This weekend I met up with Terry who is also the owner of a yellow FJ40. He works with Mike Allegri at Cupertino Electric. He has a 1975, and mine is a 1976 so there are a lot of similarities between the two. We chatted for an hour or two and then headed down to Campbell to meet his mechanic. We spent a 3-4 hours checking various things from engine to exhaust. Through some research we found a smog legal header that could replace my badly cracked exhaust manifold. That seems to be the next big project.
Sunday I woke up with little direction on what I wanted to do with my day. At 10AM I heard the vent on the top of my chimney squealing from the wind so I decided to put up the ladder and fix it. Once fixed I noticed my gutters were full of leaves. After I cleaned those I saw that a tree next to the house needed to be trimmed. After that I looked down at my lawn and noticed it need a trim. After the trim I noticed how much dirt was showing in the corners. After tearing up the soil I realized that I needed lawn seed, and while I was at it I should fertilize. After that I thought it made sense to move some dirt around. After that I realized all my tree trimmings needed to be broken down and put in recycling. In the process of doing that I realized I nuked part of my neighbors side yard with roundup a few weeks back so I decided to clean that up and trim his yard. After that it looked like a hurricane swept through my yard so I busted out the blower, which I take great pleasure in using. On top of that I pumped the brown water out of my pond-in-progress, and repainted the front door.
So here I am Monday morning sore as $&^@ and wishing I had one more day off.
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