Mrs. Packratc is a farm girl who is bugging me that I have yet to turn her garden. It's just too wet. She keeps chickens and this weekend got 25 new babies that are now about 5 weks old, moved into the big girl's chicken coop. They're isolated of course from the 50 or so others that are layers. Some of them are too old and will soon have to move into the old girl's coop, the freezer. Harvest Day, the waifting aroma of chicken feathers freshly dunked into almost-scalding water on the South lawn. We often send out invitations but are usually disappointed by the turn out. Ugliest backhoe in captivity got about 4 hours of use yesterday at about half to two-thirds speed. Has good power, very little smoke and oil as clean as it can be. Think I have a small oil leak at the valve cover gasket. I used the old one because it was rubber which I prefer over cork when you're going to take them on & off several times to adjust the valves.
Ambient temperature here was in the 50's yesterday. Oil pressure never got below 45 lbs and water temperature, with a now full radiator never got above 160.
Packratc
