Over the weekend I really didn't have a whole lot to do that was specific, no car projects or building projects. The whole weekend was really about some of that "general cleanup" that I talk about when it comes to filling in time outside. One of the things in this field was clearing some grounds around the house and around the back of the garden area.
Earlier I spoke about the idea of using the grounds around the garden as a turnaround for vehicles when moving cars into the work zone. If I pull a dead car into the work zone, the truck would be within the compound zone between the back of the storage trailer and fuel shed. In order to get the truck out I would have to be able to drive it around the back of the garden and around to the east end of the central driveway between the house and garden. The main thing standing in the way of this was a small patch of ground at the south east corner of the garden, right by the edge of the junk pile. The gap was too small for a vehicle to be able to pull around, between junk and overgrown blackberry vines, the space needed to be cleared. The first thing I did was move some of the junk, which is some usable car parts, over to a temporary spot on the other side of the kayak rack. With those items moved there was some other junk on the ground I also had to clear, some flexible conduit and other small items which for the time being were tossed further into the junk pile just to get them out of the way. With the ground hazards cleared, I was able to take the push mower and go over the area, chopping up the vines and high grass and other green trash and opening up the area more than enough to be able to move the biggest truck in our fleet when needed. Of course this is only the beginning, more stuff will be cleared and more ground will be clear cut to open it up that much more. The end goal is to really clear all the junk from that area, scrapping what I can, utilizing what I can and neatly staging the remaining on makeshift racks or shelves. Other grounds clearing involved clearing the area around the solar area light and the west side of the house. There was a lot of high grass around this area that has been neglected through the summer and now finally got the attention it should've gotten but didn't due to the other projects that were worked on. I had to clear some extension cords and some paint cans that were stacked behind the solar area light that were supposed to be going to the trash after being cleared from the garage earlier this year. Some viney weeds were pulled from around the framework of the solar area light before I went through the area with the push mower, clearing the greenery from the area, making things nice and neat so we can move about without dealing with high grass. This clearing will also hopefully persuade me to maybe work on the water catchment system that was supposed to be hooked up to the output line from the drainpipe that was run from the bathroom shower and sink. On a lighter note, we received a device that we ordered after seeing an ad on facebook. One thing I will say about this, whenever we see a new item on a facebook ad we always go to ebay to see who has the same item, we NEVER buy shit from those facebook advertisers, half the time they're scammers and facebook never vets these assholes before allowing their ads to run. Be warned, if you see some new item on facebook you wanna get, go to amazon or ebay to look for the same item and I guarantee you that you'll find the same item on one of those platforms, most of the time cheaper than that ad is charging. Anyway, the item was this automatic smartphone inductive charger that has arms that automatically grab the phone when you place it in the cradle so you don't have to manually squeeze the arms closed. A sensor on the back of the cradle senses your hand when you want to retrieve your phone and will automatically open the arms so you can grab the phone. Again its an inductive charger, no plugging to the phone is required. It's pretty slick, but the only thing is this device only comes with a vent clamp, which is fine in the summer when the A/C is on helping to keep your phone cool but in the winter you may have to go with floor heat otherwise the heat blowing from your vent may cause your phone and the cradle to overheat and malfunction. All in all I am impressed with the device but will probably be trying to see how I can adapt the cradle to a window mount as well as the vent mount. I will be sure to document that little project on here when that happens.
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