What did you do today?

[3 Phase Lightbulb]

Our dog of 16 years died this morning so I had to bury it. It was a tough job in more ways than one. It is 4° F here and dropping. -18° wind chill with 33mph gusts. The ground is frozen and my wife chose a spot at the base of a 2' tree with lots of roots. But, I made a promise to the dog so I was keeping it. I did have to take a couple of breaks to thaw hands and feet out. The pain is really something when the hands start to thaw out. RIP Strawberry.

Sorry about your loss.... You and your wife should now go visit an Animal shelter and give another dog (or cat!) a great new home...

[Tungsten dipper]

Our dog of 16 years died this morning so I had to bury it. It was a tough job in more ways than one. It is 4° F here and dropping. -18° wind chill with 33mph gusts. The ground is frozen and my wife chose a spot at the base of a 2' tree with lots of roots. But, I made a promise to the dog so I was keeping it. I did have to take a couple of breaks to thaw hands and feet out. The pain is really something when the hands start to thaw out. RIP Strawberry.

Sorry for your loss. They are like family members. I just went though that 2 years ago and it still hurts.

[softtail]

Sorry to hear that.. 16 yrs is a long time. We are on the other side of the coin.. got a 10wk old pup here for our son. Been about 15 years since my old girl passed.

[Ridgerunner]

Sorry about your loss.... You and your wife should now go visit an Animal shelter and give another dog (or cat!) a great new home...

Thank you. Unfortunately, that is another thing that comes with old age. The cat or dog will outlive the owner so it is not fair to someone else to have to "inherit" them. I really like cats too, and our recent ones were 2 Siamese. One died about a year ago. The other one had surgery a couple of weeks ago and the vet said it had some type of rare cancer that they did not get all of, and would probably only live another 6 weeks. My wife still has a few Llamas at the farm, down from 17. They are pretty old now so that clock is ticking too.

[Ridgerunner]

Sorry for your loss. They are like family members. I just went though that 2 years ago and it still hurts.

Thank you. Yes they are like family members and yes it does hurt.

[Dave C]

Maybe this then

https://www.harborfreight.com/1-4-qu...ope-91909.html

Yeah that would work, but my apparently my store doesn't stock it. I asked one of the clerks about it, and might as well have been talking to the fire plug outside.

[Dave C]

I actually have two cats that are still considered kittens, and they have put claw marks on $10,000 worth of my daughters medical appliances, yet they are still alive and spoiled. Sometimes it's just the thought that puts a smile on my face.

Buy them a cat tree and plenty of cheap toys. We've always had cats in the house and never had them tear up anything. That said, before we had one adopted female speyed, she had a litter of 8 kittens that shredded lamp shades, and curtains before we got them weaned and gone.

[Corbettprime]

Yep, know the feeling! Had a pure white manx that loved to play fetch with hair scrunchies. Also had a son that was allergic to cats, so when Baby the cat passed, we switched to nonshedding dogs. Now have a 12# yorkie, 18# shieu tsu, and a toy poodle.

[Tundra Twin Track]

I repaired a livestock panel for a neighbor,installed a internal sqaure plug in background for extra strength.The 4 jaw Chuck I got for work holding sure comes in handy.

[3 Phase Lightbulb]

My Lista cabinet is now completely empty. All of the endmills, taps/dies, countersinks, milling saws, keyway cutters, and radius cutters are labeled, sorted, and stored in my new wall bins. I also located my Huot drill indexes under the endmill storage.

[JRouche]

My Lista cabinet is now completely empty.

Good. Now when can I pick up my Lista JR

[3 Phase Lightbulb]

Good. Now when can I pick up my Lista JR

I actually bought the Lista for storage from an auction, but it came full of tooling so I'm now finally able to use it for what I originally bought it for

[JRouche]

I actually bought the Lista for storage from an auction, but it came full of tooling so I'm now finally able to use it for what I originally bought it for

Those are great cabinets. I had them at one job to store old electrical and electronic parts. JR

[PStechPaul]

Last night it went down to about 8 degrees F, and with the wood stove going strong the inside temperature downstairs was just over 40F and in the bedroom the baseboard electric heat barely got over 60F. By this morning the bedroom was just under 50F, and downstairs was about 28F. I had left the water running in the kitchen sink at a bit more than a steady drip, and the hot and cold pipes did not freeze.

However, I went out for a couple hours (by now up to a balmy 16F), and I had forgotten to resume the drip, so when I turned on the taps, there was just a trickle getting past the frozen blockage. A few minutes with a heat gun on the exposed pipes restored normal flow, and I proceeded to build another fire to "warm" up to about 35-40F. I know that the problem is that the heat tapes on the pipes were not installed properly by a contractor who had installed the sink, but I haven't had the ability to tackle the job until recently (after multiple orthopedic surgeries), and I had other priorities last summer and fall.

So I've been burning a lot of compressed wood fuel blocks, as well as making quite a dent in the woodpile from JUly's removal of a large wild cherry tree and heavy trimming of a huge sycamore next to the house. I split a few easy logs, and then tackled a tough, gnarly chunk, eventually getting it to split ala Lizzie Bordon (40 whacks):





I also got started on a large round wild cherry log, using a 6-8 pound maul (which probably needs sharpening - machining content...)


Now that I have a good fire going, and the bedroom up to 60+, I'm attempting to work on some of the images I scanned from slides. Here is a picture I took in April, 1971, of a girl I knew from my early Koinonia days, at Rocks State Park. She was a high school student at St Timothy's private school, and probably jail-bait, as well as out of my league, but it was cool to dream! Anyway, a split shot of the original scanned image with default adjustment, and an attempt to better color balance and sharpen using GIMP. Looking forward to spring!!

[Arcane]

Last night it went down to about 8 degrees F, and with the wood stove going strong the inside temperature downstairs was just over 40F and in the bedroom the baseboard electric heat barely got over 60F. By this morning the bedroom was just under 50F, and downstairs was about 28F. I had left the water running in the kitchen sink at a bit more than a steady drip, and the hot and cold pipes did not freeze..........

I'm surprised your drain pipe didn't freeze up. Seen it happen.