I just call it lost in translation
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Unfortunately, she speaks better english than what I do.
.Unfortunately, she speaks better english than what I do.
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Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!
On this day.......
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duke
Nordic Pine
This is the garage foundation wall which needed repair . Removed damage exterior studding and cladding where needed. Installed plywood forms onto existing concrete block wall, added re-bar into the block wall extending up into the new forms. Then horizontally tied re bar to the vertical bar.
duke
Nordic Pine
Having issues on my end with pics.
duke
Nordic Pine
duke
Nordic Pine
Inside of garage back to some what normal.
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Looks to be a good solution!
Bob
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duke
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On this day June 28, 2023, installed a bed cap on my truck. It was a swap with a guy who wanted a tone cover.
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duke
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Also on this day 2021 installed a hot water heater in a cottage that I look after. Thought I would throw this in, 
GaryR
Sapling
This day in 2015 was our last day living in what was our home for the previous 25 years. We had packed everything except a mattress on the floor for our last night. On this day we packed that into the van/trailer that was full to the gills with our belongings and all of my shop. After sealing the doors we loaded the two dogs and a cat and some luggage into our Subaru and started our journey of some 3000 miles across country from Ashland, Virginia to our new home in Corvallis, Oregon. We crossed our fingers that the movers would actually collect the trailer and haul it to Oregon for us and be ready to unload when we got there nine days later. I'm happy to report that they did.
Mike G
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Goodness, that's quite a move, Gary. It's about the longest journey you can do in continental USA, isn't it?
duke
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Very nice Nick
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You made a lovely job of that Nick, some are really chunky!
GaryR
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One could do a little longer if you did a diagonal SE to NW or NE to SW. But 3000 is good number for several routes.
There is a bicycle route from Virginia to Oregon that went right by my house in Virginia. We often saw cyclists checking that trip off their list.
It was summer and we wanted to see family in Cleveland, Ohio so we did a northern route with mostly highway driving. There were some other intermediate stops along the route.
Mike G
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Is Williamsburg the place with the museum/ model village with life from the 18th century re-created?
Blackswanwood
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It is Mike - it's somewhere I would like to visit.
Thanks. I just copied the design of the one it replaced. That one had rotted. When I cut it up, I discovered that it was about 50% sap wood!!
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Yes it is Mike, think Weald and Downland museum but just from one period when the settlers moved from the original base in Jamestown, it’s quite well done. Pam’s Daughter lives in quite an old property very close to it. Hers is what we would call listed, I have the job of making new shutters ( to start with) and they will have to conform to the local regs. Plus I have been all over the original old buildings studying methods and styles of construction.
Ian
duke
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This day or should I say started 3 days previous 2021. Rebuild exterior stud foundation wall.
Mike G
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On this day ten years ago we moved into our new house. Well, we didn't. We stayed in a B&B whilst we made it habitable........but it was this day that we took on the ownership and began our long project. Here's a couple of before and afters:
Fish and chips in the garden because we'd got no kitchen.
All of those photos, even the after ones, are old. Everything looks a lot more mature now. One day I'll do some updated photos.
Fish and chips in the garden because we'd got no kitchen.
All of those photos, even the after ones, are old. Everything looks a lot more mature now. One day I'll do some updated photos.
duke
Nordic Pine
Nice sun room Mike. How dark will the Oak timber work get over time?
Mike G
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It will go a silvery grey colour, Duke, mainly where it is exposed to rain.
You can see that it is still a work-in-progress.
duke
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duke
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Continuation to previous post, ready for clading. 
duke
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Lake view of the job site.
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Need a pic of the yacht.
I wouldn't get your hopes up duke. It was just a 12 foot fibreglass motor boat hull to which I attached a mast, balanced lug sail, rudder and lee board. Pretty it wasn’t.
I thought I’d already put some photies on here about it, but a cursory search doesn’t reveal anything. I’ll have a better look, if only because it will annoy any sailing purists.
duke
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Sometimes it is hard to get anything done, always looking at the view. Next week I start another job on a lake.
Mike, working at the lakeside properties is really hard on the body, what with varying gradients and very little level land. Then add the ladder work so I usually load up ibuprofin which helps.
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Sunroom looks lovely Mike. Looks finished apart from rainwater collection?
Mark
All of those photos, even the after ones, are old. Everything looks a lot more mature now. One day I'll do some updated photos.
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Sunroom looks lovely Mike. Looks finished apart from rainwater collection?
Mark
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I realised that not all addresses can be written on an envelope
I realised that not all addresses can be written on an envelope
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A little bit verbose by today’s standards, who wrote it Andy? Was it Adams? Very clever chap.
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Try Magnesium L Threonate Duke, brill for muscle aches, (and other problems) and much better for you than painkillers. Dr Mercola does it.
Ian
Mike G
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Thanks Mark. I've got some minor trimming to do inside and out, a little bit of panelling....and the rainwater collection as you mentioned. I've got a really special thing planned for that.
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GaryR
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Ooo, ooo, I know! President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, given at a memorial service during the American Civil War. I memorized it when I was about 9 or 10 years old. Give me a few minutes to review and I could probably recite it all again.17 July 2017
I realised that not all addresses can be written on an envelope
Gettysburg Address - Wikipedia
Gary is spot on. Lincoln memorial, Washington.
Couldn’t find it. So, if any of you have seen this before, excuse my anecdotageNeed a pic of the yacht.
Hull
Straightest trees I could find on our land. Debarked, and sort of shaped.
Sail. Synthetic tarpaulin, double sided tape and metal eyelets.
A frame to mount it all on, and lash to the hull.
Installing the mast, the rudder (the hull designed for o/b motor so it didn’t have one), and the lee board.
Checking everything works. Tethered to our mooring buoy, because at least at this stage I could easily swim back to the jetty in under a minute.
And off into the briny deep.
You’ll notice that I’m sailing solo. Pictures taken by my partner. Who, for some unaccountable reason, refused to accompany me on the maiden voyage. Oh, yeah I can remember the reason. I can swim pretty well. My partner can’t swim at all. So valid I guess.
duke
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I have never sailed but this looks quite enjoyable. Your boat looks very stable.
Mike G
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That looks..................incredibly slow! The lack of a decent keel might be a bit of a handicap.
It has the enormous benefit of being cheap. A balanced lug seems like a good way to learn, whilst going nowhere fast. A standing lug, with no boom, might be even better as you reduce your chances of getting whacked on the head.
The lack of a decent keel might be a bit of a handicap.It has the enormous benefit of being cheap. A balanced lug seems like a good way to learn, whilst going nowhere fast. A standing lug, with no boom, might be even better as you reduce your chances of getting whacked on the head.