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Silly pictures aside, what else is happening on the home front?It was chilly this morning, not sure how cool it was, we slept with our front door open because our sweet little doggy scratched on the door to get out then back in, like five times before I went to bed. I think, but am not sure that Cujo finally curled up in "the box" as we have come to call the construction trailer office thing. I’ve been working on the Box whenever I get a chance.

All the padding Curtis installed to sound proof the Karaoke Box is removed and it is now back down to the wood paneling. I started to remove the carpet from the floor, oh yeah, you probably didn’t know the Box had carpet on the walls, covering all the windows as well as egg crate foam on the ceiling.  Anyway, the floor has carpet glued to linoleum tiles,  I wanted to remove that too, but I may leave it for now, and get on with building a kitchenette. We’ve not made any concrete plans about what to use the Box for, but the general consensus is a guest cabin.

Today should be interesting. I don’t know if I mentioned that the Isuzu Trooper turbocharger finally arrived.  Austin said he wanted to make a father-son work on cars day of it. I’m excited about this. I’m going to begin the day by removing the combination alternator vacuum pump while the turbo is out  and replace the oil seals on the pump part of that mechanism. Why haven’t I done this already? I didn’t know if the turbo was going to come back fixed or not. If it didn’t, as was looking very likely, it meant the end of the Isuzu diesel powered four cylinder, four wheel drive vehicle, which we have a significant stake it, both ideologically and monetarily.

Right,  we paid a thousand bucks for the Trooper I’m using for a work truck.  Harder to calculate is the cost to get it here from Denver, and the work I did on it to keep it running over the two years we’ve owned it.  Then there is the white Trooper which is in better shape, but has a minor problem with the engine. I never got around to dealing with that engine problem other than getting the vehicle running and using it for a couple thousand miles before deciding that extensive engine damage was going to occur if we kept on using it. Then we got the Maroon Trooper, and the pressure was off and I was able to run a 4 cylinder diesel  and get on with perfecting our biodiesel processor and start making 800 gallons of fuel a year.

The turbo rebuild cost only $250.00 more than half of what we worried it would cost.  At times, especially while driving our dilapidated Chevy Blazer, I wished I had a newer vehicle. Driving with all the windows down to try and ventilate the fumes and looking in the street and seeing that nearly everyone else has a newer vehicle than we do, sure, a guy would cast about, thinking wild thoughts, like getting a loan for something new or at least newer. Perhaps even a vehicle which the window rolled up and down unaided. Quickly I came back to me senses; new cars cost much more than we are willing to pay. This is of course the bottom line. We are not everybody else. I am Brian and I would like to believe I’m the only person exactly like me, and as soon as we get the turbodiesel Trooper back on the road burning our homemade fuel the sooner I’ll start to feel like the self I am proud to be.