Never thought retirement would be like this
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No long handles. I use the sit and scoot method.
Knees wouldn't stand that. Going to choose gray again, maybe just a little darker.Very little progress on the porch today. My fault. Just a lazy day.
About the water situation: The only thing it *could* be, that I could *possibly* fix myself, is the breaker. Don't want to deal with the pump man right now. Never knew of a breaker going bad, but never had one mounted outdoors for 20+ years either. Worth a try. Tomorrow I'll at least check some things.
Back in business with images. Switched to a different search engine. Will skip boring details. However, while troubleshooting I came across this: "...the 20-year-old browser (IE) is being phased out to make way for Microsoft's Edge. IE is still available in Windows 10, but is no longer the default and will not receive new features." Better start getting more used to Edge and Bing, or something else.
About the water situation: The only thing it *could* be, that I could *possibly* fix myself, is the breaker. Don't want to deal with the pump man right now. Never knew of a breaker going bad, but never had one mounted outdoors for 20+ years either. Worth a try. Tomorrow I'll at least check some things.
Back in business with images.
Switched to a different search engine. Will skip boring details. However, while troubleshooting I came across this: "...the 20-year-old browser (IE) is being phased out to make way for Microsoft's Edge. IE is still available in Windows 10, but is no longer the default and will not receive new features." Better start getting more used to Edge and Bing, or something else.Same thing at the lake this afternoon: Water off. No evidence that breaker ever tripped. Flipped OFF/ON. Water started running.
There just happened to be another breaker of the exact same size right beside it, with plenty of extra wire. How lucky is that!?!? So I switched the wires. Everything still worked on both circuits. Will wait until next time and see what happens.
With the electronic meters the repairmen have now, they don't have to actually witness anything fail anymore to find out what's wrong. The word capacitor keeps popping into my mind from trying to troubleshoot the table saw. Ha!
I believe the little hummer is gone for good now. Hope she has a safe trip. High today 89[SUP]o[/SUP]F, only one degree shy of the record. Beautiful day. Back on the porch tomorrow.
There just happened to be another breaker of the exact same size right beside it, with plenty of extra wire. How lucky is that!?!? So I switched the wires. Everything still worked on both circuits.
Will wait until next time and see what happens.With the electronic meters the repairmen have now, they don't have to actually witness anything fail anymore to find out what's wrong. The word capacitor keeps popping into my mind from trying to troubleshoot the table saw. Ha!
I believe the little hummer is gone for good now. Hope she has a safe trip. High today 89[SUP]o[/SUP]F, only one degree shy of the record. Beautiful day.
Back on the porch tomorrow.Out to the lake. Water running! Really did NOT expect that. Doesn't rule out anything. Wait and see what happens, I guess.
Drove a few hundred feet toward home and remembered I forgot to shut the gate.:eewwk: I forgot 2 times in 12.5 years. The first time it stayed open for 2 days and the goats didn't even leave, or if they did, they came back. Just shows how spoiled they are.
Half of the porch floor is ready to paint.
Drove a few hundred feet toward home and remembered I forgot to shut the gate.:eewwk: I forgot 2 times in 12.5 years. The first time it stayed open for 2 days and the goats didn't even leave, or if they did, they came back. Just shows how spoiled they are.
Half of the porch floor is ready to paint.
Sent off an email to the contractor asking for an update. The way the engineer operates, he may not have even forwarded his "plan" yet. Gave me an opening to bother him.
Out to the porch in a few minutes. Trying to get started earlier, and ease into being slightly more of a morning person. The problem with being a morning person is, it's all down hill once you get out of bed. If I could only rig up some bright lights on the porch... I tend to peak around 4pm.
Read where 6% of the population are night owls by genetics. These people were necessary in the cavemen days so that someone would be alert enough to be night watchmen while everyone else was sleeping. I knew there was a good reason.
Appointment with dentist tomorrow at 8am to figure out what to do with the bridge. Too early.
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11:30pm: Got half the floor painted. Will take 2 coats. Only one day of possible rain in sight. Gorgeous day today.
Don't know what it is about this house, but young people seem to like it. Two young girls (18-20ish) stopped by while I was painting and asked me if I would rent it. It's just a plain old bungalow style. They loved the porch. It would be good for parties. I was that way too, when I was young---didn't want a cookie cutter apartment. It would be very easy to rent again.
Out to the porch in a few minutes. Trying to get started earlier, and ease into being slightly more of a morning person. The problem with being a morning person is, it's all down hill once you get out of bed. If I could only rig up some bright lights on the porch... I tend to peak around 4pm.
Read where 6% of the population are night owls by genetics. These people were necessary in the cavemen days so that someone would be alert enough to be night watchmen while everyone else was sleeping. I knew there was a good reason.
