🫘 on the 18 th of VIII

  🫘 ... beans you say. This morning check in. Watered the wild flowers. Coffee and typing outlook on a sunny, slightly humid feel

Much to do w / seemingly plenty of time - always dangerous that bit.

Sun is dominant under the Eternal Blue. The Swedish have a traditional saying ' you can't slide in here on a shrimp sandwich ' - meaning denying privilege 

Lunch today was a ' East coast Nordic Shrimp Roll '   - flavourful hot doggy bun filled w / baby crustaceans blended in mayo and crisp veg / seasoned by Old Bay ( just like at home )

🏞 XVII of the eighth

  🏞 sitting in the window seat at a gray world w / streaks of sun flickering and flashing thru

tea in hand, trying to wake up
more later

a slow rolling morning, ended at 11 AM. Breakfast call at the Magic Noodle. Oh, yea, won ton soup and gamo. A bit different, but very Asian. I met A ... for the purpose of transferring a fishing rod [ from the Q ' ] to the Subaru for possible fishing

Sorry. Sunny day w / built in humidity. The prospects certainly picked up from 7:30 A

🧑‍💻 airwoman of VIII

  🧑‍💻 ... what is the title ? I mis typed and the auto correct offered ' ........ ' you got it

I will look it up onAI

Slow start to the day. Rice, fish and cabbage for brekkies. Beer at 11:45 AM
Did manage a run to the Tiger, for $ 58 but ...... I bought a XL light tan cotton mix over shirt for summer as a cover up [ anti sun and anti bugs - b / c the bugs have been nailing me, especially, below the hat line ]

On fishing. Spring and into June brought work on the marine railway. An estimate for hiring out the job - started at $ 7 K, and that was lowball calculating. Real number more like $ 10 000.
Using friends and A ... as the erstwhile foreman, the cost came down to $ 3 000 and some hundreds { ? }. There is a problem of the used lighter rails and trolley [ might be of some value. That was always going to be an extra

I figure July 15 was my first fishing trip out. Since, maybe, 5 trips. All short - leave early / come home early. WL says August is always a tough month - I figure most months are tough

5 bass and shut out the last 4 trips.

💎 15 augustus

  💎 ...the Ides of Augustus, is upon us. Well, sitting and re  hydrating. Clouds are gray and threatening.

barely awake but should make tea ? n'est - ce pas ......

on sleeping culture or habit .... I was finding myself, alternately warm ish and then cool. Wearing a robe to bed seems to be the solution

revisio. sunny day / winds gusting. fine summer weather

exercise on schedule. hit the benchmarks

🍣 on the 14 th of the VIII

     🍣 ... is this part of the ' blogger-verse ' ? or more

Sitting and typing ..... casino app 201 and ochazuke
errands are Shoppers and oil change at Speedy

the morning report : Speedy. mechanic said that he was glad to see the car in good shape. Cost, all in, oil change and quick once over $ 120.

Shoppers was quiet and in and out accomplished. Detoured by the Liquor store. As a reward, naturally.

Thus, both vehicles are reliable and the Subaru hits the road soon 

Fishing. Dad took us fishing at 6 y.o. or so And three score and ten later, still doing it and looking forward as well 

🍑 13 th of the VIII

    🍑 .... sitting and sipping hot and sour soup. the view is sunny and still. Rain ? likely hanging round. As mentioned this is the El Nino pattern for the summer. 

Sleep was knockout city. Tired of what

follow up : the standard system for my Boat and ETec, does not connect the primer circuit to the engine. Thus, pushing in the key would not prime the engine. BUT, there is a note saying to pause before turning the key - aha, a pause, as in ' push twice ' 

🌀 ...Summer Wind ....

  🌀 .... came blowing in .....

August 12 mixed day. Up at 5:15 A On the road at 6 A. Coffee and BLT ( sad, w / egg and no mayo - dry and mediocre)

Bass boat launch was trouble free. Engine balked and caught. Fishing was meager. Not super hot. Breeze intermittent and refreshing.

Now. The hiccups. On the stairs down to the river, a shed size tangle of branches semi obscured - everything after a tree limb snapped! After fishing we cut a path. ( not me, b / c I was phone trapped explaining the mess to A ... )

Starting the ETec 1. Today, I turned the ignition key, waited for LED s to cycle and turned the key ' On ' .... pushed in the key in twice. Engine caught, purred )

The conundrum : the written instrxns  mention that the ETec is self starting. But IT doesn't! That move is called ' priming '

Instructions are not correct. The start up needs the prime action

Over the years, I have waffled back and forth ... but now, I think the engine needs the priming

Live and learn