Yesterday morning was a bit later as R needed a bit more time before he went to school. So at 9am I got him to school then once home I headed out to the garden to pick anything that was ready. The cucumbers only had a handful (16) and I need to get 40 of them picked by Monday morning to fulfill the order I have.

Part of my morning was also spent trying to get my Bitbay wallet working. I finally managed to get the chain syncing but it is 24 hours later and the chain is only to 90%. It looks to take another 24 hours and then I have to rescan my wallet...

The squash ended up over 20 pounds but that was largely thanks to the seed squash I had let grow.

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I had a forced update trying to install on the next restart of my computer and I installed these, then crossed my fingers and restarted my computer. Worked like a charm and the update is locked out now. Also removed all the Cortana garbage.

I had the idea and again it worked great. When the boys got home from school I asked them to fill the freeze dryer trays with tomato so we could get another batch running. In exchange for them doing it I told them they could have "digital time" playing on their NES Switches. I was then able to get outside for other tasks.

They did a great job, made a mess, but got all the trays filled and were playing their games by 3:45. I gave them till 5 but they got a bit longer.

So I was doing some serious thinking on how the hell I was going to make a yoke to hold the wings up on the plane. The problem being that I need something that will not rotate when a wing is set on it. I was trying a part from one of the cafeteria tables that just wasn't seeming to want to work when I looked down at the book am saw the hole for the front of the horizontal stabilize. The pipe of the legs fit in the hole almost perfectly and I had my solution. I pulled the pipe that I had holding the tail of the plane up and after removing the end cap it slid perfectly through. I then went to the tool shed and drilled 2 holes for the captive bolts.

This was a major issue that I had been trying to figure out the solution to so this took a huge weight off my mind. I added pipe insulation to each side for the wings to sit on and installed it in the tail.

This is the perfect solution to my problem.

I used clevis pins as the captive bolts to hold the yoke in place but to allow for easy removal when I go to set the wings up.

So then I had to find out so I backed it out of the hangar and kicked the engine on. It started up just fine then after a bit of rough running it warmed up and idled a bit high. I then mashed the throttle a number of times trying to get the motor to rev up but it just kept bogging down before 3000 RPM. Then in a sudden burst and a pop whatever the clog in the fuel system was let go and the engine suddenly was purring along at over 4000 RPM. I was ecstatic. Then after Hive account@styryez got home from work we went out and I started it up again to have the clog again but this time it popped out sooner and I got the engine spun up to 6000 RPM for the first time. That is just shy of cruising RPM!

Since there is still the slight stick in the fuel system I need to pull the jets from the cabs and give them a cleaning. I am so close to getting it out on the runway....

It was late when I got the steaks grilled so we had a later than normal dinner. The fire was nice though in the now cool evenings.

Managed an hour soak before heading inside. I have an order I am prepping for bolts for the plane and also the clear coat for the wing repair.

I have no clue today. Winds look good for paragliding but I am not seeing anyone talking yet about a place. I have the carb work to do, more harvests, farm cleanup, Man Utd will likely lose again today, and if I don't go flying I am going to pull the pane out of the hangar and do a setup and tear down to make sure I have all the bolts to put it together.