Moving water.....

 8:00 am - Sunday - March 15th - TWW - 53° F, humidity 14%, cloud cover 36%, wind 6 mph out of the north by northwest.....mostly clear skies today with a forecast high of 70° F.  The view this morning....

....and on this date in 2015 TLE and I were in Sedona, AZ.....

....hiking the airport loop trail.  Over the years we've been to Sedona 4, or 5 times.

Charles asked us to empty the lower tank at the water tower into the 5 of 6 IBC totes we have on site.  The 6th one is 'ours', and is already full.  As you know there is an upper and lower tank at the water tower, each of which holds 2,500 gallons of water.  The way the system works is you initially fill both tanks, and then pump water into the home from the top tank.  When the top tanks is down to about 1,000 gallons we then pump water from the lower tank up to refill the upper tank.  Over the time Phyllis has owned this property (about 2 years now) we have never emptied the lower tank, so Charles felt it was time to completely empty it, and then rinse it out before refilling it.  He believes the water is getting stale, and that certainly could be the case.  He estimates there are about 1,000 gallons left in the lower tank, and that should fill all 5 totes.  We began the process Saturday morning just using gravity to begin filling the two tanks on the east side of the house....

....it took most of the day to move that water, but we got each 4/5's full by 6:30 pm.  We left the last 5th in each in case we get any rain before we begin to drain them in the future.  We also topped off the IBC tote on the southwest side before we called it a day Saturday.  We'll have to use the SeaFlo 12 volt water pump to fill the tanks at the greenhouse as it is slightly uphill from the lower water tank, and with it being so empty now there is not enough natural water pressure to to fill them without mechanical aid.....

We completely filled the IBC tote on the southwest corner of the house as we will be transferring water from it to the greenhouse in the next week, or so, and no rain is forecast for that time period right now

.....while we let gravity do the work to transfer the water I spent time with the Jeep, and Ford 420 diesel tractor trying to figure out why each of them had fuel delivery issues.  You will recall that when I left off work on the Jeep the other day it would idle, but you could not accelerate above the idle.  When we were in town Friday I bought a bottle of SeaFoam gas treatment which is good for cleaning out the ports in carbs, and injectors such as we have on the Ford.  I put about half the bottle in the Jeep fuel tank, then started her up.  She fired pretty quickly, but would only idle at first, however, over the next 10 minutes I could tell she was running better and using the throttle linkage at the carb was able to accelerate very smoothly.  In fact, this is the beast I've heard her run since after I first purchased her.  I restarted her several times, and she fired right up and ran very smoothly for a change.

Next up I did the same for the Ford.  The last time I ran her she began running like only 2 of the 3 cylinders were firing.  After pouring in the rest of the SeaFoam into the diesel tank I started her up, and she began running roughly just as she did a couple of weeks ago, however, after she warmed up, she began to run on all 3 cylinders again....SUCCESS!  I restarted her several times over the course of the day, and got the same result.....she runs much more smoothly now with very little smoke.  In celebration I made a short video for you viewing pleasure....

....for the first time in two winters all of the equipment is running well, including the Yamaha Rhino with which we have had a lot of fuel issues involving bad fuel lines.

I received the new propane gas regulator for the Sea-B-Que the other day, but had not yet grilled anything on her so TLE got out 2 tender loin steaks we bought at Fred Meyers in Klamath Falls last summer....OMG!  They were so tender......

....they were very thick steaks, so it took me about 14 minutes to get them to medium rare. TLE added a side of boiled spinach, which was perfect.  That steak was melt in your mouth delicious!

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