Stop in for a cup of coffee

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28 hours straight with no precipitation :thumbsup: My wingman sent me a pic of his rock farm in the next valley to the south. One of his underground conveyor belt pits has an estimated 7' of water in it
 
Brandy went through that faze also, liked to eat the potting soil out of the planters. I put some tobasco sauce around the rim, first lick stopped that dead in its tracks
Or sprinkle a little red pepper in the pot??
 
Well we are back from the Vet. Pup now has all shots plus some charcoal for her tummy after eating all the aloe plant. She weighed in at 44 pounds, Vet agrees she is maybe six months old? Hard to tell. With exception of all the ticks she seems to be in good health and a full recovery is anticipated. No real drama at all. Just a tick infested stray at the end of the day! She is a handful!
 
Well we are back from the Vet. Pup now has all shots plus some charcoal for her tummy after eating all the aloe plant. She weighed in at 44 pounds, Vet agrees she is maybe six months old? Hard to tell. With exception of all the ticks she seems to be in good health and a full recovery is anticipated. No real drama at all. Just a tick infested stray at the end of the day! She is a handful!
Just needs a job and some order in her life. Favorite job for my dogs is feeding the horses and chasing rabbits away from the hay shed and tach shed.
 
Just needs a job and some order in her life. Favorite job for my dogs is feeding the horses and chasing rabbits away from the hay shed and tach shed.
Yep, so far she likes opening and closing the gates. It is about a mile round trip each event. She is already recognizing her name and I am starting to teach her basic commands with cheese. In conjunction with hand signals. She is a smart one. I am giving her the afternoon off after getting her round of shots today. She does not feel good. So far all training has been off leash. She brightens my day!
 
Hey, trying to register for Hot rod power tour, no able to yet. It looks like only early birds from last year is open now....
 
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Halfway through with the floor, and just one task left underneath.
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Today wrapped up the electric, insulation (crawl space), and sheathing below the ledger. hurrah!
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Look - no cables hanging down.
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Looking good and looks like an over kill on the flooring but never gonna fall through that.
It's overkill. The contractor shouldn't have done a ledger with the tongue and groove flooring. Even without the starter course on the siding their staples caught nothing. But easier to sister onto the ledger than run an independent joist. Bridging probably not needed but it made a good support to attach the outlet box. The outlet box, recepticle and cable they had installed was not wet/damp rated so it all had to go. Lots of little things add up timewise.
 
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Nice work Matt! I don’t get in crawl spaces down here as I do not like going Nose to nose with the inevitable resident snakes. Slab only for this guy!
Hah. My aunt & uncles place in the panhandle was on slab. I never worried about snakes - except when when out on the water. Water moccasins (sp?) were not a snake I wanted to meet - especially in their home environment.

You know what seems to freak out a lot of people up here? Cave Crickets! Under porches or in root cellars they seem to be their waiting to make a giant jump!
 
Well I'm going to eat and then put the jeep away before it rains.
Think I can make the range before it closes. Why waste that fuel starting the engine just to go to the garage....
 
Nice work Matt! I don’t get in crawl spaces down here as I do not like going Nose to nose with the inevitable resident snakes. Slab only for this guy!
Had a friend needing help fixing his plumbing under his house. He did the crawl space under the house I did the stay above ground and throw down the tools.
Well he found a skunk down there and never saw anyone move as fast out of a crawl space as him. LOL
 
Hah. My aunt & uncles place in the panhandle was on slab. I never worried about snakes - except when when out on the water. Water moccasins (sp?) were not a snake I wanted to meet - especially in their home environment.

You know what seems to freak out a lot of people up here? Cave Crickets! Under porches or in root cellars they seem to be their waiting to make a giant jump!
Think I like the cold up here even more.
 
When the back room got redone it got a real foundation down to the frostline. That put an end to critters coming in. Biggest I had to deal with was a possum. Shooed him out with the shopvac hose on the outlet side.
Came back a few days later and was more determined. Used a pellet gun - not happy about doing that for a number of reasons but had to be done.
 
Nice work Matt! I don’t get in crawl spaces down here as I do not like going Nose to nose with the inevitable resident snakes. Slab only for this guy!

You would have loved the crawl-space clearing and refresh work at my old place. I was swimming in 30 year old insulation with rodents running over the top of me
 
Some of the rodent diseases are pretty bad. I can't recall the name of the one that was a concern at the Del Water Gap.
We had to put everyone going into the buildings that had high rodent populations, past or present, into suits and N95 masks. Masks were smoke tested for fit.
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These buildings were barely 3 seasons, and the crawl spaces underneath IMO should have been open and left open.
That's one way to cut down on the nesting bugs and critters - especially overwinter.
I lost that arguement.
 
Some of the rodent diseases are pretty bad. I can't recall the name of the one that was a concern at the Del Water Gap.
We had to put everyone going into the buildings that had high rodent populations, past or present, into suits and N95 masks. Masks were smoke tested for fit.
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These buildings were barely 3 seasons, and the crawl spaces underneath IMO should have been open and left open.
That's one way to cut down on the nesting bugs and critters - especially overwinter.
I lost that arguement.

It was interesting...

You worked at DWG?

P.S. for those that may wonder. The Delaware Water Gap is NOT in Delaware... it's along the PA / NJ border
 
Some of the rodent diseases are pretty bad. I can't recall the name of the one that was a concern at the Del Water Gap.
We had to put everyone going into the buildings that had high rodent populations, past or present, into suits and N95 masks. Masks were smoke tested for fit.
View attachment 1716033635

These buildings were barely 3 seasons, and the crawl spaces underneath IMO should have been open and left open.
That's one way to cut down on the nesting bugs and critters - especially overwinter.
I lost that arguement.

Yeah. You have basically two choices with crawl spaces ... free range or walled city. I went to walled city... it worked very well once the fauna population was managed
 
When the back room got redone it got a real foundation down to the frostline. That put an end to critters coming in. Biggest I had to deal with was a possum. Shooed him out with the shopvac hose on the outlet side.
Came back a few days later and was more determined. Used a pellet gun - not happy about doing that for a number of reasons but had to be done.
Would have done the same thing.
 
It was interesting...

You worked at DWG?

P.S. for those that may wonder. The Delaware Water Gap is NOT in Delaware... it's along the PA / NJ border
Yes Sir!
Although when I was there I was not a direct NPS employee, but was paid through SCA.
Volunteered there a bit too - long time ago - at Millbrook Village.
Also where I got my red card.
 
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