A list from the excellent Merlin app, from Cornell University, that identified birds from their songs today:
Oak Titmouse
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Golden-crowned Sparrow
House Finch
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Acorn Woodpecker
American Robin
There eas a Eurasian Ring-necked dove in there, too, but the phone could not hear it.
Spring Equinox was yesterday!
First full day of Spring will be today!
I'll duty today for the Tomatoes of Summer. Surely it's not too soon. Scallions this year, and dill.
It's early for the planned runner beans, but I can make clear the way for them.
I can clearly see birds leaving their overnight roosts in a few frames of NEXRAD doppler radar every morning. Using the "local radar" setting in the "Set View" tab at radar.weather.gov, and selecting Hanford radar in the Central Valley, I can see spreading circles of green that center on wetlands and refuges in the Central Valley.
It's unseasonably warm here. I don't think I've used our hot weather house adaptations this early in the year. We're not heat-adapted yet, so it seems even hotter.
New new filter is the right length, but the female fittings on the filter are aluminum, and the flare nuts are brass. That'll be a problem later, for sure.
Found the vent line for the tank and stuck a cork in it to staunch the siphon, and got the new filter in place AND figured out the trick for getting the bracket back on.
Reattached the PCV line that had pulled off of the air intake, far downstream of the mass airflow sensor. That would certainly cause a P1074, which has not recurred.
"I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven’t lived in blood and bone. That doesn’t mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it’s not freedom you’re after.”
Sahar Delijani
https://evergreenreview.com/read/an-interview-with-sahar-delijani/
Didn't fix the problem: got a P1074: too lean, out of stoichiometric range.
Couldn't test the cap I replaced: destroyed it on extraction.
Car is nearly 30 years old, and the fuel filter has never been changed, so that's next. Supposedly easy. Isn't.
I'm going to try to do a rate test on the new filter, so I can compare it to the old filter. Exploit Poiseuille's law and test with something with a higher viscosity, like 50:1 oil, for a more sensitive measure of a possible filter problem.
Hard to get the fuel filter out, with hard lines on both sides, inverted flare fittings and a stiff, stupid, encircling bracket.
The check valve of the fuel pump is apparently broken and the pickup in the tank is above the filter, so a gallon of gasoline siphoned while we were trying to get the filter out, down our hands and arms, into a bus tub. Stings. Stinks.
New filter is an inch longer than the old one: no way it can work, so we put the old one back to stop the flow, and bailed out.
seachanged
Joanna Holman
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