In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
VIEWED: 1008544
PAGE 103 of 116
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah. 10 flights of stairs isn't fun if you're carrying a bunch of things. I didn't consider that.
Do you have, or have you ever considered buying one of those grocery bag carriers? I know how much over-carrying things just from my car to the entry to my house (through 3 doors) can jamb up my fingers because I don't use one of those. Though I'm sure you're not overloading yourself on the walks, they are supposed to do a good job of dispersing the weight and making it easier on the digits.
https://www.amazon.com/Totasak-Grocery-Carrier-2-Pack-Royal/dp/B08DDG1
NPF/ref=asc_df_B08DDG1NPF/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=475771454365&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17845902166708519423&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9016186&hvtargid=pla-1129405630705&psc=1
They probably have even better ones that would have a nice padded handle, I would imagine.
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
I don't think I've seen them up here. I would have to look for them.
I have a shopping bag that I take with me when I go out to carry groceries in but yeah I am careful about over loading even that. It a stretchy one and can hold quite a bit.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I don't think I've seen them up here. I would have to look for them.
I have a shopping bag that I take with me when I go out to carry groceries in but yeah I am careful about over loading even that. It a stretchy one and can hold quite a bit.
Yeah. Check out the reviews. People who have used them seem to have nothing but good things to say.
I've never used one of those, but I can tell you that there's a lot to be said about tools like this that redistribute the weight the proper way.
Forearm forklifts are great for moving large appliances and furniture, making it a snap for two guys who would normally struggle getting them up or down stairs and can even make it possible for two people who wouldn't even be able to manage it without them.
I also have a "panel carrier" that makes lifting, moving and controlling a 4'x8' sheet of drywall a piece of cake with only one person and not accidentally hitting it into a wall or dropping it too hard on one of its corners, which are both things you need to be really worried about if you're trying to move them without two people.
If you can find them I think you'll wonder how you lived without them after you start using them.
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I think if anyone has anything useful to say about carrying things, it would be SIX, given his job and personal experience!
I had a four-wheel cart, kind of like a kids' wagon but soft-sided, for when I used to go to the farmer's market. It was very useful until a weld broke on a wheel. Fortunately, hubby was able to kluge it back together with a big bolt and washer.
Yanno, they go thru the trouble of making 99pct of it right, choosing sturdy fabric and decent metal, and then they go cheap on some critical element, like welds, and the whole thing becomes useless. Typical Chinese junk.
*****
Is it just our area, of has anyone noticed a significant deterioration in food quality control lately?
Eggs... used to be well-sorted. Now you might get an AVERAGE of large eggs, but some are ginormous and some are pretty small.
I just had to throw out a bag of dried beans bc more than half looked like they had been mold-spotted before being dried. Who wants to eat aflatoxin??
Not to mention that breasts from conventionally-raised chickens are quite tough, with fibrous areas that are like wood. They've tracked it down to chickens growing too fast and creating "oxidative stress" in the muscle. "Has the same nutrional value!" they claim, but who the hell wants to be eating wood-like chicken??? I buy organic chicken (the only organic meat I can afford) but I'm detecting the beginnings of the same problem there, too.
Bone chips in ground meat. Moldy produce. Not to mention shortages of random stuff.
I dunno. Prices are going up, too. I guess that's the benefit of having fixed "price points" (For YEARS I could limit purchases to no more than $4/lb for fully-trimmed meat, or $6/lb for cheese, or $2/lb for vegetable/fuits) bc it becomes obvious when I'm hitting or exceeding my price points, which I'm doing more and more often. Especially with beef.
It's a little late in the year for planting is So Cal but my seedlings are coming up, and as soon as this latest hot spell is over I'm going to prep the garden for planting.
Still thinking about raising my own chickens. Our city allows five (no roosters! too noisy!) I would have to keep them out of the garden bc they tend to tear up veggies a they scratch the soil, and protect them and their eggs from raccoons and skunks, butmight be worth it in the end.
Bees, too. Would be nice to have a beehive.
And a still. We have a feijoa, and it produces fruit like apricots - in abundance, all at once. There's only so many we can eat and give away or make jam. But brandy ... now THERE'S a great way to store fruit!
*****
I have a new organizational system that allows me to keep track of varying tasks that are on different schedules (twice a week, once a week, twice a month, once a month, once every three weeks ...) With all of the random unexpected events popping up lately it's easy for someone with a crappy memory like mine to forget to water the houseplants, for example! I just don't multitask like I used to, and I was never very good at it anyway. But instead of keeping running lists, I just write my "to do" items on little yellow stickies and stick them in my diary (I found keeping a diary at work very helpful bc I could record meetings, and who I talked to and when about some disputed result or policy clarification, and I carried it over to home) and if theyve been completed I just move the sticky to the next scheduled date, and if not completed yo the next day, until it's done. It keeps me on track and eliminates that nagging feeling that I'm forgetting something, so now I can concentrate on the special projects that pop up without worrying about the other stuff. So far it's been working well, and I'm very pleased with it.
You may not realize it BRENDA, but YOU were the inspiration for that system. I like that fact that you have a schedule and have been trying to make my life more predictable and I think I've found my system.
----
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I think if anyone has anything useful to say about carrying things, it would be SIX, given his job and personal experience!
I had a four-wheel cart, kind of like a kids' wagon but soft-sided, for when I used to go to the farmer's market. It was very useful until a weld broke on a wheel. Fortunately, hubby was able to kluge it back together with a big bolt and washer.
Yanno, they go thru the trouble of making 99pct of it right, choosing sturdy fabric and decent metal, and then they go cheap on some critical element, like welds, and the whole thing becomes useless. Typical Chinese junk.
Yeah. I had a metal mesh wagon from my brother and an important weld broke. Probably a blessing in disguise since I already had a good wagon and it went out with the rest of the hoard a few years back. I was able to save my spreader with it though by taking one of the wheels and drilling some holes in the proper place so I could put the pin through it. The mice had chewed right through one of the wheels when they found the seeds that one year and must have thought it was a pinata.
Quote:
Is it just our area, of has anyone noticed a significant deterioration in food quality control lately?
I haven't noticed, but I don't exactly buy a wide range of food. I usually have around 6 months to a year worth of food stocked up except for frozen vegetables so it would probably be a while until I get to the newer stuff. Hopefully there's no surprises like meal worms in my rice or something. The frozen vegetables have seemed to be fine though, and when I treat myself to cheese and bean dip on occasion here hasn't been any problems.
Quote:
Eggs... used to be well-sorted. Now you might get an AVERAGE of large eggs, but some are ginormous and some are pretty small.
I think this might be a bi-product of the movement to end the caged chicken farms. I'd never even known about how they did that until I was grossed out watching Napoleon Dynamite, and now I've seen some documentaries on it on YouTube. I've heard that they're being phased out. I'd assume that if the chickens can't be in a tightly controlled environment as literal cogs in a machine, you're going to probably have some variance in sizes. Or maybe they're just being more lax in the egg size (while keeping the same overall weight per dozen) as to not have so much waste to keep from having to raise prices too much.
Quote:
I just had to throw out a bag of dried beans bc more than half looked like they had been mold-spotted before being dried. Who wants to eat aflatoxin??
Not to mention that breasts from conventionally-raised chickens are quite tough, with fibrous areas that are like wood. They've tracked it down to chickens growing too fast and creating "oxidative stress" in the muscle. "Has the same nutrional value!" they claim, but who the hell wants to be eating wood-like chicken??? I buy organic chicken (the only organic meat I can afford) but I'm detecting the beginnings of the same problem there, too.
Bone chips in ground meat. Moldy produce. Not to mention shortages of random stuff.
Welcome to the Great Reset. You and I knew that to make everything "equal" would entail everything getting worse for everybody. Nobody is going to be raised up.
Quote:
I dunno. Prices are going up, too. I guess that's the benefit of having fixed "price points" (For YEARS I could limit purchases to no more than $4/lb for fully-trimmed meat, or $6/lb for cheese, or $2/lb for vegetable/fuits) bc it becomes obvious when I'm hitting or exceeding my price points, which I'm doing more and more often. Especially with beef.
It's a little late in the year for planting is So Cal but my seedlings are coming up, and as soon as this latest hot spell is over I'm going to prep the garden for planting.
Still thinking about raising my own chickens. Our city allows five (no rooster
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I don't think I've seen them up here. I would have to look for them.
