Mrs. Beard's BMW X5 got an oil & filter change, plus 10 liters of DEF

Woot! Finally finished sewing a few patches on my mainsail. Thread tension was a bit loose and causing a mess of thread and loose stitches. I need practice but am happy now it turned out.

My son replaced the headlights and turn signals on his "new to him and free" 1995 Toyota Corolla station wagon.

This car was bought new or nearly near by my friend Rod who was living in San Francisco. He drove it for 24 years until he died this month. It doesn't look like much but is a solid vehicle. Rod's widow gave the car to my 19 y/o boy who is thrilled, partly to have a reliable car, and partly to have Rod's car. I went through the service records and it looks like Rod had the car serviced regularly, including timing belt, and the indicated 123K miles is correct. This will be a nice car for my boy and/or spare family wheels, since the Vanagon is so temperamental.

Threw a coat of primer on this somewhat dilapidated garden bench that I picked up at someone's curb a month ago.

I scraped as much of the loose stuff off and spray a can of rust converter on it last week.

The end pieces are very solid, the wood also, but those two crisscross back braces are a little sketchy...lol.

For free, I'm just going to give her a couple coats of paint and get as much mileage out of her as possible.

I already have two others that are similar, plus three more that are handmade and much simpler in design.

I'm a big believer in having benches in the garden. Sometimes you just need to sit and take it all in.....

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the old chainsaw. No progress today
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Ugh! Drywall so the wife can paint.

Finally got around to getting a new flag up on my flag pole. Ended up replacing everything except the pole. Excellent investment as I can't remember the last time I felt the sense of patriotism I did tonight after I got her back up.

I had to buy a carriage bolt and coupler nut to accommodate the addition of the light. I opted for an eagle vs. the gold ball that seems to be the default. That's what I had before anyway. :) Sprayed everything down with a corrosion inhibitor.

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That's pretty cool, Baz. Is that a ring light at the top? Does the pole "hinge" at the base to accommodate maintenance at the top? Nice work!

Thanks, Herr Oberst! Yes, it's a solar LED light designed for this purpose. The pole consists of about 4-5 segments...each about 3-4' long...so you can just lift off the entire pole to get to the top. The bottom segment is attached to a base that is buried and secured with concrete. The pole is very lightweight and easy to lift off it's base.

I was trying to load more pics with my post but had a devil of a time getting them loaded. My Internet connection has been very suspect of late.

Here's some pics of the top piece:

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So cool what they do with LED's and a small solar panel. That looks awesome Baz!

Thanks, Nick - and I agree.

This brand had a high rating on Amazon, which is why I bought it. Not expensive at all either. I still have a halyard to bring her down to half mast when appropriate but nice to keep her flying 24/7 otherwise.

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I'm going to do this at my Mom's for her flag pole also, now that I have the routine down. ;)

Today I'll be replacing the plugs in my trusty freeway flyer Honda.
Seems it tossed a code for a #3 cyl mis-fire, all do to the VCM which causes the car to run on 3 cylinders when in Eco mode. At least it isn't using oil like some do.

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#3 is on the left, #6 is on the right.

Work continued last week up at the new shop too.

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Mezzanine is almost done.

Just put a coil in 1 the other day. Pretty impressive it so well on 3/4. Swap the coils to make sure.

I just fixed my neighbors kitchen sink. I did construction for 10 years and havnt seen anything this bad. His cabinet is sealed off underneth so he didnt know it was going on but he had a leak and thought it was from the winter freeze. It wasnt. Mice or rats ate the entire drain! The Y pipe and P trap were trashed. They didnt touch the thicker pvc just the thin stuff. And also the dishwasher drain hose was eaten the whole way. Thats not all they ate huge holes in the bottom of the dishwasher plastic. I managed to piece together a new drain with stuff i had. Last year he had a similar problem his house didnt have water pressure because they ate the well hose going to the pressure tank and it was flowing out. I dont know how they ate all that with water squirting out in their mouth! I burried what i could and put metal screen around what was exposed. This was in the crawlspace under his house. He is too weird to bother with mouse traps. I just hope they dont get at the wires and burn down his house.

my roof

for pictures https://talk.roofing.com/t/i-need-a-cat-5-hurricane-proof-roof/21160/16

Toilet flush valve. Yay.

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Building an 18" subwoofer for my stereo

Recently finished painting the cabinets in our master bath also, which took about 10x longer than I expected

so cool

I took this car apart 10 years ago to swap the motor and trans into another Formula Vee I raced for 10+ years. I've been hauling it around through a couple of moves. Finally decided to pull the parts together and re assemble it. Thankfully I found all of the hardware I needed. Took a couple of days to figure out how it went back together and get it complete. Not running yet but a solid roller. Now I need to get it sold!

Before with the rear frame assembly removed including engine and transaxle;

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Assembled. Needs a few additional things and to be fully plumbed and wired;

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