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Nail Rat posted:You need to move somewhere with a new cable provider if that's all that's on TV. I don't have cable because it's all garbage. Streaming or Football. Or I'll turn on baseball for company because I guess it's marginally better than watching paint dry. e: Just realized I sound like one of those "I don't own a TV" people. I'm just too cheap to pay for more HGTV poo poo to be piped into my house.
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May 24, 2016 14:23
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No Butt Stuff posted:I don't have cable because it's all garbage. Streaming or Football. Or I'll turn on baseball for company because I guess it's marginally better than watching paint dry. Baseball is materially worse than watching paint dry.
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May 24, 2016 14:45
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Anyone who likes anything is terrible. highschool.txt
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May 24, 2016 14:48
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The best thing to watch while grilling is cricket, because there is no chance that you will be distracted from the important tasks of drinking and distributing meat. Also, grilling while you watch a test match commits you to five days of grilling, and if anyone tries to stop you can you just say 'But the game is still on!'
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May 24, 2016 14:58
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^^ Beer and a grill are all you need, having a tv out there sucks as everyone is glued to that instead of talking to one another, at least in my experience. Having stuff like a football, frisbee, or bocce ball available is way more fun when everyone is outside anywaysDevian666 posted:They only understand the same location, and even gloves would likely change the smell so it would reject them. I don't think most animals are so dumb that they abandon their children, even if they smell a bit funky. This bird was pretty smart at any rate, it was watching me like a hawk from different spots. I just hope it found where I put the nest 
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May 24, 2016 15:03
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OSU_Matthew posted:I don't think most animals are so dumb that they abandon their children, even if they smell a bit funky. This bird was pretty smart at any rate, it was watching me like a hawk from different spots. I just hope it found where I put the nest A lot of animals aren't sight dominant like us. It'd be like if your child suddenly turned into a different race at the park but smelled the same. You'd probably still think you misplaced your child and give the random abandoned baby to CPS.
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May 24, 2016 15:08
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Describing animals as dumb or not doesn't make much sense, I've personally watched a mother bear eat their own cub on two occasions, nature isn't really smart or dumb so much as it's just way more loving brutal than most people realize.
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May 24, 2016 15:55
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Can you grill under a covered patio? I thought it would leave unsightly char marks on the ceiling.
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May 24, 2016 16:09
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FCKGW posted:Can you grill under a covered patio? I thought it would leave unsightly char marks on the ceiling. Not with clean-burning, efficient propane. Real talk, the covering would need to be like 12-15 ft up for me to want to have my grill running under it.
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May 24, 2016 16:12
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FCKGW posted:Can you grill under a covered patio? I thought it would leave unsightly char marks on the ceiling. I have, for around a year now with no issues. I do have the grill at the edge of the patio though and the smoke doesn't really gather under the roof typically.
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May 24, 2016 16:15
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Yeah I got a propane tank grill under one of those aluminum wood-look patio covers but it's only about 10 feet up. I move it close to the edge when grilling.
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May 24, 2016 16:17
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Vent fans. Like an outdoor kitchen.
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May 24, 2016 16:30
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Frinkahedron posted:I have a birds nest above one of my porch lights right where it meets the wall. I'm afraid to move it because it's little birds season, but I don't want these rear end in a top hat birds messing with my walls, do I just wait them out until the winter then take down the nest? If the nest is empty (no eggs, no babies in it), it's generally okay to remove it, though if it belonged to a species that has more than one brood a year it may prevent them from raising additional broods. OSU_Matthew posted:I don't think most animals are so dumb that they abandon their children, even if they smell a bit funky. This bird was pretty smart at any rate, it was watching me like a hawk from different spots. I just hope it found where I put the nest You're right, but animals can be so dumb as to fail to recognize their children. The bird doesn't know its nest by smell, it knows it by location. It is possible that it understood what you were doing and followed it, but most likely it thinks that nest in the tree is a different nest.
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May 24, 2016 17:35
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Hey, original solarium/sunroom question guy here. Pretty much decided to get a four-season solarium with a baseboard on the patio (gently caress three-seasons, like why). Will wait until fall to hopefully get it for a better price though. As for grilling? I'll be putting in concrete tiles on top of the lawn below as the new patio. Who really needs grass in the backyard anyways?
