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What are you doing today, II

The lovely Mrs_Bob has a birthday today.

Roses and presents are all displayed.

Double thick rib-eye steak will go on the grill. Sauted mushrooms & onions. Potatoes. Her favorite meal. Followed by an ice cream Dairy Queen Birthday "cake".

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Knocking out as much work as possible so I have the weekend free and I can get good and snockered for playoff football. And doing a little procrastinating here, of course.
 
Spent last evening cutting a hole in the ribbon joist so I could put a heat register in the new back porch sunroom addition. I need a 4.0" X 10.0" square hole. When I built this house 45 years ago, I had set floor joists at 10,0 " centers so, no problem right?
Wrong! Right where I needed the hole, I had doubled the joists so, only 8.50"was open. The joists are full of 110 volt wires and a 220 volt stove connection, plus water pipes. No room for a saw blade to make a clean cut-out.

So tonite, I'm chiseling out part of the end of one joist to fit the register box. Ugh!

Ya know, I'm pretty sure I would love it when things go right as planned. 76 years old, that experience eludes me.
 
Working from home, and pondering build ideas for my next home.
Things like are triple pane windows worth it?
Best way to insulate a sloped ceiling home?
Deck size?

Walk out basement?
 
Triple pane arehardly worth the cost. Sloped ceiling is easy. Use paper lined insulation batts for the walls. My Hippie ridge cabin I used that method.
Walk out basement are a plus. Most especially on a sloped lot. Omit is you will later regret it.
It makes the entire lower level more inhabitable and worth going for 8 foot foundation walls as well.
Otherwise, no matter what you do, no matter how well the finishes, it will always be "a basement."

The bigger the better so that more than a patio door is installed. Frame it in and cover with sheet siding until you can afford a good finish. Minimum of 12 feet gives you room for a big window and a door. 3 sheets of plywood will cover it until funds are accumulated.
 
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Freezing me arse off today. It's a balmy -27 Celsius with a windchill of -39. And we awoke to a cold house yesterday as our boiler kicked out. It has a newer style automatic ignition that I think is faulty. Thankfully we have a gas fireplace at each end of the house upstairs and an electric one in the recroom downstairs blowing heat. Those along with space heaters are keeping the heat around 60 inside.
 
This is the second day of purging my son's accumulated "stuff" stored in my warehouse. We did six pallets yesterday and filled one of our two dumpsters. Mostly household stuff and toys for a little 2 -5-year-old girl. Madison is almost 6 and already going on 12. She now lives with us along with his other two children.

Today, it is my hope we fill yet another dumpster as I do not have the room, or inclination, to store it.
 
Just another day of working from home.
My personal assistant is such a God send.

My last day of work until Friday.

If the weather is good tomorrow may fly to look at a horse for sale.
 
PGBC said:
Just another day of working from home.
My personal assistant is such a God send.

My last day of work until Friday.

If the weather is good tomorrow may fly to look at a horse for sale.
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"...horse of sale..."
I swear PGBC, you get more interesting with every post.
 
PGBC said:
There is a Trakehner I want to look at for sale.
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Although I have built several horse barns and can drive a two team of mules, I know as much about horses as I do women. I know which end is front and back and that they can be tender creatures with which to interact. Or tough.
But, always enjoyable.

My brother-in-law had a string of quarter horses which he put up in one of the barns I had built for them. Always enjoyed a Sunday ride in Indianola IOWA

The breed Trakehner is unfamiliar to me.
 
Sheesh. Today almost deserves a recap. So here's how things went. I stayed home from church for what would become the calm before the storm while my wife took the 3 youngest. When she got home, things went baaaaddd quickly. She discovered that her laundry in the wash was still wet after a full wash cycle. Ok. So the filter is clogged at the bottom. She quickly removes it and water rushes out all over the floor. The filter was clogged solid with hair. She cleaned it and reinstalled the filter screen while I mop up the water on the floor with 4 towels. She throws the towels in the washer and starts it, closes the door and walks away. About 10 minutes later, I'm walking by and hear water trickling. I open the door and there's water all over the floor. She had cross threaded the filter when reinstalling it. She comes running and quickly unscrews the filter allowing a half gallon of water to gush out all over the floor again. Another 5 towels later I had that cleaned up. We're sitting down again when our son comes upstairs and informs us there's water on the floor downstairs. Great. We spent the next 5 hours removing everything from her craft area downstairs and drying everything out. The only casualties were two balls of yarn that were too soaked with dirty water to dry out. A full shelf of wool, a full bookcase of magazines, and all of her cross stitch thread organized neatly in plastic trays had to be taken apart and dried carefully.

So that brings me to 5pm where I scramble to make supper when halfway through doing that, the gas fireplace in the front room starts squealing. I quickly went and shut it off then dealt with it after supper. I grabbed the vacuum and went to clean out the fireplace motor when I discovered that in our business of dealing with the flood, the puppy had pee'd in the front room. I cleaned that up then vacuumed out the fireplace. The motor appears to be working now. Hopefully we survive the rest of the evening.
 
