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My post I just quoted from over a year ago....:eek::ROFLMAO: I saw dough again in the freezer! I still don't know if it is dough or meat pies! I really need to find that dough and make something with it! :ROFLMAO:

The images of Starship with people on it, or in it, really show how HUGE it is. Course, Musk wants this to carry 100 people at a time so it has to be big. The fleet that will invade Mars will be huge! 😁

I saw an image of people in India watching the landing. There was this little girl who had this look of amazement and happiness on her face. Simply precious. I wish photos had been taken of my third grade class as we watched one of the Apollo launches. I wonder what emotions we had on our...

We noticed a huge amount of advertisements the other night when we were streaming from Amazon Prime. We had not seen this before but we usually are watching Britbox over Amazon Prime. We should have been watching content from Britbox but maybe we did not. To say the advertisements were a PITA...

This past week I have seen quite a bit of flights around and over Fort Bragg. Looks like they are dong parachute drops on the landing zones on the west side of the base. Major state roads go through that part of the base and one can drive right next to the drop zones. I watched these two C17s...

Finally saw an F35 pop up on ADS-B today. It was only there for a short time and then disappeared. There are/were four Hunters in the screen shot along with the F35 and the DC10 tanker. After this screen shot, The tanker, F35, and most of the hunters disappeared but a couple of Kfirs showed...

Hmmmm. That is interesting. I know the US has a bunch Russian aircraft that we have been flying for decades. Some of the history on how the aircraft was aquired is kinda interesting. I figured the Russian drone was someone's joke, but maybe it is something that came down in Ukraine and is...

I have seen military aircraft fly over the house in a group, and sometimes they don't show up on ADS-B Exchange - track aircraft live, or only one of the group does. Often they do not show up at all on Live Flight Tracker - FlightAware.

The US being surprised by the Chinese balloon should not have been a surprise. One of the websites I read covered Chinese balloons years before the current incidents...

This morning, only saw the usual C130s and C17s thought I did see a CH53, I suspect another USMC copter, and an Osprey They usually have call signs that are CRSBO or some such. The interesting things was I saw a jet take off from Mrytle Beach, SC, which happens from time to time but this one...

No, we seem to have the same number of rabbits. There will be a bunch born, you will see a few of them, then fewer of them as they get bigger, until you see only one or two , or none. Then the cycle repeats. Tree rats seem to be fewer this year but maybe we will see more when the leaves are...

Glanced at the website this morning and saw a bunch of tankers up and about. The tankers with a Backy call sign almost always fly in pairs and close together. Usually much closer than what I captured. One of the C135s eventually flew near our house. I heard a jet, thought it did not sound...

I saw the stationary balloon again this week at Elizabeth City. It shows up as a copter. Watching of the last month or so I have noticed certain things. The military aircraft usually are up Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. One might see a few copters on other days. Maybe C130s. C17s...

Too funny. I just happened to glance at the ADS website, it is the middle of the week, so lots of military aircraft are up, but I saw this out west. In Western NC, that is... Blimp be going somewhere. 😁 Slowly at 42 knots. 😁

Here is the zeppelin I noticed this weekend. I think the Goodyear blimp was covering a golf game since the blimp was doing circles over a golf course.

I might have missed the suggestion, but if so, it bares repeating. Is there a farm or horse boarding group/organization that could help? They might have seen this situation before and have advice, and if not, the might be interesting in helping since this might happen to their members in the...

Saw this a couple of weeks ago. It appears to be over the USCG base at Elizabeth City, NC. I assume it was a tethered, surveillance blimp that was up for a few hours and it did not move. Odd that the website showed it as a copter. It just sat there for a few hours. This is a lead in to...

I don't think the plane "overlapping" issues I am seeing is from a sending delay. I have only seen it a few times and there were NO other aircraft around. I wonder if the planes are doing something that triggers a change in the icons? Either some flight characteristic or a change to the...

Yeah, I was doing some work back in July and it was hot and humid. I was wearing a bunch of protective clothing and gear that simply causes one to over heat. My heart rate, simply standing still, was 100-110 which was the body trying to cool off. When I started working, the heart rates was in...

Here is an Osprey in flight mode. What is interesting is that if you look really close, there appears to be another plane under the Osprey. I have noticed this a few times and I don't know if they are refueling or something else is happening. I saw the a C17 the other night that had a barely...

Last week I saw this Osprey Down East. It was circling and you can the icon changed to show it was in helicopter mode. When flying faster the icon changes so that the props are different. Just east of Havelock is the USMC air station at Cherry Point and the USMC Camp Lejeune is near...

Yeah, but the vibration of the chainsaw gave you like a gazzilion steps and active minutes! Which I think is valid given how much energy it takes to run a chain saw. I get 500-700 active minutes a week and I think the recommended amount is 150. Getting up and simply moving is better than...

AWACKs, tanker and Mirages up and about this afternoon. I would think there are USMC, USN, or USAF fighters our there but not showing up on the website.

Today I noticed quite a few Draakan owned planes, Hunters, Mirages and a Skyhawk. There was another plane "hidden" by the Skyhawk. Three tankers were up and I as well as AWACs. First time seeing AWACs. C17 flying around, always seems to be at least one C17 up and about. There was a C130 but...

In some jurisdictions, SWAT would show up and the cash seized since it is obviously from a criminal enterprise....