I have a shopping bag that I take with me when I go out to carry groceries in but yeah I am careful about over loading even that. It a stretchy one and can hold quite a bit.
Yeah. Check out the reviews. People who have used them seem to have nothing but good things to say.
I've never used one of those, but I can tell you that there's a lot to be said about tools like this that redistribute the weight the proper way.
Forearm forklifts are great for moving large appliances and furniture, making it a snap for two guys who would normally struggle getting them up or down stairs and can even make it possible for two people who wouldn't even be able to manage it without them.
I also have a "panel carrier" that makes lifting, moving and controlling a 4'x8' sheet of drywall a piece of cake with only one person and not accidentally hitting it into a wall or dropping it too hard on one of its corners, which are both things you need to be really worried about if you're trying to move them without two people.
If you can find them I think you'll wonder how you lived without them after you start using them.
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
Might take a look when I am out in a bit today. I do need to do a little bit of grocery shopping.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Ah, the dulcet tones of an electric drill. Elevator guys are working on the second one this morning.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Back from my walk on a dry day still. Groceries done and some other errands.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Car still can't pass emissions. :(
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Out for my walk soon.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Back and in. Still threatening to rain but nothing so far.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Yanno, if I had to walk or take the bus everywhere I'd have a much different view of rain or snow.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back and in. Still threatening to rain but nothing so far.
OTOH, I'd probably hate the heat even more than I do now.
Just OOC BRENDA, since having been on chemo I've become seriously anemic. Over time I've had six units of blood and it hasn't fully corrected the anemia yet. But one consequence is feeling cold all the time. Might you possibly be anemic? Low thyroid levels can do the same. Im sure yours is checked regularly, but might it be on the low side of normal? Just hoping there's a simple fix to tolerate the weather better.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
SIX: I'm sure by now you know 1000x more than I do about emission controls. I wish I could help, but all I can do is wish you the best of luck
*****
Radiation therapy seems to be taking the starch out of me. Fatigue is a common side effect, and I find myself nodding off at 10PM or earlier. Past time for me to toddle off to bed.
But I do like the way my new organizational system is working. It's eliminated the nagging feeling that I'm forgetting something!
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:Yanno, if I had to walk or take the bus everywhere I'd have a much different view of rain or snow.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back and in. Still threatening to rain but nothing so far.
OTOH, I'd probably hate the heat even more than I do now.
Just OOC BRENDA, since having been on chemo I've become seriously anemic. Over time I've had six units of blood and it hasn't fully corrected the anemia yet. But one consequence is feeling cold all the time. Might you possibly be anemic? Low thyroid levels can do the same. Im sure yours is checked regularly, but might it be on the low side of normal? Just hoping there's a simple fix to tolerate the weather better.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I've been checked for anemia and there is no problem with my red blood cells. It is just a slow thyroid.
And that is stable, to use an old joke of my mother's it's just old age creeping up on me at times.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Out for my walk on a dry day. Couple of things to do.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Got caught in a rain storm on my way back from the grocery store. Sun and some blue sky was out so I imagine somewhere had a thunderstorm.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Mah jong in the morning then a couple of errands. Also must dust the living room when I get home.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Good luck with the tiles. I hope your weather stays dry too!
Alas, there is no simple fix for old age yet. But if you find one, let me know. Then go collect that Nobel Prize!
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Unbelievable! Record snowfall for April 27 in WNY!
How's YOUR weather, SIX? Usually they get what you got.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Back from mah jong and no luck today. Only went out once and finished the morning with over 1900 points. Also forgot to pay a bill. Have to do that tomorrow.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Just finished watching Series 6 of "Shetland" and arrrggh!! Tug at the heart strings and I don't like that Fiscal. I just want to hug Jimmy and aye Duncan as well.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:I blame the script writers. They seemed intent on breaking the Jimmy Perez character down. And the ONE time Duncan tries to do something good has horrible consequences.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Just finished watching Series 6 of "Shetland" and arrrggh!! Tug at the heart strings and I don't like that Fiscal. I just want to hug Jimmy and aye Duncan as well.
Do you have any idea what a Fiscal is? I tried looking up the title and got nowhere. Anyway, I agree with you: that character is the worst kind of butt-covering, rigid bureaucrat imaginable.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
The giant Metropolitan Water District imposed first-ever restrictions today. Some suppliers in Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties will limit watering of lawns to once a week to ease the burden on the drought-stricken state aqueduct.
Unprecedented water restrictions are in store for about 6 million Southern Californians, a sign of deepening drought in counties that depend on water piped from the state’s parched reservoirs.
The Metropolitan Water District’s board voted unanimously today to require six major water providers and the dozens of cities and local districts they supply to impose one of two options: limit residents to outdoor watering once a week or reduce total water use below a certain target.
The water providers must have plans to police their customers, and if they fail to impose the restrictions, they could face fines of $2,000 for every extra acre-foot of water that exceeds their monthly allocation limits, starting in June, according to Metropolitan.
The restrictions target parts of Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties that rely heavily on water from drought-stricken Northern California rivers transported south via the State Water Project.
“At this time, a third of our region, 6 million Southern Californians in parts of Los Angeles, Ventura, San Bernardino counties, face a very real and immediate water stress challenge,” said Metropolitan Water District General Manager Adel Hagekhalil. “Today these areas rely on extremely limited supplies from Northern California. And there is not enough supply available to meet the normal demands in these areas.”
Cutting back outdoor watering to one day a week would be a big change for the arid, densely populated areas, where many people irrigate their lawns and gardens.
Southern Californians have heard for decades about the dangers of drought, but per-person residential water use has increased in the past two years, despite the severe drought. Experts say conservation wavers in the region because restrictions are largely voluntary — and their water never seems to run out.
“This is insane but not unexpected,” Peter Kraut, a council member from the San Fernando Valley city of Calabasas told the Metropolitan board, which is composed of 38 city and local district officials. “I’m appalled that a change this drastic is happening in such a short period of time.”
“This plan will result not just in brown grass but in killing countless trees. The damage to our environment will take decades to repair,” Kraut added.
Today’s mandate is the first outdoor watering restriction imposed by the giant water-import agency, which supplies 19 million people in California. More stringent restrictions may come later, Metropolitan officials warned: The water providers must also prepare to ban all outdoor watering as early as September, if necessary, as California suffers one of its driest periods on record.
The six affected water suppliers are Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District and Three Valleys Municipal Water District — all in Los Angeles County — and the Calleguas Municipal Water District in Ventura County and the Inland Empire Utilities Agency in San Bernardino County.
About 13 million other Southern Californians are unaffected by the order because they aren’t as dependent on water imported via the State Water Project. They receive imports from the Colorado River, which largely are sent to Orange, San Diego and Imperial counties.
Metropolitan has been working to increase the number of customers who can receive Colorado River water to reduce reliance on the hard-pressed state aqueduct. The Colorado River, however, also is facing extreme drought, and deliveries to California, Nevada and Arizona are being cut back under an agreement signed by the states in December.
How much each agency must curtail customers’ water use under Metropolitan’s order depends on how much each relies on the state aqueduct compared to other sources
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:I blame the script writers. They seemed intent on breaking the Jimmy Perez character down. And the ONE time Duncan tries to do something good has horrible consequences.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Just finished watching Series 6 of "Shetland" and arrrggh!! Tug at the heart strings and I don't like that Fiscal. I just want to hug Jimmy and aye Duncan as well.
Do you have any idea what a Fiscal is? I tried looking up the title and got nowhere. Anyway, I agree with you: that character is the worst kind of butt-covering, rigid bureaucrat imaginable.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I know what you mean about beating down Jimmy and true for Duncan as well.
That is one word from the show I haven't tried looking up yet. I'll have to take a swing at it and let you know if I find anything. I had to look up "peerie" as that is a word from Scotland I've never heard. It seems to be a different take on "wee" which I am very familiar with.
I so agree with you. I sat saying to my computer screen, "Are you happy now?" when she looked into the cell on Duncan.
In the next Series I am worried about Jimmy's dad. Have no idea how Cassie is going to break all of this to him.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Hey, SIG. I went and had a wee look for what a "fiscal". It's part of the Scot judicial system. The proper term is "Procurator Fiscal" which is apparently a public prosecutor, who has the power to impose fiscal fines on a person. They are also a investigator and can provide instructions and or directions to the police.
I looked it up under "What is a fiscal in Scotland or Shetland" and that is the basics of what they are.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Out for my walk soon. Got to do what I forgot about yesterday.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Do you think there will be a next series? I hope so!
