We would make fun of a neighbor shunning us for supporting Trump, or conservative agenda. But I’d have a hard time having respect for a neighbor sporting Beto signs. We are just that divided.
70 Tedtam Stop up the copper pipe with WHITE bread and it’ll hold the water back long enough to get the solder done. I learned that one from an ancient old Italian plumber here. I still see him around town. He’s now about 90 years old and takes care of his mother-in-law who is around 105. I hired him to… Read more »
Is it shallow of me to lose respect for someone SOLELY from seeing that Beto sign in her yard? We weren’t close friends, but I was inclined to view her favorably up until then. Well, there were a few irritants. She is hard of hearing, thus difficult to communicate with; only in her 40s, yet I have never heard her… Read more »
I eat enough greens for everybody here.
My eyes are no longer brown.
GJT
June 1, 2018 6:45 pm
RE: Remodeling Drama We had a firm quote from a real company to do the bathroom job, I’m sure this thing wouldn’t have taken more than a few days, week. But a cuz-in-law who went into remodeling/construction/handyman biz networking deal kind of happened. See, he listed his home to sell thru the wife. House sells quick, remodeling job not going… Read more »
gtotracker
June 1, 2018 6:43 pm
#70 saw that a long time ago. It worked. Another plumbing trick if using pvc pipe in a ditch is cutting it with nylon string. Bet Hubby knows that.
53 GJT One of my vendors would bring me a box of those little note pads every year. Best tool I’ve ever had for dealing with skeptical customers, of which there are at least a thousand in Washington County. No matter how you try to explain it, until they see that little chart you might as well be talking to… Read more »
Some people I have a high opinion of don’t eat greens. Some like KISS. Some don’t like chicken fried steak. Some are from Oklahoma. I can overlook those things. Not sure I could overlook supporting Bay Toe.
phil
June 1, 2018 5:46 pm
Mr Haney is going to wipe the barn floor with the Beto.
I predict Haney by 10%tage points.
I’d bet the Douglas farm on it.
mharper42
June 1, 2018 5:36 pm
Speaking of Beto! — I’ve been sickened to see a few Vote Beto signs in my neighborhood, some in the yards of people I used to have a higher opinion of.
mharper42
June 1, 2018 5:34 pm
And here’s another HouChron/ProPublica story about St Luke’s heart transplant program. I’m glad my friend whose grown son got a heart transplant had it done at Memorial/Hermann.
I always replace those stupid compression valves with quarter turn valves.
Adee
June 1, 2018 5:26 pm
#56 GJT Ouch, I can sympathize with the frustration. We thankfully just completed the last major repairs to Harvey’s damage and now have the house 95% back to normal. We’ve done three stints of remodeling the house over the past 15 or so years and the recovery from Harvey last fall and this spring that involved some remodeling/repairing. It is… Read more »
56 GJT I change out shutoff valves every time I replace a faucet, sink, water heater or toilet. I don’t start until I have all the replacement valves on site before I try to turn them off. I’ve had so many frozen up or leaking over the years I just change them out whether they are working or not. I… Read more »
GJT
June 1, 2018 4:50 pm
Since we began the master bath remodel from hades we’ve had refrigerator go out and water supply line bust. Along the way I said I would remove and replace terlet, went to remove it for sheet rockers coming the following day but shut off valve wouldn’t shut off, back to Home Depot again and replace valve, wife is hollering when… Read more »
phil
June 1, 2018 4:23 pm
Pelozi says “May’s jobs report shows that strong employment numbers mean little to the families hit with soaring new costs under the Republicans’ watch.” In the Alt-left Dystopian States of America Jobs are Unemployment War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength Spying is Privacy Fascism is Anti fascism Truth is a lie A lie is the Truth The… Read more »
They’re probably like the Pecos cantaloupe in Texas. The good melons in Florida never make it out of the state. They send the crappy ones to New Jersey because these folks don’t know any better.