I have heard that but my eating times are allowing me to loose weight and maintain. I loose weight if I don't overeat on the weekend, or not as likely, during the week. The last week or two has been bad because a new grocery store opened up and it has a much better selection of food that...

Just a post about life. I have followed a couple via a boating website and their blog. They have spent a lifetime sailing and then spent five years building a very nice boat. The boat commissioning had some very unexpected surprises but the husband was able to deal with them all himself...

Another flight I have never seen before. Two F1 Dassault Mirages flown by Draken. Draken is a company that flies aggressor training aircraft. Kinston, where the Mirages took off, is close to Seymour Johnson AFB and which is just a short distance from Cherry Point Marines Air Station which is...

Years ago, we had a planned vacation and we had the car checked and new tires installed. Got about 1.5 hours into the trip and the low pressure light turn on. :eek: Happened to be in a small town so I pulled into a parking lot and checked the tires. All tire had the right pressure. We drove...

Really sorry to hear of your time line. :(

Just getting up and doing something is the hard part, AND not overdoing it. Just doing a little bit extra each day or two is enough. Or if one over does it, taking a break, or easing off a bit helps. Starting and doing a little bit is sooooo much better than doing nothing or doing too much...

Saw these two C17's flying circles in SC with call signs of Echo and Turtle. :D

In the UK people are having their bank accounts close because the bank does not like what the person has said or politics. I have not read how widespread this is but it just blew up when one of the banks for the rich closed the account of Farage who was a party leader pushing for Brexit. The...

Going to a bank or a police station is a good idea. However, even that is not a guarantee of safety. Just recently, an elderly American man walked out of the place he was staying in Dublin on a major street at 10:30pm. He was attacked and taken to the hospital with life changing injuries even...

The other night I saw a C2 Greyhound which carries people and cargo to/from carriers. Never seen one of them before. Last night I saw an Apache to our south and it appeared to be heading towards us. Sure enough it went a few hundred yards to the east of us. It was taking forever to get...

Yeah, that is what I saw. The pairs where flying so close that the plane icons were right on each other sometimes or just very close which is why I noticed them. No separation at all. I saw two C17's doing something similar the other night. They were doing tight turns over one spot for some...

To loose and maintain weight one must change one's lifestyle. The same is true for exercise. One has to changes one's lifestyle, and for both exercise and weight issues, one has to find what one will do/eat and continue to do/eat otherwise one slips back into old habits. It took awhile for me...

I think that is true for nukes but chemical weapons were disposed of due to international agreement and the weapons were so old continuing to store them was dangerous. The chemical weapons had to be safely disposed of, and in spite of all of the gloom and doomers, it was done without mass...

I had thought people were not supposed to visit Johnston without government permission so it is surprising they tried to sell the atoll. Not sure who would really want it. 😁 It is a place I would like to visit along with Midway, Wake, Iwo Jima and Palmyra islands/atolls.

Sounds like you and the wife are just burnt out. I really think that too many people, especially if one is in the environment of Due More With Less nonsense, are just burnt out due to the ever increasing workload. At some point, one can't do the work anymore, it is not sustainable...

Saw this 747 jet fly into Cherry Point, NC which is the USMC 2nd air wing's air station. You can see a C130 flying to the NE of Havelock, aka Cherry Point. The C130's I see often have the call sign of Otis. Back to the 747. The 747 flew from Estonia and the US president and other European...

We have family members who bought a plot many decades ago. They have died but their ashes are at a relative's house because they wanted their ashes handled differently than put in that plot they bought. Not sure the people holding the ashes will handle the ashes as requested due to health...

A family member died late last year and to handle the cremation, a handful of death certificates, and urn was around $3,500. Since COVID was listed on the death certificate part, or all, I can't remember how much, of the funeral cost was picked up by the US taxpayer/FEMA. Funny thing, is we...

Watching the Flight sites is addictive.... Last night was danged interesting and I saw soooo many things I had never seen before. I saw at least three C130's flying around. One started in SC and flew into NC. Another flew from east to west in NC and flew some circles. The third plane was...

How awful for the other people on that plane. People who force a landing of plane should get some serious jail time AND be fined financially to compensate the airline and passengers. These events are just too common and need to be punished. There was one Plane Rage incident recently, I think...

I think this is the new normal due to demographic shifts. There just are not enough people to do the work anymore. This was slowly happening prior to the pandemic but the pandemic simply increased the process. A couple of coworkers posted photos of robots at restaurants. Some of the robots...

We would do quite a bit of take out from Chilis, sometimes a couple of times a week. At work we would often go to Chilis too but that was many, many years ago. The food was really good and they got it on the table fast. :D

We had a family member in her 90's who would escape the house and wander around. On at least one occasion she was found sitting in the middle of the street. It was early in the morning, in a residential neighborhood, so there was little traffic but even then, she could easily have been run...

We used to eat at Chili's quite a bit before we moved. Never had a problem at the different restaurants we would visit. Have not been to a Chili's in years though simply because there is not one near where we live. Do miss it though because they had food we liked.

Having to be a caregiver for someone who is very ill is mentally and physically exhausting. Being a caregiver for someone who has dementia is far, far worse. I have seen too many caregivers just worn down to nothing. :( A very difficult responsibility.

Comparing the NL to the US is really not fair because the US is Galactic in size compared to the NL. Heck, even comparing NC to NL, which we were doing constantly during our trip is problematic. NC has 60% of the NL population but is around three times bigger so the population density is much...

