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Wow I'm surprised that you are trying to install your own reticulation system, Ruby. Unless it's different from the ones out here. We just call them sprnkler systems. They're pvc piping underground with pop-up sprinkler heads. I've repaired and replaced parts on my parent's system but I imagine installing one would be quite a project. Then again maybe it's not, IDK. I always find helpful videos on youtube if I need to do something I've never done. I've replaced a solenoid valve, the control unit, lots of sprinkler heads, and one time had to replace one of the pipes that had cracked due to the roots of a nearby tree. That was not fun lol. Only had to replace the cracked section though, not the whole pipe.
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Ruby123
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Murder/mystery never really used to be my thing... I mean, I enjoy many movie genres, and read a few books along those lines (fiction), but these real-life stories are something else! Really very interesting and quite a glimpse into the darker recesses of the human soul and the evil that lurks within. Very chilling. I have watched quite a few of the Forensic File cases and many other real life stories. Extremely compelling stuff! When I had a TV I also used to watch I.D. TV which was re-enactments of crimes (mostly murder), but it has been my closest sister who has kind of gotten me back into it, as she is a huge, um, fan seems like the wrong word to use, but she loves that sort of thing and has for many many years. Also with so much time on my hands, being laid off work for over a year now and this covid/self-isolating thing coinciding with my cancer treatments, it gives me lots of time to while away the hours lol.
Oh, that's good to hear that things are returning to "normal" down thereCuz at some point people were sounding alarm bells at how they were shutting everything down and all that. We live in such interesting times. The conspiracy theorists are having a field day
I hope you are able to grow a wonderful garden full of your favorite things!
Here there are (or used to be) places where people went to
"chop wood and carry water," and it was billed as a retreat LOL.
Maybe I should open my own retreat. Chop wood at Ruby's and get free veggies, coffee and donuts in return lol. Wonder if I would get any interest
Btw that detective series I liked was called "Cracker" with Robbie Coltrane. It is English.
I did not know Canada still had the isolating covid thing going on. I thought things were alot better by now. Some of these conspiracy theories seem quite far fetched however with the evil in the world and people idolising the dollar evil things are not that rare anymore. Sad really, I can only think that we are in the end days.
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Ruby123
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These are simple ones Zero. You just buy the black pipe, stick holes in it. Put thinner pipe and a head and that is it. Nothing complicated or under the ground. Well simple enough if you know what you are doing anyway.
You attach the whole thing to your garden hose. It does not involve any valve or anything like that.
My daughter recently passed her driver's test (again) and even bought a car! Oh, yeah, she bought a nicer car than either of her parents have ever owned LOL, well, you know, with all the digital bells and whistles: back up cam, DVD player, sun roof, push start, auto lock etc etc. She studied very diligently for her written test, and you have to know so much more now these days too. So she goes out parking lot driving to improve her skills; her insurance rates as a learner are insane
My daughter despairs of ever being able to parallel park .
Most of us simply don't master these things right off the bat LOL
Kudos to your son
Everyone knows a lot about driving forward...take her out to do backwards driving until she is comfortable doing it...no backup camera or anything. Just looking and steering.
I know that it sounds weird...but navigating a vehicle backwards (more than a few feet at a time) isn't something that we do a lot. And that's the needed skill for parallel parking that gets overlooked. Like typing without looking at your hands by using home keys.
It gets easier when you practice a lot. Pathways in your brain develop from doing it. Unused ones...that's why people panic and get frustrated.
Navigating backwards sets up that muscle memory and reactions so that the tight turns of parallel parking becomes easy.
My church is huge...holds several thousand every Sunday and the parking lot surrounds the Church. And it isn't a small thing to navigate the curbs and planters...forwards or backwards. But when it's empty...who is gonna care? Just have her go slow and if she gets flustered use the brakes. My son almost hit a retaining wall a few times...so I had him stop. Go forward a bit and try it again...
We created a traffic jam of one. Laughed and kept at it. His confidence skyrocketed afterwards. (He didn't have much) but we never went to any driver's ed...we had to bust him out of bad habits too...
Just part of the Teaching/learning process.
Them soaker hoses are everywhere there for sure. And where they aren't...it's dead, dry, bare rock and hard scrabble.
But the flowers there have colors so bright it hurts to look at them.
I even seen where people have private gardens set up on drip timers every day. Very handy so you don't forget to water the plants.
I always thought evening was the best, less evaporation. What ever works.
There is a gentleman who has a fig tree in Michigan, unusual for this far north.
There is a gentleman who has a fig tree in Michigan, unusual for this far north.
