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What are you doing today, II

Busy ALL day!
Shopping, cleaning, dinner with my friend Jules, Jeff my son thought he had covid but it's Influenza A, might have to work a 12 tomorrow night, tho I'm not sure because they can't make up their minds about what to do in case we have a nurse call off on New Year's Eve.
Just put me on the schedule ffs!
I'll be there like I always am when y'all never know how to handle this crap.
Dear Lord Almighty.
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Lenny said:
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To clarify, High Lonesome is at 1560 feet and is one of the highest points in the Ozarks. The Missouri Ozarks. Arkansan's Boston mountains are higher. Missouri's highest point is Tom Sauk Mountain (near Cuba MO) and is at 1770 feet.

We are 35-40 miles from the Arkansas border and can see it from High Lonesome. Our property is less than a half mile from there as the crow flies. We always have a breeze and a good view.

Our place was a Hippie commune in the 60's and 70's. The locals coined the name "Hippie Ridge." I wanted to name it "Windemere," But Crumpy liked Hippie Ridge. So, it stuck.
 
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FrancSevin said:
To clarify, High Lonesome is at 1560 feet and is one of the highest points in the Ozarks. The Missouri Ozarks. Arkansan's Boston mountains are higher. Missouri's highest point is Tom Sauk Mountain (near Cuba MO) and is at 1770 feet.

We are 35-40 miles from the Arkansas border and can see it from High Lonesome. Our property is less than a half mile from there as the crow flies. We always have a breeze and a good view.

Our place was a Hippie commune in the 60's and 70's. The locals coined the name "Hippie Ridge." I wanted to name it "Windemere," But Crumpy liked Hippie Ridge. So, it stuck.
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Thanks. It looks like you have access to a few amenities in Cole Camp.

My brother and I owned a cabin about 100 feet from the Lake of the Ozarks with dock rights back in the late 1980s at about Mile Marker 31 and a close friend and his wife were managers of a resort on Table Rock Lake near Branson about the same time, so I know a little about Missouri.
 
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Thanks. It looks like you have access to a few amenities in Cole Camp.

My brother and I owned a cabin about 100 feet from the Lake of the Ozarks with dock rights back in the late 1980s at about Mile Marker 31 and a close friend and his wife were managers of a resort on Table Rock Lake near Branson about the same time, so I know a little about Missouri.
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Hippie Ridge is about 60 miles due south of Cole Camp.

Cole Camp is west of Lake of the Ozarks where I spent many a summer back when it as rather undeveloped. My parents had friend with a resort on Sunrise Beach, so I remember Cole Camp as a small town we drove through and perhaps bought bait and tackle. Roads were paved even back then in the fifties.

The road to Hippie Ridge is a barely graded stretch of 3 miles off county UU which is Micaden oil over gravel. That gets to our driveway which is a half mile of rocky soil barely cleared of trees and brush. FWD access only. Although my one ton has duallys, it is not FWD and has gotten stuck.

Our 80 acres of woods has three mounts with two spring fed creeks that join just before leaving our property. Elevation is 1150ft to1350 ft, so it seems most everything is "Down Hill" or "Up Hill." About ten acres comprise the top point and is where we have placed the homestead.
 
FrancSevin said:
Hippie Ridge is about 60 miles due south of Cole Camp.

Cole Camp is west of Lake of the Ozarks where I spent many a summer back when it as rather undeveloped. My parents had friend with a resort on Sunrise Beach, so I remember Cole Camp as a small town we drove through and perhaps bought bait and tackle. Roads were paved even back then in the fifties.

The road to Hippie Ridge is a barely graded stretch of 3 miles off county UU which is Micaden oil over gravel. That gets to our driveway which is a half mile of rocky soil barely cleared of trees and brush. FWD access only. Although my one ton has duallys, it is not FWD and has gotten stuck.

