Good morning!!!!

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good morning all. Up early, heading out in an hour with rv to alignment shop almost 60 miles away, only place who will work on my rv.
Hopefully the trip will be worth it, am wondering if my local shop spun balanced the tires with those huge chrome/stainless hubcaps taken off, and
when they put them back on, it threw off the tire balance. I sure know I can't go down the road with a front end shimmy, bye bye tires.

Inside California's power shutoff: No traffic lights and days of darkness - CNN
Reality has finally hit my sister in Muir Beach. She moved out yesterday to a friends house in San Francisco that had power. I sent them even more info on generators,
including the link to generatorsdirect.com. Rick, they are trying to charge her 15 grand labor to install 5k worth of parts in a simple residential propane setup.
Once you get above 22kw and get into car motors instead of lawn mower engines, the price triples. My oldest brother has a 70Kw unit and you bet that was more expensive.
I think he wasted a lot of money buying such a big generator, plus he will never give it enough load.
I run a three hvac house off 22kw gen, you just have to shed nonessential load, which is super easy to do, or relays do it automatically.

It takes these folks no more than two days to install the gen. How much should an electrician charge for 16 hours work? How about 200 an hour? That's $3200 labor, and I'm allowing 5k..........Lot of electricians gouging like mad out there. Since both I and my sister have/had the exact same gen before, installed by an electrician, and paid no more than 11K, quoting 20-22K is simply outrageous.

61 going up to 73 today, cloudy, just marvelous to work outside in this weather

Yup. I had a local guy give me a ridiculous quote many years ago for my Kohler 17 kW standby generator, and so I did what I could do of the work myself, and hired out the electrical and gas connections. He is permanently mad at me now, and I can never get him to come out and do any service. I have to use a local guy that sells Cummins.

 

[Thomas]

50F more sun than clouds upper 50's for high.

Outside chores are done critter fed E muffin was :licking:
Plans for today...2 PITA projects will take most of day than putter.
Guy call last night he would be here 7am truck trail take away 3 free never used well tiles still no show. :confused3:
Well one of my little helpers checking out open toolbox so I better get at it.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[lostcreekranch]

good morning all. Up early, heading out in an hour with rv to alignment shop almost 60 miles away, only place who will work on my rv.
Hopefully the trip will be worth it, am wondering if my local shop spun balanced the tires with those huge chrome/stainless hubcaps taken off, and
when they put them back on, it threw off the tire balance. I sure know I can't go down the road with a front end shimmy, bye bye tires.

Inside California's power shutoff: No traffic lights and days of darkness - CNN
Reality has finally hit my sister in Muir Beach. She moved out yesterday to a friends house in San Francisco that had power. I sent them even more info on generators,
including the link to generatorsdirect.com. Rick, they are trying to charge her 15 grand labor to install 5k worth of parts in a simple residential propane setup.
Once you get above 22kw and get into car motors instead of lawn mower engines, the price triples. My oldest brother has a 70Kw unit and you bet that was more expensive.
I think he wasted a lot of money buying such a big generator, plus he will never give it enough load.
I run a three hvac house off 22kw gen, you just have to shed nonessential load, which is super easy to do, or relays do it automatically.

It takes these folks no more than two days to install the gen. How much should an electrician charge for 16 hours work? How about 200 an hour? That's $3200 labor, and I'm allowing 5k..........Lot of electricians gouging like mad out there. Since both I and my sister have/had the exact same gen before, installed by an electrician, and paid no more than 11K, quoting 20-22K is simply outrageous.

61 going up to 73 today, cloudy, just marvelous to work outside in this weather

We have very strict laws, in Texas, regarding "price gouging" before, during , after disasters. Seems this might be what happening to your sister?

 

[wngsprd]

This isn't going to be ending well for anyone or any party. Between greed, arson, acts of God, and lack of preparedness, they are where they are. Are they learning from hindsight? I hope so. Maybe they should consider controlled burns, to burn off the undergrowth? But the fires in Bastrop went from treetop to treetop like jet fuel. Maybe wide fire breaks every mile or so? RNG, I respect all you've done to minimize the risks. You are fortunate that you have the land and resources to do what you've done. I don't know what to say about all those homes in between large trees in a forest? What can they do? Just flat out not allow them again? My wife's cousin had a home like this in Bastrop. They had just bought it, and he cleared out all the pine needles in the yard and for about 10 yards outside/behind their privacy fence. The homes on both sides of them that did not, burned to the ground, but their's was spared. But their home suffered horrific smoke damage.

I have been fortunate that, while shredding/slashing, my bush hog clutch has thrown out sparks when the clutch plates grenaded. I could have started a fire. Fortunately I looked back and shut it down. This was last year or year before.

