How David does not want to spend his time.

A million thing to do in the house.  I’m excited to do them!  The laundry room/bathroom on the main floor is a great challenge and a fun project.  I have a huge amount of plumbing to move and a floor to extend and support walls to alter.  I love it.

So, what have I done the past two days at home?

 That’s right, dead motorcycle.

On my way to work a few days ago I had to call Wendy because I thought I was out of gas.  Bike was dead.  She graciously came and saved me with a full gas can, and the bike started again.  The next day the same thing happened.  At exactly the same spot, though this time on my way home from work.  Well poop.  I knew there was gas in the tank.

Again Wendy, my saviour, came with the car and trailer and the two of us managed to get the 450 pound bike onto the trailer and strapped down.  So the bike is on the trailer in the garage and I’m not sure what is wrong with it.  To me it sounds like fuel starvation, but the fuel lines are clear and they are clearly providing fuel as I can get the bike to flood.  I pulled out the carburetor (the third picture) and it was totally clear (I rebuilt it last year).  So I don’t know.  Another possibility is an electrical problem.  That’s most likely, but it is the hardest to diagnose.  Sigh.

Before this bike trouble I did get a chance to start on the laundry room.  I yanked down part of the wall between the storage shed in the back of the house and the laundry.  Our plan is to increase our laundry room by about 5o square feet and put in a mud room – something our house currently lacks.  It is tricky to work on the laundry room right now – we need it often with a baby, especially as we are using cloth diapers.

The three rooms we’ve worked on are waiting for flooring and trim.  We have a 5-red wall in squares:

I’m pretty happy with it.  We needed a 70s touch in a 70s house.

I had fun yesterday at Troy and Christina’s place.  Troy let me get in on the cement work for his shop. It was a pretty easy pour – he had all the form-work completely done and he had hired a cement pump truck to get the cement to the parts where the cement trucks couldn’t reach.  The guys with the pump truck did almost all the finishing for us, they made it a short day!  Five cement trucks came, they poured 46 yards of cement, and we were done by 11 AM.  Not bad work, I think.