27 February 2016

As time goes by and while watching Supercross tonight on Fox Sports 1. Let's catch up a bit on activities for the past weeks.




Did finally get the boat out and like the new Hummingbird Helix 7 and even more so love the Hummingbird 587 in front for reading depth and down imaging. Saw it reading under a foot at one time. Something the Garmin unit would not do. Still need to load the hi buck mapping in the 7. Plus, Da Luce has so much fun out on the water getting all excited when I'm casting.

Out on Suzy a few times for 100 plus mile ride. Always love getting out in it. Then a smaller run or two on the KLR on more demanding roads as per suspension.



Bottle up some more of the Satsuma and Grapefruit wines into the 350ML bottles, coned the corks and pushed them half way in with the drill press.

For Lenten season , no bars or beer this year again. Just sipping wine and rum here at home.  Easter Sunday being March 27th this year. Two days before my birthday. 31 days left of being 72 yrs old.
Spent some time watching the crews tearing down walls at the Fire Station , getting it ready for all the remodeling.

Bayou Rum! Wow! I had bought a bottle of satsuma run a month or so back and it's 30% by volume. So, trying a bottle of the Spice Rum and noticed it quite a bit stronger. Like 40% instead of 30. So, the sips are smaller and less often. A couple sips of that stuff and a couple small glasses of my wine do get your head light.

A new singer to me I'd never heard of,  Linda Perry. Like her music. Downloaded about a dozen songs. What's amazing is I can understand 90% of her lyrics.  Many, I have not a clue what they are saying with their songs.

Two 4' florescent lights were converted to LED. But, got the wrong lighting and it's a bit amber instead of bright white. But, will do okay for the shop. Will make sure I order the bright white for the next sets. Had one bulb that would not work so took it apart and found the little plug in for the LED strip unplugged on the circuit board.  Lucky me was able to fix it and now working great. You do have to lose the ballast and wire direct to one end of the LED bulb set up. And make sure you wire them right as per load and neutral wires.

Pressure washed the roof on the shop this afternoon. Wow! Need to start taking breaks faster. Was pretty worn out by the time a tank of gas went though. Perhaps a bit over an hour. But, had about 4 sq feet left when it ran out so filled up enough to finish. Tomorrow will spread a new coat of roof seal on it.

Well , that about catches me up so till the next!

12 February 2016

12 Feb 2016
Today was mainly working on the boat this morning after walk about and coffee at the firestation. Got the Hummingbird Hellix 7 all installed, software updated and operating. 
Now moving the Hummingbird 587GPS/DI to the bow to take the place of the Garmin Depth Finder up there. Took awhile to get the transducer mounted up to the trolling motor and will have to see how that's gonna work. tomorrow we'll see about finishing up with that project. 

Other things this week wuz starting to redo and throw away non used items in the garage. But, ran out of trash can space pretty fast so have to continue on it later. 

A 130 mile ride on Suzy Yesterday that had me kinda sore when getting off of the thing at home. Today, about 50 miles on the KLR and legs and hips felt much better. 

Later! 

03 February 2016

2016/02/03   Has rolled around pretty quick.
Grapefruit juice wine has been reracked a few days ago and chemicals added today to null out the yeast.
Ordered a new Hummingbird instrument for da boat. 7" screen with Down Imaging and GPS chart plotter for a bit under 600 bucks. Wanted a better mapping program more than fishfinder. Love the sonar for depth of water while roaming. Probably will move the old 5 in to the front somewhere's. Have not figured that out yet.
One nice 100+ mile ride on Suzy covering from Jennings to Egan to Crowley to Eunice to Mamou to Ville Platte to Opeleousas to Lawtell to Eunice to Evangeline to Jennings. Gas in Mamou during the run was the only stop.

Wife to her sister's to help with her sister's transportation while getting eye operation so it's me and da Luce in control and loving it.

One day out on the water last week with the boat and mainly just running the engine with about 1/2 hour stop for fishing with no bites.

Marti Gras parade in Lake Auther was awesome with many floats and many horses and wagons.

 Probably 30 or more floats

With people having fun.







and the wagons drawn by mules










and horses that were beautiful.