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[Beer can]

151 new posts, can't keep up, sorry

 

[Latestarter]

I feel your pain brother. Some times this thread really rolls in short time. Take even a whole day off and it's a novella... Not complaining folks, just sayin. 15 pages aint that bad..

 

[Beer can]

Harvested a few sweet meat winter squash. Five and a half pounds on the small one, twelve each on both the other two.
Vine borer in the small one..

Didn't get into the meat though so OK..
Have to see how they taste, pretty pathetic...three... better be good.
Night You all!

 

[Alaskan]

Normally my weeks are somewhat busy, but not overly so. This week I've been busier than a one legged man at a butt kicking contest. It's been non-stop.

They did put in our new iron filter, and water softener today. The water looks, and feels really good, but the water still has the odor from the pvc glue. I know it will be fine in a day or two. The old system was such a mess. The previous owners had put in an iron filter, and softener. They undersized the iron filter, so added a chlorine pump. They had 1 electrical socket, and used an adapter to be able to plug all 3 things into the 1 socket. At some point the socket caught fire. They caught it in time, before the fire could burn up the equipment.

The electrician came out, and installed an outdoor double socket, then put a special plug on the softener. The plug, instead of being solid on the back side, had prong holes, so another piece of equipment could be plugged into the back of it, and they could share the same socket, while the filter was on the second socket, by itself. After the electrician came, they called their water guy out. Since the electrical socket is almost centrally located on the concrete pad, and they were afraid of it catching fire again, they had the water guy come and move the equipment further away from the electrical socket by about 4 feet. Instead of removing the old pvc, and running new lines to the new locations, he simply moved everything out, and tied into all the original plumbing, which made a pvc mess.

Later, it was decided that for the chlorine pump to work better, they needed a holding tank. Due to the way the rest of the equipment was sprawled out so far away from each other, he could not put the big holding tank near the rest of the equipment. When he ran the pvc to tie it into everything else, it became a pvc nightmare. Pipes running everywhere, from here, to there, to yonder, then crossing back again, then crossing each other, etc.

When we talked to our water man on Wed., I told him part of the job would be removing all that mess of old pvc, and that I wanted the new equipment closer to the electrical outlets, closer to each other, and made to look neat. When he started, he began to tie into the existing plumbing, and I reminded him that we had discussed it, and him simply tying into the old lines would not work for me. He began cutting out all the old pvc. We ended up with a stack of over 250 feet of pvc, with so many elbows, and such. Now it looks neat, and tidy, like it should.

I went to the Dr. yesterday. They called me today with the results of my blood work, and said everything looked real good. YAY!

crazy with your spaghetti of pipes...scary about it starting a fire. Our piped aren't too bad, but our electric is a quality wad of spaghetti. Our one house has three fuse boxes.

Yes, it seems to be working, and my cancer is still not active.

Best news ever!

Harvested a few sweet meat winter squash. Five and a half pounds on the small one, twelve each on both the other two.
Vine borer in the small one..
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Didn't get into the meat though so OK..
Have to see how they taste, pretty pathetic...three... better be good.
Night You all!

What? Three on one vine? Did only the one vine make it??

They do look good.

 

[chickadoodles]

Congrats Clue on your great tests!
Wow on the pvc pipes! I can't believe you had to tell him twice.
At least they look better and now can be checked easier.

 

[chickadoodles]

yes it is but better than nothing at all they tried to put me in a nursing home I refused they said i would cripple myself naw to german for that as long as i can walk motivate I will do for myself

That's right you go Penny!

 

[chickadoodles]

Beer you did better than I did. Your look good.

I only got one pumpkin.

 

[chickadoodles]

Micro congrats on your bird getting better.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Anyone have fun weekend plans?

Tomorrow I'm heading to Boston for cemetery tourism.

 

[NotAFarm]

@superchemicalgirl Take and post lots of pics!

No big plans here.
DD#1 and grand kids were here last weekend so DS, DD#2 and her boyfriend also come out, so just taking it easy this weekend.
Lots of rain this past week and we needed it badly.
I need to finish reading my book club book, The Shack, before Monday evening, so that is on the docket.
Have a great weekend OFs!