so waht ya doin today?

Posts by CW and Emmett caused me to call Lee.
According to the lady customer service rep:
1. Lee's warranty is three years. (Two years listed on the web-site.)
2. Lee will replace the part if I send to to them.

Hmmm . . . I have to print and fill out a form, package the form and part, go to the post office, stand in line, and pay postage, then wait at two to three weeks for the replacement part to arrive.

My time is my own, but still has a value. I use the press almost daily and don't want it to be down longer than necessary.

I thanked her and hung up. I'll let yesterday's non-warranty purchase order stand.
 
Life is good in the great white north. Weather is great, everything is green, critters are hanging out.
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Moose cruising by the garden.

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Robins in the yard and chicks on the beams. Sorry about the poor quality picture.

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Squirrel in the tree, Biscuit under the bench waiting for the squirrel to try and come down.
Squirrel, moose, Robins and good weather, busy morning.
 
Gardening today.
The 5 volunteer tomatoes I moved last night, to better locations, are looking fantastic this morning.
I did a couple hours of weeding, and going to put some grass clipping/mulch around plants this afternoon.
My friends stopped over for the marathon marigold seed I saved for them from last years plants, it's a variety that gets huge, like 3 to 3.5 feet tall...too large for my garden.
The crop of volunteer ground cherry plants in my garden look good and will transplant them in a few days.
A experimental patch of direct seeded plants, Sum Choy [it's a cabbage flavor Bok choy, but looks like spinach] is coming along good and is tasty.
and another experiment "Culantro" [vietnamese herb that has stronger flavor than cilantro] is a total failure, they recommend starting in greenhouse instead of direct seeding, I gave direct seeding a try and yep, failed...they also claim it takes 24 days of warmth for germination...we don't really get that in MN springtime.
 
Cousin called all wound up over the mooring line for his boat. For some reason he left the line attached to his mooring when he took the boat out of the water last year and the line is all fugly now. He went out and bought new twisted nylon, shackles and thimbles and wanted me to splice in new eyes. He brings them over to our place and nothing he bought will work together. He bought 5/8" line, 3/4" thimbles and 3/8" shackles. The shackles will not go over the line with the thimbles in place and the snap hook won't fit either. So, I sent him back to the shop where he got everything and told him to buy 1/2" twisted nylon and the correct sized shackles and thimbles. He comes back with braided line, 1 thimble and no shackles. Grrrrrrr. In his defense, he has ADD really badly and he's on some meds that make his memory and ability to hear what you say a challenge at best.

So, I went out with him to find the right stuff. Had to go to TSC and pay thru the nose. He also needed new chain to put on the mooring so we needed to get that as well. Nobody has hot-dipped galvanized chain so we ended up with standard zinc coated. We did find hot-dipped shackles. Back to our camp and I started braiding in the eyes with thimbles on each end of the rope. The rope they sell in stores is all soft laid rope. Boating really requires a medium lay. But the stuff at TSC was pretty decent. I think it was intended to be medium, but probably made in China by prisoners so who knows what their standards are.

The chain was typical TSC pricing. Just shy of $10/ft and we needed 10 feet. He winced a bit at the price of the chain. But, it is big stuff and will last him a lifetime.

I just sent him on his merry way with a diagram of how to connect the chain to the mooring. His mooring is a tractor-trailer wheel filled with cement. I might be getting a call to come over and help. His brother is over there and has been doing yardwork. Not sure how helpful he'll be. He was a restaurant guy all his life and about the only thing the poor guy can do with tools is hurt himself. But he's one heluva cook!!
 
I went to Longhunter's place today. I am so happy he moved closer to us. Anyway, he had, (key word had), a Chinese Elm, or maybe a Red Elm growing on a steep bank near his deck and he asked if I could help cut it down. Well not only did we cut it down, we cut it up, and carted it all way! Done, finito, kaput, history! Two vitamin I, a half hour nap, and a hot shower and I'm good, although my arms feel like over extended rubber bands. A satisfying project accomplished. I knew how he felt with a project like that hanging over his head. Jon used an ATV with a winch and a long rope to tension the tree to guarantee it would fall away from the house.
 
Did Something I seldom do today ....wash my jeep! It was so disgustingly dirty from last years Mulberry tree drop and this years Mulberry tree pollen and flower drop that I just finally was embarrassed !
Nothing would take the crud off so I did the whole car with Dawn Power Wash dish detergent and a plastic scrubby ( the only thing that worked! )
I'm not one for a clean car at my age but when it started to make me gag! and regretted taking it to the grocery story well that had to change!
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Still have plans on some smelting if I can get it in between rainy days!
Wife and I decided to put off Pool opening because the weather just sucks!
She is going in for her other knee replacement 3rd week of June so She wont be using it much!
 
My neighbor has a ranch style house with Gutterhelmit (Rain gutters that never need cleaning), they are based right here in Glencoe. The previous owner put them on 20 years ago. They work so good, I had same gutterhelmit gutters put on my house on second floor. This Spring my neighbor took the helmit part off from the back half the house, I asked him why? He doesn't speak much english and I didn't understand him. I told him the company that installed them, guarrentee never need cleaning, if they do, they will come out, clean gutters and adjust them so they don't get filled again...he didn't understand me.
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There is two large spinner-seed making Maple trees in his back yard hanging over his house. Maple spinners happen in late May. Today, I see him on the roof, cleaning gutters...they are full to the MAX, little trees growing. He yells down to me, "I've got a Mess." I respond, "I see that."
I wish I could explain to him that he needs to replace the Helmit. First time those gutters were cleaned in 20 years...a testament to the design.
 