The problem with riding a bike is where to ride. People ride on our rural roads which is a death wish as far as I am concerned. In the NL, they have side walks for people, roads for vehicles and paths for bikes. It really makes it easy and safe to ride a bike, and they do ride bikes over...

Could we live with out broadcast TV? yes, Yes we could. The only broadcast TV we watch is The Big Bang Theory starting at 19:00. After it ends we might watch The Andy Griffith Show or Star Trek. In years past, we might watching something on PBS but they have less and less programming of...

I think Duke Power waits for the trees to fall on the lines. I see too many trees that are overhanging the power lines, some dead, and the trees do not get removed. I have called about dead trees over hanging the road, an obvious danger to the public, and those have been removed. However, too...

Interesting that diesel is cheaper than gas in some places. I have not seen diesel cheaper than gas in years, if not a decade or so. Nor I have I seen it cheaper driving from NC to FL.

Places to go is a good way to put it. That is what I do and it helps most of the time. I seldom have trouble falling asleep, but sometimes I will wake up and have trouble falling back to sleep, which is when I have to use these techniques. For driving, I download pod casts to my phone to...

Have him think of something he enjoys doing, or wants to do, when he is trying to go to sleep. I also do simple math which helps focus the mind yet keeps the stress thoughts at bay. One also has to develop the ability to NOT think about the stressful stuff. Sometimes the stressful stuff will...

Heard a helicopter last night and used the ADS-B Exchange - track aircraft live link to see what was happening. Thought it was a medical flight but the link was not clear and I should have looked at the other website I have been using... I got side tracked because I could see two C130s, at...

I wish I had read this link a few days ago since it is showing military aircraft.... :D Yesterday, I heard a different sounding aircraft approaching the house. It was low and on an unusual heading. I ran outside to see the plane and it was a C-130 that was very low. Almost tree top height...

I follow two different boat forums, one is mostly US while the other has quite a bit of coverage overseas. There have been some reports of StarLink going after stationary dishes on boats but most people are still working without issues. One key limit seems to be speed. If one is going over 10...

The $2,500 and $250 a month sounds like the Maritime package which is for vessels moving across oceans. Interesting that the Maritime service is available now. Many people doing coastal boating are using the regular dish without issues. Some vessels crossing oceans are using the regular dish...

Get StarLink if you have an unobstructed view. A few months back they put a limited, I think it was 1TB of data per month, but that has been removed, and we never got near the limit even with all of our Internet use. Was just in a home in the NL that was getting 500-600 MBPS. Dang thing would...

You cannot run the AC off the solar panels since any reasonable number of panels will not have enough watts. One would have to use solar panels to charge batteries which could then run the air conditioning. The other problem is that solar panels produce DC power, and the air conditioning will...

Funny this thread popped up. We just returned from a trip to the Netherlands where I did quite a bit of walking, though I wanted to walk more, but the family held me back. :eek::D The "streets" we were walking on were all made with pavers, bricks or cobble stones. I would love to know how...

A week or so back we had not one but six Black Hawks in trail fly over us. We will usually see one, maybe two, Black Hawks or an Apache, but I think that was the first time we had seen that many at one time. Looked at the flight tracker and one of them was being shown with some wacky id...

A law enforcement copter flies by us almost every day, twice a day. It is flying the same route each time and I sure do not know why. Being happening for years. A year or so ago, I heard the copter heading our way, but then it just stayed in place so to speak. I looked at the flight...

Could be doing arial photograhs or scouting to place the next pallet in a field.... :unsure:😁

Yes, the Fitbit can count moving around in a chair or driving, but those will be minimal "steps" if one is trying to do 5,000 or more steps a day.

I can't comment about the phone but I have tested the Fibit and it is accurate. We do step challenges at work where many, many people post their steps each day for a month or two. Some people will have very high step counts and I question the number. One guy admitted he was using a GPS based...

Years ago I got a Fitbit and started walking 5,000 steps a day. Then I decided I would try to do 10,000 but it took some thinking on HOW to get that many steps which was actually really simple. I had always parked a distance from the building so that helped the step count, but to get more...

Since the Mystery Metal is not silver, there is only one other possible answer... The Mystery Metal is obviously of Alien origin, and the Alien Mystery Metal, is used as a marker, known as the AMMM(Alien Mystery Metal Marker) in the trade. The AMMM(Alien Mystery Metal Marker) is placed in...

Once upon a time, I knew of a poodle that went blind. The owner could, and did, take the dog to work, I think he would freak out if left alone. Anyway, he adapted to being blind. He knew his way around the office, he could find his way outside to go to the bathroom and he knew where to go...

Him playing, eating, drinking, pooping and peeing are keys. As long as that is happening, He Be good. (y) As the time got closer, our dogs have slowly stopped playing, eating would decline, as would drinking. If the dog stops peeing and pooping it is getting to the point where You Will Know...

Seems like you need more information before you can make decisions about surgery. One needs to know the odds of a successful operation and how long the dog will have after the procedure. The Vet may not want to give an answer, and nobody knows for certain, but the information is there. If the...

I THINK they have tested fish but not the turtles. People who spend quite a bit of time on the range have been tested, some of them have eaten fish from the pond, and the tests have been fine. If there is no lead in the water, there would be no lead in the turtles and fish. The lead would...

I know of a range that has been in use for decades and a few years ago the impact area was "mined" for lead. The range made a good amount of money from the metal that was recovered. Rain on the range flows into a retention pond that is full of fish and turtles. The water is tested on a...

