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Something that I noticed in hanging around with the Amish is they young and old, they like to read the signs outloud. A couple years ago some teen boys saw that, read it outloud and laughed like crazy for the next 10 minutes. A few months ago, a nice older gentleman saw it, read it in a rather...

This one just came up in my feed.

I know some of you guys are minimalists. I'm not, more of a gadget guy. I like my turn signals, I like my GPS and my GoPro. There's also a horn and the remote for one of my garage doors. The battery for the GoPro (bought it used) doesn't charge fully anymore, and there's no easy way to...

Been giving some thought to the term "ground breaking". I'm not sure it means what is commonly thought. It wasn't really that too long ago in history that if you wanted to take a s*it, you broke ground. Even today, we regularly break ground to dig very large holes for s*it. It can mean good...

Exterior lights are working. I'm going to try to run a wire to the window side panels to light up the menu boards.

A couple I picked up in a second hand shop, that sadly is now closed. Was a great place for tools, but the owners kids got killed in a fiery truck crash. They closed it, then reopened it, then sold it. And the new idiot owners didn't know how to run it.

He always has something skinned. He's a lot like me when I was growing up. I'd rip something open and come up and patch up and go back out again. He grabs the first aid kit, cleans and patches himself up. He's a good helper too, and enjoys cooking, especially grilling.

Got the wife to help me out with some of the metal work today. Only a couple more pieces of diamond plate to go. Sadly, I lost one of the pieces I had bent for me the same day I picked them up. We also did some painting where the old propane cabinet was mounted. It does need another coat...

Which ever one you pick, please post extensively about this groundbreaking toilet seat.

Here is my #4 crammed into a tight place again. I called him and said I needed him to get into a tight spot for me again. He asked, "the front cabinet again". I told him no, the refrigerator which is about 1/2 the size of the cabinet. I needed him to get in there and hold a board against the...

I got the rest of the 120VAC system installed today. Wired up the 2 breaker panel I got months ago. A pair of 15A breakers, one feeds the outlet in the compressor cabinet, the other feeds a pair of outlets in the back of the kitchen. Both are fed from a pair of heavy duty cords with standard...

I thought it was large too, but the manual and the labels on it said to use it. I paid $3.85/foot, which was their cost (it pays to drop off brownies and christmas cookies) Total was about $48. Power wise, you can't really go wrong in putting in a wire.

Saturday I told my wife that I wasn't seeing any hits for an inverter on CL, asked her to look on Facebook Market place. She finds one that had just been posted within the hour. 2000W/4000W, brand new in the box for $75, and about 30 minutes away. She contacted the guy and we ran up to get...

The turnpike isn't a terrible road to drive. There's spots that are probably too narrow for a main highway, but it was laid out over a hundred years ago and they've been making improvements to some of the tighter areas. The problem is the cost. Back in the early 90's when I would drive out to...

This event is mid july, I doubt there's ice up there then. :)

I really dislike the idea of driving across the turnpike, and I'd probably go out of my way up to I-80 to avoid it. I can get to the destination in Ohio either I-80 or I-70, it's about the same traveling time, but I-80 even though being longer is far cheaper than the turnpike especially...

She's not picky, she asked for a cheddar/jalapeno sausage with peppers and onions as well as a hawaiian slider. Plus the potato salad and the red beet eggs. The Amish generally enjoy trying all kinds of new foods when they have the chance. If we're going to travel out of our area, we're going...

Just got back from my Amish friend's farm. We made them dinner since the entire crew was out threshing all day. 12 adult men, 20 kids running around and 4 adult women. When we got there we realized we didn't have enough for all the kids, wife ran up to the grocery store quick and got hot dogs...

I just got home, took my sweaty shirt off and threw it at the foot of my bed. Jemimah is currently bonding with it.

We've talked about this here. Call it serendipity, God's will, karma or my favorite, holistics. A lot of events came together to make this happen. Over the past few weeks as I grab a tool that I haven't used for a while I think back to where and why I got that tool, and if I didn't have it...