rockstar143

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Wow, that's awesome...St Augustine is the opposite, won't grow unless it's 80.

Acura_Dude

Looks great man!

97BlackAckCL

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Thanks Gents

I got super lucky with the weather

97BlackAckCL

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So, no big updates. I have been working on cleaning and reorganizing various rooms in the house. I spent most of my 5 day Thanksgiving weekend reorganizing my office, and cleaning and reorganizing my man cave/basement, and steam cleaning the carpet down there. I thawed out and cleaned my little beer fridge and cleaned it out. I also set up my new wine fridge, picked it up on clearance from Lowe's on an impulse buy. It's a 2 zone 38 bottle Frigidaire.
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I originally tried putting it in the corner on the other side where my beer fridge was, but it stuck out too far and didn't line up with the line of bookcases, so I swapped it to the other side of the room. Here's the beer fridge.
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My long term goal is to replace the kitchen appliances and move the old fridge down to my laundry room to become a bigger beer fridge, but for now this little guy who I've had for like 15 years does the trick. I'm going to also use the wine fridge for some of my bigger 22 oz and Quart size beer bottles that don't fit well in the beer fridge.

Yumcha

Very nice!

imj0257

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!!!!

97BlackAckCL

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Not a fun update, but definitely a big one. Had to have my outside sewer house trap replaced. When I bought the house the terracotta vent pipe was crooked, but definitely still attached. But after years of erosion thanks to a faulty downspout pipe and earth shifting, the vent completely snapped off and moved about 3 feet away from the original trap. You can see the angle here, but the pics don't do it justice


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Basically once the vent snapped off, the trap filled with dirt and clay and eventually got completely blocked up. Thankfully i noticed with shower water and not sewage that started to back up from under my garage floor
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And then my worst fear, my $89 sewer line cleaning, turned into a 4 grand nightmare. Here comes the trucks (the trucks all the way up the street are all for my house)
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And let's dig a giant hole in my yard
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And rip out the old terracotta pipe/trap, and hydroblast the line from the house to the trap
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And here's my shiny new PVC trap... yay!
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rockstar143

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Oh nooooo Chris! Sorry to hear, man...that is NOT a fun mod at all!

Yumcha

Dang...that sucks! Sorry to hear, Ack.

CCColtsicehockey

Damn man that sucks. Sorry to hear.

KaMLuNg

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bring on another 4 thou?

NSXNEXT

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Bummer. Hopefully the last time you need sewer work.
When it's done I would eat 4 Chipotle burritos with extra hot sauce and christen her

CCColtsicehockey

97BlackAckCL

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Not at all man... not at all I was just getting ready to remodel my bathrooms, but this definitely sets things back a bit

Thanks H

Thanks bro

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Don't worry, I made sure to christen her the second those guys were gone for the day

rockstar143

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ain't no thing, man...looks like a mountain as you approach but once it's in the distance, they all look like mole hills.

97BlackAckCL

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Nothing too exciting, but finally got around to playing with my wood

I had 3 massive firewood piles, and they were on the ground covered by tarps and just didn't look very good on the back of the house. So I bought a firewood cradle and got to work...

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Next I had to enlist some help from my buddy to help move the massive amounts of wood.
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Pictures don't do it justice, the piles were HUGE!


Here's the 8 ft cradle loaded to the top
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It came with a cover, but I didn't feel like tying it down in the dark, so I threw a tarp over it for now.
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My buddy also brought me another trailer of oak firewood, but I only took about a third, we made another wood stack on my back porch, and that will be the wood that I start burning this summer. I'm sore today, but it was so worth it getting the back yard all cleaned up!

rockstar143

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that's awesome...you can always use more wood, man. shoulda taken it all!

97BlackAckCL

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Yeah, I didn't have any more room for it, but thinking about buying another cradle...

rockstar143

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Well, I guess you can judge your an(nu)al needs, right? If one rack lasts you the entire season of fire pitting and fire placing, then fk it...don't take up valuable yard space. Don't forget to toss dog shit into your neighbor's yard over the fence. We still have a message to send. Chris will not be fuked with.

97BlackAckCL

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She was outside the other day talking to some guy about me and my fence. I have a feeling I'm not done dealing with them

I did order another firewood cradle

rockstar143

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Hell yes, all the wood for you!

rockstar143

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Put up a "Don't Tread on Me" flag

rockstar143

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Play NWA all day very loud on external speakers aimed at their house.

Yumcha

That's alot of toothpicks he can make!

KaMLuNg

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takin a play out of S.Korea's book...

South Korea blasts North with K-pop, propaganda after nuclear test - CNN.com

97BlackAckCL

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Trust me, I blast ALL kinds of obnoxious music in my backyard

rockstar143

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Good, fuck those people.
I hate assholes. I only like mine and I STILL use TP to avoid touching it.

97BlackAckCL

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But you let Justin touch it without

rockstar143

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he asked nicely and he left it cleaner than he found it

1StGenCL

Sorry to hear about the sewer issue but damn, what an appropriately named 'location' you have listed.

97BlackAckCL

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Yeah, so true

rockstar143

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Chris, why is your avatar missing an "i"?

97BlackAckCL

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There's no i in Penis...

Oh wait....

rockstar143

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Ahhh oui oui...les pneus!

97BlackAckCL

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So after my sewer debacle, they left me a giant pile of rock/clay and chunks of plastic pipe and terracotta pieces.
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So I had plenty of work cut out for me, so I raked it out twice and removed all the rock from the dirt so that I could level it out.
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They also tore the area around the hole up with their backhoe so there were plenty of other areas that needed fixed as well
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So I hand seeded with grass seed, and covered it with Scott's grass soil to protect it.
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I also uncovered the sewer trap after these pics, but slowly but surely getting my yard back together. More grass seed pics to come. I have 3 more big patches to fix

rockstar143

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I would like a time lapse video as that fills in...

imj0257

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+1. Time lapse video or it's fake.

CCColtsicehockey

Looks good. You should cover that with some hay too to keep it wet.

97BlackAckCL

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I didn't want to mess with the hay yet. I will need it for the back yard. That's why I put the soil down, but you're right, I should put something over it

97BlackAckCL

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I'll post pics of every seedling