Good morning JO
Yes JO , it will be hot today but I will be out in it .
Over 100F is forecast and I will be making hay while the sun shines .
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Hay is a catastrofy here this year. We had only few drops of rain since April and almost non-stop sunshine. Hayfields are red and yellow and slaughtererâs calanders are already fully booked this fall.
Not to mention grain. Weâre usually a net exporter, but this year we will be forced to rob poor countries. Even potatoes seem to be having a hard time. Pumps are running non-stop down by the river and sprinkles the potato fields closest to it. At least twice the price is forcasted.
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We finally got a few inches of rain. Now itâs so humid that it trapped all the smoke from the Canadian wildfires down on us. We had a dangerous air warning yesterday. Stay in the house and donât breath the bad air. I only made it about 30 seconds. Only moderately severe today. Besides keeping track of whatâs going on on DOW I like breathing the best. Lack of oxygen does tend to make you babble like an idiot though.
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We have it down here too. it smells like burnt plastic outside. But it is down from yesterday⊠Whatever google is giving me for an air quality index was like 230 yesterday and today it is 180.
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Hi All,
I got a notification letter yesterday from our south house water service supplier:
It says that they were found in violation of inadequately treating supplied water for pipes internal corrosion control. They have found to have exceeded metallic copper-in-water safety standards for years. The added equipment solution was designed as of September, 2022 but still not in place due to supply chain problems.
The bowl is the dogs and cats water bowl with a green coppering around the insides. Toilet bowl and tank too. The white shower stall.
The second page is from Washington State Public Health of the problems of too much copper in the water.
Sheeez. No wonder my near diarrhea and fogged memory for years.
Since the year 2000 when we were force to put both households off of our own well onto Public water my wife has refused to drink it, cook with it. Bottle water only. Too strong of chlorine for her tastes.
Me, the Father and Mother-in-law, cats and dogs have all been drinking the tap water as only 3 cents a gallon. Yes. I did add in sink PUR water filters.
Sigh. Back when we remodeled in 1995/96 I opted for all copper water piping versus plastic. Copper as the best long term piping.
It would take a full 3 minutes running flushing to run-out the in-house water copper pipe supply.
Another reason to move away.
Now I know why we have lost two hot water heaters from internal corrosion leakages.
Good news is in the last two years spending more time weekly up at the north house on our own well my memory has gotten better, better. Thinking old SteveU. faster and faster. Ha! I attributed it to all of the stairs walking up there in the house and shop moving heavy boxes and furnitures.
I am actually less and less moody, and grumpy too. That Iâd attributed to the much better peace and quiet up at the north house place.
Hey. Iâve been better, yes?
Regards
Steve Unruh
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Good thing that you are moving there and getting good water. At least now you know about it and can take measures. Perhaps even bring water when you go back to your southern house. Stay healthy please.
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I smell a big class action law suit come up being filed against all that are involved on the water system company.
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Might file a lawsuit now, and see if they will settle out of court for a larger chunk of change.
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Yeah, hereâs how that works. The longer the lawyers can drag it out the more money they make and the people walk around with sanitary pads to soak up the anal bleeding.
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Just spent what feels like 2 hours taking the tire off this golf cart wheel. Little tires are so annoying to remove with only hand tools.
These are just perfectly Imbert shaped. 8" diameter by 4" deep on one side and the other steps from 8" to 6" diameter also 4" deep. 2.75" diameter center hole. Lug holes could just be filled with bolts. Nice purchase on both sides to weld an air jacket onto.
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Looks perfect to me. Plus 20
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Yesterday i took the redneck-outboard engine to the lake for testing, lucky enough no one had stolen the boat.
A good way to transport a outboard engine if you got a sturdy pick-up truck. One disadvantage is a four-stroke lawnmower engines smoke heavily after laying on itâs side.
Short, stuttering video, 1/2-3/4 throttle.
It worked better than i suspected, enough speed for the little boat, and small lake, easy starter, seems to not overheat, or drink all to much gasoline. (Powering a boat is after all among the hardest work you can put an engine to)
Disadvantages: donât like to lay on itâs side(smoke), more vibrations, the steering lever i made become a little to weak (flexes some).
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Those rimâs looks like they was made for gasifiers 
Bad thing in Sweden is people believing golf carts, and parts for them are made from 24k gold 
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If you are on your side with the boat I think the smoke is the least of your problems 
Awesome build though, great work 
And thank you for the video
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What @Jan said the other day: - Youâre amazing!
Also, I like your WK-outfit - hat and suspender-jeans 
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You should build another gasifier like the one for your moped and try that. Maybe enough power for trolling. Another great job Goran.
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Thanks guyâs
Here i snapped a pic of one of them little bloodsuckers we talked about earlier.
A smaller one (bites like a big) just wondering if they look somewhat like over the world?
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Did a full rail flush on the Volvo today and I thought why not wash up in the river. While I was at it, and inspired by @Woodrunner , I went for a boat ride. I didnât bother the motor, but brought the rod and fetched dinner 
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Same thing here, when it is this warm Iâm not so hungry either 
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In Chile they call those blood suckers Tabanos. They will follow your scent or breath into closed areas. When I use the cable car, I judge the number of tabanos in the area by how many I can kill during the 7 minute ride. My all time high is about 50. Doesnât seem to make a dent in their numbers though.
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