CarlSeibert Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 You live in a beautiful neighborhood! Quaint and lovely! That's exactly what ran through my mind, too. We may not be seeing the broken trees for the forest or something. John - Glad it's just a few branches and none of your trees are seriously damaged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightWoundsTime Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 New batch of Matt the Younger is officially in the bottle. I planned to bottle my other two beers on hand but things got messy. Pulled out the handy spring loaded bottle filler and found that the spring was gone. Shit. Filling bottles with nothing but a hose and a hose clamp sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt Peanuts Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 Made somen for dinner after thinking that I needed to increase my repertoire to include some summer/hot weather meals as most of the meals I make are not suited for the season. My daughter loved it and gobbled it up. The whole time she was eating she kept saying, "it looks like spaghetti, it's Japanese." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morphsci Posted July 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 (edited) Wow, glad you guys still have some green up there John. We are scorched earth here. Edited July 25, 2012 by morphsci Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 I kept my job! Yee-haw! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aimless1 Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 Congrats Dusty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shellylh Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 More issues today: permit wasn't actually "pulled" before the work started on Thursday when the company though it was because their proof of liability insurance wasn't updated on the official Texas website.... so then it took a while for the inspector to come out... then the guy from a subcontractor of the gas company that comes out to install the gas meter is an idiot and connects the meter to the old gas pipes and tells us there is a huge leak (yeah, because those pipes are are not connected to anything), he finally calls his boss and his boss figures it out... then he lets out the air in the new pipes by opening a valve under our stove and let's out too much gas into our house, lights the stove and creates a giant flare up under from under the sink - flames were about 4 feet says hubby (luckily I was not there for that and no one got). After running the air conditioner for a couple of hours I cannot smell any gas anymore so I think we are finally in good shape. Sigh... I think I need a drink. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 (edited) Double Damn. Your luck needs to turn around. And stay away from Flaming B-52s or a Backdraft shot! Edited July 25, 2012 by blessingx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlSeibert Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 Wow. Just wow., as they say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvlgato Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 You live in a beautiful neighborhood! Quaint and lovely! Thanks! It is quite nice. It's also a contractor's dream ... most of the houses are about a hundred years old, so there's always something needing to be done! And to top it off, it's very liberal and mixed racially and socioeconomically, and probably the most rainbow friendly suburb in Chicagoland! That's exactly what ran through my mind, too. We may not be seeing the broken trees for the forest or something. John - Glad it's just a few branches and none of your trees are seriously damaged. The trees are really nice. They give the area an old neighborhood feel, and provide shade in the summer. They also require me to rod the central sewer line every 1 1/2 years to unclog them from tree roots, and they drop leaves and seeds like crazy every fall and spring! Yin and yang, I guess. Wow, glad you guys still have some green up there John. We are scorched earth here. Wer're not too bad up here. The people who garden as a hobby are fretting, but it's really been fine. Not much grass to cut! And we get the occasional blast of rain, like we did this morning. Although we were out of town for the worst of it! Hope you get some rain down there! Shelly, sorry for your gas problem ... wait, that didn't sound right. Well, hope it's finally all fixed, in any case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 Shelly: yeezh. At least you have your health, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shellylh Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 ^Health is the most important. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augsburger Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 Shelly, I think you are finally ready for that cable reality show gig. Wow, if I didn't know you I would say someone is posting BS on this thread, sadly, it really is happening to you. I hope your luck improves real soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 Quite a storm that passed through here this morning. I was up at 6 a.m. for a call with India and all of a sudden hell broke loose. Call ended up postponed, so I went back to bed for an hour or so. Wake up to find out that a utility pole and the top half of a pretty damn tall tree had cracked and fallen straight to the ground. They roped off a 30-40 foot stretch of the block and as of last night it was still in disarray. *This is at Washington and Harvey, just in case you wanna know John* Jim - Allison and I were in Peoria on Sunday and it looked terrible. Her mom's cemetery is completely burnt to a crisp. Can't believe how much green we have 150 miles north. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvlgato Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 I was up at 6 a.m. for a call with India and all of a sudden hell broke loose. Call ended up postponed, so I went back to bed for an hour or so. Wake up to find out that a utility pole and the top half of a pretty damn tall tree had cracked and fallen straight to the ground. Can't believe how much green we have 150 miles north. Wow! I guess we're pretty lucky. There could have been much more property damage or injuries. Didn't realize just how dry it was south of here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 I just assumed you had gotten really pissed and decided to take it out on our quaint neighborhoods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agile_one Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 Update: We decided to replace both heating and cooling units. Significantly more expensive, but better than doing band aids for the next few years. Seriously? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark baguette Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Had 10 centimeters of needle shoved into my back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morphsci Posted July 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 They contractors arrived at 8 am and left at 8 pm. Houston we have AC, happy, happy, joy, joy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shellylh Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Nice!!! Cocktail time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Had 10 centimeters of needle shoved into my backRabies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absorbine_Sr Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 They contractors arrived at 8 am and left at 8 pm. Houston we have AC, happy, happy, joy, joy. Yay!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MexicanDragon Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 This is what it looks like outside of my apartment door.... **BRENT** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shellylh Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 That doesn't look too good Brent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MexicanDragon Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 This is what it started out once we noticed the problem in our apartment... when it started backing up into the bathtub. Went to go get apartment maintenance and saw this. Annnnnndddd it's worse... and in the apartment. Pictures to follow. Thankfully, this isn't on my dime. **BRENT** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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