I can't imagine any charges sticking on Jimmy, but what a mess to wade thru. And right when his dad needs him so much. There is one thing about dementia tho... explanations don't work and are often counterproductive bc they're upsetting and they'll just be forgotten anyway. At a certain point, agreement and distraction work best.
Thanks for looking up "fiscal", it was kind of bugging me. I had to look up a LOT of words, like "wellies" (boots) and others that wound up being British or Scottish words for common things like raincoat or backpack. I'll bet you knew most of them already.
That fiscal character was a byatch. And that woman dying of lung cancer... the one who set the whole fiasco up... was a downright sociopath. Grrrrr...
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Do you think there will be a next series? I hope so!
I can't imagine any charges sticking on Jimmy, but what a mess to wade thru. And right when his dad needs him so much. There is one thing about dementia tho... explanations don't work and are often counterproductive bc they're upsetting and they'll just be forgotten anyway. At a certain point, agreement and distraction work best.
Thanks for looking up "fiscal", it was kind of bugging me. I had to look up a LOT of words, like "wellies" (boots) and others that wound up being British or Scottish words for common things like raincoat or backpack. I'll bet you knew most of them already.
That fiscal character was a byatch. And that woman dying of lung cancer... the one who set the whole fiasco up... was a downright sociopath. Grrrrr...
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
My understanding is that a Series 7 has been given the green light, so we'll get it here next year I guess.
I agree with you about the no charges for Jimmy. It's going to be a right mess for sure to clean up. I understand that about Dementia. Good thing Duncan had the foresight to call Cassie and she came home. She needs to be home to help with Jimmy, Duncan and her granddad.
I did know most of the words as I have watched a lot of British tv over the years and I've also known a fair number of people from the UK too.
Totally on the Fiscal. Jimmy told her she was being played but no she wouldn't listen to him. Then bringing an investigator from Aberdeen. Ugh! Yeah, you could see that she was going to be trouble and Duncan trying to do right and being manipulated.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Walk in and garbage and recycling done as well.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Unbelievable! Record snowfall for April 27 in WNY!
How's YOUR weather, SIX? Usually they get what you got.
Sorry... Haven't been checking the garden for a few days. I've been under the weather since Tuesday night and didn't want to bitch about it, so I kept my talk outside of the garden. I think it was the flu, although I got over it quicker than I usually do when I get it by about 2 times and the fever only lasted for one late afternoon until sometime after I went to sleep instead of 2 or 3 days. Not fully recovered, but I feel human again today.
It was in the high 30's here when you asked. We didn't get any snow. Almost 70 degrees here today, but just as grey and depressing as it's been around here for about 10 days straight. Except for some shopping I still didn't do anything today. I'm hoping to feel well enough to get back to working on my car tomorrow even though it's going to be more rain and thunder in these parts.
Quote:
SIX: I'm sure by now you know 1000x more than I do about emission controls. I wish I could help, but all I can do is wish you the best of luck
Oh. No worries. I'm kind of in that no-man's land where nobody really knows the answer. The car is OLD now, and any work that's been done on it in the last 14 years was done by me, possibly not exactly correctly in some instances. I'm sure, given the fact that I didn't even realize that my Power Steering fluid was low until I could hardly turn the wheel in cold weather, that there are some other maintenance related things that I haven't kept up with that could be causing problems too.
I doubt very much it's the catalytic converter itself that is the problem.
I'm going to change the oil, even though it's not really due. I'm going to change the air filter, even though I probably don't need to given how few miles I've put on it since the last time I changed it. It's only in the last few years of dealing with this that I've learned how all of these seemingly unrelated and relatively easily maintained things can negatively impact the emissions system, and it just makes sense to make sure that they are 100% up to the job before I start moving onto the more difficult/expensive measures.
I'm going to keep running cleaning products through the engine and attempt more drive cycles now that the weather is getting warmer and just hope for the best.
If I can't pass by the 14th, I'll just go there and get my temporary extension and get down to some more drastic measures like removing and cleaning the 3 sensors that are somewhat-easily accessible, and after that I'll bite the bullet and take it somewhere and see if they can tell me what the problem is and/or fix it for a reasonable price.
Unfortunately for me, "reasonable" is a bit more than it should be, given the price of used cars in Biden*Land.
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Rain's back. So out for my walk in it in a bit.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
It's stopped raining now that I am in.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Oh, but of course!
Originally posted by Brenda:
It's stopped raining now that I am in.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
No cause for me to start celebrating yet, but I do believe I figured out what the problem with the car is.
Finding out so late in the day on Saturday had me cursing the fact I'd been sick the last week, but things happen for a reason and the accidental nature with which I figured it out today may well not have happened had I not been sick.
Last Saturday (I don't remember if I mentioned it or not), I was holding my RPMs up to 3000 for 3 minutes (a YouTube "fix" for the CAT not clearing problem on these mid-90's model cars), and I stopped about 90 seconds in when I saw smoke coming out of the engine compartment. After letting the car cool off and checking that my temp was fine and the coolant level was good, I ran a drive cycle. I'd also driven quite a bit on Monday and Tuesday and there were no signs anything was wrong and I just forgot about it... convincing myself it was probably just some of the oil that is OUTSIDE of the engine after years of this thing being a leaky little problem.
...
Today I got the air filter out and vacuumed it and the compartment for it. The filter was fine, but there were a few small leaves and helicopters in there, but I decided against bothering to change it. I was considering changing the oil despite the fact it really didn't need it, but for whatever reason I decided to try the 3000RPM thing again.
Sure enough, about 90 seconds in I started seeing the smoke come out of the engine compartment again. This time, I decided to just do the full 3 minutes and let things heat up and see if I could tell where the smoke was coming from after I stopped the car. No dice on that. I don't know enough about cars, and it seemed to be coming from everywhere at once under the hood and located somewhere near the center.
But then something made me get down and look under the car...
The damned flex pipe I'd replaced only 2 years ago had char marks on it and an good amount of smoke was coming up and out of it.
I can't say for sure yet that this is my ONLY problem, but fixing that 2 years ago was the thing I needed to do to finally get all the monitors to clear. I've already bought my replacement and need to call on Monday morning to see when he can fit me in to do it again.
Fingers crossed.
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Fingers crossed indeed!
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Yeah, thanks.
It makes sense, really. The little hesitancy that happens between the automatic shifting gears is less pronounced right now after all the cleaning treatments that I've been running through, but it was getting pretty bad there up until then.
Replacing that flex pipe 2 years ago after running similar cleaning treatments through it had all but eliminated that problem at the time, and it wasn't until around the time the check engine light first came on late summer of last year that I started noticing it coming back and slowly becoming more pronounced.
With how nice she's running otherwise right now, I'm hoping that this will do the trick and eliminate that problem again as well.
The hole can't be too big now, despite the smoke coming out of it, because before I replaced it last time the car sounded like a motorcycle and I don't notice it being any louder now than it was after the initial fix. But maybe the hole really is big and the flex mesh dampens the sound? The old one that I replaced didn't even have any mesh left on it, and other than the charred looking area toward the front and bottom the entire mesh is on and looks just fine.
Other than that, I guess my concern is why did it fail after only 1 1/2 years? I'm sure these cheap aftermarket parts all come from China, but it claims to come with a "limited lifetime warranty" which is probably meaningless, so I would have figured to get quite a bit more time out of it than I did considering how little I drive. This may be indicative of a larger problem.
Oh well. I'll worry about that later. For now lets just get her bandaged up and pass that test.
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:Oh, but of course!
Originally posted by Brenda:
It's stopped raining now that I am in.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I know. Never fails. Then around suppertime the sun came out.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I remember the sun.
It has been so long since I have seen it now though, that sometimes I think it's only something that I imagined. A wonderful dream, perhaps? Possibly something I once saw in an old Sci-Fi movie when I was but a small child?
Tell me about the sun, Brenda! I implore you!
I do not want to forget!
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Dry day on the one day that I stay in.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I remember the sun.
It has been so long since I have seen it now though, that sometimes I think it's only something that I imagined. A wonderful dream, perhaps? Possibly something I once saw in an old Sci-Fi movie when I was but a small child?
Tell me about the sun, Brenda! I implore you!
I do not want to forget!
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
It's this big, bright ball of light. High up in the sky. It's yellow in colour and when its rays fall on the earth they are warm.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I remember the sun.
