transport updates

Here's a photo of Jenne's mashed frame.


She removed all the good bits. It was a sad day. I might be able to bend the tubing back and weld gusset plates to either side... In the meantime everybody's looking for a new frame, even the neighbors. Here's one we like.


I finally fixed the leaky oil gauge. (that's the old one) the ring around the outside is actually a tube, as the oil pressure builds it tries to straighten out, causing that little arm on top to pivot, which turns a gear on the shaft, making the needle (removed) go up. beautiful.

P.S.

Like, three hours after that last post I was riding my bike to have lunch with George and Yannick and got into a bad situation and hit a parked car with my bike and ruined the frame beyond repair. Only minor damage to myself but R.I.P new bike.

=(

The Tree

The Tree
Originally uploaded by average lavender

Here's the tree Boy was up yesterday, if you follow the link to Flickr there's a note that shows where he was. It's sort of difficult to really grasp the landscape he was in from this picture, or maybe not. Off to the left and mostly below the tree is the creek and only the creek so really there was only one way down, luckily he made it.

Whew!

Three lives down, six to go...

We just spent the last two hours trying to get Boy down from a tree. He weaseled his way about thirty feet up a tree that has one branch on the way up. He was fine for a while, then started meowing, then started panting, then started circumnavigating the trunk, then started drooling...

Meanwhile, we're all pacing and making phone calls to find someone with a ladder long enough for us to get close to him. (FYI - the fire department will not help you in this situation. Neither will the police. Neither will anybody.) We tried calling a couple tree services, the one man we got a hold of said that he would help, but he'd thrown his back out and had to go to his father's eighty-seventh birthday party. We finally got a hold of Yannick who, in fact, had an extension ladder at home, so George took off to get it.

Meanwhile, our neighbor Johann and I stood under Boy with a blanket, ready for the inevitable fall. (Girl tried to help by jumping up into the tree also - which is amazing because she doesn't even like to jump onto the table, it was completely out of character for her.)

Only...he didn't fall. He shuffled his way down, panting, drooling, sideways. It sounds all calm and anti-climatic now, but let me tell you, when he decided it was a good idea to move from the branch and scoot around the trunk - big pieces of bark falling, him teetering on the skinny little branch he came to...it was a little difficult.

One of our other neighbors thought it was pretty ridiculous to be so worried and the guy who owns the Buddha store next door (who noticed Boy up the tree) couldn't watch.


Pictures to follow after we eat some dinner. Along with more news and photos.

Stay tuned!

vw update

We almost lost her to a tree limb.

As of yesterday she's down off the blocks, with five speeds and a new clutch. Time to gussy her up and try to make a sale... maybe we'll go cruising first though.