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What are you doing today, II

It's a -29 outdoors. I plan on staying inside today. Thankfully our boiler stayed lit last night but it still cooled off as during the day, we have both the boiler heating along with 2 gas fireplaces. At night though the fireplaces are set to not run. The boiler is usually enough to hold temperatures but not when it's very cold out.

So we replaced our counters after moving in with quartz. The cabinets however, are original to the house which was built in 2002. They are a light maple. First, friends of ours down the road just finished a full kitchen reno installing all new cabinets and creating the coveted Open concept kitchen. Then, other friends of our did the same and are in the process of installing a new kitchen with the ultra modern plain painted cabinet look. Now, she wants the same even though I think it wouldn't work in our house as we have all wood trim, windows and doors throughout the house. A modern all white kitchen would stick out like a sore thumb against the wood trim everywhere. Plus, I told her I'm not prepared to spend the next 6 months under renovation working my a$$ off.
 
NorthernRedneck said:
It's a -29 outdoors. I plan on staying inside today. Thankfully our boiler stayed lit last night but it still cooled off as during the day, we have both the boiler heating along with 2 gas fireplaces. At night though the fireplaces are set to not run. The boiler is usually enough to hold temperatures but not when it's very cold out.

So we replaced our counters after moving in with quartz. The cabinets however, are original to the house which was built in 2002. They are a light maple. First, friends of ours down the road just finished a full kitchen reno installing all new cabinets and creating the coveted Open concept kitchen. Then, other friends of our did the same and are in the process of installing a new kitchen with the ultra modern plain painted cabinet look. Now, she wants the same even though I think it wouldn't work in our house as we have all wood trim, windows and doors throughout the house. A modern all white kitchen would stick out like a sore thumb against the wood trim everywhere. Plus, I told her I'm not prepared to spend the next 6 months under renovation working my a$$ off.
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After you put your foot down and showed her who is boss, when is the reno starting? lol
 
Packing day for the 2023 snow cat clowder. Also have to see my Dad and get him a working cell phone.
The nursing home has laundered two now, and they found one they thought they had laundered, but it still
works. Needs to be shut off for a few minutes and the turned on to initialize it to the system.
I don't seem to get anyone at the home to get this done. May have to go and do it myself before I leave.
I just wish someone down there would check pockets before they wash his shirts.
I do not think that is too much to ask when he is private pay at $8K per month. :pat:
 
Chores then a couple hour drive to Woodland to pick up a 15kw diesel generator for sale. I have a 10kw now for home and shop but its not quite big enough for the whole house when the power is out. This last storm left us without power for nearly 4 days, I have all the vitals on the transfer switch, well pumps, kitchen and bathroom. With PG&E service being marginal and summer blackouts likely coming, I want the whole house on the transfer switch, so I have AC when they shut power off in 110 degree weather. The 10kw will then go to the cabin for stays when the weather is not good for solar charging or the occasional heat wave where it would be nice to run a window AC unit at night.
 
PGBC said:
I have a generac generator for power outages, but forget how big it is.
Seems to do okay, we lost power for 3 days in November, and sure glad we had it.
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It seems that most of the Generac whole house generators installed around here are 24kW. That'll probably be on propane with 22kW on NG.

Ours came on at 1:00 am this morning. We had been having freezing drizzle all day and I guess that it got too much for the power lines somewhere. I don't know when the power came back on. I was tucked up in bed all warm and cozy. :ThumbsUp:
 
Drove to Illinois to pick up a ridged pipe stand/vise. At auction. I bid 175. Somebody outbid me. But then something happened. The winning bidder, the only other bidder, must have been disqualified. And the auction resulted in the original bid, 30 bucks!
And today I just one a bid for a ridged powered pipe threader, with 6 die sets, and a heavy steel rolling cart, for 700 bucks! So i have to drive back to Illinois in the next couple of days to pick it up.
 
Will be plowing and snow blowing more snow yet again today.
Its been snowing a lot these last 4 days.
 
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Apparently we are still in a deep freeze today. I was ready standing by the door this morning in my full cold weather work gear with a lunch packed ready to get picked up and head out on a 10 hour grooming run when the groomer coordinator called it off due to cold. It's -31 with a windchill of -38. I was questioning last night when they asked me to go grooming. Ah well. Mother nature is being a cold hearted b--ch today. I just packed away the cold weather gear and changed back into house clothes. Too damned cold to head to the garage to do anything as it would take me 3 hours just to get heat in the shop. I heat it with wood when I'm out there.
 
Gonna be one of those days, last evening went to wash my hands after coming in. No water, there is power at the breaker but nothing at the Jbox where the wiring stubs out of the ground for the well pump. So there is something wrong in between. I can't mess around so I think as soon as its light out I will bypass it to get the water going then try to fix it.
 
m1west said:
Gonna be one of those days, last evening went to wash my hands after coming in. No water, there is power at the breaker but nothing at the Jbox where the wiring stubs out of the ground for the well pump. So there is something wrong in between. I can't mess around so I think as soon as its light out I will bypass it to get the water going then try to fix it.
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Got it by passed and have water. Tomorrow I will start trying to figure out what went wrong.
 
Not much planned for the day. Sitting in the hot tub at -13 Celsius for the first time in a week as we've been Ina deep freeze in the low -30s. The sun is shining. Temperatures are rising to around the freezing point tomorrow. A welcome change. My wife and I are in serious full-blown talks about what we want in the kitchen renovation. So far it's been civil. 🤣🤣🤣
 
It is Saturday however,
One of my new partners is coming in to work his project and I need to sort some inventory with the forklift for him.