It has been so long since I have seen it now though, that sometimes I think it's only something that I imagined. A wonderful dream, perhaps? Possibly something I once saw in an old Sci-Fi movie when I was but a small child?
Tell me about the sun, Brenda! I implore you!
I do not want to forget!
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
It's this big, bright ball of light. High up in the sky. It's yellow in colour and when its rays fall on the earth they are warm.
Yes! That's it. That's exactly as I remembered it!
Oh somebody please take me there, so I can see it once more with my own eyes!
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:
The giant Metropolitan Water District imposed first-ever restrictions today. Some suppliers in Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties will limit watering of lawns to once a week to ease the burden on the drought-stricken state aqueduct.
Unprecedented water restrictions are in store for about 6 million Southern Californians, a sign of deepening drought in counties that depend on water piped from the state’s parched reservoirs.
The Metropolitan Water District’s board voted unanimously today to require six major water providers and the dozens of cities and local districts they supply to impose one of two options: limit residents to outdoor watering once a week or reduce total water use below a certain target.
The water providers must have plans to police their customers, and if they fail to impose the restrictions, they could face fines of $2,000 for every extra acre-foot of water that exceeds their monthly allocation limits, starting in June, according to Metropolitan.
The restrictions target parts of Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties that rely heavily on water from drought-stricken Northern California rivers transported south via the State Water Project.
“At this time, a third of our region, 6 million Southern Californians in parts of Los Angeles, Ventura, San Bernardino counties, face a very real and immediate water stress challenge,” said Metropolitan Water District General Manager Adel Hagekhalil. “Today these areas rely on extremely limited supplies from Northern California. And there is not enough supply available to meet the normal demands in these areas.”
Cutting back outdoor watering to one day a week would be a big change for the arid, densely populated areas, where many people irrigate their lawns and gardens.
Southern Californians have heard for decades about the dangers of drought, but per-person residential water use has increased in the past two years, despite the severe drought. Experts say conservation wavers in the region because restrictions are largely voluntary — and their water never seems to run out.
“This is insane but not unexpected,” Peter Kraut, a council member from the San Fernando Valley city of Calabasas told the Metropolitan board, which is composed of 38 city and local district officials. “I’m appalled that a change this drastic is happening in such a short period of time.”
“This plan will result not just in brown grass but in killing countless trees. The damage to our environment will take decades to repair,” Kraut added.
Today’s mandate is the first outdoor watering restriction imposed by the giant water-import agency, which supplies 19 million people in California. More stringent restrictions may come later, Metropolitan officials warned: The water providers must also prepare to ban all outdoor watering as early as September, if necessary, as California suffers one of its driest periods on record.
The six affected water suppliers are Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District and Three Valleys Municipal Water District — all in Los Angeles County — and the Calleguas Municipal Water District in Ventura County and the Inland Empire Utilities Agency in San Bernardino County.
About 13 million other Southern Californians are unaffected by the order because they aren’t as dependent on water imported via the State Water Project. They receive imports from the Colorado River, which largely are sent to Orange, San Diego and Imperial counties.
Metropolitan has been working to increase the number of customers who can receive Colorado River water to reduce reliance on the hard-pressed state aqueduct. The Colorado River, however, also is facing extreme drought, and deliveries to California, Nevada and Arizona are being cut back under an agreement signed by the states in December.
How much each agency must curtail customers’ water use under Metropolitan’s order depends on how much each relies on the
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Funny. I was certain that was a Ted-Post until I scrolled up.
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
SignyM:Quote:
The giant Metropolitan Water District imposed first-ever restrictions today...
****
Sierra snowpack worsens, falls to lowest level in 7 years
The April snowpack, key to how much water flows into reservoirs, is 38% of average statewide, proving that drought hasn’t relaxed its grip on California.
by Rachel Becker
April 1, 2022
Newsom imposes new California water restrictions — leaves details to locals
Still resisting statewide water rationing for parched California, Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking local suppliers to tighten water limits.
by Rachel Becker
March 28, 2022
https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/04/southern-california-conserv
e-water/
JSF: Funny how you claim no politics in garden, then post this crap.
At least CA is successfully able to divert their supply of freshwater directly to the Ocean, which is extremely important to Libtards.
Funny how you manage to be such an ass. This isn't about politics, this is about RAIN!!! ... which, you might have noticed, is what the thread is about.
Only YOU could turn an article about weather and drought into a political issue! If you lived in an agricultural state and there was a shortage of fertilizer that affected you, personally, would you consider that to be a "political" issue?
You really should do something about your hyper aggression, JSF. There must be something missing from your diet to affect you so badly.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Funny how you manage to be such an ass. This isn't about politics, this is about RAIN!!! ... which, you might have noticed, is what the thread is about.
Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:
SignyM:Quote:
The giant Metropolitan Water District imposed first-ever restrictions today...
****
Sierra snowpack worsens, falls to lowest level in 7 years
The April snowpack, key to how much water flows into reservoirs, is 38% of average statewide, proving that drought hasn’t relaxed its grip on California.
by Rachel Becker
April 1, 2022
Newsom imposes new California water restrictions — leaves details to locals
Still resisting statewide water rationing for parched California, Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking local suppliers to tighten water limits.
by Rachel Becker
March 28, 2022
https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/04/southern-california-conserv
e-water/
JSF: Funny how you claim no politics in garden, then post this crap.
At least CA is successfully able to divert their supply of freshwater directly to the Ocean, which is extremely important to Libtards.
Only YOU could turn an article about weather and drought into a political issue! If you lived in an agricultural state and there was a shortage of fertilizer that affected you, personally, would you consider that to be a "political" issue?
You really should do something about your hyper aggression, JSF. There must be something missing from your diet to affect you so badly.
Why do you insist on being an ass?
You post an article about how California has politically mismanaged it's water resources, for decades, (including flushing it's freshwater supply directly into the Ocean - which is scientifically known to be saltwater) and proclaim that it is NOT about California's political mismanagement of water resources. You claim that CA is the only state which needs rain. Not Nevada, Arizona, or Mexico, or any of the other 47 States in USA.
I live in Wisconsin. It is an agricultural state, as are many states, far more than CA is. Wine grapes don't feed livestock. WI is nicknamed America's Dairyland. Rolling hills full of corn, although not as much as flat Iowa. America's #1 producer of hemp for the War Effort of WWII. I've heard that Dane County is the most agriculturally productive county in the nation.
Just because you think that cultivating ghettos, Watts, Libtard Universities, Fagrot, spoiled professional athletes, and some movies equates to being agricultural does not make it so. The water those endeavors stole was actually going to the ag valleys, before you diverted it.
Since you seem to have not noticed, it was Libtards who decided that WEATHER was a political issue, inventing Global Climate Warming Change. That was not me who turned the politization of weather into politics.
Stop being such an ass, and pull your head out of your ass. Your mismanagement of your own water resources is due to your horrid governance, due to your perennial Fraudulent Stolen Elections.
Stick to your fauna and Flora, not how you politically mistreat them and starve them.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Dude... Come on.
That was only posted because I made a joking remark that I wish I could send some of the water from our extremely excessive downpours in my area her way.
You're the one bringing politics and an argument into the garden right now.
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Please re-read the article. That's not what it's about
SignyM:Quote:
The giant Metropolitan Water District imposed first-ever restrictions today...
****
Sierra snowpack worsens, falls to lowest level in 7 years
The April snowpack, key to how much water flows into reservoirs, is 38% of average statewide, proving that drought hasn’t relaxed its grip on California.
by Rachel Becker
April 1, 2022
Newsom imposes new California water restrictions — leaves details to locals
Still resisting statewide water rationing for parched California, Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking local suppliers to tighten water limits.
by Rachel Becker
March 28, 2022
https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/04/southern-california-conserv
e-water/
JSF: Funny how you claim no politics in garden, then post this crap.
At least CA is successfully able to divert their supply of freshwater directly to the Ocean, which is extremely important to Libtards.
SIGNY:
Funny how you manage to be such an ass. This isn't about politics, this is about RAIN!!! ... which, you might have noticed, is what the thread is about.
Only YOU could turn an article about weather and drought into a political issue! If you lived in an agricultural state and there was a shortage of fertilizer that affected you, personally, would you consider that to be a "political" issue?
You really should do something about your hyper aggression, JSF. There must be something missing from your diet to affect you so badly.
JSF: Why do you insist on being an ass?
You post an article about how California has politically mismanaged it's water resources, for decades,
Quote:ALSO not in the article!
