Cliff Rohrabacher
06-20-2009, 2:22 PM
So I put up my peppers and plants and tomatoes and herbs. It was great.
Then the rain started and it hasn't stopped for more than a month
So much for my plants.
Meanwhile the phone line was going in and out.
I figured it was water in the line.
It was, the water was in my house. The lines with all their splices and taped over slits in the insulation and other assorted hodgepodge of insults over the years have conspired against me and are in league with a month of rain.
I got a hundred feet of outdoor rated cable and started to lay a whole new line from the box to the phone terminal in my office.
Did I mention that the house if 250 years old and the walls were insulated by pouring rubble and mortar in between the clapboards and inner skin?
Yah it's Oak Mortise and tenon with filled walls. So there's no fishing the line through the walls. I can wail away at my walls all day with a 30-06 and still not get one shot out of the building.
So I had to go in through the 12" of oak sill in to the cellar and through the cellar and out of the cellar and up the wall and in under the attic eaves (did I mention the house is HUGE and high and I am afraid of heights?) and in the attic and down through the ceiling and Presto : Six Hours later the heavy lifting was done. Pulling a hundred feet of cable all by yourself with no fish tape (I have a son in law and he has my fish tape) is something of a challenge.. In and out and up and down and all over again like 12 times 'cause the cable would kink no matter how nicely I stretched it out and laid it out.
It was one of only three days in the last month when it wasn't raining.
So today I have the whole thing back and up and running.
I need an aspirin.
Then the rain started and it hasn't stopped for more than a month
So much for my plants.
Meanwhile the phone line was going in and out.
I figured it was water in the line.
It was, the water was in my house. The lines with all their splices and taped over slits in the insulation and other assorted hodgepodge of insults over the years have conspired against me and are in league with a month of rain.
I got a hundred feet of outdoor rated cable and started to lay a whole new line from the box to the phone terminal in my office.
Did I mention that the house if 250 years old and the walls were insulated by pouring rubble and mortar in between the clapboards and inner skin?
Yah it's Oak Mortise and tenon with filled walls. So there's no fishing the line through the walls. I can wail away at my walls all day with a 30-06 and still not get one shot out of the building.
So I had to go in through the 12" of oak sill in to the cellar and through the cellar and out of the cellar and up the wall and in under the attic eaves (did I mention the house is HUGE and high and I am afraid of heights?) and in the attic and down through the ceiling and Presto : Six Hours later the heavy lifting was done. Pulling a hundred feet of cable all by yourself with no fish tape (I have a son in law and he has my fish tape) is something of a challenge.. In and out and up and down and all over again like 12 times 'cause the cable would kink no matter how nicely I stretched it out and laid it out.
It was one of only three days in the last month when it wasn't raining.
So today I have the whole thing back and up and running.
I need an aspirin.