Yeah, when you _loose_ an old friend;- off they gambol and run about wagging their little tails looking at you with big eyes just begging for a stick to be thrown .... however I can picture the moment..Tim, standing on doorstep, gesturing outwards; commanding the keyboard; - "Go! Make your own way in the world - You obsolescent collation of assorted keys! I loose you!" there again ... to lose an old friend ... different matter... tears all round, poxy adverts pinned to telegraph poles, notices in shops; (Some outfit on tele' claims to insure against expenses when this happens ... "that's lucky")
No, it's not. Several days was as long as it was up before I finished doing what I was doing and switched it off. It hadn't fallen over at that point, nor would I have expected it to.
I'm not an apologist for Microsoft, but W2k is actually very stable and falls over less often than SuSE 9.1 [1] which was my last brush with Linux.
[1] Cue choruses of "Oh, you should have tried DebiuntuSeKnopthing" and so on. This is where Linux currently falls down.
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Ah, yes, the wife had that the entire time the kids were waking at night. "Isn't it nice when the kids sleep through the night" she would say, breezily, each morning.
So tee a bit of clear pipe on at the outlet and run it up the side of the barrel. Close the top but dont make it airtight, just junk tight. Now you've got a level display.
no, but it should be ok in practice, long as you link at bottom not top, and drain the water from the last barrel first to avoid stagnation. I'm not a hydrodynamics engineer.
Yes, it was just a very 'awkward (blind) job up inside the door where most of it had to be done by feel.
The 'next time' was the other side and it was ... by about 10 mins .. (no less 'blind'. no less awkward).
Not that I remember .. but they were less brittle then ..
Indeed .. but shouldn't you be out threshing some corn for tomorrows breakfast toast Mary? Or do you have the time for all these luxuries because 'spouse' does everything for you?
sure, when God made time she made plenty of it :-)
In fact it doesn't take as much time as it does to shop and it's much more pleasant.
Tolja!
He does what he's best at, I do what I'm best at. I plan and prepare our meals. Last night I made enough bread to last for three or four weeks in the oven he built which will see us out. The cost? The flour. The time? Very little, it was done between doing other things. The result? Far better than any commercial bread we've ever tasted. Oh, and the residual heat cooked the stag turkey leg which we're going to have tonight with salad and potatoes from the garden - no digging, fertiliser courtesy of the hens, saved seed so no cost and llittle time. Lots of enjoyment and satisfaction though - once you get yourself organised..
As I said about something else, it's not possible for everyone but there's always some way of organising life to make it more worthwhile. This is a d-i-y group after all, that extends to more than putting up shelves and painting :-)
And that's wood fired then .. and you get your wood from .. using what transport? And how long does it take to fire up .. and how big is your kitchen ..?
The cost? The flour. The time? Very
So to grow / buy / gather / mix the ingredients takes more time than buying the finished article on yer way home from work?
Quite possibly .. supply (to our door) some of the same at from the garden
Hmm, we had salad from the Supermarket with some of my home grown toms and cucumber (can't say I could taste the difference though)?
What, your produce leaps out the ground on it's own?
Nowhere to keep hens, let alone their cr*p ;-)
I've done some of that ..
Not sure about that .. prep, planting, fertilizing, watering, tending, picking ...
I dare say .. assuming you have nothing *more enjoyable* you would rather be doing with the time? Like archery, we all did it and were reasonably good at it but given the choice the missus would rather be clay shooting or motorcycling?
Ah, that's me shagged then .. I don't like planning .. and why I bought a GPS .. takes me where I want to go, the instant I find myself going there .. no time wasted 'planning' the journey or reading maps etc ?
Probably why I (we) don't do much of that type of thing then .. wife asks 'what do you want for dinner' not tells me what we have to eat because it's in the oven because something else is being cooked? (the only time that has happened was when I heated a pie whilst heating a crankcase pre bearing removal) ;-)
Yes, it's a d-i-y not a d-i-a-y though .. ? ;-)
All the best ..
T i m
p.s. When (if) I retire I just *might* get chance to finish the 1024 jobs currently outstanding before I die .. (let alone have the time / interest to bake my own bread (etc)) (although I have done so with my Daughter for 'fun').
Don't be daft! We were only talking about meals, I thought :-)
The very efficient freezer.
The garden and other people's gardens. There's a lot of it about.
Um - legs :-)
the fire itself takes about an hour.
Eh? That's irrelevant!
Sigh.
I don't go out to work, I'd have to make a special journey.
Using a vehicle?
:-)
That is incomprehensible ...
I've repeatedly said that not everyone can do what we do. But everyone can do something towards improving their own life and the environment.
Very little time.
Very little time.
Hens do that in winter.
Automatic in the greenhouse, God does the rest, mostly.
Tending?
A pleasure to have the freshest produce.
Archery is only one of the other things we do. I hate being on the bike but do it because Spouse loves it. You can't eat clays ...
That's no problem, I take my own navigator in the passenger seat :-)
From what I've seen of people who do that they end up eating very similar meals from week to week. I like to give surprises :-) It's very satisfying for both of us.
Nobody's a super hero - not even you :-)
Is that ALL? That number will grow after you retire ... But you could always get a man in to do them. I keep threatening to do that, it always works :-)
Ah - that's why you think it's difficult :-)
I've done it for forty odd years, it's second nature. It's also second nature to expect the best, which is why we do everything we can ourselves.
A son is MSNing at the same time I'm trying to answer this, multi-tasking comes naturally to most women of course but I am wondering if I'm telling him about tomatoes ...
Do you, or anyone know if connecting additional waterbutts together at the bottom (so only one tap is required to be used from the first butt) if I need to make sure the connection to the additional waterbutts is above (or below) the tap on the first butt or not?
I read a post where someone said they used the existing tap hole to connect the additional waterbutts so maybe that answers my question?
Will any of this weird 'back presure' or anything else odd happen, eg: the overflow stop working and it flood or the additional waterbutts fail to fill anything horrible like that?
I have four butts connected together with hose running between the taps. There are "T" pieces in the hose to make this possible. There is another "T" to come off to the tap. I was concerned that air locks might form but they haven't - presumably once the pipe is full of water it stays like that. No extra holes were put in the butts.
If you are feeding one butt from a roof or something you may find that the feed butt fills too fast and overflows. I don't have that problem but if it happened I'd either use a larger bore hose or arrange to share the feed water between butts by an additional high level big bore link.
The feed from the roof has an 'automatic overflow' which works perfectly at the moment, this should still work even with the 2 additional butts connected, right?
I like the T piece idea, like you say I won't have to drill any more holes although I think I'd prefer to perhaps have an additional hole in the first butt which then goes to Ts in each of the second two butts just to keep the pipes out of the way so they don't get snagged (the waterbutts are actually _inside_ our garage!)
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