6 months.....

 7:42 am - Monday - September 13th - Seal Rock, OR - 45° F, 93% humidity, wind - CALM......sunny today with a forecast high of 60° F.  On this date in 2018 TLE and I were sitting atop Cadillac Mountain watching the sun rise......↴

On Sunday we celebrated our sixth month of residence at SRRVC since returning from our one month vacation.....we have slightly more than 2 weeks left on our contract....time is drawing shorter by the day.

Knowing, as you walk down the hill to report for work, that work will only be 120 minutes long is a good feeling.  I can do most anything for 120 minutes, then I've got the rest of the day to do what I wish.  On this particular Sunday Fred and I reported to the WDS plant to clean the filters.....they were supposed to be cleaned last Tuesday, but TLE and I were doing highway pickup on US-101, so it got deferred.  There were no hitches, and we were done within 30 minutes and on to more pleasant tasks.  In just two weeks Fred and I will perform that task for the last time....it is one of those 'last things' I will not miss.....lol.

It fell to me to mow/string trim the 'valley' in front of the office....you know, the large drainage ditch.  While I was doing that Fred trimmed some hedges....there are always more hedges to trim.  Since the grass in the valley wasn't too thick after weeks of dry weather I was able to mow 75% of it, and string trim the balance.  Usually it takes me 1.5 hours, but being able to mow most of it this time cut the time down to 1 hour.  After putting away my tools I assisted Fred in collecting the hedge clippings and hauling them to the 'burn pile'.

I was home a little after 12 pm, took a shower and settled in to watch....not the NFL, but a series of YouTube videos about a guy who saved a 1977 Porsche 911 Targa from its 15 year exile in a wrecking yard to restore it.  It was quite a mess when he began the process in his back yard shed in January of 2020, but by a week ago he was almost done.  There are 29 videos in this playlist ranging from 16 minutes to almost 40 minutes in duration.  Here is what it looked like when he brought it home back in January of 2020......

.....today he has completed the 'frame off' restoration, and has just reinstalled the 6 cylinder, air cooled Porsche engine.  He had to remove 7 layers of paint to get to bare metal.  If you're interested look up Budget Buildz on YouTube and watch the series....there will be more videos as he is not quite done yet.  This is a great example of what you can do on a limited budget in your backyard, and still get a quality end product.

The day began with fog and wind, but by the afternoon the sun had made an appearance, and the wind had abated.  It turned out to be a very nice afternoon which segued into a delightful sunset.....

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