The eye of the storm......

8:15 am - Wednesday - April 4th - Fontana, CA - 54° F, 84% humidity, wind 4 mph out of the southwest......heavy cloud cover with a forecast high today of 66° F.

Tuesday was the appointment for which I have been waiting for over a year.  I was supposed to have the cataract in my right eye replaced with an artificial lens over a year ago, but the surgery had to be postponed until after October of 2018 due to my stroke in December of 2017.  Since I wanted to have it done at Pacific Eye Institute in Upland, CA I had to wait until we returned to SoCal.  My appointment was for 9:30 am, and it takes about 2 hours from beginning to end.  The process involves measuring the eye, an eye test to see what I can read at distance, and close up with my right eye, an examination by an optometrist, a check for glaucoma, getting both eyes dilated (I hate that) and then a consultation with the surgeon, who in this will be Dr. Dovich.  We were out a little before 11:30 am.  I'll have to return on April 19th for a few more tests, then on April 24 I will have my final consultation with Dr. Dovich and the date for surgery will be set.

From Pacific Eye Institute we headed west on Arrow Route over to Central to pay a visit to 'The Hat', one of the best hot pastrami places on God's green earth.  We eat there at least once every year we visit SoCal, and our proximity to the Upland store could not be ignored.  Since my eyes had been dilated I could not drive.....your eyes are extremely sensitive to light for about 5-6 hours afterwards.  While I sat in the car with my eyes closed (I forgot my sunglasses) TLE picked up our pastrami sandwiches, and we headed home where we arrived around 12:30 pm.  I basically sat in a darkened Newell salon for the next few hours finally venturing out side again around 4:00 pm wearing my sunglasses to apply the gray Rustoleum paint to the LPG tank.  It took about 5 minutes to apply the primer, then I let it dry for 30 minutes, then applied the gray Rustoleum, and let it dry for about 40 minutes before removing all of the masking tape......

Before, just in case you may have forgotten

 Finished painting, now it's time to remove the masking tape

Ready for prime time....

......this is my last painting project on the Newell for a while, and I think it came out way better than I expected.  I may now cross item #5 on my 'to do' list:

5) Repaint the LPG tank with Rustoleum....again not the whole tank, but that which is visible when you open the LPG bay door.

By the time I had removed all the masking tape, and put away everything it was approaching 6 pm.  My eyes were finally back to normal, and I could open the curtains and turn on the lights once again.

For our evening's entertainment we watched a couple of recorded programs ('NCIS: New Orleans', 'Chopped') then watched 'Survivor'......once again we were 'blind sided' along with Eric, who thought he was in control....that's how it always happens.

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Classical Gas.....

7:20 am - Wednesday - April 3rd - Fontana, CA - 54° F, 87% humidity, wind 2 mph out of the southeast......heavy cloud cover today with a forecast high of 68° F.

Tuesday turned out to be a busy day.  I had received notice Monday afternoon that my new Seaflo macerator pump had been delivered to my son's office, so TLE and I decided to make a run into Rancho Cucamonga to pick it up, and also take another load of 'stuff' to store in his warehouse until our return from Alaska.  The pile in the trailer has been reduced significantly.....

Just a sea kayak and a couple of folding tables, plus the 

artificial turf to take to the warehouse now

....we left for the drive over to the office about 10:45 am arriving there 20 minutes later.  While I retrieved the macerator pump from the office mailbox TLE moved the VW around to the back of the building and began to unload our 'stuff'.   Within a few minutes we had found additional space on our metal shelving for our 'stuff' and we were back in the car crossing the street to the local USPS office to mail some packages: 1) Return the defective Seaflo water pump, 2) Return the TRICO pneumatic wiper core to Rome Truck Parts for refund of my $75 core charge, and 3) Return the 120 volt LED bayonet bulbs I had mistakenly purchased on Amazon.  The new ones have been ordered.  Thank God for the 'Flat Rate Boxes' the USPS provides.  The water pump and TRICO motor would have cost $25 each to send regular mail, but with the Medium size 'Flat Rate Box' it was only $14 per item. Our next stop was DSW Shoes where TLE bought some new sandals using a gift card she received for Christmas......about time, right?  From there we headed home where another project from my 'to do' list awaited my attention:  

5) Repaint the LPG tank with Rustoleum....again not the whole tank, but that which is visible when you open the LPG bay door.

I have been saving this painting job (Liquid Propane Gas bay) for last as I knew it would be the most difficult.  As you can see from the picture below there is a lot of masking to be done.....↴

 That red object in the lower right corner 

is the fuel/water separator

......I first wire brushed all the metal to be painted gray, and then set about masking everything that was not to be painted gray......↴

.....by 4:30 pm I had all the difficult stuff masked, with only the aluminum frame of the bay left.  I decided to leave that for Wednesday.  It will probably take less than 15 minutes to apply the gray paint, while it took about 2 hours to wire brush everything, and apply the masking tape.

Classical Gas by Mason Williams seems some how appropriate

The temp Tuesday was about 10° F cooler than Monday, and it was very welcome.  We began closing windows by 7 pm, whereas we had been leaving all the windows open all night, every night for about a week.

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