Did you win yet? ;)

I see that I won $65 in yesterday's lottery since I got 4 out of 6.

Our porch got attacked by vicious animals today, but my kitten was there to stop them and save the day!

Reggie Saves the day!


Sorry for the shaky camera, trying to remember where the "backlight" was and when I found it I didn’t like it so I turned it back off....

We got some pics as well; I'll see what is worth posting from them in a bit

great movie, you wont see that in holland , if we are lucky we only see those squirrels or chipmunks in the forrests or in an shop..we have only ducks and goose.............alot

Just think, next year we will get 06-06-06 - the day of the beast.

Hmmm.

Alex

Just wait until the cute little rodents make holes all over your screens and you get to re-screen your porch. |banghead|

or the landscaper's weedeater.

I think that is how the duck got in the other day.

Here are some pics of the deadly attack.

Warning: not suitable for children or those will heart problems!


YOU BEEN WARNED!

Good afternoon.

I've been sick in bed for the last few days, watching countless hours of quality History, Discovery and Sci-Fi programming. :)

I've also downed a pharmacy's worth of Vitamin C, Zinc and echinacea, which has helped a little. So it may be a day or so before I catch up on reviews and stuff. :)

Happy Cinco De Mayo |bananna| |bananna|

GG the pool better be warm for the weekend when i come over. :D
But remember you only have to fill the pool up half way so i can get in and it won't over flow. |couch|

There is something oddly surreal about driving to Home Depot in the pouring rain to buy more sprinkler supplies. I did remember to finally buy a new doormat for my front door.

we just got nailed hard by a down pour, street is flooded which I havent seen since Jeanne in Sept.


that was 10 mins ago, now the sun is out and it's muggy as all hell

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/latest.../si.kamx.shtml

I'm under the top of the a in Belle Glade -- it started raining here a minute ago. I've been hearing threatening thunder all afternoon, but, until just this instant, not a drop of rain. Yesterday I drove one direction to get lunch and it was pouring, drive the other direction to the bank and it was pouring, but, at the house, not much of anything except for a few drops here and there.

now it is pouring, but the sun is shining brightly.

If you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes.

We are getting it pretty hard here. I was going to go to Lowe's instead since the Home Depot by me was out of a few things but decided to go to Home Depot since they have a two story parking lot that keeps the first floor dry.

I did notice what potable generators they had. I saw a 4400 one for a bit over a grand. Something about memories of storms past made me notice them. Would be nice to have enough electric to run a TV, computer and a few lights instead of sitting there bored as hell wondering when the utilities will work again. Been also thinking of getting cheap ADSL service for a backup in case the cable goes out again.

Damn I'm not looking forward to hurricane season again.

I bought a 5600 from Sears for $749 during Frances. Lowes and Home Depot had 5500s for about $780, but never any in stock. During Frances our DSL stayed up, but we had no phones or cell service. I got Vonage before Jeanne, but then our DSL was out. :) I think our neighbor had an 1100 that he picked up pretty cheaply that ran his fridge and a small TV.

After Jeanne at night before the power was restored I kept thinking... it is costing me $2/hour to run these two fans. haha

I do have to do a bit of electrical work very soon so that I don't have to run suicide plugs.

With the 5600, I could run two computers, laptop, router, switch, home theater (without the subwoofer), fridge, microwave, ceiling fans, two portable fans that I bought at Walmart........ and the hot water heater. :) We had lighting throughout the house and the ceiling fans worked fine. I did eventually go on a kick and replace most of the overhead indoor floods with compact fluorescents and replaced most of the lights in the vanity. I think I figured I was saving $5/month for the ones in the living room. Not saving much on the bathroom lights since they are rarely on anyhow.

I hate fluorescences, I have everything on dimmers and you can't use them with dimmers.

How much fuel does something like a 5600 use per 24 hours? Did you just switch off the main and plug the generator into your house's circuit or did you do extension cords all over the place?

Yeah fans, fridge, TV, music, MICROWAVE, a few lights and I would be in heaven. I don't want to ever have to BBQ morning coffee in the hot humid morning again.

it used about 1/2 a gallon per hour at light load (fans, etc), about a gallon per hour when we were watching DVDs and using lights. My home theater is a bit of a power hog. I think I calculated it costs about $1/hour at FPL rates to watch it.

I turned off the main breaker, ran two suicide plugs, one to each phase of the house. I built a cable for my neighbor which used the LS-20 twistlock and went into his dryer plug. Slightly safer when you plug in to the generator AFTER you have unplugged the dryer and plugged in your cord.

What I have partially installed is an outdoor recepticle, I intend to pour a concrete pad for the generator once I can come up with some method to make it difficult enough that any thief will take a neighbors generator rather than mine, and I have a subpanel for the inside.

http://store.yahoo.com/ekimco/t020n.html
http://www.gen-tran.com/Merchant2/me...roduct_Count=4

One day I will get around to installing this. I have the outdoor enclosure installed and the conduit to the garage attic, but this weekend I might do the preliminary work and put a few circuits over on it. Theres a lot of planning going into it because I want to put my office and the master bedroom on their own subpanel later on so that I could run those off battery. Running two fans off a battery is much quieter and the neighbors wouldn't really scream much.

If you really just wanted something easy, and didn't want to go the subpanel route, and didn't mind flipping breakers, I would probably run an outdoor box like this, get a 6' twistlock Male to Female cable, and run the box to the dryer outlet with a disconnect switch. Then, with whiteout or tape, mark the unnecessary breakers. During a power outage, turn off the main, turn off the marked breakers, flip the switch at the dryer, plug in the generator and power up.

The subpanel route if you hired an electrician would probably cost $1200-$1500 including parts.

I thought about a whole-house generator, but, I lack the cash for that right now. Although, if I had A/C, during Frances I'm sure I could have charged $30/head. I do intend to buy a window air conditioner prior to this season so that the bedroom can be cooled off. Perhaps a second one in case we have guests.

morning ppls
I don't have much...
But I did enjoy National Treasure MML, some of it was like The Da Vinci Code, which I enjoyed reading a while back. Am keen to see that movie.

Thank Gawdess...i was worried for a minute there..


actually it was France. napoleon installed his brother in law maximillion (or something like that) as king of mexico.. and this was the 1st battle towards their defeat or something close to that.. so maybe we should drink drink margaritas while eating snails au poive.

I may need to think about going to Home Depot anonymous meetings.

Si, bueno cinco de mayo!

Como estas tu?

cd, you can pour a pad, and set islets into it that you can chain down to. Surround the entire pad with a cage. It won't stop it from being stolen from someone who is really into it, but it will slow them down.

Alex

good morning!
Hope everyone had a good Cinco De Mayo.:)