In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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SIX, you keep taking care of yourself and helping your family you'll have no regrets later.
Good on you!
BTW sounds like your garage is coming along nicely!
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We had another couple of medical urgencies pop up... one for me and one for hubby... Which we are still dealing with. When you get to our age it's to be expected.
But aside from that, even with radiation theraoy I'm mostly powering thru the days without naps, and the weather has been just effing awesome(!) ... wish I could share!... so have been putting and hour or so of yardwork in about every other day. After raking and sweeping the back sidewalks (= 4 * 33 gal bins) I got out my weed whacker and rake, and rediscovered the sidewalk edges and the garden edges (lined BTW with 1' X 2,3, or 4' concrete blocks cut from a former patio, which looks a lot like cut limestone) which had been buried under knee high grass and weeds, and the backyard already looks 5X better. I'm so happy!
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Had to walk up 10 flights of stairs again as the new elevator which has only been in operation for a week decided stop today. Then I walked down the ten flights to go out for my walk. Came back and it was working again the repair guy had just finished it. Thank goodness.
Another lady who lives in the building told me it went out last week. I must have just missed that episode.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I'm sure she did want to spend time with you. And I am quite sure that she is looking down and smiling on you. You have put in a lot of hard work in the last few years and it does mean something.
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Originally posted by SignyM:
SIX, you keep taking care of yourself and helping your family you'll have no regrets later.
Good on you!
BTW sounds like your garage is coming along nicely!
Yeah. It's pretty good. I won't really be able to do much more with it until I get more 2x4's, but at least the auto-shop stuff is organized and easily accessible, which is what I really need while working on the car right now.
I had a few minor setbacks with it today, but I was able to get them taken care of. I used the upper engine cleaner in the throttle body and there was significant improvement in the performance of the car. The car hasn't accelerated this good in quite a while. One of the things the instructions says to do after putting the air intake hose back on is to drive the car for about 10 minutes and accelerate hard whenever safe to do so to burn off any excess crap. There's certainly a lot more pick up than there was yesterday. I wouldn't feel nervous about making a left turn into traffic anymore like I have been for quite a while.
Still not good enough to get a CAT monitor reading though.
I did some more research and I think I may have been going about this all in the wrong way... I mean, all of the repairs I've made over the years and using products to clean out a car as old as mine are all good things, so it wasn't throwing away money, but I'm going to clean my MAP (Manifold Absolute Pressure) sensor (probably tomorrow).
It's possible that most of the problems I've had with this car for years is because that thing is dirty or faulty. My biggest issue the car still has performance wise is roughness when it is switching gears, which is one of the listed symptoms of this thing not working right. What's really making me thing that it could be the problem though is another listed symptom is stalling when at low RPMs, specifically while idling. That was a problem for a few years back in the day before I adjusted my car's idle speed to a bit higher than spec. (which, incidentally, I've now read can prevent certain monitors from doing their routine under certain circumstances itself).
My O2 sensors both show OK, which is great, because getting to them to clean or replace is a LOT harder than getting to the MAP sensor. My car doesn't even have a MAP sensor monitor, but on newer cars that do have MAP/MAF sensor, it usually won't even trigger a code unless the thing dies altogether anyhow.
Wouldn't it be something if all I needed to do was spray some cleaner on this thing and I can pass the test and have a car that doesn't accelerate funny anymore?
Sounds like you're getting a lot done too.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Had to walk up 10 flights of stairs again as the new elevator which has only been in operation for a week decided stop today. Then I walked down the ten flights to go out for my walk. Came back and it was working again the repair guy had just finished it. Thank goodness.
Another lady who lives in the building told me it went out last week. I must have just missed that episode.
How are you getting around these days, Brenda?
Now that you've been forced to do it for a while, maybe you should just keep using the stairs? Especially at 10 flights, that's a nice little work out that you can force on yourself if it's something you feel is manageable.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Had to walk up 10 flights of stairs again as the new elevator which has only been in operation for a week decided stop today. Then I walked down the ten flights to go out for my walk. Came back and it was working again the repair guy had just finished it. Thank goodness.
Another lady who lives in the building told me it went out last week. I must have just missed that episode.
How are you getting around these days, Brenda?
Now that you've been forced to do it for a while, maybe you should just keep using the stairs? Especially at 10 flights, that's a nice little work out that you can force on yourself if it's something you feel is manageable.
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Most of my errands when I am out I do on foot. To get to the pharmacy I use for my meds I take the bus there and back. When I am working I walk there and back.
I only walk the 10 flights of stairs in my building when I have to as it is quite a strain on me when I have to carry things, like my laundry yesterday. And the last time it was groceries back in.
I am taking it easy today and hitting the shower in a bit to get some hot water to ease my slightly sore muscles.
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Quote:We have a neighbrhood grocery store within walking distance. As far as grocery stores do, it's quite small, but much more than a convenience store. I've walked there to get some forgotten things, but I have to say.. carrying a gallon of milk and a few other groceries is tedious!!!
