The Old Folks Home

[NotAFarm]

Our Ford Focus has the "tire light" that seems to light-up whenever the temps fluctuates. Really cold to a sudden warm-up or the other way around. If we're headed home, we cranked up the air compressor and check all the tires. If we're on the road, we find a place where we can add some air or let some out depending.
Gotta love the new auto technology...NOT!

 

[microchick]

@superchemicalgirl, once again......

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Man if I were you I'd be seriously tempted to buy a horse.....but the way your luck has been going with these tires, it would probably just throw a shoe.....every day.

 

[bruceha2000]

Just picked up the car and...

Tire light went on halfway home.

OK, either you need a new tire place or they forgot to put the sensor in. Um, in that case you still need a new tire place. I would be pretty POed (like you aren't??, yeah, you are)

Yeah, my Impala warns you if you need air in the tires and so does my pick up truck.

Except they have to have gone down 30% below the manufacturer's cold tire pressure before the light goes on. That means if the tire should be 33 PSI the light doesn't go on until you have only about 23 PSI. Useful I guess if you have a slow leak but you should be able to visually tell a tire is that low. If you get a nail and a faster leak, you don't need a light to tell you.

 

[MrsMistyReal]

When I started chemo, I bought a twin size mattress, and put it on the living room floor. I could lay there, watch the big screen tv, and sleep as needed. Chemo made me ache a lot, and caused nerve ending damage in my feet. I could sleep, but not a deep sleep, and it's hard to actually rest when going through treatment. Often I would wake up with pain in my feet, which would wake him up. All he had to do was turn over, and it would wake me. Even though I'm done with chemo for now, some of the treatments still make it hard to rest at time. The little mattress is comfortable, and enables us to both get better sleep. When company is coming over, I slide it to one of the back bedrooms, and stash it until they leave. There are still time's I'll fall asleep on the couch, or the recliner, but usually I prefer my little mattress.

Thank you for sharing this,hubby & I are the opposite.I have the mattress which is on the floor & hubby has the couch after everything he's been through medically & with a peg tube it makes it easier for him to rest , get up & down.As you posted I just slide it to another room when people pop by

 

[bruceha2000]

If we're on the road, we find a place where we can add some air or let some out depending.

Be careful with that! The door plate is COLD tire pressure. Meaning ambient temp; the vehicle hasn't been driven for a couple of hours. The air in the tires heats up from rolling resistance and the pressure will increase with it. If you know one tire is low, check the pressure on another one and use that for the low tire when you add air.

 

[perchie.girl]

Can you roll it up?

not unless I get the help of about four burly men and truss it up like a Roast....

deb

 

[Alaskan]

the car shop I go to also said that over time the tire sensors just fritz out. They aren't designed to be used in real life conditions where we are mostly driving on gravel roads. And then you pop the tire off the rim twice a year... you know all sorts of filth gets in there.

 

[Alaskan]

not unless I get the help of about four burly men and truss it up like a Roast....

deb

ROAST!!!

 

[pennyJo1960]

thank heaven are whole house is on one level no stairs love it

 

[microchick]

I just went out and discovered that the cockerels that are heading for freezer camp tomorrow had popped open the gate on their pen and were in with the larger birds and it looked like a MMA free for all. I kid you not, every rooster except the large boys and the regulars in the big chicken pen were fighting their brains out. Feathers were flying, birds were screaming, I ditched my egg basket and bucket of food for the youngsters and waded in grabbing cockerels in mid attack by a leg or if it presented itself what was left of a tail and hauled their sorry butts back into their own pen where they continued their battle royal. The only one not involved in the melee is the one out of that bunch that I am going to keep and he is completely unscathed. Smart boy. What's left is the most ridiculous group of boys I have ever seen. Feathers missing in big gaps, combs bloody. They look like they got into a feather plucker and managed to escape.

I was down on my hands and knees, checking Smart boy over and one of the bad boys grabbed a hold of my hand, pinched down hard and proceeded to attempt mad passionate chicken love to my fingers. Stupid rooster picked himself up from the other side of the cage and came at me for round two. Didn't even offer a kiss on the cheek, little so and so. Finally was able to dislodge him from my hand and make an escape.

I no longer feel bad about giving them to the neighbor for butchering.