Goddammit, beavers…

Cuomo concedes.

Now do this for all Democratic primaries.

Everything’s a housepet if you don’t mind shit and piss in the house.

Quiet, Gretta.

Yes, second last pic is that waterfall. I’ve swam in that pool at the bottom and the campsite is maybe 50m downstream past some trees. From there you’re into Siffleur Wilderness proper. I’ve been in there a few times, on regular backpacks and as an alternate route for the GDT that requires some pretty good bushcraft to get you back to the GDT proper. I doubt a dozen people a year access that area to any depth, it’s true wilderness and some awesome scenery. I’m not one for taking pictures but here’s a few from that area:

Trail isn’t maintained:

Bear. On this trip, myself and the young guy below ran into a grizzly across a burned over meadow. I had him back away while he kept me between him and bear, and when he was gone and well out of sight, I slowly backed away. Bear just watched me and never charged. I’d told Nick before he went that if it took me, he was to make for the truck and don’t look back. All’s well that end well.

Mountains:

Caves:

No pics but I remember having a midnight chat with a wolf pack that was chasing an elk past where I was sleeping by the fire. The elk woke me up as it ran by through the brush, and the wolfpack surrounded me as they noticed me. I could see eyes all around me so I said “I think he went thataway” and they fucked off after the elk after sniffing around me for a minute. Guess even wolves in that area don’t mess with humans, or they didn’t like the fire, which was pretty burned down by then.

I’ve also seen cats in there, they worry me more than the wolves.

I wish that were the case, but I also have a VLAN’d virtual interface with a different SSID on the 2.4 radio and it’s not discovering that or the other SSIDs around the neighborhood that I’d normally see. But it’s an interesting point, I hadn’t encountered that one before.

That’s my point, the hypocrisy is deafening.

Baldrich, fetch me my most intimidating codpiece! The black one, I think.

I had a friend describe this method as well, though he was a bit more direct and grabbed the piece with pliers and pulled it out, usually fairly bloodily. Then he’d bandage it up until it stopped bleeding, and watch it grow back and clip it if it started edging back out to the side.

I had it happen a couple times and used his method, and then I heard someone say if you cut the toenail straight across instead of following the curve, it wouldn’t do this. Since I started that, I haven’t had it happen again. I just use electrical sidecutters and don’t cut them super short either.

Also, if you take the trail east where it splits off going to the falls, you’ll come around again on the Kootenay Plain and eventually end up where there’s an old bridge that got washed away, and people camp RVs there on the other side of the N Sask river at Preacher’s Point, or at least they did once upon a time. I’ve mountain biked out that way, it’s a bit long for a day hike unless you hump it.

IIRC, it’s about as far again to the next one as from the parking lot to the main falls, you probably didn’t make it that far if you only went 4 or 5 miles. But post the pic and ping me, I’ll recognize if it is. The campsite I’m thinking of is right on the riverside about 50m from the bottom of the falls.

PerfectAire bought via Home Depot online.

Very quiet. Like almost unnoticeable, even the compressor unit is almost silent. Maybe that changes when it gets hot but it’s been rainy and cool for the last week so it wasn’t exactly getting a workout. Can’t be any noisier than the PAM unit it replaces.

It has wifi with some app called ConnectLife that has a Home Assistant integration available, but I couldn’t seem to get it to hook up to my wifi, it just sets up an AP I can connect to with the app, and then fails to find any wifi networks to let me connect it to permanently. It says in the manual that it’ll only connect to 2.4GHz networks, but I have both frequencies active on my router, and no dice. I’m not really heartbroken about that, I can use the remote. I might try turning it off and on again and see if it smartens up.

The extra lineset is just coiled next to the condensor, you can’t shorten it or you’d have to flare-fit the ends, and evac and charge it. It’s fine where it is, I had maybe 6’ of extra which is a couple coils. They’re ziptied to the joists of the decking above it.

Might have taken 8 or 10 hours to put in with the electrical since I had to rearrange my breaker box a bit to free up a slot for a 20A double pole. I do have to anchor the unit down yet but it doesn’t vibrate or anything so I wasn’t too worried about it. It would have been much faster if I could have just gone through an outside wall and had the condenser mounted on the wall or a sidewalk block under it. But I had to open up a hole in the stairwell ceiling and work inside a cramped spiderwebby cubbyhole, then crawl under a deck to put the condenser under there and lay on my side to do up the connections and wire it. I’d say 6 hours if just going through the wall and if electrical was easier.

Say 2800 with the time? Which is less than just the install price I was quoted to put one in, let alone the cost of the unit.

Meal Team Six

Fun little day hike to the falls. The second falls is smaller but has a fantastic campsite just under the falls and is usually empty.

If you get serious and head into the backcountry from there, take bear spray and a slower hiking partner. I’ve encountered grizzly more than once back there, especially in the burned-over areas.

About 1962

I swear, he puts that “Thank you for you attention to this matter” in there just to piss me off.

And pot, too, right?

Right?

This thread makes my asshole itchy.

Should see about shitting on Reagan’s grave.