Car homework [status]
Jul. 10th, 2024 11:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterI am back in the low desert again for a while, not for any particular reason, but in part to work around the logistics of my hosts.
We drove back this morning with the horses in tow, because they are getting re-shoed soon here. That made for some interesting trailer driving experiences - apparently this trailer keeps on having issues with one wheel in particular, and our trip back was no different. We pre-emptively swapped on a spare, but 15 miles from our destination, the spare shredded flat and we had to put back on a tire that was known to be leaky, with lower pressure than ideal.
Thankfully, the practice tire swap meant we got the flat itself changed out pretty quickly, in the morning desert warmth of the Arizona Central Valley.
The horses were not amused.
It is pretty interesting to change a tire while a horse stamps impatiently above you.
Anyway, the whole thing led to the idea of doing a practice tire change on my car. In high school, the girls who took regular Physics all learned how to change a car tire during class. The AP Physics students didn't get to learn that particular lesson. I don't even know if I own a jack, and it sounds like it's good to know where to put the jack on your specific vehicle. Yeah.
And now I have to remember how to forage for groceries here. My main recollection is that different places specialize on different things, so it's impossible to get everything you want in just one simple trip.
My other main recollection is that it's better to go either early in the morning or later in the evening, because, well, heat.
So for now, to work.
We drove back this morning with the horses in tow, because they are getting re-shoed soon here. That made for some interesting trailer driving experiences - apparently this trailer keeps on having issues with one wheel in particular, and our trip back was no different. We pre-emptively swapped on a spare, but 15 miles from our destination, the spare shredded flat and we had to put back on a tire that was known to be leaky, with lower pressure than ideal.
Thankfully, the practice tire swap meant we got the flat itself changed out pretty quickly, in the morning desert warmth of the Arizona Central Valley.
The horses were not amused.
It is pretty interesting to change a tire while a horse stamps impatiently above you.
Anyway, the whole thing led to the idea of doing a practice tire change on my car. In high school, the girls who took regular Physics all learned how to change a car tire during class. The AP Physics students didn't get to learn that particular lesson. I don't even know if I own a jack, and it sounds like it's good to know where to put the jack on your specific vehicle. Yeah.
And now I have to remember how to forage for groceries here. My main recollection is that different places specialize on different things, so it's impossible to get everything you want in just one simple trip.
My other main recollection is that it's better to go either early in the morning or later in the evening, because, well, heat.
So for now, to work.
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Date: 2024-07-11 04:03 am (UTC)