I LOVE my MVP... So does fiance!!! I'll Update more later, we are gonna go sit on the porch and enjoy our stormy weather!!!!
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Lizzie, how did I know you'd think ripping up floors would be fun? You were my inspiration to get the portrait of Corky done. I just kept thinking of how hard you always work, and kept my nose to the grindstone. And it's done, just in time, too. Here's the final version. Not perfect, since no drawing of mine will ever be, and I had to stop to get it done in time, but acceptable, I hope.
The baked potato salad is in the oven, and I think I'll be about 15 minutes late to the party -- fashionably late.
Excellent job Sandy on all points and the mane looks so much better. I bet you are glad to be done with it.
Excellent job Sandy on all points and the mane looks so much better. I bet you are glad to be done with it.
Thanks so much for your detailed suggestions, Terry. I guess you can see I took them and did what I could. Deb loved it, as did others at the party. One person wants me to do a horse of hers from a photo she has. I said yes, stupid me, but I told her I have to be inspired by the photo. She said she'd send me a selection as soon as she figures out how to attach photos to email. I can wait.
Meanwhile, this same person, Donna, said I could teach the girl I'm currently teaching on Penny on a horse that's at her barn. It doesn't belong to her, though, but I know the owner, so tonight, I emailed her to ask if it's OK. Sometimes Donna gets enthused, and I want to be sure this will work.
Maybe I told this story before, but at one of Deb's parties, which Donna came to late, she missed the baked potato salad, so she bought me another casserole dish so I could make twice as much and she'd be sure to get some. This time, I just made one, because last time, Donna wasn't there, and the 2nd dish hardly had any takers, but this time, there was just a little left, and Donna finished that off, so I didn't have to bring home any leftovers.
It was a fun party. I like it when everyone at a party can talk horses. It makes us all have something in common. So often at parties, I have nothing in common with anyone, and I wind up being a wallflower. I don't mind, since people watching can be fun, but this is nicer.
You're welcome Sandy. Glad I could help. I really do love what you did with the mane. 
Well I know it is late but here is my day one experience with my mvp. Mine was almost fully charged and my fiance's was at 3.6v (yellow). So while his charged we both vaped mine. I played with the watt settings and found so far that I really like 8 to 9. All in all the mvp is really amazing and words can't possibly express how much I love this little box.
Well I know it is late but here is my day one experience with my mvp. Mine was almost fully charged and my fiance's was at 3.6v (yellow). So while his charged we both vaped mine. I played with the watt settings and found so far that I really like 8 to 9. All in all the mvp is really amazing and words can't possibly express how much I love this little box.
Can we get a photo of your MPV, Celt?
Good morning, Voltpeeps.
We are going to cut elm in Gardnerville today. Sounds a lot lie work! I need coffee.
Sounds like the picture was a hit, SandySu. I like it. Shows the character of the horse as displayed in the photo. Good job!
Speaking of doing floors......I've been looking at flooring. Our carpet is a truly ugly teal green color. It was the carpet that was in here when we moved in.
I've looked at laminate, tile, hardwood. I don't want to spend a lot of money. For one thing, I don't have a lot of money to spend
The other thing is that our home value won't go up a lot because we have fancy floors.We need to do about 1000 square feet.
I love the wood look tile but that would be pricey and tile seems cold and hard.
Hardwoods, pretty pricey even at lumber liquidators and I wonder how hard would they be to install. Once we add in $2 a sq ft for installation, that would be really pricey!
We are thinking about going with wide plank tongue-and-groove yellow pine. We can get it for $1.79 per square foot.
I would use slate tile at the front door entry and probably put some slate tile in front of the sliding door so the wettest parts of the house wouldn't be wood. The two bathrooms I will do later in tile.
I figure with a fancy staple gun/nailer, a few tools and stain and sales tax, we could do the whole house for less than $2500.
Any thoughts on flooring, peeps?
The bamboo laminates look nice on the HG tv shows, and reasonably priced. I watch their makeovers when I want to give my brain a rest. It seems like nobody is doing carpet anymore.
Aside from the fact I was in the flooring business for about 45 years? Lol. Never dealt with the hard tile (ceramic, slate etc.) as those are "wet" trades and a lot different. As far as the hardwood, that was most of my work. There are a lot of different kinds out there so I'd need more specifics to be of any help. Several I'm sure you're perfectly capable of installing yourselves and doing as good a job as most professionals. Since you're in a low humidity area it's a lot easier than it is here. Is that plank prefinished or unfinished and how wide. What is the sub floor it would be going over? You can pm me with anything I can be a help with if you want. I won't be around much during the day today as I've got about 300' of field fence to build but I'll get back to you before the day is done.
The bamboo is nice but can be extremely unstable and most has to be glued down with a very toxic glue unless there have been a lot of changes in the last few years since I retired. I also can't speak to the amateur grades but the distributors used to shudder when people bought them lol.
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Good morning, all. Here's another video -- short, this time -- about the interrelatedness of all things in nature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q
Thanks, Wuzz.
I'll ask Hubby a few questions about our subfloor and such and then I will tell you the kind of subfloor.
