Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

Yesterday was a pretty good day for Holly had dinner in best restaurant in Roanoke Alexander’s. A celebration of sorts early birthday dinner. For the bad days this one great day made up for all the bad. Praise God

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 52°, overcast with good visibility. Forecast to become partly sunny and make it just over 60.

Yesterday we did manage to get the ERV installed, it was a bit of a project. My proudest accomplishment was mounting the control and finding the thermostat wire that was buried in the wall accurately enough to not even need touch up paint.

The location of the wire is circled in red in the picture that I’m sure glad I took during construction. That was for an alternate location for the heat pump thermostat. The one to the left is for the radiant heat.

I took the radiant thermostat off and looked in that hole with an endoscope to locate the spare, measured the distance with the endoscope cable.

I still need to balance the airflow, it requires a manometer with two ports for differential pressure, mine only has a single port. Good excuse for another tool that will be here tomorrow.

Managed to keep the 3D printer busy all day as well.
One of the projects was this white cap for the vacuum port on the drywall saw to collect the dust without a vacuum attached. It worked well for a single cut out like the one in the ceiling for the ERV fresh air return, but would have to be emptied for every cut if you had a lot to do. Not sure how well it would work if you weren’t cutting overhead.

Today starts with breakfast with the professor, then off to Newburgh to pick up the Citation from the service center.
I have a friend coming along that’s excited about getting a ride in a jet.
After that it’s back to the regularly scheduled tasks.

And the best news is that yesterday, i cleaned up more messes than I made!

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 54 to 70 and the clouds are thinning
Got about half the decorations out, will do more tonight.
Ground is still pretty hard so will take out the tractor to push in a few t posts.

Back to the day job,

Be well

 

[ponytug]

good morning all
up way too early but sleep patterns a little off lately

Buckeye, great song, thanks.

enjoying an early cup of coffee, lots of projects for today including mowing and trimming the whole place, then washing my rv.
That should wear me out.

since my wife died of rectal cancer at age 55, importance of colonoscopy sure clear to me...as miserable a process as it is.
Now I did not do three days of clear, which apparently I should have. Geez, three days of jello? That's mighty hard to take.
if you bleed or things hurt down there, please please get it checked out.
prep is miserable but the procedure (thank you propofol) is easy.

really looking forward to getting outside today. Should be a nice Fall day in the 60's just getting into low 70's.
need to clean out the veggie gardens too, tomatoes are done and a viney mess. Will pull them all up and chuck in woods.
that probably will wait til tomorrow.

RS, sorry about your hot water heater. Does anyone here replace the anodes or otherwise do maintenance on electric
hot water heater? With my acidic water I'm amazed I have any elements left.

hope you all have a good day.

I used to do anode maintenance on the water heater. The first time I had to haul a 3/4" impact wrench up to get the anode out. After that it went a bit better, but the anodes were going in about eight months and that got old pretty quickly. So, I quit swapping anodes.

I bought a powered anode (Cerro-Tec, now available on Amazon), and it's going on towards fifteen years.

Our water heater doesn't accumulate sediment, but if yours does, I would recommend replacing the cheapo drain valve with a higher quality brass gate valve. I've had a couple of the cheapo ones fail to seal in the past after a single use.

Today is gutter day, with some of the outbuildings getting new gutters with stainless steel mesh screens (wildfire (WUI) requirement now, and no more leaf blowing gutters for me, yay!).

FWIW: I noticed yesterday that the stainless steel mesh easyon gutter guards happen to be on sale at our local Costco, 20% off, but for a package with 36' instead of 24'. They work well here, but at some point if your local rainfall rate gets too intense, water is going to sail across the screens, so it's not perfect.

All the best,

Peter

 

[Looking4new]

25 years ago I got seamless gutters put on this place and the first winter the snow load took them off. Called the people I bought them off (they had installed them too) and they said that I had a steel roof, which they knew about when they had quoted me the price and did the job. So zero warranty. I could have sued them, but didn't want to lose the time off work. They have NEVER gotten a recommendation from me.

