OT The Home Isolation Thread- What are you doing?

I'll use your cat to trap coyotes. I'm good with metal. Funny, my aunt's apartment building had feral cats living under it years ago.

I trapped them with a laundry basket and some food. Rigged a stick with some string to get them once they came in the back door for some food. Had to grab them with a bath towel because they'd bite pretty good for their size.

Got most of them and took them to the shelter. Not sure if the raccoons or other cats got the rest. Felt kinda bad about it, not sure if they put them down or tried to rehabilitate them. Was many years ago.

Couldn't let them keep breeding under the building...was kind of a dump and don't think anyone else cared.

 

You will never get anywhere near my cat or me. You will not be invited to my dessert party.

And you are not funny.

 

Wasn't trying to be funny. Your cat is going to eat you before you eat it, of this I am sure. Poor cat. Watch the video

 

can I redo your retaining wall?

 

bro 33rd and Columbia or jantzen beach is remotely close

 

I've got cabin fever.

 

I'm tired of waiting for the spotty grocery delivery...

 

Sure but it looks way worse in photos. The shadows in the picture really show it.

I'm sure you were on my side in all the posts I've made about unskilled workers from other countries taking jobs from Americans.

When we bought the house my wife wanted to change one light fixture. They didn't connect that silly safety feature known as a ground wire.

So I spent a weekend removing every light fixture and outlet and installing the wires properly. A good 40 percent of the outlets were loose. Half the lights weren't grounded.

They're building a new community at the bottom of my hill. They put these walls up faster than you could deliver the supplies.

 

You must go crazy trying to figure out what grass to cut and what grass not to cut. Here's a hint: Get a professional land surveyor because your property line looks like it was gerrymandered.

 

Have you ever tried to carry sheetrock? OMG, they don't pay those guys enough. I've worked with my father carrying and installing 12 inch concrete block all day and cutting the mud by hand. Very hard difficult work, but I'd rather do that then handle sheetrock all day.
A ground has been required on all fixtures and terminals for at least half a century. How did your house escape without that safety requirement and who in the hell inspected the electrical work? Every electrical inspector that I ever knew carried a three pronged device that inspects the ground, neutral and hot connection in every outlet. All you gotta do is plug it in and see if the light is red (bad) or green (good).
I suppose you know that the ground wire connects to the green screw and wraps around the screw clockwise before you tighten the screw.

 

All of the electrical outlets were wired properly but the wires were loose on many.

They would test fine. The guy who did the tile work did a perfect job as far as gaps and cut lines. My tile has lots of different colors in it and if you look close you can see patterns where the colors don't vary enough because he didn't mix up the batches.

That was one of the first things I read when I googled how to do tile work.

When I did my accent wall I started laying out the tile on a tarp and it didn't seem to be an issue and I thought it was bullshit.

Kept going anyway and all of a sudden the top rows of tile were all yellow compared to the whiter rows below.

Thank goodness I did what they said or it would look terrible.

My point is that tons of things are HARD but when you learn how to do it properly and don't take shortcuts it usually ends up saving time.

I've tried a few times to quit doing metal work before it was good and just throw some filler on a fender. It ends up taking longer because you'll have a high spot you have to hammer down and then you need more filler and it just becomes a mess.

Most of my co-workers over the years were taught by a guy who got taught by a guy. In some ways that is good but often it isn't.

 

Actually, our landscaper knows what to cut. He cuts on Thursdays. The HOA cuts on Wednesdays. He cuts where they left off. The yellow line was a bit deceiving. We have a fence on one side and open common area on the area.

 

I miss my Ridgeline!

 

Your house is brick. I love brick. My father started out as a bricklayer and I've worked on many brick laying jobs with him. Lots and lots of walls and fireplaces Climbed a lot of ladders with no hands except to balance a heavy flu liner on my shoulder.
Probably the majority of houses I remember seeing in Georgia were brick while the majority of homes I remember seeing in Florida were block. I guess you use the material that's most plentiful in your area.

 

Indeed. You have a few trees in the PNW. Not a lot of tall trees here. We have them, but nothing close to those in Oregon, Washington, etc.

OK, a couple of years ago, my wife and I decided to take a driving trip to see the Redwoods, and such. She had never seen one, and it had been decades for me. Actually, that trip has been one of the most memorable for us. We flew into Reno and rented a car. We drove around Lake Tahoe, but didn't spend the night there. We then drove to Yosemite NP and spent a couple of nights there. That park is incredible! Whoa! What wonderfully immense trees! We were fortunate to be there the day Mariposa Grove opened back up! We definitely plan to get back and stay somewhere down at the floor level. We were in an AB&B outside the park. We then drove to Sequoia NP and spent a couple of nights there. A wonderful park, but not nearly as exciting as Yosemite. We then drove through the (produce wonderland) Cali Central Valley. That segment of the trip was where you roll down the car windows and dangle your feet outside (passenger only!), feeling the wind between your toes while singling along to the blaring Hotel California, etc. We continued on into San Francisco, where we spent a couple of days, staying at another AB&B in the very cool Mission District. Lots of fun there, as well. Anyway, I had always wanted to drive up that slow spiraling, winding Highway 1. You know the one, right along the California coastline....sometimes a bit treacherous, or so it seemed. Began at Bodega Bay (where The Birds was filmed) and wended our way on up the coastline. My wife was relieved we were heading North...away from the ledges! LOL From there, we then toured all through the Redwood Forest, drove through a tree, and such. We worked our way up the Oregon Coast, then headed East out of Newport. By the way, one of my favorite restaurants is Local Ocean in Newport...down on the bayfront. Next time you're there, check it out. You won't be disappointed! We spent a couple of nights in Bend (firepits at McMenamins, baby!), then on to Portland to visit family. We returned the car in Portland and flew back to Nashville from there. All in all, we put 2,000 miles on the car over two weeks. Again, it was probably the best trip we've been on. I gotta say, flying somewhere and plopping down has its purposes and fun, but there's nothing quite like a road trip! We're planning to do a Texas road trip next. (Austin is a bucket list destination for me! I'm a huge Stevie Ray Vaughan fan. R.I.P.)

Sorry about the novel, @Lanny , but you seem like the type that likes to share and reminisce.

 

Best vehicle I've ever owned. I didn't really care for the old style. They went to this new style the same year I decided to move to Nashville. Bought it in Wilsonville. Awesome drive across the country. It's built on a Pilot chassis/frame, so a super smooth ride. My wife and I prefer this to her Lincoln MKC when we take excursions, etc.

 

She's never been closer...

 

Been playing around with a lot more recipes while stuck at home. Tried making eggs benedict for the first time today.

Eggs by RR7 posted Apr 5, 2020 at 1:43 PM