I changed the furnace filters yesterday. It’s become an odd tradition of sorts — every three months on the anniversary of Alan’s death, I change the furnace filters. It makes no sense, but that’s one random thing I did on the day Alan died.

The garage is coming along well, and the contractor has started working on the outside of the house. In addition to flipping the siding on two walls of the garage that were installed upside down (one wall is complete), they are wiring the garage doors and installing lighting upstairs and downstairs. This will eliminate the spiderweb of extension cords powering the garage now.

They are scraping the house and priming raw wood. I have color coat on the steps.

Last weekend, I did a practice motorcycle trip to Shreveport, Louisiana. I have a touring motorcycle. I suppose I should tour on it, so I’m preparing to do some of that in the future.

The Lambretta motor scooters found a new home last week. Their new owner will pick them up next weekend. I’ll be looking for as many Lambretta things as I can find this week. I suspect I have more than I know where they are, but the new owner doesn’t live too awfully far away, so I can gather things as I find them after next weekend. He kindly posted information about the ’46 Mercurys on several sites. I’ve received two inquiries that don’t seem to have amounted to much, but we’ll see.