The Christmas Comback

The Farm has made a comeback just in time for Christmas. I expect this time when I leave for Christmas I will relocate the farm with me to Colorado. Pretty much all my old plants are growing back now and even better than before. I think I will re-pt them when I get back.




Here another one of my avocado seeds is starting to turn into a tree.



One of my coworkers had some tomatoes left from her garden last year so I took the seeds out and dried them and planted them. They are now on their way.

Liberation

Now that I know the engine can still run I went ahead and pulled it out of the chassis. The next step is to pull out the electrical system and salvage the parts I can still use. I will probably reuse the brake system, drive sprocket, and maybe the shock. The rest of it probably won't have too much use. I can almost see the sparks flying.

Spitting in the face of Despair

7 years ago this motorcycle drove through a tree and wrecked into a fence. It was then resigned to sit next to a shed 7 miles west of Pueblo, Co. That is until today... I dedicated this weekend to getting this machine to roar to life once again. I had cleaned the carbs out a few weeks ago. Yesterday I started trouble shooting the electrical system with my roomate Judd. It turned out I needed to get pretty intimately familiar with it. I ended up bypassing/shorting out a bunch of interlocks and changing some of the fuse box. Then after a little sweet talking, I was able to get it to roar to life. The fuel delivery is a little flaky, but I can deal with that later. Now that I am confident it can run it is time to pull the engine and start designing a new chassis for my autonomous motorcycle-engined car.





On the farm front, I have now replanted most all of the crop. I was worried I would not have any tomatoes because I used all my seeds up the last time I planted. Luckily, one of my coworkers/master gardener found some more in her refrigerator and gave them to me. I dried the seeds out and am anxiously awainted them to sprout.

On an unrelated note I also started playing with some ideas I got from some Christmas decorations at the work cafeteria. I am debating making one of these from steam-bent wood.