so waht ya doin today?
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RBHarter
West Central AR
I believe we reached an agreement that includes removing the brick chimney at the rafters , leaving nothing to flash and no hole in the exterior roof. From there we can alter the remaining 1965 atmosphere fireplace to accommodate AC and/or heat units that don't require chimney venting .
L Ross
Well-Known Member
For a while I'm just going to sit in my recliner and be grateful. I'm grateful to be able to wake up and get up. I'm grateful I have coffee. I went out to feed the birds and the air is soft and smells great, and now as the clouds break up, the sun is shining on the hills to the West and on our small prairie. The trees are beginning to bud so the hills are various shades of pastel reds, and pinks, and dusty green mixed in the grey branches and trunks. The prairie is all shades of tan and gold, and brown. With the low sun angle the textures all stand out.
The birds and squirrels are active and I am just at peace. Haven't seen a single vehicle drive by yet this morning, not much traffic on our little road. We have an hour of election training at 10am, I believe it consists of a machine test.
The birds and squirrels are active and I am just at peace. Haven't seen a single vehicle drive by yet this morning, not much traffic on our little road. We have an hour of election training at 10am, I believe it consists of a machine test.
Cadillac Jeff
Well-Known Member
Good plan Mr Ross !!
Out to the shop with me today...
Going to fire up the pro melt today...always seam to need 30s for the bench rifle... I have this old lyman for the 7 x 57 it's been hollow pointed very challenging I think I feel up to giving it a try today... pics later if I'm successful!!
Out to the shop with me today...
Going to fire up the pro melt today...always seam to need 30s for the bench rifle... I have this old lyman for the 7 x 57 it's been hollow pointed very challenging I think I feel up to giving it a try today... pics later if I'm successful!!
Cadillac Jeff
Well-Known Member
GRASS MOWING !@#$$%@
JonB
Halcyon member
Sunday, I started setting up my new Samsung phone and activating it. Lots of tinkering and a couple calls to tracfone CS. Yesterday, I spend most of my extra time failing at getting the Texting app working. Today, the Texting app started working all by itself. I think I'll be slowly but surely, getting this set up the way I want it, in the next couple weeks. I hate cell phones, but I'm bound and determined to understand this MFer. In my teens and 20s, I loved all this techy stuff (circa 1980s)...now-a-days, I'd rather be running a chain saw and wood splitter.
Wiresguy
Active Member
I hear ya Jon, but there have been times in the past that I wondered if the Stihl chain saw wasn't smarter than me!
The Redwing Blackbirds & Grackles have arrived in force.
No plans to go anywhere today due to WX. Maybe not tomorrow either. But there is always plenty to do around the house and shop. Thankful for electricity and propane.
The Redwing Blackbirds & Grackles have arrived in force.
No plans to go anywhere today due to WX. Maybe not tomorrow either. But there is always plenty to do around the house and shop. Thankful for electricity and propane.
Mitty38
Well-Known Member
Raining, so mowing plans thwarted.
Took the wife to subway split a sub. Then we volunteered at the Library today. Picked up a home perm. Going to perm the wife's hair later for Easter.
Well kid lost his set of keys to the truck.
Lucky I had two more sets. So ran him one out to his work.
Got me thinking. I could end up in a real pickle with only one set of keys to the jeep.
Chrysler dealer wants a hundred a key, to make me one that will work in both the ignition and the door. I need 3 total.
So $300 nooooo.
So I pulled the PCM wrote down the VIn. Ran them down to the local "computer tuner" car geek and he flashed the PCM back to factory 0. $25.
If you Zap a Jeep computer back to factory set up and it don't find a SKIM Module, when it is put back in a vehicle. It just assumes that the vehicle was ordered without the SKIM system.(As is done sometimes with fleet vehicles). Then sets to accommodate.
Went to drug mart with the truck. Got 3 old style non chip keys made. $9.
Pulled the SKIM pickup-disabler, Modual, out of the steering column and threw it in the trash. Put the computer back in. Put the column and other various minor stuff back together.
Abracadabra and voila. No more skim system.
Ran kind of crappy for the first 10 minutes or so. While the computer was finding things again. Which can be expected when you Zap a car computer back to factory set up mode. But it all straightened out with a short drive.
Car starts every time with no chip key.
Don't ever have to worry about getting a key made! Or failure of the SKIM system. It no longer exists.
$34 and a little time. Now have 3 working keys. Sure beats $300!!!
Took the wife to subway split a sub. Then we volunteered at the Library today. Picked up a home perm. Going to perm the wife's hair later for Easter.
Well kid lost his set of keys to the truck.
Lucky I had two more sets. So ran him one out to his work.
Got me thinking. I could end up in a real pickle with only one set of keys to the jeep.
Chrysler dealer wants a hundred a key, to make me one that will work in both the ignition and the door. I need 3 total.
So $300 nooooo.
So I pulled the PCM wrote down the VIn. Ran them down to the local "computer tuner" car geek and he flashed the PCM back to factory 0. $25.
If you Zap a Jeep computer back to factory set up and it don't find a SKIM Module, when it is put back in a vehicle. It just assumes that the vehicle was ordered without the SKIM system.(As is done sometimes with fleet vehicles). Then sets to accommodate.
Went to drug mart with the truck. Got 3 old style non chip keys made. $9.
Pulled the SKIM pickup-disabler, Modual, out of the steering column and threw it in the trash. Put the computer back in. Put the column and other various minor stuff back together.
Abracadabra and voila. No more skim system.
