for flip in a couple months) and stopped short on a bigger generator (and welder combo) than the one I currently have, I really wanted that, once I saw it. I think a neighbor of the seller got it, it got loaded in the bed of a Gator. now last week I took the trailer because I didn't think the compressor I wanted there, would fit in the back of a short bed Dakota (surely not in the back of the Durango either) and came home with the trailer as empty as it was when I had gotten there, surely didnt think I'd be needing the trailer for this sale. but I wish Id have taken it down there in the 1st place.
tongue jack was a casualty of gettin in a hurry to get back to auction and get my stuff.... .... didn't retract it far enough and bent the snot out of the old one. probably got bent on ledge of my own driveway on way outta here. and something I have reamed my kid for in the past, he did the same thing to 2 jacks-ago on that same trailer.... it mounts on the 3 bolt flange right behind the coupler, it don't pivot like some.
