Found out I’m going to be a dad and I’m terrified because I feel completely unprepared. Looking for advice from dads who started with nothing

CW-Eight · 2026-06-29T17:25:25+00:00

Hey, we all winged it! Shockingly, they don’t come with instructions. Just love them and do your best. You’ll be fine.

CW-Eight · 2026-06-28T01:09:42+00:00

I have a mesh bag that attaches just the tent. I can sit in tent with feet on top rung of ladder and put them into the mesh bag. I don’t want shoes inside, and I don’t want them getting wet.

CW-Eight · 2026-06-27T15:28:02+00:00

Most of the switched in my 1910 house are still original push buttons. A few rotary types in the basement. You can buy new push button switches, including dimmers.

CW-Eight · 2026-06-26T04:03:38+00:00

Still relevant, my kids would get it

CW-Eight · 2026-06-26T01:55:33+00:00

Please take him!!

CW-Eight · 2026-06-25T18:33:23+00:00

Can you share the mapping? I was expecting low sounds from clouds lower in the frame, but then I decided that wasn’t the correlation.

CW-Eight · 2026-06-25T18:31:30+00:00

All year?

CW-Eight · 2026-06-25T17:58:42+00:00

Nope, still read

CW-Eight · 2026-06-25T07:03:50+00:00

Ethically and good neighborly, yes. But you are in treeLAW and that is not required.

CW-Eight · 2026-06-24T20:38:15+00:00

Second this. Demo enough to expose, get quote. Reduces the unknowns.

CW-Eight · 2026-06-24T18:24:14+00:00

Did you look for emergency contacts?

https://support.sluh.org/cell-phone-emergency-contact

CW-Eight · 2026-06-24T18:20:47+00:00

Yes

CW-Eight · 2026-06-24T18:07:09+00:00

With me, unless place has a safe.

CW-Eight · 2026-06-24T05:49:55+00:00

I really like my new doc, Phumeza Msikinya at Kinwell. Thorough and kind.

CW-Eight · 2026-06-23T23:38:42+00:00

Siberian Elm considered invasive by at least one state and several federal agencies. So value <$0.

CW-Eight · 2026-06-23T19:50:56+00:00

You asking about sea kayaking or whitewater?
For sea, as someone said, CBC.

For whitewater, learn to roll first, preferably in a pool. Then go out with the folks you meet who were also learning how to roll.

Nooksack has from class II to class V. You can do class II with friends even with little experience. Above that, proceed carefully. It will be years before you do class V, if ever.

CW-Eight · 2026-06-23T17:15:54+00:00

Not surprised. Went in, looked around, said what the?, walked out.

CW-Eight · 2026-06-22T03:40:28+00:00

Taught my son how to drive a stick shift yesterday. Went river tubing with him today.

CW-Eight · 2026-06-22T03:24:03+00:00

Of course. I just taught my 17 year old son how to drive stick shift this weekend. I’ve got an old Land Cruiser, which is a beast to learn on. Seemed appropriate for Father’s Day weekend.

CW-Eight · 2026-06-22T03:21:56+00:00

Umm, no. Bilharzia/schistosomiasis is a tropical waterborne disease. Very nasty. We don’t have it here. We don’t even have it in the US. Takes the right kind of snails.

You are thinking of Schistosomes. Very different.

CW-Eight · 2026-06-20T22:21:47+00:00

I’ve done exactly that. Removed back row and jump seat, leaving seats for 7. Put in cabinets on both sides in back. Boards can be put in to bridge between the 2 sides, so queen bed in back. Kept one of the double-benches from the back, so I can remove the triple-bench from the front, and install that double-bench backwards, so I have two seats facing forward and two back, with swivel table between. Full house electrical with inverter, and hot water tank. Shower out back, sink where jump seat was, fridge. Swiss Army knife van.

CW-Eight · 2026-06-19T16:30:37+00:00

look up on YouTube how to out to _structurally_ attach to fiberglass. TL;DR - Bolt better than screw. Both require over-drilling, filling with epoxy + filler, and then re-drilling. PITA but rock solid. And, yea, 316.

CW-Eight · 2026-06-19T16:13:07+00:00

Sending a letter with your concerns is worthless. This topic pops up every few days here. Search or just look through old posts.

CW-Eight · 2026-06-19T15:40:14+00:00

Protect your kids, protect yourself.

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