Good morning!!!!

[LouNY]

too bad Buppies your heat pump doesn't have dial in diagnostics.
We could put Popgadget and Kyle on it, and have you fixed right away.

Ted, putting a fireplace in a residence in this area has now become more complicated.
Humorous when you think that 200 years ago the local residents needed fireplaces or they would
have froze to death.
If I owned this cottage, I would immediately put a woodstove in the living room, which is the coldest room.
Currently at 64 degrees in there, on a cold day for sure, when thermostat says 71 in kitchen. If I want it warmer in
there have to turn on electric fake fireplace, which looks just like a wood stove. After several hours that might get the room up to
70, if I had company. Which I usually don't, and my flowers sitting in the sunny window seem to like that temp just fine.

It's the radiant heat feeling, the sit by a campfire feeling,
what I feel is a more natural heat.
Not more efficient, tech has surpassed it,
but just a different feel.
I think it's pure cave man genes.
We want to face the warmth,
warmth kept us alive
boy they sure had bad hvac back then...

Scootr, great idea, will get my wizened old lady neighbor across the street to ride with us,
she can be moaning I'm out of oil, I'm out of oil (she would be up to it also)

Drew do you really think you need to go back 200 years. That would only be in 1820's. Many places didn't get electricity till well after the 1920's and actually into the 50's in some rural areas even in the northeast. When I was out in Idaho some of the more isolated areas didn't have commercial electricity in the late 1980's.

When we stop and think many of our modern conveniences where not common in many places. My mother and father were born in the 1920's and 30's and they were in or close to their teens when commercial electricity came to many in this area. Without electricity most people didn't have indoor plumbing, most of the heating was kitchen stoves, room heaters (wood or coal) or large furnaces in dirt floored basements with a single large grate in the first floor and maybe a small one to the second story.
I'm only 72 but remember taking a "bath" in the kitchen laundry tub. We did have an inside toilet located in a "water closet", there was also an out house in the back yard. It was nice to move to the new house in the 60's.

 

[mostly_gas]

good morning all. At least it was morning when I started . 15ºF for the start, clear sky light breeze. no men's meeting this morning for obvious reason. Did get coffee made, insert ash cleaned out and restarted. The cold weather is abating, will ride inside today and plan to ride outside tomorrow. Have more estate work to, and have some Fidelity work to do. Apparently I missed what drove Ron off, hope he comes back soon
Monday morning 5:36 AM CST post:
Mike not much melting at those temps, sounds like you didn't get much snow. Glad you had a good time with family. Sorry about all the paperwork. I promise not to blow a fuse
Bill sounds like they over trained you enjoy your seat time. I am plenty warm, insert does a nice job
Buppies sorry to hear no better this morning. prayers sent.
Kilroy the contentiousness comes in with how we respond.
Don glad all utilities cranking at your house. Hope I never see a repeat of the '09 ice start across the MO/AR boarder. I wonder how much power generation ERCOT has in reserve.
Thomas hope snow control went well.
Thomas sorry asked my question poorly.I was wondering why after hours of parts store work, you would want to do more work? My naps and rides keep getting interrupted
Dennis hope you get your meds before the roads get slick.
Plowhog is that your head of security?
Chris I doubt Kyle has enough time to rot his brain on TV.
Scotty glad temps are more normal, sounds like you will be enjoying them.
Ken glad basement work is moving forward, and HD to the rescue on cutting
RNG someone will be getting good deal more info with the north house than I got with mine. Hope packing went well.
Lou nice pic and no unusual weather, enjoy!
Chris is it a bad thing to not get into trouble?
Drew whish I could say I had never done that Hope flagpole went well.
Drew hope noting serious.
Scott(vt) started wearing glasses in 8th grade, put a serious cramp in my learning to fly in the military. Really depends on what is causing the floaters.
Drew most Christian sects are very clear about right and wrong. There are simply too many people think the rules don't apply to them
David glad your Sunday was good, hope you got your state taxes fileddd and more diesel in your cans. Hope HH was good.
Ted sorry about the eye damage from an arc strike. Also sorry Dr doesn't listen better
Drew thanks for info from the Mayo.
Kyle sorry cough is taking so long to go. I use speaker to get both hads free. Fireplace needs constant attention.
David good suggestion for Kilroy
David sorry to hear others would falsely accuse you of anything.
More catch up later today.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /son's migraines, Bird /aging issues, Ron /heart, Billy /mom hypertension & congestive heart failure, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /cancer, parathyroid,blood sugar /wife healing, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /dad possible dementia, /chronic fatigue, Diet not working, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Mark /sister liver transplant and recovery, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, Lou /eye issues, /heart issues, /wife hip replacement, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's hip or leg pain, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /land development, /favorable winds not in the forecast there, Drew /back operation issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, Israel, Ukraine war, and Country.

 

[sodamo]

David,

Look into "You Need a Budget". YNAB.

An advisor friend recommended that to me, a long while back. I am though a re-dedicated .xlsx format user.

The website is ynab.com

Yup, DIL also referenced. Currently #3 on my shortlist.
My current, still to be explored thought are limitations and seems more manually intensive. Maybe OK for the kids, but not what I want for Sophie.
So far Copilot Money and Monarch are prime contenders. Look like they do everything in YNAB plus.

Find in interesting, but not surprising that so many of us use spreadsheets. One of my evaluation criteria is ability to import/export CSV files.

Going back to Visicalc days I just had a hard time getting my head around mixing Letters and Numbers in same file other than text, then it finally clicked. I even taught a few Lotus 123 classes back in my Army days.

Wish I knew of a method to auto import Bank data into my spreadsheets.

 

[kenmbz]

Visicalc, lotus 123, 20/20 gee that brings me back to the good old days of remembering which key combinations did what.......

 

[sodamo]

Lou, you are so right. 77 here, but can relate. I remember both grandparents having outhouses up until I was grammar school.
Maternal grandmothers we weren’t allowed to use the indoor toilet except nighttime or inclement weather. My paternal grandparents never had a full bath, toilet bowl only until sometime grandfathers passed a shower was added. All us grandkids had a bath or two in the long cast iron kitchen sink. Even my own parents rented a house when I was about 4 with an outhouse. One of those foggy childhood memories from that time was something of a serious overflow in the inside bathroom. Memory isn’t clear which fixture just parents were extremely upset for a few days and not being allowed to use.
Back in the oil crisis days, our house in Maine was hot air, oil fired heat. Became very expensive. I actually replaced the kitchen electric stove with old fashioned kitchen wood stove obtained from MIL’s shed. Cook and heat via wood in one appliance. Bank with coal for overnight.

 

[two_bit_score]

we can now build a 1,000 +/- sq ft 2nd residence for a $16,000 permit fee

That is a heck on an improvement from what you previously described but I have to agree with BEF that it's still sounds outrageous. Good luck on your building plans.

 

[riptides]

Wish I knew of a method to auto import Bank data into my spreadsheets.

Well...Excel macro or a free database program...MS Access....

 

[Thomas]

Back from grocery, gas and diesel trip. No fun pumping fuel in -1° and 20 mph winds. It’s done. Now drinking a hot cup of apple cider.

Now you Sassy can kick back town run done.

 

[kenmbz]

Excel can import directly from a bank of it is set up to do so on the bank side.
We used to do this with banks and stock data feeds many years ago.

Mostly replaced with APIs and direct web interfaces, which would be difficult for the common person like me to utilize.

 

[Thomas]

I can drive it just no CDL

Like when we were tadpoles...tractors farm trucks etc. hauling down the road.