The grapefruit juice wine in the making keeping me company in my room with different cadences to the bubbling. Still a long ways to go and gets a shaking every day. Talk about wake it up with at times, blowing most the water out the bubbler.  Hope it turns out near good as the last batch of Satsumer Wine.

And the newest up grade to the KLR is the shock absorber  change out to a Progressive unit. Really feel the difference in the short 70 mile ride I took yesterday afternoon to test it. Sag even came out close enough at 2.5 inches loaded.
Plus, had a broke front turn signal and after several times looking about the shop for some I knew I had, they were found, the connector ends changed  to plug into the wiring harness and installed and working just fine.


Other than that, not a lot super important been happening since the last post. Did get some fishing stuff in from Bass Pro. Got a heavy duty fruit squeezed in I ordered for next time I need to squeeze a bunch of fruit for wine making or what ever.

Lost my Kershaw Knife I've been having for 10 years. May have to order another one. I'll give it a few more days in case it pops up out of the blue.

Saturday, 16 Jan 2016 and the pinkish glow at the Eastern Horizon with the Blue skies looking good out my window this 48F or 9C morning.

Finally got out on Greenie the KLR yesterday for a bit of a ride. Was hoping to turn the ometer over to 46,000 but was getting cold and no jacket with me so shut it down early. Did venture mostly back roads to just South East of LC town then to Loggerheads for a beer then back around to Iowa, Welch and off US 90 to the south and back roads into Jennings. Good ride.
Still no action from the batch of wine I'm making now. Have some foam at the top but no gas pressure to move the water level in the bubbler. Been 2.5 days so far so hoping the acid in the Grapefruit juice didn't kill the yeast. We'll see.
Wife told me she's leaving for Houston today, stopping in LC town to see a friend in the hospital there then on to her sister's home near Cut and Shoot till probably Wednesday. Be safe lady.
Me and Da Luce got this end. Ta daaaaaaaaaaaa.

As time flies by and winter sets in.

Was hoping to get the boat out for a run but had to be satisfied with running it in the driveway hooked up to a water hose for cooling. Last run a few days ago was really satisfying on the start and general running. Did put some fuel additives in the tank which is pretty full. Now to wait for the weather to co operate.

Did bottle the 5 gallons of Satsuma wine.

Came out really good. Used most of my bottles also. But, easy to get more from a friends drive through place.

Did get Suzy out for a 115 mile run covering  Mermentau, Morse, Gueydan, Lake Arthur, Hayes, Holmwood, LeBleu Settlement, Welch, Jennings and home. Nice ride with good temperatures and getting use to new helmet and jacket.

As the last front came in a yesterday, not lots done outside except washing truck.  Nothing more really in the plans for today. Maybe go watch the Championship game with friends at the  Country Bar. We'll see as that's still 5 hours away. ;-)

Well, I did take one last picture for the year for the TWT Photo site.

The head of the handle of a German Knife my Army Aunt brought back in the 50's from her time in Germany. One of the very few things of her's I ended up with when she died in '95. A couple Beer Stiens with the pigeon caps on was the other stuff.












Did the end of the year mileage for my vehicals and even surprized myseld  as I didn't think I had put on that many miles just running in a 100 mile radius from here.

The 2000 KLR 650 was my primary bike this year. Lighter and more suspension for the roads that are not so good about this area. Ended up with 5954 miles for the year.
Things done to it were setting the valves, advancing the ex cam one tooth forward, Avon Gripsters tires, Race tech gold valve cartridge emulator and drilled 6 holes in the dampner rod. Last was a set of 2" rox risers with the rubber insulators and new hand grips.
Put the winter shield on last month so we good for the winter now.




Next was my 2006 Suzuki Bandit which I bought in '08 as a left over. Was my Long Distance bike till my wreck missing a deer in 2013. Now more my 2nd bike.

We did 4628 on the clock but actual 4952 due to ometer error of 7% slow due to speedohealer being used to get the speedo accurate with GPS readings.
Have put all the luggage racks back on and a new tail box than shown in this pic. One like on the KLR. In fact I bought two new ones a few months ago. one for each bike.

I installed Race Tech Gold Valves in the forks of this bike also.  Went back in when have to change seals a month or so ago and soften them up some more. Running 5wt oil in there. Really not that much difference that I can tell.  Even with the new 1.1 springs installed and about 1.75" sag set on them. So, it is was it is and still love that engine.

Might as well mention the truck miles for the year being 7165 miles. Think I've used it more this last year than any year before and it just has 84.,856 miles on it. Not bad for an '03 Truck.

Racked the Satsuma wine yesterday and got really cold hands for my efforts in the mid 40's degree garage. Today mixed in a few chemicals to help clear and to kill the yeast. Give it a few days and see if the bubbling stops and bottle it. Pert near 5.5 gallons in there. Should have enuff bottles for the job.

Think it's the warmest it's been in a several days now at almost 60F. Been staying in the 40's the last few days for sure. Done had enuff winter.
Later.