At least those come out. Water wipes fight tooth and nail to stay in the package


WITNESS MEEEEEHHH!!!!


Bitcoin AND bullets


Ahhhh the memories lol


I prefer this version:

https://youtu.be/DeYrIVOCf50?si=k4y2xgFiuTdL-3Qm


Built some 2” pipe handrails for the side hustle today, and realized I was kind of tired of my cheap apron just swinging all around at the bottom. Got home, got supper and put the youngins and wife to bed, now I’m up after cutting and stitching on my apron to turn it into a split leg style and make the pockets more functional lol

And yes, I’m in the floor in my kitchen.

#Handyman #Leather #DIY #SkilledTrades #Welding #ToolsOfTheTrades #Insomniac #GrowNostr https://image.nostr.build/350433c16555f73c44c7727b5382be28fed9df448f55c9845d75cdc15d2c04da.jpg


#HomeBirth #GrowNostr


My wife was on a podcast a while back, the episode just came out a couple weeks ago. Thought I’d share it here.

PS: there’s actually quite a bit edited out of this episode, like the fact we cut contact with my mom and had to move a couple months prior to my dad passing, and that in December after my first daughter was born I had to have my Australian shepherd, who had been with me for almost exactly a decade, put down.

https://fountain.fm/episode/IpIkz3ytCq1q2KtOZ8gX


Yeah that sounds like some shit me and my buddy would do. That crane on the back of my truck is actually off an engine hoist, welded to a hub assembly from an early 90’s dodge diesel for the pivot lol


The ol #TruggaDugga got to earn its keep yesterday, and I got to practice with that ol hot rod Lincoln we mounted. Probably the first time I’ve melted a stick in 10 years or better. Took a couple tips from my boy Evan and I was back to laying decent beads.

#SkilledTrades #Handyman #ServiceTruck #FiatMiner #MobileWelding https://video.nostr.build/527bcc38bdb088fd066a8fb4fb80ef0f13326063a175f3040849e086f82463e6.mp4 https://image.nostr.build/5ec9bbc3dba856e97821f3b32fecac48ac7cdfb49f0ff641d46dfb4d32e92b25.jpg


I knew something was off about the whole thing lol


It helped some Americans…lol


Idk man, I’m pretty sure the Breton woods agreement was not to Britain’s advantage lol


It’s only treason if you lose


Yeah…I didn’t realize people were that far gone…I retract my previous statement.

I’d also be the ass to lowball them and then remove that paint lol


Just having it be the dungeon master is badass, hardly anybody wants to be a DM.


To be fair, that false antiquing with paint is where the money is. Source: me and my wife have Sold many a piece that wouldn’t sell before paint, and for more money.

I did pay my bills one slow summer a couple years ago building benches from 2x4’s and 2x6’s though, most of those were a simple stain and poly. Sold ‘em for like 4x the cost of materials lol


Hell I wish. It’s my buddy’s boss’ shop. He let us use it and the equipment for the day cause he’s a cool dude lol


Indeed. Got big plans for the pathfinder too if I can ever get back around to it. Just far more money in mobile welding around here than it is being a handyman lol


Thanks man! Still got a long way to
Go to get it where I want it, but I can at least get started on making some money with it. In fact, possibly be doing some heavy equipment repair on the 4th lol


Been a hot, busy, productive day. Me and my boy Evan got some shit done on the #TruggaDugga today, ready to start making some of that sweet, sweet side money.

#SkilledTrades #Hustle #DIY #GrowNostr https://image.nostr.build/a86500c9b189ef77a1b76536ef8e6766996f82c02745973a4e63acc48fa403a5.jpg https://image.nostr.build/0da70ca4e5594392ce637cdf12cb76a7822b61b4ff117300f3d510d4ac182258.jpg https://image.nostr.build/dea4f283659a87feaed458aa85fd61261f70298cecbf3d14658f9a4f474fff6a.jpg


I wish my impulse was only “if I had a tank I’d totally run over that…” instead it’s “I wonder what would happen if I hit that in this piece of shit?”


Is it just me or does shit like that just make you want to run over it and see what happens?


Yeah, that’s what I was trying to say but kept wanting to say stratify but then argued with myself for like 5 minutes as to whether or not that was the right word lol I’ve been up since 3am (it’s just now almost 7 here in North Carolina), and am 2 dips, 2 cigarettes and half an energy drink in lol


Not exactly. You could use it in place of the Vaseline in this little trick video.

Generally speaking stuff like tallow and Vaseline don’t hold flame very well by themselves. You soak a cloth (wick) or cotton ball or other such easily lit object and not only does that object become water resistant but it now lights easier and burns longer.


It’s a great position to be in lol


Oh that’s badass dude


Current conditions plus current work site. I’ve had one energy drink and about half a gallon of salted, carbon filtered well water since 6am. ITS HOT.

PS: truck scales are simultaneously my favorite and most hated scale to work on. https://image.nostr.build/7cbbb226804f194df9d838b8bf213873a1d36eb26bb1f426bccfed928d83c080.jpg https://image.nostr.build/7514f4684464313e7139fb4dc3f08e9012e4c489ff4bcbd83b90e2663b0788c3.jpg


That’s a sweet coop though. Them chickens don’t realize they gonna be in the lap of luxury.


More than I can count lol


‘Nother Day, ‘Nother sat. Hurry up and wait status currently. Maybe eventually they’ll give us a couple silos to test the scales on, til then I’m getting paid to sit in the shade.

Also, #HydrateOrDie folks, it’s a hot one out here.

#ScaleTech #BigIndustry #NoCommunication #SkilledTrades #DailyGrind #FiatMiner https://image.nostr.build/850bcb2c23814e0578afc6dfd8665e991f8030d14cf9a5bfc8d12cbbbec11950.jpg


Doooooooo it!


Ahhh womens lol


#meme #memestr #nostrmemes
https://video.nostr.build/e4450ed0315e98227169ff8479b328191bd5b82e7ff810bff1e6bfb05817a3c6.mp4


My favorite is when I come home to find my wife scrolling TikTok, she continues to scroll TikTok for the next hour or better, then complains that she hasn’t had time to do anything around the house. Lol


I can’t tell you the last time I ate any chicken, it all seems to not have any taste. But a hunk of some grass fed beef or pasture raised pork, yes please lol. We tried some local wagyu a few months back (heavily grain fed beef) and even my oldest daughter left it sitting on her plate, while normally she’s picking out the meat and leaving the rest.

All that to say, it may be worth trying to find some local grass fed beef and pork, or even chicken, just to give it a shot and see if it makes any difference in the “funny taste” you referred to. There’s also some theories out there that you shouldn’t be eating all kinds of stuff from other places, because those plants don’t have the same circadian rhythms and the nutrient profiles from those other places may not be what’s needed in your area. Not sure how much credence I put into that but it is something I consider. I’ve not managed to find a local cattle farm I can make work with our schedule so most of our beef comes from Aldi.


This is why you just go carnivore. Slap some meat in a pan, warm
It up, devour. Lol


We had ‘em in NC. Used the wax to keep part of my molar in place when it broke due to a cavity, once lol


I came here to say the same thing as nostr:npub1q6ya7kz84rfnw6yjmg5kyttuplwpauv43a9ug3cajztx4g0v48eqhtt3sh and also acknowledge the valid point same as nostr:npub1q6ya7kz84rfnw6yjmg5kyttuplwpauv43a9ug3cajztx4g0v48eqhtt3sh lol


We did indeed, got the binder racks made and then talked about making money lol https://image.nostr.build/36d862b4e0bb0a65542e8657a35b3c98f1dae9c9f393a9cc87610237f194d173.jpg https://image.nostr.build/33c12aab8fac7449074cf512bff22d424e4fd6694367f15b59d7dbd7a154156a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/014c5ea61ec45e1078d7ce61001ce850ac0a98405a548be1400e4bc933a9b36c.jpg


Agenda for today; make some racks for my chain binders in the truck, followed by hopefully having time left to get started on building a crane for the truck. We shall see how the day goes.


Honeypot. She’s a he, and he’s a fed lol


Hopefully you can push it there faster than my truck went up 77 lol


I may not be able to write code, but I can weld and haul and build things, hit me up when we need to start building some repeater towers or some shit for the ISP-free interwebz


Well we can’t trust your eyes for that count, you been sitting on your glasses!


Right?


My suggestion is to stop stepping on them.


I dare say it would make them check and double check before they busted down a house. Had a long discussion about this with a couple cop friends who had assumed that us EMS and Firefighters also had qualified immunity, which Mr and my EMS buddy quickly shot down lol


I hope whoever wrote this gets a call from their father about how disappointed he is in their shitty journalism and how he wasted his health for them to write this kind of bullshit.


I don’t blame him. You don’t generally have hundreds of distracted idiots on steep mountains nor deep seas, and if they are present they aren’t generally piloting 1 or 2 ton missiles.


Y’all gon make me lose my mind


He’s right you know.


I would have hit her. And probably the second woman that decided she had a right to put hands on me too. You don’t just go around putting your hands on people and then be shocked when you get put in your place.


Yeah, but it was genuine, not just “i drink beer in my pickup truck”


That can really be said of any and all religions and creation myths though.


Dr Seus reads a lot different at 30 than it did at 5. Anything you read will change with your life experiences and understandings. nostr:npub1dw840cz87spfe2f4j86a2c0yc23y0l6exygh6fgwk9qxegegj7dqp4yrlv you honestly seem to be projecting a little. You can no more state as fact that Christianity is not the truth than Jeff can (not that he really has) state as fact that Christianity is the only way. I got no dog in as I don’t buy fully into any religion, but lack of evidence for a thing is not immediately evidence that it doesn’t exist.


