Thanks for all the great comments everyone!
So far things are still looking good. I'm SUPER happy that my $10 fix is saving me from hundreds and hundreds of $$$!!
Update: I was a little freaked out because after putting everything together I started to see a drip every 20 seconds or so. My initial thought was: Hmm, this is probably about 60 gallons a year... I'll just skip two showers a year and call it even!
I put a measuring cup under it two hours ago...
We have a SUPER old Champion Irrigation 1" Vacuum Breaker / Check Valve on our sprinkler system.
The whole thing is usually covered up and on a whim I decided to take a look and check everything. Well, it was leaking pretty bad... like a drip every second. The ground was completely saturated...
Well, if there was a paint that we could flip a switch to go from black in Winter to white in Summer, then ya, that might work great! Otherwise we'll be in trouble for 1/2 the year. :)
Too funny!
The cover on our canopy got to the point where it was falling apart, so I needed to replace it. I got a tarp at costco and it barely lasted 1 year.
So I jumped on the internet and searched for replacement tops. The prices were high and I thought I'd try to see how much I paid at...
This has been a family tradition since 1973ish?
When I was a kid I was doing this exact same thing with my family using plumbs from the same tree & using the same equipment, including the custom sharpened pit removing tools my dad made!
The pitters aren't anything super fancy, but...
:( Sorry, you shouldn't have gotten any infraction points for that. They should be erased now.
Thanks for reporting the spammers. While there's no way to 100% eliminate them, we catch about 99% of the attempts before they even post... which means tens of thousands of attempts per month!
We've been on this new platform for a few months and I thought I'd do a quick check to see if y'all echo my feelings...
One of the many reasons we moved to this platform is because it has much better anti-spam features. We'll never be able to 100% get rid of spammers (there's always going to be...
Good point about friends, etc. I think it definitely helps if it feels that the person has a genuine interest in you personally learning from what they are sharing.
I'm definitely a multi-media learner. Video is easiest for me, then audio books, then reading. In fact, I've gone through...
The headlights on my 2001 Hyundai Elantra are sickly opaque! :sick
Over the years I've tried a bunch of stuff to clean them. Some have worked better than others, but nothing seemed to really clean them super well and/or last very long.
Today I had another go at it and thought I'd start...