vtsnowedin
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Suffering from the same problem and it might last right up into hunting season.
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bakerg
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Good morning, 64F heading to 90F, heading over to son's to put together his shed after I grout the backsplash in the bathroom.
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74 with a high of 84 and 100% chance of rain. It has been raining for 2 days now and all 3 rivers have flood notices out. Glad I live on high ground and miles from any of the rivers. Grass is looking good, but so are the weeds. Looks like a good day to take off and rest, maybe catch up on some movies. Only have 5 days left on this big remodel then back to normal. I like the pay off on these big jobs but then I haven't had a day off since vacation and the property shows it. There is so much to do around here. I may go out and push over some trees for the goats while the ground is wet... and then maybe not :confused3:
daugen
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73 going up to low 90's in high humidity. Yuk.
Houseguests just left for PA, all I have planned today is watering trees and chilling out.
The impact of my three 4-5 ton a/c units just arrived with a $498 electric bill. Groan, jumped 200 from the month before.
one more month of this and things will slowly cool off here; these nights when it doesn't get below 75 means the a/c runs quite a bit. Now that guests are gone, up goes the thermostat a degree or two. My last two guests kept their homes at 72-73 and I was surprised it wasn't higher. Mine is set at 74, 75 in part of the house at night, with lots of ceiling and a few floor fans helping out. I can't imagine what it would be like here at 105 like Texas. The a/c units for this house must have been sized for serious heat because I actually have several tons too much capacity, technically for a 3500 sf house.
Electric bills like this sure make me think of where I can put some more insulation in.
Houseguests just left for PA, all I have planned today is watering trees and chilling out.
The impact of my three 4-5 ton a/c units just arrived with a $498 electric bill. Groan, jumped 200 from the month before.
one more month of this and things will slowly cool off here; these nights when it doesn't get below 75 means the a/c runs quite a bit. Now that guests are gone, up goes the thermostat a degree or two. My last two guests kept their homes at 72-73 and I was surprised it wasn't higher. Mine is set at 74, 75 in part of the house at night, with lots of ceiling and a few floor fans helping out. I can't imagine what it would be like here at 105 like Texas. The a/c units for this house must have been sized for serious heat because I actually have several tons too much capacity, technically for a 3500 sf house.
Electric bills like this sure make me think of where I can put some more insulation in.
RoyJackson
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Suffering from the same problem and it might last right up into hunting season.
What's aggravating the situation is a black and blue toe...I'll sleep for a few hours, then the spasms begin (feels like a cattle prod jammed into the sole of my foot)...and the spasms repeat every 30-45 minutes. So, my sleep has been interrupted every night for 3-4 weeks (which doesn't help those 10-12 hour days!).
Going to a podiatrist this week to see what it is...don't think it's diabetes...might be PAD (Peripheral Artery Disease).
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72F @ 4AM. A mix of clouds and sun. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. High 94F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Another cricket got into the house yesterday, and judging from the racket in the great room, it's quite content with its new home.
In addition to reviews of half ton pickup trucks and the latest muscle cars, last month Consumer Reports contained a surprising article on excessive oil consumption on some modern engines. Embarrassingly, the luxury German cars from Audi and BMW were prominently featured, but Subaru was also mentioned. Unfortunately manufacturers assert that a quart of oil every 750 miles is not excessive, a claim most of us would not tolerate. As expected, class action law suits have been filed, but the most that's been done so far are small cash payments and extension of the power train warranty. My own experience with modern Nikasil-on-aluminum cylinders with hard piston rings is that it pays to really romp on 'em during break in to create enough combustion pressure to seat the rings. Babying the engine in the first thousand miles creates a glaze between the two surfaces that only a hone will remove, and that's an expensive fix.
In the US, college loans have reached an astonishing 1.2 TRILLION dollars, threatening to be the next bubble to pop as many of those borrowers default. It seems the colleges are much better at raking in the cash than they are at training people in skills with which they can support themselves. Forty years ago, tuition at the state university I attended was heavily subsidized and amounted to only $720/year. To put that into perspective, gasoline ran $.50-$1.00/gallon, so by that measure the modern equivalent tuition would be somewhere between $2160 and $4320 per year. According to this article, the average student in the US graduates with a little over $27K of debit, or $6800/year for a typical four year curriculum. Bloomberg reported in July 2014 that: "The biggest growth in the program came in the past decade, as student debt rose an average of 14 percent a year, to $966 billion in 2012 from $364 billion in 2004, according to New York Fed data."
