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31 F this AM. Garden is done.

Only root beer and grape.

There’s been an exodus from NYC into Jersey fand Florida or 5-6 years snow. It’s blown the real estate market wide open. It’ll continue. This new mayor Mandami is excentric. He’s set on cutting the MYPD even further, they’re down 6000 officers already.
He’s raising personal and business income taxes. If you live in…[Read more]

There is an incredible batch of wrestlers out HS this year and next.

PJ Duke will be next in line.

Let’s see if this works. Granddaughters Adeline (8) and Annabelle (18 mo.s)

Yup, he’s incredible. Aoyagi didn’t look anything like a world champ though. Over the next 5 years he and Carr are going to have some brutal battles.

Thanks V. I’ve been great ever since the 2nd day in the hospital. That’s what PO’s me. I had to stay in while they waited for a daily blood culture. There was no reason I couldn’t go home and wait for telephone results if something was amiss.

It got down to 40 this AM, just above frosting, so I guess I’ll take down the tomatoes today and…[Read more]

Finally got out Sunday. 5 days waiting for 3 blood cultures that were clear. Worst 5 days ever. I was tubed to an IV cart with tubes in both arms so I go anywhere off the floor. There were windows on the floor but both opened to a brick wall. It was light out but the sun never passed by. The bed was horrible memory foam, I just sunk into the…[Read more]

I’ve stuck in the hospital due to a urinary tract infection. I usually go an outpatient office of my medical provider, but the wife said I should it checked out thoroughly. Well, they ran all 0f the tests and came to same conclusion as in the past, but that decide to keep overnight for follow up testing, then another NIGHT and another night. So…[Read more]

We have a 3 deer family that pass through the year nightly to check the apples fallen from our tree. The tomatoes are on the opposite side of the yard and the deer have tried to steal them even thou some of the branches with fruit overhang the screening that encloses the yard.

The tropical finally dissipated yesterday, 3 days 4 inches of water. Leaves and branches are all over the place from the wind. So far wifey has made 8 quarts of tomato sauce and 4 quarts of tomato soup. We never such an abundant tomato crop and only plants. The volume of reds is finally winding down. The green peppers failed again this year, on 3…[Read more]

You should pop ion more often.

Tropical storm from the south moved in Saturday night. Its been raining ever since, 4″ so far. They forecast more tonight and tomorrow before it moves out.

That job would be a big enough but having the deck all around it just makes it a nasty one.

Do you have any idea how deep the tank is from the surface. The sewer drain will be at the top of the tank. If you determine where the top of the tank sits you gauger how deep the pipe runs since it will be a straight line to the start at the house. If you can access the clean out cap and open it you can probably determine the depth of the tank…[Read more]

Hopefully the pipe is not too deep. Because of the freeze potential out here the sanitary pipes are at least 3 feet deep and often more.

Pipe inside the pipe is one approach. The other is an epoxy coated fabric that is placed inside the pipe all of the way to the septic, then pressured inflating it against the existing pipe walls and cured with UV. They say it’s good for at least 30 years. Before they insert the fabric they clean out the inside of the pipe. They’ll run a camera…[Read more]

The trenchless bladder it a very thin walled epoxy based “balloon” that gets dragged through the pipe and then inflated and cured. It does reduce the inside diameter significantly. Since it’s a sink drain I’m assuming it’s not a 3 or 4 ” D run to the septic. I just don’t know if they make a bladder that small. The alternative is to jamb a…[Read more]

We have an old cast iron waste line from the basement to the street. I used to be throughout the house but over the years as bathrooms were remodeled sections of it were removed because it rusted and failed. When I remodeled the second floor bathroom, I discovered that problem and had to replace all of the horizontal waste pipe. I know the…[Read more]

4 days in the 80’s. Early Indian Summer. 70’s Wednesday to Saturday. I sure hope this is a sign of a warm winter. Gas and electric rates are killing us out here. It’s all because the gov enlisted the state utilities in a regional service providers and forced the shutdown of natural gas electric utilities.

The rest of NJ gets about 50 inches of rain, but since we are close to the coast, we only average 35-40 inches. About 25% of that is from 1 to 3″ downpours.

Can you connect the sink drain to the toilet outlet?

No rain predicted for the next 2 weeks here. Fortunately, the mornings are low 60’s so there is plenty of dew which drips to the grass. I am sure that will change. October is usually a fairly wet month which is great for seeding new grass. The days are predicted to remain in the low 70’s so I expect the tomato plants will continue to turn red…[Read more]