At Home In The Woods

Obed · Aug 19, 2012

clemsonfor said:
Thats sweet take him up on it, and take 2 there always better with a freind. We have 7!! Wife is a vet assistant, they keep fining their way home with her.

We had a friend who cut dog's hair for her living. She had 10 cats and a whole bunch of dogs. She just couldn't say no when a dog or cat needed an owner.

I have a cousin who had over 20 cats. Fortunately, most of them were kept outside. She is now finally trying to trim the numbers down to a reasonable level.
Obed

MarkV · Aug 20, 2012

I wonder if on the railing rods a good shot of clear chalk before inserting the rod would cause it to fill any voids to protect against water? I think an 1/8 hole would just clog itself up in no time.

MarkV

WBWI · Aug 20, 2012

here is what we did for railings
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They are about 1/2"dia, 28-30" long, black powder coated. They can in a box pre cut to length.

Obed · Aug 21, 2012

I finished installing the shutters around one of the two dining room windows. It took 5+ drill bits to drill 12 holes in the stone.

For the remaining window in the stone, I want to try to drill into the mortar if at all possible like I did for the shutters on the brick veneer walls. When attaching the shutters to the brick, I drilled 48 holes in the mortar using one drill bit and the bit was still usable.

dstig1 · Aug 21, 2012

Try using some water to help the bit out. A helper with a squirt bottle can apply a little squirt of water every 20 sec or so in the hole that will help. Make sure your drill is plugged into a GFI outlet to be safe, but the amount of water I'm talking about here is pretty small so the risk is low. All outside outlets need to be GFI anyways, so you should be fine by default.

Obed · Aug 22, 2012

dstig1 said:
Try using some water to help the bit out. A helper with a squirt bottle can apply a little squirt of water every 20 sec or so in the hole that will help. Make sure your drill is plugged into a GFI outlet to be safe, but the amount of water I'm talking about here is pretty small so the risk is low. All outside outlets need to be GFI anyways, so you should be fine by default.

I tried dipping the bit in water every 10 or 20 sec but I was unable to notice any difference.

Obed · Aug 22, 2012

Look What Showed Up

In less than a week after our old cat died, look what showed up at our house yesterday. We haven't fed it. It was crying on our back porch all evening yesterday. Finally I doused it with a cup of water twice to get it to leave when I went to bed. Our windows were open and the cat wouldn't shut up. Today it is on our back porch again.

brin · Aug 22, 2012

Obed said:
Look What Showed Up

In less than a week after our old cat died, look what showed up at our house yesterday. We haven't fed it. It was crying on our back porch all evening yesterday. Finally I doused it with a cup of water twice to get it to leave when I went to bed. Our windows were open and the cat wouldn't shut up. Today it is on our back porch again.

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Our cat, Cleo, showed up under our deck years ago and I fed her and gave her water....she left and came back with one kitten after another until she had brought all 6 of her kittens to our house...She became part of the family that night and lived for another 16 yrs. or so....I think I posted about her on this thread or another...she was a part of the family and the night she died she sat in my lap for a long time and walked all around the back of my neck and cuddled real close and then she wanted out..., she always wanted to sleep outside but stayed inside all day, anyway the next morning we found her dead in her bed in the shop where she liked to sleep...she must have been saying goodbye to me....I hope you consider taking the cat in....maybe your deceased cat sent this cat...Hey who knows about these things....Not me for sure...LOL - Oh and with this cat you will have mouse and varmint control again....they are worth their weight for that alone.

tony Cecil · Aug 22, 2012

That is an amazing coincidence.......Long ago we had a cat that turned out to be half wild...Smart....Of course we fed it and it would permit a bit of affection if hungry.....There was no way to domesticate it, so either appreciate it for what it was or tough luck.....Unfortunately it just would not stay in the house, and just disappeared one day......Good memories of it though.....and strangely it kept `moles` in check...Tony

Cub 7274 · Aug 22, 2012

There must be a reason-perhaps they were friends

dstig1 · Aug 22, 2012

No you need water in the hole you are drilling. It cools the bit while it is turning, adds some lubrication and carries away some grit/swarf. Just dipping the bit will only keep it cool, which isn't bad, but not a huge benefit. If you can really flood it with water that helps more, but is a bit sketchy around electrical tools...

RobertBrown · Aug 22, 2012

Obed said:
Look What Showed Up

In less than a week after our old cat died, look what showed up at our house yesterday. We haven't fed it. It was crying on our back porch all evening yesterday. Finally I doused it with a cup of water twice to get it to leave when I went to bed. Our windows were open and the cat wouldn't shut up. Today it is on our back porch again.

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Oh my, I was wondering what happened to Shnicklefritz......A good cat if you like cats.
You can have it.......It's yours
Congratulations!
Just don't change the name.
Your welcome

Bill 55 · Aug 23, 2012

Looks like you were meant to have a cat. It is my favorite color. Them orange cats just seem to have character.

MotorSeven · Aug 23, 2012

Hmmm, maybe a fellow TBN'r did a feline drive by?

and no it wasn't me

ruralruss · Aug 23, 2012

MotorSeven said:
Hmmm, maybe a fellow TBN'r did a feline drive by?

and no it wasn't me

Aren't you the closest to OBED?

radioman · Aug 23, 2012

Obed said:
Look What Showed Up

In less than a week after our old cat died, look what showed up at our house yesterday. We haven't fed it. It was crying on our back porch all evening yesterday. Finally I doused it with a cup of water twice to get it to leave when I went to bed. Our windows were open and the cat wouldn't shut up. Today it is on our back porch again.

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Its a omen. Only you can figure out why as time go by.

Obed · Aug 24, 2012

Making Momma Happy!
My wife didn't like the fact that the ground was a little rough around the edges of the garden and was hard to mow. The roughness occurred after I plowed the garden this spring. Even though I had run a disc over it, it was still a little lumpy. So I smoothed the edges around the outside of the garden.

Do you guys ever do something "just because she wants it"?

Obed · Aug 24, 2012

While I had the box blade on the tractor, I decided to scrape off some crabgrass that has been growing on the crown of our driveway. I'm amazed that stuff will find start growing in the middle of loose gravel.