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Not much happening here. Had the sutures removed this afternoon from the gum line. The dental asst. did it, no Endodontist to be seen. The bulk of that winter dumping will be south of me. Green Grass and High Tides, got that on my music player, the 10 minute version, I have the 20 minute version as well, just not on the player. I'm going to fry up some chicken tenders that I have marinating in buttermilk, with a tempora batter.
Matt - What do you have going on there? I assume that is top soil which you are using to fill those (what appear to be) metal boxes made of metal (guard rail railing it appears). Are those planter boxes and if so what product are you planting? Is the cut flat-stone a part
These are all raised bed gardens. I built 4 out of lumber and the rest came from northern tool
We built the wood ones last year and a few other decorative beds. That sucked up a 20 yd load of nice garden mix. It has compost and some sand a little leaves and some manure and just dirt
well we got another load for the new beds and then I’m building a 14’ tall 50’ long trellis off the south wall of my shop. We are planting hops there. They will grown 15-20’ per year and provide great shade for that whole wall. I’m hoping to decrease my cooling load and make it look a little less like a giant metal wall. I don’t homebrew anymore but my buddy does so all the hop flowers (cones) will go to him
there is a pretty diverse vegetable garden going in we have seeds started now indoors
we left an area open in the middle of the beds and are using those concrete pavers to make a checkerboard area. The not paver parts will be planted a red creeping Tyme
Cloudy but warm all day. Indicative of the impending thunderstorms. They aren't supposed to stick around too long, but they will be right in the middle of my sleeping time. If they are really bad Tiger will jump up on the bed with me, but he shouldn't be too bothered. I hope.
Work was good. We finished up early, also took an hour for lunch. So I went to a place I used to frequent. A woman and her son ran this place and it was always busy and always good. She sold out and the new guy has run it into the ground. I haven't been in months. Well, rumor had it "Mom" was going to be back this week to help get things right, so I went in. Mom was not there, the cashier said she tried to work but she has a bad back and could no longer stand all day, and she's even talking about some sort of surgery. And the food was the same not good as the last time I was there and said I wasn't going back. Plus the place was not clean. The tables weren't wiped off and the floor was sticky, like walking in a movie theater. So sadly, that is it for me. I've been going there for 20+ years, as long as I've been in Atlanta. Hope Mom gets some relief and can enjoy retirement. The son is now in Real Estate and doing well on the north side of the city.
Matt that is some beautiful topsoil. I miss black topsoil. The dirt here is red. I don't know how anything grows in it.
Dan I had some chicken tenders tonight as well. They weren't marinated, just baked by my Mom and I brought them home and heated them up. I could eat chicken every day.
Jamesbo I went back and looked, you did credit Bradford. I guess I wasn't paying attention. Well, I went and looked it up anyway, that was my history for the day.
Okay I think I'll just hit the sack. I was tired when I got home and didn't do anything. The rain will interrupt my sleeping so might as well get in what I can. Last one tomorrow then I have 5 off. Yahoo.
Matt that is some beautiful topsoil. I miss black topsoil. The dirt here is red. I don't know how anything grows in it.
Yes, that is pretty. Out here we have sand and rocks, and I swear it's hardened into natural concrete. Takes a jack hammer to dig a trench for an irrigation line.
Last year when I built the boat house, They removed the floating dock in order to add another slip on the side. When they reattach it, they made the hinged ramp longer.
It used to sit ( when the lake went down) on 6x6 legs to keep it from going down to far and putting a strain on the band the ramp is attached to.
When it was relocated one of the legs was near a creek channel. When the lake went down the leg folded under and the ramp racked ( twisted)
The idea is to brace up the 4 corners of the ramp and then set steel post on the floating dock to prevent it from moving side to side.
As John mentioned when the water rises the dock will rise and move away from the stationary dock
So the post can't be stationary
it needs to be able to slide along the side of the floating dock
So i put in a temporary PVC pipe and marked where it is so I can determine just how much the permanent post needs to travel.
