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Hi all:
Since the summer of 1997, I have been building a cabin and house on our 1/2 acre lot here. Before I dive into that part, I am going to show a few photos to set the stage a bit. We are remote here. No services of any kind, except that which we provide for ourselves. So don't expect to see any paved roads with big trucks delivering any materials.
We live at the head of a small bay, which is both a blessing and a curse.
When the tide goes out, we have to clamber over hundreds of yards of rocks to get to our boat. When it is in, I can float logs right up to my little railway to move them onto the log deck. Well, not any more, but more about that later.
This is the bay in front of us.
 

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#4,410 ·
cocobolo said:
Good morning Bootz:

When that happens - and don't think you're the only one to ever do that - what you will need to do is to remove the stain, then use a scraper to try and get rid of the cross grain sanding marks.

In fact you can use the scraper to take the stain off as well.

I expect you have been using a pigmented type of stain which will come off easily. Don't worry about taking all the stain out, your real concern is getting down to the bottom of the scratches on the cross sanding.

Now, if you don't have a scraper, just use the same grit of sandpaper that you used initially, that would be the coarsest one, then when you think you have got rid of the cross marks, go up through the grits until you get to at least 150, 180 or 220 would be even better.
Hey thanks for the help the miss was freaking out a bit thinking I ruined it
 
#4,421 ·
You DO know I was kidding...right...

While you're around...could you let me know what the minimum temperature might be to set tile in? It looks like we are going to be pretty cool for awhile, but then maybe some days getting up around 45º - 48º. Might that be enough? I don't want to leave the tile any longer than I have to, it's kind of in the way of everything right now.

Thanks Bud.
 
#4,422 ·
While you're around...could you let me know what the minimum temperature might be to set tile in?
Sorry to say 50-55 degrees Fahrenheit. At 55 the chemical interactions begin to slow and at 50 they can go dormant. Thereby wrecking all intentions. This minimum is required for a few days day and night. I don't remember for sure but I'm thinking seven days.:)
 
#4,423 ·
Which means that I would need to keep the woodstove's going to keep the temperature up that high. OK, looks like it will be waiting for awhile.

It's not like I don't have anything else to do. Good to know that...thanks, Bud.
 
#4,424 ·
Well, it was a good news - bad news day. But i won't bore you with the bad.

A week ago, my wife's brother in law was taken to hospital in South Africa unconscious. He had suffered a subdural haematoma. Often it is fatal.

After 5 days in ICU and two days further in hospital - he was released today apparently doing extremely well. We are thrilled.

And we also heard from very close friends in OZ who we thought might be affected by the floods. In fact, there were no email replies and I thought I had messed up somewhere along the line. Just heard back a few minutes ago and all is well.

Finally managed to buy our new (to us) boat today. I made my offer, and he said - Oh, that's too much - and knocked several hundred off my offer price! When's the last time someone did that for you!

Back to house work tomorrow, and some pics I hope.
 
#4,425 ·
Keith that is great news, we will keep him in our prayers.

Yesterday had to be an emotional roller coaster for ya'll. Do you have any pictures of your new boat? What size motor does it have? That was really nice of the fellow to back off the price for you like that. I don't think anyone would be bored with the bad news buddy, I think I would have just cried.
 
#4,436 ·
I go for eye surgery tomorrow so..

Keith, I go for eye surgery tomorrow, so after that will only be able to see 'half' your work on site, but that seems to be 'double' what others are doing, so all is good ==8^) My wife says it should be no different since she says I am 'half blind" all the time! No Van sightings yet, but now they seem to pop out everywhere! I am looking forward to see your new boat..is it 'tin', how long,..because with the power and size, might just be a duplicate of mine! Twenty to 25 cms 0f snow today/tonight, so might be time to 'lock' in the hubs, and put truck into 4 High, and have some 'fun'!:whistling2::whistling2:
 
#4,437 ·
Let's hope that is successful.

The boat is a K&C f/g runabout. I think it/s 16 1/2', Evinrude 70 & 6 hp kicker. Not in bad shape, but with my luck I can probably fix that quickly!
 
#4,441 ·
Keith,

One of the reasons this thread is so successful is because you do not drone. Yes, you accomplish much with relatively few words, and I find the meditative and thoughtful vibe you have worked hard to establish here to be very refreshing. (And, of course, the pictures of your progress are worth 1,000-words a piece.)

I enjoy checking in and tracking your progress.

You have inspired me to tackle a very ambitious project at my house--pictures of which I will get around to posting someday soon. Maybe I will start my own project showcase thread! :)
 
#4,445 ·
Wtf??

