I'M MELTING ........

Remember the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz?  I definitely felt akin to her yesterday.  Yup ... I felt her pain.  To make it even more uncomfortable, the wind was blowing the air fryer to maximum effect. 

I spent a lot of time with my game camera and computer.  Setting them up is harder than it looks.  Trying to do something with the videos is even worse.  It downloaded them fine and I can watch them on my computer.  Getting them uploaded here is another story. 

It copied it from my computer to here just perfectly.  The problem is I can't seem to get it to play.  I'm posting this as a test.  I've already tried the Preview button, to no avail.  Maybe YOU can get it to work.  What you WOULD have seen (or will if it decides to be cooperative) is a javelina eating cactus and tromping through the back yard.

 

I would try it again, but I'm barely able to keep my eyes open.  The trains are running overtime.  There have been five pass by here in the last hour, along with one about every 90 minutes last night.  The wheels they are a rolling!!  If it does work, look to the left.  This guy was eating cactus with three sets of eyes watching him from behind.

With his cheeks full, he wandered off up the hill.

This picture is just because one day last week I stopped in at Micky D's for lunch.  I'm am not a fan, but I wanted to compare THEIR chicken sandwich to Popeyes.  Micky D's lost that war hands down.  HOWEVER, if you have not tried their pink lemonade slushy ... it's the bomb!!!  The fries are missing because I had an hour's drive to get home.

The project of this week should have been an easy one.  Replace the rock guard screen on my hitch.  The old one lasted nine years before disintegrating because it sat out in the sun.  It should be an easy replacement, right?  That would be a no.

For one, those big steel arms will only bend so far.  I got the screen on one side, but could not get the slots to reach far enough for the other end to slide into place.  My brain doesn't work all that well in the heat.  I finally had to remove one brace thingamajig.  

Finally, it was in place and all was well.  Except for that thingamajig had to be bolted back in place.  Try as I might with my bestest tools, I just didn't have the hand strength to hold the nut tight enough.    You know what happened ... Dan to the rescue. 

This is what it looks like when hooked up to my Jeep.  This little gem drove all the way to Alaska, then clear across the U.S. to Maine and back without one single broken windshield, headlight or ding on my Jeep.  The replacement screen was $200 ... worth every penny.

So YAY .... another repair job completed.  Now on to the outside lights that don't work and the porch light cleanout. 

In the meantime, I will try to figure out how to make that video work.  I finally installed my steel post near the tree to capture things up close.  It's a crappy job that will have to be repeated, but I didn't have my handy dandy steel post pounder.  If you haven't lived on a cattle ranch, it's the most useful tool out there.

Instead, I tried to use a rock, again got my hair completely tangled in that palo verde tree and ended up tying it with a piece of wire (also a popular "ranch" solution) until I can reset the post.  I'm pretty sure the hummingbirds will appreciate all that hair left in the tree that they can use for their nests.