Yeah, the plastic gets brittle and breaks easily, even if one is careful. :(

Nissan has an Titan XD that has more capacity than the Titan. The XD is a bigger vehicle and the frame is different. I don't need a F350, or a F250, anymore so a regular truck works. I feel for anyone that needs a F250/F350 size truck due to the current prices.

My F350 7.3L diesel is almost 23 years old and close to 300K miles. Things are starting to wear out and I have been looking at buying a new truck because I have been having to drive some long distances for family reasons and I don't really trust the truck at this point. No real reason for lack...

Some agencies CANNOT do anything about the dirt bikes and ATVs running on streets because policy forbids chasing these vehicles. Once upon a time, we were driving through some city, I think we were in TN for some reason, and saw a single patrol car turn on the blue lights on an outlaw...

Quite a few years ago now, a land owner in a near by county was having problems with ATVs and dirt bikes running down his road/trail, so he put up a cable across the road. Some riders came down the trail/road in low light and got killed. Sheriff did not prosecute. Have not idea if there was a...

I think my procrastination has worked to my benefit. Again. 😁 Our Starlink is installed temporarily. Been temporarily for two years now. :ROFLMAO: When we got Starlink, the eave adapter was not available, so I made a base from scrap 2x4s, which sits on a low slope roof. Finally got...

I saw on the StarLink up that there was an outage but did not realize it was global until I saw the post on this thread. VERY good to know they are pointing the satellites east over the ocean. I was really wondering about the new orientation and was thinking about rebooting the dish again to...

We lost Starlink around 8:30 last night. I think that is the third outage in two years which is nothing compared to the number of outages we had with the cell based network or DSL. It was raining but not enough to cause a problem with the signal. I powered the dish off and on which did not...

I have seen some large solar installations in my area and state and they are ugly. No argument there. One in my county is along a busy rural road that is slowly sprouting subdivisions. The land is not great for farming and once tobacco went away was pretty useless though they would try to...

Before our house was built, the tractor and equipment was kept on the property. I hid everything in the woods but anyone trespassing could luck out and find the tractor and implements. I bought a long piece of transport chain and would lock the tractor to a tree. Figure it would not stop...

Yep, it is EK212 from Houston to Dubai. I have been stalking, errr, ah, following, them for the last week or so, if I remember to look at the website in time. The flight is seldom on the same path. I have seen it fly over NC at least three times, one night if flew through western TN and KY...

Flying now a days is too stressful, too much work, too costly, too painful, etc. The big problem is the airlines, like soooo many companies now a days are squeezing to save/make a very little percentage. They don't give a rats behind at the cost to their employees, much less, the Customer...

I did not get the flight number, but from what I read, the airline does a flight from Dubai to Texas in the morning and then returns at night. Which makes sense. I will try to "see" the plane again, if I can remember. 😁 Though it is really only interesting if it is the A380. The only...

I "looked" fo the A380 out of Texas last night but I was a bit late and did not see it though I looked all over the eastern seaboard. Saw some 747 cargo planes but did not see the A380. Had to look it up and these seem to be daily flight to/from Texas and Dubai. Sometimes they use a 777 and...

Once upon a time, I was driving up the Florida Turnpike and four A-10's were "attacking" a Cypress Head which is a stand of trees in the water. They A-10s would stack up, dive one by one to "attack" the Cypress Head, pull up and repeat. They were flying pretty low and it was fun to watch. The...

last year, Toyota tried to make remote start capability a subscription and they caught heck for it, as they should. I don't really know the full story since I just started looking at the technology in these new vehicles but my understanding is that Toyota would require a subscription after an...

We are having to look at "new" cars because my truck is 22 years old and the wife's SUV is getting up there as well. Looking at all of the new technology in the vehicles is both a good thing and a horror show. Can't imagine how hard and expensive it is going to be to fix these systems when...

Got lucky last night to remember that A380 flight, looked for the plane going from Texas to Dubai, and found it. The plane was about 50 miles away from me, and I had to enlarge the view I normally use to see the A380, but there she was at 33,000 feet and going faster than planned.

Yep, it flew over NC. Looks like they fly out once day or at least very frequently. I am pretty sure I heard the same plane a day or two prior but I have not heard it or seen it on Flight Aware before. My guess is they were flying a bit to the south due to the low pressure system? Though...

Late last night I was reading on my tablet and heard a very loud jet pass over head. Looked at the Flight Aware and it was an Airbus 380 from Texas heading to Dubai. I think I heard it the night before but Flight Aware did not show anything. I don't know WHY I heard the plane since it was two...

Many/Most professional stock pickers have a miserable record at picking stocks. Flip a coin success rate. The safest way to invest in the market is in a low cost index fund and don't panic WHEN the fund falls in price. You still own the same amount of stock even though the price has fallen...

I don't play games so I can't comment about it with Starlink, but I work too many hours a day, including too many video conferences, and I have not had a problem with Starlink. No problem with streaming video either, unless there is VERY HEAVY rain, which has not happened since last spring. Did...

I have never gotten consistent up or download speeds with Starlink or the cell phone Internet providers. The numbers are all over the place. I don't really see a difference in the network when in actual use. With CenturyStink, the numbers were pretty consistent, SLOW. When you only have...

I suspect the wall works for poisonous snakes. As a kid I spent quite a bit of time looking at the snake enclosure at Gator Land. The enclosure was a wall, I think made from stucco and cinder blocks, maybe 3 feet tall. I remember having to use the steps they had to see over the wall. 😁...

