Thread: Getting to be an expensive week

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Ain't home ownership a blast! Hank

Ah yes, the thrills of home ownership.

After putting in "low" buck items like a new septic tank, town water, a new furnace, a new driveway, a 2 car garage, a full length dormer my (ex) wife had a better idea. Let's move.

I have since traded that second house, cars and her for much better units. I have 3 garage stalls(OK), town water(good), sewer(very good) plus natural gas for heat(excellent) and a wife that doesn't bitch(well not too much)(extremely excellent)

Additionally, I no longer have a @#$% swimming pool(good) nor a 30x45 pole barn(very bad) or 7 acres of grass to mow(good) with this current house.

Additionally, I no longer have a @#$% swimming pool(good)

What do you mean, it's always nice when your neighbor has a pool

I almost always have to add new batteries to the camera to get pictures off to the computer but once they are on the computer the features on this site are easy to use. However, I usually have to run the pictures through the PAINT program and reduce the heigth and width by 50% to get it small enough for the Forum. However I still don't understand all the options on the older Canon A20 digital camera we won when they were hot stuff as prizes on a Coke carton. It is only a 2.1 MegaPixel model but even so I have to reduce the size of the images for the Forum. The cable from the camera to the computer is flakey at best but I usually get it to work on the fourth or fifth try. Hey I thought this thread was about septic tanks? No comments on the cat story? To me that is one of the best "almost bad" situations that turned out to be OK in our family history! The real moral of the story is to protect your septic tank site relative to vehicles running over the lid.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

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No comments on the cat story?

Don Shillady


I didn't comment on it but belive me, I was laughing out loud at that visual

Guys - the secret to easily and successfully getting the pictures out of the camera is a $7 to $25 card reader hooked up to a USB2 port on your computer. The camera cable to computer is s-l-o-o-o-o-w and inefficient plus being a battery eater and will often cause errors while moving photos. Most computers, and Don, your Cray knockoff for sure will have software that asks you where you want to copy or move them. You click on 'My Documents' then 'My Pictures' and in about 5 seconds, voila, they are gone from the card. Don, the age of your camera, it probably is a Compact Flash card, most newer amateur level camera have SD cards. Many card readers have the ability to read 6-7 varieties of cards, but a CF/SD/Mini SD by San Disk is about the best I've found.

This house we live in now had an above ground pool when we bought it - but the offer required the owner to remove it, much to his disgust. He was able to sell it for about the difference in what he really wanted and our offer

Cats - we have had many, and I laughed. Mine have come home smelling of skunk, cow manure and dead animals - but never from a septic system

Sean wrote:

You were jumping up and down on a rotted out septic tank!!! You're NUTS !

Sounds to me that he was jumping up and down on what was in the tank , not on the top of the tank. Very brave, or as you said just NUTS.

If it had been less solid he could have disappeared forever, or would have had to go live with the skunks (if they would have had him)