Lockdown Activities

[Winelover]

It's been business as usual at my place. I only go out, other than the lake, maybe twice a month. Plenty to do around the homestead. Grass to mow, ATV trails to keep open, weeds to spray, bullets to load and cast after making music. Now if only the night time temps would increase, to warm up the lake, maybe the fish would start biting.

 

[RBHarter]

Ms grocery money is starting to look like a retirement account seed . It's been 5 weeks since the kids went to school and 3 weeks since the community veggie bin last ran and outside of a little short on beef all's well .

Fiver I can resemble that line , the main tank here was is officially paced at 80 ft from the house and 86 from the last drop into that line . Good times . New tank installed just 40' from the house now with a 30' into the broken concrete tank to serve as a settling pond pre leach field . Should make for about 40 years of trouble free leach water .

Taking the girls to spend a weekish with my Mom and their Dad and step mom . We've been iso for 5 weeks Mom has been for about the same and they started over there for weeks 2&3 . Their school work is done through next week and we can muddle through 2 weeks in about 16 hours and learn important things the rest of the time . Never heard of stem & leaf graphs ........ We used them for years but we called them load data tables and work up/powder selection charts ...... Whatever .

 

[Cherokee]

Another strange Sunday...no church. I miss my fellow believers. Streaming and such does not complete the experience.

 

[StrawHat]

Still painting the house!

Kevin

 

[Hawk]

I agree regarding church.
Ours has an internet site to log into and watch the services live.
Not the same as in person fellowship.

 

[popper]

Yup, ytube church isn't the same. Did see a guy at the city pond Fri on the way back from mickyDees for Fri date lunch. She's going nutso not able to get to the stores. On local neighborhood site she said she saw a question by somebody on the cost to get a cat groomed. Dog is starting to smell so bath time. SIL called,said she had to put 11yr old Golden down, back legs quit working completely.

 

[Glaciers]

My life has not changed much, it has simply shifted. I was doing a remodel on my brother-in-laws house about 8-10 miles from here. Now I'm just working on my shop and soon, after break-up I'll start back up on the remodel of our cabin in the woods. My cabin is 200 yards down the drive from or house in the woods, so it's easy to take a break and come home for a cup of coffee.
Right now my remodeling efforts are "shifted" to my shop. It's 24 ft x 72 ft which includes my reloading room on the back of the 72 ft. The front 2/3's of the shop, 44 ft long, has a 17 ft ceiling with an over head crane. I don't use it much anymore except for wood working projects. Keeping it heated in the winter has become an expense I can't really afford. So I've framed and insulated a wall separating the big side from the little side. The little side is 24 x 24 with a 9 ft ceiling, my reloading room is hanging on the back, which was added on years ago for a generator room. The generator has been moved to the big side, so now I have a very nice reloading room. I've built sliding doors between the big side and the small side. The small side is is about a third of the space to heat which will save a lot on the heating bill. Anyway the small side will be a smaller shop, which I'll keep heated, and is all I need most of the time. Then when I need more space for a project, I can open the sliding doors, which open 8 ft wide and 10 ft high, so heat will transfer. If I need more heat, there's a BlazeKing stove in the big side.

In the process of moving the shelving to the big side and hauling about 50% of the "valuable stuff" to the dump. I'm getting rid of lots of "valuable stuff" so I'm no longer a slave to it.


That's very nice cabin and setting Spindrift. Be pretty easy to drink coffee on the porch.

I’m lucky to have a small cabin in the woods; 5min by car, then 20min walk. Solar power, water from the stream.

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[Spindrift]

Be pretty easy to drink coffee on the porch.

It sure is!
I usually wake up a bit before the rest of the family. Then I make myself some coffee, and sit on the porch in the morning sun. Listening to the sounds of the forest as it wakes up. At such moments, I find myself missing absolutely nothing.

 

[Glaciers]

Could not agree more. Here in the summer when the suns up 21 hours there's a lot of morning to be on the porch. Mine is screened in so the bugs are kept at bay. Absolutely the best quite time. I'm sure in Norway your summer days are long as well. Long periods of twilight.

 

[Brad]

Another toilet fixed. Off to replace a shutoff for one I did yesterday.

My grandfather was a plumber and taught me well.