I understand that gutter guards are good IF you have leaves. I've got pine needles. But now with no gutters I don't have to worry about it.
We've gotten used to the fact that when we go outside in a rain storm we WILL get the back of our necks wet.

Just think, the best season of all 4 is coming soon! The no bugs season! Winter.

 

[daugen]

"no bug season"
now there's something we all can agree on, and wish for
of course after all the flowers have been pollinated

made about ten trips in from rv unloading stuff, then went and mowed and trimmed and weedeated
the lawn. Was pretty long, took awhile and I'm doubting I'll get to washing the rv today.
Tomorrow looks good.

with my acidic water and lots of sediment, no water heater will last long here, and my landlord for sure is not going
to pay a plumber to change the anode. I'm sure there's nothing but a stub in there.
remember when i got here my nice looking 11 year old oil burner had never been serviced since install.
I promptly paid to have it done and it gets done every two years.

when this water heater inevitably fails, will ask plumber to make sure good shut off valve provided.

 

[m7040]

dentist appointment went well. Cleaning and X-rays. Some gum recession

Wife was brought directly into the dentist chair since she can not use the waiting room.The chairs are too low and she can not get up. Got all the family updates from our dentist friend. Sold motor home since as she said there was always something that had to be fixed and they were not the handy types that could do it themselves. Instead bought a place in retirement community near Orlando and spending a week a month there

D was elected to the Board Of Directors for a company that she likes. She also started new training in the cyber security field that she will combine with her management and analytical skills

 

[sodamo]

69°F and still 0 rain

Off to Hilo this morning. Sophie has and ophthalmology appointment.

Need to refill diesel cans. Actually got 3 new ones.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great tractor day

 

[WinterDeere]

25 years ago I got seamless gutters put on this place and the first winter the snow load took them off. Called the people I bought them off (they had installed them too) and they said that I had a steel roof...

Steel roofs usually require snow guards every 12 feet, or so. We have four staggered rows of them, on our raised-seam metal roof.

I understand that gutter guards are good IF you have leaves. I've got pine needles. But now with no gutters I don't have to worry about it. We've gotten used to the fact that when we go outside in a rain storm we WILL get the back of our necks wet.

Screw the neck... you don't have basement flooding without gutters?!?

I have gutter guards on all of our gutters, and they're great for both leaves and needles. They don't handle the occasional deluge as well as gutters without guards, but they're infinitely better the other 99% of the time.

 

[Looking4new]

Nope Ken, the basement does NOT flood.

We also don't have snow guards on the roof.

Got the tractor back, what a p.i.t.a. hooking up the loader this time. It is all done now. Loader and BB both on and she is camping in her shelter until tomorrow.

 

[Thomas]

Remember that Barred Owl on the ground photo I posted recently...that same bird had been back sitting on the same branch of a tree 20 feet from the house for 3 mornings...probably more, but I've seen it around 5am each time. There are some vole holes nearby due to the bird feeders...hope it is catching them.

I had a "tractor experience" yesterday. Decided that since the highway department had cleared so much of the tree limbs and sapling/brush on their right of way this summer, that it was a good time for me to clear my side along the old horse pasture fence. So, tractor, chain saw, loppers and grapple were employed. I had 5 big piles on my side to grapple, but once cleared, I noticed that they had missed some saplings on their side...mostly loblollies and cedars. So, I climbed the fence and tackled that side...one big pile to grapple.

Drove down the highway but had to cross a small dry ditch to get to the pile...got across it, but couldn't get back...tried every angle, but always ended with a back wheel off the ground, and therefore high pucker factor. So, my tractor is parked across the ditch on our side of the road as my wife comes home from 3 days of babysitting our DIL and wondering what's up. Meanwhile I've walked up to the barn and retrieved a 3 foot cedar log/9 inch diameter to place in the ditch and she sees me walking back toward the road. Finally, success.

