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Symbiotic · 06-17-2007, 10:32 AM

so do you have any experience with that kind of welding??

**jump5fan** · 06-18-2007, 07:33 AM

well yesterday was a fun day. we went to church and then we went to our grandfather's place for a little bit. on the way home we stopped at a couple yard sales. the one yard sale had a sign that said that everything was free. we got a couple sprinklers, some windshield wipers, a box of random things and a Toro electric power shovel. when we got home we got the trailer and went to pick up the log splite it is a mid-size gas powered log spliter. i spent maybe a hour working on cleaning it because it was dirty. i thought it would be hard to clean it but it was pretty easy actully because i used engine degreaser. we haven't tried starting it yet so we still have to do that. the guy who we got it from said that the carberator needs to be fixed or taken apart and cleaned or something, i don't remember. after dinner we went for a bike ride again. we rode on a couple streets that we haven't been on before, so that was fun. normuly in the evening it starts to get cooler but yesterday evening it stayed warm and muggy. i still have to cut the grass so i am hopibng to do that today before it gets too hot. they are calling for it to get up to 85F today which means it is going to be pretty warm. hopfuly we will be able to go in the pool if the water is warm enough. star trek enterprise is on tonight so i'm looking foword to watching that. next week will be the last episodes of star trek enterprise which is kind of disapointing, but hopfuly they will rerun the series. well got to go, but if i'm not to busy i will try to post some pictures a little later, see ya'll.

**jump5fan** · 06-19-2007, 06:52 AM

well not a whole lot happened yesterday. we did go in the pool for a hour or twowe watched star trek yesterday. they were interesting episodes. it looks like they are calling for rain and thunderstorms late this afternoon which is good because we need the rain. i played around with the sprinklers that we got the other day. i found out how change the settings and everything. i still have to try to start the log spliter. i haven't tried it yet because our mom wants me to wait until our dad is home. we didn't go for a bike ride yesterday because our dad didn't get home until after dark. some of our bikes have some stuff that needs to be tuned and stuff and i have a book about 10-speed bikes so i might read some of that sometime. well got to go, see ya'll.

**jump5fan** · 06-20-2007, 07:45 AM

well not much happening right now. we went in the pool again yesterday and the water was 71F which is warm. i like being outside, aspeshly when it is really warm. i have to be careful though because i can get sunburned kind of easily (i am trying to get slightly tanned though). we had a pretty big storm yesterday evening, it rained pretty hard and there was a lot of lightning. i was able to record a couple lightning bolts with my video camera. we lost power for a few seconds as well. yesterday i set up one of the sprinklers that we got the other day in your yard so now when there are a couple days were it doesn't rain we can water the yard. i'm just not sure about how long to have the sprinkler turned on for, i want to keep it turned on long enough for it to water the yard but not too long because that would just waste water. i moved the caravan up and down the driveway a couple times yesterday too, that way the battery doesn't go dead and this started right up which is good. i thought that since the one rear door of the conversion van had been open over night that the battery was dead (i checked the headlights and they didn't work). i was going to try charging the battery but when i opened the hood i found that ihad disconnected the battery. i just reconnected it and the battery is fine, i love easy fixes

. there is going to be a car show near us on sunday so hopfully we will be able to go to that, i love going to car shows. there also is a hamfest coming up soon and i'm really looking foword to that. well got to go, but i will post some pictures sometime today, see ya'll.

Symbiotic · 06-20-2007, 06:10 PM

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i have to be careful though because i can get sunburned kind of easily (i am trying to get slightly tanned though)

i bet!...i remember that you are a red-head, are you not?....one of my best friends is a red-head and he'll turn lobster red....i have never met a red-head who did not burn easily

sunsurfer · 06-20-2007, 07:30 PM

I like being outside, too. aspeshly during storms.

J_freek · 06-20-2007, 08:23 PM

My dad thinks he can tan, but he only gets red....or redder.

**jump5fan** · 06-20-2007, 09:05 PM

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i bet!...i remember that you are a red-head, are you not?....one of my best friends is a red-head and he'll turn lobster red....i have never met a red-head who did not burn easily

i am a red-head

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I like being outside, too. aspeshly during storms.

me too. unless it is raining really hard.

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My dad thinks he can tan, but he only gets red....or redder.

that is what happens to me if i'm not careful.

**jump5fan** · 06-21-2007, 06:34 AM

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so do you have any experience with that kind of welding??

no i don't. i have tried welding with a wire-feed welder and with a stick welder.

**jump5fan** · 06-21-2007, 07:04 AM

well yesterday was fun we went in the pool again and the water got up to 72F. after that i did some work on a couple of the bikes that we have, i also found that my mountain bike has a flat rear tire so i have to fix that . we also went for a bike ride yesterday everning. i don't know how far we rode but we rode pretty far. we have a GPS reciver that i am going to mount on my bike so i can tell how far we go. while my brother and i were on way home we started to go down one road but decited not to go down the road because there were three police cars stopping along the street in front of one of the houses. when we got home we had to help look for our one cat who got outside and we found him. about half a hour ago i just caught him starting to open our front door. we also watched a new Mythbusters episode last night, it was all about snow myths. today is the first day of summer. well got to go, see ya'll.

J_freek · 06-21-2007, 07:39 PM

I would like one those GPS things, they sound like so much fun! I don't ride my bike enough, though.

Did you find out why the police were stopping?

RB+Gravity · 06-21-2007, 10:47 PM

Does your GPS constantly read where you are and map a path, or take your location every few minutes and connect the dots?

**jump5fan** · 06-22-2007, 05:44 AM

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I would like one those GPS things, they sound like so much fun! I don't ride my bike enough, though.

Did you find out why the police were stopping?

no i didn't.

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Does your GPS constantly read where you are and map a path, or take your location every few minutes and connect the dots?

the one that i use constantly reads where i am and displays that on a map and the map updates maybe two times a second.

**jump5fan** · 06-22-2007, 06:54 AM

well yesterday was cool. we did some cleaning around the house. it stormed really hard for a little while in the afternoon. after it stopped our dad got a new spark plug for the log spliter and after a short time i was able to get it running. it is really loud but it works. it doesn't retracted very fast so we are thinking the it might be low on hydralic oil. my brother and i went for a bike ride after that and we rode around for a while and when we got to the top of the one hill near where we live we saw the most inpresive clouds. shortly after that our dad called us (we carry radios) and told us that we had to come home reght awaybecause there was a bad storm coming. we got home just as it was starting to rain. it rained really hard too. after it stopped my brother and i went back out and rode around for a while. right after we left we saw a truck go by with a lightbar that was turned on. we saw between 10 and 15 deer while we were riding. when we got to the top of the hill again we rode around for a while. we saw a storm way off in the distinse, the whole cloud was lighting up and when it did it was orenge and so was the lightning. as we were coming down the one road toword our house we saw a lot of flashing lights at the one intersection, here i guess there was a bad crash on one of the roads and they had the road closed. we had notised that there had been a lot more traffic on the roads that we were riding on and there nourmly isn't much traffic on the roads that we ride on. i didn't take a camera with me because i didn't have any way to carry the camera with me, i want to start bringing the camera with me because i like taking pictures. well got to go, see ya'll later.

Symbiotic · 06-22-2007, 05:32 PM

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the one that i use constantly reads where i am and displays that on a map and the map updates maybe two times a second.

That is so cool....i want one....