Wow, first time in 2 days I didn't have to fight to get on here. It must be an Easter miracle!

Sunday, March 31. Easter Sunday; I have risen and so should YOU!

1831 - Quebec and Montreal were incorporated as cities.

1862 - Skirmishing between Rebels and Union forces took place at Island 10 on the Mississippi River.

1870 - In Perth Amboy, NJ, Thomas P. Munday became the first black to vote in the U.S.

1880 - Wabash, IN, became the first town to be completely illuminated with electric light.

1889 - In Paris, the Eiffel Tower officially opened.

1902 - In Tennessee, 22 coal miners were killed by an explosion.

1917 - The U.S. purchased and took possession of the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million.

1918 - For the first time in the U.S., Daylight Saving Time went into effect.

1932 - The Ford Motor Co. debuted its V-8 engine.

1933 - The U.S. Congress authorized the Civilian Conservation Corps to relieve rampant unemployment.

1933 - The "Soperton News" in Georgia became the first newspaper to publish using a pine pulp paper.

1940 - La Guardia airport in New York officially opened to the public.

1941 - Germany began a counter offensive in North Africa.

1949 - Winston Churchill declared that the A-bomb was the only thing that kept the U.S.S.R. from taking over Europe.

1949 - Newfoundland entered the Canadian confederation as its 10th province.

1958 - The U.S. Navy formed the atomic submarine division.

1970 - The U.S. forces in Vietnam down a MIG-21, it was the first since September 1968.

1999 - Three U.S. soldiers were captured by Yugoslav soldiers three miles from the Yugoslav border in Macedonia.

2004 - Google Inc. announced that it would be introducing a free e-mail service called Gmail, probably so they could track people better.

Today's thought:
Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.

Multi-colored Easter C0ffee & ph00 are ready. Enjoy!

 

So glad you could make it out of bed Scott. Good going. You rose, and so did Jesus Christ 2000 years ago, but not from a sleep - - from the dead. Wow, what a day for all of us.

Ph00 - - - ph00 - - - .................................YEH. Good going.

OK, off to church. Have a gudurn,

Bob

 

Good morning all y'all, Happy Easter. Spring has definitely arrived in Southern Alberta. We are supposed to get rain this morning. This will be our first rain since last September. Scotty and others downstream from Alberta, start filling your sandbags and water wings.

Anyone want to come help me vacuum sediment from my basement today? Refer to big post near the end last week's breakroom for source of sediment before you agree to come help.

Time for breakfast, back atcha later.

 

Greetings. Easter here has a couple of meanings. One of which includes eggs...hidden.

Tallguy of the west...people are sandbagging the perimeter of their homes in the City. I worked for several hours moving snow...heavy wet snow away from the buildings again...big problem here is where will the run off go.

Happy Easter folks. He Has Risen


So has Scott, Bobby, Sean and moi.

 

Afternoon, Happy Easter to those who celebrate.

Happy Birthday, Scott.

Hope everyone is having a nice day today.

 

One neat thing about old age. You can hide your own Easter eggs.

 

LOVE IT!!!

 

Happy Easter everyone (DTR~s finest )

MARK GOOD TO SEE YOU HOPE YOU ARE GETTING SETTLED IN OK !
CLAUDE

THE BAD THING ABOUT OLD AGE YOU FORGET WHERE YOU HID THEM !

 

Wow Mark long way to the coast ! bummin, long way to go shrimping & so forth !

 

Afternoon all. Tallguy, sorry to hear about the sewer problem. Sounds like you've gotten ahead of it for now but what about next year.

Mark, how's the egg? That crack didn't go all the way through did it?

Heidi, a bulldozier? Sounds like you need more to do, way too much time on your hands.

 

Hence, the dozer.

Rode up to Gothenburg over to North Platte and stopped in to visit with a friend on the way home. The Amigo run pretty good. Think it could use some tires though the one is rather weather-checked and it developed a bit of a vibration today.

The dog likes to ride. For about an hour and a half. After that he's ready to get home.

 

They don't let me in the breakroom very often but today must be special.
Happy Easter DTR!

Morning yard work cleaning...... check
Easter ham at the inlaws........ check
Afternoon yard cleaning and watering...... check
Planting my butt in my chair, surfing DTR and watching TV for the evening...... check mate!!

Happy Birthday Scott

 

T-Rad,
3 things being done to prevent the same probs next year. First of all, I am going to get the trench properly backfilled once the ground is thawed. Second, I am installing a high-level alarm in the septic tank so we know before fluid is backing up into the basement. Third and finally I am installing a second efluent pump in the septic tank (been meaning to do this for years) that will hook up to a pump-out hose that goes into the field. Pump-outs arent really approved but this will only be used in emergency situations. Local inspector said none of the inspectors will object if the pump-out is only used in emergency situations like to stop the basement flooding.

That should about do it for upgrades to the septic system for now.

 

I built my own system. They'll probably make me tear it out and put in a mound system if I ever sell this farm, but here's the deal.

Tank is gravity fed from the house. Line goes out about 3 feet above the basement floor. Anything in the basement (clothes washer, water softener) pumps up into the sewer.

Baffled septic tank.

4" line out from the tank to a distribution box 6 inches lower. The box feeds two 4 inch lines, one each way to 50' of drain field each way. They are slightly lower than the inlet. One outlet straight ahead, 3 inches above the inlet.

Repeat the pattern twice more, going on down the hill.

Last distribution box has a 4" line that comes out of the hill about 50 feet further down the hill. It's called a french drain. I've never seen anything coming out of it, but I've also never seen the tank level high. That's my emergency overflow.

Major feature in the design is that it's all gravity with no pumps anywhere.

The soil is black prairie muck. Most of the moisture and nutrients make grass by the truckload. That makes my 3/4 acre garden very fertile and well covered with mulch.

The foundation and basement ground water drain system also gravity feeds through about 200 feet of 4" schedule 40 pipe that goes through the same hill and comes out about 3' above high water in the swampy meadow behind the hill.

When I had a sump pump, it usually failed at the worst times and left me hand bailing till I dropped, then cleaning up the mess. Since I installed this setup, it's been drier than a popcorn phart in the basement.

 

Pistolwhipt, wow .....wondered what you were up to...

Mark, glad you are on OUR coast again. patience and excitement to you.

T raddy, my birthday wish was an American dozer. the Canadien version is a dozier....lol
ScottNebraskaworkinghardfarmerman, I have rugged uneven terrain, all forested, TD-9 stays put. ran a bobcat around for flat dairy farm and despite their versatility, don't believe in them for my property(100 acres, sideways) . oh! and TD-9 will cost me 1800 bucks. EZ decision, right? ..... and that was my dream. gone.
my son is ready to buy a house, money can only go one place.
you will know that one day.

Happy Easter, aspirin and um, hand sanitizer to my slip, sliding Albertan.

Happy Birthday scottybro, answer yer phone at some point.

I have projects to spare. all this week. prepping the big barge float. friends/family say "film it". I think evidence.

happy if we see the sun.