Thomas
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Thomas
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Buppies
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61 this morning pleasant high of 90, 96 tomorrow way too much heat. Power bill is rising.
Sorry about sore mouth Drew
Did not sleep well oh well
Prayers for all silent or spoken out Country
Sorry about sore mouth Drew
Did not sleep well oh well
Prayers for all silent or spoken out Country
Popgadget
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Good Morning
62° with a high of 85 expected today under clear skies.
Yesterday, I managed to get the mowing done with the Lazer, get the radiant heat manifolds pressure tested, mount the boiler on the wall, get all the meat out of the smoker, shred the pork shoulders and pack it up. Still didn’t get to the little plane, that might have to wait until the plumbing is done in the old folks home.
This morning a plumber buddy is coming by to help with the vent lines and other rough in chores. I can only work until noon, then I’ve got to get cleaned up to go do a trip to Martha’s Vineyard.
Sounds like Drew is going to stop by this morning, he can inspect my progress when he drops off some cucumbers. Fair chance he will leave with some pulled pork as well.
62° with a high of 85 expected today under clear skies.
Yesterday, I managed to get the mowing done with the Lazer, get the radiant heat manifolds pressure tested, mount the boiler on the wall, get all the meat out of the smoker, shred the pork shoulders and pack it up. Still didn’t get to the little plane, that might have to wait until the plumbing is done in the old folks home.
This morning a plumber buddy is coming by to help with the vent lines and other rough in chores. I can only work until noon, then I’ve got to get cleaned up to go do a trip to Martha’s Vineyard.
Sounds like Drew is going to stop by this morning, he can inspect my progress when he drops off some cucumbers. Fair chance he will leave with some pulled pork as well.
buckeyefarmer
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The bucks come out at night
scott_vt
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Good Morning,
Vt, 58 to start going to low 80’s. Partly sunny with some clouds !
We have both our sons and families coming tonite I believe, so we have a bunch of stuff to get done before they get here ! Shopping being one of those things.
Yesterday I cleaned up the fenced area around our blue berry bushes and also took down a small maple over on the north border of the property for fire wood. That needs to be bucked up and loaded into the ATV and dumped behind the barn for splitting ! Grandsons may help out with loading the ATV with what I split and restack in the woodshed.
Also need to mow the lawn again and possibly set up the kiddie pool so the grands can splash around when it gets hot !
Paul, safe trip to Martha’s Vineyard! Very impressive plumbing project and am curious about how you went about sizing the boiler. I’m guessing by amount of sq ft area your heating and your zip code ! Also curious on the venting , I know on my Rinnai heater in my family room I vented it right through the wall ! They supplied a template with the unit for proper hole location for the vent ! How many BTU’s is your unit ?
Well better get moving here, and Drew I hope you enjoy your pulled pork and Paul enjoys his cukes!
Hope all have a pleasant day !
Vt, 58 to start going to low 80’s. Partly sunny with some clouds !
We have both our sons and families coming tonite I believe, so we have a bunch of stuff to get done before they get here ! Shopping being one of those things.
Yesterday I cleaned up the fenced area around our blue berry bushes and also took down a small maple over on the north border of the property for fire wood. That needs to be bucked up and loaded into the ATV and dumped behind the barn for splitting ! Grandsons may help out with loading the ATV with what I split and restack in the woodshed.
Also need to mow the lawn again and possibly set up the kiddie pool so the grands can splash around when it gets hot !
Paul, safe trip to Martha’s Vineyard! Very impressive plumbing project and am curious about how you went about sizing the boiler. I’m guessing by amount of sq ft area your heating and your zip code ! Also curious on the venting , I know on my Rinnai heater in my family room I vented it right through the wall ! They supplied a template with the unit for proper hole location for the vent ! How many BTU’s is your unit ?
Well better get moving here, and Drew I hope you enjoy your pulled pork and Paul enjoys his cukes!
Hope all have a pleasant day !
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Good Morning!!!! 89F @ 4:15AM. Sunny. Hot. High 111F. Winds NW at 10 to 15 mph.
That router sled looks like a huge improvement over just a belt sander, Ken. Can you just flip the bench over and use the other side to hide the mistake?
The real estate listings for the new house showed an American flag flying out front, but the sellers took it with them, Don. In spite of requiring them, in the contract, to leave everything as pictured. Doesn't look like I'll be there for the 4th anyway.
