Which is desirable for a couple of reasons: 1) the next house renovation includes putting a new roof on the garage, and 2) I’m giving (or lending–we need to talk about that) the trailer to my niece and family and so it needs to be operational. Getting it that way can’t happen in the garage.
Step 1) Change a tire that has been flat literally for years.
Which turned out to be a much bigger deal than it should have. Located the car jack, but not the lug wrench. Ok, buy a new lug wrench. Doesn’t work. Return it, buy another one. Loosen lug nuts. Oops, need to move the trailer forward to get the last one. Move and chock it. Get all five off, including the stubborn one. Jack up trailer, remove flat, put on spare, get lug nuts on (including the stubborn one, which entailed some cussing), lower trailer. Feel accomplishment. Take picture.
Hmm. Tire looks a bit low. Dammit. Attach bicycle pump–tire pressure doesn’t even register. Damn again. Start pumping. What’s the needed PSI? 80. Damn again. Pump. Pump more. And yet more. Finally get it to 80. Too tired to feel accomplishment this time.
Step 2). Find hitch thingy and get it on car.
This one was fortuitously easy. The challenge was to find the thingy, which I’d run across while changing the tire. It did require lubrication to get it in, but no big deal.
The fruits of my labor:
Time to buy new levis.
Snags:
1) 
Note the hitch lock on trailer. It’s a good one. I’m not sure if I don’t have the key, or if the key that appeared to fit didn’t work because the lock had rusted internally. Trying to force the key just broke it. So now I’m trying to break the lock. Whacked it with my sledgehammer a good deal, enough to reveal about an eighth of an inch of the shaft. Tomorrow I shall see how the Dremel cutting discs fare against it.
2) Have noticed other locks for which I will need keys. What the heck did I do with them? As of now, I have no idea.
Still, progress.
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