Before and After

Lot of before and after pictures this week. We started off with Deathstroke.
A while back the truck started skipping starts when we pressed the button. Lawman took it to the evil empire, thinking it was a rolling computer, plug in a thing, read what's wrong with it and bingo bango, we'd be back on the road. There was no bingo, nor bango.
When we arrived to have it checked, we were told there was a lengthy diagnostic process to electrical systems. Starting with leaving it overnight to have the diagnostic start before there is any driving to charge the batteries. So we figured drop it a day, one day tinkering, one day to order and get whatever knibbler pin was broken, we would need a rental for at least three days.
So we took the truck home and put the Lawman's battery tester on the truck. It was the battery. There are two batteries in Deathstroke, and we figured we might as well replace them both while we were at it.
We went to BJ's and bought replacement batteries. We then found out BJ's does not install the batteries they sell. Lawman went to work and got them both swapped out. Cupcake was upset when she learned we would have to do it ourselves, because her previous life there was no such thing as a simple car repair. "The Outlaw" liked to take a whole day and had Cupcake retrieving tools from the yard and driveway after throwing them. She was amazed two batteries got replaced in under thirty minutes and she didn't have to pick up a single tool.

Another before and after we documented this week was the ponds. Both ponds were almost full, and the word came down we had a flash flood warning coming our way. We drove The Silver Hornet down to check the water levels just before the storm hit.

Then after almost two inches of rain, we went back and found both ponds were full and draining.

So now we are ready to stock. There may be fishing trips planned soon, we will see.
A couple of usual things we did this week included a fresh pumpkin roll.

We made a fresh tub of toothpaste

It's the first weekend of the month, so we cleaned out the coop de ville

We ended the week with a new recipe Cupcake wanted to try, a crockpot hamburger/potato dish. And a nap.
K&K