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texxgadgetWith the passing of Ginsberg today, we are in real trouble for decades.
The republicans have the votes and the desire to fill her spot before January.
While the Senate refused to confirm Obamas pick because he was in his last year,
he will probably be in quite a hurry to fill this one, and there nothing we can do to stop him.
This will leave the court conservative 6 to liberal 3 for decades.
Mitch the Schnorer wants his legacy to be the packing of the court and this will be the icing on his cake.
I dont know of any legal/non violent way to fix this.
Suffice it to say that Im QUITE bummed.
Sharon is the daughter of Sully the Printer from faire.
Last year I was up working on his old place every weekend from the start of May through mid Aug.
This year, we have been only going up once a month since Feb.
Last trip, we pumped the overflowing septic tank from the main house, determined the tank for the guest house to be OK, did some minor fix up of the place.
I expected the septic issue to be far worse than it was. We got a break.
We cleared the space in front of the guesthouse of rocks, so that we could dig out the weeds.
If you cut them down, they never go away. If you dig them out, they are gone.
Water woes have been part of the problem since we started going up.
The city ran water out there after the aquifer was contaminated with hexavalent chromium.
Near as we can tell, we are getting 20psi at 1.5 gal per min.
Don & I finally found the water meter almost a 1/4 mi north along US-101.
We have done things to incrementally improve water flow, but not enough.
This weekend, we will pull the water meter and see what the flow is at the meter.
This will tell us how gunked up the pipes from there up are.
Maybe the meter isnt getting much, maybe the meter is gunked up, or maybe the pipe from the meter are all
gunked up.
I am SO not looking forwaard to running a quarter mi of replacement water line.
We will see.
We hope to test a pressure washer for paint stripping so that we can get some buildings repainted.
This weekend, we will find out how long it takes to strip a square foot so we can figure out how long it
will take.
The other caper is to find the leachfield for the main house septic.
When the tank overflowed, it filled the leach lines with sediment,
rendering the septic tank more of a holding tank.
Once we know where it is, Im hoping to find the end so that we can flush out the lines.
With the lines flushed out, Im hoping we can load the system with "hi count" and rejuvenate the gravel without digging it up.
If, by some fluke, we manage to raise the flow rate for the property,
the tankless heater in the guesthouse might actually come to life.
Sharon, being the property owner, is the only one on the property without hot water.
The tenants who are supposed to be doing brush clearing for their rent just sit on their
butts playing video games and *I* end up doing their chores for them.
What I SHOULD do, is bring a wifi jammer with me.
WHY am *I* busting my butt in 95 degree heat while they sit air conditioned goofing off?
Sharon wont let me cut off their air conditioning while Im sweating out in the sun.
The republicans have the votes and the desire to fill her spot before January.
While the Senate refused to confirm Obamas pick because he was in his last year,
he will probably be in quite a hurry to fill this one, and there nothing we can do to stop him.
This will leave the court conservative 6 to liberal 3 for decades.
Mitch the Schnorer wants his legacy to be the packing of the court and this will be the icing on his cake.
I dont know of any legal/non violent way to fix this.
Suffice it to say that Im QUITE bummed.
Sharon is the daughter of Sully the Printer from faire.
Last year I was up working on his old place every weekend from the start of May through mid Aug.
This year, we have been only going up once a month since Feb.
Last trip, we pumped the overflowing septic tank from the main house, determined the tank for the guest house to be OK, did some minor fix up of the place.
I expected the septic issue to be far worse than it was. We got a break.
We cleared the space in front of the guesthouse of rocks, so that we could dig out the weeds.
If you cut them down, they never go away. If you dig them out, they are gone.
Water woes have been part of the problem since we started going up.
The city ran water out there after the aquifer was contaminated with hexavalent chromium.
Near as we can tell, we are getting 20psi at 1.5 gal per min.
Don & I finally found the water meter almost a 1/4 mi north along US-101.
We have done things to incrementally improve water flow, but not enough.
This weekend, we will pull the water meter and see what the flow is at the meter.
This will tell us how gunked up the pipes from there up are.
Maybe the meter isnt getting much, maybe the meter is gunked up, or maybe the pipe from the meter are all
gunked up.
I am SO not looking forwaard to running a quarter mi of replacement water line.
We will see.
We hope to test a pressure washer for paint stripping so that we can get some buildings repainted.
This weekend, we will find out how long it takes to strip a square foot so we can figure out how long it
will take.
The other caper is to find the leachfield for the main house septic.
When the tank overflowed, it filled the leach lines with sediment,
rendering the septic tank more of a holding tank.
Once we know where it is, Im hoping to find the end so that we can flush out the lines.
With the lines flushed out, Im hoping we can load the system with "hi count" and rejuvenate the gravel without digging it up.
If, by some fluke, we manage to raise the flow rate for the property,
the tankless heater in the guesthouse might actually come to life.
Sharon, being the property owner, is the only one on the property without hot water.
The tenants who are supposed to be doing brush clearing for their rent just sit on their
butts playing video games and *I* end up doing their chores for them.
What I SHOULD do, is bring a wifi jammer with me.
WHY am *I* busting my butt in 95 degree heat while they sit air conditioned goofing off?
Sharon wont let me cut off their air conditioning while Im sweating out in the sun.
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Date: 2020-09-19 09:46 (UTC)