Trees, trees, trees

Short post today, just had a sweet victory over stupidity, and saved myself a lot of future work.
Not to mention, it's getting closer to garden planting time! I've got a big tray of seedlings all sprouted and ready for transplanting. The garden itself is right now just a big plot of grass, which I still have yet to trim, rake, and till. That's coming up on my next set of days off, and I might even try to take an extra day just to make sure I get it all done! If you live in the US, you're probably saying "Wow, I had my garden in months ago!", but up here, gardening starts in June, and ends in August or mid Sept at the latest, especially for frost sensitive plants like tomatoes. We have a little more than three months to get all the growing done! For us, I plan on having a large row of greenhouse space by next year. 9 months is too long for me to wait, at least with a greenhouse I can start seedlings early, and maybe get some more harvest time!

Now, the small victory. We run our house mainly off of a gas generator, and I've put probably 1700 hours on the one that we've got now. I thought I finally killed it, it just wouldn't start, no matter what I did! Well, turns out that my laziness was to blame, and the fix was retardedly easy. All gas engines have valves that let out exhaust, and bring in the gas mixture. With less complex engines, those valves can become misadjusted, and it affects the engine, making it backfire, hard to start, and stall out. It got so hard to start the engine, that I finally broke the pull start cord! I was going to order another one, but I haven't yet. Turns out, you can start it with any available cord/twine if you just wrap it around the starting shaft. You only get one pull though, and then the cord falls off.
Well, I adjusted the valves, put some baling twine around the starter, and vrooom! One pull! Now I can stop using propane, which is EXPENSIVE, to make our electricity, and is irritating as well. I'm just happy that I fixed the problem, and it didn't cost me any money either!