Spring!!!
It’s here! And as usual, I don’t quite feel ready. I’m very excited about the upcoming season and just hoping that I can keep up with whatever we decide to do. Our little guy is now 18 months old and is keeping us running all the time. I have to somehow teach him what’s a weed and what’s not and get him to work. The kid loves repetitive tasks. His focus tends to drift, but yours would too if the world was that new and interesting to you.
One thing I’m excited about this year is that the projects on tap for this year should get the infrastructure to a point where I’m going to stop worrying about things falling down. That’s not to say that things won’t fall down. They will. And that’s ok.
And now on to the 2nd meaning of spring. 
Late last fall, something went wrong with the throttle on my Allis Chalmers D17. A slight pull on the throttle bar on the steering column opened up the carb all the way and resulted in a red lined engine. NOT GOOD. Well, I stopped by the house of Sam, a fellow member of the Milton Grange, yesterday to look at his old D17 and he asked if I had the spring. Now…this is definitely not stock or even something that Allis Chalmers ever intended, but this little spring provides just enough resistance to keep things from getting out of hand.
My theory is that the fundamental design of the governor isn’t all that good and this compensates for that. Sam stated that the spring had been there as long as he could remember. Works for me! So SPRING!!!!