The gel stuff made me nervous. Google showed some guy cutting a 3" hole in the base, using a 4 to 3 PVC reducer and something called a grip cap that has a seal that expands to fill the hole. I spent about $7 and it saved about 2 hours of annoying work.
I didn't fill it all the way for this reason. I have two 40 lb sand bags that I place on top and can remove so that I can move the hoop.
When my wife turned 30 she said, "I'm 30 and pregnant, don't you dare throw me a party." She did get pretty good blowouts for her 40th and 45th, however.
A government employee fearful of new ways. Check!
Hey. That's not fair. I bought purple windshield wiper fluid last time instead of the traditional blue stuff.
Just got the updated commodity report, and lumber and plywood are up again - they were already at historically high levels. Owing to the wildfires last year, and tariff arguments with Canada, costs have been rising steadily since last fall. The overall lumber prices are more than twice what they were a year ago.
Until lately, the problem has been supply (no logs because of the fires) - but now the mills are in full production, and we have transportation issues. Trains are scarce, trucks are scrambling to keep up because there simply aren't enough drivers, and the DOT has tightened logging regulations, so drivers can't "cheat" and drive extra hours.
Meanwhile, we here at the retail level are stuck trying to explain this to pissed off builders and contractors, who mostly don't accept our explanations as truth. Not fun at the lumber yard these days.......
Jewelry almost always works for me.
I know of a small lake in New Hampshire that the trees had been logged many many years earlier. If you took a boat out in it you could find logs floating vertically just beneath the surface. Even if it was big enough for a speed boat it would have been far too dangerous.
That wouldn't work for me. I don't wear necklaces, watches, or bracelets. I used to wear earrings but got out of the habit and now one of the holes has closed over; I've been thinking about going down to the Heroic Ink and getting them re-pierced, but just haven't gotten around to it yet.Jewelry almost always works for me.
That wouldn't work for me. I don't wear necklaces, watches, or bracelets. I used to wear earrings but got out of the habit and now one of the holes has closed over; I've been thinking about going down to the Heroic Ink and getting them re-pierced, but just haven't gotten around to it yet.
As for rings - I wear the same five, all the time. They rarely come off. They're generational - right hand, pinkie is a garnet (my birthstone), ring finger is a blue topaz (my grandmother's birthstone ring passed down to me). Left hand, pinkie is an amethyst (my mother's birthstone ring also passed down to me), ring finger is wedding ring (natch!), and middle finger is my mother's ring, given to me by our kids about 15 years ago. It has each of their birthstones in the shape of a heart. I chose the middle finger deliberately - that way when they annoy me I can ask them if they want to see my mother's ring.
The point of that explanation is that all of them are precious to me, and represent my family and my life, so I don't switch them out with others.
So you can see why buying jewelry is a bust for PapaLew!
