Interesting perspective

And a day's hard work filled out 5 of the shed's 6 tinned surfaces.

This was waiting

For me after returning from Hong Kong. Just a little bit of snow!

What I'm not shoveling, because I'm traveling from Hong Kong

Could use a little help here!

Water goes up in Hong Kong!

We'll see how this looks on a computer, but the wind was kicking the water up the waterfall, throwing it across the upper level.

This is the view outside my very windy hotel window, some 12 stories above this outdoor area.

Christmas decorations are up in Hong Kong

Time to try a new idea

The original water delivery for this Lennox HCWP2-18 whole house humidifier that was installed with our Water Furnace geothermal system seemed to be a pretty poor design. The salesman told us it was a good idea that we use hot water plumbed into the humidifier, as Geo systems don't generate as much heat as your gas fired furnace. Sounds good, right? Well, in practice I could see way too much water being delivered to the Water Panel, which yielded a bunch of hot water going out the overflow (which was simply put through a hole into the sand under our basement floor, not to an actual drain!). I've tried regulating the flow upstream by simply not opening the valve substantially, but due to the hot water, the valve behaves differently as it runs.

So, I finally did a bunch of research and put together a couple items that restrict the flow at the output, creating a more of a uniform mist and allows the solenoid to work properly (at full pressure). I found the parts at Ecologic Technologies, Inc, and assembled them today. The 0.012" orifice I selected delivers in the neighborhood of 0.46 of a Gallon Per Hour to the humidifier, much better than the gallons per hour I used to see go through there.

It took about 7 minutes before any water was seen in the overflow pipe, and that was more like a dampness, not a flow. It used to be less than a minute when I had the valve partially closed, which would then sometimes not even have enough pressure to open the solenoid, so worked sporadically. 

Blustery weather at home

Snow! Upon return to Pellston

A bit of Mystic Point showing itself

Mystic Point is found in Hong Kong Disneyland, between Toy Story land and Grizzly Gulch, to be open in 2013.

I like the sign entering Grizzly Gulch:
"Population 108 [not countin' the bears]"

Night view of Hong Kong Island

This is the view of Hong Kong island as seen from Ozone, the world's tallest bar from the top of the 5th tallest building in the world, the tallest one in Hong Kong:

A curious fabric display near the ICC

Between Kowloon Station on the way to dinner at Prime Steak House near the base of the International Commerce Centre, we came across this interesting display in Elements.

Where I get to spend ~14 hours

Headed to Tokyo, then on to Hong Kong!

Compost away!

Out with the old weatherstripping

And now all shiny and new!

An odd collection of clouds

Hot tub wrapped up for the winter

It was a balmy 75 degrees so was nice enough to get that project done.

Like my new house keys? Changing out the locks ...

A bit of a stretch,

But could be called ready for winter...

15 transplanted trees

Can you find them all?

Interior window trim

Got the windows trimmed, 4 outlets installed and the new furnace motor put in.  The inverter system shows a draw of 0.3 amps where the old one was 0.6 amps.

Windows trimmed and outlets installed

Well, when the rain started

It was preceded by some of that small, white hard version of water.   I refuse to swear by saying that 4-letter word!

Racoon?!?

Fall color tour

Is in full swing!

Showing off his new house find

Fun with pals on the Gauley

This was day 2, getting ready to leave Canyon Doors, the overnight camp area Class VI has on the river.

Many pictures are available at http://photobucket.com/WWR2012WithGlen.








A couple was on the river with us, and they have shared some of their photos at Google+ as well.

Dad's batteries

We got the batteries all checked out for this year. Two of the batteries were just barely wet. We added about 2 gallons of distilled water across all 12 to get them a little fuller.

Trailer lights

Blew 3+ hours pulling all the wire out of the trailer to find the wire half way down the length of the trailer was completely worn through. Spliced out the bad part and put the wire in a protective case for the full length.

Mary's new wheels!

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID

Little work at dad's

Got drywall under and around the door brackets for one bay.

We were hoping to put in a more efficient fan motor in the furnace, but it didn't look right. The existing 1/3 HP motor is much smaller than the 3/4 HP Emerson he was given. The book shows a 12% savings if he goes back and gets the same 1/3 HP BPM (brushless permanent magnet motohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushless_AC_electric_motorr).

Cleaning up last winter's damage

Another dining pal

A different meaning of turkey for dinner

Just visiting!

Back, and busy!

Got back, helped Beckie pack and now heading down to move her into her apartment.

Must be world's smallest McDonald's!

View of the city from the peak

I got to eat dinner at The Pearl, a restaurant at this highest point on the island.

Old trees downtown

Touring in Hong Kong

View from hotel in Hong Kong

Rainbow for my birthday!

This is a full rainbow, something I don't think I've ever seen before!

Some trim installed

A spot of door & window trim

The fine work seems to take the longest