Roll Call - Wednesday, August 5, 2020
shenry111
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Good Morning!
This flooring project is just leaving me exhausted. I'm trying to get to the end of the next step. Last night, I got all of the full sheets of tile dry fitted, and now I'm cutting the edge pieces. That won't take long, it just seems like it. There will be another trip to the hardware store, because I want to use spacers. There is no way to keep the spacing close without some spacers. I won't need them between each little piece, but just enough to keep me on track. With those little octagons, even attached to a sheet, if you get just a little off, it can really be seen. In the following picture, I can see places where the tiles are too close or too far, but that is because they are dry, and moving on them shifts them a little.
Work has still been very busy. Our sales are up 17% this year. We simply cannot make units fast enough. We could throw some more people at it, but some materials are hard to get during the pandemic.
I'm feeling too tired to get on the treadmill this morning, so you get a bit of a more windy report this morning.
Have a great day!
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Mornin' gents.
Coming along, Steve! I hear you, practice is so busy it is wearing me out and have little energy to do much else.
Power out from wind downed trees and power poles since yesterday afternoon. Clinic is still out too, and we have never been without power at the clinic for more than an hour because we are on the same line as the human hospital just down the road.
Gonna be some chainsaws buzzing along with continuous generators humming.
Be OP ;-)0 -
Mornin'
Tiles will look nice, Steve. As long as you have another bathroom, no serious need to rush. The journey is an opportunity to aways learn something new.
We had a lot of wind on and off and my potted plants all got a bit ravaged, but only a few hours of rain and never lost power. Storm went further west of here than thought originally. I remember back when Irene came through, VT was devastated, with scores of mountain stream bridges all washed out and whole towns stranded as a result. They had to copter in food. Isaias was a lot tamer. '38 hurricane devastated whole Northeast, wiped out whole MA & NH forests. Before fed'l flood control projects we have now.
Hiked yesterday morning for a few hours before wind started. Hoping to hike this morning with DS but haven't confirmed yet.0 -
Good Morning,
Tile is looking good, cuts, quick-set, grout and baseboard; making progress.
My tomatoes is only harm we say as storm brushed past GA
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Good morning gentlemen.
Yet another reason I like living in the Northwest: no tropical storms. Glad you all got through with minimal damage.
Tile job is looking good, Steve.
I ate my first two apples off our tree, for 2020, yesterday. Variety is William's Pride, a local cultivar. Nice floral sweet-tart flavor and a good crunch. We'll have really good apples for about two weeks, then they will be past their prime. Our other remaining tree is a golden delicious. It's apples have never been very good. It's there mostly as a pollenator. After we get back from camping, next week, Rita will be busily peeling cutting and prepping apples for freezing - future pies and crisps. She will also complain that it is too much work and we should cut the trees down. It's a tradition. We always end up laughing about it.0 -
Good Morning
Steve, the tile job is looking good. You are in the home stretch.
We don't really get storms here either. A work colleague from Iowa was out here working during one of our storms and said he wanted to go into the city after work. "In this storm?" we all said. He looked out the window and smirked and said "What storm?". An inch of rain in a day is a lot for us. Can't say I'm jealous.0
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