Eric, I've had pretty good luck using the Doppler weather radar when deciding whether or not to spray herbicide. Most sites have time lapse views, and The Weather Channel even has one that runs several hours into the future. Saves on herbicide, and eliminates the possibility of losing a tossed coin in the mounting weeds. :laughing: Your clopyralid + triclopyr mix is my favorite for poison oak and manzanita, and it works well on the yellow star thistle, too.
Congrats on the boat, Mostly! Plenty of summer left to get some fun out of it, too! :thumbsup:
Kyle, I think that new master cylinder will run me about $150. A princely sum, even after a small "regular customer" discount. A rebuild kit was a little less than half that, but I'd rather pay the higher price once than risk paying half again more if the repair didn't work. I'm just happy I was able to get the part for this thirty year old motorcycle. Especially since it's a safety critical component hopefully going to a new home soon.
Never had much problem with clogging on the gravity fed spray gun, but I sure did with the new POR-15 Top Coat I shot yesterday. Ended up having to brush the tip with solvent every fifteen seconds or so, a real PITA. It wasn't that hot out, maybe 80F, and I was using the recommended solvent as specified. I managed to finish the job, but I'll need to talk with someone at the manufacturer's before I try spraying it again.
Also ran into trouble with a Dakota MURS driveway alert transmitter, one of two that had been working just fine. Oddly it's the one closest to the house; the other one is a quarter mile away over a hill and works fine. Even after installing new batteries and triple checking the transmitter code, this one just won't alert the base station any longer. Looks like more time on the phone for Monday.
But I did get the new wireless router successfully configured as an access point and installed out in the pump house, and WiFi coverage in the area is now quite good. Much better than cell phone reception in fact. Through put to the Internet isn't great, as it connects back to the rest of the network using an Ethernet powerline adapter. That distance is over 100', and the signal strength LED on the converter tells me it isn't happy. But it's good enough to carry 720P images of my equipment yard at one per second back to the monitoring computer where they are stored, and download the technical manual for that MURS transmitter while I was standing in the yard. It's even pretty good inside the house, at least at this end. :laughing:
Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend!
Another cricket got into the house yesterday, and judging from the racket in the great room, it's quite content with its new home.
In addition to reviews of half ton pickup trucks and the latest muscle cars, last month Consumer Reports contained a surprising article on excessive oil consumption on some modern engines. Embarrassingly, the luxury German cars from Audi and BMW were prominently featured, but Subaru was also mentioned. Unfortunately manufacturers assert that a quart of oil every 750 miles is not excessive, a claim most of us would not tolerate. As expected, class action law suits have been filed, but the most that's been done so far are small cash payments and extension of the power train warranty. My own experience with modern Nikasil-on-aluminum cylinders with hard piston rings is that it pays to really romp on 'em during break in to create enough combustion pressure to seat the rings. Babying the engine in the first thousand miles creates a glaze between the two surfaces that only a hone will remove, and that's an expensive fix.
In the US, college loans have reached an astonishing 1.2 TRILLION dollars, threatening to be the next bubble to pop as many of those borrowers default. It seems the colleges are much better at raking in the cash than they are at training people in skills with which they can support themselves. Forty years ago, tuition at the state university I attended was heavily subsidized and amounted to only $720/year. To put that into perspective, gasoline ran $.50-$1.00/gallon, so by that measure the modern equivalent tuition would be somewhere between $2160 and $4320 per year. According to this article, the average student in the US graduates with a little over $27K of debit, or $6800/year for a typical four year curriculum. Bloomberg reported in July 2014 that: "The biggest growth in the program came in the past decade, as student debt rose an average of 14 percent a year, to $966 billion in 2012 from $364 billion in 2004, according to New York Fed data."
