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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
DID YOU DOUBLE-DIP THAT CHIP? TELL ME THE TRUTH OR I'LL CARVE YOUR EYE OUT WITH THIS OLIVE FORK!
Kinda makes you wish we had some footage of wittle Jack and Graham as kiddies, doesn't it? They must have had some interesting little tussles.
I must say, Hair...the ice storm you experienced really made us get our act together, didn't it? Except for a typo in g'nad's phone number, it went flawlessly this time. We were ready...prepared...watching out for each other.
Seeing you bundled up in those coats with the generator made me proud...you were prepared and able to take care of yourself and that impresses me. Being able to take care of themselves is a rare quality in people these days, it sometimes seems to me.
And the fact is, you not only could take care of yourselves, but also a slew of animals and a next-door-neighbor as well!
Which is why my mind knew all along that the G'nads would be OK. The type of family they are, and the kind of community they live in...I just knew they'd be all right.
But I'm glad I got through to their vet for two reasons. 1) I was able to verify what I already knew...they were ok and 2) I was able to let them know that the Hobbit Hole was thinking about them.
In four days, we'll have known each other for five years...
You got it! Though ours was wind, not ice, the results the next day seem to look about the same, broken trees and downed lines. I think we're all more ready now because of it. Which means, of course, it'll be clear sailing from here on out.
Heh heh!!
Yeah.
~chuckling~
~sip~
Quitter! Jen and I jumped in it. :~)
Different fer you, though. If I jump in as a single person, I'll get lambasted.
And there are always posts like this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1772195/posts?page=147#147
Which make me want to go all Jack on someone. Let's see...at this moment, I have access to phone cord, scissors, a ceramic mug, keys...
Everyone gets lambasted. It's a free for all. :~)
Don't be defensive about being single. Don't let them call you some kind of trend. You're as different and full of your own particulars as any of us are when you really look close. You're just one chick tryin' to do the best she can.
Yah, I know. Just kinda hard not to take the generalizations to heart sometimes.
At least my dog thinks I'm pretty cool. ;-) Even bein' over 30 and all.
I still jumped into those threads when I was single... but I know why you don't. Personally I find idiots to be fun to mock in my head so I don't mind those threads.
I've done my share of jumping in. But they just get old after awhile. Same contingents: the he-man women-haters brigade, the "I've been happily married since I was 18 and anyone who didn't 'choose' that path to is a sad, selfish, pathetic creature" types, the mail-order child bride chest thumpers, and just a small smattering of folks who actually make sense.
It's a circus. Kind of fun to watch sometimes, but I tend to get trampled if I try to set foot in the ring.
The problem is...my downspout on my shop is still frozen and so is the gutter...full of ice. The roof, however, is melting and just POURING water into the wall of my shop. One third of my shop is flooded.
~sigh~
I'm going out there in a bit and opening it up and vacuuming it out with the shop vac.
Heh!
Dang... that's not easy to fix. Any way to put up something that would direct the water all the way off the eave.?
National Pie Day, huh? I'm sure SirKit will be happy to know that! I'll get Joseph to make an apple pie for him!
I don't know...probably too late now, but in the future, that might not be a bad idea. Who knew? We've had it leak a little tiny bit before but nothing like this...
You know...a little water would get in when a heavy rain would come or the snow would melt. But this is 3-4 inches of solid ice melting off a 25x25 foot roof.
It's a mess, and I hate it, but I think it'll clean up ok.
We'll see...I'm thinking about it. It's just the end wall at the low end of the shop, you know...the roof slants down. I'm considering putting up a "fake wall"...something with wingnuts, no kidding, that can be taken down, dried out, then put back up.
Well, phooey, it sounds like a real mess. At least it's draining. You may not remember but the week before Entmoot we had a cold snap here and we had gotten a lot of snow and then it started raining. The gutters and downspouts were clogged, and ice dams formed at the edge of the roof. This roof isn't slanted enough, water was pooling up there... so much it was tweaking the whole house, we could barely get the door open. We went up and hacked at the ice dams until we broke them through and water could pour out. Never had that happen before, part of the problem was needles and moss on the roof too, slowing the drainage...It wasn't good, I think it was > < that close to collapsing... that's why we wanted to clean the roof after this last wind storm and get all those branches and needles off.
That's what this is...an ice dam. You know what I'm talking about.
Yep...it's draining, right into the shop. But the thing is...this really is just a pole barn. A duded-up pole barn...the carpeting is indoor/outdoor, so that won't be a problem to just vacuum up. The "problem" is the wall. It's sheetrock and insulated. I'm thinking "mold". I'm thinking it should just be removed on that end...even removing it and leaving it open would be better than having mold growing out there...
It's been on my mind for a while, but this mess has just made me decide now might be the time to tear it all out. Just on that one wall.
We're going out there in a bit...almost done with school for the day. I'll take pictures.
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