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May 24, 2016 18:26
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FCKGW posted:Can you grill under a covered patio? I thought it would leave unsightly char marks on the ceiling. Not only could it leave smoke marks, but it could be a fire hazard and violate fire codes. The latter could be an issue if your poo poo does burn up and you now have to worry about your homeowners insurance. Do people get away with it? Sure. Have I done it before? Sure. Is it a good idea? Nope.
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May 24, 2016 18:34
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Zhentar posted:If the nest is empty (no eggs, no babies in it), it's generally okay to remove it, though if it belonged to a species that has more than one brood a year it may prevent them from raising additional broods. Yeah basically there's nothing in that bird's many millions of years of evolution that would ever make it need to adapt to a situation where it's nest full of eggs got moved to a different location many yards away. So its instinct is to find its nest right where it left it... or not, if the nest got raided by a predator. And humans with eyes on the front of their faces are visually keyed as predators. That said, it's just a mourning dove. They're not endangered, they're prolific breeders, and they'll be OK. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 18:50 on May 24, 2016 |
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May 24, 2016 18:48
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Leperflesh posted:Yeah basically there's nothing in that bird's many millions of years of evolution that would ever make it need to adapt to a situation where it's nest full of eggs got moved to a different location many yards away. So its instinct is to find its nest right where it left it... or not, if the nest got raided by a predator. Speaking of the birds and the trees, there's a dead ash tree that's leaning towards my house. I noticed the crown was dead last year, so I figured it probably has ash borer, and sure enough, this year it didn't sprout leaves at all. Problem is, it's right on the edge of my neighbors property, and as far as I know, that house has been abandoned since before I moved in. What do I do?
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May 24, 2016 19:10
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OSU_Matthew posted:Good to know! I thought it was some flavor of dove, but wasn't sure. That makes sense on the location thing, because it kept picking at the screened mesh guard I put over where its nest was, after I got back on the ground and pulled down the ladder. 
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May 24, 2016 20:50
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SiGmA_X posted:Cut it down at night Now I'm wondering just how bad of an idea it'd be to use a chainsaw at night with night-vision goggles.
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May 24, 2016 21:04
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The epitome of stealth. Using a chainsaw at night.
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May 24, 2016 21:06
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If you do it after a pint its entirely safe. And I mean of whiskey because you're using a chainsaw.
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Kritzkrieg Kop posted:Hey, original solarium/sunroom question guy here. Grass yards are kind of the worst part about home ownership, so I say go for it. And if you have any grass left then toss a raised garden bet on it (or don't and just rip the grass out if that's a good option) and then plant something that you can eat later You could plant a potato mound, more home owners should have potato mounds. What's a potato mound, you ask? It's exactly what it sounds like. QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 01:41 on May 25, 2016 |
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May 25, 2016 01:39
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If the house is abandoned, just cut the tree so it falls into the neighbors yard and leave it. Either way send the owner certified notice that the tree is a hazard so you can sue them for damages. If you don't it falling is just an act of God and you can't sue him.
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May 25, 2016 13:52
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Elephanthead posted:If the house is abandoned, just cut the tree so it falls into the neighbors yard and leave it. Either way send the owner certified notice that the tree is a hazard so you can sue them for damages. If you don't it falling is just an act of God and you can't sue him. Thanks! I was thinking I should try to send something certified mail, I looked up the owner's currentaddress via the county auditors website so that's probably where I should start then. Is there any sort of template I should follow, or should I offer to help pay some of the tree removal since it touches my property line?
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May 25, 2016 15:40
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QuarkJets posted:Grass yards are kind of the worst part about home ownership, so I say go for it. I'm looking into converting one of my side yards from an overgrown patch of weeds and dog crap into a fenced off area for raised beds of vegetables. I shall now consider a potato mound.
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May 25, 2016 18:39
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Well, gotta dig up the fuckin backyard and fix whatever the hell is wrong with my sewer main. There goes $15-20k.
