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Hello again;

I was in the shop again today. So thankful that I did not have to make my usual commute this morning. Mother Nature in her wisdom decided that a full day of rain would be a great idea. This, after 3 weeks of -30C weather. The roads are covered in 4” of compacted snow and now we get a crapload of rain today. This morning was a nightmare of freezing rain and the ditches were littered with wrecks. Now, tonight the temperature is supposed to dip back down to -20C, is this end of days?

I hope not because I want to finish my truck.

As I mentioned before, I was in the shop today. The plan for the day was to tidy up my mess from the weekend. I had all the painted parts in the booth, which I needed to clear out. The remaining parts removed that weren’t painted also needed to be stored away. Mainly though I wanted to remove the tires from the rims and get them to the powder coating shop. Heading over to the shop was treacherous, at least until I got out of my subdivision, so I was very concerned that a trip into the “big city” would not be a good idea. By the time I was ready to leave the shop, it was still raining, but the temperature had warmed up enough that the roads were safe enough to travel on.
The wife and I made the trip in with out incident. I dropped off the rims at the powder coater and also got a tour of the facility. They have 2 ovens which are huge! They have the space to do my entire frame if only I had known…

I did not take any pics today, I will post some of the rims when I get them back.

Stay safe,
Steve