A trip to the tire shop

My valve stem was leaking so a trip to the shop was called for.

What a nice day here, we even took Wilbur out for a drive

Something about the sunshine makes me feel great.  And after spending some time in Smokey putting the shower sky light back up my wife and I took Wilbur out for a drive.  I thought Wilbur never ran better and we both had thoughts of trips we took and places we've been.

My new iphone needed some more apps to get the pictures on my Blog but it's working now.
After driving Wilbur around town I have a special spot for smaller RV's.

Will we have a warm weekend and what will I do?

I have been busy learning about roof cleaning and this weekend I might just get time and weather to try it out.  And then there is the new iPhone I started using.  It seems to be a big upgrade in the cell phone thing.  You know I still know people who have no need for cell phones, and then there are friends who can't think of not having the whole world in their pocket.  So for me I have no home phone and just use a cell phone.  It works great when I get to travel more.
  Yard work here I come,  unless I can get out of it.  Then I can play when the work is done, and my wife will be happy.
  Someone ask me about Weight Watchers(WW) and if I did the online or meetings.  That got me thinking,   yea even I think sometimes.  We have now been on WW for 1 year.  And we attend a meeting almost every week.  We have E tools, which is the online WW stuff, but really enjoy the meetings.  I have to go with my wife,  but there are plenty of women, and of course they wear light weight clothes to weigh in.  I have even seen the clothes come off as they don't like to be up any from the last week.  But I have to be aware my kids might read this and think their dad has been looking around at the WW meetings.  Never would I say I go to WW just to enjoy anything other than learning about eating.

More on roof cleaning

So after my last post you probably knew everything about roof cleaning,  But I did read more and found out that if you add some Ultra Gain Dish washing detergent to the bleach and water mixture it will work better and even smell better.  There is no climbing on the roof  if you have a way of spraying the mixture from a ladder.  I have a plan to use a sump pump set in a bucket on the ground and use a garden hose to spray the mixture on the roof.  Wish me luck with this project.
  I have a couple of houses to try this on so I can get plenty of practice at this before I work on the house I live in.  I did go to the dollar store only to find out the were out of cheap bleach and didn't have the dish washing soap I wanted.  Oh well there is always tomorrow to go shopping.  That's the great thing about being retired.  You can make several trips to the store to get everything you use to be able to remember to get in one trip when you were working.

Roof cleaning and moss removal

Oh boy it's that time of year for yard work, and my wife is already planning for bark dust to be delivered.  We have been taking advantage of the dry weather and have finished much of the flower beds around the yard.  And soon we will have a big pile of "work" to spread around.
  And I started to clean the gutters and roof.  My big concern is that my next door neighbor had her roof cleaned today.  And she had talked to me about getting her roof cleaned and not wanting it pressure washed.  Well sure enough I heard the pressure washer running this morning.  Now she knows that's not good to do and she was surprised when they started using it, but the kid doing it told her it was not a hi pressure cleaning.  Yea you tell me that as dirt and moss is blasted over onto to my house.  So I have been looking into this subject on line and found this info from the
 

The most effective method of cleaning algae and moss from a roof is with a
50:50 mix of laundry strength liquid chlorine bleach and water. Apply with a
sprayer and allow the solution to dwell on the roof surface for 15 to 20
minutes, and then rinse thoroughly with low pressure water. Extended dwell
times may be necessary, how ever, avoid letting the solution dry completely
as this may prevent complete rinsing. Take proper precautions to protect
landscaping and surrounding areas from the chlorine bleach solution. Use
appropriate personal protective equipment w hen working with chlorine
bleach. Algae will disappear and wash away with subsequent rains. Moss
will loosen over time and may be removed with a leaf blower. In severe
cases, it may take more than one bleach treatment to kill all of the moss.
Never use a pressure washer to clean an asphalt shingle roof as this w ill
cause granule loss and very likely premature failure of the roof system.

So there you have it.  Bleach and water.  It looks like I will be watching how my neighbors roof  lasts and I will be buying bleach...lots of bleach, probably at the dollar store.

If you want to visit the ARMA site here it is,  http://www.asphaltroofing.org/sites/default/files/press/MS%20Algae%20&%20Moss%20Article%20May1411.pdf

Do you know why I hate cell phone companies

Yes today was new cell phone day.  I thought I had it all figured out before we went to the Apple store for a new account with Verizon and buying 4 new iPhones with our old phone numbers ported from Sprint to the new Verizon account.  Yea it seemed simple enough.  And with my daughter getting a better discount on cell service than I get I thought it was time to go on her plan.
  But the plans all fell apart after spending 1 1/2 hours at the Washington Mall Apple store without getting anything fully set up.  And then we had no more confidence in our sales associate.  So when the supervisor came out we had enough and cancelled our plans.  And it was only later when we went to a Verizon store to start up our plans of getting new phones that we found out the Apple store got one number ported into a n empty Verizon account and we had problems getting this straightened out.
  Well a few hours later we had new phones and they were starting to work.
  Oh I love changing cell phones.  That or getting a root canal done, oh make that a colonoscopy done, since I never had a root canal before.

Look at that new lug nut shine

Today I aired up my slow leaking tire and installed some of the new lug nut covers.  I took my air compressor to the storage place and started up the generator and plugged the compressor into the outside receptacle and it worked great.  I don't know why I keep thinking I will have things not work but there is no problem with the gen-set yet.  I did buy a new oil filter and oil to give it a change and some day I will change the oil.

Is this a nice looking wheel or what.

You know if I was one of those guys who spent time polishing the chrome I could have a very shinny wheel, but maybe another time I will clean the wheels up.
  And I do need to take a drive to the tire shop to see if I can get the slow leak fixed.
And the weather was very nice and warm today.  And if we get more yard work done then we can take off and see some of the country.