Getting close to two decades ago, I saw the first coyote on our place. It was pretty big and not scrawny at all. The coyote was running down the driveway just after sunrise, like the fox(es) would do, but I scared the coyote and never saw it again. That coyote had to have wolf or big dog DNA...

The Pandemic just hastened the current work/employment environment. The number of workers vs retiree demographic has been changing for years but the shock of the Pandemic caused people to look at their lives, what they were doing vs what they wanted to do, and how they were being treated at...

One of the local stations is playing Carson's Tonight Show reruns. They appear to be running in order they ran back in the 80's. The TV show is a history class in some ways. Things that were said, the jokes, etc., just would not get passed the PC police, especially when Richard Pryor was on...

Got the notice this morning. Not happy about it but there are really no alternatives. We have not seen any performance issues. When we were using a cell based Internet, one could see performance issues in the evening, and Starlink is now at the price we were paying for that cell service but...

When we built the house we colored the slab, which is our finished floor. Instead of troweling the color into the slab, the color was just tossed into the concrete truck at the plant. By the time the truck got to the house site, the color was well mixed into the concrete. It turned out well.

I guess all of those nice, wood console TVs, just got trashed. We had one, I think it was black and white, and during one of our moves it got left behind. Not sure what my parents did with it but we got a color TV on a rickety old TV stand. I think our TV stand, and maybe my grandmother's was...

I can remember when the drug stores and Radio Shack had a tube tester and sold replacement tubes.... Well, the drug stores are still here, but no tube tester and Radio Shack is long gone. The person who created the Radio Shack set on Young Sheldon did an excellent job. The set looks like the...

I have heard of people using butter or honey. Pretty sure I had some coffee with honey but I should try the butter one day.

Years ago my expensive coffee maker died. It was up there in years but I was still surprised it died. I started looking at new coffee makers, and they were really more money than I wanted to spend, or the reviews were not good.... It then hit me, WHY am I buying a machine to make coffee? The...

That sounds like a great company to support. I don't think I mentioned this earlier in this discussion, but a few months ago I read an article about car prices which was discussing the StealerShips charging huge sums over the MSRP. One family owned dealership was NOT charging over the MSRP...

We belong to a two different credit unions but did our land and house building loans with a bank. The CU would not loan money for the size of land we bought so I used a bank where I knew a loan officer. Stayed with that bank for years, even though we had a doozy of a problem with a house...

Just going to start with RSKY's comment. After seeing large organizations vs small, local organizations, working in disasters, the smaller, local groups are far superior. The Baptists have a disaster organization that was amazing. The Mennonites were also awesome but I don't know if they took...

<sigh> Something else added to my To Watch List. :ROFLMAO: One of the sailing video channels we watch spent some time in Namibia, as well as, South Africa. Namibia was stunning. Never thought of a desert coastline would be some place to visit and see. Just amazing. I am old enough to...

I think the ticks are back in such large numbers because what was once farm fields, has reverted back to forest, which has allowed the animal population to rebound, from mice to deer, all of which the ticks go after. Some areas have controlled burns which is the only thing I can think of that...

Around us, the coyotes seem to be keeping the deer heard down. We used to see 7-9 deer but now we see half that number in the herd around the house. I stepped outside a few weeks back and heard three distinct groups of coyotes howling/yelping at each other. Early in the summer, I saw two...

In my area of NC there are geese that never migrate. They have found a safe place to stay and they do not leave. They infest the work campus, poop over everything and can be quite aggressive. A coworker saw a goose flying after a guy on a motorcycle in the parking lot. :eek: I have had them...

Take a look at LiFePo batteries, chargers and inverters from Victron and Mastervolt. They sell systems that are used by boats, RV and homes to supply power. Some people are building there own LiFePo batteries but I that is not for me. 😁 Using batteries to power a house is going to be limited...

When we designed and built our house, we put in a hearth to hold a wood burning stove. A fire place or stove can heat a house but the key is the combustion air. We have a six inch PVC pipe that is behind the stove and goes outside. When the stove is running you can feel the air being pulled...

I have been in two car accidents, one kinda bad, on Friday the 13th. The only accidents I have been in. In both accidents, other people hit the vehicle I was in, not a thing I could do to prevent the crash. I also had a car break down on Alligator Alley, in July, on Friday the 13th during a...

Last year I bought a Peltor Sport Tactical 500 to have a set of sound suppressing headphones. I had a pair, <gulp> 20 years ago, when a TBNer set up a discount for TBN members. The sound suppressing headphones were really expensive back then and I lost mine. I think it fell out of the truck...

Once upon a time I was solo hiking in the NC mountains. I think it was spring or early summer and it was nice weather with a good forecast. The problem was, the higher I hiked up in elevation, the colder it got, which was not the issue nor a surprise. The problem was the rain. There was not...

Just had to come watch this animation again. it is now a tradition like watching The Christmas Story movie. :D

During our last trip out of the country we had a few places that would not accept AmEx. We used our other cards when that happened. The other issue, which is likely not that big of deal now, was the credit card should have a chip and pin, since this was used by many retailers in Europe. We...

Prior to Starlink, our primary ISP was cell based with DSL, 1.5 mbps, as a backup. The DSL cost a fortune compared to the data rate and reliability, so we canceled it when we saw how well Starlink was working. Our previous cell based provider had major problems just as Starlink arrived. That...