There were two letters from State Farm waiting for me in the mail box when I got home yesterday, Drew. I haven't opened them yet.
Finally some light at the end of the tunnel, David?
Got away from Orcutt at 7:15AM yesterday, and noted that the north bound lanes of I5 were closed due to a jack knifed big rig. Took me a couple hours to get that far, but instead of checking traffic I made a big mistake and decided to just wait out the detour. Google maps reported a fifteen minute delay, but it took over two hours! CalTrans had traffic backed up for miles on the freeway, then the detour had road construction and more delays. What a mess. I almost missed my checkin time at U-Haul, which would have cost me another $75. Only one guy behind the counter and it took another half hour standing around watching other employees wander aimlessly around doing lord knows what. It was well over 100F outside and stifling inside the building as well. Needed a PVC union for a plumbing job so stopped in at HD, only to find the box for the 1" size stuffed full of 1 1/4" unions. That was enough to cause me to just abandon my shopping cart and leave, since I wasn't really sure of the size I needed anyway.
I was also more than a little concerned about the Thompson Fire that started just north of Oroville, CA at about 11AM. I passed under the huge smoke plume on my way to Chico, and there were lots of evacuation notices being posted. I was worried I wouldn't be able to get home, but winds were pushing the fire east instead of north. Hit a grocery store for milk and fresh fruit and got the heck out of town. No problems with road closures, and no smoke in the air at the house, either, but the plume was taking up a lot of sky to the south. The fire had grown past 3000 acres, and was threatening parts of Oroville's residential neighborhoods. I was starting to panic when I found a Facebook post to a live stream being put on by a fire analyst covering the fire. His take was that the winds would shift and start blowing south overnight, good news for me but not for people living in Oroville. I was amazed by the number of online resources this guy had access to, and very grateful he was sharing his expertise.
That news was good, but I was still pretty nervous. Enough that I got the 7x16 box trailer hitched up to the Promaster van and backed it up to the garage. Loaded the one motorcycle I still have here along with anything of value that couldn't easily be replaced. A few years ago I watched as the Dixie Fire ran over 26 miles overnight, and with nothing much left in the house, there was no sense sticking around to try to save the house if the wind changed direction.
By then it was starting to get dark, so I took another look south and this is what I saw:
The fire is less than ten miles away, and the shot was made at 3X, but I didn't expect to see the fire cloud from the back porch! In spite of the expert assurances, I didn't get much sleep last night, but this morning the glow is gone. No new reports since midnight on Watch Duty, but according to reports fire fighting resources are coming in from all over the state, including three VLAT airplanes.
So yesterday was pretty messed up, and today looks to be more of the same. I was gonna get some work done on the house, but instead I think I'll reorganize the stuff in the van and trailer to make more room and just get everything in the house and garage loaded so the house will be truly empty. Then tomorrow head south and get out of this heat and away from the fire.
Happy Hump Day, folks!
That router sled looks like a huge improvement over just a belt sander, Ken. Can you just flip the bench over and use the other side to hide the mistake?
The real estate listings for the new house showed an American flag flying out front, but the sellers took it with them, Don. In spite of requiring them, in the contract, to leave everything as pictured. Doesn't look like I'll be there for the 4th anyway.
There were two letters from State Farm waiting for me in the mail box when I got home yesterday, Drew. I haven't opened them yet.
Finally some light at the end of the tunnel, David?
Got away from Orcutt at 7:15AM yesterday, and noted that the north bound lanes of I5 were closed due to a jack knifed big rig. Took me a couple hours to get that far, but instead of checking traffic I made a big mistake and decided to just wait out the detour. Google maps reported a fifteen minute delay, but it took over two hours! CalTrans had traffic backed up for miles on the freeway, then the detour had road construction and more delays. What a mess. I almost missed my checkin time at U-Haul, which would have cost me another $75. Only one guy behind the counter and it took another half hour standing around watching other employees wander aimlessly around doing lord knows what. It was well over 100F outside and stifling inside the building as well. Needed a PVC union for a plumbing job so stopped in at HD, only to find the box for the 1" size stuffed full of 1 1/4" unions. That was enough to cause me to just abandon my shopping cart and leave, since I wasn't really sure of the size I needed anyway.
