Slept 5 1/2 hours. Then started reclinerizing. Sister IL calls and then Wiley keeps barking at something out front of house [Wifey had opened front door so he sees all walking by]. Get dressed and go get meds.
Thanks gang for all the wishes and prayers. Spent most of yesterday at hospitals [test and treatments.
Wifey off to baby shower for her cousin. Got another one tomorrow for our friend.
Steak later today.
77 and sunny. Beautiful day.
Enjoy
Morning folks!
Sun is in and out - apparently got a nice shower early this am as yard/street very wet. Below normal temps continue but looks like upper midwest gonna need their shorts. Not clear to me how it can be below normal down here and ‘way above’ normal up there (i.e. 100!).
Banks - glad the GS is ok and no bull [:-^]
Kev - Bummer about the ants. My experience is they go in where rot has already started. They only like soft wood.
Chief - [angel] - glad yesterday went well.
Sat. 83 Sun. 80 and Mon only 67.
Happy birtheday chief.
CA supreme court overturned CA assult weapon ban
Roy and Banks, your right! It could of been worse. I think I got them. The first day after the spray there were hundreds of dead ants on the layout. I have been sucking the table clean and checking every morning and today there were only two. [Y] So I think we are getting there.
MAN it is hot for this time of year. it was 90 at noon??? Nuts.
Wife and I took a road trip to pick up an old milk can in a town called Paw Paw. I cut the bottom of the can out and use them to cover the ugly well head. [;)] Scary part is the last two I did the bottoms were sealed on with Lead!!! [:O] We stopped in Serena for lunch and then when I got home I did a tank of Trimec as long as it is so hot. Should knock the weeds down fast in this heat!
Banks glad the boy did fair. sure could of been worse. I remember chaseing a show cow for a 4-H show that got loose in a over your head corn field. What a PITA! Gramps was so mad he said he would shoot it and eat it but it would be bad meat with that adrealine rushing through it after the chase. [(-D]
Some before and after shots. We have 70 of these on the house. The ones on the south side take a beating from the direct sun.
End removed cleaned and ready for new cap.
Finished
A cabin? Oh-so-cool! I’m jealous!
Tell me, if you have a fireplace is it properly accessorized with a flintlock musket?
True cabin, I wish,Nope just a log sided home, could not pay for the real thing. Also a lot of un-wanted issues with true log homes. As for the fireplace, yeah we got one but I don’t have a flintlock above it, just my trusty old Savage Stevens 987 22LR from about 1978 for when needed. Used to be ready on call but with grand-kids it is trigger locked but loaded. [;)]
This is where we were having the problem.
Hey modern fireplace, modern rifle. That’s OK. [;)]
This software!!! Tried to post 4 times and cuser went away. ???
84 and sunny. Enjoy your week ahead.
Morning/afternoon folks!
Poured rain late last night for a couple of hours. Rain storm/t-storms just kept reforming over our area of town.
Worked up some energy yesterday afternoon and started removing the old/cracked dash from the El Camino. Picked it back up today around lunch and finished a few minutes ago. Started comparing the old to the new - determining where I need to remove/transfer/mount critical metal brackets (new dash does not come with the metal brackets). New dash looks good but is a thicker material than the old - thus some some of the metal slip/speed nuts may not fit. Have to drill out rivets on the old to get the brackets loose - will use stainless screws, washers, and nylock nuts vs pop rivets to fasten the brackets onto the new dash. This is a big project but an enjoyable one. Unfortunately the a/c defrost vents are brittle from years of sun and all the mounting tabs are broken loose. Will have to find a way to support them.
Chief - hang in there through the treatments - prayers!
Kev - as you have a “log veneer” I assume those exposed ends are decorative and from the pics use the ends of the veneer to secure them. The issue I see is they get wet - no way to stop rot unless perfectly sealed/no check cracks which is nearly impossible. Knowing I am talking to the choir with you - I have repaired things like that with layered (treated wood and dried for a few months) 2x(6’s, 8,s, etc. fill in what you need for width)'s glued up with outdoor/exterior glue like Titebond and then shaped to size. Install and stain. You can avoid the wait using untreated wood - but more care is needed to protect the wood. I constantly keep some treated lumber around to dry it out for when I need it.
Way hot for us!!! Still fighting the ants, staining and touching up caulk on the siding .
Roy they are solid pine blocks of wood nailed to the solid face boards in left and rights. Not a thin log veneer. Like kilm dried 2x4 but cut to look as hand hewn lumber. No glue, always wet when it rains, just hanging on the face board and the end block is not nailed to the house and no sealer in the cracks but the stain and OUAD caulk to the other boards. It all came pre-stained wrapped in package material. Built to fail?? In this case the face board was still good, I had 14, now 13 extra ends because they screwed up on the original order. So I just removed a block from one of the spares and nailed and glued it to the face board, Then we sealled everything and re-stained. I have had problems over the years where the OUAD caulk would pull away and had rot. The chimney was re-done about 4 years ago because the seam the builders made for the corners out of a D log was not sealed and the water got to it. It has been an on-going PITA!!! But wifey wanted it. In hind site here in the woods I should of done James Hardie concrete board siding. [(-D] All and all I can’t say much, it is 15 years old this year and only the south side of the house and all of the end-tails have been re-stained so far.
