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| Christian made sourdough bread & brought one over... |
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| It was still warm inside. Had several slices just straight (bread is best when fresh from the oven...) |
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| Made toast the next morning with a couple of slices. First butter... |
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| Then blueberry jam... |
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| Cut to more manageable size... |
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| With "cafe com leite" (Brazilian: hot milk with some strong coffee in it...). Really quite good... |
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| Some shallow stuff being placed in this drawer. Some of this stuff really needs to find a more appropriate home but for now, this will do... |
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| Added more stuff in the same drawer... |
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| Moved the parachute first stage and put this very light XK-E model kit body in it's place (the parachute was too heavy and wanted to fall down from the spring clip that was holding it up)... |
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| A home for the vintage drink (shake) mixer... |
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| Home (for now) for the small Facom Tool Case... |
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| This is a prime location to put a hanger for multiple steering wheels... |
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| Removed the wheel and installed a hanger |
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| The headlamp lens was in the way so it also had to come down... |
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| The Triumph wheel that used to hang here plus another wheel behind it to start... |
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| Series I XK-E Steering wheel |
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| Next, another Series I XK-E Steering wheel |
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| Nardi wheel |
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| A Prototypo Wheel |
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| A LeCarrera wheel |
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| An unbranded wheel |
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| Finally, a Porsche 356C wheel |
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| The wheels were temporarily sitting here on the island flat file. Nice to see empty flat surface... |
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| This is a tall air-tight military storage bin (don't know what it was originally intended for...). |
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| Mostly storing old sheets inside, for now... |
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| Lower LH cabinet. Storing a set of long thin valve covers from a Jaguar XK engine. |
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| In front of the valve covers is some spare metal hanging racks. |
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| Lastly, a set of tire chains for the RDX in the last available space... Pretty much full. |
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| It's raining steadily but it's pretty light. Sun is supposed to come out in the afternoon... |
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| There's still space to be filled up... |
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| There are large auxiliary fog/driving lights for the front of the Mercedes (like they used on the cars for rally racing, in period...). |
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| Bicycle Pannier rack/pannier & some other bags... |
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| Other bags with bags, cushion & blanket inside. |
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| The bag in the front has other bags in it. Pretty much filled up the cabinet... |
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| Taking pictures of what's going in the two crates. This is the smaller crate. I'll never remember... |
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| 914 interior door handle, MGB wiring, MGB bumper guards, etc. |
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| Heat shielding material, wire loom protector & an old Buick clock/speaker combo... |
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| Brass carburetor & motorcycle gauges. |
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| The two crates as they go into the cabinet. The crate on the right side is full of an old Rolls Royce transmission internals (gears, bearings, etc.). My guess is that the transmission is from late 1920s or 1930s... A long time ago, I went to a swap meet and saw this crate full of stuff. Inside the crate was a small cast cover with Rolls Royce cast into it. The cover was made of aluminum and had a crack in it but I thought it was old, cool and would make a nice display piece. I asked how much he wanted for the cover. and he said he's selling the whole crate full of parts together & the cover went with it. I asked if he would sell just the cover & he said no, emphatically. So, I asked him what he wanted for the whole crate & I think he said $20. I tried to convince him to sell me just the cover but he wouldn't budge. I offered him $20 for just the cover & he said that if I want to take just the cover, he wants $40... He really didn't want to take the crate back home. I counter offered him $10 to take the whole crate. A little bit of the same game... Surprisingly, he accepted! So, I bought the whole crate & kinda figured that I might just trash the rest of the stuff in the crate when I got it home. Well, I couldn't do it. Although the internals all have some surface rust on them, overall they look to be in pretty good condition. I ended up with the same stone around my neck as the guy I bought the stuff from... |
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| The forecast is calling for rain tomorrow. Today, it's clear and sunny but the surf is up. The waves are making its way around the breakwater and into the Ballona Creek channel... I had a close call on the bike path. In a relatively empty section of the path, someone on a rented electric scooter stopped on the bike path and crossed the path to a rest/park area, just as I was passing (crossing both lanes of the bike path). I made a glancing but substantial contact with the person/scooter and nearly crashed. For a split second, it was looking very bad since the impact caused me to head towards a low rock wall! I had about two feet of space between the impact point and the rick wall. But, somehow I didn't fall and was able to stop without crashing into the rock wall or on the ground. It seems almost an impossibility that I didn't crash! Incredibly fortunate "save." My phone flew off it's holder on the handlebar and hit the ground but wasn't damaged (it landed on the phone case side instead of the display side) . The chain came off the big chainring from the impact but otherwise, nothing else was disturbed. I put the phone and the chain back on and completed the ride without further incident. It could have been a very bad crash but I was very fortunate this time (a couple of years ago, I wasn't so fortunate... ambulance ride, UCLA emergency room, CAT scan... the brain was no more damaged than usual, just a mild concussion from my head [in a helmet] hitting the blacktop... the helmet cracked in several places...). On the weekends, the Ballona Creek bike path is very crowded with people with many not paying attention to other people around them. Since there's such limited "open" outdoor places right now, the Creek trail has been more crowded than ever (at least double the usual traffic if not more...) It's not too surprising that people are not aware of the issues that they may be causing by not paying attention to their surroundings. It calls for extra care around such times/situations... |
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| A lot of the stuff in this aisle space was able to be moved under the flat file on the left of this picture (there's about 3 to 4 inches of space under it). |
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| After the band saw was moved over a few inches, there's still a good amount of space between it and the flat file on the right... |
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| The stuff on the floor and on top of the light gray cabinet need to find homes... |
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| Rearranging stuff in the stainless steel upper cabinets (on the RH side wall of the garage). |
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| Moved the three skateboards onto these large hooks on the rafters. A little hard to get to but not too bad... |
