Dad's House Construction - Sep 12, 2015

The Attic:

My Part of the Attic:

Dad's Part of the Attic:

Attic Exterior:

Attic Ingress/Egress:

Living Room:

My Bedroom:

Kitchen:

Dad's desk used to be in the corner there.

Utility Room:

Those orange hoses will be the water in/out for the radiant heating system in the floor.

Master Bedroom:

The desk was moved over two days previous to today because a couple of days before that he had moved the modem over there and his computer no longer had internet access.

Master Bathroom:

Only missing a mirror and tile flooring.

Main Bathroom:

Crawl Space:

Exterior:

Septic System:

Septic Tank:

Where the sewage from the house first goes.  The septic tank will have to be pumped periodically to get rid of any solid waste.

Dosing Tank:

The next stop for sewage.  It fills until a certain level then is released downhill.

Absorption Field:

The final stop.  The liquid waste will eventually be absorbed by the ground.  Eventually there will be dirt on top of that plastic tarp to help with odor abatement.  There currently isn't any bad odors coming from it though.

December 2008 Portland Cold Snap - Part III

More snow pics from Tualatin Hills Nature Park, but from today after 3 more inches of snow last night:

December 2008 Portland Cold Snap - Part II

Snow off and on again through the week. Friday we had wet snow flakes falling with the sun struggling to get through.

Then Saturday the snow storm happened. I figure that I have 5 - 6 inches on my deck in the some of the lower parts with 7 - 8 inches in the ridge shown below at shortly before 9 pm.

But it's a dry snow. Here's my car. Hardly any snow on it, but it affects the wind pattern around it, so a snow drift was forming around it.

December 2008 Portland Cold Snap

I always thought it was ironic that there was a street called Winterlake Drive running along Summerlake Park in Tigard. As of December 14, 2008, Winter beat Summer. But it wasn't all snow this week. There was a bunch of wind as well.

This tree fell on Monday, December 15, 2008 (it is figured) on the wooden walkway on the Big Fir trail on the way to the Couger Trail (and Big Pond where I was heading) in Tualatin Valley Nature Park. There were no reports of any sounds as it fell because no one was around. The winds were howling that day. The park personnel I came across as they were checking the park for damage said that it wasn't down on Sunday and I came across it on Tuesday, ergo the estimate that it fell on Monday.

However, back to Summerlake Park and the frozen pond it was becoming.

That would be a nutriet walking across the lake. And here are some other pictures that I liked.

Out from my cave

After being out on disability so long, I've begun the process of beginning work again. One sign that I'm well enough to get back is my 90 minute or so sojourn in Tualatin Valley Nature Park today. These were the only two pictures I thought were good enough to go on here.

Windows

I woke up with the song Start Me Up by the Stones in my head. Don't know why. But that reminded me of the promotion of Windows 95 some thirteen years ago. Kids nowadays have no recollection typing "win" at the DOS prompt after the computer booted up to run Windows 3.1 (or anything earlier) or how frequently you got the BSOD (the blue screen of death). Worse still, how it took ten or more 3.5" floppies to even install Windows onto your computer, you know before the advent of CD-ROMs. I doubt my 26 year old sister even remembers that... though my mom wouldn't remember that either, at least by experience, as she never used a computer really back then.

Any of you remember that?

Snow & Gorge Pics

I did a the loop around Mt Hood today, but I think I overdid it... I'm sooooo exhausted now.

I had an issue with camera batteries today. I use rechargable lithium batteries. Yesterday I recharged the batteries from Monday's excursion. I'm sure that being up at Timberline for 30 minutes had something to do with the batteries losing their charge so quickly. I got rechargable batteries in Cascade Locks, but when I went to take a photo at Horsetail Falls my camera said "Charge Batteries" and then shut down. I was flabergasted. I just bought new batteries. Then I got to thinking that maybe the battery that was dying was the 3V watch battery. So I went out to Gresham, got a new watch battery, put it in, same result. So now I'm thinking the rechargable batteries I bought today weren't charged! Luckily I had a Garmin device with me, only with 3 AAs, so I put those three in and one of the old AAs in the camera, and finally it worked.

On to the photos: