More road work.....

 6:59 am - Friday - March 28th - TWW  - 53° F, humidity 35%, wind 9 mph out of the south.....heavy overcast this morning with a forecast high of 64° F.  On this date in 2013 TLE and I were overnighting in Kinards, SC on our way to Ashville, NC....

After making that run in the Rhino out to the east/west arterial early Thursday morning to video the work I had done, I realized that TLE and I would need to take a couple of rock rakes out there to smooth out a few areas, plus fill in some holes, and remove some large rocks that the Gannon dislodged.  After finishing my latest missive TLE and I did just that.  Imagine raking 1/2 mile of dirt road...lol!  The first 200 yards needed a lot of work, but things sped up after that and soon we were back at TWW cooling down, and proclaiming we were done, workwise, the the day.  In all we spent around 2 hours raking, and smoothing.  Some of the dislodged rocks were so large it took TLE and I to move them off the road.  Well, that's a bunch of rocks I won't have to dislodge with a pry bar at a later date!

After resting in the cool confines of our Newell for a while I decided to dive into a small project I've been putting off for too long.  When we arrived at TWW back in October we found an old, neglected Coleman gas grill in the garage which was totally encrusted with grease, and seemed to be destined for the trash, but I had just ordered a steam cleaner on Amazon to use to clean the fins on our rear facing radiator from time to time, and thought it would be able to do the job, so I set the grill aside for another day.  Additionally, there was an old diesel container that was still in pretty good shape, but had been sitting outdoors with a lot of gunk inside it.  Once again I thought the steam cleaner would clean it out, and make it usable again, so I put about a 1/2 gallon of diesel in it to help loosen some of the gunk, and set it aside for another day. Well, that day finally arrived...lol!

The Coleman grill needs a little more work, but it is 1,000% better than when I began to steam clean it

All you need is a bucket of water, plug in the unit, and within seconds you've got pressurized steam....so simple to use

....once again, the land provides.  I had an extra pour spout, and vent cap, so now I've got an extra diesel can.

TLE made cornbread, and chili for our communal dinner with Charles and Phyllis.  They arrived sometime after 1 pm when I was in the middle of steam cleaning.  We ate around 3:30 pm.  They'll be here until Sunday, I think.

I spent the evening watching the 'Sweet Sixteen' round of the NCAA 'March Madness' basketball tournament.  There were no upsets, so four of the higher seeded teams have now advanced to the 'Elite Eight' to be played this weekend.  There will be four more games to complete the 'Sweet Sixteen' round on Friday.  The game between Arkansas (#10 seed in their pool) and Texas Tech (#3 seed in their pool) was the only game on Thursday with a chance of an upset.  Arkansas led by as many as 16 points at one time, but Texas Tech slowly clawed their way back into the game, tying it as regulation time expired.  Texas won in overtime by 2 points....what a comeback!  My brother-in-law, Glenn, who attended Texas Tech will be happy.

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