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NorthernRedneck

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Ok. It's back up to 32 this afternoon. The worst part is something is wrong with the hydro at camp. Everyone is saying they can't run the ac in their campers. We're all on separate meters. But the main line coming in is losing power. I barely had enough power to run my coffee pot this morning.

Canadian eh!!!
 
FrancSevin

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Spent the weekend in the Ozarks. Floated the Merrimac river in a canoe with friends.

Just got home to find out we have been re-instated as the primary supplier to our largest account. One of our vendors tried a sneak around. I've got at least five companies ready to step in and replace them.

A perfect ending to a great weekend.
 
NorthernRedneck

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Sounds like a great weekend.

We had the annual Canada day fireworks display at camp.
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Canadian eh!!!
 
pirate_girl

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Another scorcher today.
High of 92.
Our fireworks here are on the 4th at 10pm.
I guess I'll go to the park and watch them, tho it's probably going to be viewable from the street.
The grandies apparently won't be going to see them in Defiance.
Maddie doesn't like loud banging noises and Lainey would probably not be too keen on them either.
I'm keeping my feets cool in my new canvas sneakers.
Back to work this evening on 11p-7a.
They've changed shift starting times by an hour.
Shoes...
Lol
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FrancSevin

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The City of Wentzville has fire works directly across the interstate from our plant. So we park in our lot and watch them without crowds using the company facilities, including a BBQ grill.

No parking problems, Great view, Easy bathroom access and no crowds when we leave. Entry ramp to the highway is virtually out our parking lot.

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NorthernRedneck

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Fireworks in town are tonight. We do it the Sunday night at camp though. Good show for a smaller campground.

I made a trip to town to pick up a truck load of split Birch for camp. The wood shed is now full for another year.

Canadian eh!!!
 
Bannedjoe

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Ah...
Fourth of July.

Years ago my friends and I would construct our own fireworks.
But that was long before a person could be labeled with a big "T" for doing such things.

Unfortunately, hot dry desert brush is almost as explosive as fireworks themselves.
I don't do those things anymore.

There is a place not far away where we have the largest machine gun shoot, and on the ground fireworks display in the nation twice a year.

Feel free to yootoob the Big Sandy.
 
NorthernRedneck

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Thanks. We had a quiet day out at camp being the only ones left out there. We came home this evening as we all needed a good night sleep before appointments in town tomorrow. We'll head back out Friday.

Today was good. We got up and launched the boat to try fishing. After 2 hours and not a single bite, we pulled up anchor and went for a 25 mile round trip boat ride exploring the lake. Once we came back, I ran into the camp owner and got to talking to him. I now have a permanent dock slip. Which will save me having to launch the boat every time I go fishing. (Not that it's a hard thing to do. I have a good method of loading it onto the trailer in less than 3 minutes from the time I hit the shore till it's on the trailer ready to go. (I get a kick out of watching some of these city slickers try to launch a boat or load one up.

After boating, I took the kids down to the launch for a swim.

Canadian eh!!!
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NorthernRedneck

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Lmao. Funny thing is that about the same time as I took the picture I told the girls there were sharks in the water.

Canadian eh!!!
 
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Going to watch the bang bangs tonight at the park.
20% chance of rain, so I think we're good.
We're going to have dinner from Subway.
That way no messing up my pristine kitchen.
I'm off work until Saturday eve.
Yay.
 
NorthernRedneck

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Worked my a$$ off today. Literally. I mean....it's gone. Not sure where it went but I ran out of notches on my belt trying to hold my shorts up.

Up at 7am. By 7:30 I was in town working at the old house. Back out to the new place by 10 to sell the old boat. Had a visit from my uncle who was in town dealing with a few skeletons from his teenage past. Lol. My mother did an ancestry DNA kit for herself and a long lost nephew showed up that nobody new about. Even my uncle. He hooked up with a girl when he was 17 and now in his 60s found out that she became pregnant. Imagine that. A whole new branch to the family.

After he was gone, I headed back to the old house and steam cleaned 3 carpets. Then picked up the oldest son who was gone this week on a youth gathering through our church. I'm beat.

Canadian eh!!!
 
FrancSevin

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Dug a ditch this weekend for a driveway drain line I should have installed 6 years ago, About thirty feet long and two feet deep. All I have left to do tonite is back cut the sod pieces and replace them.

Next, I cut four feet of the concrete driveway and set flush drain scuppers. I will level with four inches of 1" minus, tamp solid and set 4" X 6"pavers 20 feet wide about 4 feet deep at the garage door. This should limit water going to the basement and take some load off of the sump system.

My two car drive is completely cracked. planes are to break it up and haul away. I'll continue the pavers down to the street. Luckily, I live in a subdivision so, about 30 feet by 20 feet. The big job is removal and preparation. Laying pavers each evening when I come home will be, by comparison, almost relaxing. This is about $3,000.00 ( I don't have) of pavers and gravel so it will likely wait until next spring.
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Right now I'm in the process of making dinner and fighting off a tension headache.
Which I rarely get.
Grrr
 
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FrancSevin said:
Dug a ditch this weekend for a driveway drain line I should have installed 6 years ago, About thirty feet long and two feet deep. All I have left to do tonite is back cut the sod pieces and replace them.

Next, I cut four feet of the concrete driveway and set flush drain scuppers. I will level with four inches of 1" minus, tamp solid and set 4" X 6"pavers 20 feet wide about 4 feet deep at the garage door. This should limit water going to the basement and take some load off of the sump system.

