When did I lose control?

[Dftodd]

Yep, I remember over 12 years of lambs every spring, shearing, training, and fair sales in August every year.

One of my neighbors had kids that would show sheep in 4H.

Well he got this sheep that was stubborn... and they could not get it to do what they needed to do for showing.

So they got another lamb and started all over.

Now he's got this black sheep that's just freeloading now and was trying to figure out what to do with it.

So one night he slips it into the cow pasture across the street from him (he's on the south end, we live on the west side of the pasture) to play a joke on the guy who owns the cattle since they are good friends.

It also happened to be calving time, so there were about a dozen calves running around the pasture.

It took the cattle owner 3 weeks before he realized there was a sheep in with his cattle

On a side note, it took us 6 months living on our property before we realized there was a sheep over there

 

[jyoutz]

One of my neighbors had kids that would show sheep in 4H.

Well he got this sheep that was stubborn... and they could not get it to do what they needed to do for showing.

So they got another lamb and started all over.

Now he's got this black sheep that's just freeloading now and was trying to figure out what to do with it.

So one night he slips it into the cow pasture across the street from him (he's on the south end, we live on the west side of the pasture) to play a joke on the guy who owns the cattle since they are good friends.

It also happened to be calving time, so there were about a dozen calves running around the pasture.

It took the cattle owner 3 weeks before he realized there was a sheep in with his cattle

On a side note, it took us 6 months living on our property before we realized there was a sheep over there

We always had several lambs. But any that didn’t make the 4H auction when on the packer’s truck after the fair. I picked them up a few weeks later in cut up and frozen packages, ready for the freezer.

 

[MossRoad]

True, it could always be worse, but I know that is exactly what will happen in my future. Every step forward means another scheme for her to add more dogs to the herd, or something else. Now she is talking about getting Emus!!!

This isn't gonna help, but a cousin of mine had a couple Emus. He said they were fun and followed him around like dogs. But they'd steal stuff you were working on, like tools and such, so had to keep an eye on them. Overall, he always smiled when talking about them.

 

[MossRoad]

That reminds me of another money pit. The Akita Pool!!! They will drink out of it, and one of them will walk into it when it's shallow, but none of them are into swimming. Fortunately, I enjoy using it, and when the grandson is here, he loves it.

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Looks like a lot of loss of control there....

 

[5030]

15 cats (I don't like cats) and the Aussie Shepard that we have professionally groomed and washed every month. He grows hair faster than anything I've ever seen. Got him through Aussie Rescue. Spoiled rotten and sleeps on the bed between us every night.

 

[gsganzer]

That reminds me of another money pit. The Akita Pool!!! They will drink out of it, and one of them will walk into it when it's shallow, but none of them are into swimming. Fortunately, I enjoy using it, and when the grandson is here, he loves it.

I love having a simple wading pool. It's probably one of the most enjoyable things for me, on a summer evening after dinner. Mine is just a 6' galvanized trough, that I clad in cedar. But it's perfect for 2 of us to sit in and cool off. It also has a wood fired heater. It's a coil of 1.25" diameter stainless tubing that you build a fire in the center of the coils. Thermal siphon makes cool water enter the bottom and hot exit the top. I shielded it with some left over galvanized when I did the "proof of concept". I need to buy some 304 stainless and remake the shielding now that I know it works so well. I also have a festive colored welding umbrella that hangs over the pool.

 

[ponytug]

I love having a simple wading pool. It's probably one of the most enjoyable things for me, on a summer evening after dinner. Mine is just a 6' galvanized trough, that I clad in cedar. But it's perfect for 2 of us to sit in and cool off. It also has a wood fired heater. It's a coil of 1.25" diameter stainless tubing that you build a fire in the center of the coils. Thermal siphon makes cool water enter the bottom and hot exit the top. I shielded it with some left over galvanized when I did the "proof of concept". I need to buy some 304 stainless and remake the shielding now that I know it works so well. I also have a festive colored welding umbrella that hangs over the pool.
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That looks pretty sweet! How did you bend the 1.25" coils? That's not exactly small tubing in my book.

All the best, Peter

 

[gsganzer]

That looks pretty sweet! How did you bend the 1.25" coils? That's not exactly small tubing in my book.

All the best, Peter

I didn't do the bending. I bought it from a China outfit that makes them for the purpose, with multiple options. However, I did learn there are companies domestically that also do it. It's similar to this:
Wood Fired Coil Kit

I think mine was about 1/2 the cost and I could choose the end types. I chose 1 1/2" Male threaded ends and they screw directly into bulkhead fittings I put on the side of the pool.

 

[scootr]

...when you are trying to figure out how to tell your wife about another car you are buying and the insurance company sends the quote to her email

 

[Eagle1]

...when you are trying to figure out how to tell your wife about another car you are buying and the insurance company sends the quote to her email

I was taking one home from the dealer without telling the wife. Dealer left a message with my wife before I got home. She was out side waiting and not exactly calm. There was a thermonuclear reaction in her head....

