Summertime

     Plan mere guideline warm weather here (different from year's balance, right?!).  July Fourth opens summer.  Wednesday Fourth prior Chicago sis Laurel successfully Eugene airport retrieve; check out SwettLodge's, Kate's layouts.  Kate lake bound loads her Suby - including rack mounted futon mattress, frame inside - with Laurel, her stuff; me, my stuff - yeah guitar too; on way out of town hike Spencer Butte high point south Eugene; Lakeside roll.  Friday prep, evening folks descend.  Sordid details discussed not here - what goes down Lakeside stays down Lakeside: allow imagination conjure twenty five people, three days, 200 beers, half dozen water craft, lake, sunny weather, fishing gear,

Lakeside municipal fireworks, mega home fireworks display/neighbor joust, tents, eagles, ospreys, king fishers, dogs, one child, fifteen pounds ribs, quantities other victuals/spirits/inebriants, guitars, new shore side campfire, no cop visits - whew - results!  Kate's largest Lakeside Fourth gathering yet.  Good times!
     SwettLodge.blogspot.com following may be spottier coming up: plan Chicago August road trip visit daughters at parents Labor day, mom's ninetieth Galena IL celebration week after; Wisconsin friends.  Gettin' Gertie ready: brakes gone through, tires new, tuned up - '78 Toyota 2TC semi hemi's 'bout ready for a run. 
     Jack garage side back porch roof, unearth pad originally poured to support back porch corner, porch corner post support repurposed, for fifth Swett Lodge center beam support pillar.

Couple cement drain pipe sections replace - not pretty: temporarily adequate.

Materials at hand - sepia tone photo eery, somehow apocryphal;

get house under; walk slab, blocks, tools, lamp house front; level pad; double twenty ton jack house lift off meager rotted beam end vertical treated 4x4, cement brick previous prophylactic support treatment; install cement block, cement brick pillar couple feet inside front wall.  Right feels right.  Center beam now entirely on good pillar supports, can begin slow raise.  (Main house steel water supply pipe below beam.)

 
     Buttttt ..... it's summer, myriad details call.  BIG DEAL: absentee timed garden watering system - better refine so soon good to go.  Vice grips open old valve - it works! - activate four eventually found sprinklers garden front center.

Fourth sprinkler's front zone end (pulled mostly inedible radishes - 'cept fer greens! - surround),

exhume garden back end center sprinkler (note dry soil),

sprinkler next center of garden confirms three back sprinklers front sprinklers separate.

Find back zone's supply pipe by garage; amazed: successfully remove rusted tee - intend supply garden sprinklers here.

Plastic fitting garden hose/steel pipe confirm back sprinkler function; cap rear most out of garden sprinkler; ten foot plastic pipe join front/back garden zones;  plastic capped risers replace old brass sprinklers, pressurize system (read: turn water on) - no leaks, plastic fitting not long term use durable, brass garden hose/steel pipe fitting replace.  Attached, buried hose emerges by garage,

runs up to old back porch laundry supply line.

Drill small sprinkler holes near tops six newly installed risers: uncontrollable.

Another - plastic pipe, fittings; brass hose/steel pipe fitting; more plastic pipe fittings, plastic pipe - box store bike trip: sprinkler heads.  Find front sprinkler supply more pressure than back porch laundry supply: will accommodate timer, rework supply line; fully adjustable sprinkler head replace some sprinklers.  Way everything's growing could harvest travel prior - good thing plan large late July fall crop planting.

     Answer Craigslist free gas stove ad out side town; pick up retrieve; two gas tanks, gas can in truck all empty run out edge of town returning.  Kate gracefully rescues.  Nice Magic Chef range turns out non natural gas to LP gas convertible - plan crawl space small LP tank stove supply - couple days later hand over to scrapper.  More thorough next time!
     Kitty corner bike shop put out large free pile one morn.  Feel like a meth head - in LA they're always bike tweaking seems - rummage pile; find aluminum seat post, old Sting Ray semi high rise handlebars: maybe improve Schwinn's ridability?  Drive longer slightly larger aluminum seat post into frame, won't go far enough, extract, hacksaw shorten, file, reinsert: works.  Sweet: needed 'bout half inch extra height to hyper extend legs.  Take a shot at handlebars: too small for Schwinn's carrier.  Talk to bike shop boys, suggest shim.  Cut small piece copper pipe, hacksaw split, plier wrap round too small handlebars: charm!  Remove kickstand, drill hole, install kickstand stop screw, reinstall kickstand: bike now stands alone.  'Tweaks' render old Schwinn more responsive, powerful, enjoyable ride.  
     Free pile salvage small workbench vise; fixed blade Stanley utility knife; hacksaw blade; 30 inch across nail loaded fir round, ax split, wheelbarrow home: warming wood always welcome. 

     St. Vinnie's comfortable chair spend actual money ($30).

     Friday Kate Lakeside; launder, good clean shower, shave, remove pound or so bushy thick hair: self inflict ear lowering (remember that's a mirror image!) her place.  One day Swett Lodge will be more accommodating......

     Hone sprinklers; legalize OR residency, Gertie's ownership; mind oral health: major road trip prior foci.  Comfortable chair, warm sun, cool open house breeze days sap ambition - fortunate Swett Lodge reasonably structurally stable: no reconstruction rush.  Work accomplished, sundry events cataloged here.  Peace.