What Manly Things Did You Do Today?

Just installed a bed cover (at the wife's insistence) on my truck.

 

Well, not manly, but yummy. I made 4 pints of homemade Pesto today, to take home. My mother has a great recipe. I was in town, visiting my 80+ year old parents, and my mother had a lot of Basil that needed trimming and using. When I make it back to Houston, the wife will be happy, and might even share a little with me.

 

Pesto is amazing on a BLT in place of mayo.

 

Works equally well on a turkey sandwich.

 

Pesto is good on just about any bread. We just schmeared some on some warmed up Asiago Cheese Bread. Mmmmmmmm...

 

Well, backstory is, that I have a commercial refrigeration cooler(True brand), in my garage, for all kinds of beverages. It's large and has worked great, for many years. Earlier this week, it quit working, it just blew hot air. The wife made noise of buying another one, only $2000. Heck no!!!! So, being the cheapskate I am, I decided to work out the puzzle myself. After looking andtinkering with everything, I figured the capacitor was the likely problem(I hoped), and ordered a $34 replacement. So, today, I crawled around it on my stomach, replaced the old one, and it is now working.
I just saved about $350-400, for some stranger to come out and overcharge me.

 

We put together a new deck box, to replace the bee-infested one. Then I caulked the inside, where the base meets the walls.

 

Sounds like you were as busy as a .... bee.

 

Installed a steel entry door between our family room and garage. Never done anything like it.

Herm

 

The steel door is only secure as the frame. Did you beef up the frame??

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Or, as busy as a "Wasp".

 

Another Commercial Refrigerator fix today. After fixing my refrigerator last week, the temps were not holding steady. It was fluctuating between 35-45, and more often towards the 40-45 range, set on max. Time to replace the Temperature Control Module(Thermostat). it was an inexpensive fix, but I had to tear the entire upper unit apart. It did the trick.. Now it is working easier, and holding temps steady. The wife is happy she has room again for cold beers, sodas, and waters.

Oh, also replaced the gasket around the 3rd brake light on my truck, in an effort to stop a water leak. Found out that that wasnt the problem. Time for some.weather stripping around the sliding rear window.

 

I had my 8 year old grandson on his first street bike ride. He can reach the pedals and fit in the helmet and skid jacket.
Only about 15 miles down a 2 lane country road and back....
But in his own words..
"this is awesome! "

It really was!

tp

 

I subscribe to the weekly newsletter from The Art Of Manliness (comes every Sunday). Today there was an essay on what we as men learn from watching the movie The Great Escape. Y'know, the WW2 movie that shows @wristwatchb ....I MEAN Steve McQueen flying along on a motorbike, all the work the Allied prisoners did to make the 3 tunnels. I love that movie, but that emotion was passed down from my Dad to me. Very much in the way the man using Aqua Velva flips it to his son(on the AV ad). I enjoyed reading that essay.

 

Hey there.....can we get YO back????? Nice-looking door.

 

What happened to the bees..didja tell them they're gonna wish they were never born?

 

I think they have figured that out on their own.

 

Tripped over a brick and fell on my butt while moving a pair of sofa sleepers that my wife wanted. I'm too old for this crap.

 

My aunt(who has had her share of trips and falls over the years)told me "The older we get, the more painful the falls". Hope you'll be OK soon.