Good Morning!!!! 68F @ 4:30AM. Plenty of sunshine. High 97F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.
Only one chick, Ron? Hens around here seem to have three to six in their clutches. One's better than none, though. I don't go looking for these projects, but they don't seem to have any trouble finding me...:confused3:
Given the choice of chipping rust or shoveling muck, Eric, I think I'll stick to the rust. It sure likes to stick to me, as I wore a strong resemblance to Tin Man, before Dorothy oiled him, when I climbed out of the tank yesterday.:laughing: One thing is sure: We'll both be very happy when these projects are in the rear view mirror!
We need pics of your excavator, Mike, preferably with the arrow straight trenches you're surely going to dig with it.:thumbsup:
I've given some thought to some kind of curb along the driveway, Billy. Especially since the donor van has no brakes, not even an emergency brake. I spent a lot of time planning how to move both vans when the drive train was out of the other one, too. But I suspect the size of curb, or guard rail, needed to actually stop a vehicle if it ever got away would be beyond my DIY skills, so for now, caution is the word of the day. Besides, I still mow, moving up and down the hill, those driveway edges.
Bad news on the CV19 front here yesterday. Over 100 new cases were reported for over the weekend, bringing the total to over 500. Also one additional death, an eighty something with pre-existing conditions. The Governor has instituted a "Watch List" of counties that are experiencing rapid CV19 spread, which entails a long list of business closings and stricter rules for social distancing and mask wearing. This county is not on it yet, but if the current rate of spread continues, we soon will be.
Amazon's packaging procedures haven't been the best since the CV19 panic, Drew. If they do use packing, it's those blow up bags, and most of them pop in transit leaving whatever is in there to bounce around and break. I ordered a dozen cans of tomato puree a while back, and every can arrived dented. The 6' pry bar I ordered came with the end of the box busted out and re-taped, and paint worn off in several places. At least now with returns, you don't even need a box to put them in. Just take it to the UPS Store with a paper copy of the return instructions and they take it from there.
Beautiful orchids, David. I envy Sophie's green thumb! And thanks for the recipe; it looks perfect for the recycled rotisserie chicken meat from Costco, but I'll have to make do with a pineapple from the produce department.:laughing:
Hope you don't have to go too deep or too far to find that leak, Ken.
With temps hovering around the century mark lately, and humidity plunging to single digits, I've seen as much as seven degrees of difference between measured and "feels like" temperatures here. And the "Feels Like" is the lower of the two.
Looking forward to your RC restart, Ted.
Ospho was going to take too long to get here, Don, so I ended up with something "just like Ospho" called
Oxy-Gone. I just hope a gallon will be enough!
The solar power controller was flashing yesterday morning when I went out into the garage, complaining that the firmware versions differed between the two inverters, and it was shutting one of them off. Left messages for the contractor and didn't hear back, so I tried to apply an update. It seemed to take on one of them, but not the other. Still hadn't heard back from the contractor by the end of the day, so tried him again and got through. He'd passed the ball to the owner of the company, who did nothing. Finally heard from him, and he walked me through connecting the controller directly to the inverters to apply the update, which is not how it is supposed to work but is sometimes necessary. Starting to get the idea that even though this equipment has been in production for several years, all the bugs still haven't been worked out. I also learned during the call that I'd finally been given full administrative privileges for the online management tool, something I'd been asking for since the beginning. I used them this morning to create a daily email report of various error and warning conditions that I'll use as a heartbeat, especially while I'm traveling.
Walking around in the bottom of the tank yesterday told me that it's still structurally sound, but the metal is thin enough to flex under my weight. So whatever coating I end up with has to flex as well. That leaves me a little anxious about the various undercoating products out there, as most of them are quite stiff. Another google search turned up products from a farm and ranch oriented company that sells a
urethane based coating that is very flexible and weather proof. The recommend it for use on thin steel tanks. I plan to call them today and see what they have to say. I just hope it doesn't cost an arm and a leg; I need enough to cover 170 sq. ft.
