Good morning!!!!

txdon · Mar 7, 2015

Good evening! 56˚ overcast. I gather up my tools an went to Dads water leak and all the water was gone

- including the 3" in the water meter box.
YEA!!!!!!
So all the water was just runoff from the 1/3" rain 3 days ago on the already saturated ground around the repair. I would have lost that bet.
I now declare it fixed - and holding.

murphy1244 · Mar 7, 2015

txdon said:
Good evening! 56˚ overcast. I gather up my tools an went to Dads water leak and all the water was gone - including the 3" in the water meter box.
YEA!!!!!!
So all the water was just runoff from the 1/3" rain 3 days ago on the already saturated ground around the repair. I would have lost that bet.
I now declare it fixed.

Hope you didn't just put the kabosh on yourself..

txdon · Mar 7, 2015

murphy1244 said:
Hope you didn't just put the kabosh on yourself..

No, just on the leak.

dave1949 · Mar 7, 2015

txdon said:
No, just on the leak.

I think someone explained once why you folks in the south don't use poly piping? Y'all fix a lot of water line leaks.

txdon · Mar 7, 2015

dave1949 said:
I think someone explained once why you folks in the south don't use poly piping? Y'all fix a lot of water line leaks.

I do have poly in my house but all the outside underground lines are PVC. My line from the meter 4/10 mile is 2" and my Dads 2/10 mile is 1.25".

dave1949 · Mar 7, 2015

txdon said:
I do have poly in my house but all the outside underground lines are PVC. My line from the meter 4/10 mile is 2" and my Dads 2/10 mile is 1.25".

I thought someone gave a reason once why poly is not used outside in your region, meter or well to house. We use poly on wells around here. I don't know of anyone using PVC from a well to the house.

Buppies · Mar 8, 2015

41 here right now high of 56 later tomorrow may see 60. MDA car show may be order of day after church. Lots of old muscle cars to see. Picked up two boxes of 44mags yesterday at Sportsmanship Warehouse almost $100.00

Eric Salop · Mar 8, 2015

Good morning,
One of the lambs that arrived yesterday had a broken leg.
It's now all bandaged and splinted and stands a fair chance of healing, however he did need to go in a pen with only his mum and no other big ewes to knock him around.

A few other new arrivals also needed shutting in for the night. No problem, I had another new bay in the barn sectioned off and ready, except for a gate that needed hanging. I even had a borrowed gate all waiting to go, it just needed one single old nut loosening to get the hinge in the right place and the nut had been soaking up a diesel/oil mix for the past couple of days. Then we had a standoff. The nut had no intention of moving and I wasn't coming in until it did. I knew I was just being stubborn, a bit of baler twine would have worked fine. Didn't want to damage it as it was an odd thread size and needed to go back on in a different slot. As the light faded I set to tapping away with a hammer and blunt chisel like a demented woodpecker who has just slipped a weasel.

Finally the nut (the one on the gate, not the one with the hammer) gave up the fight and came off intact.

Last night I went to bed tired but satisfied. It had been a fruitful day after all.

PS Still reading the bridge chapter from txdon's autobiography. Fascinating.

Thomas · Mar 8, 2015

10F now 38F for high.
By Tuesday 40's that should make the sap start trickling.
Not all that much plan for today,
Yesterday I push snow banks w a y back hope its the last time,now the sun can do its thing and melt some ice.

Have good day all.

RoyJackson · Mar 8, 2015

2015-03-08, 0805

14 degrees right now. Warm today...upper 30's so we should see a fair amount of melting. The trend over the next 10 days or so is warming...guess Ol' Man Winter is finally giving it up.
Today's plans...not much. I have some paperwork I brought home (from work) to review and edit.

For those of you who didn't do it last night...it's "Spring Forward" an hour...reset your clocks.