I kind of like the yellow books cause it gives me some practice ripping them in half :icon17:

Me too! They stick them in the ends of the hand rail, the door handles. Plus our house has a lot of doors and sometimes they stick one on every door. :shakes head:

hahaha, yah, they never come when needed, always show up when unneeded. good to hear your buddy can chop it up and haul it away. :tup:

All it takes is $$$ :ugh2: But he gave me a good price: $575 to remove 24" diameter hackberry and grind the stump. I know my parents paid that much just to remove a hackberry 2/3 the size of mine and then had to pay an extra $200 to grind the stump. Unexpected expense, but I'm a glass half full kinda guy :tup:

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that really sucks. :ugh2: this reminds me of this lady trying to sell her cleaning business putting her business cards in both my cars parked outside on every door and like 3 of them per wiper blade. i thought my dumb neighbor did a prank on me, but then i caught her doing the same to another car parked down the street. i walked up to her and told her to :gtfo2:

damn, that's a chunk of change but at least you got a great deal! :tup:

just part of owning a house, huh? damn that's big tree!

The joys of home ownership :ugh2: But seriously, I love owning my own house and doing the work on it myself. Although I have some masonite trim that I need to replace with hardie, and I am not looking forward to that repair very much.

yah, wife and ive been slowly re-doing the applicances this year since now the house is 12yrs old. water heater replaced, sump/ejector pump replaced, kitchen sink/faucet replaced, next up washer & drier, stove, and dishwasher by Fall.

next spring, going to hire a painter to do the interior walls. walls go too high and im not good with heights. ..


big chunks of change... :ugh2: but oh well. :icon17:

Its fun, huh :tup: I put in a new toilet and replaced the wall hung lavatory with a pedestal lav about 6 months ago. Appliances are definitely on the list. We got a nice stainless steel range and matching microwave/vent hood when we bought the house, but the existing dishwasher was black and we brought our white refrigerator with us, too. They don't exactly match :icon17: My favorite renovation was wall mounting my Samsung TV and Samsung motorized wall mount over the fireplace and running the wires plus my speaker wires in the wall. :tup:

plasti-dip it? :ugh2: ;) jk

DiNoc wrap both? :wtf2: :rofl2: hahaha.

that tv/speaker setup you got sounds :tup:

Never thought of either of those!! :bowrofl::roflpuke2:

So the next meet will be at your place right? :tup:

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how's the bday girl doing today, pint? :hello:

Nope! But I'll post a video at some point showing you guys how freaking cool it is :tup:

I'm doing good. :) Not liking having to work today but I wouldn't have done anything else anyway.