Sparkling white snow

[Levitation]

During the summer after the last outing on Lake Huron the boat was washed and polished. Then put away in our brand new tool shed. Three weeks ago I pulled the boat out and began parking farm implements in the shed (now full). This past week and a half has been snow off and on. Sparkling white snow. Put the boat into the work shop 2 days ago to make ready for the Florida trip and just now went up top and it is filthy. The melting snow that fell on it left enough dirt behind to pass for a melting glacier. I'm back to square one with a wash bucket, rag, and a screaming buffer (sigh)

 

[workingdogs]

Pressure washer ...... Backpack leaf blower ...... Done ! 😀

 

[Levitation]

Yup, love my pressure washer. Just not inside the shop with shelving loaded with parts and supplies and various electronic thingies. And it is 19 degrees outside. SO it is back to rub a dub dub... That sparkling white snow is dirty once it melts.

 

[trailertrawlerkismet]

Hopefully Denny I-75 will be dry when you start heading south, in order to keep your boat shiny and clean and not road conditions like we experienced yesterday in Michigan. Lisa and I drove down state yesterday, sparkling white snow everywhere, cars/trucks slid off of the roadway and not the kind of conditions we want for heading south. Good luck on the cleaning job. When do you leave for the warm south?

 

[Levitation]

Yeah Mike. The roads here are nasty at the moment also.
We leave sometime in late January. No fixed date at this point as long as we get to Palm Island by the 7th.
I had planned on going down to Clearwater Beach Marina in early January, even had a slip reservation, to attend a conference for CME credits.
But it has come up that we need to move one of the tractors into the shop as soon as the boat is out
It will take me another week to clean the boat and do all the little fixits I have on the punch list. I expect the tractor to take 2-6 weeks depending on what we find. The complication will come if the clunk we are getting in reverse is a broken gear in the rear end differential. At that point it is a $10K repair versus a $70K replacement tractor (arrrgh) The repair involves splitting 20,000 pounds of tractor in half which means fabricating steel stands on wheels so we can roll the two halves apart and then back together. Gee, farming is fun :mrgreen:

But, absent the earth being hit by a meteor we will be at the gathering.

 

[knotflying]

Denny,

I think you should sell the farm and stick with boating!

 

[Levitation]

What. And miss all this fun?