Ran kind of crappy for the first 10 minutes or so. While the computer was finding things again. Which can be expected when you Zap a car computer back to factory set up mode. But it all straightened out with a short drive.
Car starts every time with no chip key.
Don't ever have to worry about getting a key made! Or failure of the SKIM system. It no longer exists.
$34 and a little time. Now have 3 working keys. Sure beats $300!!!
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Cadillac Jeff
Well-Known Member
Well.....didn't make it to the shop, Mrs G needed her driver, Me to take her to town.
I knew this....just you know. Forgot
Got back between 1 & 2 she said " nap "
She has good ideas!!
First time grilling..kogal hotdogs
I knew this....just you know. Forgot
Got back between 1 & 2 she said " nap "
She has good ideas!!
First time grilling..kogal hotdogs
fiver
Well-Known Member
started coughing just after lunch yesterday, then somewhere around mid-night i lost about 7 lbs. the fastest way possible.
finally got to sleep around 4 am, for almost 2 hrs.
i've coughed so much i hurt from my arm pits to my knees.
still took the kids over to the dump to get rid of a few things.
they wanted me to drive because everyone knew it was gonna be a mud fast.. everyone but the 2 drunken monkeys that had to get out and empty the truck.
the dozier driver took pity on them and had them throw the stuff in his bucket rather than drag it down the hill i wasn't gonna drive down.
there was easily a foot of slimy mud around the top, i didn't want to find out how much was at the bottom..
so for a treat, we come home and the Oldest girl made some macaroni noodles, stirred in with some mixed [jaysus that's hot] peppers i made a sauce out of last fall.
if she would have warned me it would have been one thing, but holy crap imagine a chunk of carolina reaper snuck in while your mouth is open.!!!!
finally got to sleep around 4 am, for almost 2 hrs.
i've coughed so much i hurt from my arm pits to my knees.
still took the kids over to the dump to get rid of a few things.
they wanted me to drive because everyone knew it was gonna be a mud fast.. everyone but the 2 drunken monkeys that had to get out and empty the truck.
the dozier driver took pity on them and had them throw the stuff in his bucket rather than drag it down the hill i wasn't gonna drive down.
there was easily a foot of slimy mud around the top, i didn't want to find out how much was at the bottom..
so for a treat, we come home and the Oldest girl made some macaroni noodles, stirred in with some mixed [jaysus that's hot] peppers i made a sauce out of last fall.
if she would have warned me it would have been one thing, but holy crap imagine a chunk of carolina reaper snuck in while your mouth is open.!!!!
Cadillac Jeff
Well-Known Member
30 lber !!
Nice job Dale
Nice job Dale
Did the colonoscopy thing today (prepped yesterday and this morning). Everything went smoothly, and I probably won't need another before I'm 70. Got home and napped until almost 5 when the wife got me up for dinner.
I was famished! I hadn't eaten since Sunday afternoon.
Just as I sit down with my plate, my oldest son calls. He's at work and his 2022 Outlander won't start. It's acting like a dead/bad battery, and everyone has already left.
I put some Saran Wrap over my dinner, put it in the fridge, and head to rescue him.
Ended up calling AAA to come get it and once there, they tried to jump start it. No go. The driver then tried to use some form of voodoo (a technical term for the app that's supposed to give him the info he needs) to get the car to go into neutral without being started. Won't work. I suggested that he reconnect the jump box so there was enough voltage to complete whatever task the system was trying in order to go into neutral. He tried a different jump box and the car started...
We drove it home with no hiccups, but after parking it in the driveway, we checked the battery voltage (20 minute drive with headlights on). it read 12.16V on my meter, so we hooked up the charger to charge overnight.
He insists that nothing was left on after he parked it at work this morning, so we're still not sure what's wrong. we'll finish our troubleshooting and diagnostics tomorrow.
Finally warmed up dinner and ate at about 9PM.
I was famished! I hadn't eaten since Sunday afternoon.
Just as I sit down with my plate, my oldest son calls. He's at work and his 2022 Outlander won't start. It's acting like a dead/bad battery, and everyone has already left.
I put some Saran Wrap over my dinner, put it in the fridge, and head to rescue him.
Ended up calling AAA to come get it and once there, they tried to jump start it. No go. The driver then tried to use some form of voodoo (a technical term for the app that's supposed to give him the info he needs) to get the car to go into neutral without being started. Won't work. I suggested that he reconnect the jump box so there was enough voltage to complete whatever task the system was trying in order to go into neutral. He tried a different jump box and the car started...
We drove it home with no hiccups, but after parking it in the driveway, we checked the battery voltage (20 minute drive with headlights on). it read 12.16V on my meter, so we hooked up the charger to charge overnight.
He insists that nothing was left on after he parked it at work this morning, so we're still not sure what's wrong. we'll finish our troubleshooting and diagnostics tomorrow.
Finally warmed up dinner and ate at about 9PM.
Glaciers
Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Sounds like a dead cell. If the volt comes up by morning then falls off or if the battery is hot. Dead cell.
RBHarter
West Central AR
Batteries are different now . You'll start up fine drive somewhere shut it off and and it's deader than a doornail . Jump it it shows good charge and it'll hold for a back to back start but 6 hr pass and it's dead again . Of course it might be a starter , solenoid, or the left rear running light ......
waco
Springfield, Oregon
My brother ordered us a new MP mold Sunday evening. It’s being delivered today. How is it a guy from the Eastern block of Europe can get us a package in three days but I can order something two states away and it takes a week and a half? Kudos to the good folks at MP molds.