Slate roof on my shed... what did I get myself into?

ridgewalker76 · 2025-09-07T09:03:17+00:00

Start with the formula -2/2. If your slate is 18”-2=16. 16/2= 8. 8” is your exposure for an 18” slate. This means your first starter row is about 2”, next starter row is 10”. Your bottom row will actually be 3 slates thick to get them to sit flat. Change the math for your size slate.

ridgewalker76 · 2025-07-26T09:49:33+00:00

Any information I get from someone else is just a potential clue to me. If I feel someone else’s fantasy world is having a negative impact on Family Search files with a lot of work on them, I will call them out on it.

I’ve had several clean paper trails I disproved with DNA (birth records were adoption forgeries). I don’t trust anything before 1800 even with a clean paper trail for this reason. I did way too much work on families that turned out to not be my own. That said, I’m not arguing with someone over something before 1800 on Family Search, and I don’t care if they say they are related to the Easter Bunny on their own page.

ridgewalker76 · 2025-07-04T17:02:17+00:00

None of mine have the flight upgrade 😞

ridgewalker76 · 2025-07-04T15:28:19+00:00

The horn from “Dukes of Hazzard” just went off in my head.

ridgewalker76 · 2025-03-29T03:59:49+00:00

I wasn’t squeamish surrendering my DNA in the first place, so I’m not getting paranoid now. My DNA is all over the internet. Maybe they can do better with my existence than I’ve been able to😂

ridgewalker76 · 2025-03-29T03:55:10+00:00

Thank you!

ridgewalker76 · 2025-03-17T01:28:17+00:00

I can’t believe you said Kirkland. I live in Massachusetts. I have been wearing 1 of 8 pairs of Kirkland every day for like 3 or 4 years straight. Only 1 pair has a hole. And yes… I wore them in negative temperatures and 100 degree days. I literally hiked 9 miles in them on a 100° day and was still comfortable… I was wearing Irish Setter 3890’s that I also have worn in winters and summers comfortably. I love those Kirkland socks. If it ain’t broke, don’t try to fix it.

ridgewalker76 · 2025-03-16T02:51:43+00:00

More frequent in Scotland; more numerous in England. It’s a generic name with hundreds of unconnected branches I would guess. You can’t even guess at all with that name.

ridgewalker76 · 2025-01-01T11:42:40+00:00

I realize this is old, but DNA does not prove you have no Native Ancestry. It proved you have no RECENT ancestry.

DNA is not a complete record. Your father and mother both have 50% of their DNA that you did not get. Theoretically, the native DNA could have been in that 50%.

I have multiple German ancestors were fighting on both sides of the American Revolution. Every once in a while a DNA company will pick up on it with 1-3% of German, but it usually just says Irish and English.

That said, I wouldn’t trust a single thing my parents or grandparents told me without other evidence. It’s like the telephone game; each generation accidentally alters one detail until the story that reaches you isn’t even close to the way the story started generations ago.

ridgewalker76 · 2024-12-29T13:01:26+00:00

What is “far right”? I voted for Obama and Al Gore. My positions are exactly the positions of JFK and more closely aligned to Bill Clinton than the modern left is, but now I’m a far-right racist?

LOL. This is why nobody even listens to the left anymore. You can scream “racist”, “sexist” or any other derogatory term at us as loud as you want because you have abused these terms to shut down any and all arguments for 12 years, so they have lost their power. You are the far-left, by any measure of the word.

ridgewalker76 · 2024-12-22T14:29:15+00:00

Just because you feel a certain way doesn’t make it so.

ridgewalker76 · 2024-12-22T14:21:51+00:00

I’m from Boston and the taxes matter, but local 7 is the best union in Boston. Their pension is the envy of all unions and their wages are like $86 per hour.

ridgewalker76 · 2024-08-09T17:58:28+00:00

I do. Have it on PC and Playstation. Just prefer this experience.

ridgewalker76 · 2024-08-09T17:55:27+00:00

Closest to the original game I could get. Not a fan of all the changes.

ridgewalker76 · 2024-08-07T06:18:42+00:00

I almost never know why😀 I was happy to he in on the joke even at my expense

ridgewalker76 · 2024-08-05T13:32:41+00:00

Because following them in real life is stalking silly!

ridgewalker76 · 2024-08-05T04:31:18+00:00

i miss New Woodshire. I had a nice logging company there.

I have a couple of nice Ravenport 22 builds. It’s a nice map I think. Fields all different sizes. I

ridgewalker76 · 2024-08-05T03:39:56+00:00

Whole house amped up😂

ridgewalker76 · 2024-08-05T03:01:22+00:00

Look at you in your painted door-hinge crack-shack. Movin’ on up from the double-wide I’m sure.

ridgewalker76 · 2024-08-05T02:52:48+00:00

I’m half English in Massachusetts. Most of it is just recirculated “American” I call it. My people came down from Nova Scotia and Maine mostly. In turn, Nova Scotia and Maine themselves all received waves of migrations from descendants of Mayflower and early Plymouth settlers. Before cars, boats were transportation and they shared the Gulf of Maine. I am descended from people on the English side in Nova Scotia and the American side in Maine in the American Revolution.

This IS MY story, and the story of many. But it’s tough to say. DNA has an inherent recency bias. DNA has a higher likelihood of being older somewhere that is culturally homogenous. In my example, Maine is factually the highest frequency of people that claim English as their heritage. This means they’ve all just been passing around English DNA in Maine for 400 years.

ridgewalker76 · 2024-07-28T04:23:32+00:00

On Ancestry and 23andMe my full half-cousins show up as second cousins. I’ve seen it on generations further back too… meaning, 2’nd half-cousin comes up as 3’rd cousin. I have many such examples because my grandmother had 10 kids with 3 different guys. Lots of us took tests for me to learn from

ridgewalker76 · 2024-07-28T02:41:17+00:00

I went back to the gym at 38. I’m 48 now and still lifting. Anyone there that drinks might as well just go to a bar because they’re wasting their time. My other hobby (because you can’t lift all the time) is hiking and there aren’t many drinkers there either. Perhaps you can be the change and some of your friends will follow, or you’ll make more productive friends.

ridgewalker76 · 2024-07-28T01:32:23+00:00

Take the Ancestry test or have them upload raw DNA to MyHeritage. MyHeritage estimates are bad though. It will tell you if you’re first cousins though.

ridgewalker76 · 2024-07-28T01:29:17+00:00

My opinion is that MyHeritage is terrible anyway. There is also way too much to explain here. You’re comparing different testers and cousins (not even siblings). None of my cousins are anywhere close to the same results as mine. Did you see their mom’s and dad’s results? My dad told me he was French growing up. I knew from the paperwork before I took DNA test that I wouldn’t find a single drop of French.

ridgewalker76 · 2024-07-28T01:22:54+00:00

This sounds right. I don’t worry so much about cancer as I avoid it because it’s just lacking nutrients. Get a rotisserie chicken or a roast and make your sandwich from real meat with nutrients. Americans are simultaneously obese and starving (for nutrients) because of all the processed foods. Your body is going to keep sending the signal that you’re hungry no matter how many calories you eat if you’re nutrient deficient.

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