Hard to imagine everyone having their own personal gas or diesel generator. Imagine the fumes and air quality. Everything CA has "overdone" environmentally is back firing on them now. They limit what type of small engines are allowed to be sold there. They will probably mandate natural gas or propane in the future.

The fallout will be great. Prayers for those affected.

Don, I didn't like the ergonomics of the French 3 door fridges. After having 2 side by side types, I bought a very plain, old school top freezer/bottom fridge, with no/minimal electronic circuit boards. KISS. But alas, I like the ergonomics of the side by side better.

Astros better play their hearts out today. I was talking to a friend at work who was very confident about them winning. I told them that the Rays have had their number this season, and here we are. They get prime time since the Yankees are waiting.

I agree...RNG and Sadamo David are the models of self reliance and preparedness. While discussing California, let me share what I heard on the radio news yesterday...California has the nation's highest taxes, highest gas prices and still the highest poverty rate. Very sad. This power outage sounds like a Cat 5 hurricane hit and stayed around awhile.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I'm narrowing it down:
1. Stainless steal, preferably smudge proof to match other kitchen appliances
2. Counter depth (about 31" deep)
3. Internal water dispenser - it would be colder and wife likes the clean door look
4. French door bottom freezer (3 door)
5. Ice maker only in bottom freezer (does not take up fridge space)
6. bonus if it has space saver shelves (the kind that half collapse so you can put a tall item on the shelf below)

My Samsung pretty much matches, may be deeper. We didn’t get the water dispenser. The half shelf that slides in for tall stuff is very useful.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Question for all of you, how much sleep is normal and what can change that?

I try for 8 hrs

 

[CWB Wyo]

Kyle.. Most of the snow missed us. We did get get about a inch dusting with the morning low of 19°. The high today will be in the upper 30's and party cloudy with 15-20 mph winds. The overnight low tomorrow may be in the single digits.

I've been helping a neighbor work on his stuff over the the last week. He left to go back to Colorado yesterday. How it's time I get my stuff done.

Hope everyone get healthy and stays.
CWB.

 

[PJSprog]

60°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 80° today. Brief shot of warm air today will be pushed out by a cold front this afternoon and evening, bringing storms with it of course. High tomorrow will be at midnight, dropping all day into the 30s overnight.

Got a whole lot of nothing done last night. Was listening to the Cardinals stomp the Braves on the drive home (10 runs in the 1st inning), then watched the rest on TV. Checked on the guitar neck, and I think I'm done with it after four coats. I don't want too thick of a finish.

Mostly, yeah, I've been playing a 6-string bass guitar since '03.

I generally sleep about 6-7 hours a night. Any more than that, and I get sleep hangover.

 

[wngsprd]

55 going to 72. Nice Autumn day again.

Well, Coco made a new friend this morning...Pepe Le Pew II. I admittedly didn't do a good job of patrolling before letting her out...paying for it now. I gave her a pre-sunrise bath outside with oatmeal shampoo...all we had. So, not so bad, especially since I've never minded the smell of skunk too much, as long as not real strong.

Thomas, we have chipmunks come on our porch each morning to collect sunflower seeds and peanuts in the shell. This morning it was able to put 3 full peanuts into its pouch. We actually have one with a noticeably shorter tail than the others that we call short-tail.

Moved my MIL's furniture and things from one apartment to a smaller one on a different floor yesterday...had some help from friends. Still took all day. My wife is going back to do some final stuff, and decorating today while I keep her mom company here. Then I go tomorrow to hang pictures, curtains, etc. and bring back some things that don't fit.

I'm liking the sounds of an Astros-Nationals World Series. Of course, Cardinals would be fine instead, too.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good morning! It was 71° this morning and going to 94° this afternoon. We’re lucky .... I guess. Forecast is for 100° in Laredo today. . A “cooler” front is supposed to come thru tomorrow mid-day bringing some much needed rain and lower temperatures.

More tree trimming today before we get big winds tomorrow. I got about 8 trees trimmed up yesterday and limbs on burn pile and packed down with the FEL.





Drew ... good luck with your wheel alignment.

Sleep? I usually try to watch the 10 p.m. news, in bed, and up by about 5 a.m.

RNG ....I suspect PG&E will get worse before it gets better. Our power provider does regular right of way maintenance ... we can count on seeing them about every 4-5 years for regular tree trimming. Our power is VERY reliable and longest outage, since we bought this place in 2006, was about three hours when a major transformer failed. We had zero outages during three hurricanes.

BEF .... hope you’re being careful on your ladders installing the GDO.

Hope everyone has a great Friday Eve.

Prayers to all.