The plan de jour is to weld up a flat bracket ( shaped like a foreman loop only flat) bolt it to the side band of the floating dock around the permanent pipe. So as the lake level rises and falls. The pipe can slide back and forth
The purpose of the temporary pipe is to determine how much ( what size width) the bracket needs to be
We did well at work today, finished up at 10 and hit the road. It was too late for the morning Awful house guys, and too early for the Friday lunch AH guys, so I came home and fixed Tiger his breakfast. Rare that he gets breakfast on a weekday. Anyway, I'm going to head back out to meet my friends in a minute.
Bad, bad weather missed us last night. It was raining pretty hard around midnight, I woke up briefly but Tiger did not. No thunder, no wind, don't know how long it rained. The lake was not terribly full this morning. Now the rain is gone but it's going to be cold this weekend. Eh, I got a coat.
Jamesbo none of that makes any sense to me, but it doesn't have to. Good luck getting it to do what you want. I saw a prototype house on TV once, it had two poles going through the middle of the house, this was in a flood area, and all the utilities were flex lines like a harness, and when it flooded the house would float up with the water, and then settle back down when the flood receded.
Five days off for me. Not sure the weather is going to be terrific the whole time, but I have plenty to do regardless of the weather. I really feel like driving a Valiant. I wish I could spend 5 days working on one.
Okay going to the Awful house. Looks like the sun is trying to come out, I've got some outside stuff to do when I get back.
STORY TIME
Basically, I've opened a can of worms meandering through a wiring quagmire. It's a non-issue, but it's an issue - it's a conundrum is what it is. When I purchased my '71 CS convertible, whomever was working to get wiring correct, left much of the interior & trunk wiring up for grabs, obviously they couldn't figure it out. Prior to purchasing the CSM (wiring diagrams) I simply used my test light to trace each wire for ground, always hot & switched hot. It was basically rather easy & straight forward. I knew the basics about LH door Jamb Switch, IGN SW, Headlamp SW but really couldn't address the proper ground wiring scenario - but I knew how to create good grounds! LOL So, I had every single lamp and SW working what I thought was flawlessly - switched vs. un-switched, replaced burnt out INST panel bulbs, courtesy lamps (where some knucklehead put in single bulb contacts into double contact receptacles), etc. I installed a new stereo radio, speakers - everything working great. So, the CSM arrived several months after purchase, the dash all put back together, my splices wiring etc. was solid but I used 12 GA one color wiring I already had - labeling every wire with tape since I suspected a day would arrive when I wanted to perform an upgrade of some type perhaps, but also to ensure I knew how I had wired things. Well the day has arrived.
I bought a professionally restored OEM clock - very nice clock, indeed. Came with a guarantee if you can believe it. I have not 'tested' it, yet - I probably should bench test it. Back to the STORY. I have each INST panel gauge removed, pulling wires, sorting wires, yadda, yadda, yadda. I know how to read wiring diagrams and I know how to read the A-Body wiring diagram; but, a couple areas make no sense to me whatsoever; so, I'm into the quagmire at the moment. There is no rush, only the point I want to assemble the wiring based upon the wiring diagram and that's where the issue(s) reside. Adding to my total anally retentive OCD, I purchased the correct 12GA colored wires to ensure the wiring matches the wiring diagram. I'll have more to say regarding this current conundrum at a later point in time. I think I'll head to the grocery store for food and some treats.
Last edited by Vintage Chief; February 18th, 2022 at 01:07 PM.
Norm - Looks like a very tasty and healthy dinner! Me, not so much, 4 double burgers and waffle fries from the local greasy spoon where we get such fare. The dogs each got their own burger (a double burger split) and the wife got nothing. She has been on a high protein and vegetable diet (she doesn't need it) for a week and has lost about 7-pounds. She's trying to get down to what she was when we got married 12-years ago, and only has a couple pounds to go.
Colder than the North Pole this morning at 9°, but warmed rapidly to 42° this afternoon, and the roads were primarily dry and clear by the time we had to leave for my wife's appointment at 1145.
Well, the OB/GYN specialist/surgeon that my wife saw today was concerned also about my wife's prior scans, and took a couple of biopsies there in the office. We won't get the results for about 5 or 6 business days. I know my wife's really scared and I'm scared for her!
That's all for today, concerns and thoughts from my wife's appointment are all consuming for both of us! Hope everyone had a great day!
Häagen-Dazs Vanilla Milk Chocolate Almond Ice Cream Bar next on dessert menu.
