Picked up a new ride today. This should bring some new entertainment to the Manetarium. I haven’t had a chance to through it yet but I do know that I’ll be having to replace the rear main seal as the previous owner had made a failed attempt. The braking system was another area that needs attention.

in any case it’s a solid platform to start a rebuild. There is just enough room for me to fit in this thing. Getting in and out of the car is like my old 1989 Corvette, super low to the ground.

This Speedster has a really clean and straight body with very nice paint. The mint green color is not too common even though I have seen others. The interior is solid and the gauges supposedly are functioning. I’ll have to check that all out once I get it up and running.

I can’t wait to start tearing into the motor and get it back on the road.

It looks like the two access gates arrived today. I’ll be installing these two on the Southern balcony side access points.

Started working on the fill dirt for the property. This is not going to be an easy task. The areas I need to roll the wheelbarrow through are uneven and in some cases have large rocks or stones in its path. Imagine riding a Steele wheeled skateboard down a side walk and hitting a pebble. Yeah, you’re going to be in cartoon mode really quick.

I’ll try and do 10 loads a night. There’s only five }%#%]%:/!”: tons to go.

These photos were taken after tonight’s dirt hauling 20190606. I’m using the fill dirt for the backyard path area. I will eventually have the path area filled up and most if not all the exposed white PVC pipes showing through the eroded thin ground cover.

We started working on the vegetable garden. I’m more of the kill the weeds and put new top soil part of the project. Wifey is doing the meticulous part of removing the fine weeds, leveling and planting the actual vegetables.

I’m not sure if we already missed the planting season for vegetables but we are certainly getting it ready for something to grow.

This is the bistro view from the Southern side balcony at night. It overlooks the Manetarium, horse shoe pit and soon to be vegetable garden.

I picked up a few more plates this afternoon. The seller is a local metal artist that creates metal art using repurposed parts.

I didn’t have Rhode Island now I have both a car and motorcycle vehicle plates.

We had am early BBQ celebrating Father’s Day and our birthdays. What a nice day on the deck. Andrew and Baby Enzo in the house!

I finally got around to getting bird seed for the VW Bus bird feeders we got awhile ago. We temporarily just placed it on top of a cut off tree trunk. It looks some of the local birds found it.

Well I never though in my lifetime I’d be ordering 10 tons of anything. We are going to redo the planter boxes and level different areas of the property. After years of rain and wind the soil eventually eroded away. At some point the soil lost needs to be replaced.

I ordered 5 tons of Sandy Loam and 5 tons of compost mix. The filler dirt is a actually a mix of 50% sand, 43% silt and 7% of clay or less. This is is used primarily as filler dirt even though you can use it for grow soil.

We will moving all the dirt using wheel barrows!! I did 6 loads earlier and it’s not easy. Even going to down the hanging on can turn into a cartoon scene really quick.

Neighbor Dan doing his thing on the grill. He can work 4 grills at one time and have all the food ready at the same time.