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With the arrival of Labor Day weekend, I found that I had a "little bit" of extra time! The boiler had not arrived yet, so I went to Phillips Saturday morning to see what was up at the Ultralight and Powered Parachute Fly in. After take-off, I noticed the fog still hovering over Deer Lake.




I flew back over the airport and saw something next to runway 06/24. Chuters?




I zoomed a little and there were three of them laying out their chutes in preparation for lift off. When they land, they then need to get the chute all straightened out, folded just right and stored in a big nylon bag. I know I would not have the patience required to operate one of those.




Phillips from the north.




As poor as this photo is, I had to include it. It's the swirling algae on Long Lake, just west of Phillips.......




I headed east and found some interesting places. This one had a "C" shaped border of dense pines around the house.




Here's a odd shaped field of corn that looks about ready to pick.




And a field of ?oats?? in various stages of ripeness.




I made it down to Prentice in time to join the nine powered chutes in a prolonged fly over of the Prentice Progress Days parade. We went quite low through town several times, going from north to south. Fun.




I went back to Phillips in the evening and had a short fly, experienced a wonderful sunset reflecting off a small lake.




Sun under the wing....
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Today Ken showed up and started tearing wires out of our old Federal Pacific breaker panel. If you have a panel made by them, you might want to look into replacing it with one that will work properly.



Here we are with all the wires re-attached to the new panel, and everything works!




All set to go with labels on everything, it's all done except for the bill and the tears.

To fully appreciate the rest of this yarn, you need to go look at this post. (the part about wires....) Then return and finish this story.....





I finished putting in the underground wire to the new garage last October, early in the month. I contacted a local electrician to get a new panel and breakers, along with scheduling the install of both. Meanwhile this is the power feed to the garage...




It snakes through the yard (where it almost got sheared off during a snowplowing episode last winter), over to the garage...... hmmm.... no electrician yet.




where I mowed off the wire once this spring!! Where's that darned electrician???!!!



in through the window,



feeding extension cords galore.....




ending at the breaker panel (full of breakers, but no power in the big wires yet.....)

Today the wire from the new panel in the house was terminated in the garage breaker panel!!! No wonder Ken looked so happy in that second picture... it only took 10 months to get the panel and put it in. But who's keeping track??

I gotta go, Carlo
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And that's the way it is.......

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Outside complete! Here's a view from the deck to the stove pad......




Here's a view from the stove pad to the deck........




You can hardly tell that we messed things up big time. Today I finished all the outside stuff, cleaned up my mess on the inside of the wall, routed the outdoor boiler power wire through the basement to near the breaker panel. Then we drained the indoor boiler so I can get going on that. I have arranged to pick up the special check valves tomorrow that I will need to couple the two boiler systems together so they work properly. Also will be meeting with Lance at the Prentice hardware to pick up all the miscellaneous valves, fittings, zone valves and some pex tubing. Pex is what they run these days for hot water heating systems, it's light, somewhat flexable and WAY cheaper than copper. I may get this thing done before winter sets in.....

I gotta go, Carlo


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