Norm - Good for you, you can be a little decadent with dessert when your dinner was healthy. I'm the opposite, my dinner was so unhealthy, that I'm denying myself any dessert/sweet stuff to compensate. It will be hard 3 or 4-hours from now not to go grab a Payday bar or cup full of Peanut M&M's from the pantry.
Here's one. I have water coming out of an interior wall in the basement, where there are no water lines and no drains. After moving everything away from both sides of the wall and mopping up, it has remained dry for over two hours. There are water lines and drains in the vicinity but from what I can see everything is dry. That water is coming from the middle of the wall, so the leak would have to run down the middle of the floor stud and then out. That's some trained water. I'll see what it looks like in the morning. I really don't want to start ripping out drywall but that may be the only way to see what's going on.
So the Awful house was good, had a nice visit with my friends, then I came home and messed around in the back yard a little. Didn't get a lot done but what I did was important.
Cold tonight and clear. Gonna be coolish tomorrow but no rain until I think Tuesday. I'm planning on a couple trips to the house tomorrow.
I'm tired tonight. Think I'll hit the sack in a minute. Hopefully Tiger will sleep all night and not want to get up.
Mike - If you want to abate the flow of water from one point to the next you can use a simple age-old, tested and working solution to stop the flow of water to areas - you use a towel & bucket/pan. Say you know (sometimes even suspect) water is intruding from Point 'A' and of course it will flow via gravity to its lowest point. Place a towel with a bucket/pan underneath a Point closest to and downstream from Point A. The towel collects the intruding water, the water drips into the bucket/pan and stops all the other remaining walls, rafters, ceiling etc. from water damage.
Mike - BTW, in case you haven't figured it out, you can just pound a nail into a roof rafter to hold the towel - anything to hold the towel. You can perform the same operation 'anywhere' to stop water flow from intruding to any other areas further downstream - e.g. Points B - G, same with a brick wall.
Ides of March - You never know to what expect from March. My White Forsythia is budding and new shoots are appearing on my Hydrangeas. It's the Hydrangeas I worry about. Late freezes will kill all the newly developed shoots and they seldom if ever recover in the same year. So, today I'll grab some tarps to throw over them tonight as temperatures are expected to hover @ 32°F, 15mph winds and a wind chill near 24°F. I have four large clumps of Hydrangeas. I don't believe you can kill Azaleas from a late freeze - I've never seen it happen in 21 years. Azaleas haven't showed developing buds, but it's early. They generally display bud formations toward the middle-to-end of March. I have an assortment of various Camelia & they each produced great flowers this winter - the last variety is just now beginning to flower. This area is rather unique in temperatures. I had Daffodils (which variety is anyone's guess) blooming in the beginning of January & they continued to bloom throughout January. They have stopped blooming & my Jonquils are all developing large spathes preparing to bloom en masse. I have several Jonquils blooming (out of maybe several hundred to maybe one thousand). I know the Daffodils can bloom in cold soil but the Jonquils require warm soil. Seeing all the Jonquils flower tells me spring is just around the corner. Pretty soon the trees will begin to set pollen. I have large Oaks but many of my neighbors and surrounding properties have Pine trees so soon everything will be covered in green/yellow pollen.
Norm i have no idea why. It really doesn't make sense
Supposedly:
If you believe the Internet, it came from shipping practices. Back in the colonial days, an article in Mental Floss explains, New England butchers took "less prized cuts of pork," packed them into barrels, and shipped them off to other places. "The barrels the pork went into were called butts," the author explains. "This particular shoulder cut became known around the country as a New England specialty, and hence it became the ‘Boston butt.'"
--Got back from Upper Peninsula yesterday. It was fun, but snowmobiling is a expensive hobby. You can have the best machine and equipment but if your visor or gloves are bad you will be uncomfortable ( Cold most likely) and be miserable.... Plus gas at $5.00 a gallon is crazy- most bars have it, but if you are on a snowmobile trail out in BFE and need gas you are happy to pay it. My older sled gets about 10 MPG so it is pricey. Wifey went and she did really well. The guys went about 440 miles and the girls didn't go every day they rode about 280. My buddy found some old Elvis style sunglasses and gave them to me. This weekend is supposed to be a snowmobile ride here.( if enough snow) I want to get a costume black wig and fix it up with sideburns and wear my Purple Elvis suit and all. I will get a pic of that if it happens.
