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oregano

oregano

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  • oregano
    My old Cummins generator apparently cracked the engine block and when I undid the dipstick (screw in) to drain the oil a gallon of fuel gushed out.
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    oregano
    oregano
    Nope. I'm gonna get rid of it as scrap metal.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    You could save the dynamo & other stuff & put a new engine on it. Doesn't have to be a diesel; could be a good gasolene engine.
    oregano
    oregano
    It's such a cheap generator there's no point. It's a gasoline engine and I have come to suspect that's it's just another cheap China made generator with the Cummins name slapped on. When I bought it I thought it was a real Cummins engine.
    oregano
    I bought an old 1980s-era Honda EM1600 generator from a guy in Grants Pass for $180. I might use that one for extreme heat waves.
    oregano
    Had to bite the bullet and go to Harbor Freight which is a US store that sells very cheap tools and buy a generator, since both of mine died. I'm hoping the cheap generator will last til fall when it starts getting colder.
    oregano
    has not had any good sleep for days due to the heat. My generator needs a spark plug (and an oil change) and the auto parts store doesn't open for another 8 hours.
    oregano
    I hope the smoke doesn't activate the carbon monoxide shutoff circuitry in my generator. Generators can be hard to start in smoke due to companies trying to head off lawsuits by stupid people insisting on running them indoors.
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    Outdated
    You should be able to get around that if you can rig up a decent air filter for it, smoke is more fine particles than gas.
    oregano
    oregano
    Turns out that the generator started right up. By midday the smoke had thinned enough so that there was no problem.
    oregano
    There is a huge wildfire in the far southwestern part of Siskiyou County, in mainly unpopulated forestlands. There is 20mph wind blowing the smoke towards Yreka and well beyond.

    smoke.webp


    I had my window open all night without knowing about the smoke. I woke up sick.
    oregano
    The acorns are still green but coming along. I'll go back out to where the oak trees are in two weeks and check them again.
    oregano
    My Cummins generator froze up this afternoon. Fortunately I have a backup for now. I wish there were heat pumps for tiny homes.
    oregano
    I was telling the clerks who run the jury assembly room about my excuse and they were perusing my letter when the actual jury commissioner walked in. She talked to the room clerks, asked me a couple questions, and said I was free to go. She did say I should bring the formal letter when I get it.
    oregano
    I have to report in person to the Siskiyou County Courthouse tomorrow for jury duty. :mad: My psychiatrist is on vacation so she can't sign an excuse letter that the jury commissioner will accept. I have a draft on her letterhead done by her assistant. I will show that to the judge and hope for the best.
    oregano
    oregano
    If the letter isn't signed and sent via US Mail the commissioner won't accept it. I was emailed a draft.
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    I only ever got called up once, I wrote to the Clerk Of The Court and told them that my previous criminal history should preclude me from jury duty. That got me off. My criminal history - minor possess hemp when I was 18. :)
    oregano
    I find it bizarre that bubbly, happy teenage girls die horribly from cancer by 18, yet those who would welcome an early, natural death have to either live long, healthy lives or make a noose from a belt and hope it works as intended.
    oregano
    I found a place to collect acorns too. Acorns have to "cure" over the winter though.
    Rodafina
    Rodafina
    After they are cured are the acorns for eating?
    oregano
    oregano
    Yes. The acorns have to be shelled, then the nutmeat is smashed into a powder (pre-colonization this was done with mortar and pestle, today it's with a blender) then the powder is mixed with water and boiled until the bitter "tannin" is leached out.
    oregano
    Will climate change eventually turn the (former by then) USA into a land of wandering nomadic hunter gatherers? Next year the state will likely resume selling civilian fishing licenses for the Klamath River. Yummy salmon.
    Metalhead
    Metalhead
    I see the USA descending into a brutal monarchy where anybody who says anything bad about the king is immediately put to death.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    I hope someone gets impeached
    oregano
    oregano
    Monarchy? Not really. Look at Hungary under Orban, Russia under Putin. More like authoritarian semi-dictatorship. Our dictator is nowhere near as smart as those two men though.
    oregano
    LOL The so-called local "property owner's association" only contacts me once a year to demand a yearly "fee". It's not too much money and for the other 364 days a year they are invisible. Hey, if I have to pay protection money, fine as long as you don't try to micromanage me.
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    oregano
    oregano
    That's about all they do. The subdivision is quite remote so there isn't any reason to fear severed horse heads. I also don't know if anybody is willing to push us around out here-the residents are not only very independent but very armed as well.
    oregano
    oregano
    Everybody owns their own land, this isn't a mobile home park where some big corporation owns everything. Everybody pays their own property taxes and is responsible for their individual parcel.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    All the houses we owned, none had HOAs. But that was in MN. Everything in FL has a HOA attached to it.
    oregano
    I have been mildly heat sick for the past couple days. It is difficult to keep my little house cool, and I have to run the AC on a generator. Even worse fire warnings on the weather radio kept waking me up yesterday evening. (A line of thunderstorms came through.)
    maleonolo
    maleonolo
    I'm sorry, hot weather is the worst. If your area has low humidity a mist fan works wonders. I used to collect ice packs and hug them to sleep
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    Ice packs can really bring down my temperature, place on my neck, or inside wrist, or even on my scalp to cool my body.
    maleonolo
    maleonolo
    When you say you have to run the AC on a generator, are you literally pumping electricity with a hand generator into the AC?
    oregano
    You take a mortal man / And put him in control / Watch him become a god / Watch people's heads a-roll...


    Entering "Megadeth" into Youtube search brings up this song as the first autofill option. I'm not the only one to see the relevance.
    oregano
    The dumpster is on fire? What fire? I don't see a fire?

    dumpster.webp
    Dagan
    Dagan
    I was at a Spencer's store for once in however long, and they have autism shirts, stickers and mugs in there, all akin this kind of humor for us. They're great.
    oregano
    oregano
    I remember Spencers as the place where you went to buy adult items, not porn per se but items couples used in their bedroom lives. Spencers was mall oriented and I assumed they had died out with the indoor mall format.
    Dagan
    Dagan
    In fact, it was at an outlet mall. Tanger's...as they are called around here.
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