Fog, 3DP Turtles, COYOTE!, Watercolor, Drums, Hike, Aim, Fire, Grilling, Heater Bork - Friday

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It's just been foggy everyday recently, very much like the Central Valley. Yesterday morning it hung around for a while but by mid morning had lifted enough to give a bit of distance view.

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Found a turtle model to print and played with it a bit. Scaled it down to half inch first.

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Then did at 1".

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Got the boys to school and you can see the fog was attempting to lift in the valley.

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Ironing on these 3 came out a bit nicer looking.

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Stepped to the oche mid morning and first throw was a really nice 118 out shot.... The next throws were all PURE SHITE I TELL YA!!!!

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Sitting at my computer I saw the birds were milling about the house and suddenly they went wild and one flew onto the shed. I stepped out to see and then saw the coyote with a mouth full of feathers. It was right there by the swing set. Jax saw it and I reached in the house to get the shotgun.

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It began working its way towards the creek and I managed to get a shot off at it before it went behind the windows. Jax chased it down into the creek. The hen managed to live and was milling about in hte sheep pen not long after. Minus a lot of feather, namely one wing is devoid of feathers.

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Sunrise was the prompt for #doodlewash but this looks a bit more like a volcano than a sunrise....

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Now the bottom right one looks MUCH more like a sunrise to me.

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Had thought it would be a good idea and went searching to find that YES it is a good idea to get a set of drums for the boys. We have Studio A which they will be going into so that we don't have the clamor and racket of them in the house. I got extra sets of sticks so we all can take some time learning to play. I will have time during the days to work on learning some drumming. I am going to end up hitting the pawn shops looking for a guitar I think. I learned when I was a kid and the mandolin is really hard to learn so I want to try guitar again. I can find a cheap acoustic for now that will get me back going. The drums will be here Monday and J's new bass pedal will be here today.

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Doggo and I went on hike and got only 3/4 mile in as my body was quite sore.

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Boys home from school I was at the board again and this time it took only a bit to get into some form. I HAVE to warm up to get aim dialed in.

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Got the fire going before 5pm and darkness. I kept it going till after grilling.

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Bison steaks grilled over flame.... YUM!

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It was 8pm and the central heater would not start. Click, click, nothing. So into the attic I went and found that the fuse had blown.... again.... This WAS a 5amp fuse that I changed to a 7.5 amp a couple months ago when the 5 blew.... So I dove into my old Toyota and popped fuses out of it as I knew it had blade fuses. I tossed the 15 amp in and am just REALLY HOPING that none of the circuitry blows from the extra current allowed.

There IS A REASON why the fuse keeps blowing. I have a sneaking suspicion that the blower motor may be having trouble.... There is NOT much to the heater and I already have replaced the exhaust fan. No codes are showing faults so not positive what exactly is the issue.

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Today I will be going to finish the gate job as the new control board arrived yesterday. I have to try and get my body to be in okay condition for Monday as Art and I will be hiking Quartzite to rappel the rock faces and gullies and I hope to fly from the top as the winds look good after the rains stop in the morning.


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Very nice drum kit the boys will enjoy!!👍😀
Nice to see your getting back into playing guitar!😀