Rerouting complete

Ballards / Great Lakes re-plumbed the Domestic Hot Water (DHW) connections from the Water Furnace so I don't need to find a replacement for this goofy X thing (for recirculating) that was used in our 17-year old installation.

We've had Spring break...

But what is this? No school today!

These kids

Don't want me to go to work

The 'easy half' is done:

Now off to ACE for more parts!

My indoor weekend project...

Existing GE waterheater started leaking last night, triggering the water alarm at 6:30am.

Does she look legal now?

Our baby just got her level 2 license, so she can drive without a parent!

'I gots an idea!'

We got a cat AND we got paint AND we got an (upside down) 'light-bulb' over her head... she's sitting in the middle of the newspaper workspace, so let's get started!

Water fun today!

Reassembly nearly complete.
Test and good to go $221 later!

Furnace man was here today

Ballard's / Great Lakes swapped the failed Solenoid out. Should cut down on the water usage, now that it can shut off! Better thing is, all covered under their Warranty!

Daddy...

"Do you have something that can fix my 'new' truck cover?"
So I found some thread and jean material to path a tear. Don't know how well that will hold up though!

'Frosted' trees today'

My car is getting older...

Comparing notes:

Do you ever have such good help on your projects?

What's wrong with this picture?

Just a picture of MY appliance problem...

Shame on me!

This must be the original filter for my furnace! I thought I replaced it last year, but I guess not.
Maybe my heat bill will improve now that my furnace can breath!

The Ford needs some fixing...

Getting out the spare car. Sitting for 3 weeks+ and -5 today, started right up!

Last time was 400 years ago...

a full Lunar eclipse on the winter soltice. It's about 50% now but I have to go to bed!

Go blue!

Closing ceremony at David's graduation from U of M!

Wow!

And there's more to come according to the weatherman!

Yup it still works!

Here to stay?

Probably!

I give up!

Taurus is going to Roger's to finish the other side...

It's alive!

Put some new gaskets in, tightened some bolts, charge the battery and she lives again!

Some assembly required

The right side getting back together after replacing a knuckle that should not have needed to be.

Ball joint before the repair

Emptied the hot tub

Getting too cold to stay warm!

Jack-O-Lantern

Rachel's kitty and my Vulcan carvings all lit up

Excitement at Pickerel & Silver Creek

Heard the fire siren, now Julie is just watching all the flashing lights.

Just how many gallons will the VW hold?

Jenison 2010

The Petoskey Marching Northmen finished their winning streak in Jenison, walking away with the 2010 Grand Championship. This awesome HD video was posted by Sue Kurtz:

It's here! First snow of the season!

The official snow before Halloween!
Don't know that the picture comes through, but the big flakes were falling for a few minutes!

DeWitt Invitational videos & pics

Courtesy of Sue Kurtz!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ct_F41jrKI performance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn69HX8f5jY awards

Football game marching videos w/new hd camera

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YaW6YzUXdU 10/15 halftime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ISxrSdnEtI 10/15 pre-game

Wires replaced!

Out with the old:

In with the new:

Wires are protected and the junction box is gone, simplifying things quite a bit. Biggest thing now is to replace the marginal light switch!

Cedar Springs competition we didn't attend

Great video from Sue Kurtz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFuJqlVT3OY

Now why might the lights not all work?

Junction box, wires with insulation gone, what else will I find?

More cooling!

Instead of 'more power', Dad needed 'more cooling', so now he has a 14" fan over the generator.

Last time this year

Got the lawn mowed!

That's a roaster!

Sunny day for a meal with friends!

Wrapping up!

Wrapping the posts with Sisal rope (hopefully for scratching there, and nowhere else!)

Labor Day weekend at Dad's

Sunday's outdoor effort, where Rachel helped to 'plant' stones.
We also checked that the battery water levels were OK

Cathouse in (mostly) a day!

Pretty Peppers!

Hard to believe this could grow in OUR garden!

Hot dog coma

This is what you get when you eat a hot dog for breakfast on a train that you had to wake up way-too-early for!!:

Waiting for AMTRAK

Leaving one big city, heading for DC

And on the fourth...

We found ourselves INSIDE the Statue of Liberty!

We didn't have tickets for the crown, but we did get to go up to the pedestal and museum.

Shopping on Fifth Ave in NY. Must be something better I can do with my time...

Country bumpkin in the big city

"Hey guy, we just landed!"

Heading to NY!

All that hurry & worry, and our flight is delayed 50 min.
Oh well, had time for a nice lunch @ ONLINEcafe

Skinnier stairs at Dad's!

Trimmed down the stairs and inserted a full wall beside them

Garden pretty much 'in'

It also got expanded this year, just by moving the posts and fence outward 2 feet on all sides.

Ubuntu renewed!

It's been three years since I put together my Ubuntu computer out of scrap parts in the basement. I've decided I now want to try my hand at putting together a web site that allows for user login management and create lists of items. I bought PHP & MySQL Everyday Apps for Dummies, thinking that must be the way to figure this stuff out -- just "do it"!

By page 11, it became apparent that I needed the right server configuration, and I could no longer get Internet updates for my Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn, so I found an unused 80GB HDD to format and start fresh with 10.04 Lucid Linx.

I've pretty much got my Ubuntu server back to where I started, with the addition of MySQL being installed along side Apache & PHP. It severs up the original static pages I built so long ago here http://waynerossis.boldlygoingnowhere.org. Maybe by the time you read this there will be new content there and some database related 'stuff'!

Now just have to set up remote access so I don't need to be physically at the machine to make edits, then I can get past page 11 and start seeing how this stuff works!

No fair!

Our mailbox was attacked again!