I’m getting tired of waiting on you people to get to work and start shipping watermelons up here. All I can find are Florida melons and the soil there is not made for growing melons. No flavor. One year, I went down to my local deli/supermarket and they had a big pallet of watermelons with a sign on the side… Read more »
Now that the reality sets in, manufacturing will be raining misery on the White House and Congress. This won’t last. Trump better wake up. There are more Rust Belt manufacturing workers dependent on imported materials than there are steel and aluminum makers.
We are starting to see the effects of Trump’s tariffs. For some particular types of steel and aluminum the import quota has already been met this year and no imports under these Harmonized Tariff Schedules will be allowed. We’re having steel specimens from South Korea for mechanical/metallurgical testing being stopped and rejected in Customs. I expect it to get worse.
36 Shannon I use the Sharkbite push/connect fittings for the plastic plumbing supply lines all the time. You can use them with copper lines also. They also make the shutoff valves in Sharkbite. Those fittings have been a lifesaver in tight spaces, especially in spots where I couldn’t solder copper pipe safely. I never used copper pipe in Texas, but… Read more »
Phil
https://youtu.be/Xglqe2UhJME
But do ya…unca Shanny?
You know, in an unca sort of way?:)
#83 Texpat
Eeekkk, just Eeekkk.
We would make fun of a neighbor shunning us for supporting Trump, or conservative agenda. But I’d have a hard time having respect for a neighbor sporting Beto signs. We are just that divided.
Ok, maybe Perdido
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxzht4bMY7g
That’s funny.
70 Tedtam Stop up the copper pipe with WHITE bread and it’ll hold the water back long enough to get the solder done. I learned that one from an ancient old Italian plumber here. I still see him around town. He’s now about 90 years old and takes care of his mother-in-law who is around 105. I hired him to… Read more »
Hmm. Sounds like someone I know. But I’m moving out if I come home to a Beto sign.
Heap big tug.
https://youtu.be/rwpIW3hWQ0M
Is it shallow of me to lose respect for someone SOLELY from seeing that Beto sign in her yard? We weren’t close friends, but I was inclined to view her favorably up until then. Well, there were a few irritants. She is hard of hearing, thus difficult to communicate with; only in her 40s, yet I have never heard her… Read more »
Hmm. Maybe a little farther.
https://youtu.be/qxzht4bMY7g
I’d say Dauphin Island is where it starts getting good.
#72
SD and Hammy would know more than me, but what little we ventured around, across Mobile Bay and down you start getting into white sands.
I eat enough greens for everybody here.
My eyes are no longer brown.
RE: Remodeling Drama We had a firm quote from a real company to do the bathroom job, I’m sure this thing wouldn’t have taken more than a few days, week. But a cuz-in-law who went into remodeling/construction/handyman biz networking deal kind of happened. See, he listed his home to sell thru the wife. House sells quick, remodeling job not going… Read more »
#70 saw that a long time ago. It worked. Another plumbing trick if using pvc pipe in a ditch is cutting it with nylon string. Bet Hubby knows that.
I could watch her speak German for a long time.
Well, I missed the blue beach water in Galveston. Guess I’ll have to go east to mark it off the bucket list.
How far did y’all say? Mobile?
Rather nice looking blond on a sax. She talks a bit, but tis worth a listen.
Hubby ‘splained a soldering trick he learned from his plumbing mentor…
Stop up the copper pipe with WHITE bread and it’ll hold the water back long enough to get the solder done. After a bit it will dissolve and float out.
Their is another theory that there is a widespread genetic mutation up there known as Sphincter Colossus.
I think most of them are retired engineers from Houston.
53 GJT One of my vendors would bring me a box of those little note pads every year. Best tool I’ve ever had for dealing with skeptical customers, of which there are at least a thousand in Washington County. No matter how you try to explain it, until they see that little chart you might as well be talking to… Read more »
😉
Double Heh!
Some people I have a high opinion of don’t eat greens. Some like KISS. Some don’t like chicken fried steak. Some are from Oklahoma. I can overlook those things. Not sure I could overlook supporting Bay Toe.
Mr Haney is going to wipe the barn floor with the Beto.
I predict Haney by 10%tage points.
I’d bet the Douglas farm on it.