Our 80 acres of woods has three mounts with two spring fed creeks that join just before leaving our property. Elevation is 1150ft to1350 ft, so it seems most everything is "Down Hill" or "Up Hill." About ten acres comprise the top point and is where we have placed the homestead.
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It looks to me like Cole Camp is north west of Lake of the Ozarks, according to Google Map.

From my measurements on the map, Hippy Ridge would be between Bolivar and Buffalo being 60 miles south of Cole Camp.
 
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It looks to me like Cole Camp is north west of Lake of the Ozarks, according to Google Map.

From my measurements on the map, Hippy Ridge would be between Bolivar and Buffalo being 60 miles south of Cole Camp.
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Bolivar is on US 32 Lake Sockton, where I keep my boats, is 12 miles west

I mis-calculated. Go another 60 miles. Halfway between Ava and Springfield/Ozark city MO US highway 14

Take Highway 125 south to Oldfield Mo and go east on State road 7 for 12 miles.
 
Spent the day packing up my stuff in the study.
My new digs will be in the lower level (basement) kind of a Harry Potter place. No windows or outside light except for what filters down from the main sky light. This is a fully finished room with parquet floors and contains my library.

I'm getting evicted so Madison can have a real room. She has been sleeping on the sun porch which is a wall of windows and frankly a bit cold and drafty. Not to mention, being off the living room, has no privacy.

Plans are to have her in the new space by Sunday night.

I will likely be offline for a while Sunday.

As part of this deal, I get my space at the other end of the library for a bar.
 
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Mostly I've been playing with Amazon Alexa devices and setting up home automation. I also roasted some chicken thighs with cauliflower casserole for dinner.

And I put in weather stripping on all the family room windows. Got some of the living room windows done too, and the 2 in the master bath. HomeDepot delivered some door seal kits today too, but I didn't get them installed yet.

My windows are solid, but they are 28 years old casement style windows and mother nature has taken a toll on the weather seals. It took -10(F) degree temperatures and cold drafts to identify the problem areas. Turns out that about 1/2 the windows and doors are pretty darn drafty, the others are just a little bit drafty. Much of the factory weather stripping is brittle and only looks like it might be effective but clearly is no longer sealing anything.

So my project is to put weather stripping in ALL of the windows/doors. It is a tall order, 48 in the house. Plus the garage. Plus the guest apartment. If anyone wants to buy stock in companies that make silicone weather stripping I'd suggest you invest now :smileywac
 
I wish new weatherstripping would help.
Your windows are28 years old. Mine are 47 years old.

Worse, they are single pane wood double hung. When we flipped this house back in 1976, my father-in-law went cheap on the windows.
I cannot fault him for it. We were on a very tight budget. And he did do all of them himself.

Over the years I have replaced many of them as I re-modeled each of the rooms. But the front four windows remain along with one in the kitchen. They are so bad I just staple bubble wrap on them during winter months.

Now that I am retiring have no excuse. Therefore, they all get replaced this spring and summer. Except the one in the kitchen. That one will become a doorway into the new breakfast room off the kitchen. Everything has been done but the roof and north wall.

That project has been on hold for almost 20 years now. Foundation was actually poured in 1996. I built a deck on it "temporarily."

Dreams, always dreams, of what we could do if life did not get in the way.
 
Barely made midnight last night with a few friends over. Some slept over while others left at like 12:10am and I was in bed by 12:21 am 😆.



Today is recovering from yesterday. I plan on going to the garage for a bit to work on my snowmobile as the clutches are dirty and engaging too high making the belt squeal when I stop.
 
FrancSevin said:
I wish new weatherstripping would help.
Your windows are28 years old. Mine are 47 years old.

Worse, they are single pane wood double hung. . . .
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Your project is far worse. Mine is just a minor P.I.T.A. compared to ripping out a window.

