[Bob Carriere]

Never been so busy...... went a bit wild on the firewood job....cutting enough for the next 2 years..... had a lot of things to catch up to around the house.... and for a change of pace repaired two old Allis tractors..... which left very little time for the CMP..... now setting up a radio shack in the sunroom we seldom now use. Hoping to learn how to use my 19 sets.....sort out all the cabling....possibly repair some.....

Grant finished doing the cancer repair on his cab 13..... remove the lower bottom section below the rear window and using a combination body glue / butt welds with the MIG and a glazing with J-B Weld did a super repair job..... very tricky since both sides of the sheet metal is visible inside and outside.

Grant purchased one of those rolling bead machines...... knowing that they woudl distort using the 18 gauge..... but following U tube recommendations for addidiontal bracing of the tool ....produced some very good offset for the bottom of the sheet metal that overlaps the lower half of the cab.

Since every Winter the ice/snow buildup damages the barn chimney we fabricated a sheet metal "dormer" or an upside down boat prow....built on the ground disassembled.... raised the parts to the roof and re-assembled.... so far Lucifer has not complained. I hope it will split the snow load and redirect around the chimney base.

Otherwise I do breakfast for Joyce every morning before she goes to work, dishes and laundry in my spare time.....

....... actually not spending as much time at the barn, proportionately, compared to when I was working 5 days a week.....

Life is sweet.

Bob C