now the problem there is very annoying
It's one of those cases where people really should take 5 minutes to figure out how to tie that knot---- I'm happy to show them and it saves hours down the road--- but it does take a little bit of mental effort ….not much or I wouldn't be doing it……
the same kind of problem …I see all the time when I'm sitting in the tractor waiting for someone to hook a piece of chain around something I need to pick up with the bucket and we have the same problem people have not taken the extra minute to learn that there's usually two different ends to a chain ----one will let the chain slide the other is more narrow and allows you to clip the chain to itself again a 5 minute concentration saves hours down the line and what it saves hours down the line for two or three people at the same time it can be significant .
which brings another topic of prioritization---- when you have a tractor that you hired as I often do with Mr Masterson you give it your full concentration and don't do something like get all mixed up trying to tie a knot while this $500.00 an hour tractor sits there well you fumble with the hay strings .
tie the quick sdp special knot… and go back and do it Differently if you think it's necessary and in some cases around here that can be 30 years because all the pink hey string is very old tide in the special knot and doing a super job still holding up fencing we put in 30 years ago I haven't yet seen it necessary to go back and fix it any better ….. probably with blue hey string now currently in use ..
Along the same lines if one of our pays staff is standing around talking to four volunteers that's no particular problem now if one of our volunteers is standing around talking to four of our paid staff ----that's different-
So back to my painting pipes I have vision of dunking a washcloth in a bucket of paint and just wiping the paint on these pipes unless somebody else has a better idea -----spray paint him you waste an awful lot of paint and there are about 40 pipes which has little bit of rust on them now .
there is a lot of painting projects to be done in the next month around here… the chicken coop being one of them .…
My father impressed up on me that I should save hardware in general but especially hardware that matched any other hardware ---this concept as caused Me to accumulate an incredible number of hinges from tiny little ones the closed kitchen cabinets to 2 foot long cast iron barn door hinges------ if archaeologists ever start digging in this place 100 years from now they're going to have a field day trying to figure out why .
Speaking of kitchen cabinets and house training dogs . I saw the best solution was too cut a doggy door in the exterior wall behind a kitchen cabinet and then have just a 10 foot by 10 foot area in the yard as a doggy restroom … defining the 10 foot by 10 foot area makes it much easier to pick up.but most important you can let the dog out simply by opening the kitchen cabinet or shutting it .. so all of you who are building a house--- as I'm sure it dozens of you have you are doing .---. that configuration will save a great deal of time and energy .
plus FYI a Great Dane will fit through a doggy door 14 inches wide which is the space between studs in the house and the other thing is you don't have to have the doggie door go all the way to the floor … many of my doggie doors are 6 inches off the floor ----- the dogs kentuck up their legs and squeeze through what the world thinks is a German Shepherd doggy door and being New England the six inches keeps the snow from blowing in sometimes .
Unfortunately since this is a log home cutting holes in the exterior walls has to be done with great care .but the idea is wonderful .;
Moving on …..
