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Mar. 27th, 2026 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moonhareNot much to post about. I’ve been pursuing breaking in a new generator, an inverter; this purchase was the outcome of hours of online research and chat, and physical energy getting things just right. I thank c_eagle for his input and encouragement in this time consuming quest! :o)
I’ve spent a lot of time on reddit lately, mostly in r/generator but also in r/canning, r/snowblowers, and, of course, r/plushies. The latter all but crashes the iPad and I think it is the amount of pics posted! I also peeked in on r/plushophile (NSFW); I’m not sure what I expected, but it wasn’t what I wanted to see :o(
Today at home I replaced the front wheels on my lawn tractor: exciting, eh? I’m very happy with the tires-on-rims I got from Amazon. No cursing, as one reviewer said, at trying to replace just tires on existing rims :o)
Our internet went down last week; 20 minutes on hold to reach a tech, but he solved whatever happened. The whole affair was three hours at my end, trying to fix things before finally calling in.
And the next day the furnace needed a tech to replace parts and get our hot water back. Wheee!
Last night I replaced the aerators in all of our sink faucets (4). One of these was almost 40 years old; two others were almost as old.
Ah, well. Here are some comics/memes, some with comment, for fun.
New Yorker Magazine, I believe. More subtle than the War & Peas Red Riding Hood comic I put up long ago.
I was blown away by his comment when I first saw the Crumb documentary; my first furry love was Bugsy, and at about the same age!
Fin!
c_eagle for his input and encouragement in this time consuming quest! :o)I’ve spent a lot of time on reddit lately, mostly in r/generator but also in r/canning, r/snowblowers, and, of course, r/plushies. The latter all but crashes the iPad and I think it is the amount of pics posted! I also peeked in on r/plushophile (NSFW); I’m not sure what I expected, but it wasn’t what I wanted to see :o(
Today at home I replaced the front wheels on my lawn tractor: exciting, eh? I’m very happy with the tires-on-rims I got from Amazon. No cursing, as one reviewer said, at trying to replace just tires on existing rims :o)
Our internet went down last week; 20 minutes on hold to reach a tech, but he solved whatever happened. The whole affair was three hours at my end, trying to fix things before finally calling in.
And the next day the furnace needed a tech to replace parts and get our hot water back. Wheee!
Last night I replaced the aerators in all of our sink faucets (4). One of these was almost 40 years old; two others were almost as old.
Ah, well. Here are some comics/memes, some with comment, for fun.
New Yorker Magazine, I believe. More subtle than the War & Peas Red Riding Hood comic I put up long ago.
I was blown away by his comment when I first saw the Crumb documentary; my first furry love was Bugsy, and at about the same age!
Fin!
Furnace
Date: 2026-03-28 12:21 pm (UTC)Re: Furnace
Date: 2026-03-29 12:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-03-28 03:51 pm (UTC)I did a vinegar treatment of our back bathroom's aerator. It's weird. Front bathroom, kitchen sink: never need it. Back bathroom: a few times a year it starts producing a sloppy spray and it needs a soak. It needed it so many times last year that I decided to keep a snuff glass and a small bottle of white vinegar in the bathroom.
(Snuff glass: a glass that snuff used to come in, now used as a drinking glass (after a thorough washing.))
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Date: 2026-03-29 01:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-03-29 02:33 am (UTC)Ours have little plastic filter cartridges, not just screens. But I know what you mean.
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Date: 2026-03-29 10:32 am (UTC)Back in the day… My parent’s house faucets had just screens in them, maybe three each. one of my brothers discovered that the faucet screens were a good fit to his, er, pipe. He took a couple out, here and there, but not all ;o)
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Date: 2026-03-29 05:07 pm (UTC)Hah! That's pretty funny! Yeah, the hardware store might question why he was needing screens every month or so.
:D
Date: 2026-03-31 02:00 am (UTC)Re: :D
Date: 2026-04-01 12:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-03-28 10:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-03-29 01:08 am (UTC)Bizarro comics are well drawn. My thoughts exactly about Baby Bear! They could have had a younger Goldilocks for goodness’ sake!