"Nice" surprise this morning...
wtf :shock: is it normal to snow in mid/late April?
Yes snow at times but usually not that amount.
Was melted away by noon by the way.
For the next few days the forecast is down to 21°F (-6°C) at night.
German poem (excerpt):
April, April, der weiß nicht was er will.
Bald Regen und bald Sonnenschein,
Dann schneit's auch wieder zwischendrein.
April, April, der weiß nicht was er will.
i call that bipolar weather.
It's gorgeous and it's the best type of snow, the kind that's gone by mid-day.
We've been pulling out the furniture and getting Red's pool setup for the season. It'll probably be warm enough for her to go swimming in a couple weeks if she's motivated enough :)
how do you swim in an above ground pool? iv never liked above ground pools. i mean they're better than no pool, but they're never deep enough and to small.
Super_Randy wrote:
how do you swim in an above ground pool? iv never liked above ground pools. i mean they're better than no pool, but they're never deep enough and to small.
I absolutely loathe them but I also don't like swimming in pools generally. This is definitely for my wife and it's about the quarter the cost of an inground. She never actually swims but floats so depth and size of the pool doesn't effect her plans much. With the deck built around it, she gets to hop in, float for a bit then lie out in the sun, which is her perfect pool day.
I clean and maintain it. I've managed not to swim in it since we got it 2 years ago.
That deck is awesome!
What about some roofing to make it a back porch?
that's my thing, i like to swim and generally screw around in water. one of my goals in life is to have a house with a big ass pool in the backyard. it's number 2 on the list. right after having a big ass garage with a lift.
option 2 is to have some lake front property (preferably several acres) with a privet dock. so i can build a big ass garage and call the lake my pool. :D cause what i would do is build a small floating dock/raft with a pool waterslide on it so i can float it out into the lake about 20 feet and have a sketchy water slide.
all this happens shortly after i win the lottery. ...which reminds me, i need to start playing the lottery. :roll:
Maddel wrote:
That deck is awesome!
What about some roofing to make it a back porch?
Red would really like a gazebo-type structure on the deck and it may have a roof of some type on it. I've got to find a way to make sure I can secure it against the weather we get here. We live in a wind tunnel and everyone's shit(like trampolines, sheds, canoes, etc) end up in other people's yards often.
So you may consider going "shelter style"... :D
It would add some stark contrast to your filigree deck construction for sure... :lol:
that's cool as hell. think ill add one to the list of shit i want at my lake estate :lol:
89 degrees
63 dew point
45% humidity
SUCKS!!!
im in Commiefornia, it's supposed to be a dry heat, wtf.
Same here. Unfortunately our A/C has failed for the second time this season and we're waiting a week for replacement parts. It is currently 94 degrees inside. I am sitting in a single room of the house with a portable AC which brought this rooms temp down to 82.
Living the dream.
damn, go jump in the pool or something.
inside my house is 82, we haven't turned the AC on yet today. still waiting for the unit to crap out. when it kicks on its makes a weird loud noise (sounds like an old air compressor) for several seconds. very unsettling, and because of it we can't run it at night. and no ones willing to pay to look into it.
i could deal with the 90 degrees out if it wasn't so damn muggy. im a guy who sweats really bad and when i can't walk out to the garage and back without being able to ring out my undies it zaps motivation to do anything. i did manage to swap out the idle jet on the bug this morning, i found a 65 jet in my stash. waiting for it to cool down and get some shade before i go mess with it and see if it made any difference. just sitting here under a ceiling fan with a bottle of ice water in my lap doom watching youtube.
schwim wrote:
I am basically finished with the filter system for the well. Added the settlement tank(far left) back into the system and added a pre-prefilter ahead of everything to try to keep the more expensive filters safe from debris. I also bumped the pressure switch up to shut off at 75 lbs of pressure.
Welp, that didn't last too long. Today, I wrapped up cutting out the Aquasana system and replacing it with 4(yes, 4) cartridge filters. A rope sediment, 20 micron, 5 micron, 1 micron and UV filter. A powered anode rod in the water heater is for the sulfer smell.
The change is because the water is so bad, it filled the filters with mud in less than a year and a half and would cost about 2k to replace after shipping in both directions.
schwim wrote:
... The change is because the water is so bad, it filled the filters with mud in less than a year and a half and would cost about 2k to replace after shipping in both directions. ...
Damn! That is "krass" ! :shock:
Does the water come from the public water supply or do you have sort of a private well?
Maddel wrote:
Damn! That is "krass" ! :shock:
Does the water come from the public water supply or do you have sort of a private well?
Yeah, it's pretty nasty :)
This is a private well, which is all that's available in this rural area as the county utilities don't come this far out. Being as close as we are to the coast, the well water is always generally pretty bad but this is just next level diabolically filthy.
On the plus side, my wall of filters seem to be doing a good job of keeping it in check and now that I can replace the cartridges, perhaps I'll have a bit better control of it.
My wife and daughter took me to Outer Banks, NC for a couple days. I'm not much of a beach goer but it was a very nice place to hang out.
That is an awesome pic, thanks for sharing! :)
Seems y'all had a really good time.
Say hello to your family!
you disgust me, no grey hairs in the beard lookin MF'er. :lol:
Maddel wrote:
That is an awesome pic, thanks for sharing! :)
Seems y'all had a really good time.
Say hello to your family!
Super_Randy wrote:
you disgust me, no grey hairs in the beard lookin MF'er. :lol:
I may not have many grey hairs but I'll have you know the rest of my body is deteriorating at a breakneck pace, thank you very much :)
It was a fun time. My wife loves the beach and I love hanging out with them so everyone wins.
We flew a kite!
schwim wrote:
Maddel wrote:
That is an awesome pic, thanks for sharing! :)
Seems y'all had a really good time.
Say hello to your family!Super_Randy wrote:
you disgust me, no grey hairs in the beard lookin MF'er. :lol:
I may not have many grey hairs but I'll have you know the rest of my body is deteriorating at a breakneck pace, thank you very much :)
It was a fun time. My wife loves the beach and I love hanging out with them so everyone wins.
We flew a kite!
yeah im physically falling apart at a rapid rate as well. but my chin fuzz has grey in it. and has for about 4 years :shock:
you didn't fly a kite. you flew the bird :lol:
Super_Randy wrote:
Probably sees more action than 99% of the tricked out TRD trucks on the road.
a little reading literature. bought this from Hot VW's. its like the magazine on steroids . history, car features, looks like an engine build, 400+ pages of just Cal Look related content. 8-)