If we talkin about his terrestrial/industry shit then yeah I ain’t digging it. The shit he did independent is way better. Especially the stuff he did with Struggle Jennings


We talking before or after he got on the terrestrial radio?


If you just want to eat shit then say so, woman! Butt seriously, that would probably make the situation worse lol


No, you’d never develop a proper gut biome that way. It would constantly be in flux and you’d probably end up feeling like…well…shit.


US Congress would pass it anyway “cause we have to pass it to find out what’s in it”


This was also my answer lol


But I would zap the guy on my maps app telling me there’s a car crash ahead


I did a Meyers-Briggs test, was getting really ancy when it was explaining me to a T off some seemingly bullshit questions, AND THEN THEY HAD THE GALL TO SAY IN THE DAMNED THING “you’re probably pretty creeped out just reading this right now” WTF. That’s the closest I’ve ever come to literally throwing my phone out the window.


Very


X gon give it to ya


Yeahhhh….they’re both girls too, and only 13 months apart….my backhoe is gonna stay so busy digging random unexplained holes in my backyard…


I mean, I totally earned it lol I was a fuckin hellspawn demon child, red headed and all. Now I got two red headed children of my own lol


Nothing like the thwack of a leather work belt to return your feet to the straight and narrow path…or having to pick your own switch from the golden bell bush…


*computer nerds


Waiting on my company laptop to download and install a program over the hotspot on my company phone so that I can install a print template on a printer …been here for 2 hours just staring at my screen….this should really be a thing the computer needs do, not us service techs lol


Nah, rolling is only like a 2x. It goes 10x when they start crawling, and then exponential when they start walking. The walking difficulty, being exponential, then also doubles every week as they gain more height, and things that were just out of their reach yesterday are now somehow magically in their hands…well, now mouth…brb….


You could always make it rocket propelled and just carry a shitload of them…you’d be slow but who wouldn’t be freaked out by a fuckin sword flying straight at their face with a stream of
Flames behind it?


I agreed that he was a socialist and hypocrite, but from what I’d seen he wrote the book as propaganda against some other form of socialism that he didn’t like. That’s just the vibe I got anyway, I could well have missed some juicy details as the last time I really dug in was probably over 10 years ago.

Secondary point, kill your heroes. Ain’t nary a man from history that ain’t got something that makes you scratch your head, including the ones who started the USA lol pick up on the truths in their thoughts and writings and lift up the ideals, not the humans.


#Dramastr https://image.nostr.build/7a59771f617b42e79f703acef998721ddbfa8f8019766d141db02d69bac769aa.gif


#Dramastr

This weekend been wild on the #Nostr lol


Correction, I meant “he meant it as a warning”


He was one form of a socialist, don’t remember what kind he claimed, and from what I’ve gathered in my research of him he wrote 1984 on the evils of some other form of socialism that he didn’t like. So, a hypocrite and blind in thinking his “good” socialism would lead to utopia, but I do think he meant 1984 as a manual


Mad respect for this. Do you, boo boo.


Yeah, and face tattoos definitely hurt an individual in the professional world, even in the trades.


And that’s totally cool. I will agree that paying money for some shitty artwork, or just getting some random flash is bad money, but if the work is done well and/or has some meaning to the bearer, I see it very little different from a t-shirt with something “cool” on it, or a picture hanging on your wall. There’s also something to be said about the fact that tattoos will literally go with you to your grave. Lol


Meh, sometimes you just need to enjoy life.


I’ll pass. I’ve been playing “why isn’t the filling machine filling bags correctly” lol


But does it let you smell the color nine?


No problem dude! Glad we could make it happen. Here’s a pic of the load before we came down the mountain https://image.nostr.build/95a0aec56d9116eed6eea820abb2d59c69405c58fcfb289b6189111a35b1feef.jpg


Got the ol’ dirty diesel out stretching her legs this mornin’.

#Haulin #Truckstr #Carstr #Handyman #DIY #Toolstr #SkilledTrades #GrowNostr https://image.nostr.build/a8a56d4addc56e382d097707787b44c2b7eb5007a61dce2272c7fe9b002859df.jpg


Indeed. Me and my best friend in those days found one after a rain, and it was super slick and super fast. Thing flung me off, I grabbed hold for dear life and got drug around it at least one full revolution before he realized he’d just gotten hit by my flailing legs, meanwhile I’m getting drug through the mud. It was a great time.


…I see your point…but also I kinda need that in my life…


Fake, no female is that honest.


Lift with your legs.

When your wife is complaining about something completely illogical (it will happen, you’ll think your wife is smarter than that and then wham, out of nowhere comes the most ridiculous complaint you’ve ever heard) just say ok and forget about it, she’ll complain about the exact opposite thing tomorrow. It’s annoying, it’s just a thing they do.

Never stop learning. You literally have the world’s knowledge in your pocket, use it.

Also, don’t let that knowledge machine suck you in to where you ignore your wife and kids. Be present when they’re around.


Yes, but I’ve slowed way down on the handyman work, at least for now. Still got everything setup and waiting to get to it, but between my wife volunteering at the pregnancy center and projects around the house and the amount of overtime I get at this new job, it just ain’t been worth trying to do. My main customer has also pretty well driven me crazy, hopping from project to project and severely underestimating timelines for those projects even after I tell her what kind of timeline she can expect lol


Yeah I’m a couple episodes in and so far it’s been far better than I expected


Got a headache rack with a chain rack made for the utility bed, along with handles for climbing in the bed that double as hangers, and a new fuel fill pocket as well as extending both fuel filler necks to fit. Unfortunately I forgot pics of everything but the headache rack lol

#Truckstr #Carstr #DIY #WannabeWelder #SkilledTrades #Handyman #IDI #DirtyOlDiesel https://image.nostr.build/e7680b22044649c0e1f69a9ab80a8ef16a8848167b41905edf648cb216544b97.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e1e1c45d34f613548d442c3c6185077d5b688efcec1cf3df8c971873454157bd.jpg


Hell yeah, not a bad engine option. Them 4.9l straight 6’s are unkillable though, I miss the two I had lol


Please tell me it’s a 4.9l L6?


Which engine you got on that thing?


It’s finally happened. And no, the crane is not attached to my
Truck, it’s my buddy’s. Didn’t realize how much it looked like it was on my truck until after the pic was taken lol.

#Carstr #Truckster #IDI #SkilledTrades #ServiceTruck #Handyman #Toolstr https://image.nostr.build/3d3981d9ee06bc36cd5066957d56f7a671a922e0db4232cea9074a70f240f9a7.jpg


DM sent


Yeah it was pretty great. It was a weekend firefighting school, there was like 5 of us from my department and probably 40 or more total from my county, one of our 5 went for a smoke break and came back to find a Smirnoff ice. Whole bar side starting chanting “Chug it” and then this little 5 ft nothin bald headed scared manager came out and said we had to leave cause “there’s families over there!” And we were like “ok, we’ll pay and get gone but we need a check”. Took ‘em 45 minutes to get us a damn check, we kept up our pace the whole time lol


Yeah, people who take their families to a bar and then are shocked when bar things happen are hilarious. Me and the boys got kicked out of an Applebees at 9pm on a Friday lol


I’ll def be checking that out.

While not a podcast, you might enjoy the Monster Hunters International book series. Be forewarned, it’s written by a gun nerd, so if you’re not into guns some parts may be a bit boring to you, but it lends a level of realism that lacks from most authors(I myself being a gun nerd wish most authors not familiar with guns would just skip their details lol)


Reality and facts have yet to stop a govt from making a thing illegal.


Out here doin’ the lord’s work!!


I’m just saying here…I ain’t seen a tractor with a cab where you don’t sit in said cab….lol


Not even one.


Yeah doing good, just been trying to adjust to my new schedule and learn new skills lol


Been busy! Started new job calibrating scales at the end of January, then got the hand foot mouth plague and that took me out for a whole week. Still dealing with my skin peeling from where the blisters were, which also happens to mean I’ve lost all my calluses. Anyway, been at a plant testing all their silo scales, here’s some pics of the rigging we have to set up in order to pick up the 6000lbs of test weights.

#SkilledTrades #Hustle #Rigging #Toolstr #Handyman #GrowNostr https://image.nostr.build/bfbd73ca57db404d61c1eddb388a72e6c990c08c6c1612dc14c0cc9fef819ee7.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ce091d3c9aebc364749622e7800a44b0064c94899252174e2893f0df2c0090e4.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c25890910cfc007b9d71138c284052350ab9be852a90f1503a1241aedc5d280c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ddb43373ed3859ce65318eef3d6a4fb14fa7bc609e2d3320c4472396496a7798.jpg https://image.nostr.build/01c72c2c7262d0898c4d0e76c1b94c5661f9c4913cd66a433e1deed3a5cb6a9e.jpg


I still look at the charts. Most of the stuff I live on is priced in USD, and it’s also a great way to remind yourself just how shitty the USD is and so you should buy more sats even though the price is up. #NeverEnough


#StayStrappedOrGetClapped


Need to hit up Aldi, bro lol


I think you meant to say “nasty”, because it is, indeed, nasty.


Ah, that makes decent sense. Much easier to figure a thing out when you have the basics.


I’m a bit confused, are you agreeing or disagreeing with the article?


What the actual fuck? Stop the planet, I want to get off. Jesus. There’s liable to be all kinds of metal shavings and sawdust and grease in my pockets, but I’ll be damned if I intentionally put nail clippings, neither toe nor finger, in my fuckin pockets. What. In. The. Fuck.


I’m West Virginia you can’t even sell raw milk for pets, only as a soil amendment. Wild that west va of all places is more restrictive lol


Just fries itself or were you fiddling around with something?


Damn, you let the magic smoke out! How?


