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<\/a>Picked up the red car from its most recent series of procedures.\u00a0 This time it got new front constant velocity boots.\u00a0 They protect the main bearing from wear caused by road debris.\u00a0 Two new aluminum wheels should solve the slow leak problem the back tires have experienced.\u00a0 Various bulbs and other smaller matters–oil change, too–thrown in for the trip.\u00a0 Each visit it comes closer and closer to Theseus’s ship.<\/p>\nKate continues to suffer with her cervical vertebrae pinching a nerve.\u00a0 She’s so stoic, so careful.\u00a0 Right now she’s stopped taking the prednisone which helped because she wants the imaging studies to be unaffected.\u00a0 She can’t find a way to position herself that doesn’t hurt.\u00a0 Like hell.<\/p>\n
Got tools for protecting the trees in our new orchard.\u00a0 Later today or tomorrow I’ll install them and begin to put down the black plastic and straw to kill weeds along the forest’s edge.\u00a0 Much cooler weather now, but it is still a good time to do this kind of work.<\/p>\n
This week will be the last for working outside for a while. \u00a0\u00a0 I’m ready to hunker down and get some reading and writing done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
33 bar rises 29.77\u00a0 N 6mph windchill 28\u00a0 Samhain Waxing Crescent of the Dark Moon The October financial storm gathered under the Blood Moon.\u00a0 Obama’s election comes during a waxing Dark Moon.\u00a0 Just interesting is all I’m saying. The red car in the Sandhills of Nebraska. Picked up the red car from its most recent … Continue reading Hunkering Down<\/span>