I coached the Purdue Fencing Club at the Notre Dame DeCiccio Duals today. ND coaches greeted me warmly and we chatted for longer than was needed for them to be polite, so that was nice, especially considering that Dasha is no longer on the team and is currently doing an off-campus study program in Palo Alto, CA.

The Purdue squad did better than I expected. So that was another bonus!
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NorthernRedneck said:
Sheesh. Today almost deserves a recap. So here's how things went. I stayed home from church for what would become the calm before the storm while my wife took the 3 youngest. When she got home, things went baaaaddd quickly. She discovered that her laundry in the wash was still wet after a full wash cycle. Ok. So the filter is clogged at the bottom. She quickly removes it and water rushes out all over the floor. The filter was clogged solid with hair. She cleaned it and reinstalled the filter screen while I mop up the water on the floor with 4 towels. She throws the towels in the washer and starts it, closes the door and walks away. About 10 minutes later, I'm walking by and hear water trickling. I open the door and there's water all over the floor. She had cross threaded the filter when reinstalling it. She comes running and quickly unscrews the filter allowing a half gallon of water to gush out all over the floor again. Another 5 towels later I had that cleaned up. We're sitting down again when our son comes upstairs and informs us there's water on the floor downstairs. Great. We spent the next 5 hours removing everything from her craft area downstairs and drying everything out. The only casualties were two balls of yarn that were too soaked with dirty water to dry out. A full shelf of wool, a full bookcase of magazines, and all of her cross stitch thread organized neatly in plastic trays had to be taken apart and dried carefully.

So that brings me to 5pm where I scramble to make supper when halfway through doing that, the gas fireplace in the front room starts squealing. I quickly went and shut it off then dealt with it after supper. I grabbed the vacuum and went to clean out the fireplace motor when I discovered that in our business of dealing with the flood, the puppy had pee'd in the front room. I cleaned that up then vacuumed out the fireplace. The motor appears to be working now. Hopefully we survive the rest of the evening.
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I put a "like" on your post. Please don't take it the wrong way. :rolleyes:

That said, it sounds like a usual Sunday in my house.
 
Not flying to look at a horse today, but will go to town and do some shopping, hopefully a new kitchen tap as well.

Would be good to find some new belts for the furnaces to.
Changed the filters in them last night, and popped the covers off to have a look for any problems, and the blower belts don't look the best.
 
Our boiler is still down. The gas fireplace in the front family room started squealing yesterday so I had to unplug the fan motor. The repair guy just came and narrowed it down to a pressure switch and got it restarted but no guarantees on how long it will last. It's lunch time and I'm about to make my second trip to the city. It's a 15 minute trip one way to the outskirts.
 
NorthernRedneck said:
Our boiler is still down. The gas fireplace in the front family room started squealing yesterday so I had to unplug the fan motor. The repair guy just came and narrowed it down to a pressure switch and got it restarted but no guarantees on how long it will last. It's lunch time and I'm about to make my second trip to the city. It's a 15 minute trip one way to the outskirts.
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Sounds like you need a wood/coal fired boiler plumbed in for situations like this. If you did that you could get heat from the greenies heads exploding. :geek:
 
Got cold here last night too, got down to 29-f and there was ice on top the horse troughs. That pretty cold for around here.
 
15% F here this morning.

Last nite, Crumpy was involved in a car crash. She's fine and her ca was only scratched and suffered a ripped rea tire. Young lady in a sport sedan spun out on the ice and ripped 20 feet off the leading edge of a lane barrier. The barrier exploded sending materials in Crumpy's path. Hence her blown tire.

After spinning out the sedan then crashed into another car on the frontage road. That driver was mildly injured. The spin out driver was only slightly injured as well.
I was less than a minute behind her and the debris was significant. I pulled the big metal cable anchor from Crumpy's car.

However, it happened on the exit slip lane so traffic was brutal coming of the Interstate. So, I checked the victims and then directed traffic.

It took the cops 90 minutes to get to the scene as they were otherwise occupied with all of the black ice incidents.
Temps at 20%F and dropping,,,,; that was along 90 minutes directing traffic. Then we had to wait another two hours for a tow truck. Got home well after 11:30 PM, hungry, and cold, but well.
 
Thankfully everyone is alright.

Sounds like you need a wood/coal fired boiler plumbed in for situations like this. If you did that you could get heat from the greenies heads exploding. 

We managed to get it working for now but every now and then the fan doesn't kick out. The technician ordered a new board for it. We tried it 6 times and had to keep resetting it manually. Finally a couple light taps with a screwdriver on the panel and the contacts released allowing the boiler to continue its cool down shut down cycle.
 
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