The NC Extension office has an article on land owner liability based on NC law. I would suggest seeing if your state's provide information on landowner liability. I believe that in NC, if you charge for access your liability increases, but I don't let anyone hunt on the property since that...

The Internet allows me to read a variety of European news papers and problems in their health care systems are a common theme. Before The Virus was running around, the time to get "elective" surgery in Ireland was 6-12 months. Now it is 18-24 months. There are constant reports of hospital...

You will have to protect the trees you value the most until the beavers leave. I used chicken wire wrapped around the larger trees I wanted to keep from being killed off by the beavers. Trapping the beavers will only buy you some time. We had to install a beaver pond leveler in the dam to...

Yep, it depends on the design and the OP needs to understand the differences in burners that might be out there. I would be kinda surprised if the EPA allows these old burners that smoke so bad. Flip side, I would guess some of the smoking was from how the burner was being operated. Our wood...

What he said. Call the state insurance department. Years ago a coworker had his house insurance canceled for no good reason. He had no claims, did not live in a flood zone or high wind zone but they canceled him. I suggested he call the state insurance commission, which he did, and his...

Regarding out door burners, one really, really, really wants one that does not smoke that much. There is one area near us where there are several outdoor wood burners, and if the weather is just right, the smoke in that area is like thick fog. No way is that healthy for the dozens of homes...

There are all sort so doctors with YouTube channels and books saying to minimize carbs to loose weight and to improve general health. Others say otherwise, thus my statement on who you want to believe. Also as I said, I will get my blood work checked and see how the numbers go. Then go back...

Gracious this is an old thread. Interesting to see what I said years ago. :ROFLMAO: Seems like "journey" is a new word to use so I will use it. 😁 My weight loss and weight maintenance journey still include walking for my exercise, tracked by a cheap Fitbit, and trying to eat better...

All the replies about the wrap keeping critters off the power pole, may or may not, be true... It is possible that the real, untold story is that the wrap is a marker for pallets to be put in a field. :unsure:😁 I have not seen wrapped power poles and thus no pallets in a field. 😁

Too many years ago, decades actually, I read a good many of the Fox Fire books. In the books, there were stories about cougars aka panthers, or the more interesting work, painters. I thought there was a book of only cougar stories but I can't find it on Amazon. One of the two the stories I...

Gracious, Eddies last post, and his posts about his brother reminded me of The Rabbit Man.... When we were looking to buy land, we found out about a parcel, which I visited the day we heard about the place. Back then, as now, if raw land popped up on the market you had better be out there NOW...

We have had ATVs trespass as well. I was in the garden one day and heard engines getting closer. Sure enough two idiots had come down a property line that intersects ours, went right past a no trespass sign that they could not avoid seeing, and drove onto our land. We had a talk. Pretty sure...

Had something similar to me. Two idiots were walking our property line hunting tree rats. The were shooting into our trees and in a direction where rounds might hit nearby houses. I first heard them when I was running the chainsaw. The first round or two I questioned what I was hearing...

My wife has the memory of an elephant which she got from her father. Having said that, she CONSTANTLY can't find things she puts down. Remotes, keys, cell phone, etc, She just puts them down and does not remember where she left stuff. It is not age related and has done this since I have...

I have had three family members who got knew replacements. Not sure any of them were a "success." One family member did not do the PT and wobbled and hobbled for the rest of their life. I don't know if this is true or not, but we were told that knee replacement leads to an increase chance...

We don't use VOIP to make phone calls, that is what the cell phone is for, and thankfully we have a decent connection to a tower. We have kept the landline to have the phone and dropped the crappy DSL. The cost of the landline is high enough that we are thinking of dropping it as well. We do...

Depending on the state law, one might have to post signs or paint to make sure that the trespass laws are in force. Decades ago on TBN, one of the vocal TBNers talked of a case in SC where people rode onto someone else's land, a horse stumbled into a stump hole, which threw the rider who was...

Those are pretty much the numbers we have seen when we have done testing. But that is testing. We really don't see any slowdown when using StarLink. It might happen but it is not noticeable. We saw the same speed variations when using a cell based Internet. Starlink is soooo much faster...

Eddie, sorry for the loss of your brother, I hope you were able to talk to him before he died. Go talk to a good, trusted lawyer. Hard part is finding one. No way would I pay a percentage of the estate, though it sounds like in this case, that might be a loosing proposition for the lawyer...

Yep. At a minimum the US and UK had special forces training the Ukraine Army after 2014. That is really what they are for, not kicking in doors and clearing a house, like is so often portrayed. They are supposed to train the locals on how to fight and maybe fight with them depending on...

I read a variety of websites that cover military history and current affairs. The websites are much better than coverage on the "news." There is a bunch of trash on YouTube but there are some real treasures among the junk. The Russians are beat and have been beat since Kiev. It has only...

Yeah, the Russian army is not going to be threatening any other countries for decades after Mad Vlad's disaster. Attacking the Baltic states would get NATO in the war, even the pathetic German army would cause problems for what remains of Russian land power. It is hard to believe, but for years...

Back to food.... In the Netherlands there have been farmer protests against a government policy to buy out farms. Why? Nitrogen pollution in the water near sensitive areas. About half of the nitrogen is from farm run off, or so the say, and the other half is from human waste water treatment...

Had a family member, who along with two other couples, bought a parcel of land and subdivided it. They were all friends. We went to visit one year for an annual get together. This one couple, call them Couple A, had brought salsa and chips to the get together. At the end of the party, the...