Kind of like this but pre-stained.
Mornin’ boys. Overcast and 72 along the Potomac Highlands. Will head up to chapter museum today to attempt to get their N-scale layout up and running.
Spent the weekend in Lancaster County, attending niece’s wedding. Nice affair on an old estate. Since we were close to Elizabethtown, tried to go to Star Barn/Stone Gables, but they were closed. Was hoping to see the 4-4-0 Leviathan.
79 degrees, 79% humidity and cloudy. Chance of a shower this afternoon.
Resting up in recliner.
Treatment this afternoon.
Muggy and hot, Chance of rain and boy we need some. Not much else.
Chief hang in there!
Mornin’ all!
Hit over 90° yesterday, looks like it’s supposed to do the same today. Interestingly, because we’re up in the hills, we usually come in 3-4 degrees cooler than they normally forecast for Wayne. When I drive into town with Linda’s Saturn, I can see the temperature creep up after I leave.
So I am really, really jonesing to get this project going that I put the table saw together for. Damn I wish the price of wood would go back down. I may break down and purchase one piece just to get started. But I hate paying top dollar for a single board. Just seems so ridiculous.
Well looks like we’ll be going ahead with the HVAC replacement at the maw-in-law’s house. She had set this up 2-3 years ago to get a loan, but when she went back for it the bank said no. Fortunately she belongs to a credit union associated with the UN, so she was able to secure the loan through them.
Celebrated da lil’ woman’s birthday yesterday. Since I’m 29, that means she turned 28. I did all the cooking, unfortunately the bake functionality in our oven stopped working a little while before we went to VA, so I had to do everything in a small countertop convection oven she bought a few years ago. So Corey and I baked our normal dutch chocolate cake, but instead of a 15/9.5 pan, we did 3 small 10" round pans, which had to be baked one by one. Roughly 30 minutes apiece. Then I prepared chicken parmesan and cooked it in the oven. During the day went out and picked up cards for the boys and a gift.
Ugh, just talked with the owner, apparently one of my colleague’s son was medivaced to the hospital this morning due to a reaction to the second shot of the vaccine. He’s of HS age, which just happens to be the same as my 2 guys. And I was thinking of getting them signed up this week for the vaccine. Need to see how this plays out and if there were other factors which played into this.
Have a good one!
Good Afternoon!!!
Friday night spent most of the night prepping for Saturday - Moving tables and food an stuff like that.
Saturday moved more stuff around and set up, ran to Mom’s for vacuuming, then showered and took the bike to my house. Met up with my ex and her husband - we did talk throughout the day, Mom came over and she sat with them for a while - Jenni showed up later as she had to work - so the ex and future bride talked a lot - Party was a success, we were home in bed by 11.
Sunday we did practically nothing - we didn’t get out until after 3, had lunch at Capt. Paul’s Firehouse Dogs. Cap is a big supporter of the Military, Fire, EMS and Cops. Hadn’t been, I had 2 dogs with chili and BACON - outstanding!! Vanilla ice cream for us both afterwards.
Still trying to sort out pools - they don’t stay inflated - I hate buying this stuff from the internet, but Jenni - wellllll…sigh…
Afternoon folks!
Pouring rain again - all morning. Lotsa little flood areas around.
Celebrated daughter’s 30th bday last night at their ‘new’ house. We had a good time.
Mrs and I celebrate our 35th anniv today - think we will go to a white tablecloth restaurant tonight.
Kev - that is great you have spare parts! I have to make my own.
DJ and Anj - you guz are very busy!
Took 4 hours, but Fifey got the chapter’s N-scale display case up and running. The committee chairman told me they’ve been dormant for 12 years. Yep. Woof… Lots of oxidized track, warped curvature, and derailment inducing switches. I realized, right away mind you, why I switched to O-gauge 25 years ago.
Roy - 35 BIG Congas! [Y][oX)]
[Y][:-^]
Highway Patrol arrests the guy 24 and his girlfriend 23 who shot 6 year old Aiden Leos in a road rage on the 55 freeway 2 weeks ago. It seemed that they had little to go on but a blurry picture of the car they were driving and you couldn’t read the license plate. I have heard that police labs can do things where maybe they could at least partially read the plate. But in the news conference phoned in tips helped.
There is a half million reward. They will be in court tomorrow. Bail for each is 1 million. They were arrested at what looked like their apartment in Costa Mesa in Orange county. Their car was at I think his grandmothers maybe that was a big tip. A nice looking house. His grandmother had to know, that car was on TV everyday for 2 weeks. I wonder if they are building a case against the grandmother as a accomplice. Not a real common car and that helped.They also have the gun.
With sentencing enhancements they could get 25 years to life.
V8 - You are correct, that shooting is news on the East Coast. I’ve been to a FBI installation, and it is amazing what they can do with blurry cam footage.