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May 25, 2016 19:32
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Inverse Icarus posted:I'm looking into converting one of my side yards from an overgrown patch of weeds and dog crap into a fenced off area for raised beds of vegetables. I shall now consider a potato mound. The problem I have with growing potatoes is that they're just about the cheapest food you can buy. So you're gonna go to a lot of manual labor in order to save yourself like $20 on potatoes. The solution is probably to grow weird heirloom potato varieties or something.
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May 25, 2016 22:26
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Breaking in my new grill today. Awwwwwww Yiiiiiissss!
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May 25, 2016 22:47
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They have been replacing the waterlines in my part of the city for the past couple of months, tore up the front of my yard to do it, which had the fill settle about 1ft during a rain storm last month. Yesterday I got home to seeing what looked like a sand boil and a pipe headed to my house to under the street (about 2 feet above the new water line and tied into god knows what). Today, I got home to this: Isn't home ownership amazing. Edit: I forgot to add that my sprinkler system is likely totally wrecked, since the line went along the street and to add insult to injury, they pulled out my mailbox. Oil! fucked around with this message at 23:24 on May 25, 2016 |
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May 25, 2016 23:18
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The gas company is replacing a main line that runs under all the tree lawns with a new plastic one. Apparently the old one is some rusted out metal thing that's been slowly leaking gas out everywhere. Hope no one tosses a cig on my tree lawn before this poo poo is replaced. Or ever because gently caress litterbugs.
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May 25, 2016 23:31
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Cable guy came today to hook up Internet, went to connect to ground and found this:  I'm getting my federal pacific panel replaced next week anyway, but I found a metal clamp at work to retie to the ground rod in the mean time 
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May 25, 2016 23:51
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VendaGoat posted:Breaking in my new grill today. Awwwwwww Yiiiiiissss! I over did my steak by ten minutes.  Now I know for next time. 
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Leperflesh posted:The problem I have with growing potatoes is that they're just about the cheapest food you can buy. So you're gonna go to a lot of manual labor in order to save yourself like $20 on potatoes. It's about 10 minutes of manual labor for about $20 worth of potatoes. They're super easy to grow and harvest. You can go all out with careful fertilization schedules if you want to grow super big potatoes in nicely organized rows or something but that's totally unnecessary.
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May 26, 2016 01:44
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VendaGoat posted:I over did my steak by ten minutes. Get a gas leak pen detector if you have an... um... gas, grill? Also just signed a contract with my gc for a new deck, patio, and small fence around the heat exchanger, basement storm door, and electric meter. He's getting permits and everything, wheeee! I'll post before and after photos of my horrible mistake.
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I was recently browsing the deck threads in reddit's DIY section (gah) and I'm pretty sure you are Doing The Right Thing Here.
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I knew this going in, but houses are expensive. Part of our fence blew down from storms we had, and I need to replace all the posts because they're old as hell. Some panels are good, some need replaced. The wife wants to install some new privacy fence along our back property line, and fence in a few other small areas so the dog can run around the backyard without being able to escape. Sounds like a great plan. Measured everything, priced out materials, even buying everything on sale I'm up to $1,700 in materials, and that doesn't include the post hole digger or permits. I'm having family help install so I won't pay labor, just food + beer for a weekend, but I'm easily going to be over $2,000 for the fence. We need to get a dehumidifier for our basement and it looks like we're going to be spending around $200 on that. My wife wants a new microwave, and I agree we need a new one, but we're looking at another $100+ there. We both want a new faucet for our kitchen sink because the current one is set very low and I always bang dishes on it when I wash them. Fuckin faucets are expensive too, another $150+. We don't want to go with the cheapest thing possible, but at the same time, is there really a difference between a $150 and $250 sink faucet? I can't tell if there is. This is why we have jobs and savings accounts and bought under our budget, but still, I feel like 
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Man you have no idea, the good problems are the ones that take less than $10K to fix. The good years are the years where you only had one bad problem.
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May 27, 2016 04:53
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I did the numbers the other day, I totalled about $25k in major repairs and improvements over 5 years. Not too shabby!
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So far after buying in 2011 we have replaced the roof, remodeled a bathroom, painted the inside, outside, and decks, replaced the gutters and downspouts, refinished the hardwood, replaced the carpets. And now we are about to do a natural gas conversion, remodel the kitchen, replace all the appliances, remodel the other bathroom, and fix the side sewer. gently caress houses, spend money.
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