ebinmaine 72,330 #8351 Posted June 21 Drove around in a big boy truck tossing around freight and watching deer. 20250620_083617.mp4 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adsm08 3,135 #8352 Posted June 21 So far my day has been spent, very unproductively, sitting on a boat. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HyperPete 865 #8353 Posted June 21 1 hour ago, adsm08 said: So far my day has been spent, very unproductively, sitting on a boat. Catch anything? 🎣 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MainelyWheelhorse 1,432 #8354 Posted June 21 (edited) I’ve been fighting a head/respiratory cold since last Monday night/Tuesday over the last two days it’s gotten worse. I called out of work today and I’ve been taking it easy. I’ve got next week off so hopefully it resolves itself by Sunday/Monday as I’ve got some tractor based plans I’d like to do. Edited June 21 by MainelyWheelhorse 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 72,330 #8355 Posted June 21 34 minutes ago, MainelyWheelhorse said: I’ve been fighting a head/respiratory cold since last Monday night/Tuesday over the last two days it’s gotten worse. I called out of work today and I’ve been taking it easy. I’ve got next week off so hopefully it resolves itself by Sunday/Monday as I’ve got some tractor based plans I’d like to do. Allergies? Or a sickness...? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MainelyWheelhorse 1,432 #8356 Posted June 21 2 minutes ago, ebinmaine said: Allergies? Or a sickness...? Most likely a head cold/respiratory thing etc…Both parents have/had it. My father last week and my mother is still sick now. Her asthma definitely makes it worse. It’s been off and on for most of this week at least for me. I thought it was allergies earlier in the week but now it’s definitely a cold of some sort. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 72,330 #8357 Posted June 21 4 minutes ago, MainelyWheelhorse said: Most likely a head cold/respiratory thing etc…Both parents have/had it. My father last week and my mother is still sick now. Her asthma definitely makes it worse. It’s been off and on for most of this week at least for me. I thought it was allergies earlier in the week but now it’s definitely a cold of some sort. Hope yah feel better soon! 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adsm08 3,135 #8358 Posted June 21 2 hours ago, HyperPete said: Catch anything? 🎣 3 hours ago, adsm08 said: So far my day has been spent, very unproductively, sitting on a boat. No. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adsm08 3,135 #8359 Posted June 21 21 minutes ago, MainelyWheelhorse said: Most likely a head cold/respiratory thing etc…Both parents have/had it. My father last week and my mother is still sick now. Her asthma definitely makes it worse. It’s been off and on for most of this week at least for me. I thought it was allergies earlier in the week but now it’s definitely a cold of some sort. Ug. I had something like that two weeks ago. I thought it was allergies and general respiratory issues because it happened while the Canadian wild fires were smoking up my area, and the Sahara sand storm fallout was hitting us, but then it settled into my chest, and I'm still coughing crap up. Hope you all recover quicker than I did. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lynnmor 7,786 #8360 Posted June 21 Mowed today since it is only going to get hotter. 10 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Kennell 41,763 #8361 Posted June 22 Got home from the Big Show Friday night and reloaded to head West or my Sisters 80th buirthday party this morning. Four hours out, five at the party, and four hours return. A quality day with the family, but I'm pooped. 9 4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handy Don 13,948 #8362 Posted June 22 What a good occasion to celebrate! That is a lot of driving and partying, and I suspect even the youngsters are pooped! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
8ntruck 7,763 #8363 Posted June 24 (edited) Thought I'd be able to finish upmy lakehouseplumbing project today. The new on demand waterheater is wired up and plumbed in, today, I got the pressure taank relocate cc and plumbed in - neatening up the rather messy plumbing that used to be between it and the pipe from the well. It was time for the flood test. Turned the pump on, ran for a few seconds then shut off. I heard water running in the pipes, but the pressure gage read 0. Had a drip at the first fitting off of the pipe from the well. Galvanized T, plastic reducer bushing, plastic pex adaptor, leaking between the adapter and reducer bushing. 1/2 turn tighter didn't help, so the plastic bushing/adaptor was replaced with a stainless pex adapter - no more leak. Still no reading on the pressure gage, but the pump cycles as it should. Must be the gage died. Turn on the water supply to the heater. Slow drip on the cold water connection, between the pipe thread adaptor and the compression fitting on the heater. Slow drip between the pipe thread adaptor and the street elbow on the hot side. I don't think tightening the adaptor on the cold side will cure the leak, and the street elbow on the hot side will need another turn, which I don't think is there. Tomorrow's project will be removing the pipe thread adaptors and convert to the compression fittings the heater was originally designed for. I went with the pipe thread because I've not had good luck with compression fittings in the past. I'll find out tomorrow. Edited June 24 by 8ntruck 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 72,330 #8364 Posted June 24 I'll start off where @Mickwhitt did in the first place. Ours is nothing like his was though. We're having the sewer tank pumped out. It hasn't been done in over 10 years. The other project is Trina's. This is the living room: This dark color has been buggin her for a year or three. Also the corner has been slowly turning into a serious catch all. Some of her ho.e office supplies were there. The TV was kitty cornered there. Two sheleves. Nowhere near enough storage for the items. She went to a light gray compliment for the light green long walls. BTW... that was at 7:30 pm after a normal human who'd been going ALL DAY would sit. Well she fixed the storage issue! Here it is last night. The pieces on the floor are for a new TV cabinet... