The Old Folks Home

[hennible]

Gross!
Whatever works. Sort of ironic

 

[vehve]

Is that the cabin you talk about going to?

I'm trying to decide what to do with last night's catch. I guess, I'll grill the possum and feed it back to the chickens. Time to start a fire.

That's Karin's parents place, out in the Hitis archipelago, south of Turku. We were there this weekend. Usually we go to my parents cottage which is a lot closer, about an hour away, south of Tammisaari.



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My grandfather bought the property in 1947 I think. The first part of the house is from the early fifties (the part with the porch in front of it), then it was expanded around 1960 (to the left of the porch). A couple years back we built another separate expansion (the part with the higher roof), and a covered terrace between the two cottages (couldn't get permission to build if it wasn't under the same roof so to speak), and then we reclad the older parts 2 years ago.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I get some demonic type pleasure watching them savor their predators.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

That's Karin's parents place, out in the Hitis archipelago, south of Turku. We were there this weekend. Usually we go to my parents cottage which is a lot closer, about an hour away, south of Tammisaari.

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Such beautiful country.
The only Scandinavian country I've visited was Denmark. And most of that is so much different than the others. I'd love to make it some day.
So many places, so little time.

 

[vehve]

Southern Finland is beautiful in the summer, but if you come in the winter it's probably Lapland you want to see. Very dark there though. Sweden has a lot of similarities. Norway is a bit different, and Denmark is completely different. Their climate is more central European, like the southernmost parts of Sweden.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I don't really get Fed-Ex. I bought 4 car parts for the same front hub of the same vehicle. The company carried 2 of the parts in an LA warehouse. The other 2 were in a NY warehouse.
The NY parts came in a Fed-Ex truck on Thursday. Tracking the LA parts, the site said they would be here Monday. Then it said they arrived in St. L on Friday, left the St. L. sort facility at 4 am on Saturday but now wouldn't arrive till Tuesday. This morning it said the package had been transferred to the USPS and still won't arrive till Tuesday.

2 boxes shipped the same day, traveled about the same distance, one delivered by the shipping firm, the other transferred to the USPS and will be delivered 5 days later and I'm not sure that's the USPS fault.

 

[vehve]

I gave up trying to understand the logic behind shipping companies a long time ago. Once I ordered a pair of shoes from Germany. They came 90% of the distance in 2 days, and still took 5 days to travel from Turku to Helsinki (about 100 miles).

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:
Ah... too simple..... been using converting calculators.... one gallon of water is 8.34 pounds A twenty gallon tank would be 75.7 liters.... Therefore it would be 75.7 kilos. 20 gallons is 167 pounds.

What ever the measurement.... Support the the tank by setting the stand on a sheet of plywood to distribute the weight OFF of the four feet of the stand.... Each foot is supporting approximately 42 lbs.... Or 19 kilos.... Ok I am just doing inches from now on.

A twenty gallon aquarium is 30 inches long by 13 inches deep by 13 inches tall. Just the Aquarium by itself is 25 pounds if you get glass. So the stand is going to be a little bigger than the aquarium depending on what its made of... I usually put a piece of plywood that is an inch bigger than the foot print of the stand painted a neutral color.... For wood floors I would put a piece of carpet under the stand facing down... No scratches...

http://www.anapsid.org/resources/tanksize.html

my house in the desert is built with a crawl space so when I do set up my 110 gallon tank I am going to have to get under there and measure the joist distances and make sure that tank has a base that spreads across joists. Its an odd construction... The main house WAS a tin sided Trailer..... Full sized of course a good twelve feet wide.... But Trailers are built on I beams made of almost 1/4 inch thick steel. I know I have seen them when they gutted the shower....

I have to redo the floor in the Main house.... they used OSB and not very good stuff to do the floors in my house.... when it gets wet it "expands".... The bathroom was so rotten the only thing keeping me from falling through was the linoleum.... The kitchen is a little better but the floor is Wavy.... Bathroom is rehabbed.... Next goes the kitchen.... When they do the kitchen I am having the whole main floor of the house done at the same time. We used 3/4 inch thick Marine grade plywood in the bathroom.... The rehab guy says that stuff is structurally strong enough to have 48 inches between joists....

deb "who really needs her coffee now"

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Gross!
Whatever works. Sort of ironic

Talk about gross, I was lazy an didn't gut the possum. as I was grilling it and turned it a hole opened in it's back and all the guts came pouring out.

 

[vehve]

Deb, or then you can just do a cross brace structure, placing supports at an 90 deg angle to the floor joists under the feet of the tanks.