Got my scheduled work done this morning. My new expanded battery bank does a helluva lot better than the old two-battery bank did, but cutting a bunch of 3/4″ rebar with an angle grinder will make itself known. It’s a sunny morning but the system didn’t hit float until after 11. But now everything’s in place and level and ready for concrete.
This afternoon’s job is meaty doggy treats. I still had a couple of hen carcasses in Ian’s freezer from last year, didn’t really want to eat them but these few did have a little meat so I couldn’t just feed them to the coyotes. ML’s idea of baking them into doggy treats made sense.
So one of the last generation of hens collects on her retirement plan: Good eating in a warm place. The inside of LB’s stomach is probably pretty warm. First I had to get the meat off the bones, so after thawing it enough to cut it apart it’s spent the bulk of the morning in the pressure cooker.
Now that I’m done messing around outdoors it’s time to see if I can strip the carcass and pulverize the meat enough for baking. We’ll see how this goes! I certainly have enough chicken stock.
That room will be so high off the ground that I wonder about your plan. Perhaps some metal roofing as skirting? Also, there would be room there for organised storage if you could find some sort of ratproof container.
Yeah, it’s gonna be WAY off the ground at that corner. Clearly I’ll need some skirting or wind will just funnel through.
I’m also going to need more building materials than I anticipated, because if there was ever a time for me to build an old-man ramp this is it.
Oh, come on now! Screw that “old man ramp”. You just needs to build you a zip line!
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Ramp, schmamp! Get a slide!
Ramps are only good for someone pushing a wheelchair, if my bunged up knees are any indication. Walking up-n-down an incline causes a great deal of pain. Walking up-n-down short steps is far less painful. Just some food for thought.
Do you have access to a manual meat grinder or a food mill? That would make fast work of getting the meat to a paste(pulverized) consistency.
I agree on the ramps vs. steps thing in regard to knee pain. But I seem to get a little more prone to falling for every year I get older, and hitting the ground hurts worse than knees on ramps. With assists from Little Bear I’ve already taken a couple of headers off the Lair steps.
My dad lived to 97 and was relatively fine until his second broken hip. Me, I plan to live forever, bad knees or no.
Planned to live forever… Not much planning, and after hitting 50, not planning to live forever…
Maybe handrails of some sort would be better than a ramp. Ya got two strong meat arms with the OEM grippers, they just need a good solid something to grab on to. That should keep ya upright while you negotiate the steps.
My ramp experience is completely different from Judy’s and Joel’s. Interesting comments on ramps v steps. I replaced all of my steps with ramps. My deteriorating knee is horribly painful on steps, up or down, but my ramps are totally pain free. My ramps are ADA compliant as to grade, width and turnaround and will handle a wheelchair/walker/Rollator if I need one and allow me to remain independent. I don’t yet have handrails but will, also ADA compliant. I do have a strip of wood along the outside ramp edge so I don’t go off the edge while moving heavy loads or later in a wheel chair. If I need to move something in or out of the house I can put it on/in a wheeled something, and am done in minutes. Groceries, trash, paint cans, tools, fixtures, furniture, water, whatever all go in and out with minimum time and effort on my ramps. Snow and ice can be an issue (I did fall on the ice once), but handrails and a full width strip of indoor/outdoor carpet that gets taken up once the snow melts is one solution. Grip strips are another. I couldn’t handle the pain and couldn’t be fully functional if I still had steps.