Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

Bill, they are allegedly self draining to a low point and I have already opened all the valves.
but water gets stuck in traps. So yes about an hour ago I poured the first of three gallons of pink stuff in the drains and toilet.
then later today will work on the part under the bed; that's my only concern. Pump has a suction fitting for pink stuff, just sucks from gallon bottle instead
of fresh water tank. So that will get done. And the hot water heater anode. Found the special wrench for that which Popgadget customized for me.

the only thing I won't do is pour pink stuff in the fresh water tank. I have an air adapter plumbing fitting I might use on that line.

cleaning lady never showed up, thought it was next week. Fine.

one of the few bushes that looks almost as good going to the trash pile as when new.
then I worked on the blackberries, thorns got me a couple of times, but that's all happily residing in the woods now

 

[pennwalk]

35F windy, sun and snow showers. I had a productive afternoon yesterday hauling logs. Hauling the bigger pieces out in the woods may be a challenge. Two weeks ago the fields were dry as dust now they are a little wet. Leaving tracks on the lane. Saw a 6 point buck watching me from the edge of the woods. He looked nervous. I was a little nervous too. Some times it can be a little hard to tell a guy on a red tractor from a deer. I had my orange vest on. My wife put the Christmas lights up on the bushes in front of the house. She loves Christmas.

Take care.

Chris

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning Again,
Mike Z, thank you for the German drinking song !

Frits, I was determined to get the wheels off of the truck, before I started I squirted some WD40 in between the wheel and the hubs. I slightly loosened all the lugs and backed up and down my DW while stepping on the brakes pretty hard. Well that worked for the front wheels but not the rears ! I ended up using my scissor jack in between the rim and leaf spring to pop the rear wheels. After I got the wheels off I smeared some grease on the mating surface, so we will see how that works out next time ! Anyways I got it done on a pretty cold day with the wind blowing, so not ideal temp for this sort of work !

Time to go, wife is sending me on a grocery expedition, so I need to get it in gear !

Have a good day !

 

[sodamo]

66°F and no rain

Another great happy hour gathering in town yesterday. A chance to raise a glass to recently departed member. RIP, Joyce.

Overcast this morning with promise of a bit of rain, but if dry I hope to get her the BX back in operation.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a day

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I use air to blow the water out of my camper plumbing lines. open one faucet at a time with air pressure on. This is after draining the hot water tank and putting the plug back in. I use less than a gallon of pink antifreeze for the traps, kitchen sink, bath sink, shower are the only traps. Make sure the toilet valve gets flushed with air, I forgot one year and it froze. Also the outside faucet. ON the house Disconnect water hoses from hose bibs, and I disconnect and drain the Eley hose reel.

 

[riptides]

Compelling resume can open doors for people seeking to enhance their job or new jobs
she got this as a gift and will be using it. COMPELLING RESUMES

I had no idea editing would get - that expensive. I guess a drop in the bucket if one is determined to break away from the pack.

chatGPT can help too. One should cover all angles when looking for the next step in the career path.

Your daughter has done well. Public service, too! Good for us all.

 

[KilroyJC]

Also talking about making me go into the office at least one day a week. At 2.5 hours each way into downtown Manhattan and $32/day for train and $6/day for subway, it gets expensive fast.

not to mention risk to life and limb. . .

 

[KilroyJC]

Good morning everyone. Zero degrees, going up to 23. brrrr. Just after I hit the remote start for the Jeep (to go), I get a call from the dentist that their hygenist called in sick and needed to reschedule. Didn't really want to go anyway... I got a blower fan for my wood stove. I ordered it last Wed and it showed up yesterday. It's made in Wisconsin and was for my model stove (Avalon 1750) and the stove had the threaded holes already. Bolted right up. I did not use the temp sensing switch, since that did not fit tight in the underside area, so I just turn it on/off with the supplied variable speed switch. The switch has magnets to keep it in place, on a not-so-hot baffle part of the exterior. Works WAYYYY better than the box fan, which I'd been using for the two years I've been here.

I have a 6” 120VAC muffin fan from an ancient desktop computer power supply that I point at our woodstove to distribute the heat, in addition to the Caframo on top.

