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[drumstick diva]

Perchie is fantastic about creating avatars

 

[Alaskan]

Uh... I thought good things...

Witty...


The internet swallowed my first reply...


All erudition has left...

Luckily... I remember vaguely what I both thought and said..

Original crane picture... not yet popped up... many other nice crane pictures, from my files, I have seen... here you are:

Cranes by duck pond:

Cranes between house and chicken coop:

Duck pond, no cranes. Photo in same file... pond still liquid, but very light snow. Artistic, rah, rah

 

[drumstick diva]

there you go Alaskan

 

[Alaskan]

The post scrambled!!!!

 

[Alaskan]

Ok... post unscrambled...


Phew!

 

[Alaskan]

Ok... didn't find the right photo yet... but some others...

Drive going south out of Anchorage:

In homer by the bay:

My front door last winter:

Right at my house, looking south in the winter at the sunset:

Wet sticky snow on trees, at my house:

 

[drumstick diva]

Okay now I need help with a badly clogged (don't ask) toilet. I tried all the things that have worked before and nothing! Thankfully have a half bath next to kitchen - that is my salvation. Knock on wood.

It's the upstairs full bath. One of those higher ones (not great for short people) with an oval seat. The crappy kind that is required by law - low volume 1.28 gals to flush. HA!!
I can just imagine what a plumber will charge. The guy I trusted (still charged plenty) only does commercial work now.

IF only it had waited till my son comes for the holidays and stays a couple weeks or more. He would have called a plumber immediately. Timing is everything and just don't have it.

 

[Latestarter]

Realy nice pics Al.

Diva, the first tool to try is the standard toilet plunger... plunge up and down several times in quick succession to try and break the blockage. If that's a no go, the next step would be a plumber's snake. You basically feed it down the toilet and turn it as it goes and it should "screw through" the blockage, after which everything should continue to break up and flow down. If that doesn't work, then next step is a plumber.

Is the bowl draining at all or is it completely blocked? If it's draining even a little, I'd keep filling it and hope that eventually the pressure of the backed up water would break the clog completely letting everything go down. You might want to remove the tank top so you can manually make sure the flapper goes down to stop water flowing into the bowl before it overflows if that is a possibility.

Good luck with it.

 

[perchie.girl]

Okay now I need help with a badly clogged (don't ask) toilet. I tried all the things that have worked before and nothing! Thankfully have a half bath next to kitchen - that is my salvation. Knock on wood.

It's the upstairs full bath. One of those higher ones (not great for short people) with an oval seat. The crappy kind that is required by law - low volume 1.28 gals to flush. HA!!
I can just imagine what a plumber will charge. The guy I trusted (still charged plenty) only does commercial work now.

IF only it had waited till my son comes for the holidays and stays a couple weeks or more. He would have called a plumber immediately. Timing is everything and just don't have it.

Let it sit overnight... sometimes that "softens" stuff up.... Then plunge.... We have one of those plungers that has an narrow funnel like shape

Ok here is a method without a plunger

I am going to give this one a try... Dawn dish detergent is a degreaser.... A very good one... Stuff in the toilet has a lot of fat content...

Good luck

deb

 

[Alaskan]

Good advice from both @Latestarter and @perchie.girl

@drumstick diva I hope that when you read this post... all of your cares have been flushed away!