Could just be radiators suck lol

There’s a reason anytime I encounter metal plumbing (even galvanized which isn’t that old) I suggest ripping it out (especially if we’re already in the wall/floor)


Hopefully her experience was better than mine, I’m still waiting on some blisters to dry up.


Yeahhhhh boooiiiii!!


Yeah I’m not sure I believe that. There’s multiple accents per county in my part of the USA lol


That’s what I’m trying to figure out…why did the kid get in trouble?


Just a friendly PSA: symptomatic Hand Foot Mouth Disease can happen in adults, and it sucks balls. The first four pics were Saturday afternoon, free my beloved wife went full witch doctor and whipped up a salve which almost immediately began reducing the swelling. I woke up at 0200 that morning, my hands on fire, so swollen from the blisters I couldn’t move them. A couple of my finger tips are still so swollen that they’re numb, and my left thumb struggles to register a button tap on my iPhone lol. Last six pics are today, just now as I wrote this. Keep your immune systems on point, folks, I don’t think I’d wish that first 12 hours on my enemies. https://image.nostr.build/c3646aefb560ceb5c3ebd5af53354458657985e5d5057222aee83ae4540d2250.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e52c521120730b3670ff839b1b1c8b4a451ff288337ae9fbccecc53a35fe57ad.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d1f66afb88112de683ad43436fcdcf937974cb4340bd72ac1cef2a9bce66b257.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d357e016204363425723e4afd987bf21a5a30165ad97344ad0b5e3d28cb2db0d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1c6c9033a77c3ff97ece1e8ce33f5f8b62924035aa4fcaf6e569f553061a5764.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d01cf76305f1256d753af1ce85b51716d88b50bf1227ae5f0bf8c0e157fc0f77.jpg https://image.nostr.build/88aec0cd4b2f89fc57f0d2d955915a8e82cc7de76178fbbad1f784ad5fb08f9c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b26fa1ed971373a70a4738e9c13f2b579b31a62fa246f58b0a26824eca9f9aff.jpg https://image.nostr.build/197872d3285aa5d24133bcb7df71ba473167032818f209216be71b4fb8ff1181.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3e3ce4042ad2db9ab2a5af5d2341a1037b5c5d5932716539917e2870477e0cf3.jpg


I need the link for this paper. I need to read it. The whole thing.


It was likely just straight up water and salt cooked with bones then. I’d suggest making yourself some, there’s all kinds of recipes floating around. Throw some carrots, onions and such in the crock pot. Roast your bones and toss them in. Water enough to cover everything, splash of vinegar and some salt, let it cook over night or so.


First question, did you buy the bone broth or did you make it?


God, how far we’ve fallen


Honestly, on the new market, the metal jerry cans at Harbor Freight are about the best price/quality option. Currently on sale for $45 a can. Tractor Supply carries the non-communist nozzles that fit right on and a little pop in vent. Eagle cans like this one and the Just-Rite brand run about $60 new and are nigh impossible to find in a store.


Stanley understands marketing in 2024, and they’re proving it. Basically they realized that there were a bunch of females bedazzling these cups and making bank so Stanley said to themselves “why don’t we do that shit?” And here we are. First world basic bitch females have made it the retardedness it currently is, but I ain’t mad at Stanley for capitalizing on it.


Forgot the hashtags lol
#AintGotNoGasInIt #GrowNostr #Toolstr #Carstr #Truckstr #OldSchoolCool nostr:note129scmvugxt94ppmap95x7z67lxa2y57cvdgm2khd2v7v2kwg89nsew74fk


Stopped by one of the big surplus stores bout an hour away from me the other day, just to kill a few minutes as I was early for the reason I was in the area. Normally this store is a little over priced, but right off the bat I found a couple of the head wraps I use when I’m welding for $5/$6 so I snagged those. Wandered to the back and what did my eyes fall upon but these two beauts! $18 a piece. Gotta clean ‘em up and figure out a spout for the Napa-branded Eagle, and make sure they both seal (these will go into rotation of my storage fuel to replace the shitty plastic ones). Went in not planning to spend anything and came out spending $50 lol https://image.nostr.build/5016bb0711ad9e1a9142adc40d9b9a8dc47cdbaf47d171175d330ba8a24db8e4.jpg


Eggcelent!


Believe it or not, quite a few times actually. I’m probably running about 50/50. I always specify “assuming the valve doesn’t leak, this might be pretty simple”


Speaking of, how does one find your “shop”?


I see what you did there.


Stop the planet, I wanna get off.


Yeah I experimented yesterday by not plugging it in. Pretty sure the diesel gelled overnight (got down to 15). Plugged it in for about 2 hrs, cycled the glow plugs a few times, and still had to give her a snort of ether. My buddy’s powerstroke killed a starter and 2 batts (they were almost 6 years old though) and even in the afternoon when he finally got it cranked you could tell it wasn’t happy.

They were calling for 16 tonight but it seems it only made it to the low 20’s. I plugged in the block heater at 5pm and have let it run all night lol


My early morning first thoughts on the physical sim issue; if you were in a situation where you needed a different sim, unless you have a stash already, you’d be buying one. If there are sims available, I’d figure there’d also be some cheap prepaid burner phones available too, which may would be the better option anyway. Again, early morning first thoughts.


Yeah I had to go back and look it up too so thank you lol it was the demonetization of silver, not gold, and I just got it confuzzled. Too many random facts floating around in my brain bin and they blend together sometimes lol


You are correct, I had it remembered incorrectly. It was a commentary on money in general. The Gold Standard act was actually signed in 1900, which left silver.


nostr:npub15879mltlln6k8jy32k6xvagmtqx3zhsndchcey8gjyectwldk88sq5kv0n  was the first place I heard that fact, which led me to get the audible version of the book and damn sure if they weren’t silver.


Random fact of the day: in the original story, Dorothy’s slippers were silver, as the whole story was actually a commentary on the US leaving the gold standard. The cited reason for switching to Ruby in the film version was to “show off” the new color film tech.


It gives me an idea lol. I’ll probably still snag a pair once you make them available to give a go. I am picky about my socks but I also burn through them pretty quick (boots, 12+ hrs a day, average 25k steps a day)


I vote darker, but I’ll probably buy at least one pair of either color. I don’t know if this question will make any sense, but are they a chunky knit or a smooth knit?


Poor nostr:npub1jcjxjg92200kdp8guw8sysg8gr0ez29hahrfdy49h30hgnkpa4kqfvmtwx


Managed to get up the motivation to do a quick glow plug controller bypass switch, since the glow plug controller is one of the projects that needs replacing. Today is the coldest day we’ve had this winter, and the old 7.3 was NOT happy after sitting for near 9 hours in the parking lot at work. So now, I have control of the glow plugs and have far less to worry about with the cold weather. I do plan to swap to a momentary switch, I just didn’t have one on hand today and didn’t want to go get one and lose daylight (and warmth lol).

#SkilledTrades #Carstr #Truckstr #DIY #Toolstr #Handyman #GrowNostr https://video.nostr.build/af95e10445da5fa04d8516da00b66b19ae9f0a2a2fee38929f7b551003cdf09f.mp4


Thanks man! Adding these is really simple (wiring with 120v is pretty self explanatory with modern parts, it’s all color coded anymore), though I’m sure it could be done better too. I’m not sure this is “how it’s supposed to be done”, but it meets my criteria, and I feel is safer than most as the plug under the hood is gfci protected, and the plug on my house that I use is also GFCI protected. Overboard a bit, but that way I know if I’m somewhere else and plugged in I’ve got gfci on the circuit lol


Just realized I didn’t post this shit yet. Found a utility bed for the 250 for a cool $300 (I know, I know, I stole that shit). This is one of the projects what needs doing before I wire up more shoreline boxes, as it’s currently sitting in my buddy’s driveway (the one with the crane on his truck)

#Carstr #Truckstr #SkilledTrades #Handyman #Toolstr #GrowNostr https://image.nostr.build/4d8c258118a03b95413002379db83de4611ea3e6a64c99881588f49157b53c6a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a0ad5cb34bc93376c6f4494fefa5059e4ab34e68f7d2bb607c2fa6ca030028dd.jpg


Been a busy last several weeks, but none of the handyman projects I’ve been working on have been worth posting (been asked to do a lot of shit in the jankiest way possible…I do it cause I got youngin’s to feed lol). I have, however, added a permanent GFCI shoreline to both the F250 and the ol’ Pathfinder, and an onboard battery charger to both.  I do plan to add more boxes to both vehicles in the future, but several projects take priority over that at the moment. I needed to get these shorelines and chargers mounted because A: I was plugging in the truck anyway for the block heater (old mechanical 7.3, not the biggest fan of cool weather, much less cold, currently) and I wanted a charger on the pathfinder for those days I forget to turn off the inverter lol.

Shoreline for the pathfinder conveniently hides away in the drinker side box in the bumper. The one for the truck I just have coiled around a couple quickfist mounts into the factory steel bumper. Eventually the truck will also have a handy dandy storage/winch bumper.

#Carstr #Truckstr #Shoreline #Electromagical #GrowNostr #SkilledTrades #Handyman #Toolstr https://image.nostr.build/5b7498753fe44880712102b3ff43f7e3ab7435a669a9975aede39c86f56fc8eb.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1bfe206b2c78c8667ec91d108d8729a21860733e6b5a256059ba5404f3974b6c.jpg


You should have lol or at the very least looked her dead in the eyes and said, “nah.”


You could, just smack the ear with an open hand. Bonus points if you get a double. If you can get the edge of your hand across the front of their neck and then smack that hand with your other hand as hard as you can then you can collapse the trachea. Make them unable to breathe and that normally changes their priority set pretty quickly.


