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Post by Wolfgang on May 19, 2019 12:28:06 GMT -5
Wolfgang you are starting to remind me of my weird brother. Do you also prefer to use two dollar bills? Hurtful comment. You’ve been reported.
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Post by Wolfgang on May 19, 2019 22:25:15 GMT -5
My next project will be a garden workstation. Currently drawing up plans with tape measure and calculator. I'm also building a sink with faucet plus tank for gray water down below. Our current one looks like the one below and my wife said, "It's not cutting it, mister." If I want to ever have sex again, I will need to build a better workstation. I've completed the design of my outdoor workstation. I basically took the most essential functional units (e.g., drawers, cabinets, sink tub) that I'm not going to make from scratch and designed everything around them. I'll start buying stuff from Home Depot tomorrow.
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Post by rockhopper on May 20, 2019 15:59:20 GMT -5
Squeaky still has five. The wood duck appears to have abandoned her six ducklings (this happened last year) but the ducklings are still hanging out together (they did this last year too)
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Post by azvb on May 21, 2019 8:57:04 GMT -5
What is an acceptable hour to mow your lawn in the morning? Give me a weekday time, and a weekend time.
Oh, neighbors are close by. 🤬🤬
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Post by vbprisoner on May 21, 2019 10:46:48 GMT -5
What is an acceptable hour to mow your lawn in the morning? Give me a weekday time, and a weekend time. Oh, neighbors are close by. 🤬🤬 I believe this depends on the type of neighborhood you live in regarding age. In Texas it seems to follow the below: - If you are in a neighborhood that is considered a family neighborhood with a lot of kids from k-12 then weekdays 8:00 AM is acceptable because everyone is already up getting ready for school or work. On weekends I personally would not crank the lawn mower until 9:00 AM. - If you are in a neighborhood that is more like a semi-retirement, or retirement type neighborhood with little to no children then I might go with 9:00 AM weekdays and weekends. - If you are in a neighborhood that has a HOA then they will have a handbook that will have this outlined for times that it is acceptable to start the noise of mowing, trimming, and using gas or electric powered tools.
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Post by volleyguy on May 21, 2019 13:00:47 GMT -5
What is an acceptable hour to mow your lawn in the morning? Give me a weekday time, and a weekend time. Oh, neighbors are close by. 🤬🤬 The correct answer is entirely dependent on how much you like your neighbors.
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Post by Wolfgang on May 21, 2019 13:04:58 GMT -5
My next project will be a garden workstation. Currently drawing up plans with tape measure and calculator. I'm also building a sink with faucet plus tank for gray water down below. Our current one looks like the one below and my wife said, "It's not cutting it, mister." If I want to ever have sex again, I will need to build a better workstation. I've completed the design of my outdoor workstation. I basically took the most essential functional units (e.g., drawers, cabinets, sink tub) that I'm not going to make from scratch and designed everything around them. I'll start buying stuff from Home Depot tomorrow. I'm incorporating a big water drum into my design. All gray water from the workstation will flow down to a medium-sized container. This water will be pumped (via a utility pump) to a water drum sitting above ground level. I've got an outlet nearby for the utility pump. The above-ground water drum will store gallons and gallons of water. I'll have a garden hose plus faucet apparatus connected to the water drum. So, whenever my wife wants to water her garden, she simply turns on the faucet and water will flow from the water drum and out of her garden hose via gravity. (California is tight with water so we need to make the most of rainwater and gray water.) I may also need to move the utility pump around so as to divert water from the various rainwater collector barrels we've got around our property to this water drum. This means lots of PVC pipes snaking around our property. My wife will love that. 🙄
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Post by Wolfgang on May 21, 2019 13:13:30 GMT -5
The water drum will be set up something like this:
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Post by azvb on May 21, 2019 13:47:28 GMT -5
What is an acceptable hour to mow your lawn in the morning? Give me a weekday time, and a weekend time. Oh, neighbors are close by. 🤬🤬 I believe this depends on the type of neighborhood you live in regarding age. In Texas it seems to follow the below: - If you are in a neighborhood that is considered a family neighborhood with a lot of kids from k-12 then weekdays 8:00 AM is acceptable because everyone is already up getting ready for school or work. On weekends I personally would not crank the lawn mower until 9:00 AM. - If you are in a neighborhood that is more like a semi-retirement, or retirement type neighborhood with little to no children then I might go with 9:00 AM weekdays and weekends. - If you are in a neighborhood that has a HOA then they will have a handbook that will have this outlined for times that it is acceptable to start the noise of mowing, trimming, and using gas or electric powered tools. Mixed neighborhood-were the old folks, but lots of kids. But I think we can agree 6:30 is too early. I’m not even sure which neighbor it is. I guess next time I’ll go outside in my jammies and give them the “seriously???” Look.