All of mine are thermal pane type casements. The seal is bad on one of them, it needs to be rebuilt; but that one window probably has the best original weather seal :smileywac

As I was working on the big family room windows yesterday the original weather stripping was literally cracking in my hands. I'm pretty sure I have a good strategy after trying several varieties of weather seal. A hollow "D" shaped foam on the hinge side of the window. Then a tear-drop shaped silicone seal on the other 3 sides. The combination lets me operate the windows and seems to seal very well.

The D shaped foam crushes well on the hinge side but is a bit too thick on the other sides. The silicone tear drop shaped seal on the other 3 sides works beautifully and, being silicone, should stand up against the weather for another couple of decades.

I only have enough to do a few more windows. So I hope to knock out 2 of the bedrooms today.

If I've got the energy I'll run up to the big box hardware store today and pick up more. I also need some lumber for a project I'm building for Melen for her birthday. I have finish lumber but I need a couple pieces of 2x for internal support of a frame.
 
Gorgeous day out. Temperatures are just below freezing. My wife had a Stat holiday today meanwhile all the kiddos are at school. So I planned ahead and had the snowmobiles loaded and ready to go for as soon as the kids were gone. I took my wife out for a few hours sledding. 


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Break in the rain yesterday and thus morning. After chores I went for more hay then a little more wood cutting, trying to stay ahead of it.
 
Well, the year started off on a bad note for me but quickly turned good 👍. First the bad. I went to make my morning coffee and discovered that my new keurig coffee maker was dead. It still kinda works but the motor that dispenses the water is very slow.







We didn't do much new year day. Yesterday I took my wife snowmobiling. Then last night I was driving into the city to pick up my son from an after school program when I got a call from the guy in charge of the trail grooming for the snow club asking if I would still be interested in getting trained on their groomer. So that's the plan for today. I'm going out in a snowcat for the first time in 13 years. Here's a picture I found online of a machine the same as I'll be running.




 

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Just got home from a full day of grooming. Right now, we're using a packer bar on the back to break open the trails instead of the normal drag we have. Everything went as well as can be expected. The only casualty today was a busted chainsaw blade as we had to keep stopping and trudging through 3 feet of fresh snow to cut trees that were down on the trail. These trails haven't been open yet. It was great being back in the saddle again. Felt like only yesterday since I last operated a snowcat.


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Just got home from a full day of grooming. Right now, we're using a packer bar on the back to break open the trails instead of the normal drag we have. Everything went as well as can be expected. The only casualty today was a busted chainsaw blade as we had to keep stopping and trudging through 3 feet of fresh snow to cut trees that were down on the trail. These trails haven't been open yet. It was great being back in the saddle again. Felt like only yesterday since I last operated a snowcat.


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Looks like a fun job.
 
I still don't have a computer at home. So, my time here on FF is when I cheat away at work.

Today I'm packing stuff up for storage off site. We have a lot of materials from previous packing jobs like detergent samples. I have enough Gain, Peril, Woolite, to last the rest of my life. Given the price of laundry soaps, I'm packing it away.

We will be donating a lot to food pantries. Yes, they love the laundry soap. I am allergic to GAIN, so they will get a pallet of that stuff.
 
Power just came back on, been off since Saturday. One of those times that your glad you spent the money on the generator and transfer switch. Lots of rain and high winds down low and lots of snow and high winds in the mountains. We need the rain and snow just not all at once.
 
There's been a shake-up at work, and a few of us are going to be under a new management team. Should be interesting, as I'm unsure of what to expect. It starts on Thursday. Worst thing about it is a potential pay cut. At least for now.
 
We are getting a break in the rain, today, so will go skeet shooting. Tomorrow the big low is supposed to develop and will see rain and high winds. It will be my only chance to shoot for awhile.
 
So far? Had a hot tub. Went to the city to pick up a grocery order. Tried diagnosing an intermittent parking brake fault warning light in the expedition. (Got it booked in at a shop down the road for a scan) Changed the rear brake pads on the truck. And, installed a new taller windshield on my wife's snowmobile. And it's only lunch time.
 
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