Eric, I've had pretty good luck using the Doppler weather radar when deciding whether or not to spray herbicide. Most sites have time lapse views, and The Weather Channel even has one that runs several hours into the future. Saves on herbicide, and eliminates the possibility of losing a tossed coin in the mounting weeds. :laughing: Your clopyralid + triclopyr mix is my favorite for poison oak and manzanita, and it works well on the yellow star thistle, too.
Congrats on the boat, Mostly! Plenty of summer left to get some fun out of it, too! :thumbsup:
Kyle, I think that new master cylinder will run me about $150. A princely sum, even after a small "regular customer" discount. A rebuild kit was a little less than half that, but I'd rather pay the higher price once than risk paying half again more if the repair didn't work. I'm just happy I was able to get the part for this thirty year old motorcycle. Especially since it's a safety critical component hopefully going to a new home soon.
Never had much problem with clogging on the gravity fed spray gun, but I sure did with the new POR-15 Top Coat I shot yesterday. Ended up having to brush the tip with solvent every fifteen seconds or so, a real PITA. It wasn't that hot out, maybe 80F, and I was using the recommended solvent as specified. I managed to finish the job, but I'll need to talk with someone at the manufacturer's before I try spraying it again.
Also ran into trouble with a Dakota MURS driveway alert transmitter, one of two that had been working just fine. Oddly it's the one closest to the house; the other one is a quarter mile away over a hill and works fine. Even after installing new batteries and triple checking the transmitter code, this one just won't alert the base station any longer. Looks like more time on the phone for Monday.
But I did get the new wireless router successfully configured as an access point and installed out in the pump house, and WiFi coverage in the area is now quite good. Much better than cell phone reception in fact. Through put to the Internet isn't great, as it connects back to the rest of the network using an Ethernet powerline adapter. That distance is over 100', and the signal strength LED on the converter tells me it isn't happy. But it's good enough to carry 720P images of my equipment yard at one per second back to the monitoring computer where they are stored, and download the technical manual for that MURS transmitter while I was standing in the yard. It's even pretty good inside the house, at least at this end. :laughing:
Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend!
vtsnowedin
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You need to get on top of that PDQ or we'll have to start calling you gimpy.
Surprised the Misses doesn't have you in the doctor's office this minute.
RoyJackson
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My wife won't go anywhere near a doctor!
As far as "gimpy"...I already am gimpy (from a stroke 15-16 years ago)
Kyle_in_Tex
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Good Morning. Having a quiet breakfast before Daughter and family arrive. I have brought sheep over to the field by the house so grandson can help take them up to the pens and sort for market.
105
Most everyone has A/C, although we didn't have it until 1974. That temp was recorded in a hot parking lot.
The thing about hot temps and the heat index (heat perceived) it that we usually have a lot of humidity here which usually keeps the temps from going much higher than 100. When we have dry air move in, the temps will climb higher, but your body's sweat evaporation works better so you don't feel worse than say 98 degrees with 94% humidity. Those conditions make you feel sultry no matter if you're in the shade or not. Being in the sun only makes everything worse. Usually our 10 pm temps on these hot days are still around 90 degrees. Late October, early November is when it generally cools down.
Wngsprd, that's amazing that your 4runner has made it that far. Same for the pilot dave. I wish I could say the same for my chevy impala 3.4. It is still the original short block and heads at 293K, but I've had to repair the valve drivetrain (rocker arms pulling their studs out of the aluminum heads) twice and have done the intake manifold gaskets 3 times. I am now waiting for GM to get some camshafts off of backorder to get her going again. I am told they'll be available late this August. It had a lobe go bad.
farmer2009
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72 this morning and headed to 94 today. Heating back up here and will be hot for a few days. Then forecast is for below average temperatures. Not much but low 80's.
Got the trusses on the building yesterday. Still have to add the purlins. But they are up and braced. Purlins will go on tomorrow. Today is garden day. I have corn to shuck and silk. Then cut off and freeze. Green beans to break and can. Will take rest of day.
Got the trusses on the building yesterday. Still have to add the purlins. But they are up and braced. Purlins will go on tomorrow. Today is garden day. I have corn to shuck and silk. Then cut off and freeze. Green beans to break and can. Will take rest of day.