Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

The water team was here, even the rain.

They collected sample from kitchen sink, took my spent carbon filter, took samples & readings at the tanks, took pics and made notes.

I replaced all the sediment filters at same time

I have new housing on order. Not sure I trust these 15 yo filter to last much longer. Managed to break some of the ribs with the wrench.

Here is team at work

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Wednesday) morning. Winter is slowly returning with an overnight Low of 4C. It's partly cloudy and fairly calm. It may warm up to 15C.

Well, it's 'into town' day for groceries. But first there'll be a Coffee Gathering for the local Veterans from 1000 to 1100. I finally received a call-back for a furniture drop-off at the Church Shed so I scheduled that for 1115... I'll then go and do my shopping.

A bit of puttering for the arvo. I, too, have heard the John Rich song "Progress" and agree with it.

Take care all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

David, how much water can you store?

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 80ºF for the start, mostly clear sky, light breeze. Moderate wind gust up to 20, partly cloudy sky and high temp was 101ºF, HI 102ºF. Bike ride to start, then mowed front, then of to town for lunch meds and groceries. Nap after groceries put away.
RS good to hear no leaks. Sorry about the dead grease gun. Sorry about the hands, nice progress inspite of grease gun antics.
Don glad you found a work around on water softener.
Scaredy glad critters are handling heat. Good luck with oven, if it gets hot but not temp might be thermostat. sorry about the delay, praying for friend.
NHBX congrats on rain, glad did not loose power for long.
Roy hope you have a goo day.
Buppies glad you got rain.
Drew glad respite from heat. prayers for your friend. sorry about the small onions
Billy hope you did not get soaked. Sorry you lost power for so long. New train excursion sounds like fun.
Don $0.20 per gallon is a nice discount.
RNG glad fairing worked well, sorry about ear buds. Glad nice trip, and pics.
Paul sounds like nice day. Hope today went well.
Ken sorry you now in drought. Sorry about coworkers house, that is happening here from grass fires. Nice pics
Lou good to hear progress on remodel.
Dennis saw the flooding in STL. Not sure where it was. 7 inch is a whole lot of rain overnight.
Dennis neat sounding trips and great pic
Don good luck keeping Georgetown normal!
PJ glad your safe, lot of water fell.
Ted sorry about no rain again, hope you do get some. Hope oil change went well. My old Saturn SL went 100K before brakes were worn out.
Drew hope trip went well.
Dennis sorry about genny delivery
David glad improved today. Hope water people visit went well. I would expect PW gun better than backpack sprayer.
RS Hope grease gun shows up before paperwork. Hope burn goes safely.
David sorry to hear voting concerns
David good to hear you hired out roof work, hope it works out.
Thomas glad to hear heat gone for a while, good to hear short day at job.
David did they make any comments after doing the survey?
Randy(wag) hope good coffee gathering, and trip to town went well.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid,/mom's breathing, /learning new job, Bird/aging issues/, Don /mom's pipeline process, /fire nearby, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL Covid /son's heart issues, /pneumonia and not posting, Roy /palpitations, /angina , Billy /wife back & hip, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /3 new skin cancer spots and treatment, /wife knee healing, Thomas/gout, Phil /reflux, /wife's eyes, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery/retirement, / passing out issues, /family issues, /wife feeling bad, Doug and wife/health issues, /nerve and pain, / wife's hospital stay, /torn bicep, Ken /kids shot tragedy, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery recovery, /cataract surgery, /Sophie's hand infection, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /wife not feeling well, /marriage, Paul/ wife's disc issues, Gale and KY/ tornado victims, Mike /5 year plan, Dennis /retirement plans / brother "alligallyitus" and improving, Drew /foot heel issues, /friend cancer diagnosis and recovery, Helogabals /second opinion, /wife's friend situation, Ukraine war, mass shooting victims and family, and Country.

 

[Wagtail]

^^^
The coffee gathering went very well; the coffee turned out to be free/gratuitous as a Veterans organisation called "mates4mates" was there to give a wee presentation. They mostly organise activities/gatherings/hobbies for Veterans (and their families) who are transiting from Military to civvie life. Somewhat what 'we' are doing anyway, here in St Helens.

I'd left my mobile at home, so when the Church Shed drop-off was to occur at 1115 and nobody was there, even 15 minutes after that time, I reckoned it was another no-show. But, what the heck, perhaps 'she' had called but I didn't have my phone with me. Anyway, I was about to leave at Noon when she did arrive. Lovely lady and she helped me re-arrange a lot of the furniture/mattresses in there before we unloaded her ute.

I was warm after that... only to discover that the temperature was now 18.5C!

Groceries done after that.

I got home by 1300 and spotted 'Mad Horse Woman' in the neighbour's paddock with the local farrier doing the horse's feet. There has also her partner's ute in that paddock with a float filled with sections for a round-yard/exercise area.

 

[sodamo]

David, how much water can you store?

We have 4 tanks, 4k each = 16,000 gals that services house and studio.

Plus 3k at cottage, with a line from house if needed to top off tank.
And 39,000 in pool, that doesn’t catch from house just normal rainfall.

 

[sodamo]

Mostly, from what I gleaned from this morning.
Mine was 9th system visited. 20 systems planned.
Mine is definitely a one off, more complex than others so far.
One of the girls claimed my was hardest so far. Not sure what she meant except maybe using the ladder to get to manhole 12 ft up. Being a reformed chauvanist of sorts, I let her handle the ladder.
The team leader, Katie, had never seen a chain wrench, which I used to remove the filter housings. The existing wrench tends to break the aging ribs.
I know last week they dropped part of their siphon tool into the tank and had to be retrieved, the silicone lube they brought was actually silicon sealant.
They’ll be back in a month or so to change out the carbon filter.
At some point I get a copy of the data.

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-07-27, 0409

53° right now...high in the low 80's...

Stepdaughter found a bird's nest in the eaves...asked me not to mow around there for a week or two as there were chicks which will probably be learning to fly over the next couple weeks. Checked it out and yep, there's momma. Didn't hear any chicks, but I'll let it go unmown there for a while. Mowing high anyway due to the heat and not enough rain...

Back to my real job in a couple hours...

 

[Buppies]

76 very humid .25 in of rain yesterday other nearby areas way more and more today lots of flash flood watches out for today. Glad you were ok PJ.

I go to bed at 10 up at 3:00 go to bed at 11:00 up at 4:00 very tired am I.

Prayers for all our Country

 

[Wagtail]

I know last week they dropped part of their siphon tool into the tank and had to be retrieved, the silicone lube they brought was actually silicon sealant.

Oooh... that happened to me, many many years ago as a young Ordinary Seaman [E3]. I performed planned maintenance on a Mk. 102 Fire Control Telescope which simply required using silicon grease (in a squeeze tube) on the internal gears. The next time the ship used the gun mount, the telescope was inoperable... to my credit and knowing that I was the last one to 'work' on it, I rummaged through the Departments toolbox and discovered that the squeeze tubes of silicon grease and silicon sealant (same manufacturer) were identical except for the words grease/sealant.

Fortunately I had simply added the sealant on top of the existing grease, so I was able to rush up and simply peel the sealant away from the telescope's gears and the gun's Fire Control System was back in 'action'.

I let my Petty Officer [E7/8] know what had happened (not hiding my mistake) so that something like this wouldn't occur again.