OT - What are you doing right now?

Ozzie_Isaac

As a US citizen, I take credit for this lawn:

Eggdicted_Dawgfan

Beautiful. Gotta love the stripes of cool season turf. Unlimited budget as well. 

alaskanassasin

Mowing grass.. what a time suck. What is the point it just grows back, relentlessly, hours of my summer going back and forth back and forth and only to do it again 5 days later and now it costs $30 in gas per cut.  I look forward to weed eating, at least your walking around. My bil mows his 7 acres or so twice a week, I don’t get it.

alaskanassasin

@JohnInCarolina when I lived in NC I would go to nascar races with some friends and quickly learned the closer you are to the track the longer it’s going to take to get out when your ready to go home.

JohnInCarolina

alaskanassasin said:

@JohnInCarolina when I lived in NC I would go to nascar races with some friends and quickly learned the closer you are to the track the longer it’s going to take to get out when your ready to go home.

Yep.  Sometimes when you’re first… you’re last.

Ozzie_Isaac

Abrupt Chaos

https://youtu.be/EC73_ViHxL4

WeberWho

alaskanassasin said:

Mowing grass.. what a time suck. What is the point it just grows back, relentlessly, hours of my summer going back and forth back and forth and only to do it again 5 days later and now it costs $30 in gas per cut.  I look forward to weed eating, at least your walking around. My bil mows his 7 acres or so twice a week, I don’t get it.

My buddy does it for a living. Let's just say he could care less about how his yard looks by the time he gets home after 10 hour days....

fishlessman

my yard in mass is woodvine, poison ivy, and vinca and whatever else found its way in. seems to take care of itself

WeberWho

My wife's center console ripped apart. 



I needed some slack with the emergency brake as I need to remove the caliber as I tore a boot last night when doing rear brakes. 

I even managed to burn the center console lid with the work light. It keeps getting better and better. Fun times!

lousubcap

@WeberWho - the payback may hurt!!  

WeberWho

lousubcap said:

@WeberWho - the payback may hurt!!  

It has to be on the road early tomorrow morning. It's one thing where I could take my time but full steam ahead. I could buy a rebuild kit for the calipers for $20 but I'm going to spend $150 on whole new calipers and not worry about it. I'm at that point. 

At 9:30 last night I told my wife that the left rear brake job went way too good and that something on the rear right has to go wrong. It's just my luck. Boy did I nail that on the head. A couple hour brake job is going to turn into an 8+ hour brake job. 

lkapigian

RIP Ray Liotta 

Battleborn

Trying to figure out something for dinner. 15 year anniversary tonight, so it should probably be a good one. Maybe I’ll go check out the cheffing thread to see if there is anything I can actually cook. 

lkapigian

Battleborn said:

Trying to figure out something for dinner. 15 year anniversary tonight, so it should probably be a good one. Maybe I’ll go check out the cheffing thread to see if there is anything I can actually cook. 

Happy Anniversary 

Ozzie_Isaac

WeberWho said:

My wife's center console ripped apart. 



I needed some slack with the emergency brake as I need to remove the caliber as I tore a boot last night when doing rear brakes. 

I even managed to burn the center console lid with the work light. It keeps getting better and better. Fun times!

Duct tape will fix both the torn boot and the center console damage.

Ozzie_Isaac

Battleborn said:

Trying to figure out something for dinner. 15 year anniversary tonight, so it should probably be a good one. Maybe I’ll go check out the cheffing thread to see if there is anything I can actually cook. 

Happy Anniversary!  I recommend preparing something she likes.

JohnInCarolina

Battleborn said:

Trying to figure out something for dinner. 15 year anniversary tonight, so it should probably be a good one. Maybe I’ll go check out the cheffing thread to see if there is anything I can actually cook. 

The Moussaka recipe Nola posted recently looks awfully good (and pretty easy) to me.  I think that's what I would be trying if I had the motive, means, and opportunity...

JohnInCarolina

Paging @caliking

Battleborn

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Battleborn said:

Trying to figure out something for dinner. 15 year anniversary tonight, so it should probably be a good one. Maybe I’ll go check out the cheffing thread to see if there is anything I can actually cook. 

Happy Anniversary!  I recommend preparing something she likes.

Inconceivable! This day isn’t about her. 

JohnInCarolina said:

Battleborn said:

Trying to figure out something for dinner. 15 year anniversary tonight, so it should probably be a good one. Maybe I’ll go check out the cheffing thread to see if there is anything I can actually cook. 

The Moussaka recipe Nola posted recently looks awfully good (and pretty easy) to me.  I think that's what I would be trying if I had the motive, means, and opportunity...

I thought about that. It looks amazing. I need to find some substitutions for the dairy parts in the topping. It shouldn’t be too hard though. I was thinking about some cedar plank salmon, her favorite, but we are having sushi tomorrow. 

WeberWho

Ozzie_Isaac said:

WeberWho said:

My wife's center console ripped apart. 

I needed some slack with the emergency brake as I need to remove the caliber as I tore a boot last night when doing rear brakes. 