Always go for the soft targets. Groin, neck, face, eyes. Collapsing a trachea is actually very easy. Ears are very painful and clapping them is very disorienting. Stabbing a long object into the eardrum is also very painful and disorienting. Raking the shin bone hurts like a muhfucker.


My wife has a couple degrees. I just went to the school of hard knocks and busted knuckles lol


Shit, I ain’t ever even been to college.


Not gonna lie, females that used chatanese did seriously lose points on my respectometer. Couldn’t give a shit about the queen’s English, though, being I’m in the southern US.


Or they be running out the Tractor Supply with a stolen carhartt (saw it happen just a couple days ago) to a truck that costs more than both my vehicles combined and ain’t ever seen the first splash of mud lol


Yeah, that sucks. But have you ever had a pry bar slip and catch you right in the tip of the dick? That hurts worse lol


Yeah, I’m a scavenger by nature, and working in the trades like I do there’s always stuff going to the trash…like nuts and bolts and screws. I used to save every one that wasn’t messed up, fully corroded or bent. Plus my dad did the same. We had like 10 buckets full, and I finally managed to convince myself and him to take it to scrap yard cause we never used them and it would take a 40hr week to sort them and make them usable


https://fountain.fm/episode/LYZMMtMFMnP0UaEmeCve

Love this episode. Blew my mind the first go round. LETS FUCKIN GOOOOO


WhistlinDiesel definitely makes a boatload destroying all the expensive vehicles he does. I’m not sure even what Mr Beast’s shtick is


I’ve not fully gone down the sodium rabbit hole either, it’s on my to do list though


Sodium isn’t the enemy we were told it was, neither is fat. Go get you a cup of broth!


Ruskies, that’s what.


Dry, your powder, wet.


Could I? Absolutely. Should I? Probably not if I’m gonna continue calling myself a voluntaryist lol.


I’m horrible at remembering to take before pics, but here’s another room I’m painting. Can’t tell it here but I’m having to do it all with a brush, yes even the walls. They’re some kind of stucco (this is the same house as the Huge Deck, originally built in the early 1900’s and added on to like 713 times, it’s a mishmash of construction), so a roller just glides over the highs and leaves the lows dry.

Also, finally got the coolant swap and the coolant filter plumbed in on the Ol’ Trugga Dugga last night.

#WeeklyUpdate #Toolstr #Truckstr #Handyman #SkilledTrades #GrowNostr #TruggaDugga https://image.nostr.build/8679ab38ee44b42c13e6d725ad2e7fd8df6e75ede613f391739bfff9945c91eb.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b779af6f10ce92ff614bcc94ab4491dbc84fafd7c5b515fc2736b6cd56413d55.jpg


Yeup…and then the new mother in law grabs the mic and you can’t understand a single word she’s saying… nostr:note1xu3zdfeuvxg20xermqc3kpltrjq93v0dh2jwftud0m4lj658q7kq3hnmey


What’s even better is how “mustard” is pronounced in French lol


Another great Guy’s Take on this one.

And nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev I say do the book on nostr:npub1hw4zdmnygyvyypgztfxn8aqqmenxtwdf3tuwrd44stjjeckpc37q6zlg0q feed

https://fountain.fm/episode/qCYCeZWhuVZxlgnGWC5q


Came here to say this. We don’t have faith in each other, we have a mutual understanding of a protocol that incentivizes cooperation.


Yeah there’s tanks around here for sale too but everybody thanks their worn out tank is brand new lol


I’m on the hunt for a score on a fuel tank. Need more storage for waste oil.


https://image.nostr.build/5b5505d698ba05dea59a6c0b40f66efa6ec3c58de2b0341e2f8122596b2b517c.jpg

#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 820,249 🤙💜


And it leads to the corruption of those “good ones” we all have. I’ve got several cops that I’d call a friend, but their understandings and habits are warped by being a cop. They’ll use the cliches of “just doing my job” etc quick fast and in a hurry. It’s also funny when you get 2 or more cops in a bar, they go off to one corner by themselves and talk about cop shit all night lol


Video from the other day on where I’m currently at with this bathroom remodel. Still gotta install the shower doors, but I’ve gotta have a second pair of hands to make
That happen. The before pics I have ain’t great, I always forget the before pics lol

#GrowNostr #SkilledTrades #Handyman #Toolstr https://video.nostr.build/108eaa4815fccabf45d2490df73d98a1348aaf6f6a1d8d6f35fc2ede16dec9c3.mp4


Another banger from nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev. The simplicity and lack of logic in the fiat system will boggle the mind.

https://fountain.fm/episode/LNcn3WZoL5m78M1rTF0H


Pro Tip of the Day: so with every vehicle I’ve ever had that had a separate key and keyless entry fob, I’ve always kept the fob in a different pocket (I’ve had lots of time standing outside my vehicle looking at the keys inside my vehicle), so that way I’d always have the fob on me in case I forgot the key. Well, I relied on that trick this morning and shot myself in the foot.

See, I’m trying to cut back on the caffeine (again) so I woke up with a horrible headache. I got up, got dressed, wife and kids were still asleep so I jumped in the ol ToolFinder and ran down the street to get a monster. Decided to leave it running for the heat, but it was fairly busy so I decided to lock the doors, since my key fob was in my pocket. Get my stuff, head back to the vehicle, and the key fob doesn’t work….apparently with the engine running the key fob is disabled…so I call my buddy who was luckily awake (it was about 630 am at this point), he came and got me and ran me to the house where we then had to creatively break in my own house (house key is attached to the vehicle keys which were locked in the vehicle and I was trying to not wake up the wife or kids).

Basically, that whole story is to say that if you plan to leave your vehicle running, make sure you check to see if the key fob works to unlock the door before you do it lol

#ProTip #GrowNostr #LearnFromMyMistakes #Carstr #Truckstr


I’d watch it. Redo Solo while you’re at it lol


Things don’t wanna go out when it’s cold!!


#Brilliant


So, since my diesel truck has to be plugged in on cold nights to warm the block (it’s a 92, all mechanical, and probably needs a new glow plug controller but haven’t gotten to it yet), I’ve been wanting to add a small charger just to give the batteries a little wake up too, so I made it happen with an old surge protector and an $8 500ma Harbor Freight charger lol

#Truckstr #TruggaDugga #Handyman #Toolstr #Carstr #SkilledTrades #FunctionStack https://video.nostr.build/ad96d1f37dc74c721bc43affb8663886f5c73fe7ca365e2d10a5320974dfd917.mp4


If you did some preorders or something you could always send those folks a direct message and ask which they prefer


I think I prefer the look of the oval.


nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev DO IT!!!! nostr:note12a8d0ph8tdqwxsgkg957ut7lmqhlnzrp2qaa6fls27upvhxfxgfqndmwtt


It’s only December first, but on the chance someone wants to record a dramatic reading of this before the 24th, I’m releasing it today. I Nostrfied the poem “‘The Night Before Christmas”. Here’s a pretty graphic and a link to a plain text version on my website.

Merry Christmas, ya filthy nostriches!!!!! :D

https://nostrichnovember.com/stnostrolas.txt

#grownostr #christmas #gift #nightbeforechristmas #stnostrolas #poem
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Forgot the video trying to find a “before pic” lol https://video.nostr.build/dfced7a7d141320426bdd499056d804f6c5978daf980350f65a94757baa4ac3b.mp4


The #HugeDeck as it currently sits. Still got some details to clean up, a small amount of fascia on the ramp, and then all the lattice work skirting. Somebody else gets to do the wiring for the post lights lol.

#Toolstr #HugeDeckChronicles #SkilledTrades #Handyman #Hustlin


Damn, what time should I be there?


I legit need this to be a real thing


Tallow adds great flavor stuff too. I didn’t understand why the food my grandparents used to fix was so good compared to what my mom fixed until these last couple years where I’ve been playing with oils, and my grandparents cooked everything in lard and bacon grease. So now I save my bacon grease too. I’ve got like 3 jars in the fridge. My wife still uses olive oil mostly, but I use the bacon grease.


#Hustlin


I keep wanting to play with a miner but I haven’t even gotten around to setting up a node yet. I have a tiny pc and an SDD to go in it for a node, and I also have a start9 I haven’t put together yet…it’s hard outchere for a pimp.


Epic nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev rant engage!

https://fountain.fm/episode/jGkS3xW8XphruIZUCNHt


Yeah, I don’t know that I’m buying the explanation. If it is actually what happened, Jesus Christ they need better minds at the helm lol


When I own a house I’ll be doing this in the house and shop. I have like 800ft of Cat6 on standby


I’d argue they don’t generally do much other than get a direct deposit paycheck and swipe a card somewhere.


Better bring something more than febreeze lol


There’s porn on their cable channels too, but I don’t see them throwing out their TV’s.


Need a banana for scale, can’t tell anything from this pic


Not that I’m a general fan of this guy, but The Real Anthony Fauci is worth a read. It exposes a lot of the shit that the NIH and Gates Foundations have been doing. If I didn’t already believe that JFK was killed by the banks I’d probably be worried RFK would be killed by bill gates, but I also think RFK is far too useful in the current political scene to be thrown away like so much trash. They’d also turn him into a martyr right now if they did. Anyway, I digress. His book is pretty solid, and the foundation he runs also has a lot of good info.

Also worth a read to continue falling down the rabbit hole of medical lies is “Lies My Doctor Told Me” by Dr Ken Berry. It’s kind of a summary of some major lies followed with book suggestions to dig deeper into each (my list grew by like 30 or more during reading his book lol)


Cold morning in the WMO mines today.