-- Going to pick up new to us 2019 GMC Acadia today.... meh... it'll work good I hope but I'm not excited- more like buying a clothes dryer....
Cold as a mother this morning but it's sunny and bright out. Someone at the Awful house said it's going to get into the 60s today. It better hurry.
The basement remains dry this morning. I don't get it. Thanks you guys for the suggestions. Right now I'm just going to leave everything as is and not worry about it. Whenever I'm in the basement I can check on it, and if it comes back I'll look further. Very weird.
So I think I'll pack up some things and take over. I also need to start up the big truck, that hasn't been done in a couple weeks. I really need to go to the junkyard. I think I'll wait until it's a little warmer for that.
Greg wear that suit to Vegas and perform some weddings. Good luck with the Acadia today. If it's white you can nickname it The Dryer.
Okay gotta get things moving. As I've found out, the house won't move itself.
Yeah, what Kenneth asked is a valid point. I'm still wondering if this is the old house or the new house? If there appears no water intrusion from rain water, then the next likely suspects are water lines - wherever they're installed. If it didn't stink like a sewer rat, then a sewage drain line shouldn't be suspect; but, a fresh water line could still remain suspect - either somewhere in the interior walls or at ground level. I hate to say this, but you know water can move upwards via capillary motion. If the stud/or drywall is sitting in water, the water can move upwards. Generally, either a fresh water well pump or city water main line is going to enter the house at ground level - most often. Again though, water can move upward onto studs/drywall via capillary motion. Good luck, Mike!
Kenneth that's a good question. Both the bathrooms are right above this area. I took down some of the drop ceiling and can see the plumbing under the bathrooms, everything is dry. The water doesn't smell. My bet is something to do with the water valve for the toilet in the hall bathroom. It would only leak when it was flushed, don't know why that would be. Norm this is in the old house, where I am still residing.
Warmed up a little so far, but 60 seems optimistic. Got some laundry going, so in the mean time I'll load up a truckload and take it over later.
Mike - Looks like you're on to it then. Water is emanating from the water pipe(s) filling the flush tank, the shower, the bathtub, the sink or that hall bathroom toilet valve (in the old house where you still reside).
James - I think I see the issue with the floating dock.
I made a little baby step, but a big step in the wiring diagram and my quagmire. Kenneth (in particular) will know what I'm talking about since he owns a convertible. Normally (based on the wiring diagram) there exist TWO wires to each of the front doors on a non-convertible: (1) is a white wire w/ black stripe, designated as a 'tracer' wire; and, (2) the other is a solid white wire. Each of these wires lead to and return from each of the front doors of a non-convertible car - the catch is this, that white wire ALSO feeds a dome light on a non-convertible car. Instead, on a convertible the white + black stripe (tracer) wire is eliminated & only a single white wire goes to the door jamb switches (which would otherwise also turn on the dome lamp w/ the courtesy lamps when the door is opened). Argh....that seems simple enough, but tracing the wiring diagram I completely had a "moment" regarding the wiring. There's one other area regarding the "Map" light I have to mentally address, but lunch is calling first.
James - The manufacturer these all aluminum ramps of many various sizes in both length & width - they're employed everywhere in the docks here on the coast. The "ramp" being that piece indicated by the arrow. That "ramp" should be resting "onto" the platform (call it a floating dock, or a stationary dock - makes no difference - you could address this either as a floating dock or a stationary dock).
With that ramp sitting/resting on the platform, the very simple ramp moves forward/backwards along the platform. Obviously the ramp will gain a little height or lose some height, but the platform remains stationary (either as a floating dock or stationary in the water) I can't tell how the other piece of the ramp is attached. Generally, the "other" end of that ramp is stationary no land, the ramp simple "pivots" up or down to accommodate the height of platform. I think the best scenario is to have that platform as a floating dock (platform), but have the bottom of that ramp resting/sitting on the platform deck. As the floating platform/dock raises and lowers the ramp pivots to accommodate change in height.
I guess to identify this device it would be correct to state it's a gangway. You can see from the image (below) one end of the gangway is hinged to the stationary dock (most likely the one protruding from land) while the other end of the gangway rests on the floating platform/dock. You get the idea. Anyways, just a suggestion.
