I would like to hear about teddyv's camping trip. Other than that I worked today and got paid a little more. Umm did we post at the same time? LOL
Nothing major. Just a few days at a lake along with four other families so that the kids could all have someone to play with. I still have to post some pictures from our earlier Yukon-Alaska trip.
Keeping an eye on Irma & making preparations while trying to avoid the panicked masses out there. Still nonweightbearing due to 2 broken bones in my foot. Hurricane prep with a knee scooter is great fun. Not.
I'm sure that part of the country must have it's good points...but I could never live down there. It seems like constant hurricanes slamming you EVERY YEAR. No, thanks.
Not every year. Just during La Niña patterns. In 2004 we had 3 of them come through in as many weeks. That was a fun year. Not. Then we had nothing much to speak of for a long time during El Niño patterns... until last year when it shifted again. It will shift back again ... and again ... and etc. Been here 21 years this year. You get used to it. Preparedness is key. And Florida is amazing. I love living near the beach and not having to shovel snow anymore, ever. Having said that ... I'm never moving to California and living on a fault line. Or moving to Hawaii to live near a volcano. You can't prepare for the actual ground shaking or a mountain blowing up. Thanks but no thanks!!
Praying about the hurricanes and tropical storms. Batten down the hatches friends-- I would also prefer hurricanes to the earthquakes I experienced. But I have to admit, the Pacific ocean rocks in comparison...just sayin'.
I've been pulling down more walls. Today I was pulling walls beside the stairs up to my attic, trying to find a cable. I know it's in there somewhere but having cut a strip from side to side I'm still not seeing it. Of course the fact that whoever put the woodwork in was determined it would last FOREVER (even if someone ever wanted to remove it) didn't help. The banister is a simple piece of wood, nailed to the wall with a few offcuts to set it off the wall a little. The smallest of the nails used to secure it was 6" and a couple were bigger. Two of them wouldn't come out even with me putting weight on my clawhammer, so I ended up using a wrecking bar with the hammer as a fulcrum, just to remove nails. I'm really hoping I can at least do this piece of work without trashing too much more wood. This particular wood isn't particularly nice wood, it's just that if something splinters I need to source a new piece of wood if I want to replace it. On a positive note, it looks like the flooring in the attic is 100-year-old pine. Again, it's been secured in place by someone who presumably had shares in the local nail factory, but even having run it through my table saw to cut the splintered edges away it looks like I'm going to have 2" wide strips, totaling something in the region of 6-700 square feet. Maybe I can polish it up and reuse it downstairs. The local Amish sawmill seems to have very reasonable prices for solid wood floors but it still runs to several hundred $$$ to replace the floor in even one room.
Haha. Maybe. Strongly suspect a student was annoyed with something my wife did at school (since she's VP). It was not even a good TP job. I was even up late last night but I had the headphones on so I did not hear a thing.
I'm thinking you should find out who it was, and TP their house so that they know what a proper job looks like. Also, saran-wrap their parent's car(s) shut. I don't really know what to say ¯\_(ツ)_/¯