Working at Harley

The first week back with Harley-Davidson folks at Montana Harley-Davidson, Buell & Ducati went well in my view. I learned their computer system, the layout of the building and personally met most of the staff, except for a few of the technicians in the service department. I got some time to talk about the history of this dealership with a few individuals as well. With Sunday being the exception, I have been able to not spend any discretionary funds there. Sunday and Monday were my scheduled days off, so Sunday I drove out there to pick up a battery charging wiring harness for my Harley as I had the battery out and bench charging. The old trickle charger I had gave up a few years ago and the bike still had the old wiring on the battery for that charger. I plan on getting the Harley model but not yet. I decided to put a compatible charging harness on the battery when I reinstall it, which I did on Monday. The weather was also overcast with light snow, but the bike needed a good washing, and I did THAT on Monday in front of the garage. After washing it, I rolled it back inside to dry it off. I borrowed Geri’s bathroom heater to use out in the garage and that really helped.
I feel a bit bad about not winterizing the bike in October or November but I think it will be OK. All the oils need replacing as soon as I can and I did not top off the gas tanks like I should have. Hopefully there has been no rusting on the inside of them. I would like to do something with my aging leather saddlebags as they have wrinkled and folded somewhat with age. New ones will be pretty expensive and I have considered switching to a hard bag style. Guess we’ll see how the money plays out over the next few months. Geri and I have discussed selling the Heritage Softail and getting a Road Glide instead. There are several advantages to that issue including more power to carry the both of us and all the gear we want to take with us in these higher elevations. Smoother ride with the isolastic mounted drive train. Ability to attach tour pack for added carrying capacity, just to name a few.
Now that we both have new jobs, it probably will be some time before we can both get enough vacation accrual to actually take a nice long trip. There are a lot of day trip or even two day trip places around this area that we will take advantage of this summer.
Valentines Day is tomorrow, and because I was at the store on Sunday, I brought home my sweetheart a dozen long stemmed red roses for her table. It has been way too long since I bought her flowers, and used to do so in Wisconsin regularly. She really liked them. She is working on something special for me for Valentines Day as well in one of the back bedrooms. I will not peak and let the surprise do its thing! I made reservations for us for a play that is put on by the University of Montana on Wednesday evening, and that should be very nice for us. Gets us out of the house and a little more ‘culture’ to our Montana existence!