 

[scootr]

My wife asked me to sell her mothers van after she passed. I obliged and gave her the time and date Carvan would pick it up. Just so happened she was home when we saw the big Carvana hauler coming down the road. Here they come I said. How are they going to fit it on there with that other car? She asked....Uhm a, they're not. That ones for me. Oops.

 

[scootr]

My wife asked me to sell her mothers van after she passed. I obliged and gave her the time and date Carvan would pick it up. Just so happened she was home when we saw the big Carvana hauler coming down the road. Here they come I said. How are they going to fit it on there with that other car? She asked....Uhm a, they're not. That ones for me. Oops.

The trick is to do it so often they lose interest. Now she just asks which one are you gonna sell?

 

[gsganzer]

I was on an overseas hunting trip and shot a couple animals that weren't on my wife's "pre-approved list". I called her and apologized and remember thinking to myself that she seemed to take the news/confession abnormally well.

When I got home, I learned she had bought herself a fancy new ring. Odd that it cost about the same price as the extra animals I hunted.

My biggest fear though, is that someday she sells all my stuff for what I told her I paid for it.

 

[ultrarunner]

I didn't do the bending. I bought it from a China outfit that makes them for the purpose, with multiple options. However, I did learn there are companies domestically that also do it. It's similar to this:
Wood Fired Coil Kit

I think mine was about 1/2 the cost and I could choose the end types. I chose 1 1/2" Male threaded ends and they screw directly into bulkhead fittings I put on the side of the pool.

Relatives have added coils to their living room wood fired tiled stoves to heat the bathroom radiator down the hall… it really does work with no pump… coil connected to radiator and back…

I picked up their mail for a week in January and the wife was dreading coming home to snow and a cold home after sun drenched beaches. They never vacation but she told her husband that just once she wanted to experience summer in January.

The house was… let’s say toasty and the wife was more than thrilled… husband went immediately outside to check the woodpile

I didn’t mean to create a domestic problem because after that day the husband kind of lost control of the inside temp because the wife now knew warmer was possible…

The size and quality of a man’s woodpile still means something in areas where most still heat with wood!

 

[JeepHead]

I love having a simple wading pool. It's probably one of the most enjoyable things for me, on a summer evening after dinner. Mine is just a 6' galvanized trough, that I clad in cedar. But it's perfect for 2 of us to sit in and cool off. It also has a wood fired heater. It's a coil of 1.25" diameter stainless tubing that you build a fire in the center of the coils. Thermal siphon makes cool water enter the bottom and hot exit the top. I shielded it with some left over galvanized when I did the "proof of concept". I need to buy some 304 stainless and remake the shielding now that I know it works so well. I also have a festive colored welding umbrella that hangs over the pool.
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I wonder if one of these would heat a 21x43 pool!?

 

[EddieWalker]

I dumped more money into the Akita Room. She wanted a lot of light over the bathtub, so I went with LED's in the ceiling, and then LED Track Lights on either side. I can add more Track Lights if she wants them, but for now, she says that we're good.

The ceiling is 8-foot-long Pine Tongue and Groove from Lowes. I stained it with Minwax English Chestnut, but I don't stir the can. There is a pink paste that settles to the bottom that is horrible. We love the color this way, but I have to throw the can away when it gets down to the pink paste. Since I'm doing this by myself, 8-foot lengths are all I can handle on the ladder.

I bought just enough to get the lights installed. I'll get more for next weekend, and then the following weekend. Maybe I'll even finish the ceiling this month?

The biggest issue with the Flying Pig Dog Bath is the ramp. It's too slippery for out dogs and they refuse to use it. We had to pick them up and put them in the tub. I found some stair tread pads at Lowes that worked perfectly. I didn't even cut them, I just installed them with some self-tapping screws and washers.

The dogs go right into it now. That was a huge improvement!!!!

 

[gsganzer]

I wonder if one of these would heat a 21x43 pool!?

Unfortunately, not big enough for that. I think you'd need a lot more BTU's and surface area.

 

[GSVette]

Boy, can I relate. We started competing our Labradors in APLA, AKC and HRC hunt tests around 12 years ago- I’m pretty sure if I ever calculated the per/pound cost of the ribbons, plates, etc crack would have been far cheaper!!!

 

[BravoXray]

Boy, can I relate. We started competing our Labradors in APLA, AKC and HRC hunt tests around 12 years ago- I’m pretty sure if I ever calculated the per/pound cost of the ribbons, plates, etc crack would have been far cheaper!!!

Dogs, horses, tractors, cars, boats, airplanes, tools, all ways to spend a lot of money you'll never get back. Pick you poison.

 

[masseyrider]

Dogs, horses, tractors, cars, boats, airplanes, tools, all ways to spend a lot of money you'll never get back. Pick you poison.

All trivial expenses.
Try and impress a woman.
Then spend at least half getting rid of her.
Both well worth it according to the little guy guiding your ship.