Plans for the weekend?

We started about a week before you guys here in the Bay Area. At this point I've forgotten what normal life is like.

On the plus side, it's revealed a new utility for the previously-reviled day-date feature!

It has been mostly garden work for me trying to make my garden as “wild” and insect friendly as possible. Today I am going with the family to the royal palace to see the Royal Life Guards. I was in The Guards almost 13 years ago and now my nephew is and has his first guard duty at the royal palace today.

So we have made a sign that says “Guard of the Month” and we will wave it around hopefully making him a bit embarressed with his crazy family 😁

After that I probably will be back in the garden, playing with the kids, drinking a beer (have some great locally made IPA at the moment) and later I have to work a bit 🙁

Yesterday was the semi-annual rearranging of the garage. Put the snow blower away and get the rider and push mowers moved to where we can get at them for the summer. Borrowed a roller from a neighbor to roll the lawn, and had to grease the riding mower first...of course, ran out of grease...so opened up the grease gun, grabbed the empty cartridge, and it would not budge...stuck in the tube like it was glued in.

Hooked the roller up and my wife rolled the lawn while I tried to get this stupid empty cartridge out of the grease gun...

After fruitless attempts to use various pliers and vice grips to pull the old cartridge out (it was a plastic one rather than cardboard, which made it impossible to collapse inside the tube to get it out), I decided to get out the hair dryer. Sure enough, 5 minutes heating the outside of the tube, and the old cartridge slid right out. Oddly satisfying...but these days getting out of bed seems like an accomplishment.