Was grandpa a veteran? Later, Dan

I had a chase nightmare that would happen from time to time for years. It was really odd in that I was being chased in a store that I had only been in few times. Nothing bad had ever happened in that store but for some reason the nightmare was being chased up and down the store aisles...

And if the gate operator is manual, aka me or one of the family, make sure when the gate is shut, the lock is on the INSIDE of the gate. If the lock is on the OUTSIDE, it implies that one is not home, which may, or may not, be true. The lock always goes on the inside. Later, Dan

There was a recent article from the Netherlands was about a grocery store that stopped selling a certain brand of bottled water. The bottled water was processed from sea water made drinkable by reverse osmosis powered by solar panels. Activist(s) were complaining that the water was made from...

Yep, that is what the planes were spraying! Later, Dan

We used to follow the DDT fogging truck on our bikes when it would drive through the neighborhood. I can remember someone breaking a thermometer in the streets and us kids playing with it. :eek: Then in Florida I can remember the old DC-3s flying over head, usually early in the morning...

When I designed our house, I oriented the house and a roof slope to try to maximize solar power production. Not quite perfect but pretty danged close. We still don't have any solar panels because we do not have the 20-30K dollars to do the installation. I will try to make some other comments...

Exactly. I wonder where this mythical great Internet Customer service exists? Never see it myself. Spectrum/Cable Internet sucked. Don't get me started on how those idiots wired a connection in my house. Guy at work has constant outages with Spectrum. CenturyStink. We have 1.5 mbps yet...

What Alexpops said, though if you are patient, you could just spread the clay on a screen and let the rain wash away the dirt leaving the lead behind. The range I go to has a pond that collects rain water from the impact berm and the range itself. The pond water has been tested often over the...

Had to be a few decades ago now, but NC passed a law preventing children from riding in the bed of a truck, though if they have a seat belt, there is an adult with them, part of a parade, farm work, or an emergency, it is legal. However, to get that law passed, a couple of counties in Eastern...

A police officer would come to our elementary school at least once a year and show a stranger danger film. Course they did not call it that back then but that is what the film was about. There was one scene that was a bloody tile floor. Always assumed it was the bathroom but it was just a...

And those vent windows worked really well too! Had some problems with the AC in the truck and I was wishing for a vent window....... Later, Dan

That brings back the memories. That McDonald's looks like the one near my granny's house. I would visit it her at least twice a year when I was a kid and we would go to McDonald's to get a hamburger, fries and a soda. There were no Big Mac's or Quarter Pounders. I don't think there was a...

It is actually even worse than you say. Sears had a very sophisticated computer network and systems before Amazon was even a dream. Sears had everything it needed to be an Internet Giant. Amazon is now moving to have some Brick and Mortar stores. Sears already had the Brick and Mortar...

When I check StarLinks performance, it is always changing, it is not constant. I see really fast speeds and then slow speeds. But I only notice the speeds when I go check them, which I don't often do unless I notice a slowdown in downloads/uploads, and when I do check, the performance returns...

But they seem to be a minority. I think it took 12-14 months for our Dishy to arrive but others have gotten it quicker than we did. I am not a Musk FanBoy but there was this pandemic that caused vast supply chain disruptions, including for chips, and that shortage has not gone away. Not much...

Our speed has been excellent. Performance goes up and down, just like cable and cell Internet, but much faster than cell or DSL. Kinda ironic that CenturyLink gets hundreds of millions of dollars to speed up access, yet we and many people in our county, are stuck with much slower speeds than...

When we had DirectTv, the view was through some trees. It was never a problem until we had ice build up on the branches. I don't remember wet snow being a problem but ice sure messed up the signal. Dry snow did not stick to the branches so was no problem. Soooo, if StarLink is like...

It depends on the timber sale. In NC, and I would assume much of the South East, timber can be cut to thin the forest, take out the more mature trees or clear cut. Thinning can be done to remove densely growing trees, I always see this with pines. The smaller trees, roughly 15 years old, are...

We had a dog that did this. Very smart Golden. She would run along the invisible fence and stay far enough away for the color to beep but not shock. When the beeping stopped, she knew she would not be shocked, and would escape. My wife could not figure out how the dog kept escaping until she...

At least the soil is not disappearing... The land/soil around Lake Okeechobee, which used to be part of the Everglades, has been disappearing since the canals were built to drain the swamps. I remember seeing a photo 30 or so years ago, where a post was driven to bedrock and left flush with...

I did not look refer to the Texas ground water ownership in the document I linked but referenced it for Arkansas. As I said, Here is a link about the case, Texas Courts Start to Fill in the Blanks on Groundwater Law – Texas Living Waters Project In Texas, unless there has been a more...

Well, it depends on the location. :ROFLMAO: I was trying to find information on a county in NC regarding ground water ownership by a private company. Can't find the information though but I ran across some other interesting water law/rights. In Texas, the water is owned by the landowner...

I remember reading years ago that the South West was in a climatic wet period that is not normal. Figured it is going to h...ll to pay when the normal dry period returns. Is the current dry spell just a short term issue or is it the start the return of the normal drier climate? Later, Dan

My father in law was in Special Forces. It was not until we were at his funeral did we know he was the first group of soldiers who formed the 1st Special Forces Group. He never said a word about that, only that he was in Special Forces. He was an armorer, knew about things that go boom, and...

