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26974. arkymalarky - 7/9/2012 11:16:24 PM I'll see if this works. On the road so I have some time to play
26975. arkymalarky - 7/9/2012 11:16:37 PM Yay! 26976. arkymalarky - 7/9/2012 11:19:24 PM That's the before picture. In 4 or 5 years I'll post the after. 26977. anomie - 7/10/2012 4:12:58 AM Well, the now looks lovely enough!
26978. anomie - 7/10/2012 4:15:31 AM Hello all. I finally found my password. With this new ability to post from my android phone, i may become a regular pest.l 26979. arkymalarky - 7/10/2012 4:18:53 AM Hey Anomie!! Great to see you! Catch us up,
And thanks! What you don't see there is that it has no water, plumbing or electricity. But we've got plans! 26980. arkymalarky - 7/10/2012 4:21:16 AM I only use my phone now. What's really neat is voice to text. I even have decent Internet, finally, and still use my phone. What kind of droid do you have? I love droid, but went to iPhone because of Verizon and google's crapware. 26981. anomie - 7/10/2012 4:43:49 AM I got a Sensation 4g and just upgraded to Ice Cream Sandwich...that sounds so silly. I'm still getting used to it. Takes a bit to master the keyboard.
Otherwise, I've been good. Traveling a little. Trying to stay healthy. Been browsing in the Mote occasionally and it's always good to know you all are doing okay. 26982. arkymalarky - 7/10/2012 2:27:46 PM That's another reason I got an iPhone. The Bionic was supposed to get the ics when I bought it over a year ago and I got sick of waiting. It's a really nice os--so I hear....
Hope you stick around! 26983. anomie - 7/10/2012 2:48:22 PM My only real problem pre ics was sudden battery drain. Ics seems to have solved that. 26984. arkymalarky - 7/10/2012 3:37:24 PM I still have my bionic and live in hope of eventual ics, but I had no memory and got very resentful of google and Verizon force feeding me shit I didn't want. iPhone is clean, and Jobs was ingenious in that regard. Phone wise I liked my bionic better in many ways, but iPhone is better in some 26985. judithathome - 7/10/2012 5:25:25 PM Anomie! I lost all my email addressbook in a fire (meltdown, really...) Could you send me an email...address is still the same. 26986. judithathome - 7/10/2012 5:25:50 PM Welcome back, by the way! 26987. anomie - 7/10/2012 5:58:41 PM Will do Judith, when i gett on a computer. Thanks! 26988. concerned - 7/10/2012 9:13:30 PM Hi, Arky -
Can you get electricity to it? 26989. concerned - 7/10/2012 9:15:39 PM Even if you want to go 'off grid', it's a lot cheaper if you have an electric feed because then you can do without a lot of expensive batteries when you get to that point - just sell power back to the grid. In the meantime you can get well and septic in, and even a heat pump as finances allow. 26990. concerned - 7/10/2012 9:18:34 PM Btw, I've found a couple of places that sell polyisocyanurate insulation foamboard insulation 'seconds' and 'overstocks' - one in Illinois and one in Idaho, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's others nearer Arkansas -they're letting that stuff go for real cheap and it's about the most effective insulation you can buy as far as R-Value per thickness today except for the exotic stuff. 26991. concerned - 7/10/2012 9:22:30 PM If you can find any artesian wells on your property, especially uphill, that might be a potentially really easy way to get water. How much land do you own with this house? 26992. concerned - 7/10/2012 9:26:31 PM When I told a girl from Japan how environmentally friendly my house was, she couldn't believe it. Just well and septic and a geothermal heat pump. 26993. concerned - 7/10/2012 9:37:42 PM When I had my house built, I specified cement board siding and I'm glad I did. It's got a wood grain texture and is regular lap board siding size. The great thing about it is it doesn't rot, warp or split with age and it doesn't absorb moisture so it will hold a coat of paint much longer than wood will. I had a single coat paint job done my house (in northern Illinois) 12 years ago and it still looks just like new on the cement board siding - a lot of it has deteriorated or come off on the cedar trim - I wish I had insisted that the trim be cement board back then because now I'm seriously considering replacing much of it now with cement board siding.
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