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Posted by Deggesty on Sunday, March 2, 2014 6:57 PM

Deggesty

tree68

I don't think we're due for much, if any, snow from the latest "named" winter storm - it looks like it's staying south of us.

On the other hand, we probably won't escape the cold.

Ms Mook - part of your problem might be humidity - or the lack thereof.  I go through a gallon of water every day in my humidifier, and that doesn't really keep up.  The worst part of that is that I have to use distilled water.  There is so much harness in my water that when I use it in the ultrasonic humidifier, I end up with a layer of fine dust throughout the house, and can even sense it as I breathe.

Hardness in your water? Where do  you get your water!? We are having comparatively warm days ( no overcoat needed for going to church this morning)

I am slowly improving from my last visit to the hospital--and Katie tells me that my urologist wants me to have more surgery.

 We'll see.

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Larry, I meant to ask how it is that you have harness in your water, and my better instinct wrote "hardness."

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Posted by tree68 on Sunday, March 2, 2014 7:28 PM

Deggesty
Larry, I meant to ask how it is that you have harness in your water, and my better instinct wrote "hardness."

Hee hee...  Spell check didn't get that one because, well, it's spelled right...

This is an agricultural area, and the Amish up the hill do have horses...

It was the potential for contamination of wells that got us the sewer system (and the proposal for the water system) in the first place.

When we moved in, the house was plumbed for a softener.  Early on we couldn't really afford to install and maintain another one, so it never got replaced.  When I did replace the water heater, I took out the extraneous plumbing, so I'd have to start all over again...

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Posted by rvos1979 on Sunday, March 2, 2014 8:33 PM
In our Richfield yard tonight, fumigated earlier when I started my pickup to go get more reading material from a local hobby shop. Not bad for having been sitting since the first of the month, and an air temp of five degrees. Shut the semi off for most of the day, fuel filter restriction gauge is finally dropping a half hour later. Round trip to Appleton tomorrow, then start vacation.........

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Posted by Norm48327 on Monday, March 3, 2014 7:27 AM

Six below here at 8AM. Florida soundin' better every day.

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Posted by Modelcar on Monday, March 3, 2014 9:38 AM

.....Water in this area without a water softener tastes far less than good.

Some people drink it that way, but I don't understand how they handle that everyday....And of course untreated, it makes water spots....and bathing with untreated water...Less than good...Would remind me of bathing on a troop ship in salt water.....!

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Posted by tree68 on Monday, March 3, 2014 11:49 AM

Norm48327

Six below here at 8AM. Florida soundin' better every day.

-10F here overnight.  Up to +10F by noon, though.  Spring's a comin', we just don't know when....

I've actually had people tell me they like my water.  

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Posted by Norm48327 on Monday, March 3, 2014 12:11 PM

Our water in Waterford is actually pretty good. A few years back I spent some time in Durand. Their water is so hard you have to kick the faucet to get it flowing. Wink

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Posted by tree68 on Monday, March 3, 2014 12:14 PM

Norm48327

Our water in Waterford is actually pretty good. A few years back I spent some time in Durand. Their water is so hard you have to kick the faucet to get it flowing. Wink

Milford used to have problems with a lot of iron.  Don't know if they got that fixed or not...  The village is still on wells - not on "Detroit water," as some refer to it.

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Posted by CShaveRR on Monday, March 3, 2014 2:24 PM

See, now isn't all this talk about water so much better than the cyber-food we used to discuss in the "Diner"?

Lombard used to have fairly hard water from its own wells, but we've been beholden to Chicago for getting Lake Michigan water for many years now.  We have no need for a softener now...never used the one that was in the house before.  The big problem with Chicago water is that it is colder than what we used to get, and there was more danger of pipes freezing!  We haven't had that problem either, though.
 

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Posted by JoeKoh on Monday, March 3, 2014 2:26 PM

afternoon

NS was picking up empties as I left work.Things are getting busy busy.Need to get chores done.Matt has a basketball tournament with his classmates tonight.Spring comes soon we hope.

stay safe

joe

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Posted by Mookie on Monday, March 3, 2014 2:54 PM

Hard water vs water softner is just like gas range vs electric - you get used to it. 