#Truckstr #WMO #Recycling #HowDareYou #Diesel #Handyman #Toolstr https://image.nostr.build/1a57f4ace458d4fca2cf51581bcd5872626fb7f614a6a9cdfd7ab73089b8199b.jpg


What if I also told you annoying ads like that just piss me off before I even pay attention and I’m guaranteed to not intentionally click it


It’s legit why I just make shit up as I go anymore


Got that kustom rolled roycelago over there


I think there’s a better chance of pigs flying than people waking up from trump v Biden round 2. Remember when trump tried to give the ATF carte Blanche to “write out” bump stocks but trump shit was still plastered all over the gun shows? Pepperidge farm remembers.


Don’t be hatin on my man’s’ come-up. Y’all jus jelly.


Don’t be stupid, got it! Lol

And yeah, none of the pumps
I’ve ever used like those spark arrestors, and you can’t use your fancy pump that you bought for the gas cans so your wife could handle emergency fueling of the car or generator if you ain’t around.


Spark Arrestors make an already shitty fuel can even shittier. Do yourself a favor and take the fuel can condom out.

#NotSoProTip #FuelCanCondom #Diesel #WMO https://image.nostr.build/2c54a1d6e90e10c997fdc059fc13a34dc114e21a1e77fdb017475729be827c6e.jpg


I get it. Trying to find that thing that sells is also it’s own challenge. https://image.nostr.build/9aa48bc368ece9078ad5afa366969cfe0a88dd503cf179cb6b1ea9f03a850fd4.jpg


There’s more posted too. Not under that hashtag though, didn’t come up with that til after I’d made a bunch of posts lol


That’s pretty slick. If I didn’t already have a bunch of coasters we don’t even use I’d be interested lol


time doesn't stop nor do the blocks.
tick tock, next block.

I made this by hand sewing, quilting and embroidery. the fabric is reclaimed from post consumer clothing.

https://image.nostr.build/fae106d41cbc9346c0c28ed7d47c1b8feda11f35132494fdaaae886677a0eac3.jpg

towards the end, I note the current block number and sew it on. each block is marked in time. unique point in time, never to occur again.

to buy this coaster, pay the invoice below and I will message you for shipping info. It will ship USPS First Class and is only available for shipping within the US. (sorry international friends)

tick tock

lnbc420u1pj40cp0pp5smm2qhx7ruur4wzs0menlnwkuqly8vu97rv5vwuq6j8spkjy5v2shp5303s7pm7f0n5txdthdg5prt50f7ws5sjvzayv294k9xn8zp3xn6scqzzsxqyz5vqsp5fgxafpj6cjz0qw74zrmktl6tskdlrf7p42xyev2mssuhaa8m06zq9qyyssqv2nasvg7vu7c5thp97ntcgel8nlcfxpt2gpne0u4nmhl4spg3rk4uehngdjd42f3s6flwzlayh808f93zw5hr74tj7lps3hd3utszcspzzsnkv


I ain’t shirtless in none of ‘em but I do have the #HugeDeckChronicles lol


I’m just saying, would not put any of that shit in any of my engines lol


Nah, just practical lol


Had to have a bidet too, no way paper would’ve been effective on his hairy ass


#Hamsterstr


You only say that cause he was on TV lol


That’s it. If I’m getting paid I been known to get fancy, but I don’t have time to worry about pretty with my personal shit, especially when most of it is stuff to make my vehicles or trailers better work vehicles to make me more money or save me time on a job.


I agree. I’m one of those that don’t do enough prep. Most of my welding is just personal shit and with 2 youngins under 2, I’m trying to get as much done as I can before my wife hollers at me that she needs help or something lol. I did do some fairly pretty work on the bracket we made for the coolant filter on my dad’s F250. I still gotta plumb said filter into the cooling system but it and the bracket are mounted lol


I do appreciate that. My good buddy is currently in class and is a bit OCD. My bubble gum welds generally work fine for most of the random shit I do. Little grinder, a little paint, makes a welder what he ain’t, ya know. Mostly run flux core too, which is not easy to make pretty. It trips me out every time he hands me his MIG setup and has me run a bead with it how much better it looks lol


My welds look like I shmooed a bunch of chewed bubble gum in the crack and then sprayed it silver lol


For many moons I’ve held the theory that fuckery is omnipresent and amorphous. This theory of mine is strengthened by this evaluation.


Oofda. Time to buy a few winches.


What’s a campooter? Is that some kind of canadiaian raccoon or something?


That’s the problem, I’ve got like 8. Lol


Nope, Get Smart. Old TV show, my dad used to love it. The more recent movie remake wasn’t as good.


This also begs the question, “well who’s room is it?” Seeing as how you’re going around posting selfies from it and shit


Forgot to wait for the gif to upload lol https://image.nostr.build/53badaad53d9f7b268a4655474ce164622956bbb871f03a3dbe896d34cb2d5ac.gif


Pre 80’s, actually.


Dude you totally need to post more about that.

I finally got my dad’s 7.3 IDI and I’m running it on 25% waste oil, she’s a literal champ.


Only cause I looked reallllllll hard at getting a freeze drier last year, mostly because I wanted to sell the candy at ridiculous profit margins, my wife wanted to freeze dry breast milk as a service and for profit (only one place doing it and they charge an arm and a leg), and my buddy/neighbor was gonna go in on it with us cause he did the math on it vs the prepper food he was buying and saw ridiculous savings. But then we dug a little deeper and realized none of us had the place nor the time at the moment.


Hit eBay. There’s a boatload of freeze dried stuff for sale there, and I think Etsy. That will give you an idea of price per oz that the market has been able to bear so far. I wanna say freeze dried gummy bears are like $4 an oz or better, or at least were last time I looked.


Because we’re old, or at least old souls, and we have to do our best to impart our….wisdom…to the next generation lol


Mine came in today too. Not sure I’ll ever get around to reading the hard copies but I hope to lol


Lol you haven’t figured out what a chocolate starfish is yet, have you? Lol I mean this is like late 90’s early 2000’s era music and slang so I’m not super shocked I don’t reckon lol.

“Break Stuff” still gets me hype every time though lol


The song was the album title, yes.


Did you yet?


Everytime you say you’re “gonna go starfish” all I can think about is the limp bizkit song lol


Shower I started on last week. Been a blast….lol

#Handyman #SkilledTrades #GrowNostr #StruggleBus https://image.nostr.build/e77bfa603cca72d84703b77a9bb42f7e934c33882a60b77d3273471ac5020330.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b52608f6dedc2538c7ddf52ddd66e946da69f420d0cbf567c25b570ea619e782.jpg https://image.nostr.build/87fe6372a0e799b032e4505a05146ef75e2d49f71dad0b95b33864c5a9b2f4b3.jpg


At least it was music and not snookie or whatever her name is


I’ve wanted an outdoor shower for some time, mostly so I can shower off all the construction dust before going inside.


That whole
Thing is one major red flag after another


It really is that simple though. We will even judge other men based on their reactions to this most basic of communication.


Or you’re long on reliable transportation that doesn’t have govt tracking and shutoff devices in it.


I will say there is also a fine and hard to define line where you can easily not give enough of a shit, and I sometimes think that maybe my life would be a lot easier/better if I had a little more emotion/attachment toward other people.


*Ghost of A Reasonable Man has entered the chat*


What a night last night. Worked 6am to 230pm, had to fix a busted water fitting under the house, and had to put the pathfinder battery on the charger, all to be back at work for my 4am shift. Good times lol


I’ll stick with the diesel brap tho https://video.nostr.build/09572ac35504020ea5cc3d9800a136471b1812e2d7f3c6788080625230a6a4ce.mov


He said as much in the song, there was a line where he said it had a V8


Google, what does 3 dots on my magic 8 ball mean?


Yeah that shit was wild. Not a single church around here that I know of bucked the system, and there’s like 2 churches on every corner around here


I mean….how else you end up with 17 kids?


Hell I’ve had a wife for 2 years and 2 days now, still ain’t figured out what to do with her


You laugh, but during the winter it’s the only thing that keeps my knuckles from cracking


289

Which just so happens to also be a small block V8 ford engine common in early mustangs lol


😂 personally I prefer 15w40, it’s got all your vitamins and dinosaur minerals.


I would’ve broken that old dude’s nose multiple times over. What’s his name? Tyler? Dude what thinks he runs the place? Anyway, that dude pisses me off relentlessly.


I really hate these gate kits…but it occupies the afternoon time after getting off from training this morning at Harbor Freight tools (a dangerous idea I had that has so far worked out lol booooiiiii I’m bout to have way, way too many tools…perfect.).

#HugeDeckChronicles #SkilledTraded #Handyman #GrowNostr https://image.nostr.build/0a20a584df1dd9bdbf61c119f070c14566a12a69e4e1b0da6a43be4c7e778ee0.jpg


Ah very nice!! I’m always keeping my eye out for leather goods. Hard to find ones that will last for generations anymore.


You got a website or something where you sell your wares?


Build a house, then gut it and remodel it too. And do all the vehicle maintenance lol


Nah, for me it was an easy way to separate the wheat from the chaff. Gotta bring more than just good looks to the table lol


Step 7: feeellehhhehhngg!!


Step 5: onto


Step 1: don’t.


Livin the dream, out here rescuing a shitty ol’ dodge dump truck. It’s my boy Evan’s grandpa’s. We’re getting it back to Evan’s house today.

#Truckstr #Toolstr #SkilledTrades #Handyman #GrowNostr https://image.nostr.build/24ad4374b519433f6889774f3562fcfebc17990a939f0ab486302066378aa8d5.jpg https://image.nostr.build/398b49674af70eb8cabbedf653ba9a06e718319287d4bb119993bd534af17f7c.jpg


Right? I was like “how do you not like peanut butter and chocolate?” The he went on about how he’ll eat buttercream icing with a spoon.


