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Found this used for $500, looks new. Hope it serves me well. Only one complaint so far, that the “Eco” setting only uses cold water and thus you need to always use heavy duty for warm water.

275f About 3 hours unwrapped to 180f, then finished in peach paper to 204. They were fabulous. I also smoke the corn for about an hour, cut off the niblets, then make a deconstructed corn elote. It’s a crowd pleaser.

Smoked elote recipe:
8 corn
1/4 cup mayo (to taste/texture)
Juice of 1 lime (to taste)
1/2 cup of fine grated Cotija cheese
Ample paprika
1tsp cumin
1tsp garlic powder
1tsp onion powder
1tbsp chilli powder
Salt
Pepper

This is some BG with about 15k on it. Still was shifting fine, but had a lot of spirited driving in the last few months, so it was time.

Anyone else actually hit the dirt with their Fiesta? Mine sees miles of dirt every day.

Kept getting cloudy brake fluid so it was time for new lines. Goodridge. Also popped in new reusable lower strut bolts, upper are SPC camber bolts. I also did all 4 exhaust hanger with urethane. Whoosh sourced bolts and hangers.

Buy a Vibra Technic. This Mountune urethane one has 23k miles, less than a year and a half of use. Pooched already, you can see a good millimeter of space in the worn bushing. The VT is firmer shifting in a good way, but less NVH at the same time. I have VT passenger and driver mounts already so I knew this was gonna be good.

Oil change and air filter. No clue how many hours were on the air filter, but too many. Yanmar 2210d

I had not seen a review directly comparing Fuse and Revant lenses against Oakley Prizm Polarized so here I am, doing so for science.

Secon pic is Fuse top, Oakley bottom. Third pic is Revant top, Fuse bottom.

Over the years I would find Holbrooks on sale or used and just buy whole frames instead of lens replacements (one of these are fake), but two of the three had super scratched lenses and I figured I’d try out replacements.

Bought the highest end each brand makes, Spectraboost Revant and Fuse Amp, both in brown for fair comparison.

Fit in frame: They both fit fine and click in sufficiently. Fuse wins though. You can see stress in the Revant lenses when you look at them through polarized glasses, there’s brown splotches in the corners. Oakley and Fuse have the same level of stress shown in the lenses.

Clarity: Fuse wins, Oakley second, Revant third.

Color: Fuse highlights colors better. Oakley second. Revant third. The hue is different between all of them, with Oakley being darker and more purple, Fuse reddish, and Revant more brown so it’s not a perfect comparison but at least if you’re looking for highlights and “boost”, the Fuse is the leader here.

Shipping and packaging: Fuse sends a new microfiber sunglass bag, Revant just sends one for the lenses themselves. Revant arrived faster. Both were well packaged.

Quite honestly I like the Fuse more than the original Oakley lenses. Revants are good, and I’d be happy with them as cheap replacements, but they’re not outstanding. We’ll see about durability. Oakley lenses tend to flake in the corners after some years especially around salt water.

After doing a ton of research here I finally bought a mattress for my new place. A king size Sealy Highland Manor topped with at first a 3” soft SleepOnLatex and then a 2” medium. Being that I would only be living in the area for a few years I didn’t want to spend crazy money on a mattress and quite honestly I don’t make much money, so budget was a priority.

I am 210lb side sleeper, and wife is 135lb side sleeper. I cannot do soft mattresses at all, they cause instant back pain, nor can I do firm due to a dislocated shoulder injury which flares up on hard mattresses so I wanted a bit of a hybrid situation.

At first we tried the Sealy alone, which was on sale for $599 when we picked it up and found it abusively hard. Comically, in a way. We both woke up in pain, but after a couple weeks on it I kind of broke it in on my side and felt it could work, but not optimally. Sleep quality was pretty darn good considering. Enter the Sleep On Latex topper which I’d been planning for the whole time anyways. After insane research on Reddit going back and forth and reading they were firmer than expected we opted for the 3” soft.

3” soft was too soft. At 3” it behaves like an entirely different bed altogether, you don’t feel the bed below much at all, and we wanted just a bit of firmness to support the spine. We exchanged for 2” medium. It’s on the firmer side than I’d like, the 3” was good for me at my weight since I could fully compress it to the firm mattress below but not the case for my wife, so back it went. I am happy with the arrangement and sleeping well, and my wallet is also happy with the outlay. Compared to more expensive options, it feels like a bargain.

What I want to leave here especially is how quality the customer service and experience was with Sleep on Latex. I like the product, it is not even close to memory foam. The soft does start out firmer than you’d expect, but over some weeks it’ll soften up. The medium so far has stayed pretty much the same.

Less than a year old. Glad to get it all cleaned up. For what it’s worth, do brakes first, then clutch! Takeda intake sucks, if you’re wondering.

Grey foxes always break branches here. Unfortunately a very nice winter banana graft on my multi apple. I did some surgery today, worth a shot. I am curious to see if it works.

Sharwil avocado graft from Feb 2025 over 8’ tall, and holding its first crop. I topped it around April taking off 3 feet.

Bought this auger on sale some months ago and finally took it for its first rip. It actually is pretty good. Was able to get nice full depth holes under a minute. Soil is nice and fluffy here, but I think it might struggle in rocky or clay soil, but for me, this tool was a winning purchase. I do agriculture work a lot and this makes me quick work of digging. Heck, it was so easy I may even re do the aging fence!

We’ll probably end up around 40,000lb.

2009 ish Marlin 1894, stamped JM gifted to me. Added the illuminated reticle Vortex for night boar hunting, hammer extension, and Skinner Express sight + scope mount. Most shots here are 40 yard so this should be a fun one.