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[Peep_Show]

When I lived in Las Vegas, the water there is SO awful that it was a given you'd replace your hot water heater within 7 years even with regular draining.
Now in NM on well water and we're lucky not to be on a manganese vein. We have a water softener, but it rarely gets refilled.

 

[ronott1]

When I lived in Las Vegas, the water there is SO awful that it was a given you'd replace your hot water heater within 7 years even with regular draining.
Now in NM on well water and we're lucky not to be on a manganese vein. We have a water softener, but it rarely gets refilled.

My Mom's place in the Mountains has a lot of Iron in the well water.

She should get a filter for it.

 

[bruceha2000]

Yes she should, doesn't she get tired of all the rust?

 

[ronott1]

Yes she should, doesn't she get tired of all the rust?

She lives mostly in Redding now.

 

[bruceha2000]

Except in the summer when she goes to the mountains to escape the heat? I was amazed when I found out how hot it gets in Redding in the summer. I figured it was so far north it would be cooler.

 

[ronott1]

Except in the summer when she goes to the mountains to escape the heat? I was amazed when I found out how hot it gets in Redding in the summer. I figured it was so far north it would be cooler.

It is due to the mountain ranges coming in.

The air also heats up as it comes down mt. Shasta. There is also an air layer that will trap the heat in Late July to August.

It is a conversion layer.

Mom gets up there when She can now. She has not been too mobile since her back problems a couple of years ago

 

[bruceha2000]

It is a conversion layer.

Inversion?
I lived for 23 years under the LA basin inversion. Great for keeping smog in and fresh air out.

 

[ronott1]

Inversion?
I lived for 23 years under the LA basin inversion. Great for keeping smog in and fresh air out.

Yes! Inversion layer. It was an inversion layer that caused the hottest days back in the 1970s. The temperature goes up over several days until the inversion layer is broken. Then the temps start going back up each day.

121.9F for two days in a row...It was brutal!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Afternoon Old Folks had a fasting blood draw this morning ..
Headed out now to clean coops .. I have a new par of LL bean boots use to call them Juneau tenis showes rubber bottom leather upper

 

[CSolis]

Afternoon Old Folks had a fasting blood draw this morning ..
Headed out now to clean coops .. I have a new par of LL bean boots use to call them Juneau tenis showes rubber bottom leather upper

I got ya beat penny, I got the last two coops cleaned out today.. shoot, can chickens poop.. well that and compacted leaves from all the rain we had made for lotsa work. Worst pen was where they dumped a lot of food too.. That was odorous to be sure. But, pens are all cleaned out now. House is back in order. Got all the laundry done including bed clothes, and the area rug and runners from the LR and kitchen have been shampooed and put back in place.. All the floors mopped too.. All while a nice beef estew was in the oven. I ate like a little piggie, then took a nap! Got a dexa scan tomorrow at 1 pm. Not a bad day for an old codger.