Good Evening, Happy Hump Day. Weather-wise it feels like we are on the hump, with this morning the sun shinning and weather forecast to reach the highest temperatures of the week at least before the afternoon’s rain and sleet showers got underway. We made it almost to 50 degrees, but now it’s back down to 37.

Maybe we are done with road salt season or so one can hope. I probably will give Big Red a bath this weekend — after I get him all muddy. That would be fun, because I really haven’t had much of a chance to play with the lift kit recently. Got to make sure though that I have enough change, as those car wash places require quarters in most cases, and the dollar things don’t always work.

Sunday’s forecast looks exceptionally nice. Might be fun to go out of town and do something fun. The warmer weather is much needed, although with the snow I could still get out snowshoeing or skiing somewhere in the mountains. I kind of want to go out to Middleburgh, but maybe if I wait a few weeks, I can go out camping there.  I am just hoping to get out and go out to the wild and back-country on some muddy dirt roads. I miss being up in woods, spending so much time in the city.

Hopefully I will get the new version of the blog up live this weekend. Honestly, most of the changes are invisible, although the new blog won’t have the twitter archive or the weather functions. But the important thing is that things will be faster and work better. Or so is the hope.

Started to look at getting a spare tire for my truck. Been pricing it out at a few different online places. I am going to get a full-size spare, on XD Rockstar 1 rims and tires identical the four others I have on my truck. I want to get a full-size spare prior to June, just so I have it. The plan is to rotate the spare onto the truck and take one of the other tires off each time I rotate things. This way, I won’t have a tire rotting away, and I can hopefully coax more life out of those expensive 35 inch tires, then if I justed rotated the four tires.

I will use a 4″ wooden block to raise the factory pump jack in emergencies. The spare tire will be stored vertically on the front-right corner of the bed of the truck, somehow held into place using a revised shelf and the bed bolts. Not 100% how this will work, but I’m waiting for nicer weather to decide. Not going to have the money to spend on the spare until at least mid-May, but I wanted to start to figure these things out.