The Old Folks Home

[superchemicalgirl]

You were probably charged for a full hour of labor, so $90?

Winner, winner, chicken dinner

 

[CapricornFarm]

Looks like a good day to plant more Spring bulbs. I might need to get some hyacinths. I hope this weather lasts into December. Really need to buy a winter jacket too. Got one on sale at TSC for hubby. He likes it! He is hard to buy for because if he wants something he just buys it . He has no clue what he wants for Christmas.

 

[microchick]

Morning all. Looked at how many pages I needed to catch up and decided to skim a few pages.

Hope everyone is recovering from Thanksgiving and now bracing themselves for the Christmas rush.

Plumbing stories. I hired a local plumber years ago back in IL to install a faucet access in my kitchen for a washer/drier and put an upstairs cut off valve for the whole house so I wouldn't have to crawl around in the crawlspace in the event of an emergency. He installed the faucet for me then went to work on the shut off valve. After about 30 minutes he came upstairs and shook his head telling me that he couldn't put in a shut off because there were two water lines coming to our property for some reason and he couldn't tell which one was the main because they were both buried pretty deep. I knew that the neighbor next door to me was running water from the main line coming into my property and was on a separate meter so that was probably the second line but he couldn't figure out which was which so he left me with a master turn off wrench so I could go out to my meter and turn off the water there if I needed to.

The original quote for both jobs was 130$. When he got done and handed me the invoice it was for 130$ even though he didn't put in the secondary turn off valve.

I figure that was about a 40-50$ wrench I paid for.

Thank goodness DH and I are fairly proficient with plumbing. We discovered 'Sharkbite' plumbing hardware that work with pex, cpvc and we think copper. Our local plumber back in IL introduced us to them and we use them a lot. More expensive but a lot easier to work with and you can join different types of pipe to them to make a connection.

I can install faucets and run pipe. I've even helped install toilets. The first few jobs with the resulting leaks are the worse part of it. After that it's pretty easypeasy.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

My darn Silkie is finally done. She hatched a chick yesterday. The chick was pecked in the head and likely stepped on in whatever battle ensued as another hen was likely wanted to lay in her nest. So it was already gone when I found it. This egg was pipped last night. So I got up early to let the chickens out so she wouldn't be pestered.

So I guess I'll set up the wire box for them to keep her from fighting the other hens for a few days until the chick gets a bit more energetic.

I think the chick is a buff Silkie covered by the new EE roosters for that Chipmunk style. I don't want any chicks from the buff Silkies with the line having wry neck. So I guess it's another experiment.

 

[bruceha2000]

You were probably charged for a full hour of labor, so $90?

Yep that is how they work. 1 Full hour for their trouble to drive out. Additional hours are usually less. The heating company charges, IIRC like $125 for the first hour, $90 for additional hours. Hope you never need them!

Yeah, the days all blend together here. I try to always take mine when i eat breakfast. All of them down the hatch in the morning. It does help to have days of the week labelled. God help me, i am turning into my mother!

DW's mother is a list maker, always has been. DW started making lists a couple of years ago and made the same "claim". Days blend together here as well. I get really screwed up when DW has a day off. She works Monday through Saturday so if she is home, it IS Sunday ... except when it isn't.

BF got up early and went hunting, so I also lost the marital game of chicken.

Well that just isn't fair! His butt was outta bed, he should have dumped some pellets in the stove. Would have taken what, 2 minutes? I say he gets a foot solidly in his back the next 7 mornings you two play this "game".

Glad your spigot is replaced, one less thing to deal with.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Here the plumber I got out to replace the water softener charged mileage and travel time inclusive with at the hourly rate.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Well that just isn't fair! His butt was outta bed, he should have dumped some pellets in the stove. Would have taken what, 2 minutes? I say he gets a foot solidly in his back the next 7 mornings you two play this "game".

Glad your spigot is replaced, one less thing to deal with.

Oh, I have something better for him planned.

I got more sunchokes in this weeks CSA.

 

[ronott1]

Oh, I have something better for him planned.

I got more sunchokes in this weeks CSA.

Hide them in the soup! Puree them so the soup is nice and "creamy" with a special ingredient....

 

[CapricornFarm]

Husband already found the beer i bought him that i hid in the garage. It is hard to hide stuff when you only have 2 closets in the house. Maybe i should use the crawl space. Might get mold. Hard to keep a secret!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Hide them in the soup! Puree them so the soup is nice and "creamy" with a special ingredient....

I think that might backfire on me. Pun intended. I need to be able to avoid them