COLD DARK ROOM

[jeff kushner]

I don't always work on cars
But when i do,
I prefer Rock Auto too!


Kerry got her cooktop back yesterday morning after I ran the new gas piping. Then I decided to install the shades we got for the porch. I got most of it done. We had to exchange 1 for a longer set and we have 1 8ft shade to customize to length this morning but they work well. They really keep the heat in from the fire pit!
The boxes are staking out the space required for a got tub!


Progress not perfection

 

[MaNaAk]

Dear Lyn,

Do you watch Celebrity Traitors on BBC 1? I can't wait for it to end so that I don't have to keep hearing about it!

Natrah

 

[MenagerieGrl]

Dear Lyn,

Do you watch Celebrity Traitors on BBC 1? I can't wait for it to end so that I don't have to keep hearing about it!

Natrah

No, I don't, But I need to fire up my VPN to check out some shows from your lovely area....

 

[Cathie G]

And well she didn't know how to use that either. You have to turn it into a little powder puffy thingy

And besides that I think washing your hands now and then is better than cleaning out a septic tank. You just have to be good at the powder puffy thingy. Scott's is so cheap it's great for toilet papering too. There's plenty of it and the proof desolves away before you know it.

 

[Cathie G]

I don't always work on cars
But when i do,
I prefer Rock Auto too!


Kerry got her cooktop back yesterday morning after I ran the new gas piping. Then I decided to install the shades we got for the porch. I got most of it done. We had to exchange 1 for a longer set and we have 1 8ft shade to customize to length this morning but they work well. They really keep the heat in from the fire pit!
The boxes are staking out the space required for a got tub!
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Progress not perfection

I bet the two of you are spending time enjoying it already. It looks fun and cozy and it's not even done

 

[Ray--Opo]

Setting the trap for a racoon in the attic. Found where it is getting in the attic. Bottomline a carpenter didn't do his job properly. Wish I could get up there and fix it myself.

 

[Ray--Opo]

This is all totally incomprehensible to me in the UK - 12 flips of the hand - do you have to do a special dance when using the toilet perhaps ? Maybe I am better off not knowing !
Angie

I do the fold method

 

[COmtnLady]

I avoid Scott Toilet Paper altogether. Its rougher than I like, and since it is single ply you end up using more than the better-quality papers. Plus, if you don't use too much, it falls apart before you get a good wipe done (like Jeff said) ...

Their tissues are ok though.

 

[Blackdog1714]

I could make a joke about that 12 flips thing but suffice to say that anyone who has actually used Scotts, like poor people and prisoners.....know that you have to wrap it round your hand several layers deep because it's so flimsy. Be thankful if you are ignorant of this diabolical dud.




I heard of a guy that lost a job once for making bad jokes.

He used to ask his customers: Smoking or Nonsmoking?

Apparently the correct terms are


"Burial or Cremation"

Get a bidet and use way less TP!

 

[jeff kushner]

Ray...we are learning how to manage raccoons. Two things they do not like are mousetraps and bear spray.
Their hands are everything to them and a mousetrap snapping on one will dissuade them from returning. I set 6-7 (lol) traps around Matt's enclosure and the raccoons stopped coming by after the first couple nights. I saw one get snapped on the game can and just like that...no raccoons! Bear Spray the entryway where he's getting in and it may keep him from coming back but be very careful with the spray. Make SURE that you don't tag yourself!


I will never buy Scott's.......stop being so cheap MS Cathie!

 

[MaNaAk]

Setting the trap for a racoon in the attic. Found where it is getting in the attic. Bottomline a carpenter didn't do his job properly. Wish I could get up there and fix it myself.

Maybe Ms Sully and Opo didn't approve of him either.

Natrah

 

[Ray--Opo]

Get a bidet and use way less TP!

That is true. My wife Rose is from the Philippines. The bidet is common there.
When she came to the U.S. the request for a bidet was asked. I installed it and never thought I'd use it. It didn't take long and I was sold. And yes you use less TP.

