Now for the mundane home improvement stuff.

The new sofa-sleeper we picked up in Dubuque is wonderful and well worth the time, money, and effort expended to make it happen. As an extra benefit it has two pop out foot rests as well for the ol tired feet. Nice Flexsteel piece of furniture ... and not bad to sleep on as well!

I showed a picture of me installing the sensors onto the liquid tanks; well here is the rest of the story. Here I'm running the 60' of six conductor wire from the tanks to the main control panel over the front door of the Flying Scotsman.

And the panel where I had to cut a hole for the new readout and switch assembly ... was that the green wire or the red?

And the final product functioning perfectly. The old sensor outfit is at the top left of the panel and about as accurate as the fuel gauges in a Cessna ... not. The new panel is to the lower right and has a nice bright digital readout in percent of fluid in the respective tank ... really accurate.

After a long day's work rewiring things it's time to pause. This is for Richard and Wanda as their recipe bratwurst is boiling in the pot full of beer and corn on the cob next to it.

As per the requirement of the recipe one bottle of beer went into the pot and another into the chef ... makes for perfect sausage every time!