Gutterhelmit is expensive, but they use a heavier gauge of aluminum...like twice as thick. I only had them do the second floor because it was just too expensive and cleaning the gutters on my single floor additions/porches is easy. The second floor is a 24 x 28 hip roof, so all four sides needed gutter, making just over 100 feet of gutter installed, plus two 20+ foot downspouts, price was $2500 in 2008.
 
Cleaning up the reloading/work bench area in the garage. Can't find my 'rig' for standing up rifle bullets to PC. The right foot nerve (right in the middle) went berserk! Hardly walk on it. Calmed down a bit after dinner but wow.
 
Rain rain rain. Seams like every Monday I don't have appointments it rains.
Went down to the range, still flooded over. Came home and read a book.

Got Remington 20 gauge wing master shotgun out. For some TLC.
Had extensions on the but plate held on with one of those rubber recoil pads, and a couple stripped screws with a piece of plastic shoved in the holes to make them grab.
It's a youth model, so short stock and the rubber but plate had been taken off and on before I got it, then a spacer added. The guy was really tall that had it before me and needed a longer length of pull. He trap shot. And rigged it. So the screws were stripped out to a bigger size. Then stripped again. When I got it I removed some of the spacer and just cobbed it back like he had it.
I found the right screws.
Got a couple small pieces of 3/8 dowel. So going to fix it right. Drill and plug the stripped out screw holes then re drill them and put the original butt plate back on, with the right screws.
Then the aftermarket recoil pad will get it long enough to use for me.
 
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Installed a small ground plane antenna about 8' off the ground near the house to better receive NOAA Weather stations and a little FM. The rubber duck on my small receiver/scanner doesn't work so well in the basement.

Wife made a couple of loaves of Sourdough bread using some starter given from our Alaska son-in-law's mom.
 
I've given up on NOAA etc. for weather forecasts and now rely on my weather cat. I open the front door, call him like a dog, and when he comes bounding up I give him some pets. If he's wet, it's raining. If he's cold, I can feel it. If he's dusty from rolling in the driveway, it's dry and we need rain. If his fur is falling out it's either spring or he has the mange. Pretty reliable system.
 
Glaciers said:
Well Karyn and I had a talk with son Talon and DIL Jamie. We’ve been talking to them for a few years about coming back to Alaska. In the last year we have been getting positive feedback from them. We have offered them the house and we would move to the cabin about 100 yards down the driveway.
There’s 3 grandkids so a 4 bedroom house is what would be perfect for them. It’s looking like they will be coming up next summer when schools out.
Our plan is to do more of the snowbird thing which will be easier if we’re in the cabin.
Anyway it’s looking good for this to happen and Karyn and I could not be happier.
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Can suitable work for them be found?
 
i got a weatherhuahua.
if she's barking at the back door it's 5-pm... so summer.... or it's about to rain.
if she spins around in a 180, 1 foot out the door and runs back in before i can close it,,, it's spring or fall.
if i can't see her anywhere near me after i bash the door open with my hip, it's winter.

both G-kids had ball games tonight.
one over in Grace, and the other here in town.
i brought Bubb's back before the Girls game was over so he could make it in time.
there was no way he was gonna be late, he was playing the team both of his cousins are on.
he done pretty good, he did drop a pop up [can't blame him too much he was on the pitchers mound directly behind the other teams coach] but threw the kid out at first, and then fielded two good grounders and threw them out too.
the coach moved him over to first base after that.

Littlegirl was in charge of snacks for both teams, so they both got the same thing in little gift sacks she had the kids put together over the weekend.

think i'm gonna put the A/C unit in the window tomorrow.
i hope it works, i haven't removed it from the shed in 3 maybe 4 years, guess i'll plug it in out there first and see what happens.
 
It’s looking like Jamie will be able to transfer up here with the job see currently has, so they should have a leg up there.
Talon will be able to shop around for a while to find something in his expertise.
Plus they can live cheap for a couple months, and not to be to much more for the first year.
Just their monthly living expenses, rent, fuel - heating, and electricity will be about $1,000 per month cheaper than in Oregon for starters.
Plus they will be starting into home ownership which has not been available for them in southern Oregon.
Jamie has just finally completed her Masters degree.
PED1945 said:
Can suitable work for them be found?
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JWFilips said:
Sounds Like The kind of gutters I need!
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Gutter Helmet guarantees against everything but ice. I would have never thought about ice until I went over to a buddy's house one day in the winter. His front stoop was about 2 inches thick with ice, including the stairs. I asked him about it. He said he had Gutter Helmet. The problem with it is in freezing weather any melt off the roof eventually freezes over the narrow slot for the water and after that, the water simply runs off the roof and onto the ground, or as in his case, the front stoop. He called them the first year it happened and said there was nothing that they could do about it.

Now Jon may be able to speak to this. If you don't use it over entry points because they are covered with a roof pitched to the sides rather than the front, I'm sure it is not an issue. But if you have a front stoop with no roof and the house roof simply dumps onto the stoop, AND you live where winters are cold, you'll probably need a plan for that stoop area.

I bought a product years ago at BJ's that is like a very coarse cell foam, but it's not foam. It's almost like a plastic pot scrubber, only much heavier and with much larger openings. It is cut in the shape of the gutter profile so that it pretty much fills the gutter. Water runs thru it with no issues and leave cannot go further than the top where they eventually blow off or wash off. It's been in my gutters at least 20 years.
 
I usually just use my weather rock - don't need to feed it - just stays on the patio table. If it moves by itself, I'm in trouble. City sirens MAY warm me of something bad coming.
Sprayed for weeds in back, raked the front where the Yarl was growing (dead now - nasty stuff), more garage cleaning. Nerve in foot settled down a bit. About nap time. Still haven't fund the standup bullet holder for PCing. I would NEVER throw it out - did she?
 
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