Right, cornbread, which already has proper flavors and such. Plus as you stated herbs and chicken stock and so forth. Not bleach bread.


Yeah he’s an interesting dude. I’m pretty sure I’m the only person in the store with the experience/skills to actually use the tools we sell. Don’t care though, I’m there so my wife will quit bitchin’ that I need a “real job” and for the 20% discount lol


But it would make more sense as how he dresses his salad than how he makes thanksgiving dressin’. I mean, c’mon….I’m just trying to make sense of it all.


You sure he didn’t think you were talking about salad..?


It’s almost as weird as the manager at my new gig not liking peanut butter or chocolate.


Wait….there’s a white bread stuffing? I mean, stuffing ain’t ever been my thing but I just don’t think I could even imagine it with white bread…it don’t even sound right


I spent quite a bit of time on the apps, and I can tell you, from my experience, getting even so much as a match is a numbers game for us. Then, to get a reply, more numbers games. Carry a conversation? Good luck. Actually get to meet someone? More rare. I was lucky enough to meet one or two in person, one was a relationship that lasted almost a year. The amount of no responses was highly frustrating. The amount of stereotypical profiles was frustrating. The amount of “don’t just say hey, catch my attention!” In the profile that was otherwise the same as any other IE “probably just liked you for your dog” was sickening lol


At no point in history has that been the case. Families used to live together and the grandparents and aunts and all jumped in to help manage the household and the kids. It wasn’t just a single person doing it all. Honestly it’s an impossible task to ask one person to take care of a Child and everything needing managed in daily activities in a household, especially in the first several months post partum, which is the hardest and least talked about. If my sister wasn’t able to stay at my house and help I’d be quickly running out of money right now.


Those irked by it probably never had kids to raise lol


Empty 5 gallon bucket works pretty good too.


But D.A.R.E. said drugs are bad, mmmkay


Aggravation of the day: color matched hardware looks good, but there’s always the chance you won’t be able to it again when you inevitably need another box of it. Case in point, I’ve spent yesterday afternoon and this morning hitting the hardware stores and scouring the internet for the fascia screws I’ve been using on the #HugeDeck, none to be found except one internet store in Indiana, and what they have isn’t even labeled the same as what we’ve been using, so it’s a roll of the dice to even order those. Good times.

#SkilledTrades #Handyman #Toolstr #HugeDeckChronicles


Right? What is sleep?


Uh…I’d like an explanation cause it looks like some shit I’d be into lol


Hell there’s plenty for me to do around here too. I just picked up another customer that wants an entire bathroom remodel along with me taking a stocking job at Harbor freight lol


You just want to get me over there to work on your pool deck! I might sheen born at night but I won’t born last night! Lol


Never had it but it looks good! Also, stop making me hungry while I’m trying to find the will power to work this trim on the deck (composite sucks for trim work/fascia, I despise it).


Well, started going through all the wrenches and sockets and all I have laying around…got a bunch of volunteers to make Kustom tooling or “stubby” wrenches if I need to, at least in SAE sizes. Did some measuring and realized what I was planning to use in the truck box for organization is not gonna work, so it’s looking like small boxes and the plethora of cheap tool bags I have laying around. At least it’ll be cheap lol.

#Toolstr #GrowNostr #SkilledTrades #Handyman https://image.nostr.build/dab38781dbc4e08b43cbaa2b5880383ba104dbb6850476eabb31a63dce5e13f4.jpg


Samesies. Everytime I see some dumb shit get sold for big money I’m just disappointed I couldn’t make myself think like the average retard long enough to make a paycheck lol


Guys also paid for Belle Delphine’s bath water…..never underestimate how stupid we can be cause we’ll take it as a challenge lol.

And no, I did not buy any bath water. I spent too much time as an EMT for that lol


Arguably the first EDC (as in Every Day carry) peoples lol


Sounds like the whole theory of a rat rod to me lol built the engine, slap it in a chassis with 4 wheels and make it workable lol


Ahhh yes, I did see that.

I also feel ya on not wanting to post lack of progress. I have piles of parts waiting to be installed on both vehicles.


Why have I not heard of said project vehicle until now?


Is that even an actual question?


Beat me to it


I have found that this doesn’t apply very well to those of us that do our own maintenance lol.


I feel ya man. It’s wild how different we can all think sometimes


Managed to sneak out and get the truck box mounted to the F250. It’s a freebie my buddy had mounted on his old Tacoma, but it holds things which is what the truck needs right now. Made a little shelf so I can fanangle the thing open and still load 4x8 sheet goods flat on the bed.

Ammo cans/tool boxes will like fill in the blank spaces at some point lol. This is all a temporary (likely be here a hot minute though) fix until I can get around to building a flat bed for it.

#GrowNostr #Truckstr #Toolstr #SkilledTrades #Handyman https://image.nostr.build/c225132fcc4e1e5d7f90b2dd520c1786c56582f6793917070107b7ebaa098109.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b8a2548c72cf0892d968d4cfc88c3dd98d98ded100fde4db1d2ed99b5f75a7dc.jpg


Dude I’m just trying to figure out where my wife’s wires got crossed. She fully agreed up until these last few months and now it’s like she thinks all I’ve gotta do is go get a job at UPS (of all fuckin places) and life will be gravy.


Maybe one day my wife will again understand that the corporations do not provide job security. I’m really tired of having that argument, especially since it’s only become a problem in the last few months. Nevermind the fact I’ve taken basically an entire month off with no negative consequences. No corporate job is gonna pay me as much as I make for my self or give me the flexibility to take a month off.


It is absolutely Joust! I freakin loved that game lol


Yeah, I don’t disagree. It is what it is. Until there’s another debit card that pays says they’re the only name in town. Now if I could just trust myself with a credit card I could really stack some returns lol


Dude, do you know what that pic is from!? Holy childhood Batman!!


While the bed on a rollback has multiple fail points because it has all that movement….you can still drive the truck if the ramp fails (unless it fails on the ground of course). If your hydraulics failed on this thing, would it still be able to drive? I don’t know. It’s definitely different, but having driven a rollback, I’ll stick with a rollback lol


Glad somebody’s got some sun to work with today!


I mean….at least you got a hood sharp chain now…..


Be the change you wanna see! Lol


Finally back on the #HugeDeck project, and to be real honest, after nearly a month of being at home with the wife and kids, my heart ain’t in it today lol. But, gotta keep mining that fiat or you fall behind, so here I am. Loaded up a trailer for the dump, still got at least another load on the ground waiting. There will likely be more as I finish off the fascia and the handrails also. Real close to having this job finished.

#Handyman #SkilledTrades #Toolstr #FiatMiner #GrowNostr #HugeDeckChronicles https://image.nostr.build/1595d783ad2cdaf3ef4d69bcf3290522cbf853a9993c5c9cb3cf6dba38c8998e.jpg


Ya know, I keep thinking I’m gonna lay out all my tools like this and take a family photo…but then I realize how long that would take, so this will have to suffice… https://image.nostr.build/d3dd52287641512fc4aaa50ee00a279dc516a8c05e783d260b4a1e1bcdc8a61f.jpg


Have officially driven the diesel on 2 gallons of waste oil and about 16 gallons of diesel. Smokes a little more on start up (not gonna lie I kinda like it lol) but seems to run a little smoother and also seems to have a little more power. This is all purely anecdotal, but it’s definitely at least as good as straight diesel, and honestly probably a lot better for the specific engine I have because ULSD (ultra low sulfur diesel) isn’t ideal for engines from 1992. The front tank has 3 gallons of waste and about 17 gallons of ULSD. Gonna do some experimenting and see what the best ratio is to maximize savings. So far it’s saved me about $40 in diesel. The filter system has almost paid for itself in just two tanks of fuel. Good shit.

Also, filter head and basic filters arrived yesterday for the coolant filter system I plan to add on the truck, and I’ve got a truck box meant for a Tacoma that I’m going to build a shelf in the bed for. I’m planning on building the truck out to be what I drive for metal work and automotive work, with basic tools for home improvement type work (I’m still planning a trailer for the home improvement stuff because it just takes up so much more space and is my main money, so being able to use either the F250 or the Pathfinder is ideal…now to find a 5x10 trailer that people don’t want stupid amounts of money for lol).

#GrowNostr #73IDI #Handyman #SkilledTrades #Truckstr #RedneckIngenuity #Toolstr


Banana is the standard.


Here I was, just me and the eldest daughter. It’s 69 degrees F outside. I was gonna take her to run some errands and maybe hit a park for a while to tucker her out before my wife and mother in law got back with the youngest from the tongue tire revision, and she’s been out like a light for 2 hours now….hopefully she’ll rise here soon.


I too, have become such. And also varsity trash bag removal, cause for some reason they start smelling in about a day vs taking a couple. And we even put all the poop diapers in doggie bags to attempt to mitigate the smell.

Speaking of doggie bags…I gotta go buy more of those cause we go through them twice as fast now too….


Monster Hunter International is a book series that has trailer park fairies in deep Alabama and hood gnomes.


Adorable is probably not how I’d describe myself lol


Usually they were the ones breaking up with me. If you get far enough into knowing me I’m fairly easy to get along with, in a way. I was also basically an old man in a 22 year old body, I worked all the time and just wanted to be at home and work on my own projects lol.


It ain’t an excuse if it worked lol


I was simply protecting my investments lol


I mean, this was when I was in my late teens/early 20’s, so it was more open ended. If it worked cool,  it if it didn’t I wanted my $30 hoodie back dammit and didn’t wanna have to harass nobody for it. Lol


I went so far as to make sure the hoodies my girlfriends stole had my name embroidered on the chest (they always wanted the fire dept hoodies from when I was a volunteer) cause I was sure to get them back when we broke up lol


My 13 month old daughter grunts every time she bends over either because she thinks you’re supposed to or she’s making fun of me. Being she’s a redhead and also my daughter, either option is completely plausible.


