7:55 am - Friday - July 25th - LPG&RVR - 61° F, humidity 40%, wind 2 mph out of the north by northeast....mostly sunny today with a forecast high of 85° F. On this date in 2013 TLE and I were touring Glacier National Park....
....this picture is of Wild Goose Island in Lake Mary. The views were spectacular....
....we hiked the High Line Trail.
As is most often the case on day one of our four day weekend TLE and I slept in until almost 7:30 am. There is something delicious about awakening at a time much later than 5:30 am, our usual workday awakening time. Once we are out of bed we ever so slowly ease into our day. Each of us always has a few things we want to accomplish, and Thursday was no exception for me. There were three things I wanted to accomplish Thursday, not necessarily in this order: 1) fix the rear flat tire on my Haibike pedal assist mountain bike, 2) fix the oscillating sprinkler so it would oscillate again, and 3) run our Predator 5000 dual fuel generator for 30 minutes.
I had to completely disassemble the sprinkler, to see what was wrong, but could not see anything wrong, so I lubed the oscillating mechanism, and put it back together. Once hooked up to our hose again it worked as it should. Sometimes just taking things apart, and reassembling them does the trick.
Next up TLE helped me lift the very heavy Predator out of the trailer, and onto the ground where I then started it, and wiped away 3 months worth of dust off its exterior. It started right up, and ran quietly, and smoothly for 30 minutes.
While the Predator was being exercised I pulled out my Park bike stand, which I have not used for a long, long time, and then clamped my mountain bike into place raising the rear wheel off the floor so I could remove it. The last time I had a flat tire on the Haibike was back in 2022, our first summer here, and had a very difficult time detaching the tire from the rim. The rim is set up for tubeless tires, but I've been using an innertube. Nevertheless, because it is a tubeless rim it has a special lip on it that locks in the bead of the tire pretty tightly. I had to buy a special tool three years ago just to detach the tire from the rim, but it's been three years since I used that tool, so it took me at least 30 minutes to figure out how it worked. Once the light bulb clicked on in my brain I had the tire off in 30 seconds, and the tube repaired in five minutes. Now I can ride my bike again.
It was only 11:30 am when I finished repairing the flat tire on my bike, and I had already accomplished everything on my to do list for the day. Friday I'll run the generator again to heat it up before changing the oil. It only takes one quart so that shouldn't take too long. Amazingly. I have never had to add oil since we've owned it.
During the afternoon, while I was watching a YouTube video, Starlink had a worldwide outage that lasted a good two hours.....
.....the 2nd screenshot was taken just as the system was coming back online. Within another 5 minutes service was restored. That is the first outage we have experienced in the 3+ years we've had Starlink. When Starlink first went down I tried rebooting the modem, then the dish, but determined it was not my equipment as everything was functioning as it should, it just could not connect to the internet. I then went to the Starlink website on my cell phone, and found out it was a Starlink issue.
The rest of the day was spent watching Stage 18 of Le Tour in which Tadej Pogacar managed to add another 10, or 11 seconds to his already substantial lead, and now has a 4 minute and 25 second lead. Of course, there were a few naps thrown in for good measure. I didn't spend much time outside in the afternoon as the mosquitoes are really pesky right now.
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