(including flushing it's freshwater supply directly into the Ocean -
Quote:ALSO not in the article! In fact, it mentions that Colorado River water (which, you may recall, flows thru MANY states) is also over-allocated.
which is scientifically known to be saltwater) and proclaim that it is NOT about California's political mismanagement of water resources. You claim that CA is the only state which needs rain. Not Nevada, Arizona, or Mexico, or any of the other 47 States in USA.
Quote:California is THE BIGGEST agricultural state, https://usabynumbers.com/states-ranked-by-agricultural-production/ and California's biggest crop is ... hay. You have SERIOUS ignorance of CA.
I live in Wisconsin. It is an agricultural state, as are many states, far more than CA is.
Quote:CA has a seriously large dairy industry.
Wine grapes don't feed livestock.
Quote:Agriculture uses 80pct of CA's water
WI is nicknamed America's Dairyland. Rolling hills full of corn, although not as much as flat Iowa. America's #1 producer of hemp for the War Effort of WWII.
Just because you think that cultivating ghettos, Watts, Libtard Universities, Fagrot, and some movies equates to being agricultural does not make it so. The water those endeavors stole was actually going to the ag valleys, before you diverted it.
https://water.ca.gov/Programs/Water-Use-And-Efficiency/Agricultural-Wa
ter-Use-Efficiency and heavy industry uses another 10 pct. Having done stack testing in the LA area, I can tell you from experience there is a lot of unrecognized heavy industry here, from oil wells to refineries to cement kilns to coker plants to steel making, foundries, glass plants, aerospace, plating...
And the entire central CA is agriculture: hay, fresh produce, dairy, fruit, alfalfa etc etc which... as you should recall... uses 80pct of available water resources.
Your hyper-focus on cities misses the BIG picture of CA.
Quote:Stop posti
Stop being such an ass, and pull your head out of your ass. Your mismanagement of your own water resources is due to your horrid governance, due to your perennial Fraudulent Stolen Elections.
Stick to your fauna and Flora, not how you politically mistreat them and starve them.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I remember the sun.
It has been so long since I have seen it now though, that sometimes I think it's only something that I imagined. A wonderful dream, perhaps? Possibly something I once saw in an old Sci-Fi movie when I was but a small child?
Tell me about the sun, Brenda! I implore you!
I do not want to forget!
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
It's this big, bright ball of light. High up in the sky. It's yellow in colour and when its rays fall on the earth they are warm.
Yes! That's it. That's exactly as I remembered it!
Oh somebody please take me there, so I can see it once more with my own eyes!
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
I am sure that it will make an appearance in your area soon. Or if you have plane fare.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I remember the sun.
It has been so long since I have seen it now though, that sometimes I think it's only something that I imagined. A wonderful dream, perhaps? Possibly something I once saw in an old Sci-Fi movie when I was but a small child?
Tell me about the sun, Brenda! I implore you!
I do not want to forget!
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
It's this big, bright ball of light. High up in the sky. It's yellow in colour and when its rays fall on the earth they are warm.
Yes! That's it. That's exactly as I remembered it!
Oh somebody please take me there, so I can see it once more with my own eyes!
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
I am sure that it will make an appearance in your area soon. Or if you have plane fare.
BUT I WANT IT NOOOOOOWWWWWWW!
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Wish I could give you some!!
Helped hubby change the filters on our demand hot water heater, which should have been changed over a year ago.
There was a SERIOUS amount of mud in the bottom of the pre-heater filter!
Curiously, there is a water well not one mile from our house! (Our fair city operates exclusively on well -water.) I've noticed a curious structure on a small piece of land between two lots ... like a small garage. I've always wondered what it was. I thought maybe a small gas-pumping substation. But one day on my way grocery shopping, I noticed a huge flood of water and a bunch of workers on-site. Turns out they had to "refresh" the well bore by re-drilling it and pumping it out. That probably accounts for the mud.
Interestingly, they do the same for old oilfields. The well bore looks like a giant metal tube, slotted to let oil in. As oil seeps to the slots it carries sand and minerals, and the slots eventually clog up. When the price of oil is high enuf, they re-drill the tube to re-open the slots. Sometimes they inject water to "wash" the oil out of the ground and use oil-water separators to collect the oil, and recycle the water back underground. One of those operations only gets about 2pct oil, but it's still economic to run
All kinds of interesting things going on we don't even know about that keep things humming along.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
lol wow...
I don't have any sort of filter. Wonder what would have happened to my already sketch water heater that probably should be replaced sooner than later.
You should check out this channel if you're interested in how things we take for granted work.
After watching this video, I remember thinking how dumb the reason I thought water towers existed was, and how childlike a mentality you'd have to have about them to even reason out that this was what their purpose was.
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:I wondered what was so confusing to you, so I watched the vid. I still wonder. What did you think was the purpose of water towers?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You should check out this channel if you're interested in how things we take for granted work.
After watching this video, I remember thinking how dumb the reason I thought water towers existed was, and how childlike a mentality you'd have to have about them to even reason out that this was what their purpose was.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I remember the sun.
It has been so long since I have seen it now though, that sometimes I think it's only something that I imagined. A wonderful dream, perhaps? Possibly something I once saw in an old Sci-Fi movie when I was but a small child?
Tell me about the sun, Brenda! I implore you!
I do not want to forget!
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
It's this big, bright ball of light. High up in the sky. It's yellow in colour and when its rays fall on the earth they are warm.
Yes! That's it. That's exactly as I remembered it!
Oh somebody please take me there, so I can see it once more with my own eyes!
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
I am sure that it will make an appearance in your area soon. Or if you have plane fare.
BUT I WANT IT NOOOOOOWWWWWWW!
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
The sun will come out tomorrow. Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there will be sun.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Thanks for the vid. When I was a kid I always thought they looked like giant mosquitoes sucking water out of the ground.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol wow...
I don't have any sort of filter. Wonder what would have happened to my already sketch water heater that probably should be replaced sooner than later.
You should check out this channel if you're interested in how things we take for granted work.
After watching this video, I remember thinking how dumb the reason I thought water towers existed was, and how childlike a mentality you'd have to have about them to even reason out that this was what their purpose was.
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
One day, as I was driving down the 605 fwy next to the San Gabriel River I started, REALLY started, to look at the high tension transmission lines along the river... thinking "These lines probably come from AES and DWP Haynes and those lines that join up probably come from El Segundo generating station... and all of that water infrastructure, the pumps all busy purifying wastewater to better-than drinking water standard and being pumped underground to make a water-bam against seawater incursion and it occurred to me how very .... VULNERABLE... we all are.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, about 40 miles north of Los Angeles, one of the biggest dams in the country blew apart, releasing a wall of water 20 stories high. Ten thousand people lived downstream. Flood in the Desert tells the story of the St. Francis Dam disaster, which not only destroyed hundreds of lives and millions of dollars’ worth of property; it also washed away the reputation of William Mulholland, the father of modern Los Angeles, and jeopardized larger plans to transform the West. A self-taught engineer, the 72-year-old Mulholland had launched the city’s remarkable growth by building both an aqueduct to pipe water 233 miles from the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and the St. Francis Dam, to hold a full year’s supply of water for Los Angeles. Now Mulholland was promoting an immense new project: the Hoover Dam. The collapse of the St. Francis Dam was a colossal engineering and human disaster that might have slowed the national project to tame the West. But within days a concerted effort was underway to erase the dam’s failure from popular memory.
Originally posted by SignyM:
. . . water standard and being pumped underground to make a water-dam against seawater incursion and it occurred to me how very .... VULNERABLE... we all are.
Premieres May 3, 2022
Flood in the Desert
They paid the ultimate price for water
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/flood-desert/
Flood in the Desert: Chapter 1
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/flood-desert-chap
ter-1/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Thanks for the vid. When I was a kid I always thought they looked like giant mosquitoes sucking water out of the ground.
That's a good one. I like that.
Me? At some point in my childhood my developing brain decided that water towers existed to be rain catchers that stored up all the rain as it fell and that's how we got our water. And if at any point I ever asked anybody, they knew about as much as I did and didn't give me any explanation for them that sounded any better. As the years went on and you grow up and just stop caring to figure out all the small ways the world around us works, I never really gave it all that much thought anymore.
I could see how living in California would make me think that there was no way this could possibly be what they were for, but I think the fact that somewhere in the back of my mind that memory of being a child still persisted until my eyes were open to the real purpose for them is a testament to just how much damn water we get here every year.