Love our water - no off-taste, no odor, just clear, clean water.  Love my electric stove.   Haven't burned a hot pad in many years.  Gotta be smarter than your appliances.

Speaking of burn - Chief Tree - rigs went out about 9 pm to a house fire - smoking while lying on couch - caught couch on fire.  Then they realized that they had to climb over about 2-3 feet high of hoarding material to get to the couch.  Fire out in about 20 min - overhaul - roughly 3-4 hours.  Chief told resident she could not go back in there for any reason. 

Every time I watch Hoarding - I go clean out a closet or dresser! 

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Posted by edblysard on Monday, March 3, 2014 3:57 PM

80 degrees yesterday afternoon, 28 degrees this morning, 44 degrees right now, and freezing rain possible for tonight.

Gotta love the weather in the swamp…kinda like Gump’s box of chocolates….

Right up till WWII, some water for Houston came straight from Buffalo Bayou…if ya wanted it filtered; you bought a filter for your service pipe.

Lake Houston was created just so we could have clean water, and the folks who process our water do a pretty good job…neither hard or soft, no flavor at all…took 20 years to silt up my old gas water heater.

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Posted by zugmann on Monday, March 3, 2014 4:00 PM

edblysard

80 degrees yesterday afternoon, 28 degrees this morning, 44 degrees right now, and freezing rain possible for tonight.

Gotta love the weather in the swamp…kinda like Gump’s box of chocolates….

Want to trade?  0 degrees tonight.  I'm working daylight now, but it will be a cold when I start tomorrow.

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Monday, March 3, 2014 5:28 PM

This water discussion brings up the question

Do the RR maintenance persons just use certain type of water chemistry when filling the cooling system of a loco?.  Do EMD, GE, Seimens, & others specify what kind of water to use in their products ?

 

 

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Posted by edblysard on Monday, March 3, 2014 5:47 PM

Our guys just use the water hose hooked up to the city water supply…the radiators and cooling system on locomotives is similar to the one in your automobile, in some instances, minus a thermostat, but pretty much the same concept.

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Posted by mudchicken on Monday, March 3, 2014 5:50 PM

What they specify and what gets used are two different animals. Water out west often has serious mineral content added by ma nature. Some of it you chew before swallowing.

Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
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Posted by tree68 on Monday, March 3, 2014 7:18 PM

Mookie
Then they realized that they had to climb over about 2-3 feet high of hoarding material to get to the couch. 

Sometimes referred to as a Collyer Mansion.

Sometimes I hate to throw things out, but there are those who seem to make it an art.

The thermometer has dipped below zero, and there's not a cloud in the sky.  The weatherguessers have put out a wind chill advisory, but there's hardly any wind.  Nonetheless, the temp sensor in the anemometer (20 feet up) shows -12F already.

Uploading a video of a bad fire to YouTube.  Big file - it's gonna take a while.

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Posted by Norm48327 on Tuesday, March 4, 2014 6:26 AM

Post the URL when you can.

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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, March 4, 2014 6:46 AM

Norm48327
Post the URL when you can.

Two, actually.  Both regarding Hackensack Ford, 1988.  As they say, "not my video."  Got them transferred to digits for a denizen of the Firehouse magazine forums.  YouTube is an easy way to get them across the 'Net.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfb-D6-ALh8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTR1xctPAfw

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Posted by JoeKoh on Tuesday, March 4, 2014 2:40 PM

afternoon

sunshine is nice.Ns was back in town when I left work.Need to get Matt later.Chores to catch up on.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Tuesday, March 4, 2014 4:33 PM

     Last night, I lost the coin toss.  My wife and I, two of our sons, and half the people we know and work with have the same terrific head cold that is going going around.  I got to go out in the Siberian cold to drop off  the youngest son at a basketball game.  I had a head full of cold medicine, and a sore mouth from a dentist's trip earlier in the day, to talk about that root canal in my future. 