Speaking of Beto! — I’ve been sickened to see a few Vote Beto signs in my neighborhood, some in the yards of people I used to have a higher opinion of.
And here’s another HouChron/ProPublica story about St Luke’s heart transplant program. I’m glad my friend whose grown son got a heart transplant had it done at Memorial/Hermann.
https://www.chron.com/news/investigations/article/St-Luke-s-to-suspend-heart-transplants-12961015.php
I always replace those stupid compression valves with quarter turn valves.
#56 GJT Ouch, I can sympathize with the frustration. We thankfully just completed the last major repairs to Harvey’s damage and now have the house 95% back to normal. We’ve done three stints of remodeling the house over the past 15 or so years and the recovery from Harvey last fall and this spring that involved some remodeling/repairing. It is… Read more »
Tuba Skinny
https://youtu.be/hTainjvzeoI
56 GJT I change out shutoff valves every time I replace a faucet, sink, water heater or toilet. I don’t start until I have all the replacement valves on site before I try to turn them off. I’ve had so many frozen up or leaking over the years I just change them out whether they are working or not. I… Read more »
Since we began the master bath remodel from hades we’ve had refrigerator go out and water supply line bust. Along the way I said I would remove and replace terlet, went to remove it for sheet rockers coming the following day but shut off valve wouldn’t shut off, back to Home Depot again and replace valve, wife is hollering when… Read more »
Pelozi says “May’s jobs report shows that strong employment numbers mean little to the families hit with soaring new costs under the Republicans’ watch.” In the Alt-left Dystopian States of America Jobs are Unemployment War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength Spying is Privacy Fascism is Anti fascism Truth is a lie A lie is the Truth The… Read more »
I will say the Pecos cantaloupe has no competition from Florida. Definitely the best cantaloupe.
#40
So the 1/2” polybutylene supply line under the trailer that had about an 1 1/2” slit in it that went unnoticed for about a week is gonna hurt huh?
49 Hamous
They’re probably like the Pecos cantaloupe in Texas. The good melons in Florida never make it out of the state. They send the crappy ones to New Jersey because these folks don’t know any better.
Wake up, mama.
https://youtu.be/xv5agfAUYy0
The flag of Sicily features a treskilion and the Gorgon.
The Gorgon, from Greek mythology, “refers to any of three sisters who had hair made of living, venomous snakes” and was modeled after Nancy Pelosi.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Sicily#/media/File%3ASicilian_Flag.svg
I’ve never tasted a Hempstead watermelon any more flavorful than a Newberry watermelon. We even have a festival replete with a Watermelon Queen.
What about Blind Melon?
What about Thorton Melon?
Watermelon is kinda overrated in any case.
The (late) watermelon patch up the road -perhaps 70 acres- is just now getting the “vines” going.
And he needs some rain if he’s going to make a crop.
I’m getting tired of waiting on you people to get to work and start shipping watermelons up here. All I can find are Florida melons and the soil there is not made for growing melons. No flavor. One year, I went down to my local deli/supermarket and they had a big pallet of watermelons with a sign on the side… Read more »
Hamous
Now that the reality sets in, manufacturing will be raining misery on the White House and Congress. This won’t last. Trump better wake up. There are more Rust Belt manufacturing workers dependent on imported materials than there are steel and aluminum makers.
We are starting to see the effects of Trump’s tariffs. For some particular types of steel and aluminum the import quota has already been met this year and no imports under these Harmonized Tariff Schedules will be allowed. We’re having steel specimens from South Korea for mechanical/metallurgical testing being stopped and rejected in Customs. I expect it to get worse.
36 Shannon I use the Sharkbite push/connect fittings for the plastic plumbing supply lines all the time. You can use them with copper lines also. They also make the shutoff valves in Sharkbite. Those fittings have been a lifesaver in tight spaces, especially in spots where I couldn’t solder copper pipe safely. I never used copper pipe in Texas, but… Read more »
Hey. You with the water leak.
Read it and weep:
https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/U7Zoteskz7TIdcG96zMkox6lun0kk8Z5GCc1wJi1oyw