Wow that was a tough two hours. I had to come in for some Tylenol. Got more things from the back yard up to the dogmobile and ready to go over.
So I've figured it out. The leak is the sump pump. Yesterday when I discovered the leak the washing machine was running. Washing machine finished, and the water dried up. Today, I had the machine running and went downstairs and water was all over. What happens is the washing machine empties into a sump pump that is concreted into the floor, and the discharge comes out of the floor, into the wall, and up to the bottom of the floor joists and meets with the other plumbing going across the ceiling(this is in the crawlspace on the other side of the wall) and goes into the septic. I went into the crawlspace and the pipe coming out of the block is dry. My new guess is the elbow from the pipe coming out of the floor going to the vertical pipe is leaking. It's all PVC. I for sure will have to remove drywall to see this. I think what is happening is the water is actually running into the room on the other side of the wall that's purging the water and seeping under, which is opposite of what I thought was happening.
After break I'm going over to work on trucks. That will be relaxing. I'll worry about demo-ing my wall this evening.
Oh Norm I wanted to tell you this. A few days ago my computer did an automatic update, which I never want it to do, and after that it goes into "cleaning up" mode, which is the same as the update, blue screen of death and a countdown from 0% to 100%. Would that be a countup? Anyway, once it restarted the computer was lightning fast! At least as fast as when it was new. No hanging, no scrolling issues, fast between screens, it was amazing. It was the first time it had ever done this. That lasted about a day and now it's back to its slow-*** self. Eh. Does that cleaning mode have a name, and can I access it from the menu? I assume it was on the order of defrag. I'd do that every day to get that kind of speed.
Also Norm, on your wiring diagram, what turns the courtesy lights on in the back seat? I don't believe the closed cars have these, but the convertibles do.
Also Norm, on your wiring diagram, what turns the courtesy lights on in the back seat? I don't believe the closed cars have these, but the convertibles do.
Mike - Thanks for thinking of me. I have that area under control. The singular (only) delta right now is the Map Lamp Switch - which I believe I can address in very short order I just to sit down a minute and draw it out on paper to ensure I'm good with it. The thing about the Map Lamp Switch is this. It is a double-throw switch. I have to look at it again with more detail, that's why I need to sit down and draw it out - I can't recall from memory at the moment. I can't recall if it's a single-throw dipole switch, possibly a double-throw dipole switch or even perhaps a double throw single pole switch. The Map Lamp Switch is the only thing left to mentally negotiate. See, on the non-convertibles, that one tracer (White + Black) wire feeds into each front door Jam Switch plus the solid white wire. I'll have to look, but in the wiring diagram I believe the white + black stripe wire feeds into the Map Lamp Switch along with and Orange Wire PLUS a ground wire. That's the current conundrum. The terminal end of the Map Lamp Switch has room for two wires going into a double terminal - two wires would normally be going into that Map Light Switch and one ground wire going into the Map Light Switch. That two terminal end has only one wire going into it - the other terminal is blank (no wire). I suspect that other terminal is for what might or would be the dome lamp, but again, I have to review the wiring diagram to get my head around it. Since, as you recall - normally there would be two wires (white and white + black) going to each of the door jamb dome lamp switches at each front door. Well, with no dome lamp, it stands to reason there should be no white wire for any dome lamp which does not exist. I think maybe that open (blank) terminal end was for the other white wire or white + black wire which one of them is not used on the convertible. I'll get it - just need to draw it out to make sure it's correct.
James - Do you mean to suggest there is less 'stress'? If so, there is less stress where? Something is incorrect. Generally, I've seen that type platform 'floating' in the water with a wooden piling/pillar embedded into the lake bottom at each corner either through the platform flooring or outside the platform flooring - either case, the floating platform was floating and held into place by four pilings/pillars - one at each corner. Then, the gangway ramp is 'hinged' at the land side and the other end of the gangway sits on top of the floating platform. From the picture I can certainly see one side of the floating platform (closest to where the 'ramp' is located) is far higher out of the water than the furthest side of the platform. Which, implies to me an 'impingement' - undo stress is being applied to the platform by the ramp it appears forcing the furthest end into the water. IDK
February 17th, 2022, 02:26 PM
