We haven’t posted in a few days now, but we have been busier than normal lately, and this is from our business slowing down some. So how does that work? We’ve slowed down workwise, yet we’ve been busier than usual??
This is simply because we utilize down time by performing preventive maintenance on our equipment. For those that don’t know already, we’re in the paving business. In the housing crash of 08, we didn’t work for nearly two years…no exaggeration.
We weathered that go round, and we hope we don’t see that again! The last year and a half though, we’ve held our own.
BUT, from the very initial slowdown, this is when Deb and I realized our need to “simplify” our lives some. Back to growing gardens, and producing enough food from our place to be more self-sufficient in our lives. We went back to canning, food savering, and freezing more vegetables, meats, stews, etc.
We installed the old style hand-pitcher pumps for water if we had a power outage. We picked up some cows, and we’ve built a chicken coop, but as of yet, we haven’t built their run, so the bottom line in regards to our chickens is…we ain’t got none yet!! LOL!
But these are but some of the things we did to insure our family eating if our economy got worse. In these times, in our opinion, it surely doesn’t hurt to put a little back.
Once more, the worst case scenario is, the economy grows and thrives again, which we ALL hope it does, then you eat the food you put back anyway. It simply is…an investment in an uncertain economic future.
Well, returning to the subject of preventive maintenance for just a few more minutes, we just tore down one of our sealcoat tanks to replace the bearings on the agitator shaft. The front bearing went out and this allowed a waste of sealcoat, as when we agitated our mix, some leaked around the shaft. So what we did was to replace both the front and rear bearings on the shaft.
Although the front seal was bad, we replaced both while we had the tank tore down. We have to take our main motor and air supply tank off. Even though this is quite a job, this is the first time we’ve had to replace the bearings. You can’t moan or groan too much over this because we’ve had this particular tank since…1995!
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‘Ridin Out The Recession With Dub and Deb in “Miz Judi’s Kitchen’!
Note to Readers: There are a few things that Dub doesn’t know but one thing he does know is that the word ‘Riding’ (as in Riding Out the Recession) is spelled with a ‘g’ at the end. But Dub not only walks the walk, but speaks like he is: down home, true blue, and plain speakin’ country folk.
Dub and Deb are both native Floridians, live in Central Florida, and run a small business as well. They have five children, and seven grandchildren.
Both love to cook, love to laugh, grow a garden, and generally try to “aggravate” most anyone around them basically…all in good fun, of course!
