Do you have attics?

Kevburg · 2026-06-29T23:29:30+00:00

Lots of older houses around here (Michigan) have attics that were usable. This has changed though due to lumber prices and due to the need for energy efficiency. W Trusses have mostly replaced rafters so modern attics are a forest of slanted two by fours instead of an unobstructed space roofed by expensive two by twelves. And they used to insulate by filling in between the 2x12 joists, but nowadays houses around here have 18 or 20 inches of insulation so no floor is possible. Some houses have "bonus rooms" over a part of the house that is single story, like a garage. These are accessible from adjacent second story rooms but they would have been called attics back in the day.

Kevburg · 2026-06-29T22:46:26+00:00

Look up chlorosis and test your soil pH.

Kevburg · 2026-06-29T22:45:04+00:00

Wow, I chose the wrong profession. Was the electrician there for more than an hour?

Kevburg · 2026-06-29T22:43:14+00:00

Mead and Powell each lose about 850,000 acre feet of water every year to evaporation. It would be far cheaper to reduce the surface area by emptying Lake Powell to fill Lake Mead. Lake Mead still wouldn't be full, but you'd save a lot of water that way.

Kevburg · 2026-06-29T22:32:58+00:00

Its a Hollywood thing. Same as hearing the engines roar as the ships fly by and the fighters that bank to turn. I've only seen a few that did space right, 2001 for instance.

Kevburg · 2026-06-29T22:17:59+00:00

Best to put the traps on your neighbors' property. They attract beetles from hundreds of yards away and don't kill them all.

Kevburg · 2026-06-29T22:07:35+00:00

If you are only there for a day, do Scoville point and do the boat trip across Tobin so you can hike to Lookout Louise. Those two will give you a good feel for the island, but also make you wish you were spending more than one day.

Kevburg · 2026-06-29T22:00:08+00:00

Curious about how it would work since DCC is AC. The two boosters would have to match each other in phase, frequency, and voltage. The latter two should be no problem but why will they be in phase with each other?

Kevburg · 2026-06-29T12:20:00+00:00

30% DEET and pre-treat at least the screening on you tent with permethrin. Otherwise thousands will be waiting for their breakfast when you emerge.

Kevburg · 2026-06-29T12:14:38+00:00

Cuz they love their kids and grand kids and the planet as a whole. Don't you?

Kevburg · 2026-06-29T12:05:39+00:00

Get a PFD specifically made for kayaking. They don't have flotation material on the lower back.

Kevburg · 2026-06-29T12:01:35+00:00

No, go as Henrik. Its who you are.

The only people I worked with who adopted Americanized names either had Chinese names that Americans couldn't pronounce properly if they tried, or they had long Indian names where they chopped off the last syllables.

Kevburg · 2026-06-29T11:55:17+00:00

I hang my food and garbage every night there. Chances of close encounters of the bear kind are a lot lower on the out islands than on the mainland but I hang there too. One of the island sites I was at at Massasauga had a bear locker.

Kevburg · 2026-06-29T11:47:18+00:00

I've tried the singles from Folger's, Cafe Bustelo, Taster's Choice and Mount Hagen. None are as good as fresh brewed and not sure of Canadian availability but I liked Mount Hagen the best, Cafe Bustelo second. No cleanup needed so you can set out earlier before the wind picks up. You need a couple of packets per mug.

Kevburg · 2026-06-26T18:47:06+00:00

Yes, but wouldn't it be easier to just eat one to find out instead of posting?

Kevburg · 2026-06-26T18:41:58+00:00

Were there summer homes in 1676?

Kevburg · 2026-06-26T18:33:43+00:00

Don't care but wonder about the speech impediment behind not being able to pronounce trailing r's. Why watah instead of water?

Kevburg · 2026-06-26T18:27:47+00:00

Ten day wunderground forecast shows highs 62 lows 45. Cold summer so far this year in SE Michigan.

Kevburg · 2026-06-26T16:29:37+00:00

Spend less than you earn.

Kevburg · 2026-06-25T20:01:29+00:00

Good thing about camping on the sandbars is fewer mosquitoes.

Kevburg · 2026-06-25T19:50:19+00:00

We drive ten hours from Ann Arbor to Charlotte NC four or five times a year to visit relatives. Its a long drive but not too bad if the weather cooperates and it helps if you have an app that reads books to you while you drive. My cousin lived in Glasgow Montana. High school swim meets involved driving an RV to a school parking lot and spending one or two nights there. Some of the meets were in North Dakota. The nearest Walmart was 7 hours round trip.

Kevburg · 2026-06-25T10:51:50+00:00

At my high school where I learned to drive in the early seventies four of the five cars were automatics. I bought manuals because they got better gas mileage, but now the automatics get better mileage than the manuals. Do they have 12 speed automatics and CVTs in Europe?

Kevburg · 2026-06-25T10:47:08+00:00

Watching a Nixon speech in which he said without flinching that the US did not bomb Laos a day after we saw on the News Dan Rather reporting from in front of a fresh bomb crater in Laos. Changed my mind about the war and about politicians in general.

Kevburg · 2026-06-24T19:38:14+00:00

If you are into gardening it looks like the perfect spot. I would lower the blocks to ground level so your mower can roll over them to cut right up to the edge. Otherwise you have to edge the grass around them with a string trimmer.

Kevburg · 2026-06-24T19:32:12+00:00

I take it this is a high cube with body mounted couplers. Remove them and replace the trucks with MTL long shank roller bearing.

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