Coffee 11-12-16

Good morning! Come on in, join us for a few minutes & share a bit of life. Yesterday we thanked all Veterans for their efforts to make the USA what it is....the best place on Earth. There is some coffee left from yesterday & plenty of new stuff for today. Enjoy! Breakfast.... Cousin Chris's homemade wheat bread toast, scrambled eggs & Spam? What's with the Spam? No bacon? OK... beggars can't be choosers.

My dog, Keeoh, had that seizure a few months back. Just as I was thinking she might never have another, she woke me today because of one. Perhaps I slept through some of it, but from what I saw it only lasted a matter of seconds & then she was fine. I'm thinking it was short because when she had the first one, after it was over she was a bit slow & dizzy for a while. This morning it ended very quickly & she was immediately back to her happy ol' self. Weird.

The Amish..... actually Mennonites.... finished the roof at north camp. I couldn't be more pleased. The two brothers did very good work & were super vigilant about cleaning up the work site. He charged my $400 less than quoted as "it went faster than we thought". Any contractor on Earth would have charged me the quoted price. Eloise & I decided to give them $100 tip. It was so cute....they didn't know how to respond. He kept saying "but, you paid us for the work". I told him it was a tax free gift because we appreciated the extra care & the good work and he could do with it as he pleased. He did accept it. He said "I will share it with my brother".

One week closer to really cold weather. I hope you are all prepared.

Forward we go!

Good morning all, hope all had a good Veterans Day. Yes Freddy I had a similar thing happen to the Amish that put my stove & chimney in the garage. Saying how I had driven them down & back & they used some of my tools & material they lowered their price & were hesitant to take the full price + a small tip. That was after I had told them there would be no running to get the job done faster (heck it's dangerous enough to just walk in that mess at times) the first time I ever had to insist someone take the agreed price & they wanted less. A bit of a chill this AM but warmer temps are said to be returning, works for me I'll stay on propain until I get uncertainties about spending time back in Pittsburgh cleared up, I hate to use more than one match & besides propain is still fairly reasonable right now & I want a fill before the snow comes. Hope all are safe & warm!

Good morning. 29 degrees here. Freddy, did you have a steel roof put on?

samhill wrote:I hate to use more than one match & besides propain is still fairly reasonable right now

It sure depends on how much you use, and who you get it from. I just got a delivery for $2.30 per gallon.

I am still running my heat pump for most of our heating needs. I have the EFM running for DHW, and some occasional heat on the 2nd floor.

Good morning to all. Working on my second cup of coffee listening to the guy's hunting stories. Waiting for 7 am to get off work. Little chilly here this morning.

Have a lot to do today and looks like not
much sleep today. Hope to cut the grass for the last time today and clean up the leaves. Get to spend the afternoon with my son. Hopefully he takes a nap today.

It's always nice to get a tip. I have given a few and received a few. It can be a great financial help at times. Great work deserves great pay. It is hard to find a skilled honest craftsman at times these days.

Have a great day and stay safe.

Jason

Good morning friends, a nice crisp 36° morning out but the #8 is keeping the inside nice and toasty .
I will take some bread Freddy but I'll pass on the eggs and Spam , glad to hear you got the roof finished and that the crew did a very good job (thats a hard thing to find now days)

Freddy wrote:Yesterday we thanked all Veterans for their efforts to make the USA what it is....the best place on Earth.

They should always be in the back of our minds each and every day!!!
Not much going today just tidying up for winter and trying to do something with the leave now that most are on the ground, going to be a fly by the pants weekend! Take care friends and enjoy the new week to come

Rob R. wrote: Freddy, did you have a steel roof put on?

Nope... we gave it consideration....well.... I did , co-owner Eloise is easy going & didn't care one way or the other. All she wanted was to not have water drip on her forehead while she slept. We went with Certainteed Architectural shingles, color weathered wood. We forgot to take a picture! We were busy cleaning the grit from inside the camp. The decision to stay with asphalt was for two reasons...be they valid of not.... one was to keep the original character of the building. The other was that steel roofs can be loud in the rain. Can't they?

We did one other thing with the roof. The camp had zero insulation when we bought it 30 years ago. Over the years we added insulation to the walls and tongue & groove wood over it. We wanted to insulate the roof, but didn't want to change how the camp looked inside. You see the rafters and the roof boards, some of which are 16 inches wide. The shingle job went like this: Strip the roof down to bare boards, replace a couple that were a bit rotten. Remove all the trim boards. Apply 2 inch Thermax foil covered rigid insulation on the roof, cover with 5/8 inch T&G OSB roofing sheets. Bring new 6" trim to the top of the OSB, and for looks, a 4 inch trim board on top of that. Apply flashing all around, ice & water shied as needed, that new 12 foot wide fake tar paper, then the new shingles over that. That will give us some insulation ( R 13 1/2 including the OSB) and hopfully keep us cooler when the sun is out and warmer through the chilly nights. Time will tell.