 

[Ian]

JohnG, you have good taste in skid-steer loaders. I too have been a slave to my stuff and have been taking spells of just hauling it do the dump or scrap yard these last few years. Has to go in stages though....first move it outside and let the weather ruin it, THEN it can be tossed. My problem it twofold: First, when I was young and single I built myself a nice gambrel-roof, two-story barn with 12' ceilings and dual enclosed shed roof wings, one of which housed a nice little travel trailer for living quarters. Just about the time I got it dried in, all my stuff organized, and a couple of major vehicle projects underway..... I met a woman. It didn't take me long to realize I'd better marry this one and figure out how to turn the shop into a house since there was no time or money to build a house from scratch. So I added on a garage and smaller shop and moved tools in there and all my other stuff went outside where it sits still, 13 years later. Finished out the barn into a passable townhouse and have enjoyed it a lot, but now with family I'm stretched too thin in all directions to build another big building for decent work space, so I'll finish a very modest woodworking shop attached to my welding shop and garage and call it good, then get rid of the other crap.

One thing she agreed to that has been a huge bonus was that if I give up my dream shop so we could have a house, I was going to have my dream gun/reloading/casting room IN the house and it got completed FIRST. And so it was.

 

[Ian]

Another toilet fixed. Off to replace a shutoff for one I did yesterday.

My grandfather was a plumber and taught me well.

Have fun with the shutoff. Don't forget your sandpaper for the compression fitting. Having worked as a plumber's helper for a short time I learned real quick the value of the expensive 1/4-turn ball-valve service connections. They will actually function when eventually needed.

 

[Glaciers]

One thing she agreed to that has been a huge bonus was that if I give up my dream shop so we could have a house, I was going to have my dream gun/reloading/casting room IN the house and it got completed FIRST. And so it was.

Now if your wife has a job, you married well.

 

[Ian]

She works two full-time jobs, Professional Home Maker and Mother. I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[Brad]

Have fun with the shutoff. Don't forget your sandpaper for the compression fitting. Having worked as a plumber's helper for a short time I learned real quick the value of the expensive 1/4-turn ball-valve service connections. They will actually function when eventually needed.

Those are all I will install. They work and don’t leak afterwards.
I had a strip of 320 grit emery in the tool bag. And flux, solder, a torch, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
JW sent me some hacksaw blades that he had from a photo gig. They are amazing. The Swiss do make good tools

 

[uncle jimbo]

She works two full-time jobs, Professional Home Maker and Mother. I wouldn't have it any other way.

That is how I feel about it also. The wife and I thought this 46 years ago right after we got married. She brought two kid into the marriage and we wanted one more. She gave up a really good job she had at the time, (she wired fighter aircraft at Hill Air Force Base ), but she came home and took on the jobs of home maker and mother. We haven't regretted it to this day.
Side note, all three of our kids turned out to be very good people with good jobs/business and not a one of them ever got in trouble with the law. So in my opinion, you have made the right choice.

 

[popper]

Professional Home Maker and Mother Add to that, 'good' cop. Dad gets to 'bad' cop.

 

[Glaciers]

My wife was the only one of four sisters that was unemployed when we married. Well my wife stayed home with our three kids. This was a choice we decided on for our kids. Later she became a school teacher, now retired. Would not have it any other way. I Definitely married up. But she has not figured that out yet, and I'm not going to tell her. If she was smarter, she would kick me to the curb.

 

[Glaciers]

I'm so caught up I'm desperately in need of a project.

I Have no idea what being caught up would be like. Stuff around here just breaks or decomposing fast then I can move. Well move any more. The Ice on the roof just ripped off the snow breaks. So one more repair just raised it's ugly head.

 

[Ian]

My wife has a very traditional, 1950s middle-class philosophy of family roles. I do as well. It's a lot harder to do now that for whatever reasons (I believe many to be deliberate shams to force both parents to work and the kids in to state brainwashing care) a single income is virtually impossible to live on, but we make sacrifices and I'm able to eliminate car payments (as a mechanic) and was able to bypass mortgage payments via inherited real estate and building a house with no credit, and a very patient/helpful new bride. It has worked out well for us and I hope it continues to do so. The 18-20 hour days with the remainder on call is a rough gig, would have killed me the first week, but then again she's not too handy with 4x8x3/4 CDX or or a framing hammer, so it works out.

If I lived to be a thousand years old with reasonable health I'd never run out of stuff to do right here on my front ten acres.