My two car drive is completely cracked. planes are to break it up and haul away. I'll continue the pavers down to the street. Luckily, I live in a subdivision so, about 30 feet by 20 feet. The big job is removal and preparation. Laying pavers each evening when I come home will be, by comparison, almost relaxing. This is about $3,000.00 ( I don't have) of pavers and gravel so it will likely wait until next spring.
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Best way I found to remove an old drive way was to have a concrete cutting company in my area here ( cal west ) they came with a big self propelled wet saw and cut it into a checker board of small pieces to pry out and haul away. I cheated and used a fork lift but a 15'X 30' or so drive way was gone in 1 day. That idea came after I watched my neighbor jack hammer his out. with a torch to cut the steel mat in the concrete. He was at it for a week or more.
 
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Hi all, I went to the cabin on the 4th and continued working on it as I have been since last October when I bought it. I got the idea I needed an inside bathroom so I decided to turn the porch into a bathroom on 1 end and the rest for a utility room. So far I have the old place stripped of its 1970's style complete with fake wood paneling. The porch is framed in now with windows and the bathroom is framed in with the Plumbing in place along with electrical. Over the last couple of long weekends my son and me got about 75% of a small septic installed about 100' away from the cabin. I still have to finish digging the leach field with leach pipe and gravel. You have to work fast up there as you have about 5 months between snow in the summer. I worked on it a steady 10 hours on both Thursday and Friday then rested on Saturday enjoying the view and the 70 degree weather. Sunday back to the 100 degree valley . I figure I have another year on it to finish the upgrades. remodel, new roof and solar electrical. Going to the bathroom at 4:30 am is going to be much better soon. There are times going to the out house when its cold and dark is a real chore and a little spooky when you have to cover a 100 yards and you see shiney eyes looking back at you in the dark.
 

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FrancSevin

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m1west said:
Best way I found to remove an old drive way was to have a concrete cutting company in my area here ( cal west ) they came with a big self propelled wet saw and cut it into a checker board of small pieces to pry out and haul away. I cheated and used a fork lift but a 15'X 30' or so drive way was gone in 1 day. That idea came after I watched my neighbor jack hammer his out. with a torch to cut the steel mat in the concrete. He was at it for a week or more.
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Back when I was in my early twenties, I did it the hard way. Under cut the pavement with a shovel and broke it off in small pieces with a sledge hammer. It took me weeks to do a double drive.
Then I worked part time for a paving company. And learned how dumb I was.


Some would say, despite the years, I haven't improved much.
 
Bannedjoe

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Looks like a fair amount of projects going on.
Today is stacking some more block.
I have an extra hand coming up on thurs to help us stack some of the higher areas, and possibly pour the headers.
 
NorthernRedneck

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The end is in sight. Phewf. Up and at it at 7am. Unloaded the trailer with the remaining things from inside the house from the old place. I had loaded it up Friday. Then off to town to load up a few remaining things from the garage at the old place. It's on the market already. Our realtor had 2 open house showings on the weekend with roughly 30 people looking. 2 more looking this afternoon. We may be in a position to entertain multiple offers by tomorrow.

After loading up in town, I mowed the lawn there then came back out to unload again then moved a few cabinets from the garage up to the house. After that, it was time for a dump run with garbage from here. Then home again for lunch. It's going to be a scorcher again this afternoon which is why I gave er this morning while I can still breathe outside.

Canadian eh!!!
 
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-Took my daily walk while it was still cool, not that it's all that uncomfortable out there.
-Threw a chicken in the crockpot for dinner.
-Played way too many rounds of Word Across on the Facebook messenger app.
It's addicting! :hammer: Lol
 
NorthernRedneck

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So the afternoon didn't slow down. I brought the trailer back to town then went to a specialist appointment for nerve problems. It's at a long term rehabilitation facility where I just found out a long time friend of mine is in as he had a stroke following two heart attacks. He seems to be doing better. I visited him after my appointment. By the time I stopped tonight I had been on a 14 hour straight marathon.

Canadian eh!!!
 
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God it's 102° out there.
No walking today for me, unless you count up and down the stairs to our laundry building.
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97 degree air temperature here when I checked earlier. Not sure what the "heat index" said but it felt like walking into an oven.

Met up with a friend this morning at the cigar lounge. I don't go there too often anymore, just too darn busy. But by the time we parted it was mid-afternoon.

Came home and started a project wiring some auxiliary lights onto my motorcycle. I have luggage boxes on the back and I want to install some running and turn lights onto the boxes to make a larger visual image in the rain and low light conditions. I rarely ride at night but sometimes I'm out at dusk. Just want to be seen.

Of course all the tools I needed were in the house garage and I was working in the shop about 200 feet away. Several trips back and forth in the heat and I was ready to get started! Bougth LED lights from Amazon that are surface mounted because I didn't want to drill into the cargo boxes and destroy their waterproof integrity. Lights were fairly cheap but got good reviews for being bright.

About an hour into the project I was tapped into the correct wires and ran a quick connect weatherproof 3 wire lead through a freshly drilled hole. Connected up the LED to test the wiring. IT ALL WORKED! So the right side lights still need to be attached to the right cargo box, but that waits until tomorrow. Have to leave for the fencing club and give a couple high school kids Saber lessons tonight.

Tomorrow should go quicker and I plan to finish the right side and install the left side lights. Now that I have a good idea what I need to do it should take less time, less swearing and involve less bleeding too.
 
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