I was also more than a little concerned about the Thompson Fire that started just north of Oroville, CA at about 11AM. I passed under the huge smoke plume on my way to Chico, and there were lots of evacuation notices being posted. I was worried I wouldn't be able to get home, but winds were pushing the fire east instead of north. Hit a grocery store for milk and fresh fruit and got the heck out of town. No problems with road closures, and no smoke in the air at the house, either, but the plume was taking up a lot of sky to the south. The fire had grown past 3000 acres, and was threatening parts of Oroville's residential neighborhoods. I was starting to panic when I found a Facebook post to a live stream being put on by a fire analyst covering the fire. His take was that the winds would shift and start blowing south overnight, good news for me but not for people living in Oroville. I was amazed by the number of online resources this guy had access to, and very grateful he was sharing his expertise.
That news was good, but I was still pretty nervous. Enough that I got the 7x16 box trailer hitched up to the Promaster van and backed it up to the garage. Loaded the one motorcycle I still have here along with anything of value that couldn't easily be replaced. A few years ago I watched as the Dixie Fire ran over 26 miles overnight, and with nothing much left in the house, there was no sense sticking around to try to save the house if the wind changed direction.
By then it was starting to get dark, so I took another look south and this is what I saw:
The fire is less than ten miles away, and the shot was made at 3X, but I didn't expect to see the fire cloud from the back porch! In spite of the expert assurances, I didn't get much sleep last night, but this morning the glow is gone. No new reports since midnight on Watch Duty, but according to reports fire fighting resources are coming in from all over the state, including three VLAT airplanes.
So yesterday was pretty messed up, and today looks to be more of the same. I was gonna get some work done on the house, but instead I think I'll reorganize the stuff in the van and trailer to make more room and just get everything in the house and garage loaded so the house will be truly empty. Then tomorrow head south and get out of this heat and away from the fire.
Happy Hump Day, folks!
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Good morning, the low is 64 and going to a high of 70°F. Wind SE 12 gusting to 19 mph. Showers.
There is talk of showers all week. There goes my town run out the window. I wouldn't think twice about it IF I could use the Dodge.
I have three roofs to put on the three Shelter Logic portable SUV shelters, but no today. Too windy.
Still have the hut for the hose reel/fire extinguisher to make. Also still have the rear light to mount on the tractor. That might be a good thing to do today as I don't need a ladder for it. I can stand on the platform for the BH.
Maybe I won't do anything today. Dunno.
Drew, I think you are coming out on top of that deal.
Have a safe day all
There is talk of showers all week. There goes my town run out the window. I wouldn't think twice about it IF I could use the Dodge.
I have three roofs to put on the three Shelter Logic portable SUV shelters, but no today. Too windy.
Still have the hut for the hose reel/fire extinguisher to make. Also still have the rear light to mount on the tractor. That might be a good thing to do today as I don't need a ladder for it. I can stand on the platform for the BH.
Maybe I won't do anything today. Dunno.
Drew, I think you are coming out on top of that deal.
Have a safe day all
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No good-- is that how puppyhood works? Endless energy always at the edge of trouble?
Keep those pictures of food coming-- looks enticing!
We have some unusual flowers that bloom every year. Large prominent orange blooms. Rigby inspected them, then chomped down on one, tore it off the bloom, and ran away. Puppies lol.
Today is the "cool" day at 97F. Pretty soon it is solid 100F+, going to 105F. Yikes.
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Good morning! Here is my new made in America Annin Flag ready to go for the fourth tomorrow.
78˚F heading to the upper 90s. The heat advisories have stopped, I guess there would be a continuous advisory and people would ignore it so they are starting to save them for the extreme days. No rain in sight. Got one new lock installed yesterday but was having trouble with the other two removing the old locks. I have a locksmith coming out today to figure it out before I mess it up too bad. I know my limitations.
RNG how much longer before you are ready to list your property or are you going to "Sell by owner".
It sure is a relief to have only one property to look out for.
78˚F heading to the upper 90s. The heat advisories have stopped, I guess there would be a continuous advisory and people would ignore it so they are starting to save them for the extreme days. No rain in sight. Got one new lock installed yesterday but was having trouble with the other two removing the old locks. I have a locksmith coming out today to figure it out before I mess it up too bad. I know my limitations.
RNG how much longer before you are ready to list your property or are you going to "Sell by owner".
It sure is a relief to have only one property to look out for.
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