NWI INDIANA GUN OWNERS. #24 Lets face it we all love to shoot and eat

[radar8756]

Morning ... Cold Weekend

 

[chef larry]

I've been through Fond du Lac, but never heard of Fond da Lac. Are they close by each other?

Never did like Fond Du / Fondue even way back in the early 70's.

 

[radar8756]

Lake Winnebago

 

[2A_Tom]

Finally got a short range trip in today and wow am I disappointed in my groups... My eyes are fixed but I kept finding myself using my left eye to line up the sights. I have done this for some years now because of a 90 % blockage in my right eye but realizing my right eye works now but I still use the left eye... This sucks...

I have been right eye dominant all of my life. When I had a cataract on my right eye my dominance shifted to my left eye. Now my groups with my right eye are much bigger than the roots of my left eye are much bigger than ones used to be with my right eye.

 

[2A_Tom]

@2A_Tom
A carpenter you are right?
Are you able to remove an exterior door, remove the rotted door wood frame, add a new frame and place a new/existing door?

Why yes. Give me a call.

 

[kaveman]

Got busy doing 'chores' yesterday morning and noticed that the water was running slowly into the washing machine. That sometimes happens with a power interruption at the barn(which is on a separate utility circuit and runs the well pump). I go out and cycle the breaker but that doesn't help. Bang on the pump relay but that doesn't help. Not good. By the time I'm sure it's the well pump it's noon on a Friday. Double not good.

Had the well serviced in 2016 but don't remember by whom. Can't find any paperwork. Go to the well head and see who put the well in back in 1997. Number's been disconnected. Online search finds no current record of their existence. Triple not good.

So I get to call up a random well driller I know nothing about,....on a Friday afternoon no less,....and pray that I can have running water again some time next week. FMR.

 

[kaveman]

Oh, one other thing I did before narrowing the problem down to the well pump was dig out a hydrant in the yard. Noticed that one of my 'frost free' hydrants had frozen up over the winter and split the pipe. Evidently the underground weep hole was plugged, trapping water in the upright and freeze cracking the pipe. Noticed that earlier in the week when I went out to flush the lines and had water blasting out from the cracked seam. I was 'hoping' that the hydrant had failed down at the water line and the reason for my lack of water at the house was a busted line. Dug down four feet to get to the line and nothing wet down there. Rats, that's easier/quicker to fix and pay for than a new well pump. I'm paying for the digging and climbing in and out of the hole a dozen times today. I can barely move now.

 

[kaveman]

So the good news,.....I HAVE WATER!! Cold called Oliver Well Drilling out of Mill Creek at NOON on a Friday and they had a truck and crew here within thirty minutes confirming the bad pump and checking out my setup. There was some funkiness going on with the well that they needed some extra supplies to deal with but that gave me an hour to run to town to grab a replacement hydrant. By the time they got back I had returned with the hydrant and got back down in the hole to replace it. They got done before me but only by a couple of minutes and we were ready to run. They were packed up and gone by 4PM and I didn't have to sit around covered in sweat and sand for the entire weekend.

Hey, nothing $3500 and a lot of luck couldn't fix. I can't believe they got me back in business in a day.

 

[jedi]

Moral of the story for jedi.
DO NOT GO SOUTH OF US30 OR EAST OF I65.

that is where they no have water.
Such uncivilized creatures.

 

[kaveman]

I'm further north of US30 than you are.

I am however east of I-65. At least I know the water I'm drinking is safe.

 

[KLB]

So the good news,.....I HAVE WATER!! Cold called Oliver Well Drilling out of Mill Creek at NOON on a Friday and they had a truck and crew here within thirty minutes confirming the bad pump and checking out my setup. There was some funkiness going on with the well that they needed some extra supplies to deal with but that gave me an hour to run to town to grab a replacement hydrant. By the time they got back I had returned with the hydrant and got back down in the hole to replace it. They got done before me but only by a couple of minutes and we were ready to run. They were packed up and gone by 4PM and I didn't have to sit around covered in sweat and sand for the entire weekend.

Hey, nothing $3500 and a lot of luck couldn't fix. I can't believe they got me back in business in a day.

Our well pump switch went out this Winter at the beginning of that bad cold. Called Rippe and got them just as they were packing up for the weekend. 10 minutes later and they would have been gone. They got us back running that afternoon too.

 

[jedi]

I'm further north of US30 than you are.

I am however east of I-65. At least I know the water I'm drinking is safe.

Hey our norther water is "safe".

 

[sadclownwp]

Yesterday I was given a job offer from a new company. 6 month contract to hire position, a very good record of bringing on contractors after 6 months. I counter offered and they accepted. My massive amount of OT working and dealing with unions may be coming to an end.

 

[jedi]

Congrats!

Now that acteons is a lazy bum not working, all those on welfare will thank you for picking up the slack.

Make sure your credit score is high and you give a good down-payment as well cause daddy J is gonna increase the fees on good borrowers as well.

 

[Snapdragon]

40 degrees and teeny-tiny snowflakes floating down.

 

[darkkevin]

Old boat went bye bye today, picked up and cash in hand. Bmv visit to register new boat and let state rob me done, was planning to fertilize the yard today too, but not sure about that now, is it too cold/crummy out to fertilize or should I go ahead and do it?

 

[d.kaufman]

40 degrees and teeny-tiny snowflakes floating down.

Definitely a chilly day especially when compared to a week ago. Freeze warning thru Monday morning.

Brought all the veggie plants back in the house for now

 

[kaveman]

"Snowflakes floating down"

That sounds so nice. All I have here is globules of slush falling into the mud.

 

[actaeon277]

Was going to help a neighbor with a tree down in the yard...
But too chilly and wet.

 

[Ballstater98]

Old boat went bye bye today, picked up and cash in hand. Bmv visit to register new boat and let state rob me done, was planning to fertilize the yard today too, but not sure about that now, is it too cold/crummy out to fertilize or should I go ahead and do it?

Wait until it warms up consistently. Most if the nutrition applied now will go straight down past the roots. I still haven't applied any.