Pellet heads!! What's up today?

Still fine here, now have 7 spaghetti squash a curin' and the boss says the acorn and buttercup ones are coming right along, pretty soon there will be pole beans. The first planting of onions is a curing as is the planting of garlic. Hot peppers are all over their plants.

 

Nothing changing around here so far.

 

Getting right after the deck repairs, but after finding a seriously rotted beam I had to get real creative to get it out.

Takes more time to figure out how to get around the issue than to actually do it.

Working 12 feet in the air makes things interesting for sure.

One beam to replace and then I can complete this summers repairs on the tread surface.

Next spring when we get some decent weather I plan to yank out all the remaining 4 x 10's on the one end and replace them with new and also replace the upright 4 x 4 with 4 X 6 to beef up things a bunch.

I designed a custom bracket to go between the beams and the tops of the posts that will afford 4 inches for each beam end to sit on instead of the current situation of the beam sitting on 1/2 the width of the 4 x 4 post.

The little thin "T" plates on top of the posts/beam ends are just way way too flimsy.

The new brackets are being formed from 10 gauge steel.

Definitely far better.

The new brackets will also add some lateral stability as well.

Here are the latest pix.

Ready to yank the old beam out.

Imaginative thinking is a must when faced with working alone.

 

No like'm it being so high Bear is a no climbing critter and that has been the case for a number of years now. At 67 I prefer to be two feet on the ground.

 

Snow blowers are out!!!!!!!

 

Me too , not afraid of heights , just don't like being being over 6 - 8 ft on a ladder , me don't feel safe .

 

Skeeter it's a pretty safe bet that when you retire it won't be down south

 

UNLIKE!!!

 

Another nice day here , got up early and just finished detailing my Honey's ride . I did mine yesterday and of coarse it rained last night . I really should clean the p43 not sure that's gonna happen Smoothie fridge is calling my name

 

Horrible here... I can almost use the snowblower on my driveway.... every other day...
I just use my combination leaf blower/pellet stove cleaner outer on them...

Dan

 

SHUDDER!

I juts about cried thinking about that!

 

Yeah, both my stoves still sitting since spring. I've had excuses out the ying-yang though. However, not so many excuses left so I need to get to them in the next couple of weekends.

 

A guy showed up yesterday and finished off the roof. I'm a happy camper! Most of the left side was replaced.



And, while they were up there and had to have the ridge by the back door replaced anyway, I ad them put an overhang over the porch. The snow drops just inside the railing - or during big dumps hits railing and is bounced back. So I had to go out garage and shovel snow up the ramp to the door. Now I'll be able to go downhill!




Just have to paint and it will be perfect!

 

You got granite or marble in your upper story???

 

Marble

 

Mowing the lawn last night and I noticed some leaves already falling on the lawn. Scooting around Conn. today I noticed some leaves falling and a few changing. All this even with all the rain lately. Just checking the weather to see what day wifey and I are going to the Dutchess County Fair and Monday and Tuesday look like a continuation of the humid, hot cr#p though.
I'll take a few fall type days, I'm tired of sweating.

 

Went to the beach last night.Pretty sunset.