Roller Coaster Weather
Spent my day off on Tuesday chasing around Eagle River finding a much needed spare tire for our old truck. Wendy’s dad had a spare in that was in the bed of the truck but would not hold air, it was bald so instead of trying to fix it, I went to Eagle River Tire to see if they had a used take off or a cheap new tire to purchase. Neither were available, but they told me about a salvage yard a mile south of 70 in Eagle river. I’ve past the driveway for this place forever, but never knew it existed because there was no sign stating a business was there. I drove down the drive and saw the business sign “Don Scharf Automotive” Salvage yard. The counter guy pointed me in the direction of the take off used tires, all were priced at $25 dollars. I went into the trailer and found a tire the correct size and it looked almost new. They didn’t mount tires, so back to Eagle River Tire with my new used tire and old tire and rim to be mounted. Told the guy I‘d be back Wednesday around 1pm to pick them up. I made it a mile down the road the Eagle River tire called me back saying that my rim I supplied was a 16 inch and not a 18 that matches the wheels on the truck. Back to the salvage yard to see if they had a used 18 inch rim. For $75, I bought a new used aluminum rim to match the truck. Dropped it off at ERT and I finally was able to continue my day off.
Took a picture of the lake on Tuesday afternoon and the ice is slowly disappearing, looks like ice/water ratio is at about 50/50. Just a matter of time before its all water. Temps reached 65 degrees and it felt awesome.
At 5pm we went to our first ever Conover Sno-Buddies meeting/dinner at Bauer’s Dam. Private get together with all the members that wanted to show up. It was social hour for drinks, 50/50 raffle and conversation. John is pretty creative and printed up some beer bottle covers, which I thought were pretty cool, rickweatherman of course. John and Kevin put on quite the spread of 3 different soups, salad, pizzas, bread sticks and cookies. After dinner was the pick for the money raffle with 5 cash prizes with a top prize of $5000. Wendy had high hopes of being the winner, but it wasn’t to be.
Thursday afternoon the weather was beautiful and the lake was now all water, temps in the 50’s and felt l spring day.
Ended the week with the Nascar race on one TV, and the Wisconsin Badgers basketball game on the other. The Badgers being a number 5 seed playing Illinois a number 2 seed which we led by 8 points at one part of the game, but Illinois came back with some great defense and the win. Nascar really needs to get their act together with some of the things they do and ask for. Nascar asked for a change in the tires from Goodyear and wanted a tire that wore a little faster, still have problems with this request. Well they got it causing many issues with cords showing through within 60 laps, and spins and crashing. The veterans figured out how to do tire management and saved there tires for the long haul. Nascar needs to stop trying and figure out how to make the races more exciting and leave some things alone. I did notice that the stands were only packed a little more than half full, Bristol used to be the track that sold out every race. Time to wake up Nascar.
Winter made a return this weekend with some snow and wind with temps only reaching the low 20’s. What a roller coaster we continue to be on this winter. The lake was looking mean and nasty with white caps, snow blowing and coming down sideways at times. I’m over it and ready for warm temps and pontoon season to start.
Till next time...RWM