I got one of the StarLink mesh routers a few days ago and put it into service. The StarLink router is in the center of the house near the wiring closest but the devices are at the end of the house. The StarLink mess router just had to be plugged in and then it shows up on the StarLink phone...

On our last trip to Ireland we met a couple who used to race motorcycles. They would work all week, then pack up for the weekend and go racing. It was not just about racing, it was fun, whole families were involved and it sounded like a welcoming and warm community. The man had to use a...

We got rid of paid TV years ago and should have done so sooner. We don't watch the major TV networks OTA so I have not idea how they handle commercials these days. For the stations we do watch, the commercials do not take up that much time but it gets real old watching the same commercials...

Just looking at a tuition bill for college. Roughly a third of the bill were for fees supporting the schools sports programs. Not real happy to be supporting other people playing games. Then there is the book cost rip off..... Later, Dan

I have seen some dug wells in my area, they usually have a large concrete pipe, 24-36" in diameter, sticking well above grade, and are at homes that were built a long time ago. I can think of four real quick, but one was filled in when the house was torn town. I don't know if it is legal to...

One of the revolutionary devices created for people traveling the world by boat is the reverse osmosis water maker, aka, the magic equipment that turns salt water into drinking water. One company has a patent for a low power usage pump but there are other companies using pumps, it is just a...

We have only noticed one reboot caused by Starlink and that was a software update. I rebooted it once or twice because I thought I needed too but I can't remember WHY I thought I needed to reboot the thing. :eek::D I suspect it was because of heavy rain. Heavy rain will take out the signal...

Ah, that cable. Running the cable to dishy was a PITA even though we have a small wiring closest that has a chase to the attic. It was sorta easy getting the cable from the closet and across the attic. The PITA part was getting the cable through the roof vent to the dish. Running that cable...

As had been said, a million dollars is not that much money. :unsure:🤬😁 One of the investment rules of thumb is to invest in the stock market and only spend 4% of the earnings. Playing around with an online modeler, the 4% rule works over long time periods, including the horrible economic...

Instead of running the wire to through the wall you could use and extender, or better yet a Mesh router. Starlink has Mesh routers, which do not have the most advanced features as other brands, but it links easily with StarLink. We are going to get one of the StarLink Mesh units to see if it...

Make sure the wood can handle being in the water if the dock is rickety because of rot. Another option is a floating dock which would not require putting in columns. Later, Dan

Regarding not calling in... My dear, departed, father in law was an inspector for the Department of Transportation(DOT) One day he and some other employees found a dead body in the woods. Two of the guys did not want to report the body because they did not want to get "involved." :eek:🤬...

In our area, well nearby, the housing price rises are simply to supply and demand. There is huge demand and limited supply. And has you say, 5.25-6% rates are still low, which is why I really wonder if rising the prime rate is going to have the impact that is expected. How is the prime rate...

House prices in Wake county, NC, which is were the state capital is located, has been growing by leaps and bounds, set a new high price record for housing. Having said that, the market is in flux in that some homes are being reduced in price but the prices are still high. Inventory is growing...

A family member got two letters this week. One was from a guy in Texas who is really low balling the offers. We have received his "offers" as well. The latest was from someone looking to buy land to "homestead" with his family which includes two kids. No mention of how much the guy...

I have no real way of knowing, but I suspect the obstructions will cause a drop out of the signal worst case or just a degradation but it is going to depend on how much obstruction he has at the house. We have a very slight obstruction on the west side of Dishy. I can see in the Starlink...

Sometimes, many times, the house is just too remote for people to live in and have a job. If they don't have a job and are retired, the house is too remote to good health care. So the house sits. Then decays. Having said that, I know of some of these houses that are being maintained but I...

So often one is buying the land, the structure is an expense. There is a two acre property near us that has a trailer and they are asking $400,000. The trailer is an expense. One is buying the land. Hard to believe the land is worth $200,000 an acre though. Near by was a parcel(s), I am...

The wife's family farm is being subdivided starting after her great, grand parents died. The land is being sliced and diced up. After some of the grand parents generation dies, no one will live in the family farm house and the land has been leased out for decades. Some parts of the family...

I hope that person found another builder. Adding insulation in the attic is easy at build time and not hard afterwards. Having additional insulation in floors and walls at build time is simple. If the builder could not handle that requirement, I would find a new builder, since this GC will be...

Europe was having an energy crisis at the end of last year due to their government policies. That got worse in the early winter, and then nosedived with Putin's War. it is going to get really nasty this fall, if not sooner.... The US is having energy crisis because of government policies and...

I designed our house to have passive solar features but we did not go overboard with the design. It is not that hard to design in these features and our house is 2x6 construction with brick veneer. We do have a finished concrete floor for several reasons, but from an energy perspective, it...

My experience with disasters mirrors RSKY's. After Hurricane Floyd flooded many areas of Eastern NC, I was part of a group that went into the area after the flood waters started to recede for rescue and recovery along with dealing with looters. Thankfully, none of this was needed. The...

That says it all! :eek:😁:D Later, Dan

I used to brew beer but don't have the time anymore and the stores have gotten a better selection of beer.😁 Making beer is easy if one can follow instructions. The hard part is waiting for the wort to ferment into beer and then wait for the added sugar to the beer to ferment in the bottle to...

I recently visited my barber who has to be getting close to 90. He had a partner, who died a few years back, who was in his 80's. They, and their families have lived in the county for generations, pretty much know all of the families that have lived in the county for generations, and I think...