He was supposed to arrive at 8:00. it's coming up on 10:00.

So I'm on the Forum, searching for a reason to exist.
I guess I could clean my desk.

Or ponder my situation......... :rolleyes:

Cicero said,
"Circumstances do not make the man, they only reveal him."
 
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Had a super busy day yesterday/today, First chores or most of them anyway, then ran to Stockton to get paint for a very large machinery guard/cage for we manufactured for a customer. It was one of the kids birthday so we went out for lunch. Then back home to complete the well pump bypass. This morning had to catch upon missed chores, cut fire wood then just made us a couple fillets on the bbq, wife made asparagus to go with it. Just finished eating and now resting for a few minutes before I have to get back at it on figuring out why the well quit in the first place. Oh did I mention its going to start raining for a couple days.
 
Just finished my shift of 4 days on, it was ridiculously busy. Now my 4 days off start, its snowing again, so still not good flying weather, but I could have flown this past weekend, except was working.
Some day I will get out and see the horse I may buy.


My basement renter, is also an employee, and she has the next 4 days off work as well, so is leaving soon to drive to her home town, and visit family and friends.
 
Today had my horse trainer, Horse doesn't like to load in the trailer so we worked on that today, and got him in there and out a few times. on the last one he spooked and jerked me out of the trailer about 5 feet and sprained my knee. At least thats what they said at the ER after Xray. I have to follow up with a specialist and a MRI to get a better look But the Doctor said it feels pretty tight and should be OK. Hurt like hell when it first happened and my lower leg bone felt like it wanted to move to the side when weight applied. I have a splint brace on now. There isn't any pain at all with the brace on. If your going to be dumb be tough.
 
m1west said:
If your help knows about your new partner arrangement, they are likely looking for another job.
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Unlikely as the new partners mean a safe job is here and the pay checks will cash.
No, I have three men whose wives, daughters and mothers need them because other family, members don't give a sh!t
 
m1west said:
Today had my horse trainer, Horse doesn't like to load in the trailer so we worked on that today, and got him in there and out a few times. on the last one he spooked and jerked me out of the trailer about 5 feet and sprained my knee. At least thats what they said at the ER after Xray. I have to follow up with a specialist and a MRI to get a better look But the Doctor said it feels pretty tight and should be OK. Hurt like hell when it first happened and my lower leg bone felt like it wanted to move to the side when weight applied. I have a splint brace on now. There isn't any pain at all with the brace on. If your going to be dumb be tough.
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That's rough , last thing you want to do is blow a knee heading into retirement , seems to take forever to heal up the older we get. Just never know what's going through a horse or a steers head , in the steer's case not much ,just curiosity and rage , they will mow you down in a second. My neighbor (cousin) , he's 80 , as he put hay in the feeder for his son's horses the mare reached around and bit him on the face last weekend. I understand if she was protecting her foal , but that wasn't the case. So 18 stitches later to fix the bite, I guess he's good to go, but I haven't seen him yet , not good
J5 Bombardier
 
J5 Bombardier said:
That's rough , last thing you want to do is blow a knee heading into retirement , seems to take forever to heal up the older we get. Just never know what's going through a horse or a steers head , in the steer's case not much ,just curiosity and rage , they will mow you down in a second. My neighbor (cousin) , he's 80 , as he put hay in the feeder for his son's horses the mare reached around and bit him on the face last weekend. I understand if she was protecting her foal , but that wasn't the case. So 18 stitches later to fix the bite, I guess he's good to go, but I haven't seen him yet , not good
J5 Bombardier
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last night was a rough nite, trying to make it comfortable. I imagine a bite to the face would be that much fun either. I did a similar injury to the other leg about 10 years ago, it healed up enough to walk on it pretty quickly but still bothed me at times for a couple years. Especially on ladders.
 
m1west said:
last night was a rough nite, trying to make it comfortable. I imagine a bite to the face would be that much fun either. I did a similar injury to the other leg about 10 years ago, it healed up enough to walk on it pretty quickly but still bothed me at times for a couple years. Especially on ladders.
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Horses are big enough, mean enough and sometimes dumb enough, to kill their owners without even trying. Good luck with your injury and new-found stable mate.
 
FrancSevin said:
Horses are big enough, mean enough and sometimes dumb enough, to kill their owners without even trying. Good luck with your injury and new-found stable mate.
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Horse isn't mean, just a lot of trailer anxiety. We got him to go in and out several times and should have called it good. But just had to do it that one more time, and I should have let go of the rope. I had him spook a couple of times and held on as he gives up pretty easy against the pressure, this time he didn't.
 
Hopefully you heal up quickly. I could feel that reading that. I'm having a bit of a relaxing day after a 10 hour run in the groomer yesterday. I was running with another operator again yesterday but did most of the work myself as it was basically my test run to see if I could handle it alone. I guess I passed as Friday I'm heading out with another operator to run both groomers down the trail roughly 8 hrs to the staging area for a 40 hrs run with both machines carrying extra fuel next week.

The lovely Mrs and I are going to design and get a quote on the new kitchen this afternoon.
 
Had my follow up appointment today, got a much better brace that allows my knee to bend. I can drive much easier now. Diagnosis is what I already knew, wear the brace, ice it , take it easy and in 6-8 weeks should be good. Only comment from the doctor was on the swelling. Got another appointment in 3 weeks.
 
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