BYC Café

Good morning Cafe first sprinkle in 3 weeks, steady sprinkles.
Did bring Coffee to share.

pertnear09 said:

My daughter has a cat and he likes me just fine but there's no way I can walk into their house and just start petting him. He has to sniff my hand first. I guess he wants to know who I've been out carousing with.

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Or, maybe letting you know that any contact will be on his terms.

Good morning Cafe. Coffee is ready.

This morning while the dogs were out on potty patrol and I was making coffee, I glanced out the window and saw Piper standing on the edge of the deck in full alert mode. Then she let out an alert bark and I looked where she was looking and there stood a big black bear in the corner of the yard. I nearly smashed into the corner of the island running to the door to get the dogs back in before she took off after it!

Good heavens! What a way to start your day @DobieLover !

And thank you for the coffee. I suppose you did not need any after this encounter?

bobbi-j said:

Just got a text from the house sitter. After spending the day away, he came home and found our old, overweight cat had died. It’s not a surprise, but still…
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The grandkids loved him.

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Very sorry you lost him.

What a beautiful picture of your grandkids cuddling either side of him

Good morning, and thanks for the coffee.

Cafe good afternoon one and all!

Tea is ready, hot or iced.

Temperature is in the 80s.

Have a great day!

Ladies-Eight said:

I don't shave my legs because I don't have any hair on them.

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I don't shave mine either but there is plenty of forest there. I just happened to be born the gender that doesn't have societal pressure to have hairless legs.

aart said:

Finally got off my lazyass and got most the remaining(~half of it did drain) flood water shop vacced off the garage floor.
My circa 1995 shop vac(16gal Hoover) still works pretty damn good, tho it takes some diligent tweaking every time I use it.

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Does it happen often? You might want to get a floor squeegee. Likely a lot easier to move the water to the drain than suck it all up then get the shop vac somewhere to drain.

bobbi-j said:

It’s not a surprise, but still…

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painful!

DobieLover said:

We've got wildfire smoke down here again but the AQI is only at 117. Not great but not horrible.

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We are getting it too, only this time it isn't from Quebec. The Western Canada fire smoke is following the jet stream down through the midwest to the Atlantic coast states then back up north. Given we can tell the air is less clear I can't even imagine what it looks like 1,000 miles west

smoke map

bruceha2000 said:

Does it happen often? You might want to get a floor squeegee. Likely a lot easier to move the water to the drain than suck it all up then get the shop vac somewhere to drain.

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Often enough since 1999 that I have tried all the tricks and tips, including a few thing I've done to help avoid it.
Biggest problem is drain(circa 1976) doesn't work well, tried to snake it but not long enough, supposed dry well is probably saturated. I don't really know the details of how the drain system was constructed. I do know the entire floor is not properly sloped to drain.
Have a squeegee, it works OK, not great.
Have a pump I can hook up, but it's kind of a PITA to set up and keep it primed. Using it depends on how deep the flood is.
Either way the shop vac still needed to get in the low spots around edge of garage,
it's not hard to push it to the garage entrance apron(1" lower than floor) to drain.

Garage is now dry....enough.
Had the doors open with a fan running and some rando stopped in and rang the 'doorbell'(actually the garage door opener) and wanted to know if needed the lawn mowed, think I was being 'cased', made me nervous and still am. Just what I need to make me feel even older and more vulnerable.