summer off...slipping and sliding....

tal & kat next to the fix-it shop

i took the summer off unplanned, i had a class that started, june 27 thru sept 2..it is over so i am back blogging....

watch for new and unedited stories in the informal adventures of ronnie the repair guy...aka mr. fix-it....

he spent the summer on the slip n' slide with the kids!!!!

Groundhog Day Celebration or Bust?

Groundhog Day comes with great anticipation in our shop, we are optimistic that every year we are going to have an early spring ...Mr. Fix-it and I wait for Punxatony Phil to come out of his hole to see if he will see his shadow or not.
As we get older we realize that the winter seems to get longer and longer here in the Northeast.....so the hour came and Phil came out and he saw his shadow...........6 MORE WEEKS OF WINTER!...Bust.

Mantra....

in our family and with our friends their mantra is...."if it ain't broke don't fix it", and "even if it is broke, don't fix it right away or better yet, don't fix it at all".....you can see where all this could lead.......

Toro snowblower ignition module replacement

Mr. Fix-it recently fixed up a very old and rusty used toro snowblower for my sister and brother-in law. My brother -in-law has had a plow on his last two trucks and has always helped everyone in the family out in their time of need, and when we were too lazy to do it ourselves. He  sold his truck this past fall so he did not have a way of moving snow for himself except a waxed-up shovel!( if you have been following my recent posts you have heard me refer this part of the country we live in the frozen tundra).

The last part we were waiting for was an ignition module. The last couple of times he has used it he has had to shut the snowblower off by choking it out because the module wasn't working. We went to their house with a handful of tools and changed it out.

While we were at my sisters house  Mr. Fix-It wanted to check out the boiler we cleaned several weeks ago...the water pressure seemed a bit low, Mr. Fix-It decided to dump the valves to see if there was any air in the system, all seemed okay, but the pressure valve reading was still a bit low....we are going to keep our eyes on it.