Weekend

[mondhasen]

 So begins a three-day weekend: Columbus Day (still not renamed). We finally got our quote and I have lots to do in preparation for getting the house connected to street water. There are trees to cut out front, and a freezer and cabinet to move in the basement. I also have a shower to look at to see if I can repair it and washerless valves to

Comments

[c_eagle]

:D ! ...and the Halloween stuff was hitting in August!

Seriously... this sort of laughingly premature marketing has to be some sign of civilization gone awry !

[mondhasen]

And until it gets more commercialized, which in these pc times won’t happen, Thanksgiving will continue to be ignored :D

Holiday marketing is always fun!

[schnee]

Happy Columbus Day! I hope it won't get renamed.

The first and second comic were funny (especially liked the second!), the third was sad.

[mondhasen]

Thanks! There has been a push for Indigenous People’s Day, but wtf? That has nothing to do with this. Let it go altogether if we must.

Yes, the third was sad, darkly so.

[schnee]

Thanks! There has been a push for Indigenous People’s Day, but wtf? That has nothing to do with this. Let it go altogether if we must.

Yes, or just keep it as it is - nothing wrong with Columbus, or celebrating him having reached the "new world".

[sunfire]

I guess the zombies in the manger is the prequel to "Zombie Jesus" on Easter? LOL

Good luck with getting all the faucets and bathrooms ready for the water hook up. It's another bill, but at least you will have a steady supply of water. Just don't count on your town having "safe" water you can actually drink. *chuckles*

[mondhasen]

We have been fortunate to have good, potable water from our town wells... so far. We joke that as soon as we hook up they’ll have a “boil water” advisory come through.

[sabotlours]

Do you have any plans to have your water tested before and after you have the switch over? A lot of people think that the lead was in the water when Flint MI switched over to a different source. It was actually the change in chemistry that caused pre-existing lead to become mobilized.

[mondhasen]

I wasn’t planning to check lead: they do that for the system regularly.
https://kentcountywater.org/water-quality-reports.aspx
I do have to get the standard coilform and Heterotrophic Plate Count tests, though

As far as what I have been drinking up to the switch, I haven’t tested the water in easily 30+ years. I do recall we are high in natural fluoride, but that’s all I remember. As far as my lines here, I believe all fittings were sweated lead free.