Day 157: Saturday... I was informed we need to clean something today... no one had been home all week, the house had been used as a launching and landing pad with a refueling station that served up chicken of various types all week long. It was trashed, the sink full of dirty dishes, the dishwasher was full... yes the house needed cleaned... however I had other things that needed done as well. The Mazda needed attention pieces had literally fallen off. I went out in the driveway and pulled the back corner apart... I didn't have all the parts I needed but made due with what I had... the shock is now attached but still needs a new bracket on the top, I welded up something to make it stay in place. The brakes were almost impossible to get off. I needed to use the hydraulic press to separate the caliper from the rotor, it was a little seized... going to have to order a new one of those... I got it working the best I could but the pads won't last long like that... hopefully long enough it doesn't wreck the new rotor before the new caliper comes in. Didn't get to fixing the shifter yet... sure it's tore appart but I don't have parts for it yet either... a whole assembly is only $100 I might just swap out the whole thing and be done with it... Screwed with the car right through lunch, no one came out and fed me... dinner rolled around just as I was getting not done but as far as I could get, wheels back on the car, test drive around the block (a few times)... works much better, only had to pry it into gear once with the screw driver... I'd tell the wife about the screw driver but that would just open another can of worms. Pizza and Wing Night... Heather made Pizza n Wings, I came in changed into some clean clothes and washed up before dinner. After dinner I went back to photos... I finished the lot. 406 photos posted to the internet... of about 2000 taken... still lots of good stuff than didn't make it... so I then took a photo that didn't make the cut and did an editing job to it - ( I can fix anything ) and posted it to the page with the original (see below) just so people have an idea of what can be done if they want a photo edited. 2 am... crap into tomorrows time. Be back soon.

After Editing

Before Editing