I know there are gizmos to tell you your tilt angle, and I probably would have been in the red. No more ditch crossing for me. I still have more to clear, though.

Could be interesting if owl hands around this winter.

No pictures to share delimar.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Got new locks on my camper baggage doors, but need to replace at least 2 of the doors as they getting bad from water getting in around the seals (I guess).

 

[Thomas]

49F cloudy wind from the north 15-25mph has little bite.

Good day at work,plans for the afternoon take backpack bower for hike but gusty winds cancel that.
Plans for the evening.... about it.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Oversized truck load hit the underside of bridge on I70, closing the EastBound bridge on I70. Traffic nightmare, as all traffic is forced off, have to do a uturn at a light, then head back on the other side. this is bringing traffic up near me, which has all the small town lights all backed up.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Got the new camper door lock delivered by USPS, so got it on also. camper all secure again, after losing a set of keys.

 

[WinterDeere]

Nope Ken, the basement does NOT flood.

That's a surprise, but maybe you have less rain or better soils? We average about 1" of rain per week in an area with clay soil. Nearly every house I've ever lived in has been a very old house, and always the same story, seller claims basement floods whenever it rains. And in each one, I've simply fixed the gutters and extended downspout dumps farther from house, and then had a dry basement.

We also don't have snow guards on the roof.

Metal roof with no snow guards, and we'd be losing our gutters around here, too. My house had only one double-row of snow guards about 1/3 the way up on the metal roof, and several had been sheered off when I moved in. I hired a roofer to install a second double-row 2/3 of the way up, and they said, "let's just re-attach the broken ones and see if they hold." They didn't even last one winter, I had him back out the following summer to fix them again, and then attach another double row farther up.

 

[wngsprd]

Yesterday was a pretty good day for Holly had dinner in best restaurant in Roanoke Alexander’s. A celebration of sorts early birthday dinner. For the bad days this one great day made up for all the bad. Praise God

Real happy to hear that. Happy Early Birthday, Holly!

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Thursday) morning. Overnight Low of 7.0C and it's presently 23.6C, fairly clear with a steady breeze.

Yesterday's trip 'into town' was successful, including a visit to the hardware store = there was a project in the Church vestry that needed 'seeing to'. That's what I did during the arvo. But first, I remembered to bring a spray can of lanolin to maintain the locks & hinges of the Church Hall. Seeing as I was there, I also knocked on the Rectory door and sprayed all of theirs too.

So today I reckon I'll simply enjoy the day and get a wee bit of dhobi done.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[LouNY]

I used to do anode maintenance on the water heater. The first time I had to haul a 3/4" impact wrench up to get the anode out. After that it went a bit better, but the anodes were going in about eight months and that got old pretty quickly. So, I quit swapping anodes.

I bought a powered anode (Cerro-Tec, now available on Amazon), and it's going on towards fifteen years.

Our water heater doesn't accumulate sediment, but if yours does, I would recommend replacing the cheapo drain valve with a higher quality brass gate valve. I've had a couple of the cheapo ones fail to seal in the past after a single use.

Today is gutter day, with some of the outbuildings getting new gutters with stainless steel mesh screens (wildfire (WUI) requirement now, and no more leaf blowing gutters for me, yay!).

FWIW: I noticed yesterday that the stainless steel mesh easyon gutter guards happen to be on sale at our local Costco, 20% off, but for a package with 36' instead of 24'. They work well here, but at some point if your local rainfall rate gets too intense, water is going to sail across the screens, so it's not perfect.

All the best,

Peter

I have the screen mesh gutter guards on my gutters, I will be taking them off. The pine needles stick in them and then hold on to the leaves. Plus the pine needles are getting washed back up under the drip edge so they can wick water up into the rood edge
Going to remove them and then look for a larger down spout opening. Between the pines, oaks and maples it a royal pain.

 

[Buppies]

Actually it’s mine wngsprd 72 in 34 minutes
Ran my side of the paver no real problems for me lucky I guess. Walking trails require precise cross flow very tight tolerances
Good evening