Window job is ALL done. Looks good from inside. Outside looks "cool" at night, but not so much during the day. At least it didn't grow a mustache. Test run. Vent vented. (click to enlarge) Second block was a good fit. Gifted Gave the first one to the helpers. They were pleased.
I could be wrong, but the (24) new little cedar trees in the back yard seem to be growing like crazy, some just since the rains from hurricane Helene. Measured them all with a yardstick yesterday. I won't have to guess from now on. The one that was transplanted a year earlier has grown at least a foot this year, but spindly on top. Cedars are extremely tough little trees. They came from places where they didn't stand a chance to thrive and grow. Just survive. Now they are set free. It will be hard for me to thin them out when the time comes. They don't have names, but they do have numbers.
I cut down one of the 3 dogwood trees up front, chopped it up, and loaded the truck. Dumped everything in the woods at the farm Sunday. I think the droughts this summer put the last nail in its coffin. The one near the house is next on the list. Counted at least 30 rings. I remember buying these 2 trees on two different occasions at one of the old box stores in town. They were supposed to be pink but turned out to be white. Pinks are grafted and more expensive. They weren't even a pretty variety of white ones. I left about 3 feet of trunk, thinking a birdbath would be nice for a couple of years, but it would probably only attract bluejays, hawks, squirrels, and....maybe even raccoons. The new battery chain saw cut it like butter. Maybe I'm just not used to a sharp chain. And so quiet.
Dave went out and found his little transparent apple tree down from a rutting deer using it as a velvet scraper, I would think. It was just starting to bear and he had hopes that it would be able to replace our older one when it stopped bearing. Dave does not have good luck with trees.
The freezer in the refrigerator out in the country began icing up a few weeks ago. It came with the mobile home 30 years ago. Last Sunday, I defrosted it the old-fashioned way---time consuming. The fresh food part still wasn't getting cold air. Likely more ice behind the rear panel of the freezer compartment. Didn't remove the panel, because I was already running too late to do any more defrosting and wouldn't have a clue what I was looking at back there anyway. I spent a lot of time since then troubleshooting refrigerators on the internet. Turns out many things are an easy fix. Figuring out what's wrong, and possibly fixing it, has now become a new challenge. A flowchart was necessary. Step one. Went out last night, removed the back panel, and finished defrosting. Last line of the flowchart? If it's not worth fixing (and I can round up a helper), I'll take the one in town (20+ yrs old) out there. A win-win either way, because I never liked the fridge in town anyway. Before and After (click to enlarge)
I took a refrigerator repair class at our tech school long ago. Flow Chart? Mine has no working light. It is not the lightbulb. I kinda like it that way because now I can't see if it is dirty.
I had a fridge go out on me, and I borrowed the schematic from my neighbor, who was a fridge repairman. I had my meter out and the back off and was checking things out when it started back up. Apparently, it was in the Defrost cycle.
That's cool, Mary. Did they have CliffsNotes? I'm too impatient to sit through a class. What made me poke fun about a flowchart was the way this man presented his video (like a flowchart). LINK It was the most helpful of all.
Same thing happened to me several years ago. This fridge started leaking water onto the floor. My mother and I unplugged the drain, but when we plugged the fridge back in it didn't work. We were sure we ruined it. A few minutes later it came on.
Ha! Ha! Coincidentally, the new fridge I want is a side-by-side. Where it has to sit comes 3" short of clearing a pantry door that opens outward into the kitchen. They now make barndoor hardware just for bifold doors. There is even one company that finally makes the hardware in brushed nickel, instead of black, which stands out like a sore thumb, imo.