Keith, have been away from the 'thread' for awhile, and when I 'tuned' in today...I was 'lost', so put some 'junk' upthere, to assuage DD, but is there something I am 'Missing', that is not good for Shu??????

Nice "January/ Spring"...eh? Have been collecting 'BIG JUICY' worms off of the road out front of house, and 'they' don't usually come here until ..."april"!!! I am gonna try and 'create' a good "environment' for them to live in, and ...yes...would love to 'hear' how to make them...."happy'!!! List members????:):):):):)
 
#4,460 ·
Keith, have been away from the 'thread' for awhile, and when I 'tuned' in today...I was 'lost', so put some 'junk' upthere, to assuage DD, but is there something I am 'Missing', that is not good for Shu??????

Nice "January/ Spring"...eh? Have been collecting 'BIG JUICY' worms off of the road out front of house, and 'they' don't usually come here until ..."april"!!! I am gonna try and 'create' a good "environment' for them to live in, and ...yes...would love to 'hear' how to make them...."happy'!!! List members????:):):):):)
Hi Syd. Well, you know the latest already.

Syd lives across from me on Vancouver Island in case you didn't know. We now have a VERY interesting mutual hobby. One that I have been away from for way too long. I'll get to that shortly.

Been digging out in the bay here Syd to get a better place to moor the runabout. There seems to be quite a few big worms here in the sand...are they worth trying to save at all? Not sure if they are the kind the guys use for fishing or not.
 
#4,447 · (Edited)
While there seems to be a break in the action around here I’ll offer a little autobiography traversing my past few weeks. I hope Keith doesn’t mind.

It seems that in the middle of the night, I woke up coughing my butt off, so naturally I took a little cough medicine. By the next evening the coughing had only gotten worse. This cough medicine, the cherry flavored type, contained a little codeine. What’s wrong with that? In this case more is gooder, right?

Well during the second night, and as the cough continued I developed the hic-cups. Have you ever tried to sleep while experiencing unrelenting hic-cups? I can tell you it can’t be done. I held my breath, I gulped high quantities of air, I drank a glass of water upside down, I ate raw sugar a teaspoonful at a time, I drizzled white vinegar on the back of my tongue, I drank baking soda with warm water, I respirated into a brown paper bag, I tickled the back of my throat with a pencil. That gagged me of course. Nothing I tried worked.

OK, so, bright and early the next morning I’m off to see my doctor. I complained about the industrial strength cough but more so the stinking hic-cupping. He at first laughed at me and told me to just hold my breath. Yeah right! Been there done that!

He offered up no other solution for my hic-cups but did write a prescription for more of that cherry flavored cough syrup; in fact I could have had it with a grape flavor if I wanted.

By now my entire body was sore from head to toe from coughing and hic-cupping. For a while the hic-cups did subside but when I would cough they would reemerge. This time around the hic-cups were in multiple fashions. Every time I would hic-cup there would be four or five of them little bastards one right after the other and this would happen about four or five times per minute.

So it’s back to the doctor. This time he began doing all kinds of tests. Not the least of which was an EKG. How the hell he thought he was going to get a reliable EKG with me hic-cupping like a machine gun is beyond me.

So now he thinks I have a heart arrhythmia. Are ya kiddin’ me???

He sends me to the hospital that afternoon for some more testing. OK, I’m good with that! I would have agreed to almost anything. I get to the hospital, check in to the lab, and along comes a nurse to take me to my room. ROOM! WHAT ROOM? I’m just here for tests. That’s when she tells me I’m going to spend the night. Get in this wheel chair and I’ll take you to your room Mr. Cline. HOLY CRAP!!!

So we get on the elevator and she pushes the floor-button that says ICU. Just to be sure I kept my mouth shut until we rolled up to the ICU. Sure enough! ICU it was. At this point she tells me not to be alarmed but that the hospital is full and this is the only space available for now, besides this room contains all of the telemetry they will require. TELEMETRY? I DON’T NEED ANY STINKING TELEMETRY!!!

By now I’m beginning to wonder what the hell is going on. ICU, TELEMETRY, WHEELCHAIR?

She gives me this gown to put on. OK, I’m in the hospital, I’m suffering from some unknown disease from God only knows where, I have no idea what the hell is happening to me, and she wants me to wear that gown. NOT GONNA HAPPEN IN A THOUSAND YEARS. Did you know, if you insist loud enough they can actually come up with real live pajamas ensamble for you? Well by God they can!

OK, I’m in my jammies, they start poking needles in my arms and Scotch-taping things to me hairy body and here comes the lady from The Nutrition Department. She brings enough menus for me to fill out for three days. THREE DAYS? OK THAT’S ALL! I told her there must be some mistake and that I was only going to be there one night. As she walked away she looked back in my direction and said “We’ll see about that”.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to biitch at that many people while having the hic-cups? They just don’t take you seriously.

