The Old Folks Home

[microchick]

I agree with you Clue. I am the same way with black snakes. They are called rat snakes around here. If they don't challenge us or the dogs or bother the chickens they can do their snake thing. If they don't give way to us, show a healthy fear or challenge the dogs, they leave this plane of existence very rapidly.

Not long after we moved here there was a big black snake in the middle of one of our trails that was coiled and striking at the dogs who were going ape crazy around it. DH found me with a hoe in hand beating the crap out of it. When he asked me why I killed it I told him, it didn't fear me it didn't fear the dogs, it had to go. Not long after that I found a little black snake curled up under a limb that was on the ground. When it saw me it raised it's tail and started shaking it like a rattle snake. I just laughed at it and walked away.

I have to say that the snakes around here stay away from the house for the most part and with the exception of the occasional garter snake I seldom see any away from the pond. Unlike when we first moved in and they were thick in the little pond that we just filled in.

 

[Beer can]

@!## Spectrum (cable company) was working on pole outside my house last Thursday. We had no issues. After they left, no house phone line and no internet. Called them from my cell phone--could not send a technician until 7/13!!! we were without for 5 days no explanation

Had that prob with Frontier. Every time it rained lost internet, sometimes for just while raining sometimes for a day or two. Constant for yrs didn't make sense it's buried. Had one time lightning hit near our house cut phone out but still had internet. Had to drive up road to use cell cause no service here, they said prob on our end so we prob have to pay for it they said being just lost phone not internet, they didn't believe our lightning bolt theory. Took a week till they came out, tech said house was fine traced line up road found where lightning hit ground. Waited few more days before they dug it up and fixed.
Pretty sure Spectrum was supposed to run fiber optic high speed throughout the state was too slow getting it done so state allowed others to. Delhi telephone near us came through. They offered keeping our original phone #. Didn't have to switch but we did was just sick of Frontier service. I don't think anyone on our rd has Frontier anymore.
Spectrum still in towns they don't run rural around here. Everyone else has mostly switched if they can away from Frontier, doubt they will be around much longer.

 

[Alaskan]

Seriously though, the thought scares me. I know several people who had bad problems with them to the point that one of them died. The other two wound up in ICU with perforated bowels.

Eh....

Just be like me... find a doc who does a bunch every single month, and look up how many ended up complications.

Or better yet, do as above, but only look at doctors who do the problem patients.

 

[Beer can]

The electric company never showed up, but I got a bit more information. The new people across the drive, that bought that property, are wanting their electric lines buried. Ok, that makes sense. BUT, instead of tying in at the junction box out at the road, and paying for the extra cable, to run it to their place, they didn't want to pay for the extra cable. SO, they're going to tie it in at the nearest pole, and bury it from there. To tie it into the pole, means the electric company has to put in a bigger pole, and larger transformer.

These people have some money. They're not rich, but it's not like they're broke. There are places to cut corners, but that is not the place I'd recommend cutting a corner. Part of the reason we normally have power, during hurricanes, bad storms, etc., when none of our neighbors do, is that when they built our house, they took advantage of the offers to tie into the buried cable system.

We live in an older, established area. It was here long before buried cables were ever thought of. When they first came out with the underground system, it was free to tie into, meaning the power company paid for running the cables, etc. All the newer homes, tied into it. Many of the people that owned older, established homesteads, didn't trust it, and wouldn't tie into it.

These older homesteads tend to be on larger parcels of property, so the distance from the road to the property can be significant. As time went on, the window of opportunity to tie into the buried cable system, closed some. Now, the power company will pay for the cable on the property itself, and half the cost of running it from the road to the property. The price of the cable is what the power company pays for it, in bulk without any mark up. While it's not what I'd call cheap, it's not exorbitant either. It would probably have cost them in the area of $2,000.00. They've built a huge barn. They're building a huge home at the beginning of next year. Why stint when it comes to paying half for the cable, to tie into a much more secure power system?

Yet, far too many take the attitude that they're not paying for the electric company to run cable, even though they're a mile or more from the main road, when they can get the overhead stuff for free. That attitude might serve those that have been on the overhead system since back in the day, but not when building new. Oh, and they're the ones that are the first to complain, and complain the loudest when it storms, and branches fall on the lines, interrupting their service. Go figure.

My FIL always said he didn't understand why they don't bury more. With every snow storm here taking down lines.
I watched/waited for them one day for prob hr or so didn't look like fun trying to untangle electric lines out of trees and get them back up. Was out deer season on our thousands of acres of state land, travelled ten miles of bumper deep snow fight. Was almost to where they plow when I ran into them just before last house on rd. I wasn't turning around at that point.
Pretty funny this morn I screen shot this, I screen shoot anything I find interesting have more stuff like this on my phone than anything Lol. Electric poles are over hundred yr old technology

 

[Beer can]

^^Interesting.

Our line is buried. Up to the nearest pole, about 500 feet (?) from the house. Not sure what the advantage is for that.

Code here if you have a trailer or double wide/ modular. Buried from pole to house, using a outside disconnect, could be why?

 

[Beer can]

As irritating as they can be at times, I think we would much rather have Amish around us. At least they don't bring 'city ways' when they move in.

IMHO, world would be a better place if we left the 'rat race' and lived like the Amish (minus some stuff of course)

 

[Beer can]

Yeah, I screen shoot stupid stuff lol

 

[Hayden Goseek]

So I have a deal with my doctor that if I'm unconscious, he can do one on me. Until then......

I'm coming in late on this so pardon me if the comment is redundant or misplaced.
The beauty of Endoscopy today is that anesthesia puts you to sleep first. When we used "conscious sedation " years ago, some doctors were in a hurry and it could be brutal.
My last colonoscopy was on a Unit I had cross trained with and knew everyone there. I was still wise cracking with the staff as I watched the 'white stuff' reach my arm. I blinked and that fast I was in recovery.
Gotta love Propofol. It's a GREAT, safe drug just not for home and recreational use (as Michael Jackson found out.)

 

[Hayden Goseek]

OMG. Flower shells are a real thing! That seems like a terrible inappropriate use of firearms.

 

[Beer can]

I blinked and that fast I was in recovery.

Had a double hernia operation when I was 19-20?, early '90s. Not sure what they gave me couldn't understand the doc, Indian or maybe Pakistani. Just remember someone saying I'm going to give you some oxygen, there will be some shaving, foggly remember struggling and fighting maybe put into a straight jacket and then waking up in recovery a 'few minutes later' Lol .
Doc was actually a local here, went to school with his son. Died kinda young of cirrhosis of the liver heard he was a bad alcoholic. Must have been a good doc though ain't felt anything from that surgery 25,26yrs ago.