With Wings As Eagles: Car/Mechanical Entries

Early 2015 summary 1 of 2

2015 December 27 08:41

Before everything got crazy in March, here are some overall posts that kind of cover January and February. In two separate posts to avoid photo overload.

I am ever-so-slowly collecting parts and tools to put my 1972 VW engine back together. I'm going to tap the case to plumb in an oil filter. To do this, I got the proper drill bit, tapered ream, and 3/8 NPT tap:

And, in a fit of organization, I put them in a box and labelled them! Amazing!

Rare picture of all three cats:

A minor home improvement. This is in the "library" on our ground floor. I put a rack for coats on the left wall here, so that when we have coats to hang up, we can do it somewhere other than the official coat closet in the center of the house which is far away from the doors and also where the cat food lives.

Pangur disapproving of whatever I'm saying on the phone.

I made some moderate effort earlier in the year to organize my stuff on the main floor (culminating in the drawer that serves as a desk from the last post). Here's my half of the library table desk organized (which I'm sure was short-lived, but an important step nonetheless).

Also in the organizational front, I got some nice storage trays from Harbor Freight and made organization out of the chaos of the socket trays in the tool box.

And finally Thrice doing her Meerkat impression.