So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

[Lamb]

I'm not sure what I did all day long LOL Right now I'm watching Elf ...again. There aren't too many Christmas shows on except for the same old ones.

 

[tango]

Curious combination today. I started out chiseling some rough edges out of the inner face of the wall I'm draft-hunting in, and then filled a couple of holes with cement. I had an outside light that I never really liked so I took that off, pulled out the wire that feeds it, did battle with a bit of wood someone jammed into the hole to allow them to screw a backbox to the wall until I got that out, and filled the entire hold with cement. Then a cleanup with the shop vac and a generous spray of foam around all the joins between the brickwork and the door frame, and between the two parts of the door frame, and the drafts are much reduced. I also put a brush along the bottom of the door to stop the draft coming in under the door. It's weird to look at the bottom of the door with a thermal camera and see the deep blue seeping in from underneath it.

I'm going to need to pull down a bit more of the wall before I can easily get to the section where I want to run the new cable out to the porch. There's a hole through the outside so I figure I might as well use that rather than drill a new one, and then I can seal up the rest of the hole with foam. That will stop the cold air (and bugs etc) from getting into the brick cavities, which in turn will keep everything warmer.

This afternoon I went to church to record the online service for Sunday, and then went for a run. I had hoped to run the loop that starts and finishes at the church and is almost exactly 10k (6.2 miles) but didn't think I had enough daylight, so did a slightly shorter loop that came in at 4.7 miles. It's probably a good thing I did, the run felt like a real slog today and I'd have ended up running in the twilight with no lights on me. I had a neon yellow shirt on but it's amazing how many people apparently don't see a big yellow thing at the roadside.

And now I'm sitting in my recliner waiting for my wife to get back from her fitness class so we can have dinner. I think this evening is going to be a restful one in front of the TV.....

 

[Naiwen]

Happy Friday all! How are you? Today, just been catching up on sleep since I’ve had yet again another very bad night last night.

 

[tango]

Checking in on the room I worked in yesterday, given it went below freezing last night. It's still cold in there and I still have more blue on the thermal image than I'd like but it's a lot better, and being able to see the blue more contained confirmed what I originally believed about where it's coming from.

One of the problems should be pretty easy to fix up. The other one much less so, so I suspect I'm going to end up seconding a piece of fiberglass to cover the affected area until I can figure out the best way to address it properly. Hopefully that will keep it warm enough in there that I don't need to use the electric bar heater in there this year.

 

[Lamb]

Messaging a friend and finishing breakfast.

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

Well on the road to recovery, thanks be to God! Medical regimen, rest and a lot of prayer works wonders.

 

[tango]

Got a bunch of foam sprayed today. With a little ingenuity I managed to get at the second beam, although it was tricky trying to get my foam gun into place around gutters and downpipes. Maybe tomorrow will give me a nicer looking thermal image. I'll need to trim the surplus foam away and get the metal trim put back into place, but hopefully this will fix the problems.

 

[NewCreation435]

Got my new insulin pump yesterday and started using it today. It is an upgrade

 

[Naiwen]

Happy weekend all! How are you? Today, I’ve just had leftover pizza and lemon iced tea for lunch. Tonight, just relaxing online before rocking myself to sleep.

 

[Lamb]

My husband woke me up at 6am so we could go get coffee LOL oh boy. It was super foggy out and I couldn't see more than 3 feet in front of my car. It took forever to drive our normal 15 minute drive. I got a hot latte and it was supposed to be sugar cookie flavor but tasted plain so I was disappointed.

 

[tango]

Having sprayed some of my foam yesterday I went for a walk. I'd hoped to go for a run but my legs made it very clear that running wasn't an option. I think it was a combination of running the previous day and not drinking enough water, but I set a new personal best time over my 8-mile loop for walking it. I wasn't sure whether I'd still be out at twilight so wore one of my more brightly colored tops so I could be seen easily. As it happened it was twilight before I got home, which meant I got to see some of the Christmas lights around town on roads we very seldom drive.

In the evening we went to the next town to see the Christmas display and then stopped for dinner at one of our favorite local places before they close for a while. I hope they survive the latest round of shutdowns - the fuhrer seems determined to destroy everything in sight at the moment.

Now I'm drinking my coffee and when that's done I'll take the thermal camera to see what difference my foam spraying has made.

 

[tango]

The foam has improved things but not as much as I had hoped. It's clear I have another heat leak and I'm not sure where it's coming from - it seems to be coming from higher than the offending porch beams, but I don't see any obvious way that the cold air is getting into the brickwork. It doesn't help that everything is high enough that my ladder doesn't reach it, and I'm not convinced the porch in question is anywhere near strong enough for me to stand on it to work from there.

It's possible I'll need to get myself a bigger ladder. This is where it would be really useful to own a cherry-picker, I just don't have anywhere obvious to park it for the 99% of its life it would be sitting unused....

 

[Naiwen]

Yo sup there! How are ye all doing today? Today, I’ve just had leftover pizza with lemon iced tea again for lunch. Tonight, just playing some games on my phone before lulling myself to sleep.

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

Getting reading for Divine Service for Gaudete Sunday. A large dose of coffee and four slices of butter toast for breakfast.

 

[Lamb]

Finished breakfast and will soon go for my walk since it's warm and sunny out this morning. Can't view the church service until someone posts it online later.

 

[tango]

Hoping the fog lifts. If it does my wife and I are going for a walk in the mountains to one of my favorite vistas. If it doesn't we might take a gentler walk in the woods, without quite so much elevation gain. It's been a while since I got to the vista and I'm hoping to get a last trip to it before the weather starts to get cold. But failing that I'd take a walk in the woods in general.

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

Getting reading for Divine Service for Gaudete Sunday. A large dose of coffee and four slices of butter toast for breakfast.

Well, the sermon was actually about our spiritual wilderness experiences and everything that St. John the Baptist said that he was not. I also gained a bit of an education about young St. Lucy in the second century. I thought I'd just come home after services to rest up a little before I go in to work tonight. All the same, I was gifted by God today with both Holy Absolution and Our Lord's Body and Blood in and under the Bread and Wine of the Sacrament of Holy Communion. A beautiful liturgy.

 

[tango]

We got our walk in. I wasn't sure if my wife was going to want to extend the walk to include the vista - it only adds about a mile and a half to the loop but does involve going over some rocky switchbacks. Today her biggest issue was mental perseverance - she's physically strong enough to take the trail in her stride but sometimes struggles with just keeping going. My biggest issue was trying to avoid getting cold while waiting for her to catch up on the rocky sections. Managing body heat can be tricky, with a walk that starts with nearly three miles of relentless uphill, then a chunk of slow downhill picking over rocks on the north face of the mountain, then another climb, then a three mile long descent.

It was a good walk although the view from the vista wasn't anywhere near as pleasing as it is on a sunny day when the leaves are in full color.

 

[Naiwen]

Howdy morning all! How’s it going so far with your day? Today, I’ve just had my usual weekly 3 hours therapy session both online and by phone. Tonight, I’m indeed really way too exhausted to do anything else but rest in bed before hitting the pillow.

 

[Lamb]

It's raining and my daughter is supposed to be driving here this morning so we can put up the Christmas tree and bake. She was supposed to be here last night but had hurt her shoulder...so I hope she's okay to drive.