What are you doing today?

[gwand]

Yeah, I’m dreading what I’m going to find when I pull up the floor planks. Who knows how long this has been going on. But I can’t think about that now. One disaster at a time is all I can handle.

Taking a quick break after the first bathroom wall, which I’m pretty sure will prove the easiest part of today’s fun. Figured I’d start on the simple part since I’ve never done this before. The laundry room has all kinds of pipes and outlets and such to work around. And it’s a much bigger wall. Then I’ll have a look at the floor.

Good luck. I hope your outcome turns out better than mine.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Mrs Badger always wanted an open concept kitchen. I hope she enjoys our open concept bathroom.

 

[GaryE]

Wow, you have toilets in the wild west?!?!

I got really artsy this morning while walking the dog soon after sunrise. The sky is textured, with two different types of clouds and just a touch of incoming forest fire smoke. It's majestic. It makes the lighting weird, and I found myself wondering what the great landscape painters of the 19th century would have thought of it. What if Turner, Claude or the Impressionists had been walking their dogs beside me and looking at that? How would they have seen it?

I have this thing about painters who tried to capture how light in the sky works. All I can admire of my own work is how good my back stairs look this morning, since they're all dried out and back in use. That's the extent of what I can paint.

I'm still in a land of crunchy grass and nervous trees.

Busy day ahead.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Wow, you have toilets in the wild west?!?!

Mrs Badger absolutely insists on indoor plumbing.

At the clinic getting a tetanus shot. Stabbed my thumb with a filthy nail yesterday afternoon. Then home to pull up flooring. Hopefully no mold down there and I can just get things dried out. I’m fairly optimistic.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Well the floor wasn’t quite as bad as I expected. No mold that I could see and the moisture was fairly localized. Subfloor seems solid and in good shape. Did have to remove all the trim, which I didn’t like anyway, and tear out a couple layers of very wet, ancient linoleum. Nasty.

Borrowed a 3’ industrial fan from a contractor friend, added to our two box fans, and hooked the toilet back up. Now we’ll let everything dry out for a week or two, then see what I can do about putting it all back together.

 

[Back in the fold]

@WhistlingBadger You lucked out . That could have been way worse . Sheetrocking is fairly easy and some new flooring shouldn’t be too expensive . After that it’s just paint . Nothing to it for an average do it yourselfer and you could wind up the project before hunting season . Ooohhh . . . this works out good in your favor . After finishing this up the little woman won’t mind how much you’re out in the hills .

 

[Back in the fold]

Right now sitting here watching M*A*S*H and waiting for my supper to cook . This episode has one of my favorite actors in it , James Gregory of Inspector Luger on Barney Miller fame . A lot of his same mannerisms and facial expressions are the same as Inspector Frank Luger in his portrayal of a nutty general here .

 

[GaryE]

My wife and I used to go camping a lot before life got complicated, and I kind of missed sitting around campfires and walking around wooded campgrounds smelling the fires. Life being generous, I woke up this morning to a real campground smell - burning woods. The fires aren't close by (and hour and a bit away) but there's a bit of a sepia tone to the sky. It's a beautiful windy morning, but this wind isn't welcome. There's no rain predicted before Sunday.
The air quality is still good, and we'll see what happens.

Out in the fishroom, things are going swimmingly. I have more black neon tetra fry than I thought, though not as many as a properly set up breeding tank could have given me. I have some young Nothos, gaggles of Cichlids sexing out well and a lot of Aphyosemions. I enjoy growing out young fish, and seeing how they colour up and change shapes. It's a curious process, every time.

A number of weeks ago I bought three platys because they were very close to the look of the ones I bred when I was a kid. I'm watching their fry to see if the fathers were the guy I bought (the 2 females didn't appear gravid in the store) or if they had already matured and the fathers were the usual hybrids from the sales tank. These three little fish look like maculatus - if they are hybridized it isn't to any great degree. So far, the fry look good. I won't know for a couple of more weeks.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Nice four mile run in the foothills today. After the last few days of slimy drywall, I really needed that runners high today.

 

[MattW]

Spent a while catching out mozzies out of my pond. I would feed them to my fish but with the recent issues in my tanks. I don’t want to introduce anything that shouldn’t belong.

Also is another there way of getting rid of mozzies? I know predators would eat them but I don’t see any frogs popping in at the moment. There are too many of them!

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Spent a while catching out mozzies out of my pond. I would feed them to my fish but with the recent issues in my tanks. I don’t want to introduce anything that shouldn’t belong.

Also is another there way of getting rid of mozzies? I know predators would eat them but I don’t see any frogs popping in at the moment. There are too many of them!

Buy a few guppies? Seriously there are little floating disks one can buy that kill them by releasing some kind of enzyme or bacteria or something that is deadly to mosquito larvae and harmless to everything else. Search for mosquito disks or inquire at an home amd garden store and I bet you’ll find them.

 

[MattW]

Buy a few guppies? Seriously there are little floating disks one can buy that kill them by releasing some kind of enzyme or bacteria or something that is deadly to mosquito larvae and harmless to everything else. Search for mosquito disks or inquire at an home amd garden store and I bet you’ll find them.

Thanks for that, I'll have a look! We had considered a couple of mosquito fish. The issue is winter temps wouldn't do them any favours, + I don't want to put them in my tanks if they are exposed to anything. Those discs sound like a good way to stop them!

 

[Back in the fold]

@WhistlingBadger Now that’s a trail just made for running ! What a luck out you are .

 

[GaryE]

@WhistlingBadger Now that’s a trail just made for running ! What a luck out you are .

You left out the part about running because you were being chased by a sasquatch.

 

[jaylach]

You said cpu and gpu gave you 30% improvement that i believe but how much did the ram help ?

You left out the part about running because you were being chased by a sasquatch.

HEY!!! Sasquatch are cool, just misunderstood.