Monday, Feb. 1, 2021 – Just Puttered Around Today

Hi Sweetie,
Rain came in early this morning and woke me up, but I read for a bit, then fell back to sleep. Did some stretching, then got up and finished fixing the backup camera, though I waited until the water tank in back was dry before sticking it on there. Got the battery all charged up, so I put that all away, and finished gluing a loose rubber bit around the wheel well inside the trailer, a job I started the other day and had to let dry before finishing it off. I’ve been trying to figure out why I haven’t been able to find the title for the little Logan horse trailer, so I made some calls back to Tennessee and discovered that it had been sent to the wrong address way back then, so I had to fill out a form and send a check out for a duplicate title, just so I can get ANOTHER title here in Florida. I also got some documentation from Harmar on the Trailrider, it’s all I could seem to get, Montana can’t help at all, and the previous owner isn’t helping either. Hopefully it will be enough to get the job of registering it done. I fixed the screen door latch, too. I had a choice between buying a new latch (this one that broke is barely a year old!), but discovered that I could get springs for the latch much cheaper, and that was what the problem was, so that’s what I ordered. It took me a few minutes to figure it out, but it works just fine once I got it in right. I was going to take the Buick to the mailbox and the store, but it wouldn’t start, dead battery. You remember when I bought that battery I was planning on selling the car so I only bought a cheap one-year one, and I haven’t driven it in a while, and it’s possible there’s a short somewhere that’s pulling power, so I had to put the charger on that, but meanwhile I just took the truck. By the time I got back I had two problems, the radio wasn’t working right, because the crazy antenna adapter keeps wanting to slip out of the back, so I had to take the radio back out AGAIN and try to push that in hard enough to make it stay in, and my brake controller started getting all wonky on me, and when I looked up the error code it said there was a problem with a power interruption. I thought it might have something to do with my camera install, but it turned out to just be a loose power wire, which I fixed. In the process, though, I accidentally touched ground and power with my wire strippers, and there was a spark, so that blew a big fuse, so the brake controller didn’t work at all. I found the blown fuse, ran out again to NAPA and got a new one, put that in, and it all worked fine again. Whew! I hate working with electrical stuff, I always blow something! But it’s all good now. The wind picked up and the temps really dropped today, so I put the blankets on all the horses at feeding time. Jeff wasn’t home so I did it on my own, though he had already prepared the food for everyone, which is always helpful. Finally settled down for the evening to a bunch of episodes of Heartland, now I’m ready to hit the hay. Good night, babe! Love you!

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