Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

Still no word on repair to heat pump and it’s going to get cold tonight

 

[daugen]

Me too 2000 gallons please

ok, 6 for me, 2 for you
of course with no CDL, it could be an inspiring journey...

hello Officer Bob, how can I help you?
you want to confiscate my load too?

Buppies, you'll have to drive

 

[Buppies]

I can drive it just no CDL

 

[riptides]

Our zoning and regulations here are suspect too.

I cannot have a trailer on the property for live in purposes, even if I construct something.

I do not have to file for permits if I build an agricultural type building.

I chuckled to myself as I was reading various rules and regulations as I concluded that I could build something like a house and claim it was for feed storage by sticking a few grain bags here and there.

Currently 29 outside, thankfully no wind.

 

[scootr]

Buppies, Just tell them you are making an emergency trip to bring heating oil to gramma's house.

 

[daugen]

too bad Buppies your heat pump doesn't have dial in diagnostics.
We could put Popgadget and Kyle on it, and have you fixed right away.

Ted, putting a fireplace in a residence in this area has now become more complicated.
Humorous when you think that 200 years ago the local residents needed fireplaces or they would
have froze to death.
If I owned this cottage, I would immediately put a woodstove in the living room, which is the coldest room.
Currently at 64 degrees in there, on a cold day for sure, when thermostat says 71 in kitchen. If I want it warmer in
there have to turn on electric fake fireplace, which looks just like a wood stove. After several hours that might get the room up to
70, if I had company. Which I usually don't, and my flowers sitting in the sunny window seem to like that temp just fine.

It's the radiant heat feeling, the sit by a campfire feeling,
what I feel is a more natural heat.
Not more efficient, tech has surpassed it,
but just a different feel.
I think it's pure cave man genes.
We want to face the warmth,
warmth kept us alive
boy they sure had bad hvac back then...

Scootr, great idea, will get my wizened old lady neighbor across the street to ride with us,
she can be moaning I'm out of oil, I'm out of oil (she would be up to it also)

 

[LouNY]

In all fairness, they followed the existing ordinances, including the mechanisms for relief by exemption or variance. I don’t think that I was treated unfairly, but I agree that in simpler times the ordinances might not have existed.

And I thought that ours were too intrusive and expensive;

 

[daugen]

got first batch of seeds in
combo assortments of lettuce and radishes.
a few of each I will likely give away.
actually will have a lot left over
whatever I plant has to be done by August this year
but this early stuff works fine.

will be ordering some beans from Burpee this afternoon though I did see the
display out at the supermarket. Beans and cucumbers.

 

[two_bit_score]

I chuckled to myself as I was reading various rules and regulations as I concluded that I could build something like a house and claim it was for feed storage by sticking a few grain bags here and there.

I thought that was one reason "barndominiums" became so popular.

 

[sodamo]

David,

Look into "You Need a Budget". YNAB.

An advisor friend recommended that to me, a long while back. I am though a re-dedicated .xlsx format user.

The website is ynab.com

Yup, DIL also referenced. Currently #3 on my shortlist.
My current, still to be explored thought are limitations and seems more manually intensive. Maybe OK for the kids, but not what I want for Sophie.
So far Copilot Money and Monarch are prime contenders. Look like they do everything in YNAB plus.

Find in interesting, but not surprising that so many of us use spreadsheets. One of my evaluation criteria is ability to import/export CSV files.

Going back to Visicalc days I just had a hard time getting my head around mixing Letters and Numbers in same file other than text, then it finally clicked, each of those little cells is independent until you create a relationship. I even taught a few Lotus 123 classes back in my Army days.

Wish I knew of a method to auto import Bank data into my spreadsheets.