updates

Things are moving quickly towards the end of the school year for me. Head Start finishes on May 24, though the public school ends a week and a half earlier. Spring has really come to the Fort---the snow is gone from the roads, the dust is back--covers you when you race around on your fourwheeler. There are a few big puddles on the back trails, almost lost myself in one this afternoon, pulled my feet up to rest by the windshield, kept it in first gear, held my breath and plugged my nose. Pretty amazing how that machine can be half in water and still push on through. And no thanks I'm sure to the makeshift boot Keith and I collaborated to wrap around one of the CV joints. It was a little too daunting to take the whole wheel and axl off, so we zip-tied a sliced boot around the joint and covered it with a hodge-podge of duck tape and felt soaked in silicone. It's better than nothing until we get the guts to take the whole wheel off. Keith joined the online Honda riders club and has online access to the shop book, so he's printed off some vague instructions on the process--four black and white photos with two arrows. Umm, thanks Honda, that really does the trick.

Haven't put many photos up recently so I added a few from the not so recent past. Hopefully I'll try to keep things updated better this summer when I'm off work and running from the mosquitos. Which, by the way, are already around...the early ones are enormous, but terribly slow, which gives us the false impression that we'll be able to fight them off...but no matter our efforts, the sleeker, speedier, sneakier 2.0 generation is on the way.