But seriously... We'd have to have like Noah's Ark level flooding going on all the time for my idea to have been reasonable.
It really was a "oh duh!" moment for me, and I was yet again impressed by the ingenuity that came before us that most of us take for granted every day.
Quote:
One day, as I was driving down the 605 fwy next to the San Gabriel River I started, REALLY started, to look at the high tension transmission lines along the river... thinking "These lines probably come from AES and DWP Haynes and those lines that join up probably come from El Segundo generating station... and all of that water infrastructure, the pumps all busy purifying wastewater to better-than drinking water standard and being pumped underground to make a water-bam against seawater incursion and it occurred to me how very .... VULNERABLE... we all are.
Well... We do have safeguards in place. It's not as if those power lines breaking and falling down next to a weeping pipe would end up with thousands of people being electrocuted while taking a shower...
Probably.
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:There is a ginormous earthen dam called the Santa Fe Dam near the San Gabriel River (by the 605 and 210) which has never been filled. Behind that giant wall of boulders and rocks is a "recreation center" with a little puddle of a lake, trees and benches ... obviously not the intended use of that construction. I can't find it NOW, it seems to have been scrubbed from the inet, but my dim memory of why that dam was never filled is because someone re-calculated the risk of dam failure due to earthquake. Either it was an engineering recalculation or a re-estimation of seismic risk. In any case, someone had an appropriate butt-puckering moment when they thought of tens of thousands or so people living downstream along the San Gabriel River. I can't imagine who would have even thought it was a good idea to begin with, but I'm glad they never put it into use.
Originally posted by second:Quote:Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, about 40 miles north of Los Angeles, one of the biggest dams in the country blew apart, releasing a wall of water 20 stories high. Ten thousand people lived downstream. Flood in the Desert tells the story of the St. Francis Dam disaster, which not only destroyed hundreds of lives and millions of dollars’ worth of property; it also washed away the reputation of William Mulholland, the father of modern Los Angeles, and jeopardized larger plans to transform the West. A self-taught engineer, the 72-year-old Mulholland had launched the city’s remarkable growth by building both an aqueduct to pipe water 233 miles from the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and the St. Francis Dam, to hold a full year’s supply of water for Los Angeles. Now Mulholland was promoting an immense new project: the Hoover Dam. The collapse of the St. Francis Dam was a colossal engineering and human disaster that might have slowed the national project to tame the West. But within days a concerted effort was underway to erase the dam’s failure from popular memory.
Originally posted by SignyM:
. . . water standard and being pumped underground to make a water-dam against seawater incursion and it occurred to me how very .... VULNERABLE... we all are.
Premieres May 3, 2022
Flood in the Desert
They paid the ultimate price for water
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/flood-desert/
Flood in the Desert: Chapter 1
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/flood-desert-chap
ter-1/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
There ARE, however, some very clever engineering projects along the San Gabriel River to get water underground. I had the great fortune to call up .. out of sheer curiosity, simply as an interested resident ... the agency that manages our underground water and was put in touch with (I found out later) the hydrology manager, and he spent 15 minutes while I peppered him with questions. I learned about the dams and impoundments along the river, the strata underlying our water basin, the importance of the Newport Inglewood fault, why it is so difficult to un-concretize the LA River now, why there are no recharge basins or dams further downstream on any of the major LA Rivers (LA River, San Gabriel River, Rio Hondo ... because the farther you get away from the mountains the smaller the deposited particles. Too far downstream it's all clay, and doesn't allow water to be absorbed). Also, why it's so difficult to reclaim stormwater (Running off roofs, roadways etc it's contaminated with trash, animal shit, motor oil, air pollution that has been accumulating for 10 months including tire dust and diesel soot), fertilizers and pesticides etc etc.
Sorry for geeking out but I find this endlessly fascinating and I'm just plain nosy, so I ask.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Oooooohhh... speaking of butt-puckering monents, SIX... what an accident! Thanks for the vid!
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Out in the rain on a Monday morning.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Back and the rain that was around stopped after I got off the bus. I don't walk the hills in my city anymore and I was at a thrift store that was at the bottom of one. Took the bus down too. The sun is out now.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Out for my walk in a bit. Not dragging umbrella as it is dry out right now.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Back and in. It was spitting a bit ago but it's stopped now.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
My aunt just told me today that in the last 40 days we've had one day of sunlight.
Today was not that day, I'm afraid.
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oooooohhh... speaking of butt-puckering monents, SIX... what an accident! Thanks for the vid!
I know, right. It's amazing the dude lived through it.
Hopefully Russia does lockout-tagout now. But even that's going to not work out the right way some times...
Number 6, in particular. (Failed assembly line stoppage)
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Thought you might enjoy this SIG.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
raining again rest of the week.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:That's some seriously shitty weather, SIX! What's in the forecast? Something better, I hope??
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
My aunt just told me today that in the last 40 days we've had one day of sunlight.
Today was not that day, I'm afraid.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Oooooh! Thanks for that BRENDA!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Thought you might enjoy this SIG.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Those treatments are putting a serious dent into every day. But aside from that, I managed to come up with a menu for the next week, and a grocery list, which for some reason took me twice as long as usual.
And then hubby decided to finish fixing the vacuum cleaner by cutting out the old switch and installing the new one. ...
Back in our old lab, there was a sign in fake German on one of our more powerful instruments (wavelength dispersive X-ray analyzer) that had to do with keeping fingers off (gefingerpoken) and it ended with "mitt spitzen sparken". I think you can tell how the rewiring went. Three blown circuit breakers later... hubby figured out how it should have been wired and it works. In the meantime, I replaced the motor (sponge) filter with a cut-to-fit old green scrubbie (bc we didn't have any replacements for that), and cleaned out the old HEPA filter by banging out about a teaspoon of black dust, and then taking it outside and using compressed air to blow more dust out. In between holding stuff while hubby was soldering, I also did some internet sleuthing and found a replacement HEPA for the 30-year-old vacuum cleaner.
At some point, the plastic body is going to be so brittle that nothing can be done to resurrect it, but it now lives to clean another day.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Oooooh! Thanks for that BRENDA!
Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Thought you might enjoy this SIG.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I hope you found it as funny as I did.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Out for my walk in the rain which is back for the rest of the week.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Back and in but at least the rain has held off.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:That's some seriously shitty weather, SIX! What's in the forecast? Something better, I hope??
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
My aunt just told me today that in the last 40 days we've had one day of sunlight.
Today was not that day, I'm afraid.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Two more days of rain after today. Still cold through the weekend, but next week is supposed to be nice... hopefully.
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Off to mah jong tomorrow. Hope I have better luck than last week.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Rain and no luck at mah jong. 1 decent hand then everything went down hill from there.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Bummer... :(
Luck wasn't too good here either.
My car problem wasn't a bad flex pipe. That wasn't exhaust I was seeing, but just char marks and smoke coming up from oil burning off the outside that dripped from the engine leak I already knew I had. There was a piece in the back of the old pipe that needed to be welded on though.
Live test showed a dead O2 sensor. The one on the rear half that I'd never have been able to get to on my own with my equipment. Parts and labor for everything were cheap, considering, but a drive cycle afterward still hasn't gotten my monitor to check out OK. The mechanic doesn't believe that I have a problem with my Catalytic Converter at all, but who knows what's up at this point.
It's still so cold around here I think I'm just wasting gas driving around without a purpose, so it won't be getting any more real road time until Sunday when I go to install the new wall A/C unit at my aunt's new apartment when it's finally going to be 60 degrees. Warm week next week, so if that doesn't do it I just might have to fill up the tank and spend an entire day driving around for no reason.
And just like two years ago, the idiots are making me drive 100 times more to try to clear this stupid code than I would have with normal driving. So much for the atmosphere.
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:I wondered what was so confusing to you, so I watched the vid. I still wonder. What did you think was the purpose of water towers?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You should check out this channel if you're interested in how things we take for granted work.
After watching this video, I remember thinking how dumb the reason I thought water towers existed was, and how childlike a mentality you'd have to have about them to even reason out that this was what their purpose was.
We know dude. You're amazing.
I already answered your question somewhere in here when I was talking to Sigs.
I wouldn't have answered it with your shitty tone though.
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Bummer... :(
Luck wasn't too good here either.
