That was fasssssst

Got off of work and headed to the grocery to pick up a few items. Radio says there is a thunderstorm watch for the area. A watch, for a thunderstorm. This is as I am parking my truck. I enter the building, the sky starts to darken. I make it through two aisles, it is now black outside. I start the third aisle, the lights flicker, then go out. Apparently, they don't have a backup generator, and their backup light system consists of a few employees with flashlights and a coupe of the two dim light bulbs on a pole backup lights. That is it. I calmly make it to the front of the store, it is raining hard, sideways. So, I wait for the storm to lighten up, or the power to return. After about five minutes, the storm subsides. No sign of power coming back on, so, it was time to hit the road. Apparently, when the power fails, the electric doors automatically open, wide. The entry way looks like a wading pool. There is water everywhere, along with debris of all types.
 I make it out to the truck. The streets are under water. The storm drains are spewing water into the streets at a very high rate. Looks like open fire hydrants. There are trees and power poles uprooted. There is a cement park bench uprooted and flipped upside down a short way down the street. It took several attempts to get home. I would make it about halfway, and have to U-turn and try another way as the roads are completely blocked by down trees, not branches, trees. The whole time I am worried about what kind of mess I was going to arrive home to. Figured bare minimum, no power for the foreseeable future as there are many, many power poles down and some simply uprooted and leaning against neighboring power lines. Had to drive under a couple of them as there was no turning back. Very nerve wracking.
 They just reported 50,000 without power so far with little chance for restoration until late weekend or early in week with the massive damage to the lines, poles and downed trees in the way. Upon arriving home, I find I am extremely fortunate. House is untouched as is most of my neighborhood. I live on higher ground, so the water drained away from our area. There were garbage cans and debris about, but no roofing to be seen, or other serious damage. Looked like the main concentration of the storm moved through like a tornado. The path went past the store and looked like it followed a straight path. No news of a tornado, but I have never seen a storm do this much damage, and definitely not in the short timespan that it hit. They still have a watch going for a few more hours. It cooled the area off by about twenty degrees in a matter of minutes.

Finally done, with that part anyway

Got home and cut up the last dead tree I took down. It is now curbside waiting on the garbage pickup. Still have a little work to do on the stump, and some more rock to put down, but the ugliest part is done. The stump I can work with a little at a time. Hope to get the worst of the labor done before the summer heat gets here. Been rather pleasant out for the last few weeks.

With a lot of luck, maybe it will help nail the benghazi bitches coffin shut

http://www.rr.com/articles/2014/05/06/h/hillary-clinton-gun-culture-way-out-of-balance

But I doubt it. She is shooting her mouth off about guns. I really, really, really hope she keeps it up. I do believe the vast majority of people (not just the select people the liberal media weed out to interview) have had quite enough of the anti gunners. May it be the death of her political career. Otherwise, I foresee another Clinton gun ban coming. Wonder if clueless is aware the texting in a theater shooting was done by an ex law enforcement officer. Usually the democrats like to exclude law enforcement from their gun grabbing tactics. Not too sure about whether guns were allowed in that particular theater either. So, what short of grabbing all the evil guns could she possibly have in mind.
To me, sex and race have no bearing at all on who I vote for. That being said, I hope if she runs, the republicans have a worthy female to throw into the ring. If she runs, there will be a lot of people voting for her simply to have the first female in the white house. Electing an official on that basis is just as stupid as the idiots that put Obama in because he was black, or half black anyway. The only thing worse than having Obama for eight years, having Hillary for another eight.

Why

Why do knees not come with zerk fittings so you can lube them up. After two days of moving rock, my knees feel like hell and I swear I can just about hear them crunch. They seem to have gone to hell once I hit 50. Good part is the back yard is just about done. A few extra bags here and there to thicken it up a bit. The front yard, I intend on backing the truck up to each location and offloading what is needed at each spot.

After fussing with the rock this morning, I spent the rest of the day messing about in the garage. I installed digitals to the x and y axis on the mill. I am making a bracket to mount one on the z axis. Just ran out of time for the day. Have a plan for where and how to install. Made a couple of the bracket parts and installed them. Just have to machine a couple more pieces. want to make a small enclosure for the small units as well. Not as accurate as the high end ones, but for home use, they will be more than adequate. Suppose to be accurate to within .002 per six inches of travel.

Not ready to go back to work. It has been great working outdoors for a few days. Could use a few more days off, but that would just lead to wanting a few more.

Truck empty

Got up and made breakfast, then out to the yard. Pulled the section of fence and backed the truck up to the last big patch where rock was going. Much, much easier. Laid the last of the skid down. Need to make another trip. If I am off next weekend, I will pick up another skid. Back yard could use a few more bags and the front still needs doing. Have to finish cutting up the dead tree and hauling it off. The fun just never stops. Still, got a lot done for so early in the morning. May play in the garage most of the rest of the day.

Not so much fun after all....

Planned on playing around in the garage all day. That last surviving brain cell I have remembered last night that they have a sale on gravel at Home Depot. Seeing how today was the last day for their weekly sales, I had to get over there today. Truck comes in handy. Pulled into the garden area and had them load a pallet full on the back. Wish I had a fork truck on my end to unload it, but, got about half of it unloaded and placed, as well as the lawn mowed and trimmed. Still have a half skid on back. Going to remove a section of the fence in back yard so I can back the truck up to the last section of backyard I have to do. Next weekend, I will try and do the front. Trying to get it done while we have the cooler spring weather. Don't want to be doing it in the summer heat. Looks great where I have it down. Tired of doing mulch. Keep having to replace it. Gravel is more work, but should last.

It's the weekend, Yeaaaaaa

Worked lots of hours during the week and the weekend off. Perfect. Like the overtime, and the weekends off. Hope to play in the garage all weekend. Most of it is cleaned up and I can now get some stuff done. Fun stuff. Suppose to be nice out all weekend as well. During the week, I took parts of the mill apart and cleaned and lubed it well. Also got most of the backlash out of it. This weekend, I will install some digital readouts on it. Want to make my fixture for holding my AR forging for machining as well. Just got the material in today. Be nice to play with my toys and relax for a while.