Appointment with dentist tomorrow at 8am to figure out what to do with the bridge. Too early.
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11:30pm: Got half the floor painted. Will take 2 coats. Only one day of possible rain in sight. Gorgeous day today.
Don't know what it is about this house, but young people seem to like it. Two young girls (18-20ish) stopped by while I was painting and asked me if I would rent it. It's just a plain old bungalow style. They loved the porch. It would be good for parties. I was that way too, when I was young---didn't want a cookie cutter apartment. It would be very easy to rent again.
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Can you be both? I like getting up and starting a project (after a couple cups of coffee) but I also seem to get a "second wind" at night and have started projects late. I have been known to rip carpet up late in the night and my husband would be wide eyed with astonishment when he got up in the morning! Surprise honey!
Yes! "Second wind" That's what it's like! I get those too. I can fall asleep most anytime. Maybe I'll try a split shift, something like: 6am-4pm and 9pm-3am (awake), then sleep in between.
When I was redoing my kitchen I painted a couple of times to well after midnight. :lol: I assume ripping carpet was something you already planned to do.
Good grief! It wasn't even daylight this morning at 6:45. Who wants to get up in the dark? This isn't going to work until after the time changes.
Dental surgeon scheduled tooth extraction for day after tomorrow! Another 8:00 am appt.
Then out to the lake. Water still on!!!!
I know what it is. The pump is waiting for me to get confident enough to let my guard down, and then it's going out. Pump goes out in the winter, water trough will freeze if temps go too low.
Speaking of water troughs, this is ours. Uses the tub of a utility sink from a box store. Made with all scrap lumber. Insulation stuffed around the sides. Water overflows a hole near the top, and to clean it you just pull a stopper out of the drain. Water runs out a plastic drain pipe buried underground and out down the hill. Saves a lot of work. We let the water trickle a little all year long, but faster in the winter. If pump doesn't run, it will freeze. (Old pallets are there so goats don't have to step in mud.)
Goats took to it right away. (~10 yrs ago)
Who wants to get up in the dark? This isn't going to work until after the time changes.Dental surgeon scheduled tooth extraction for day after tomorrow! Another 8:00 am appt.
Then out to the lake. Water still on!!!!
I know what it is. The pump is waiting for me to get confident enough to let my guard down, and then it's going out. Pump goes out in the winter, water trough will freeze if temps go too low.
Speaking of water troughs, this is ours. Uses the tub of a utility sink from a box store. Made with all scrap lumber. Insulation stuffed around the sides. Water overflows a hole near the top, and to clean it you just pull a stopper out of the drain. Water runs out a plastic drain pipe buried underground and out down the hill. Saves a lot of work. We let the water trickle a little all year long, but faster in the winter. If pump doesn't run, it will freeze. (Old pallets are there so goats don't have to step in mud.
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Goats took to it right away. (~10 yrs ago)
Yes. I find it very much like playing with Lincoln Logs when you're a child. Only I get to use a hammer now. Ha!
The first faucet on that trough had a handle like this one.
Some of the goats learned how to turn it. I'd go out and the water would be running full blast. Had to replace it immediately with that wheel like turn handle. Goats really keep you on your toes, trying to outsmart them.
Yes, I've seen goat farms with their whole fence and barn made out of pallets tied together. They don't last very long though.
Not anxious. Never had problems with teeth being removed before.
Yes, going with an implant. After he removes the tooth, he will fill in the hole with either ground up cow bone or synthetic powder stuff, and put a patch over it. Then you wait and wait, and that stuff eventually merges with the bone in your jaw and makes solid bone where the hole was. It's really cool how it works.
I meant to ask you yesterday about your flooring. Did you and your husband install laminate flooring yourselves? That's something I've never tried.
LOL, Hubby is not mechanically inclined at all...I did it all myself! After you get the hang of the "click and lock", it is a snap. The cutting is tiresome because it is measure and measure and cut once! You should try a small room first and look at many UTube videos! I found cutting under the doorways a challenge but I did it. I will try to find some old pictures of the process I did and try to post them here. But after you install the quarter round (which I took up and numbered on the back and then replaced) and then the thresholds...it looks great! Now, I would love to try some of the new wood look ceramic tile for my kitchen. It's never ending!
When Hubby had to have carotid artery surgery they used a "cow belly" for the procedure. The surgeon said they had more success than with pig belly! That was way beyond my comprehension, but it worked!
When Hubby had to have carotid artery surgery they used a "cow belly" for the procedure. The surgeon said they had more success than with pig belly! That was way beyond my comprehension, but it worked!