       As I was driving back home, the *GAS* light came on in my vehicle.  I figured what the heck, nothing about my Monday has been good so far, I might as well stop and freeze my bones at a gas station.  I considered doing jumping jacks to keep warm while pumping $66 in gas.  Instead, I washed my windows- all of them.  I mean REALLY washed the windows- and the mirrors, and the headlights, and the taillights. 

      For about the last week, every car has been covered with gray road slop.  It's been too cold to wash anything.  You can't use your wiper sprayer, because if it isn't just plain frozen, it will be once you spread it out thin on the windshield.  The best you could do, was rub it off with a rag- or a scraper, if it was too thick.

      As I drove away from the gas station, I began to marvel at just how clean the windows were, and how well I could now see in all directions, including reverse!  Heck- I found myself getting downright giddy!  "Woo Hoo!  I've got clean windows.  I can see! " There was a smile on my face, and I was just having a happy moment!  As I drove along, admiring all the clean glass, I said to myself "Self- you need to write down just exactly what was that cold medicine you took earlier"!

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Posted by mudchicken on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 7:16 AM

61 degrees yesterday, 50+ degrees today, 6 inches of icy-wet snow overnite. Early spring in the rockies.

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Posted by Mookie on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 8:15 AM

Murphy - think allergies.  Google differences.  Stay off the cold sauce - in need of my weekly chuckle!

Sir C - @ least you have "the Rockies"!!

I defrosted a couple of birds yesterday so we have some cheeping noise!

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Posted by The Butler on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 1:57 PM

        Sunny and 45 degrees here in Southeast Missouri.  The snow and ice from the weekend is melting nicely.  The ice got me Monday.  My feet went one way and the rest of me went the other way.  I landed on my right arm and my elbow banged my ribs.  My ribs are still reminding me of that. Sigh

       The predictors say the warm up will continue for a few days, but they say the cold will return.  I hope they are wrong.  I have the urge to get outside projects going, Cabin Fever, and all.

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Posted by Mookie on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 3:03 PM

James - ouch!  We have friends in your area and we keep track of the weather there.  You have had some nasty weather.

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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 3:23 PM

Mookie
I defrosted a couple of birds yesterday so we have some cheeping noise!

No problem with defrosting birds here - I've got plenty.  Just restocked with sunflower - and it's time to fill the Yankee feeder again.  Those goldfinches are hungry little buggers.  The sparrows mostly use the near platform feeder, as do the chickadees.  The nuthatches visit there every now and then, but they like the suet, too, as do the woodpeckers.

The mourning doves mostly stay on the ground, as do the juncos and the cardinals - although one or two of the cardinals have gotten brave and started using the near platform feeder.

The outer feeder gets most everything, plus bluejays.  And squirrels.

It's a busy place...

Weather report:  It's still winter here.  

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Posted by CShaveRR on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 4:15 PM

Darn!  I thought I was giving up winter for Lent!  This is going to be more challenging than I'd expected.  At this rate, it might take until March 20 for me to do that.

Yesterday, while we had the Peck Homestead open in town, I saw seven mourning doves huddled together on the arbor there, and another ten on the fence not too far away.  I'm not sure I've ever seen more than one at a time before (though I've heard more than one at a time).

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Posted by JoeKoh on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 5:14 PM

Mamma gets to celbrate spring with her birthday and she gets to go to the BMV for a new picture too!!. homework for matt chores for me.

stay safe

joe

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, March 6, 2014 9:59 AM

I'd suggest that someone left the freezer door open, but my freezer is warmer than it was outside overnight - along the lines of -10F.  At least it's nice and sunny again today - typical February weather...

Gotta run into town for some pants.  Working the outdoor show in Saratoga this weekend, and "uniform of the day" will be khakis instead of "black and whites."  I need a pair of khakis...

Lots to do.  Better get to it.

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Posted by JoeKoh on Thursday, March 6, 2014 5:14 PM

evening

ns was working uptown today.Matts school has announced a plan to have some extended days to make up the snow days.I am surprised they are still having spring break. There were 2 days that they could have used earlier but Mother nature cancelled one of them.Tomorrow is friday!! Mamma is talking spring cleaning this weekend.Can't do much with the snow outside so I better stay in and help.

stay safe

Joe

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