 

[daugen]

lot of metal eaten for just one season.
have a spare
need to get some baking soda solution and try to scrub out that mess inside the threads

 

[daugen]

the size of this thing is amazing

https://www.cnn.com/travel/royal-caribbean-icon-of-the-seas-delivery/index.html

powered by LNG
40 bars
would be quite a week sampling them all...at least six a night
good thing you won't be driving

 

[scaredychicken]

good morning
nights are getting colder, more wind lately. at 10 AM it is currently 0 Celsius (32 F, so at freezing) - brought the dog in
curious how many of you have aquariums in the house ... I think that I will get a 30 gal tank, when things are settled here ... I've had aquariums for most of my life (but wife didn't like them, so nothing lately) Perhaps maybe even a pond in the yard one day. They have kind of a calming effect. it certainly worked for all of my criminal clients when they were reporting to me for supervision orders.
coffee now, then back to my home office for awhile
Have a great day everyone

 

[scaredychicken]

Going to the Dr again for wife's monthly injection. 14000 dollars thank you Medicare

did I read that right ? $14K monthly ? yikes. All the best.
I thought my Botox shots (for pain, not vain ) were bad at $1800 every 6 months - I am getting more Botox tomorrow ... it's brutal, but it works for a time.

 

[Buppies]

That’s funny m7040 and hope you did not take the wrong way. I know no foreign languages so pretty stupid on my part

 

[newbury]

how many of you have aquariums in the house .

Careful - they can become an addiction.
My Grandmother started me out with a 5 gallon tank for guppies about 7th grade.
I ended up working in a small pet shop, had too many small (< 20 gal) tanks to count. Several 50's, lots of 29's and 20's. All freshwater in a basement in Vermont.
Bred Cichlids, Discus, Tetras, etc.
It was fun and kept me off the streets.
Then college and Army came along.

 

[ronjhall]

Yes you read it right. It has been covered between medicare and Blue cross so far. She was on Humera it was 4000 dollars a month that was not covered very well by insurance but shifting to this injection that has to be administered at the Dr office makes it covered under medicare. Strange how that works because if Medicare would cover Humera it would be a 10000 dollar saving to tax payers.

My wife was on medication that was over $12k a month. It was covered by Humana and another group. Sad that after she passed there was almost 90 days of medication left. Could not find anyone to take the medication. Ended up throwing $30k away.

 

[daugen]

thank you for reminder on hose reel, shame to wreck an Eley

 

[rswyan]

23F and mostly cloudy @ 15:45, sun trying to peek out occasionally. Calling for a high of 26F for the day. No snow to speak of down here.

Got the 42" section of 1/2" black pipe doped up and screwed into the 8' 9" vertical section forming the reverse "L" last evening.

Then secured the vertical section to the wall with conduit clamps and marked the spot on the wall where the hole needed to be drilled into the basement.

Managed to drill that without hitting any wires or plumbing.

Then after I got that drilled I secured the horizontal leg as well with conduit clamps.

Now I need to take some measurements for piping in the basement to get the gas line routed down below the floor joists that I will hang it from.

Two coats of Danish oil applied onto the plywood piece for the electrical panel last night. Hopefully mostly dry by now. Should be able to get that and the electrical panel put up today if so.

Then more clean up in the garage.

But before any of that I have to go refill hopper and tube feeders for our little feathered friends ...

Hope everyone is having a good Tuesday ...

 

[sodamo]

Tow bar. Standard 50 mm ball
If tractor is busy I can do such tricks
View attachment 834366

Impressive

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Wednesday) morning. Overnight Low of 11.6C and it's presently 15.5C, overcast with steady, increasing wind. There was 1.4mm in the gauge @ 0900.

'Tractor fun' yesterday was reduced as half of the job (plus travel time) was not required. I did receive a bottle of Pinot Noir for my efforts from the Mad Agisting Horse Woman.

Today is 'into town' day for mail/groceries. Penelope the Pussybeast is becoming resigned to the fact that the "new, improved recipe" wet food is palatable... and is what she's getting now.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
32 with a high of 35/and partly cloudy skies, possible snow showers this am.

That’s as far as I got this morning before I had to rush out the door. It was actually snowing with the sun shining.

I had to race out the door and head to the airport, ended up in Palm Beach by lunch time. 160kt winds with a 100kt headwind component made it a long trip. Of course we didn’t get an equal push going home.

Tomorrow I’m going to ferry a plane for maintenance, but it’s not far, should be finished by lunch time.

Then I can get to real work, like changing the hydraulic oil in the tractor, and rearranging the equipment in the shop, storing mowers and getting the snow plow ready, installing and testing the new controls in the smoker.
29° outside now, not getting any warmer overnight.