That's great, maggiemae! It makes you feel good when it works out, doesn't it? I'd really like to see pictures. There is one small room in my house I could try that on. It will be the next room to work on. It needs lots of work.
The YouTube videos are great. You have to be careful, because some of the people that post them don't know what they're doing either. Ha! I used to belong to a DIY forum, but it seemed most of the guys on there didn't take you seriously, and beginner type questions didn't go over well at all.
Did you use one of those nail guns? Those things scare me. I don't have one. Never tried one.
I know, there are so many things I'd like to try, but routine daily stuff keeps getting in the way. Like vacuuming, dusting, laundry, blah, blah....(and putting out fires
)Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Up at 7:15 this morning and it was STILL dark outside! Turning on bright lights in the morning hurts. And I still couldn't get moving until 10am. [It was too cold outside to work before that. ]
Contractor emailed back yesterday that he is doing a project in another county and will get to mine some time next month. If he had said next year, I might have believed him. Que sera sera.
Scraped, vacuumed, washed and painted the rest of the porch floor, except a little strip down the middle. Not really sure why I left that now. The color (gray) was off the shelf and too bluish. May get a custom tint, more brownish, for the second coat. This is another one of those jobs that never quits, if you try to get things perfect. But the sanding was stopped dead because of sanding a little too close to the extension cord. Ha!
And I still couldn't get moving until 10am. [It was too cold outside to work before that. ]Contractor emailed back yesterday that he is doing a project in another county and will get to mine some time next month. If he had said next year, I might have believed him. Que sera sera.
Scraped, vacuumed, washed and painted the rest of the porch floor, except a little strip down the middle. Not really sure why I left that now.
The color (gray) was off the shelf and too bluish. May get a custom tint, more brownish, for the second coat. This is another one of those jobs that never quits, if you try to get things perfect. But the sanding was stopped dead because of sanding a little too close to the extension cord. Ha!
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The only painful thing with the dental procedure this morning was the first shot of novocaine in the roof of my mouth. Made my eyes water. One Alleve about 5pm and that's it.
Oh yes, he got out his hammer again and pounded on the tooth. Said it would be better for the bone graft if it were removed like that. The tooth had a vertical fracture already, and those can't be saved. That's how I lost my second tooth. First was pulled by a horse doctor when I was 16. The others were caused by failures of the two bridges for those 2 teeth.
Out to the lake. Water still running. Got stung by a wasp.
On the way home---met a steer, or bull, trotting down the highway, followed by two police cars with flashers. Assume it turned out ok as long as the steer stayed in his lane.
Back home, got the extension cord out of the sander by brute force, sanded the remaining strip on the porch, then it was dark.
Got up at 6:30 this morning.
Oh yes, he got out his hammer again and pounded on the tooth. Said it would be better for the bone graft if it were removed like that. The tooth had a vertical fracture already, and those can't be saved. That's how I lost my second tooth. First was pulled by a horse doctor when I was 16. The others were caused by failures of the two bridges for those 2 teeth.
Out to the lake. Water still running. Got stung by a wasp.
On the way home---met a steer, or bull, trotting down the highway, followed by two police cars with flashers. Assume it turned out ok as long as the steer stayed in his lane.
Back home, got the extension cord out of the sander by brute force, sanded the remaining strip on the porch, then it was dark.
Got up at 6:30 this morning.
Pappy
Living the Dream
I hope you were able to "steer" around him ok.
Nancy, I go through your posts from time to time to see how you're doing. I also live alone and sometimes do small jobs about the house because I share your opinion on handymen's unreliability and and sometimes incompetence. I've recently discovered that I really like it. My greatest achievement, so far, has been fixing 3 tiles on the roof of the woodshed, which had been torn off by hurricane. Yet,there's one thing I envy you, honestly - it's your goats. I'm allergic to cow milk products and I often joke about buying a goat and then I'll drink milk at last. On the other hand I travel and couldn't take the goat to my son's apartment(as I do with the cat) when I go away, so unfortunately, it's out of the question. The goat above, I'm looking at, is cute.
Hi Vedaarya! Two goats say "Hi" also.
Glad you stopped by, and that you started a diary. I'll be following it.
Problem with milking goats is you have to do it every day... freezing temps, snowstorms, hurricanes, doesn't matter. And they would easily give a gallon a day if you want. I tried milking. Not my cup of tea. Makes your hands ache like crazy, until you get used to it (I assume ).
Glad you stopped by, and that you started a diary. I'll be following it.
Problem with milking goats is you have to do it every day... freezing temps, snowstorms, hurricanes, doesn't matter. And they would easily give a gallon a day if you want. I tried milking. Not my cup of tea.
Makes your hands ache like crazy, until you get used to it (I assume ).