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Post by Wolfgang on May 21, 2019 13:59:43 GMT -5
I believe this depends on the type of neighborhood you live in regarding age. In Texas it seems to follow the below: - If you are in a neighborhood that is considered a family neighborhood with a lot of kids from k-12 then weekdays 8:00 AM is acceptable because everyone is already up getting ready for school or work. On weekends I personally would not crank the lawn mower until 9:00 AM. - If you are in a neighborhood that is more like a semi-retirement, or retirement type neighborhood with little to no children then I might go with 9:00 AM weekdays and weekends. - If you are in a neighborhood that has a HOA then they will have a handbook that will have this outlined for times that it is acceptable to start the noise of mowing, trimming, and using gas or electric powered tools. Mixed neighborhood-were the old folks, but lots of kids. But I think we can agree 6:30 is too early. I’m not even sure which neighbor it is. I guess next time I’ll go outside in my jammies and give them the “seriously???” Look. Honestly, you have to let the neighbors know how you're feeling. Your initial instinct may be to "be nice" and "play friendly" but this will be your undoing. We have a good relationship with our next door neighbor. They give us some of their fruit from their trees and we give them some of ours. We've hosted dinners for each other. We watched their dog. They lent us power tools. Etc. Once, my next door neighbor's kid (16 years old) invited a bunch of his friends for a swimming pool party at night. Lots of noise. Music, laughter, water splashing. The whole evening, we couldn't hear ourselves think. By midnight, the party was still going on. Despite our good relationship, I stormed over there, rang their doorbell, and when the kid answered, I said, "It's midnight. Your party is way too loud, okay? It's time for them to go home. And I mean, immediately. You hear me?" The kid said, "Yes, sir." A minute later, they all left. They never held another loud party again. LOL! But that kid never greeted us again or waved at us or even looked me in the eye. That twerp.
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Post by azvb on May 21, 2019 14:13:01 GMT -5
Mixed neighborhood-were the old folks, but lots of kids. But I think we can agree 6:30 is too early. I’m not even sure which neighbor it is. I guess next time I’ll go outside in my jammies and give them the “seriously???” Look. Honestly, you have to let the neighbors know how you're feeling. Your initial instinct may be to "be nice" and "play friendly" but this will be your undoing. We have a good relationship with our next door neighbor. They give us some of their fruit from their trees and we give them some of ours. We've hosted dinners for each other. We watched their dog. They lent us power tools. Etc. Once, my next door neighbor's kid (16 years old) invited a bunch of his friends for a swimming pool party at night. Lots of noise. Music, laughter, water splashing. The whole evening, we couldn't hear ourselves think. By midnight, the party was still going on. Despite our good relationship, I stormed over there, rang their doorbell, and when the kid answered, I said, "It's midnight. Your party is way too loud, okay? It's time for them to go home. And I mean, immediately. You hear me?" The kid said, "Yes, sir." A minute later, they all left. They never held another loud party again. LOL! But that kid never greeted us again or waved at us or even looked me in the eye. That twerp. You’re right. I need to figure out who it is. But it is hard for me. Our neighbor across the street parks his huge plumbing truck (think huge ice cream truck) at his house. His father has a garage door business and they park two trucks at his house, also. I informed the city about his plumbing truck because I’m sure it’s over 3000 lbs (anonymously, of course), so he only parks it there 2-3 days a week now. I guess the law is you can’t park it consecutive days 😖. But the garage door trucks are still there, which I guess is legal. Brings the whole neighborhood down. Get a yard to park your business vehicles! We are very friendly with them. They’re nice people. So I hesitate to say something. I know HOA’s can be a pain, but they can also take care of problems like this. BUT, my next door neighbor is selling his house, and the realtor told him to ask them to park all their trucks somewhere else. No trucks since Saturday. Hoping he found a permanent place.
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Post by Wolfgang on May 21, 2019 14:15:05 GMT -5
You should never let neighbor infractions go unpunished. Contact the police (if it's borderline criminal) so that there'll be a record. Contact property management if you live in a place with HOA, e.g., condominium complex, or in some sort of apartment. It's very important to leave a trail of evidence and documented complaints. Don't let the fukkers out of the hook.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2019 14:31:37 GMT -5
i cut grass for a landscaper in college the route was start with cemetery at 6, commercial properties at 7, residential neighborhoods start at 9, there was usually a break at 815-845 because we were not allowed to start before 9.
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Post by Wolfgang on May 21, 2019 14:42:49 GMT -5
i cut grass for a landscaper in college the route was start with cemetery at 6, commercial properties at 7, residential neighborhoods start at 9, there was usually a break at 815-845 because we were not allowed to start before 9. This is pretty neat.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2019 14:58:56 GMT -5
i cut grass for a landscaper in college the route was start with cemetery at 6, commercial properties at 7, residential neighborhoods start at 9, there was usually a break at 815-845 because we were not allowed to start before 9. This is pretty neat. Funnest summer job i ever had. $11/hr to cut grass, that's all I did, someone else on the crew runs the weed eater, leaf blower, plants flowers, trims shrubs, and prunes trees. I would never be able to afford or need a Ferris, but that thing was amazing.
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