... An update from a previous post in here somewhere... Add a foot and a half to this to cover " shrinkage " over the last couple weeks...

 

A lot of senseless work went into this:

All they had to do was fly to Boston...

 

It's snowing pretty hard now. Was in the 70°F range the last couple days. Supposed to get about 6" in Denver/Colorado Springs over the next day or two, which means about 2ft at our house.

Much nicer than the northeast -- and I'll try to remind myself of that when I'm plowing the roads tonight.

 

My heart goes out to you people along the North Atlantic coast. This morning it was a balmy -4 and we hope to get up around Zero today. The good news is it is bright and sunny.

Ron

Helped my son today(Sunday), frame in and replace two upstairs bedroom windows in his house. Biggest problem was the calking wouldn't flow out of the tube.

 

Helped my son today(Sunday), frame in and replace two upstairs bedroom windows in his house. Biggest problem was the calking wouldn't flow out of the tube.

You have got to be kidding me? Windows in Ohio during February? You guys have guts! Cleveland was again -4 this morning where we are at. I was out deicing the trucks so I can move them later so my neighbor can plow. Bottle of Jack once in awhile and I do his electrical and he does all our plowing. Since retiring the trucks don't move much and they were like blocks of ice. Windows in February? You have guts!

Ron

 

You're not supposed to use calking when the temp < 50 degrees F.

 

It's getting back to normal in Florida. Warm enough to go outside yesterday and up to 74 F today. I'm bouncing and pouncing!

@Reloadron I would never tell you what the label on your caulking tube says, but I can say that I had to warm the Plumbers Putty yesterday. It was down to 60 F from sitting in the shed.

 

It's getting back to normal in Florida. Warm enough to go outside yesterday and up to 74 F today. I'm bouncing and pouncing!

@Reloadron I would never tell you what the label on your caulking tube says, but I can say that I had to warm the Plumbers Putty yesterday. It was down to 60 F from sitting in the shed.

Not my caulking gun. That would be short bus caulking gun.

You guys down in Florida have it nice. My oldest lives down there and many of my friends I grew up with in NY call Florida home.

Ron

 

...many of my friends I grew up with in NY call Florida home.

Yea. They come here for the weather and low cost of living.

Then they complain they don't have all the government 'services' they got in the Northeast, so they get into local gov't and raise our taxes. And add tolls to our roads.

I wish they'da stayed where they were happy.

 

It's an old farm house. The windows were frames were so bad they had to be replaced. The wind was making little snow drifts on the window sills. I cut and split and stacked over 16 cord of wood this fall for their heat. About half gone now.

 

Yea. They come here for the weather and low cost of living.

Then they complain they don't have all the government 'services' they got in the Northeast, so they get into local gov't and raise our taxes. And add tolls to our roads.

I wish they'da stayed where they were happy.

Well ya see that's the difference between a Yankee and a Damn Yankee. A Yankee comes down, visits and spends money and then goes home. A Damn Yankee comes down, likes the place, stays there and tries to make it like where they came from. Heck yeah! I grew up in a 2 bedroom Cape Cod style home my parents bought in 1953 on Long Island for $12,500. The typical "Levitown" style homes designed by Levit for returning WWII vets who were getting married and settling down. My father added two bedrooms in the attic. They sold in 1966 for $25,000. Today that box is a $300,000 home in what is now a lousy neighborhood and the property taxes are over $30,000 a year. Yeah, those NY Yankees know some stuff about taxes.

Ron

 

It's an old farm house. The windows were frames were so bad they had to be replaced. The wind was making little snow drifts on the window sills. I cut and split and stacked over 16 cord of wood this fall for their heat. About half gone now.

Neighbor behind us heats with wood, electric as back up. Last year decimated his cribs and this year is no better. I like my creature comforts of natural gas and the emergency backup generator.

Ron

 

Yay! Sunshine.

 

"Bitterly Cold" is purely subjective!
Max.

 

"Bitterly Cold" is purely subjective!
Max.

I guess all weather adjectives are subjective. We have about an inch of "wintery mix" on the ground; the temp this morning is 15F. And I have just decided it's too bad to get out of the house. I can't imagine what some of you are going through.

It's an old farm house. The windows were frames were so bad they had to be replaced. The wind was making little snow drifts on the window sills. I cut and split and stacked over 16 cord of wood this fall for their heat. About half gone now.

Wow! You are some good dad. Hydraulic or muscle splitter?

 

Neighbor behind us heats with wood, electric as back up. Last year decimated his cribs and this year is no better. I like my creature comforts of natural gas and the emergency backup generator.

Ron

They have an oil furnace, last year they only spent ~$150 on oil. Don't know about this year yet.

 

I have no natural gas in the mountains where I live. We are on a heat pump, and of course, it's almost useless at 15 degrees F. I'm forced to use portable kerosene heaters, which isn't all that bad. Actually, I enjoy the sitting in the warm glow when I'm reading or browsing. In the last month, all the kerosene I was able to get was full of water! This played havoc on my heating equipment, but I was finally able to get some good fuel, and just in time too. When my money gets better, I'm thinking about replacing the heat pump with a propane heater and having a tank put out.

 

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Wow! You are some good dad. Hydraulic or muscle splitter?

Have a hydraulic splitter. It's actually my mother in laws house, and do it for her and my wife who lives with her as her 'care giver'. Getting the wood gives me something to do.

I cut the wood about a mile from my house in Youngstown, haul it home and split it. Then load again and take it ~25 miles to Alliance, Oh and stack it again. I get the trees for free, cleaning a friends 55 acres of woods, taking dead ash trees mostly. Those emerald ash borers are going to clean out the ash trees in this area. Haul all this in a chevy s10 pickup. Right around 3/8 of a cord per trip. Around 1600 to 1800 pounds a load, way more than the trucks rated payload.

 

You need a bigger truck.

 

Hot Hot Hot....!
No snow these days...! Come to think of it....it never snows down here...No freakin Ever.