I even managed to burn the center console lid with the work light. It keeps getting better and better. Fun times!

Duct tape will fix both the torn boot and the center console damage.

No doubt it would be duct tape in my truck. That might even be considered an upgrade.

My wife just said, "We will just replace it". It didn't even phase her. I hope she meant arm rest and not vehicle.....

Botch

WeberWho said:

I even managed to burn the center console lid with the work light. It keeps getting better and better. Fun times!

Those rechargeable LED work lights, ~$10 each, are worth their weight in gold and don't get hot/have no cord to kick.  I had never been so happy to throw away my old trouble-light, which burned up three or so incandescent bulbs with each job, argh!  

EzraBrooks

My kid just came home from his last day of school for the year and asked when I get off work for the summer. Good thing he has a few more years to prepare for adult life.

GrateEggspectations

JohnInCarolina said:

Paging @caliking

Sadly, my first thought was “delicious.”

SamIAm2

My egging neighbor and his wife are in Kentucky for their grandson's high school graduation. I am taking care of their boxer; feeding, playing with him, letting him out, and cleaning up after he is done in the yard. 

Saw water coming out of the ground by their laundry room/tool room while the boxer was inspecting his lawn. The area has loose stones over weed mat on top of Florida sand so I pulled the weed mat and stones back. Dug down by hand to find the water leak. There were two irrigation lines side by side next to the house concrete foundation. The leak was in the pipe furthest from the house wall.  Turned off the irrigation system and let the water drain thru the sand.


Neighbor had a piece of 3/4" PVC pipe but no couplings for 3/4".
So off to ACE to get some couplings, PVC glue, and cleaner. Pipe fixed. 



Old thin wall PVC irrigation system. Think someone with a trowel might have done this damage.



Ran the zone for that pipe before covering it up; no leak in the repair. Yes, I looked. That is cool deck the neighbors just had put around the pool.
 

New



Old deck and the boxer.



All back together.

GrateEggspectations

SamIAm2 said:

My egging neighbor and his wife are in Kentucky for their grandson's high school graduation. I am taking care of their boxer; feeding, playing with him, letting him out, and cleaning up after he is done in the yard. 

Saw water coming out of the ground by their laundry room/tool room while the boxer was inspecting his lawn. The area has loose stones over weed mat on top of Florida sand so I pulled the weed mat and stones back. Dug down by hand to find the water leak. There were two irrigation lines side by side next to the house concrete foundation. The leak was in the pipe furthest from the house wall.  Turned off the irrigation system and let the water drain thru the sand.


Neighbor had a piece of 3/4" PVC pipe but no couplings for 3/4".
So off to ACE to get some couplings, PVC glue, and cleaner. Pipe fixed. 



Old thin wall PVC irrigation system. Think someone with a trowel might have done this damage.



Ran the zone for that pipe before covering it up; no leak in the repair. Yes, I looked. That is cool deck the neighbors just had put around the pool.
 

New



Old deck and the boxer.



All back together.

You are a stand-up neighbour by all measures. To take on home repairs in someone’s absence is truly generous. Remind me to invite you to watch my home when I am next away. (I’ve always had a hankering for a second level on our home. Just saying.)

SamIAm2

Thank you @GrateEggspectations for your kind words. If you want good neighbors, be a good neighbor. He helped me install all of my impact windows and has helped me in other ways. Got a phone call yesterday from an older, widowed neighbor who couldn't get her garage door down after a new cleaning lady had worked at her home. Turned out to be an easy fix, the gal had put something in the garage and pushed the LED sender out of alignment. Come when called on. Let me know when you start on the second floor. I'll come and help ... for room and board; especially having seen photos of some of the things you cook!

GrateEggspectations

@SamIAm2 said:

If you want good neighbors, be a good neighbor. 

So true. Words we try to live by. We actually had a major storm roll through here Saturday. Haven’t had power since then. Many with property damage and there have also been some fatalities. Lots of mature trees downed - some uprooted. In the aftermath of the storm, we checked on the four neighbourhood properties whose owners we knew were away and updated them. Reported bad news to some (photos below). Have helped neighbors cut damaged branches with a manual pole saw, have offered use of our (borrowed) generator and shower, have stored items in our freezer and have watched their children. We have also received help (coffee! 🙂) and also had my daughter spend an hour in our elderly neighbours’ yard last night as we caught our breath and enjoyed a drink on the deck. Community truly matters!

A special thanks to @nolaegghead for some much needed generator advice. You are generous in all kinds of ways. 

enjoye

Buckwoody Egger

lousubcap

@GrateEggspectations and @SamIAm2 - definitely demonstrating the good neighbour (nod) right there.  Speaks extremely well for those who think the world is collapsing.  Local concern and reach out become the glue to a civil society.  
May we never lose it.  
Stay healthy and safe out there-

JohnInCarolina

Buckwoody Egger said:

pretty clever hiding a TV on top of the woodpile!

”Honey I’ll be out in the back stacking wood!”