Just wanted to introduce my furry roommates, this is Sammy and Rocky. A brother and sister from the same litter so family. Endless hours of fun and purrs from these two, super happy they’re part of my life.

So I had to replace the garage door spring on one of the bays of the garage. Fortunately it’s a single door so just one torsion spring to deal with, and lucky for me both doors are wound the same way so I have one to replicate.

The first problem was finding a spring, I’m looking for a 0.207 in. Wire x 2 in. D x 25 in. L Torsion Spring in Yellow Left Wound for Sectional Garage Doors by Dura-lift. Evidently these are hard to find or very expensive. I went to home depot because they had it on their site but (sigh) it was an internet only order. So I thought screw HD, Amazon here I come. Bottom line it was $55 at Amazon (everywhere pretty much) and $35.93 at HD. They won. It was ship to the store, they didn’t let me know it arrived and couldn’t find it at first but I finally got it.

Installation was super simple, the one thing I wasn’t sure of is how many times to pre-wind the torsion spring to be able to properly list the door. It turns out it’s one full revolution for every foot of door. My door was 7 feet so it was 28 quarter turns of pre-wind. I’ve always been told to stay away from torsion springs, call a pro because they’re dangerous, I’m happy to say it’s completely doable if you take your time and look at what you’re doing.

There’s definitely been a chill in the air here for the past couple of days. Hitting the freeze point at night so bring the plants in. But with the sun out it was a beautiful day and I took advantage to clean up all the limbs twigs and leaves that I’ve been meaning to for months. Great time to break out the burn barrel and get rid of it.

So almost 3 years to the day I had to get a new battery for the Xterra, I had been using the AutoZone Duralast for the past decade basically because they kept dying and giving me a new one. I really think that batteries should last more than 3 years so this year I went with Sam’s Club and they hooked me up with a Duracell 3 year battery for $114 out the door. We’ll see how this one holds up.

So school can be extremely difficult for me. If I’m not digging the class or assignment it’s easier to pull teeth than to make myself get it done. I’m happy to say I finally submitted my paper for one of those classes and with any luck starting my last non-computer class next week. I need to start meditating and concentrating on getting to the end goal.