I was just saying my own experiences. I’ve run into a few old classmates where after about 10 mins with them I felt like I needed a shower to get the unhappy off. Lots of my old classmates were the troublemakers and shitbirds and they never grew out of that. Hell, I ran several of them’s ID numbers as a dispatcher when I was in my 20’s lol


Right? It’s pretty wild how just unhappy the few classmates I’ve run into are.


Thanks!


Thank you!!


Thanks!!


She is. Got some major tongue and lip tie action so we ran all around town trying to find the Mam bottles because she was able to latch on the Mam pacifiers we had. Finally found ‘em. Wife also found a lactation consultant on TikTok that explains the Mam and Lansinoh bottles actually help a corrected tongue tie to heal correctly, which no one told us with our first one when we had her’s corrected, and we used Dr Browns bottles with her and basically did her no favors lol


Only sometimes?


Congrats cuz!!!


While yes, you can plug one your self, discount will fix it for free as long as it’s not in the sidewall. I do as much of my own maintenance as I can but I take my leaky tires to discount lol


Got caught up around the house yesterday and go to test my waste oil filter. It worked a treat, processed about 5 gallons. Stores 3 and dumped 2 in the rear tank of the truck. The back pressure from the 5 micron house filter causes a decent leak from the gasket at the fuel filter but honestly I’m not mad about. I may try to figure out a way to mitigate that but I also just might keep running the system like I did in this video. It takes several minutes to process one gallon anyway so holding it isn’t ideal.

I’ve seen where some guys actually managed to eliminate a lot of the soot (the dark black color) by using 1 micron carbon house filters, so I may actually add one of those after the current 5 micron, but I haven’t decided yet.

#Truckstr #Toolstr #7TreeIDI #Handyman #SkilledTrades #GrowNostr #WasteMotorOil #WMO https://video.nostr.build/8f910de3d2db2715a8e4adc0e203d132a78c30166e264fbf7f418935ac02c695.mov


Bullet proof doesn’t mean energy proof lol


*as input hose to my transfer pump


Finally got the waste motor oil filter system put together. Washing machine hose as I put hose to my transfer pump (because the screen built in on the one end) then another washing machine hose as output from transfer pump to the first filter, which is a used fuel/water filter from the 7.3 diesel engine itself. It separates out water with a drain valve and also filters particles down to 14 micron (probably smaller since it’s used lol). From there to a 5 micron whole house water sediment filter just to filter out some more particulates. I will probably flush the whole system with waste oil just to get any dirt/pvc shavings out of it before putting it in the diesel tank. Planning on running only about 10% waste oil and 90% diesel, give or take.

#GrowNostr #Toolstr #Truckstr #Diesel #7TreeIDI #Handyman #SkilledTrades #CheapDieselAdditive https://image.nostr.build/71b8f82857e439da0e13ad6934beeba047dfed90b49b8eee02a6ef2f6ad8b49a.jpg


Let ‘em hang out long as they can, it’s good for ‘em. I know you’re anxious too though!!


I’ve got 2 under 2, the second was just born Friday, both home births cause fuck the whole system


Home Depot website/app (and lowes) hate existence. It’s only the last couple years that either have been any help at all, and that’s still hit and miss.


Can’t stop the signal


Two years ago German police murdered JStark and dumped his body in front of his parent's house.

https://m.primal.net/HLyC.mp4


RIP JStark, true legend


You ain’t lying, so much more laid back, no worry about stupid Covid rules or arguing what the doctor is or isn’t gonna do to your kid and wife, I don’t have to go to jail, it’s beautiful lol


You looking for like packable stuff or meals? My 1yo loves hard salami and summer sausage, or even cheese and crackers. Not sure if that is helpful with your 4yo or not lol


Thanks!!


Thanks man!!


Sorry for the double post lol


I appreciate the appreciation. I mostly just post the stuff because it helps me stay on track and not get off on another new project lol. If you couldn’t tell, I have too many ideas and too much time to come up with them.

To satiate some curiosity, my filter system will be relatively simple. I have the Bauer 20v/120v transfer pump which will have some kind of screen or cheesecloth over the intake to mitigate large debris. It will then push the waste oil into a fuel filter/water separator, which will be the ones I replace on the truck itself (coming off the truck and going on the filter system, just to save me some moneys). The fuel filter filters down to 14 micron and of course pulls out any water. From there it’ll go to a simple whole house sediment filter which filters particles down to 5 micron, and from there it’ll go into either a clean jug (oil jugs from changes) or straight into the tank. I’ll be connecting the two filters with 3/4 pvc so I have something solid to hold on to while pumping. Some folks filter down to 1 micron out of an abundance of caution but the factory fuel filter is only 14 micron so I figure 5 oughta be a plenty.

All in the components have cost me about $70 not including the transfer pump, which is only about $100 when on sale. I have 3 vehicles including the one diesel so I have a fairly large amount of waste oil, and I have a couple buddies that tend to keep their waste oil as well (we all use it for treating wooden tool handles and other such things like fences or trailer boards) and they tend to accumulate it faster than they use it. My one buddy probably had 30 gallons waiting for me.

I intend to only run a few gallons per tank of diesel, mostly just so I don’t have to keep buying $13 bottles of diesel kleen lol


Gathered all my components to make a filter system for my waste oil so as to use it as a fuel additive for my inherited 7.3 diesel, and lo and behold I forgot I had to throw away my pvc glue last year because it had dried up in the can. I think I’m
Gonna have to vacuum seal this new can once I use it for this project because it’ll probably be 3 years before I need it again and I’m tired of buying the shit lol.

Also on the agenda today, I cut a couple pieces of plywood last night to stretch across the bed rails of the truck. Going to coat those in waste oil here in just a few and then at some point bolt them to the truck just behind the cab and grab some of the Milwaukee packout mounting plates and a packout cabinet on each side as a quick way to have tool storage. I did the math and I’ll be spending about the same money as if I went and bought some truck boxes, but this way if/when I get around to building my flatbed dream I can reuse the mounting plates and packout boxes instead of having truck boxes laying around.

#Truckstr #Toolstr #Handyman #SkilledTrades #GrowNostr


7.3 IDI master race. Got all my components together just yesterday to start filtering waste oil as a fuel additive cause ULSD ain’t shit.


No that’s the thing, I do understand it all. I spend most of my
Time in the gray market, but in central NC I’m an outlier. I’ve not seen a single Bitcoin ATM within an hour of me. The gray markets here use USD.

It’s more about picking your own battles and giving your child room to pick their battles. My daughters may grow up and think I was coo-coo for Cocoa Puffs and had I not done what I did resent me for the fact that they now had to struggle to get the credentials they needed for a job.

I also come at this from knowing the experience of someone who was born to parents working undercover for the state dept, and the trouble they had to get his ID’s after they were back to normal living. It’s not a simple task. We did homebirth, we’re doing homeschool, she’ll have all the options, but that cross to bear isn’t for me to choose for her.


While I would love to have not registered my kid with social security, one must also consider how hard of a challenge that would be. One day maybe we can live without such numbering systems, but right now it isn’t easily feasible. Will I explain the evils of this shit to my kids? Absolutely. If they can find a way around it as they approach adulthood then I’ll be happy, but I didn’t feel right saddling my child with that burden.


The older I get and the more reading I do, the more I think that some of the USA’s “founding fathers” were selfish pricks lol. Patrick Henry seems to have truly been an idealist, and so did James Madison. George Washington can go get fucked, though.


Few pics from the car hauler gif today. There will quite possibly be more, as we found more issues while working on it.

#SkilledTrades #Handyman #Welding #Toolstr #73IDI #GrowNostr https://image.nostr.build/ed73f8507d50cf57edb17dbff4b3e215a7c9f6daeb310b5108b1ac2d4c862e08.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2c31532bb653e528f78b3bd3adada7f8a43aaa855ea958ca5ffd24c20a69c0e6.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b0fd09d65e4e899dc9546e408e96f22df016efa8d9820ff1af5e0b7eae62a516.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6bf41fbef1095b56a2b47e26c311a9ecb788d850a083db69471e7a2c23fde8d7.jpg


Thanks for the info! I’ve not yet had a chance to actually get to fiddling with it. I’ve got a 13 month old and my wife is like 40 weeks pregnant and I work all the time. Wild times over here lol when I do get to it I’ll be sure to find the telegram! Thanks!


The work wagons on standby. I’ll be taking the truck today, gotta help Evan on repairing a car hauler. I’ll be the assistant, doing the grinding and rust removal so that he can get them sweet sweet beads laid down. Could I make some pretty welds? Sure, but I’ve spent far too many years not caring about pretty lol. He’s almost OCD about it whereas I’d be saying a lot of “eh, that’s good enough.” Lol

#RiseAndGrind #Handyman #SkilledTrades #GrowNostr #Truckstr #FiatMiner https://image.nostr.build/cb75e71d2514011a686a0e5e775abbe1f9a2161ab52acb54d0f11ebf551feaa7.jpg


Thanks! I’m gonna do a nice walk around video once we get it knocked out. Luckily she’s getting someone else to finish the screened in porch and the electrical, which doesn’t hurt my feelings at all lol


But does he have a Bluetooth speaker with the rocky anthem playing?