Brenda:
Had to walk up 10 flights of stairs again as the new elevator which has only been in operation for a week decided stop today. Then I walked down the ten flights to go out for my walk. Came back and it was working again the repair guy had just finished it. Thank goodness.
Another lady who lives in the building told me it went out last week. I must have just missed that episode.
SIX: How are you getting around these days, Brenda?
Now that you've been forced to do it for a while, maybe you should just keep using the stairs? Especially at 10 flights, that's a nice little work out that you can force on yourself if it's something you feel is manageable.
BRENDA: Most of my errands when I am out I do on foot. To get to the pharmacy I use for my meds I take the bus there and back. When I am working I walk there and back.
I only walk the 10 flights of stairs in my building when I have to as it is quite a strain on me when I have to carry things, like my laundry yesterday. And the last time it was groceries back in.
I am taking it easy today and hitting the shower in a bit to get some hot water to ease my slightly sore muscles.
Do you have one of those two-wheeled carts?
https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/aecee514-0a55-4935-bef3-9b21280751d6_
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I hope the shower did you good!
After four days of yardwork, I'm feeling it too.
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Yeah. 10 flights of stairs isn't fun if you're carrying a bunch of things. I didn't consider that.
Do you have, or have you ever considered buying one of those grocery bag carriers? I know how much over-carrying things just from my car to the entry to my house (through 3 doors) can jamb up my fingers because I don't use one of those. Though I'm sure you're not overloading yourself on the walks, they are supposed to do a good job of dispersing the weight and making it easier on the digits.
https://www.amazon.com/Totasak-Grocery-Carrier-2-Pack-Royal/dp/B08DDG1
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They probably have even better ones that would have a nice padded handle, I would imagine.
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I didn't clean the sensor today. I thought about it, then I decided that since I've already done a few other things I'm going to just see how that goes. I've started this early enough that I don't have to rush everything all at once.
I put in half the bottle of fuel injector cleaner since I was around 3/8ths of a tank. Then I adjusted the throttle pully to specifications. I didn't realize that I'd had it so high for so long. It would idle at 1,000 RPMs and it should idle at only 750+/-50. Got it right at 750 now, which would have surely stalled out at any stop light years back before I did any fixes and it ran like a dream. I don't even get the "shaky steering wheel syndrome" while idling that used to be pretty bad (and I've read online that my model car around the mid-90's is actually notorious for).
I decided to do a drive cycle tonight with the nice weather after the rain, but I botched it. I had the parking break on while revving it up in the garage, and I did 2/3rds of the leg of the trip with the darn thing on and not even noticing it (I'm pretty confident that my parking break doesn't actually do anything after that).
But having the BRAKE indicator on probably screwed up the testing.
So once I got home and it wasn't cleared I decided to just do another factory reset since my last one was when I pulled the battery for about 15 minutes while changing the spark plugs, and before I'd taken any other steps to fix it. Actually, tomorrow morning before I go out I'm just going to try something that people say online and disconnect my battery for at least 1 hour before I head out and see what happens.
The car is driving awesome now. I really hope I can pass the damn test.
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Quote:We have a neighbrhood grocery store within walking distance. As far as grocery stores do, it's quite small, but much more than a convenience store. I've walked there to get some forgotten things, but I have to say.. carrying a gallon of milk and a few other groceries is tedious!!!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Brenda:
Had to walk up 10 flights of stairs again as the new elevator which has only been in operation for a week decided stop today. Then I walked down the ten flights to go out for my walk. Came back and it was working again the repair guy had just finished it. Thank goodness.
Another lady who lives in the building told me it went out last week. I must have just missed that episode.
SIX: How are you getting around these days, Brenda?
Now that you've been forced to do it for a while, maybe you should just keep using the stairs? Especially at 10 flights, that's a nice little work out that you can force on yourself if it's something you feel is manageable.
BRENDA: Most of my errands when I am out I do on foot. To get to the pharmacy I use for my meds I take the bus there and back. When I am working I walk there and back.
I only walk the 10 flights of stairs in my building when I have to as it is quite a strain on me when I have to carry things, like my laundry yesterday. And the last time it was groceries back in.
I am taking it easy today and hitting the shower in a bit to get some hot water to ease my slightly sore muscles.
Do you have one of those two-wheeled carts?
https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/aecee514-0a55-4935-bef3-9b21280751d6_
1.5a1733bfcafe98ffb5f7a101fd2c6dd0.jpeg
I hope the shower did you good!
After four days of yardwork, I'm feeling it too.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I do as I used to use it for taking my laundry to the laundrymat but one of the wheels is broken on it. So, I just use it now for recycling.
Grocery store is across the street from my building. I can see it but I'm still careful with carrying groceries home.
The shower helped as did doing nothing for the day.
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