Finally I get settled in for the night. I have my jammies, I have my TV, I have my ice water, I have my arms tethered with plastic hoses to the bed rails, and my chest hairs have been glued to about seven wires all of different colors. This must me the telemetry they were talking about. The good news is the hic-cups have again subsided. It seems that one of those little hoses contains the wonder drug that is going to allow me to sleep the night away while keeping the hic-cups at bay. And after all of this, I’m ready to settle in for a good night’s sleep. Yeah Right! Every two hours those little cutie nurses need to do something to me. EVERY TWO FRIGGING HOURS! Hell I was better off with the hic-cups maybe!

Well the next day it was an early breakfast then road trips. First to the lab, then to X-ray, then back to my room for a little R&R and lunch, then it’s off to take a ride through that tunnel thingy machine all the TV doctor programs are so fond of, then another machine wanted to scan my innards, then more R&R, then another road trip.

Finally the sun was setting and it was time to eat again.

After devouring another delicious meal that must have been concocted somewhere in the Twilight Zone I’m finally settled-in for the evening when along comes the cutest nurse yet. Shift-changes always seem to bring promise. Mr. Cline I have to prep you for in the morning she tells me. Well damn, I guess I am going to be here a few days. I had no idea what she meant by “prep me” but it was OK with me, I was so beat up by then I would have agreed to almost anything. It seems that I was being prepped for a heart catheterization. A WHAT? ARE YOU PEOPLE NUTS? I DON’T NEED NO STINKING HEART NOTHIN’. I like my heart right where it is.

I won’t go into the details of this preparation process but I can tell you it involved a razor and some warm shaving lather. In fact, when she was done I had seriously considered asking her father for her hand in marriage.

Slept like a baby!

Next morning before the roosters crowed I found myself in some ice cold surgery suite somewhere. There were bells, whistles, lights, machines, buzzers, a public address system and a control-booth. OK, now that was the scary part. That damned control booth made me just a little nervous. This glass-walled room reminded me of those weigh-stations you see along the Interstates where they weigh those eighteen wheelers. Everyone was masked. And everyone was wearing a microphone piped into the public address system, accept me. Each time someone spoke you could hear it coming over the PA. It was really kind of neat. I couldn’t see the people behind the glass but I could tell there were about four of them in that booth. I also had another four (at least) on the floor with me.

As the procedure began I could see at least three TV monitors and Judge Judy wasn’t on any of them. They zonked me out only about seventy-five percent so I could talk to them and still allow them to have their way with me. I was able to see the entire process on the monitors. It was amazing. When all was said and done the doctors seemed to be surprised that they hadn’t found arteries clogged with cholesterol or blood clots. In fact there was nothing, and I’m a McDonald’s customer. I passed with flying colors for some reason.

Now that I’m home and can view the harvest down below I’m just a little embarrassed at how far the nurse went with her “prep”. I wonder if I should call her dad now?:)
 
#4,451 ·
Bud, I never would have expected to laugh so hard at someone's misfortune. But you told this in such a colorful, humorous way that I'm sure we all got a kick out of it.

On the other hand, I hope everything is back to normal and you're feeling 100% better. Oh, and I hope you have good insurance :yes:.

Did you ever get an explanation as to what was causing the hic-cups?

Let us know how the dad responds if you do make that call. :laughing:
 
#4,457 ·
Hi gang...well thanks for keeping the thread going. Maybe I should just hang around to see what develops! :laughing:

Boy, we've got space shuttle chat, cows in Nebraska and Bud trying to hook up with that sexy little nurse.

Bud, didn't they tell you, this is a family site...:whistling2:

Everyone deserves to be answered, so I will try to do that in some sort of order.
 
#4,459 ·
Hi to Timothy, Bootz and lagerhead...thanks for dropping by, things are slowly improving. Just sort of a whole lot of things that all happened at once, but have now pretty much turned themselves around.

Now if we could just get the weather to turn around...7 days of rain in the immediate forecast. Don't need that.:no:
 
#4,471 ·
coco: "I'll see if I can get you a link to a site which shows where the ISS is going over."
That was going to be my next question. Would viewing be better in the daytime or at night?:) If that's a stupid question just forget I asked it.:):):)

coco: "I just ran across a very neat link which shows what the guys in the International Space Station are seeing."
Great, that is pretty amazing!:)

Not to change the subject but there is also a website I discovered during the BP oil spill in our Gulf of Mexico that tracks all the ships at sea. It gives you the name of the vessel, it coordinates, and even shows you its bow-orientation. Neat stuff.:)
 
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