Here's a pic of north camp for those that haven't seen it.

PS...the smaller building is just for storage.

Mornin all. Coffee's like Italian food Freddy--the older the better!! Gonna get one of my Amish neighbors boys to fill my 15 5 gall. pails. 22* earlier this AM & the old HITZER does what she does best--72* in the house. I'm a happy old farmer! Enjoy the week-end people. Nice on the North Camp!!!!!!!!!!!

You guys are lucky to have folks like that around to do quality, honest work. In MA you get a big attitude when you question the bill, & end up paying 40% more than quoted ... so I hear.

Got up too damn early this morning! Made a run to the auto parts store thinking I'd get a head start on my day. They're friggin closed! Didn't open for another 45 minutes. Usually don't have that problem, so never bothered to look before I left. Live and learn the HARD way, I'll tell ya!

29° here this morning too. DEAD calm - not a hint of breeze. Total opposite of yesterday, which had oak leaves flying all over the place.

Guess I gotta make attempt #2 at the auto parts place. Great way to start the day! I should be throwing tools by 10am ...

I'm with ya Freddie and the loud metal roof. We did it on our house and, while it serves the purpose, I'd do shingles next time without a doubt.

Lots to do today, get rid of those darned leaves, the normal cleaning of the house, go pickup my backhoe that needed $$$$ of transmission parts last month so I can move my coal, and finally get back to work on our kitchen cabinet doors and drawer faces.

Geez I can't wait for that to be done! (Neither can my wife) She keeps saying something along the lines of going on 6 years now.....

Have a great weekend all, snow will fly PDQ I hope!

Mornin everyone. Great breakfast Freddy, glad to here you got the roof on. was 27 here this AM, I relit the coal furnace yesterday due to the cold front coming in. Although the temps are now forecast to be higher than what they originally thought.


Take care and be safe all.

Wow, Spam. I haven't had that in years. It was an evening meal sometimes when we were kids. I'm going to have to buy a can and have some again. Dennis

The other was that steel roofs can be loud in the rain. Can't they?

It would have been in your camp with the uninsulated roof. With the foam and such that you added, I don't think you would notice much of a difference. When people hear "metal roof" they think of standing in a pole barn during a rain storm - which is not the same as a house with a solid deck for the roof and insulation in the attic.

The shingles look good and should last a long time. Being in the woods, your camp probably doesn't get the 40 mph winds that peel all of the shingles off in my area.

Good evening everyone...Still didn't fire up the stoker, wasn't around much today to get it done. As cold as it is outside I'll make something in the oven to eat and that will warm up the house for a few hours and keep the furnace from kicking on.

Propane isn't too bad a price around here....A friend just paid 1.59/ gal yesterday.

Been looking for a leaf vac for about a week and it didn't take long to find one on CL.....maybe I wasnt picky enough, usually it takes me a month to find something. Went and picked it up this morning...what sold me was the new honda 5hp engine on it. Got back in time to help my neighbor hook up his mag stoker and then come home to use the vac on the front and side yards. It works great. Leaf season won't be too bad this year and I'll have a great start on a mulch/topsoil pile for next spring.

Evening! Chilly night, in the 30's. We don't have heat on yet. Trying to hold out for the coal stove install. We have two little space heaters and lots of blankets. Hasn't been too bad yet but this will be a cold one. I'll wake up and bake some pumpkin bread and that will take the chill off.

I've been looking around. In the Board index, when the dot by the title is blue, does that mean someone's on that thread? Anyway, I'll be posting a thread about my stove. Hopefully I'll be able to figure out how to post a picture.

Stay warm!

Hi everyone,

I too spent the morning dealing with the leafs. It's always a down side to living on the woods. Fortunately, everyone was home and pitched in. We got the front done and will work on the back a little at a time through the month. Most of the leaves appear down so hopefully we only have a minor efforts to finish it up.

I still haven't lit the match. Our highs are forecast to be above 65* for the next 10 days. The NG furnace hasn't been kicking on set at 70* so we'll just let it run for a little while longer. Maybe next weekend, maybe sooner. 70* with the Furnace isn't as comfy as 70* from coal and we are expecting some rain mid-week...

We had a fire in the fire pit this evening. It's nice listening to the creatures down on the swamp.

I hope everyone gets something done on the to do list. Take care, Lisa