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mickwhitt 5,114 #8365 Posted June 24 1 hour ago, ebinmaine said: The TV was kitty cornered there. We say Katy cornered over here to indicate something that is not lined up properly. That tank looks to have been long forgotten based on the growth over it. That woman is a dynamo! Mrs W doesn't get stuck in like that. But I wouldn't trust her with a paint brush, or screwdriver, or any kind of tool really! We've been watching old episodes of an American comedy The Middle. Mike Heck was getting grief from his wife that she did everything around the house. It was fun to hear him use the same arguments that I do over here... "Let's see how you do sharpening the lawn mower blades, shifting snow, getting the boiler to work." 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handy Don 13,948 #8366 Posted June 24 What I will NOT do is any of the needed yard work--I’ll wait out the remainder of this “dome” of heat and humidity. I am so glad we didn’t have this weather during the Show. Yesterday I separated the steering wheel as well as the motion and lift control levers from the 520-H dash I picked up at the Show. The roll pins all succumbed (reluctantly) to the usual forces of penetrant, patience, a bit of heat, and judiciously applied impacts via roll pin punches. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 72,330 #8367 Posted June 24 3 hours ago, Mickwhitt said: We've been watching old episodes of an American comedy The Middle. Mike Heck was getting grief from his wife that she did everything around the house. It was fun to hear him use the same arguments that I do over here... "Let's see how you do sharpening the lawn mower blades, shifting snow, getting the boiler to work." Trina's done all those..... 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handy Don 13,948 #8368 Posted June 24 1 hour ago, ebinmaine said: Trina's done all those..... 5 hours ago, Mickwhitt said: "Let's see how you do sharpening the lawn mower blades, shifting snow, getting the boiler to work." Mutually agreed divisions of labor are essential to successful relationships, no? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 72,330 #8369 Posted June 24 9 minutes ago, Handy Don said: Mutually agreed divisions of labor are essential to successful relationships, no? 100% agreed. Unless of course I don't feel like doing something...... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ranger 1,798 #8370 Posted June 24 11 minutes ago, Handy Don said: Mutually agreed divisions of labor are essential to successful relationships, no? When Jane and I got married in 1980, we came to an understanding. I would do the cooking, she would be responsible for the washing up. Then she persuaded me to invest in a dishwasher! I still get told off if I don’t put my dirty dishes straight into the dishwasher!!! 1 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 72,330 #8371 Posted June 24 8 minutes ago, ranger said: When Jane and I got married in 1980, we came to an understanding. I would do the cooking, she would be responsible for the washing up. Then she persuaded me to invest in a dishwasher! I still get told off if I don’t put my dirty dishes straight into the dishwasher!!! We're the reverse of that. I do nearly zero food prep. My Bear Cowboy Coffee coffee. I can make a sandwich if I have to. Usually, Trina does the food prep and I do the cleanup. Hand wash the big or delicate stuff and load the dishwasher with the rest. Usually her mom will unload the dishwasher. Laundry is also shared between three of us. Most of the rest of the chores are done by Trina. People wonder how I get away with that, so to speak. But the fact of the matter is, you have to let Trina be busy. She is perpetual motion with little to no stop time for about 12 to 13 hours every day. Sometimes more. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HyperPete 865 #8372 Posted June 24 2 hours ago, Handy Don said: What I will NOT do is any of the needed yard work--I’ll wait out the remainder of this “dome” of heat and humidity. I am so glad we didn’t have this weather during the Show. Yesterday I separated the steering wheel as well as the motion and lift control levers from the 520-H dash I picked up at the Show. The roll pins all succumbed (reluctantly) to the usual forces of penetrant, patience, a bit of heat, and judiciously applied impacts via roll pin punches. I relate and agree! Even the pool is 87 degrees! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adsm08 3,135 #8373 Posted June 24 I am on day 2 of sitting on my butt in the AC in Fredrick MD learning nothing new about something I've been doing for years. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handy Don 13,948 #8374 Posted June 24 3 minutes ago, adsm08 said: I am on day 2 of sitting on my butt in the AC in Fredrick MD learning nothing new about something I've been doing for years. But on the clock, hopefully! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wayne0 1,162 #8375 Posted June 24 Waiting for the heat to break so I can get back to work on my splitter project. Too hot to work outside! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
