Author: bob
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The Good ,The Bad, and The Ugly
A couple days ago as I started misc tasks around the house, one of my trips past the fish tank I noticed all the Koi had died during the night. I have had fish die before, but never so many so suddenly; and obviously, the buck had to stop with me, since there is no…
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The mystery fish killer
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March picture updates
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February update 2019
The month has been wet and cold, every week seems to be a combination of a few sunny often warm days, followed be several days of wet, sometimes intense rain days, with a couple small episodes of snowfall, but nothing lasting more than a day or so. The roof has held up fairly well in…
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January update, 2019
The month has been pretty slow as far as backhoe work, and the rush I put on last month during a dryer period was well timed and made a few critical additions to keep further possible flooding under control. Mostly though this month has had more moderate rainfall,and the main work started was installation of…
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Dams , 12/29/2018, Primer and Update
The red lines are general property boundaries, tan/yellow lines represent earthworks dams and swales, the blue areas are potential water stopped and held by the Earthworks according to general topography. These are the dams and ponds I’ll be referring to here. The general topography is going downhill from lower right to upper left, and the…
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DSR update 12/25/2018
The double shoe box rocket is elevated off the floor about 18 inches, and instead of an exhaust on top- in front, it is channeled horizontally under a glass stove top from left to right. Having the water tank inside the bell was an idea suggested at http://donkey32.proboards.com that led me to my design, which…
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The Roof, update 12/23/2018
The roof is performing better in this new temporary state, and with strong winds and very heavy snow loads and lots of rain, it kept everything dry inside, although missing some fascia boards and gutters, I’m getting a fair amount of water accumulating around the foundation. I could say I planned it this way to…
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more DSR pics (double Shoe-box Rocket
Note the opening to the left of the tank, exhaust gases travel counter clockwise around the tank once the insulated top is installed Two water connections to the tank, hot through the upper pipe, cold through the pipe that exits the enclosure botom I prefer to think of the junk you see as a…
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The Roof
I have doubts that I will actually complete my roof this year. With summer heat and other projects the roof got put off and off until I got to the point where I had to do something so I could mount some new solar panels. That something was to put down some plywood and fasten…