Well I got outside with my best friend for a good old bike ride with a general destination of Deer Lake Park. After a couple of wrong turns and a general wander we did find our way to the Burnaby Lake Rowing Centre....put in 30km round trip!
Yeah they got all of us girls and our respective spouses to move out here and they go for visit and come back to bc to tell us they have sold their house in Naniamo and they are building a B&B in Antigonish!
Yes it is that's why when my husband and I came out to visit my parents 30 years ago from Toronto we never went back!
Here's a free bike ride for anyone in the big smoke....
Have fun!
Took a cruise down the seawall to get some exercise and do a little people watching.
This turned out to be a very expensive tire repair seeing as I had only replaced the tube a few weeks before and these are punctureless tires. Seeing as at this point in was 9:45 pm on the west side of Vancouver and I was getting maybe 300m before having to pump it back up again we had to come up with a strategy.
Since I cannot walk more than 100 ft making it to the closest bus stop was not an option in that particularily poor serviced enclave of Vancouver. The bf's extra large 29" mtb is way too big for me to ride. So I make it to Cornwall and Yew and lock up the bike...thankfully with COVID-19 restrictions just eased I can make last call at the restaurant and I send the bf to the gas station on burrard while I order drinks and appy's.
Three gas stations later the bf finds one at burrard and broadway that sells tire sealant. $20 for the can but his interac terminal is down he needs cash and the bf only has my credit card. One cash advance later ($20=$30). The bf shows back up fills the tire, we have a drink and snacks and were off again.
Only this time taking a more direct route home with a slight detour onto the seawall by granville island where we make it about halfway between granville and cambie and I'm almost flat again. More sealant and pump it up some more and cut up under the cambie bridge, past the cop shop and a straight line along 5th ave to Main st. where I can feel and hear the rapid air loss and I gingerly coast the extra few blocks home.
Tire sealant $20+cash advance cost+$10+drinks/food tab $50+new tube$10+ spoke wrench (to fix the issue causing the flat)$10=$100 My entire bike maintenance budget for a year! Sheesh!!
Here was a nice little spot to stop and do some account renewal/suspension testing. That all went well but then I got a flat tire rounding kits points that ended up being a long and costly process to get myself home!
Duck, duck...
Goose...
My moto g7+ takes the majority of its photos with more MP than the 2.7MB allowed by this forum to upload. The only way I have found to compress is to text the photo to my self and then upload but it loses too much quality to want to post it. There must be another way.....stupid technology!😐
Well I'm duly impressed! You certainly got something done today....I went back out on a mission to get to Deer Lake Park but got a little of track again but found Piper Spit. Now if I can only figure out how to compress my photos without losing quality I will post more of my adventures....
Well I have a fun project under way. Perimeter drains around the house aren’t as good as they should be. Not real bad but I decided I should find the sump, open it up and make sure it isn’t full to the top with dirt, clean it out etc. I finally located the top of the sump 24” below grade in my back yard which explains why it took me a long LONG to find it. Then I had to round up three Covid-19 Masked helpers and myself to lift the 200 pound concrete lid off. I was surprised that it is working properly and only had about 6” of sand, gravel, dirt and rocks in the bottom.
I have dumped enough water in at each of my 4 down pipes from the gutters into the drain tile to verify that water is moving through the drain tiles to the sump fairly well. The actual vertical risers tying the downpipes to the drain tiles which are up to 5 1/2 feet below grade are the biggest problem so I have dug them all out and am replacing those pipes. One has to be fairly inventive to find a way to work by “remote control” at the bottom of a 5 1/2 foot deep hole that isn't much more than 1 foot diameter while lying on the ground above. Lights down the hole, digging and removing dirt is a challenge but the worst is trying to lift rocks out that are 2-3 feet out of reach.
The two deepest ones are done and the other two are in progress. I have one downpipe at an “inside corner” and the builder appears to have not bothered to provide an access point for this downpipe. So I dug out the 90 degree clay tile corner and very carefully drilled a whole bunch of little holes to knock out a piece and inserted this Big-O adapter into it. Worked like a charm. It is only 4 1/2 feet to the bottom of where it lives. Once done I can flush them all out to the sump again and then clean out the sump once last time, put the lid back on and cover it over. No one had been in there for 45 years since the house was built and no one probably will be again.
