We had great weather

It was sunny and warm, though with a cool breeze coming off the snow melt-fed mountain lakes. HannahC, however, managed to do a face-plant into one of the lakes after which she didn't think it was all that warm.

I hope it's nice out

We're heading up into the Sugarloaf Recreation Area of Medicine Bow National Forest tomorrow. I hope the weather is nice at 11000 ft.

It was done

That's right. Despite a brief interruption due to a thunderstorm, I finished the trampoline retaining wall project yesterday.


Or so I thought.

Today, I will be removing the spring mat, a bunch of the springs, and two of the plywood sections to add one more piece of plywood to fill in a teeny-tiny gap in the plywood rim at one spot that was due to me really needing plywood strips about a foot wide and only having them 8" wide. It was fine everywhere but this one spot. The Mrs., who was in the foulest mood all day yesterday, declared it too dangerous to leave. This, despite the overall installation being an order of magnitude safer than what has been there for the last year...

Trampoline Weather

Looks like the weather is going to be great for finishing the trampoline project tomorrow. The first trampoline work day under 100 degrees.

Once that project is done, I'm thinking of starting on the sprinklers. I have a few heads to relocate, and I need to add a head to one zone, and I need raise up a couple heads that the turf has grown up around and now they don't clear the grass anymore.

I isolated one sprinkler zone today that was causing my anti-siphon valve to chatter. I bled the valve, and I also noticed that the solenoid was loose which may have been causing it to suck air. I couldn't test it afterwards since the evening watering cycle had kicked in during that time, and once water is flowing through the anti-siphon, it won't chatter anymore.

It's sunny

I like sun.

It's cooling off.

A much more moderate temperature today. It was only about 84 when I got home from work. That should make the whole-house fan we got installed on Friday quite useful this evening. I've discovered that the outside temperature has to be a minimum of 6 degrees colder than the inside temperature in order for the fan to not make it hotter. I think that's because of the humidity difference between inside (AC) and outside.

Speaking of air, one of the fancy tires in the wini-van has decided to slowly leak. It needs air every couple days. Now, normally this would be easily fixable with a can of Fix-a-Flat, but this van is new enough to have the Democrat-mandated central tire pressure monitoring system, and Fix-a-Flat will gum that all up according to the manual, though the Fix-a-Flat website claims it is "Tire Sensor Safe". In addition, these particular fancy tires (Michelin PAX run flats) are only available on this one wini-van with this one option package and on no other vehicle in the world, and only specially-certified Michelin dealers with special equipment can service them, and only the Honda dealer in Fort TomCollins is certified. The Michelin store a mile from my house is not.

So this slow leak will likely cost me upwards of $200.