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| It's still winter |
Last week it appeared winter was gone, we fertilized the lawn and got the irrigation system working and then today it was nasty, the temperature didn't get out of the 40's, the wind was blowing with gusts up to 40 mph and it drizzled on and off, looked like winter. Of course this will quickly pass and we will be back to warmer temperatures and the wonderful sunshine.
Yesterday when we were smoking the brisket Larry didn't think the middle burner of the grill was working so today he pushed the grill into his workroom to work on it. I asked him if he really wanted to work on it in his room because it was going to make a mess. He said it was too nasty outside. He put a cardboard box under the grill to catch most of the mess. Not only have we had this grill for many years we also use it a lot and it had a lot of buildup from all those years. We have cleaned it before but it has been awhile. Larry took all the grates, burners and elements out of the grill. Then he scrapped most of the buildup off the grill. He said that the elements where the gas comes through were really plugged and he was surprised that the grill even lit. He used a really small file and a pick to clean all the holes and they now works great.
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| Scrapping the soot out of the grill |
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned our internet provider Centro Vision was bought out by Grande Communications. Grande officially took over today and we woke up to no internet. Larry had anticipated this might happen so the other day he had written Grande's phone number down so he gave them a call. A technician showed up about 9:30. Larry told him that he had called Grande last week and told them that he had purchased his own modem and he had given them the information they needed to set it up. The technician called Grande and gave them the information again. They said that their system had the modem already in it but it wasn't activated. Once the modem was activated we were back in business. Larry decided once everything was up and running he would shut everything down and bring everything back up. When he did this our router went down. He tried to get it to work but he was unsuccessful. He got one of the computers up and ordered a router from Best Buy, our local Best Buy didn't stock the one he wanted so we had to go to Killeen. In the evening Larry charged out the routers and got the new one up and running. He checked everything out and made sure everything was working. Now we're back in business, if not I would not be making this update :) .
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| Old Router - Larry always keeps the boxes |
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| New Router |
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| Installing the new router |
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| The finished product |
While Larry was doing these two projects I read and stayed out of his way.
I am so lucky to have a man around that can do a lot of stuff. If he has never done the project before he's not afraid to try.
Great!
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