Yes, I tell her that practice makes - though perhaps not perfect LOL - will help improve her confidence and abilities. I keep reminding her to firmly establish her sight lines so she knows how much space she has around her at all times. She has had her license twice before but never followed through this far before
Many years ago one day while she was driving, she hit a curb, and later that same day while the car was sitting in the driveway at her place, that same tire exploded. I think that freaked her out. It would certainly freak me out LOL. It put her off driving for quite some time...
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Godsgirl83
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Thanks for sharing the prayer request when it all started and the update
It's wonderful to hear the update.
I'll continue to pray for ALL that's owed to you to be paid IN FULL.
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Godsgirl83
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I've been driving somewhere between um 18-20 years.................
parallel parking is avoided at ALL cost
can't stand doing it.
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Live4Him
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I never meant to get anybody else involved, but it's weird how the same day that I posted a link here to one of my designs Amazon terminated my account.Thanks for sharing the prayer request when it all started and the update
It's wonderful to hear the update.
I'll continue to pray for ALL that's owed to you to be paid IN FULL.
I appreciate the prayers, and if you wouldn't mind, then please say a prayer that God shows me what to do next. It took me almost two years to get that Amazon account to the point where I could support myself (with the additional aid of the other sites that I sell on) from it and focus more fully on living for/serving God. Now that it's been stripped away from me, I need a new course of action.
Sorry, again, to get others involved, but I do genuinely appreciate the prayers.
Thank you.
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Godsgirl83
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Around my neck of the woods the limit on mask and sanitizer has lifted (no limit) and several stores are starting to blow them out cheap.
Makes me wonder if we're almost through this? If those who have investments in these things want them to sell for SOMETHING while they can still get $$ for them
Ran to the grocery store early this morning and was thinking how nice it is to see TOILET PAPER as well as fully stoked shelves of food.......
this time last year shelves were bare.
Makes me wonder if we're almost through this? If those who have investments in these things want them to sell for SOMETHING while they can still get $$ for them
Ran to the grocery store early this morning and was thinking how nice it is to see TOILET PAPER as well as fully stoked shelves of food.......
this time last year shelves were bare.
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Godsgirl83
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Things are apparently opening up here more now, but me? I am not supposed to go out because of my immune system being so compromised by chemo. Whenever some medical personnel phones me to set up an appointment, just check in, or a delivery etc, if they ask, are you going to be home tomorrow at such-and-such a time? I say, I am home all the time! LOL. They always respond by saying, that's good, you stay homeMaybe I should open my own retreat. Chop wood at Ruby's and get free veggies, coffee and donuts in return lol. Wonder if I would get any interest
Btw that detective series I liked was called "Cracker" with Robbie Coltrane. It is English.
I did not know Canada still had the isolating covid thing going on. I thought things were alot better by now. Some of these conspiracy theories seem quite far fetched however with the evil in the world and people idolising the dollar evil things are not that rare anymore. Sad really, I can only think that we are in the end days.
So as far as I am concerned, I am under doctor's orders not to go out 
Masks are still mandatory; even in my apartment building, we are supposed to wear them in the hallways and whatnot... and there is still a limit of two people per elevator Another recently watched Netflix series was The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez. Tragic what happened to him...
An eight year old boy tortured over an eight month period and
eventually beaten to death by his own mother and her boyfriend
When the mom found out the bf had received the death penalty, she pled guilty.
We had a lot of rain yesterday and today will be raining as well.
I can be very good at it, used to park farm trailers and wagons as well. Good practice.
Around my neck of the woods the limit on mask and sanitizer has lifted (no limit) and several stores are starting to blow them out cheap.
Makes me wonder if we're almost through this? If those who have investments in these things want them to sell for SOMETHING while they can still get $$ for them
Ran to the grocery store early this morning and was thinking how nice it is to see TOILET PAPER as well as fully stoked shelves of food.......
this time last year shelves were bare.
Ummm...
You heard the story about a ship stuck in the Suez Canal?
This can interrupt the supply of TP for a while. There are containers on there ultimately headed for Brazil to pick up a load of hardwood pulp that is used to make toilet paper...
Containers are rather a precious commodity abroad. Here in the USA I can get them really cheap. But elsewhere in the world, not so much. There's a waiting line for these things. Especially for low cost items like wood pulp. High dollar items like fresh oranges or electronics? No problem.
But this stuck ship is raising the cost of oil (million barrels each day travel this canal). Over ten to twenty percent of the world's trade goes through this canal...it's as busy as the Panama canal. Everything shipped from China & Japan going to Europe and to New York or the East Coast somewhere goes through this canal. Much of Europe's oil does as well and if I were them I'd put in a full tank in the car before things get desperate.