5 minute freewrite 2959 prompt the last date

This is my post for #freewriters 2959 prompt the last date hosted by @mariannewest

The last couple of days that we fished, my motor had a miss to it. I told my sister I hoped the patch I put under the water jacket 4 years ago was not leaking saltwater onto the sparkplugs. That is exactly what happened. My husband would not loosen the bolts, he said they break on him, so I loosened them, and he took them out.

The white is salt from water dripping out of the hole. It is a good thing Sunday was the last date we could fish until after Christmas.

I spent most of the day scraping the old gasket off and trying to get the hole clean enough to patch.

I filled the hole with JB Weld and will let it sit overnight. Tomorrow I will put another layer of JB Weld over it. My husband tried to order a new gasket online, and he said we could not get it until Dec 31. The place we got our parts from closed, but I wondered if a Marine store would have one. I called them, and they said they had it.

Tomorrow I have to clean the cover, and after the JB Weld dries for 24 hours, I can put it back together.
photos are mine