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Post by sc397 on Jun 1, 2021 17:38:33 GMT -8
Well I did get the dam Covid vac. Of course I got the Johnson one and they took it off the market the very next day. The only reason I got it is because I want to be able to travel to Mexico and Canada to see my friends. I am sure that Big Brother around the world will eventually make it law that you can't travel without it.
I received the first round of photon torpedos today and I guess my shields held because it didn't seem to phase me. 24 more to go. The last one should be after July 4.
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Post by javtwotone on Jun 2, 2021 5:13:03 GMT -8
I hope it continues to go well
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Post by landbarge on Jun 2, 2021 6:36:53 GMT -8
Hang in there. Everyone's pullin' for ya'.
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Post by amxdreamer on Jun 2, 2021 7:45:43 GMT -8
I'm rooting for him.....DEFINETLY not pulling for him! lol
Keep up the fight Rick.
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Post by sc397 on Jun 5, 2021 8:24:33 GMT -8
This is my escape. I bought this in 2013. I go to my little cabin whenever I can to work on it. It clears my head. When I am working on this I don't think about Prostate cancer or all of the projects in my shop and house that need done. It is a 16x24 shack that I have rebuilt from the inside out. Literally. It was built like a shed with just a top and bottom plate with the wall boards being the supporting walls. The walls are tongue and grooved 2x6 boards that are curved on the outside. I had to get creative and support the rotting bottom from the inside by laying down a treated 2x6 edgewise and screwing each wall board to it. Then I notched wall studs and installed then under each rafter. The ceiling was only 7' tall so I vaulted the ceiling - by myself. I left 2 ceiling joist in to keep the side walls together. Then I installed all new windows, wired it to a generator, and insulated it. The cabin was built on a concrete slab but they didn't pour a foundation or a rat wall around it. So 2 summers ago I hand dug a trench all the way around it (40 wheel barrow loads) and filled it full of concrete. Last fall I started working on the ceiling and ground down the heaved cracks in the concrete floor. Through the winter and this spring I got the floor sanded down and painted the floor. Thanks to Javtwotone for the industrial paint. I have been heading to the cabin in between doctors appointments and have finally got the walls put up. I bought 1x8 ship lap and rout one edge. Now I have to put some eurathne on the wall and make all of the door and window trim. IMG_4234 by Rick Jones, on Flickr A tour o the inside. LOL! IMG_4645 by Rick Jones, on Flickr Once the cabin is finished I will double the size by adding on to the back. Where the sliding glass door is now will be a hall way to the addition.
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Post by amxdreamer on Jun 5, 2021 9:04:50 GMT -8
I'm guessing with no bathroom the Mrs doesn't like heading up there! lol
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Post by sc397 on Jun 5, 2021 9:19:28 GMT -8
No bathroom until after I add on but I built the Jones Engineered Chitter Remote' before I started on the cabin. It is compete with a 55 gallon drum in the ceiling as a holding tank for the flusher toilet and gravity fed sink. It is by far the nicest shitter in the complex including a Buddy Heater that will run out of there. LOL! IMG_4780 by Rick Jones, on Flickr IMG_4779 by Rick Jones, on Flickr
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Post by landbarge on Jun 5, 2021 10:12:43 GMT -8
Nothing like methane, sitting on a launch pad and an ignition source.
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Post by landbarge on Jun 5, 2021 10:51:18 GMT -8
When my folks were still around, they lives on the western edge of Kenosha county. I'll call it a cottage/ shack built in the early 1900's. It was up on pilings. Took a bit just to make it habitable. Plumbing consisted of a foot or two of iron pipe, then to a couple feet of copper tube and back to some iron. I'd go up there on weekends with my brother in law and a friend to work on it. No insulation other than a few old newspapers shoved in a few spots. Had a grandfathered shallow well that i had to have re drilled to sell. Would have probably kept the place if the half assed added on utility room wasn't rotting off of it because of the half assed roofers.
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Post by sc397 on Jun 5, 2021 11:23:02 GMT -8
Yep. At one point in time I was seriously hoping that a big wind would just blow it over so that I could start over.
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Post by spud on Jun 5, 2021 11:40:50 GMT -8
Seems like those getaway places are more trouble than they are worth. Almost makes an RV an option. Almost. Well your gettin plenty of work done in your relaxation time. Exercize is important... i hear.
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Post by sc397 on Jun 5, 2021 11:57:44 GMT -8
Not more trouble than they are worth to me. I really enjoy it and can't wait to go back. When I work on it, it is relaxing for me. I just hope that my Daughter enjoys it after I am gone. It is in a area where there are about 15 cabins in a little community completely surrounded by thousands of acres owned by the state 5 miles outside of town. 2 people live up there full time but the rest of us don't.
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Post by amxdreamer on Jun 5, 2021 12:44:55 GMT -8
Looks great! Is there a lake nearby? What's the address so I can creep it on google maps?
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Post by sc397 on Jun 5, 2021 13:37:13 GMT -8
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Post by Captain Awesome on Jun 5, 2021 14:05:11 GMT -8
Maybe ya need to hire Steve to help ya in your Engine shop........
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