My car problem wasn't a bad flex pipe. That wasn't exhaust I was seeing, but just char marks and smoke coming up from oil burning off the outside that dripped from the engine leak I already knew I had. There was a piece in the back of the old pipe that needed to be welded on though.
Live test showed a dead O2 sensor. The one on the rear half that I'd never have been able to get to on my own with my equipment. Parts and labor for everything were cheap, considering, but a drive cycle afterward still hasn't gotten my monitor to check out OK. The mechanic doesn't believe that I have a problem with my Catalytic Converter at all, but who knows what's up at this point.
It's still so cold around here I think I'm just wasting gas driving around without a purpose, so it won't be getting any more real road time until Sunday when I go to install the new wall A/C unit at my aunt's new apartment when it's finally going to be 60 degrees. Warm week next week, so if that doesn't do it I just might have to fill up the tank and spend an entire day driving around for no reason.
And just like two years ago, the idiots are making me drive 100 times more to try to clear this stupid code than I would have with normal driving. So much for the atmosphere.
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
It happens. First hand I had 5 doubles on it which is how I started out with over 1,00points but after that I just couldn't get anything going. I managed to go out but I had to take a run or a "chow" which is 3 tiles with consecutive numbers on them like "1,2,3" and then my pair. Finished up with over 2,000 points but not enough to get anything.
Bummer that you still can't get your car right. What I know about cars you can fit on the head of a pin.
At least you will be dry next week. Suppose to be semi-dry here tomorrow then back to rain for the weekend and into next week. We've had such a soggy Spring up here it is not funny. Got another trough of cold area sitting over most of BC and going into Alberta and the rest of the prairies. Not fun.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Yeah, SIX, what's with that "driving cycle"? It seems you have to drive a certain number of miles, I guess under varying conditions (freeway speed, tooling around etc) and it sets some sort of flag. Which gets reset when the battery dies or is disconnected. Clearly it's connected to an onboard computer. Which, I guess, all cars (even old ones) with pollution control equipment have. (I didn't realize until I had the same problem with my old car that onboard computers went back that far.)
Do you have more info than that? Like - what else might re-set that flag? What, exactly, constitutes a "driving cycle"?
Sigh.
I feel for you and your car issues. Wish I could help!
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Five more days of radiation therapy. Only four, after today. Last one next Thursday and I will be done, done, done with that. Woo hoo!
Saw the nephrologist, and was I NOT impressed! I got more info and advice from my internist and a nutritionist! I waited a long time and he hadn't even read my chart. I had to relay everything that THEY told me past him, PLUS my recent history. And he seemed very inexperienced. No closer to finding out what went wrong and how to make it better/ not make it worse except avoid NSAIDS (which is going to be painful, literally, seeing as I have a pain syndrome.)
And poor hubby. He had a trigger point injection into his pirifomis muscle and it helped ... for a week. Now he's in excruciating pain, again. They have not found the other cause(s) of his nerve pain yet. I hope the MRI tells them something useful and that they have a permanent fix, bc right now he can't walk 20 ft w/o pain that feels worse than his broken collarbone did.
Oh, well. Onward thru the fog!
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Oh BTW BRENDA, I think you're right! In looking thru the inet for other Shetland compilations, I ran across a few interviews that mention a Season 7. Supposedly due out later this year. Looking forward to that!
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh BTW BRENDA, I think you're right! In looking thru the inet for other Shetland compilations, I ran across a few interviews that mention a Season 7. Supposedly due out later this year. Looking forward to that!
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Good. Glad you found some more. Yeah, when I went looking a bit that's how I came with the info about Series 7. Me too.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Out for a walk in the dry in a bit. Need to get a refill of my seizure meds.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Back and done for today.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:And now for a well-deserved sit-down!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back and done for today.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
It happens. First hand I had 5 doubles on it which is how I started out with over 1,00points but after that I just couldn't get anything going. I managed to go out but I had to take a run or a "chow" which is 3 tiles with consecutive numbers on them like "1,2,3" and then my pair. Finished up with over 2,000 points but not enough to get anything.
As long as you have fun playing either way, right?
Quote:
Bummer that you still can't get your car right. What I know about cars you can fit on the head of a pin.
We'll add this to the ever-growing list of things I'd rather have never known... like how to remove raccoons from your attic.
Quote:
At least you will be dry next week. Suppose to be semi-dry here tomorrow then back to rain for the weekend and into next week. We've had such a soggy Spring up here it is not funny. Got another trough of cold area sitting over most of BC and going into Alberta and the rest of the prairies. Not fun.
Yeah. Even though it's cold this weekend, it looks like 9 straight days of sunlight with some clouds in a row. I can't wait to see the sun again tomorrow.
We've had quite a lot of rain here too. Hopefully your dry spell is on the way soon too, Brenda.
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Five more days of radiation therapy. Only four, after today. Last one next Thursday and I will be done, done, done with that. Woo hoo!
Saw the nephrologist, and was I NOT impressed! I got more info and advice from my internist and a nutritionist! I waited a long time and he hadn't even read my chart. I had to relay everything that THEY told me past him, PLUS my recent history. And he seemed very inexperienced. No closer to finding out what went wrong and how to make it better/ not make it worse except avoid NSAIDS (which is going to be painful, literally, seeing as I have a pain syndrome.)
And poor hubby. He had a trigger point injection into his pirifomis muscle and it helped ... for a week. Now he's in excruciating pain, again. They have not found the other cause(s) of his nerve pain yet. I hope the MRI tells them something useful and that they have a permanent fix, bc right now he can't walk 20 ft w/o pain that feels worse than his broken collarbone did.
Oh, well. Onward thru the fog!
Glad everything seems to be going well for your treatments, Sigs. Sorry to hear about your husband. Hopefully your doctors are better at troubleshooting a human body than my mechanic and I are at troubleshooting my car.
BTW... Have you ever heard anything from Kiki?
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yeah, SIX, what's with that "driving cycle"? It seems you have to drive a certain number of miles, I guess under varying conditions (freeway speed, tooling around etc) and it sets some sort of flag. Which gets reset when the battery dies or is disconnected. Clearly it's connected to an onboard computer. Which, I guess, all cars (even old ones) with pollution control equipment have. (I didn't realize until I had the same problem with my old car that onboard computers went back that far.)
Do you have more info than that? Like - what else might re-set that flag? What, exactly, constitutes a "driving cycle"?
Sigh.
I feel for you and your car issues. Wish I could help!
I actually have the official Driving Cycle spec sheet for my make/model/year car, along with the entire mechanics manual for everything from the engine to the electrical system. Not exactly something that normies like me should be able to get their hands on without a hefty fee, but I've got my methods.
It seems that I'm also fortunate enough to own a make/model/year car where the driving cycles aren't anything too nutty or complex either. I hear that BMW's cycles are pretty stupid and annoying.
Honestly, if everything were working right, it shouldn't be much of a problem. Unless something has changed or gotten extremely dirty inside, or another sensor is broken that we haven't isolated yet, I shouldn't really even have to worry much about driving cycles. Two years ago after welding on the new pipe I had all the monitors in the OK state within less than 30 minutes of highway/street driving. Between that time and the point that my check engine light came back on last summer I had to disconnect the battery twice and all the monitors went back to an OK state without me babysitting it at all.
Temperature DOES play a roll though. I know for sure that the EVAP (gas tank evaporation) monitor won't even run unless the outside ambient temperature is at least in the 60's, so it's no surprise that I haven't been able to get that one to show OK with how cold it's been around here. The spec sheet doesn't indicate that the CAT monitor cares about ambient temperature, or that it requires the EVAP monitor to clear first, but there has never been a single occasion that I've ever got the CAT to show OK before the EVAP did. (But correlation isn't causation, and all of that...)
I was doing some more digging on the forums and the consensus seems to be that you SHOULD reset the MIL after replacing an O2 Sensor because your system is running off of erroneous data that the old/bad O2 sensor had stored in the computer. There actually isn't even a specific monitor for the Catalytic Converter itself, and the "CAT MON" shown on the OBD reader is actually a collection of various readings put off from a collection of sensors in the car including both of my O2 sensors.
This could possibly be the missing piece for me here. My mechanic didn't reset anything while he was working on it, and I didn't reset the computer before doing my single drive cycle in the cold.
So tonight, not only did I clear the codes with the OBD2 monitor, but I disconnected the battery, hit the break while turning the key to discharge the system, hooked it back up, put the key in the start position (right before firing up the ignition) for 2 minutes, then started the car and let it just sit there in idle for 10 minutes before shutting it down.
