19 thoughts on “Bear Claw, for all of us, may we all be that bad ass when it is time”
The only answer I’ve ever gotten to “Why me?” is a pretty clear “Why not you?”
Discovered this morning at about 5am when I flushed the toilet, and it became dead silent, not refilling, that our water was out. I hate plumbing. Hey, it’s only 6F out, with a howling wind chill of minus 14F, so what’s the problem? It’s been much colder already this season.
I have a 6 gallon jug of water in the back of the pickup, frozen rock solid of course. But a case of bottled water in the garage was not, so we at least got coffee while if rassled with the issues. No way was I getting back to sleep, so after mulling over possible problem locations, I crawled under the house, and the only exposed location I could see was a shutoff valve. The pipe to either side has got foam insulation wrap, so I hung a heat lamp aimed close to that valve. About an hour later, water’s back. Phew! Did I say that I hate plumbing? Even worse is crawling under houses. I REALLY hate that.
Oh, and my cell service is out too. Poor thing is “searching for service” and hasn’t found any yet. But my interwebs is here so I can grouse about it.
Dude- I can identify with your situation. It doesn’t get that miserable here (west TX) but sorta close. It 21 here. Where moved from it 70+. Dammit. Good luck.
Might be a wise move to wrap the shut off valve with heat tape and run up to a switched outlet you can turn on when it gets cold out there in Deliverance land…
You can buy heat tape with a built-in thermostatic switch, CederQ. No need to have it on a switched outlet.
Beware, though – there have been instances where the heat tape was not installed correctly and it caught fire.
Thanks Igor. I’ll be looking into that. We have a local plumbing/electrical outfit that has real experts I can talk to unlike the big box places that are not allowed to dispense anything approaching expertise or advice.
Elk don’t know how many feet horses have!
Wrong thread, Jim??
Ayup.
Jim, would you like for me to delete it? Avoid why you posted to your grand kids in the future?
Not at all, Maestro. I assumed the title was refering to Bear Claw Chris Lapp.
The quote is one of his lines from the movie.
I ayuped Igor just for the hell of it.
I get it now and once you mentioned it I remember the quote!
Maestro? Boy, you been drinking some potent kool-aid
Watch your top knot Jim.
Pulls a slug from the ceramic liquor jar.
Yep finished my 60th spin around the sun on this here ole blue marble yesterday. Life is good, look forward to the future.
Well damn! Happy birthday! You are now inducted into the Old Farts and Curmudgeon Club. You may now take off your plebe beanie and join your brothers in agony and incontinence!
The only answer I’ve ever gotten to “Why me?” is a pretty clear “Why not you?”
Discovered this morning at about 5am when I flushed the toilet, and it became dead silent, not refilling, that our water was out. I hate plumbing. Hey, it’s only 6F out, with a howling wind chill of minus 14F, so what’s the problem? It’s been much colder already this season.
I have a 6 gallon jug of water in the back of the pickup, frozen rock solid of course. But a case of bottled water in the garage was not, so we at least got coffee while if rassled with the issues. No way was I getting back to sleep, so after mulling over possible problem locations, I crawled under the house, and the only exposed location I could see was a shutoff valve. The pipe to either side has got foam insulation wrap, so I hung a heat lamp aimed close to that valve. About an hour later, water’s back. Phew! Did I say that I hate plumbing? Even worse is crawling under houses. I REALLY hate that.
Oh, and my cell service is out too. Poor thing is “searching for service” and hasn’t found any yet. But my interwebs is here so I can grouse about it.
Dude- I can identify with your situation. It doesn’t get that miserable here (west TX) but sorta close. It 21 here. Where moved from it 70+. Dammit. Good luck.
Might be a wise move to wrap the shut off valve with heat tape and run up to a switched outlet you can turn on when it gets cold out there in Deliverance land…
You can buy heat tape with a built-in thermostatic switch, CederQ. No need to have it on a switched outlet.
Beware, though – there have been instances where the heat tape was not installed correctly and it caught fire.
Thanks Igor. I’ll be looking into that. We have a local plumbing/electrical outfit that has real experts I can talk to unlike the big box places that are not allowed to dispense anything approaching expertise or advice.
Elk don’t know how many feet horses have!
Wrong thread, Jim??
Ayup.
Jim, would you like for me to delete it? Avoid why you posted to your grand kids in the future?
Not at all, Maestro. I assumed the title was refering to Bear Claw Chris Lapp.
The quote is one of his lines from the movie.
I ayuped Igor just for the hell of it.
I get it now and once you mentioned it I remember the quote!
Maestro? Boy, you been drinking some potent kool-aid
Watch your top knot Jim.
Pulls a slug from the ceramic liquor jar.
Yep finished my 60th spin around the sun on this here ole blue marble yesterday. Life is good, look forward to the future.
Well damn! Happy birthday! You are now inducted into the Old Farts and Curmudgeon Club. You may now take off your plebe beanie and join your brothers in agony and incontinence!
Welcome to The Age of Sciatica!
The Old Farts Rock Group
Watch yourn.
Hell I thought you were talking about me