 

[Ray--Opo]

Ray...we are learning how to manage raccoons. Two things they do not like are mousetraps and bear spray.
Their hands are everything to them and a mousetrap snapping on one will dissuade them from returning. I set 6-7 (lol) traps around Matt's enclosure and the raccoons stopped coming by after the first couple nights. I saw one get snapped on the game can and just like that...no raccoons! Bear Spray the entryway where he's getting in and it may keep him from coming back but be very careful with the spray. Make SURE that you don't tag yourself!


I will never buy Scott's.......stop being so cheap MS Cathie!

I set a humane trap out with some sardines. Checked it about 1am and there was a cat trapped in it. Let it go and baited it again. Waiting for some action right now at about 4:30am. I have a pest control coming over tomorrow. Hopefully the raccoon is trapped. So he can block up the holes. I am starting to accept (I think) that I can't do somethings anymore and have to pay to get it done.

 

[Ray--Opo]

Maybe Ms Sully and Opo didn't approve of him either.

Natrah

The raccoons have checked out Ms.Sully and Opo's enclosures. But they can't get inside.

 

[The_Four_Toed_Edward]

My father lives in this rintamamiestalo (front-line soldier house) that means a house built according to standardized drawings available at low cost for (self)-builders, including detailed instructions for work and lists of required materials. This type of construction was popular in Finland during the first half of the 20th century, after the first and second world war. They were built mostly to provide housing for evacuees.

Well, now he is installing some extra ventilation upstairts, since the gravity-fed ventilation has been disturbed by installing newer, better sealed windows. For this, he had to drill trough the wall to the outside, well now I know exactly how thick the walls are and what they contain. They really don't make them like they used to!

The wall is about 7 inches thick, the outer most layer being at the top:

 

[MaNaAk]

My father lives in this rintamamiestalo (front-line soldier house) that means a house built according to standardized drawings available at low cost for (self)-builders, including detailed instructions for work and lists of required materials. This type of construction was popular in Finland during the first half of the 20th century, after the first and second world war. They were built mostly to provide housing for evacuees.

Well, now he is installing some extra ventilation upstairts, since the gravity-fed ventilation has been disturbed by installing newer, better sealed windows. For this, he had to drill trough the wall to the outside, well now I know exactly how thick the walls are and what they contain. They really don't make them like they used to!

The wall is about 7 inches thick, the outer most layer being at the top:
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Well insulated for the harsh winter. Have you had any snow Edward's Servant?

 

[The_Four_Toed_Edward]

Well insulated for the harsh winter. Have you had any snow Edward's Servant?

Not yet, it is unusually warm here and the winter is late.

 

[Ray--Opo]

My father lives in this rintamamiestalo (front-line soldier house) that means a house built according to standardized drawings available at low cost for (self)-builders, including detailed instructions for work and lists of required materials. This type of construction was popular in Finland during the first half of the 20th century, after the first and second world war. They were built mostly to provide housing for evacuees.

Well, now he is installing some extra ventilation upstairts, since the gravity-fed ventilation has been disturbed by installing newer, better sealed windows. For this, he had to drill trough the wall to the outside, well now I know exactly how thick the walls are and what they contain. They really don't make them like they used to!

The wall is about 7 inches thick, the outer most layer being at the top:
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That is impressive. Being built so long ago. Is there any problem with asbestos in the insulation?

 

[The_Four_Toed_Edward]

That is impressive. Being built so long ago. Is there any problem with asbestos in the insulation?

Not in the walls no, but in the basement some asbestos removal and sealing asbestos was done when my father bought the house.

Also, part of the wall in the photo (the three outermost layers if I remember correctly) have been redone honouring the original design and methods. The thickest part of the insulation used to be sawdust, but over the decades, it sunk inside the wall. Now the thickest circle you see is made out of recycled material, mostly newspaper.

 

[Cathie G]

That is true. My wife Rose is from the Philippines. The bidet is common there.
When she came to the U.S. the request for a bidet was asked. I installed it and never thought I'd use it. It didn't take long and I was sold. And yes you use less TP.

All I can say is amen .