This is (supposedly) supposed to go a step further than just resetting the computer and also supposed to reset your idle air sensor control motor, so it can be re-calibrated from scratch. I was warned that you shouldn't do this unless you've recently cleaned the upper intake valve and throttle body because you could be left with an old dirty car that won't idle properly and will constantly sputter and die on you, but I DID just do that a week or
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:And now for a well-deserved sit-down!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back and done for today.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Yup, had nice long one too.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
It happens. First hand I had 5 doubles on it which is how I started out with over 1,00points but after that I just couldn't get anything going. I managed to go out but I had to take a run or a "chow" which is 3 tiles with consecutive numbers on them like "1,2,3" and then my pair. Finished up with over 2,000 points but not enough to get anything.
As long as you have fun playing either way, right?Quote:
Bummer that you still can't get your car right. What I know about cars you can fit on the head of a pin.
We'll add this to the ever-growing list of things I'd rather have never known... like how to remove raccoons from your attic.Quote:
At least you will be dry next week. Suppose to be semi-dry here tomorrow then back to rain for the weekend and into next week. We've had such a soggy Spring up here it is not funny. Got another trough of cold area sitting over most of BC and going into Alberta and the rest of the prairies. Not fun.
Yeah. Even though it's cold this weekend, it looks like 9 straight days of sunlight with some clouds in a row. I can't wait to see the sun again tomorrow.
We've had quite a lot of rain here too. Hopefully your dry spell is on the way soon too, Brenda.
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
I love playing. It's a great game to keep the brain going.
Part of the joys of life. I don't mind learning new things.
It was great in my area today but yeah slight chance of showers with a wee bit of sun and mostly clouds for tomorrow and the same for Sunday and the next week. I hope the dry comes soon as May is shaping up to look a lot like April.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:I think KIKI is OK.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Five more days of radiation therapy. Only four, after today. Last one next Thursday and I will be done, done, done with that. Woo hoo!
Saw the nephrologist, and was I NOT impressed! I got more info and advice from my internist and a nutritionist! I waited a long time and he hadn't even read my chart. I had to relay everything that THEY told me past him, PLUS my recent history. And he seemed very inexperienced. No closer to finding out what went wrong and how to make it better/ not make it worse except avoid NSAIDS (which is going to be painful, literally, seeing as I have a pain syndrome.)
And poor hubby. He had a trigger point injection into his pirifomis muscle and it helped ... for a week. Now he's in excruciating pain, again. They have not found the other cause(s) of his nerve pain yet. I hope the MRI tells them something useful and that they have a permanent fix, bc right now he can't walk 20 ft w/o pain that feels worse than his broken collarbone did.
Oh, well. Onward thru the fog!
Glad everything seems to be going well for your treatments, Sigs. Sorry to hear about your husband. Hopefully your doctors are better at troubleshooting a human body than my mechanic and I are at troubleshooting my car.
BTW... Have you ever heard anything from Kiki?
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
I hope clearing the computer does the trick. I was surprised to learn that the computer adjusts operating parameters away from the factory setting for optimum pollution control, and saves them on an ongoing basis.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Another laundry day is here as soon as I get up and going. Then it looks like it could be dry for my walk after.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Puppy-wuppy takes me for a walk nearly every day, whether I want to or not. Sometimes, if I'm pressed for time or when I was on serious chemo, it' s short (a few houses down, and back). But lately I've been doing the more usual appx 0.4-0.5 miles. Puppy picks the route, so it varies. In summer I try to go earlier b4 it gets too blastedly hot.
Do you go at the same time? How far/long do you walk? Different routes?
I used to love to walk until I developed a pain syndrome. Now sometimes I just grit my teeth.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
I think KIKI is OK.
I hope so. I know we had our differences, but it's weird not hearing anything from her for so long.
Quote:
I hope clearing the computer does the trick. I was surprised to learn that the computer adjusts operating parameters away from the factory setting for optimum pollution control, and saves them on an ongoing basis.
Yeah. Me too.
It's kind of cool that the computer can adjust things like that based off of sensor output, especially when the car is getting pretty long in the tooth. As much as I rail on the state for putting only SOME people through this every two years, the exhaust system does play a pretty sizable role in how good your car performs.
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Puppy-wuppy takes me for a walk nearly every day, whether I want to or not. Sometimes, if I'm pressed for time or when I was on serious chemo, it' s short (a few houses down, and back). But lately I've been doing the more usual appx 0.4-0.5 miles. Puppy picks the route, so it varies. In summer I try to go earlier b4 it gets too blastedly hot.
Do you go at the same time? How far/long do you walk? Different routes?
I used to love to walk until I developed a pain syndrome. Now sometimes I just grit my teeth.
A puppy!! How lovely and crazy making at the same time. My poor old dog is 15 and struggling with life - he’s still enjoying his food but the steps around the house are killers for him- poor sweet.
After a long rather lovely Summer and Autumn - the weather has taken a wintry turn. It would be mild for many of you - especially Brenda- frankly I can’t imagine living somewhere that cold. But I’m bunkered down with essays so it’s not much of an issue. I’m lucky enough to be close to forest where I can walk most days
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Puppy-wuppy takes me for a walk nearly every day, whether I want to or not. Sometimes, if I'm pressed for time or when I was on serious chemo, it' s short (a few houses down, and back). But lately I've been doing the more usual appx 0.4-0.5 miles. Puppy picks the route, so it varies. In summer I try to go earlier b4 it gets too blastedly hot.
Do you go at the same time? How far/long do you walk? Different routes?
I used to love to walk until I developed a pain syndrome. Now sometimes I just grit my teeth.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I try to go out the same time unless I have early appointments for the dentist like in a couple of weeks. Mostly I walk the same route unless I am really bored and decide I need to see something else.
I'm usually out a couple of hours but that also includes a stop for coffee and a bite to eat. *L*.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by MAGONSDAUGHTER:Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Puppy-wuppy takes me for a walk nearly every day, whether I want to or not. Sometimes, if I'm pressed for time or when I was on serious chemo, it' s short (a few houses down, and back). But lately I've been doing the more usual appx 0.4-0.5 miles. Puppy picks the route, so it varies. In summer I try to go earlier b4 it gets too blastedly hot.
Do you go at the same time? How far/long do you walk? Different routes?
I used to love to walk until I developed a pain syndrome. Now sometimes I just grit my teeth.
A puppy!! How lovely and crazy making at the same time. My poor old dog is 15 and struggling with life - he’s still enjoying his food but the steps around the house are killers for him- poor sweet.
After a long rather lovely Summer and Autumn - the weather has taken a wintry turn. It would be mild for many of you - especially Brenda- frankly I can’t imagine living somewhere that cold. But I’m bunkered down with essays so it’s not much of an issue. I’m lucky enough to be close to forest where I can walk most days
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
The many splendors of North America.
Different areas can get different degrees of cold Magnon. I wouldn't mind a walk through a forest or a walk along the beach. Too awkward for me to get to such places without my own car.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
As long as your dog still enjoys food, s/he wants to live. When animals lose their interest in food, they're in the dying process.
Is the problem pain, or a combination of things? I have some dog-walking friends and they are SERIOUS dog-lovers, and they had an old dog that was born deaf and had, by 16, developed heart failure, a seizure disorder (that I think was more or less continuous bc the dog cocked it's head all the time, which may have come from a disturbance in an occipital lobe interfering with a field of vision .. more about that in a bit) and painful joints. So they kept him going on heart medication and anti-convulsants (which made the dog dopey but didn't correct the head-cocking) and pain pills. But someone ... it may have even been the vet ... put them on to CBD oil, and when I saw the dig afterwards he was moving more freely and his head was straight. Eventually they had to euthanize the dog bc heart failure but they made his life as enjoyable as they could while he was alive.
Anyway... CBD oil maybe?
Our dog isn't really a puppy but she acts like one: still very active and playful (after I adjusted her diet). Poor "puppy" is living with a couple of oldsters who can't keep up with her!
If you're that close to a forest that you can walk there, I can see why fire would be a big concern.
Altho grass fires can be devastating too. I once saw a picture of a car that got swept y a grass fire... there was literally a shiny puddle of molten metal underneath. All that from burning GRASS???
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Happy Mother's Day, ladies.
I'm out. Going to get my aunt's A/C installed and visiting Grams.
--------------------------------------------------
Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Those are the best Mother's Day gifts ever!
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME