Pellet heads!! What's up today?

The idiots can be replaced with old gummel bears at least you can get a laugh when I stumble up your driveway. Now Eric, about that pound of bird seed?

 

Shipping can be a pain for sure.
I buy a lot off of ebay and normally things go pretty good, but every so often there is that one package that takes the "WORLD TOUR"

I have purchased several items from China (ebay) and they take interesting trips.

From China to San Francisco (Customs probably) and then up to near Seattle and then back to Portland and then south to Newberg.

Takes about a month to get stuff from China.

I prefer to get to stuff from the US (Faster shipping)
Usually the same item, but somebody else shipped it in.

And then there are the items that somebody wrote the zip code wrong

These poor little things get the Grand tour for sure.

As mentioned, the transfer of stuff between all the multi letter outfits ....Arrrrrrrgh

 

My address is always that on *zon and it hasn't changed since we moved in here in early 2008 when TWC got their act in gear and got me reconnected to the world, it really gets interesting during vacation season.

 

Enjoying a few (4) days off. Watched my 2 1/2 tr. old grandson yesterday due to sick babysitter. Love that I was able to do it. He is so entertaining. Came home and worked on the mower and worked on mowing the lawn. Stopped at mower shop and ordered new gator blades as originals are getting kinda thin.. Somehow whenever I get on the mower it starts raining, yesterday was no different. So today I have a small piece to finish and several other projects to pick from before wifey gets home early from work. Today is our 34 yr. anniversary so we may take a scooter ride to the Black frog in Conn. for dinner. Gotta go or won't get my work done and the boss will let me have it when she gets home.

Doggy

 

X2

 

X3!

 

Ready for prime time....

Got home from town and decided to get the new panel mounted on the stove.

OMG......SOOOOOOOO INDUSTRIAL LOOKING.

If I am not mistaken the industrial look is the in thing now ????

 

Decided to thrash out the connections to the new terminal block... All pretty now.

Still need to switch the components over to the new terminal block though.
The new roll of wire came to the post office today.

Just need to gitterdone.

 

X4!

 

Got the rock wall put back together after tearing it apart last weekend to remove all the vines (dead poison ivy and live blackberry / Virginia creeper), roots (from live trees and dead stumps), glass and cans, and blacktop (seriously?!?) that were in there.

Then started putting in landscape rock wall. Have two different colors of landscape rock, so I'm doing bands - hey, all this rock was free from different CL scores the last couple of years. Ran out of the white rock, so neither course is finished. Ran out of want-to so will get more rock tomorrow from the local Aubuchons tomorrow and hopeful have 3 full courses.

Just a picture from last week after I moved all the rocks and cleaned the area out


All the work I put in today. Moving some of those rocks by cobbled-together ramps and a pry bar, and pure grunt power was tough. If I had a wee bit more muscle, I could have made it look better, but it will do. The courses of landscape rock end just after the power pole.




Treated myself to the local taco place for dinner and later it will be

 

Like most cable companies TWC inhaled with pursed lips big time.

 

Thanks!

Realized last night I had laid the landscape stone wall incorrectly. I knew something didn't seem right but figured I was trying to talk myself out of getting that part started Will have to correct it today. Not too big a deal as those stones are much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much (and almost to infinity) lighter than the rocks in back. And, was going to have to take the second course off to put in adhesive anyway.

 

Absolutely great looking job B
I hear ya about the "NEED GRUNT POWER"

TOOLS TOOLS TOOLS
I let the "Widdle tractor" handle the big chores.

Between age, the leftovers from my strokes back in 2012 and other stuff, the old body is just not what it used to be.

Your wall feature looks nice and when you get it finished you will be very pleased.
Those CL scores can be so gratifying.
Back in 2016 we scored about 1000 sq ft of Pergo flooring with the pad for $200

The was some scrap as the stuff had been in a house before, but very little waste.

We did the living room/dinning room and still have enough left to do my small office/cave (smallest bedroom)

Craig's list is a godsend for sure...

Have fun with your project.

 

What ya mean Snowy, you getting old like me?

 

Happy Anniversary Doggy (and wife).

 

59 was fantastic....could swing the Bull by his tail....
60 Came and the bottom dropped out.
5 strokes preceded by a diagnoses of Kidney cancer.
The cancerous tumor was causing the little strokes.

Got rid of the baseball sized tumor and things got better...FOR A WHILE
The drugs they put me on started a slow continuous slide down.

Off all the drugs, but the slide still continues.../slower slide, but still going down.

Near as we can figure it was the Statins.
I was a wreck within a week or so of starting the statins..Dr said I needed to adapt.... BS...

After two months I could barely walk up the stairs..

Tossed all the drugs in the garbage.

Better, but the slide has not stopped.
Each year it's a marked loss....big time.

67 coming up in July and I wonder whats left to lose....

 

Got after the little stove at about 6 this morning (Most energy of my day)
Ripped the sides off. Tools scattered about and other goodies.

Made the tie in from the new panel to the stove components.
All went about as good as could be expected.

The usual CRAMP while in hard to get the old bones into places

This little stove is much closer to the wall then the big Whit. in the family room.
I can almost drive the car around the big one.

The cabinet on the little stove is very compact.

With my right hand slightly messed up after the strokes it takes a bit of finesse to get things done with the left..when I really need the right one.

Fine work can be tedious at times in tight places.

All wrapped up...plugged it in and NO BLUE FLASH OR ACRID ELECTRICAL SMELLS

Run through the various controls and it all seems grand.

Too warm today to run it though.

We are looking at some rain and cooler temps the later part of the week.

I should get a chance to tweak the fan settings and such under firing conditions then

Ran it enough to see that the auger feeds fine and the Combi blower (Room/fire assist blower) runs fine.
DRAFT (Booster exhaust fan) runs full line voltage and is sweet.

Will be able to adjust the Combi fan voltage and label the panel accordingly while it's burning..

I took extra care while swapping the wiring and tried to keep all the original stuff as it was, so I could IF Desired hook up the factory panel again easily.

I left the factory stuff complete... Just unplugged the L1 and Neutral and rerouted them to the new Bus bar on the LH side of the stove.

I don't like "BURNING BRIDGES" YA KNOW
I hope we will never need the stuff, but better to have it and never need it.

 

none yet but then i haven't hung their feeders