Dis n Dat
Or something along those lines.
First off though, Steve, you’re on. I’ll post something, be it simple or complex drivel every day that I’m able to get to a computer, and on any days that I can’t I’ll still write stuff down and post it when I can get to one.
Still not got my head together enough to get a real post together so todays is gonna be a disjointed ramble of dis and dat.
Got a airsoft game going tomorrow. Went out and looked over the area today and most of what needs to be done is. Still got a piece or two of plastic and some other building materials on the field but they can walk around or over, cause I ain’t gonna pick it up before game time. 👿
Got the bamboo caution taped off so hopefully they will stay out of there.
Put together 3 barricades for Spook to use in the game tomorrow, then blocked off the building materials area.
Gonna have a potluck supper tomorrow afternoon. Need to get some firewood hauled down to the firepit for the after the game sit around the fire and bs session.
Hope to get up to Collinsville during the coming week to see where on the site we can rent a spot to set up and sell stuff.
Still haven’t made any progress on getting set up on Too Many Books to sell books and stuff. Need to try to spend at least a few hours on getting that set up so we can start listing stuff.
Fire is finally warming the room up a bit. Had let it die down while out and about this afternoon and it’s taken a while to get it back to comfortable.
Got to get working on a heater for this place. Been thinking about building a unit to go on top of the existing woodburner to allow the hot portion of the flue gases to rise and the cooler components flow down and out. I’m thinking if I enclose the bells/pipes/whatever you want to call them, in a metal plenum (?) we should be able to duct from that to the heat/air ducts in the trailer and add another to the qhut. Add a blower and some pipes through the top of the bells and fill around everything with sand/clay/cement for heat storage mass. I suspect I will need to draw this out as it’s in me head but not coming out me fingers too well tonight.
On that somewhat disjointed ramble I will close for the night. More tomorrow… 😎
Themocracy
I accept the challenge, and will strive to uphold my resposibility!
Or something like that…. 🙂
Ever had shingles? If not, try not to. Interesting, but not a lot of fun. And I have a mild case of them–Al had them when I was working at the shop, and his arm looked like a poor grade of alligator leather for about 2 months. It drove him nuts, and made me twitch just to see it. I’m taking a med for it they didn’t have then (after having it for ~two weeks and not being able to see a doc because of the holidays–and No, Virginia, it wasn’t NEARLY bad enough to go to the ER, my threshold for that lies in the region of a sucking chest wound, any milder and the ER visit is worse than the disease, ANY ER) and it is helping, but last night it decided to enter the “itch phase” all at once, at full amplitude. I think I take pain better than itching. Oh, well, that’s life…diagnosis Thursday was funny, was talking with the doc when he came in and told him what the symptoms were and how Sue had looked at it and said it was shingles, but it could be something else. He looked at it about .2 milliseconds and said “Yep, that’s shingles!” I mean, it took no time at all. Not that I really doubted, but the rapidity was comical.
In re the heat pipes, remember–as a general rule, the slower the airspeed going through the pipe, the more heat transfers. I’m sure you know this, but I thought I would mention it. At the radiator shop I was always struck by how the air coming out of a heater vent when we were warming a car up was absolutely incredible when you ran the blower on the slowest speed–volume was low, but the heat was AWESOME. (Assuming everything was working properly, of course…) The trick with a heat pipe setup is to hit the proper balance between slow enough to pick up a useable amount of heat, and fast enough to have a volume of air large enough to do any good. I highly suggest using a variable speed motor. Now that I have just reinterated all of the thoughts you have no doubt already had on the subject, I’ll move on….keep us posted, I’m interested. Been thinking about ways to cheaply augment the heat pump here. Some way to add heat to the outside unit during the winter, and maybe a way to remove it during the summer. I like central climate control, I would just like to help it all I can.
What kind of bamboo would you recommend for us out here? I want to make a small bamboo thicket (~100-400 square feet) on the southern edge of the property–have a clear space in the middle, kinda a little hidey hole. Want something reasonably sized, not huge (though that would be cool!) and not the little “creek-side cane” that you see a lot of here in Alabama. Something about the size of 1″ to 1 1/2″, I guess, at the bottom. Suggestions? Also suggestions for keeping the bamboo from becoming a monster–there is a thicket just down the road here that ate a house. I mean, the kudzu is absolutely GREEN with envy about it. Sorry, couldn’t resist that..and the bamboo DID eat a house. Awesome–and scary.
Well, I gotta pay bills, shower and go work some. Only 13 computers left to set up! W00t! Considering we started at 91, in two batches, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Of course, sometimes when I’m crawling on the floor trying to untangle the old stuff to get it out so I can actually put in the new stuff, It looks like the 3:43 express to Atlanta coming at me, but so it goes….