They actually make the tongue and groove pine in several widths but I thought the 5 1/2 inch yellow pine planks would kind of have a ranch feel to them. The pine is unfinished. I would have to sand and stain. Hubby wants to finish with oil and I want to finish with spar varnish
Some of the laminates look great but most of them that I have cleaned for clients don't clean up well, IMHO. I need something that will withstand the occasional dog or people accident
One of my clients have bamboo at their house and it always looks streaky after cleaning and it shows the dog dirt pretty badly. I've tried numerous cleaners. Maybe it is because it is such a light color. I would stain or buy a medium brown color for whatever wood floors we do.
I definitely need something I could damp mop.
I had old hardwood floors in my place in Las Vegas. I used to damp mop once in awhile and they seemed to do fine.
I'll ask Hubby a few questions about our subfloor and such and then I will tell you the kind of subfloor.
They actually make the tongue and groove pine in several widths but I thought the 5 1/2 inch yellow pine planks would kind of have a ranch feel to them. The pine is unfinished. I would have to sand and stain. Hubby wants to finish with oil and I want to finish with spar varnish
Some of the laminates look great but most of them that I have cleaned for clients don't clean up well, IMHO. I need something that will withstand the occasional dog or people accident
One of my clients have bamboo at their house and it always looks streaky after cleaning and it shows the dog dirt pretty badly. I've tried numerous cleaners. Maybe it is because it is such a light color. I would stain or buy a medium brown color for whatever wood floors we do.
I definitely need something I could damp mop.
I had old hardwood floors in my place in Las Vegas. I used to damp mop once in awhile and they seemed to do fine.
Not terribly experienced, but I really like hardwood floors. They look good and clean up well. I think pine is softer, and you have to be careful that sharp chair legs, etc., don't mar the surface. I've had that happen, though I'm not sure what kind of broad-planked pine it was. I guess you get what you pay for. For the kitchen area and mudroom, you might want to consider linoleum in squares. If you get a kind with streaks in it, the dirt sort of blends in, and linoleum is easy to clean. If you do use linoleum squares, get some extra squares so that if one chips 10 years down the road, you can replace it with a matching one. Often, you won't be able to find the exact same one years later.
We did tile in the kitchen. Should be there for decades with no troubles.
Pine is softer and not a hardwood but they have used it in southern houses for many decades into the past.
I think I won't mind if it gets scratched up a bit. I can live with that as long as the floor is durable and relatively easy to clean.
I'm not talking about a scratch here & there, which can happen even with hardwood floors. We have director's chairs that gouge the wood floor. It looks awful. Fortunately, it's in the back shed, which is sort of rough, anyway.
With oil, any cosmetic repairs for deep scratches would be easy.I would have to sand and stain. Hubby wants to finish with oil and I want to finish with spar varnish
'moanin Voltatics. I slept in today, rainy, cool day.
Lizzie, I'' defer to Wuzz on wood floors, but my personal preference is tongue and groove oak. It is a significantly harder wood and far less prone to dents. You can stain it to any color you want. Oil finishes are probably more durable, scratches can be easily repaired.
That said, I did a ship-lap pine plank floor in a remodel I did some years ago. I tore out the original flooring, which was ship-lap of varying widths to make it more "fun", rebuilt the room and then reinstalled and refinished the floor. It was a "formal" dining room about 16x24 and once it was completed that floor looked really great! That job ended up in the "Living" section of the local paper one Sunday.
Lizzie, I'' defer to Wuzz on wood floors, but my personal preference is tongue and groove oak. It is a significantly harder wood and far less prone to dents. You can stain it to any color you want. Oil finishes are probably more durable, scratches can be easily repaired.
That said, I did a ship-lap pine plank floor in a remodel I did some years ago. I tore out the original flooring, which was ship-lap of varying widths to make it more "fun", rebuilt the room and then reinstalled and refinished the floor. It was a "formal" dining room about 16x24 and once it was completed that floor looked really great! That job ended up in the "Living" section of the local paper one Sunday.
MIL had real hardwood floors and they had to take their shoes off to go into the house because tiny rocks on shoes would scratch it [or so they thought, anyway]. If I do real hardwood, I won't be fussy and we will NOT be taking our shoes off every time we come in the house so I am pretty sure we don't think real hardwood will be worth 2 to, more likely 4 times the cost.
If I was to spend a lot more money than the pine, I would do ceramic wood look floor tiles rather than hardwood. Of course, I have to work hard to get even $2,000 or $2,500 to do the floors. More means that the floors wouldn't get done for at least another year, I think.
Sandy, that video was interesting. I think it's the "law of unintended consequences" in action. Letting things get back to a more natural state can have positive benefits, but it is a two edged sword.
My favorite story is when trapping was outlawed in an semi-populated rural area. The area had nice meadows, lots of deer, rabbits, birds and all the trimmings. In a few years the beaver population had increased and they built dams on the streams. That turned those nice meadows into swamps. The trees died, the wildlife moved out and the mosquito and snake population became unmanageable making the neighborhoods around it far less "fun".
My favorite story is when trapping was outlawed in an semi-populated rural area. The area had nice meadows, lots of deer, rabbits, birds and all the trimmings. In a few years the beaver population had increased and they built dams on the streams. That turned those nice meadows into swamps. The trees died, the wildlife moved out and the mosquito and snake population became unmanageable making the neighborhoods around it far less "fun".
I think a semi-populated rural area is a lot different than pure wilderness as is much of Yellowstone. People have a huge impact on the land.
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