2023 Day-To-Day Personal Preps
2023 Day-To-Day Personal Preps
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Ever wonder what pork cracklins look like after they are cooked? We found a few pork roasts on sale, trimmed off the excess fat and made some homeccooked cracklins. Here is the result.
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HIGH PLAINS NIGHTMARE
The snow is piled up about 3 feet deep around our house and thanking God, it is starting to melt. In our 30 years here there has never been a winter like this one. Yesterday my wife went to our pantry in the basement (yes, dry), but this time it was not. Water was leaking out of a wall onto stored prep supplies. At first we thought that melting snow had seeped into the basement through the foundation somehow. That was not the case. Somewhere in one side of the pantry wall apparently a pipe had burst or is leaking badly. This wall extends upward as a wall to our bedroom but our bedroom is dry. Abutting against the wall on the other side is a small bathroom. Aaaah, hah! This is going to be a nightmare as it unfolds. Pray for us to overcome this without too much expenditure of resources. Can't even call a plumbing contractor until tomorrow.
The snow is piled up about 3 feet deep around our house and thanking God, it is starting to melt. In our 30 years here there has never been a winter like this one. Yesterday my wife went to our pantry in the basement (yes, dry), but this time it was not. Water was leaking out of a wall onto stored prep supplies. At first we thought that melting snow had seeped into the basement through the foundation somehow. That was not the case. Somewhere in one side of the pantry wall apparently a pipe had burst or is leaking badly. This wall extends upward as a wall to our bedroom but our bedroom is dry. Abutting against the wall on the other side is a small bathroom. Aaaah, hah! This is going to be a nightmare as it unfolds. Pray for us to overcome this without too much expenditure of resources. Can't even call a plumbing contractor until tomorrow.
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Are the pipes exposed to where you can see them? Bathroom water pipes are usually small diameter, like 1/2" and they will freeze before a larger pipe would. If your house is 30 years old or older it probably has copper water pipes. It may have gotten cold enough to freeze and crack open the copper pipe. I have had this happen and did a fast repair by cutting out the split portion of the pipe with a tube cutter and slipping on a piece of black plastic PVC water pipe onto both ends of the cut copper pipe, then placing a clamp on each end and tightening them down to guarantee no leaks. These clamps look like miniature radiator hose clamps. I have done this several times and it works good. If your pipes are inside a wall you will be forced to remove some drywall to make this repair, then install some pipe insulation over the pipes to prevent it from freezing in the future. This situation must have been caused by global warming. 
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UPDATE:
Our plumbing service says it may not be burst pipes but an "ice dam" on the roof. Stay tuned.
Our plumbing service says it may not be burst pipes but an "ice dam" on the roof. Stay tuned.
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UPDATE:
It IS a burst pipe and not an ice dam. Our plumber located the leak and said he could fix it easily, "a piece of cake'. In plumbers' language I don't know what that means. While this is all going on the snow is melting but we're supposed to have more.
It IS a burst pipe and not an ice dam. Our plumber located the leak and said he could fix it easily, "a piece of cake'. In plumbers' language I don't know what that means. While this is all going on the snow is melting but we're supposed to have more.
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UPDATE 16 Mar 23:
We still do not know if this thing was caused by an ice dam or burst pipe. In this part of Wyoming ice dams are the rule rather than the exception and it seems like everybody has them. Yesterday the temperature was 40 degrees and the snow and ice are melting fast. Towels in the pantry are not getting re-wetted so I don't know. Plumbers are in such high demand right now, the best we could do is 0830 on Wednesday the 22nd. Will keep you advised.
We still do not know if this thing was caused by an ice dam or burst pipe. In this part of Wyoming ice dams are the rule rather than the exception and it seems like everybody has them. Yesterday the temperature was 40 degrees and the snow and ice are melting fast. Towels in the pantry are not getting re-wetted so I don't know. Plumbers are in such high demand right now, the best we could do is 0830 on Wednesday the 22nd. Will keep you advised.
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UPDATE AND FINAL - 22 Mar 23
It's done. It WAS a burst water line in the wall. It cost me $664 but it was worth it. Two young men (grandsons of the owners) had the total job done in 3 hours. The hole they had to make in the pantry wall was almost invisible. Had to remove provisions off the top shelf only. The young men were respectable and went out of their way to do the job and we told the father and grandpa that. I would not normally bring something like this up but they are members of the LDS church and they KNOW pantries. Praise God.
It's done. It WAS a burst water line in the wall. It cost me $664 but it was worth it. Two young men (grandsons of the owners) had the total job done in 3 hours. The hole they had to make in the pantry wall was almost invisible. Had to remove provisions off the top shelf only. The young men were respectable and went out of their way to do the job and we told the father and grandpa that. I would not normally bring something like this up but they are members of the LDS church and they KNOW pantries. Praise God.
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Because I am not a spring chicken anymore with as much strength in my hands as I would like, I ordered this baby to aid me in pruning and gathering kindling for next year. They are geared to increase my feeble strength.
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My beautiful bride has been asking for a holster (inside the waist band) for her Ruger .38 LCR "Sami". This is what we came up with and it is rated the best in the USofA. $36.23 including tax and postage.
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Cute. Does it have a belt clip?
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Kindling supply is complete for the winter. We have about a 60-foot section of lilac bushes on our property line that needed thinning and dead material removed. Not only did it cost me nothing but we are using up resources (renewable) that we already have.
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