#preach

My mother in laws’ Kia sorento spent months in the dealership because of an issue in the transmission control firmware. Fuck that. That’s why I’m so stoked about just getting my dad’s 92 F250 with a 7.3 IDI. One wire and some used motor oil and she’ll run lol


Little bit chilly this morning, had to throw on my lightweight hoodie to go load the trailer for todays job. Rained over night so that didn’t help. I’m ready for fall but hope NC doesn’t pull a fast one on us and go straight to winter lol

#GrowNostr #HanSoloSeasonIsUponUs #SkilledTrades #Handyman https://image.nostr.build/03684b79f3b20bd12aa5ee01ab16a9c2acac8ff916581daf2098731700034e4b.jpg


Lots of regukk lol actions here are less about safety and more about making everybody involved an extra dime. The insurance companies get up with the manufacturers and come up with the shit lol


So, got to a good stopping point on that patio way sooner than I expected, leaving today (Sunday) clear. It’s also a pretty good chance of rain today so I guess that works out. Wife’s family is giving her a small baby shower for baby 2 (didn’t do a big thing cause we just had a big one literally last year lol), so after about noon I had nothing going on. Hit up my boy Evan last night and we made a plan to try and make some storage behind the seat in the F250. Hopefully it’s something we can put together relatively quickly. The packout fanboy in me was sorely tempted by the idea of mounting a bunch of the packout wall stuff to the back of the cab, but I don’t think that’s quite gonna work for what I want. To me, behind the seat gear is stuff you reach in and grab the item you need, think hammer, jumper cables, gloves, knee pads, struggle sticks (adjustable wrenches) etc. if I did a packout wall, I’d have to hang organizers and stuff and then would have to pull out a whole box, set it down, open and then get the item I need. Shelves are the way to go I believe.

#Handyman #SkilledTrades #GrowNostr #Truckstr #SingleCabLife https://image.nostr.build/59b652252d605551c7ce010b7ffb006cfd815eb33aa97ad7c7c1f9bbe2ccd297.jpg


There’s so many of these things out there. I’m cool with some mitigation (like exceptionally sharp corners) but at some point you gotta recognize that part of being a kid is getting banged up and bruised. It’s literally how you learn to have balance and situational awareness. Nobody said it was fun either lol


I love how pirates were one of the first to set up a truly free republic, too. Govts knew they couldn’t allow that shit though


And this is where the patio shall remain until the new pool is put up. Not sure what tomorrow’s plan is, but Monday I gotta go crawl around an attic and move some dirt at another house.

#SkilledTrades #Handyman #GrowNostr https://image.nostr.build/0c0ee03b74924d3c006cf7fa14439af638a4f5da985a2dac74df82e539b9f7f2.jpg


I think of Greta every time I crank my diesel, especially if I have put some motor oil in the tank recently.


The patio as of yesterday. Just hauled 300 more brick for it today, gotta grab more sand in the morning and then continue on.

#Handyman #SkilledTrades #GrowNostr https://image.nostr.build/d534043e8926a7ecdb02508a727f7e3b4a4dbd3fca675451858a1580fccdcdd4.jpg


Damn right. At the very least a fully parallel economy but neither currently exists in a way in our area to have made anything less than giving my daughter a cross to near her whole life


Ima be real, I didn’t want to tell them mine existed, and honestly it would have been way simpler to not, but fuck it would make their life harder than hell


I need that shirt lol


….that’s an interesting way to look at it lol


I have failed miserably on the picture and posting front this week. So here’s the catch up post.

Dad’s truck: it’s a 1992 Ford F250 7.3 IDI. Changed all the fluids and filters over this last rainy weekend (except transmission, the fluid looked exceedingly fresh so I figured dad must have had it done somewhere just before he passed). Changed motor oil, fuel filter, and differential fluid. In order to change the diff fluid we had to pull the cover, which was fine cause we also cleaned out a boatload of sludge and gave the cover a nice coat of cherry paint. I did my signature “use whatever cans of black rattle cans I have on hand” mod to the rims a day or so before all this.

New tires and axle flip on the 5x8 trailer, led light upgrades, cleaned up the wiring with some split loom and also added a 4-flat trailer connector to the truck.

#HugeDeck has taken a pause to wait for the rest of the materials. Just have a few handrails and a gate to build, some fascia work, a few detail touch ups, and lattice on the underside and it’ll be finally complete.

Was able to jump back on the patio I started over a year ago now. They’re usinsalvaged bricks, it’s coming out pretty decent though I wouldn’t call it perfect. Then again, I’m using salvaged bricks that also aren’t perfect lol. I’ll grab pics when I can.

I had just gotten back to the patio with more sand when my wife said I might wanna come on home because she was feeling like she did in the days leading up to our first daughter’s birth, so I did. Letting her sleep in today and then I’ll decide my day once she wakes up and I can find out how she’s feeling.

Plans in the near future is increasing storage on the ol’ 7.3 so i can use it more. Found pics of a behind-the-seat shelving unit that used to be made and am using that as inspiration to build/have Evan build me one. Lower third of the doors are a blank canvas with a minimum of 3” of clearance so trying to decide what to do on those. Transmission hump is also a blank canvas (automatic with shifter on the column), so I’m contemplating a Milwaukee packout center console. Also plan to add a coolant filter with precharged filters to mitigate cavitation. We shall see how the week goes. Also planning to rig up a filter system with the old fuel/water separator from the truck and a 5 micron whole house water sediment filter to clean waste oil and use as a fuel additive to keep this old engine happy (and maybe save me a few bucks).

#GrowNostr #Truckstr #Carstr #Handyman #SkilledTrades #BirthWatch https://image.nostr.build/f5b927550de7af1ee3c2beab77a7bba34e825e3540b54fe4a6ce0cef9bf0d8b4.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3677b4a4598bf53243b4801e5ee7aae49db4f537cb3c0c1654cb2d046f0d1e17.jpg https://image.nostr.build/59b652252d605551c7ce010b7ffb006cfd815eb33aa97ad7c7c1f9bbe2ccd297.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9b4b3a3a20c5bf82cd3aed95a556b3cc96f8eb3c0f59747f01ff22310e97e733.jpg https://image.nostr.build/cbd9f814dbf77dfb93e26569b9cd280f4c91536257e6d843b88988f4f57b137d.jpg


Looks more like something a kid would make out of molding clay.


What’d they bitch at you for?


I tried 12ft.io and it failed also


It’s funny how discussion topic lists work well in podcast/video chat form, but I’d laugh my ass off of a buddy showed up to the bar with a topic list lol


I guarantee it! I’ve done a couple runs to Atlanta hauling small load freight to the airport, after stops and food and waiting on the airport that 15-16 hrs in the old company cargo van. Good times lol


You don’t have to accept it, but it SHALL REMAIN! Lol


Heck yeah. I got a .177 umarex break barrel, it’s pretty nasty too.


Is it .22 firearm or air rifle? The integrated suppressor is throwing me off, either she’s pretty sweet


Energy drink, engage!


Whoops, sorry for the multi post there lol #MyBad


Well, just realized I ain’t took a pic of the #HugeDeck all week. I’ll have to correct that on Monday when I’m back on it. We’re getting real close to being done with, I mean real close. Had to order a few pieces/parts to finish the handrails out. Started working on the fascia for the decking on the ramp and gazebo. And then about all that will be left for me is installing the lattice to hide the underside of the deck.

Then I’ll be on to some other project that I’ll have to find. Got one I need to get back to but it’s not an every day project like this one. Got a person that had contacted me last year about some odd projects and at that time I had zero time available so I’ll probably get in touch with them. May have some other projects coming down the line from this same family but likely not until Novemberish.

Where my attention has really been has been my dad’s old truck. Got all the parts and fluids ordered and all to do an engine oil change and filter, transmission fluid drain and fill (not doing trans filter just yet, just want to get some fresh fluid circulating), differential fluid drain and fill, clean the CDR, and then there’s fuel system. So the truck had a little bit of a lurch, me and Evan are pretty confident it’s old fuel. So I dumped a bottle of Lucas upper cylinder lube in the front tank, then I found a new unused bottle of Mercon V atf in my supplies and dumped it in the rear tank, and then split a bottle of ATF +4 between both tanks. Then, yesterday, when I went to oreilly to order my fuel and oil filters, I grabbed a bottle of diesel Kleen and split it between both tanks. Gonna put on a fresh fuel filter this weekend and once I manage to run both fuel tanks empty and get fresh diesel, I’ll put on another fresh fuel filter. After that I’ll probably change them at 5000 miles, along with my oil changes. Oh, and windshield wipers….I swear my dad had something against being able to see through a windshield in rain…lol

#Slacker #LongPostToCatchUpTheWeek #GrowNostr #Truckstr #HugeDeckChronicles #SkilledTrades #Handyman


Used waze for a while until google bought them, now I just use google maps for the satellite imagery and live traffic/cop reports, if I’m going somewhere on a schedule. Otherwise I use my old garmin from circa 2009 lol


It’s all fun and games until someone loses a nut


Gotta keep ya nuts secure, that’s for sure.


This is actually very true. They making money whether people hit the like or dislike, doesn’t matter which one except to the dinglehoppers hitting the dislike. Oh to the days when we just ignored shit we didn’t like lol


I’m just still trying to figure out why a woman would title herself after a male horse….


Update: truck is mine and in my yard. Plotting on a full fluid swap soon (not cheap on diesels lol). Transfer went better than I really expected though she did try a minor version of her usual stunts. Either way, time to get my dad’s favorite truck into tip top shape and start doing some upgrades I know he would have loved. So far I’ve only had a near breakdown twice, once right after I got it to my yard and then once last night after I found the carpenters hatchet and quick fist mount I’d cleaned up for him still behind the seat. I can’t explain to any of y’all just how good of a man he was and how much I miss him. I am as hard shelled as I am because I saw him get taken advantage of because he was just too nice lol


Last hotel I stayed at (work trip took about two and a half weeks) luckily had cheap sausage and I’m pretty sure powdered eggs on their breakfast offerings, and even that was all I ate from the breakfast offerings the whole time lol