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Sinhgad Academy of Engineering
Sinhgad Academy of Engineering
Thakare A.,Sinhgad Academy of Engineering |
Patil K.,Sinhgad Academy of Engineering
1st IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Intelligent Control and Energy Systems, ICPEICES 2016 | Year: 2016
Cooperative Beamforming is a flourishing technique to resolve many issues related to Cognitive Radio Networks. One of them is to overcome the problems caused by failure of several nodes in a network. In case of node failures, the optional paths are selected instead of intended paths which may cause additional delay. This work suggests a route conservation protocol with minimal changes in a basic routing protocol. In the aid of Cooperative Beamforming, fellow nodes try to blend in with cooperative environment to prevent transmission at primary receiver. The key purpose is to increase the quantity of nodes used in cooperative beamforming. Several simulations are carried out in NS2. The reliability of proposed protocol can be determined in terms of throughput, PDR(Packet Delivery Ratio) and end-to-end delay, by accomplishing minimal rate. The manipulation of proposed protocol in combination with other available routing protocols is easily possible. © 2016 IEEE.
Yadav A.,Sinhgad Academy of Engineering |
Rathod S.B.,Sinhgad Academy of Engineering
Proceedings - 2nd International Conference on Computing, Communication, Control and Automation, ICCUBEA 2016 | Year: 2016
Scheduling of task and resources using an efficient task scheduling algorithm improvise the efficiency and throughput of the cloud server. Scheduling in cloud is based on selection of best suitable resources for task execution, by considering various QoS parameters. Priority based task scheduling by mapping conflict-free resources and workload in cloud computing environment is the proposed scheduling method in this paper. This will result in conflict-free resource allocation to the task based on priority and a balanced workload scheduling. In this technique task scheduler and resource scheduler will work co-ordinately to achieve the desired throughput with the minimum response time. The main objective of this paper is to have maximum utilization on client and server side accessing the cloud environment.
Wadhai V.M.,Sinhgad Academy of Engineering
Proceedings of 2017 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control, ISCO 2017 | Year: 2017
Mobile healthcare systems have great potential for continuous monitoring. These devices are often battery operated. Thus energy management in these wearable, wireless devices is a big challenge for longer durations. In this paper a systematic review of various techniques suggested in literature for energy efficiency and management in such wireless devices is presented. Various research efforts made to optimize the power of wearable, wireless devices at system level, algorithm level and circuit level have been presented. It is followed by energy harvesting technology and wireless power transfer technology useful for energy management in wearable devices. © 2017 IEEE.
Potgantwar A.D.,Sandip Institute of Technology and Research Center |
Wadhai V.,Sinhgad Academy of Engineering
Procedia Computer Science | Year: 2016
The broad usage of mobiles or tablets as handheld devices has lead to various inventive applications & services which are making their existence felt in daily life. One such application is location tracking in indoor environments. This research will present a real time portable RFID indoor positioning device i.e. for smart phones. To interpret the unknown locations the application will rely on WLANs, exploit Received Signal Strength (RSS) values from neighboring Access Points (AP) that are constantly monitored by the mobile devices, RFID and directional antenna. The broadcasted energy can be used effectively by triggering the antenna to radiate in preference to different directions in which tags are most likely to be found. The idea is to make use of directional antenna which will effect in low power consumption and higher accuracy rate. To issue higher reliability in the process of navigation a method will be proposed to calculate the Quality of Positioning which will provide accurate target locations. Accuracy, precision, efficiency, Environmental factors and Energy Consumption has been taken into study by performing experiments under several conditions to demonstrate effectiveness of the proposed model. © 2016 The Authors.
Wadhai V.M.,Sinhgad Academy of Engineering
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Information Processing, ICIP 2015 | Year: 2015
mHealth is a growing concept across the globe. This is due to mobile access becoming more ubiquitous than the healthcare access in urban as well as rural areas. mHealth makes use of mobile communication technology for broad range of healthcare applications. It includes health information delivery, remote health monitoring of the patient, remote diagnosis and even remote treatment of the patients. There is a huge scope for using mobile communication technology for the development and deployment of innovative healthcare products and services. This paper presents introduction to mHealth concept. It further highlights various considerations for long term health monitoring as one of the major application area of mHealth. To demonstrate the concept, a prototype system for long term ECG monitoring is proposed. The system comprises of a 3 lead ECG device with microcontroller and Bluetooth connectivity. An Android based mobile application has been used to display wirelessly received ECG data in the form of ECG Wave. © 2015 IEEE.
Sharma S.,Sinhgad Academy of Engineering |
Borse R.,Sinhgad Academy of Engineering
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing | Year: 2016
The responsibility of controlling and managing the plant growth from early stage to mature harvest stage involves monitoring and identification of plant diseases, controlled irrigation and controlled use of fertilizers and pesticides. The proposed work explores the technology of wireless sensors for remote real time monitoring of vital farm parameters like humidity, environmental temperature and moisture content of the soil. We also employ the technique of image processing for vision based automatic disease detection on plant leaves. Thus this paper vigorously describes the design and construction of an autonomous mobile robot featuring plant disease detection, growth monitoring and spraying mechanism for pesticide, fertilizer and water to apply in agriculture or plant nursery. To realize this work we provide a compact, portable and a well founded platform that can survey the farmland automatically and also can identify disease and can examine the growth of the plant and accordingly spray pesticide, fertilizer and water to the plant. This approach will help farmers make right decisions by providing realtime information about the plant and it's environment using fundamental principles of Internet, Sensor's technology and Image processing. © Springer International Publishing AG 2016.
Ghatule M.P.,Sinhgad Academy of Engineering
2015 International Conference on Pervasive Computing: Advance Communication Technology and Application for Society, ICPC 2015 | Year: 2015
With the rapid spread of radio communication network including cellular phone, Radar Communication System, Navigation, Internet Communication Satellite communication etc., the ANTENNA is basic device which is used in all communication systems. Its proper design is essential to run those systems effectively and gainfully. Conspicuously wide antennas for various transmitting and receiving stations installed on steel towers, suburbs and on the roofs of the buildings and tops of the electrical poles and towers in the city and also in rural area. Thus antenna is the backbone of the any radio wave and microwave communication system. The antenna is usually lightweight, low cost, easily machinable electrically good conductor device. It is mainly divided into two groups (1) External antenna and (2) Internal antenna. External antenna is large in size, material cost is also high and in practice it has more radiation losses. It can be reduced by modern design techniques but its shape and size again incorporates a major problem while interface with the communication devices. However, internal antenna brought in to practice so that, it is easily interface with the any communication system. Numerous design techniques have been used from many years to design the perfect and proper internal antenna. Thus internal antenna is proven benchmark device used in the wireless communication system. Well-known antenna widely used in this area which is known as MICROSTRIP ANTENNA. This paper mainly focuses on the design of miscrostrip antenna to meet the industrial design problems so that it works properly and precisely. Many more design tools and techniques have been used to getting progressive performance of it. As the operating microwave frequency changes or fixed the designed antenna with respect to derived parameters may not give satisfactorily performance. The skilled or expert designer on his experience does changes in the derived design parameters and complete the task so that perfect fitting of the parameters (Patch width W, Length L substrate density etc. ) resulting increases its performance. Hence it translates the designer's knowledge into correct parameter setting. The paper describes proposed work to design and develop a Microstrip Antenna employing conventional mathematical model design which acquires constant environmental conditions for propagation of microwave. In this paper Fuzzy logic technique is effectively used to design and development of miscrostrip antenna which is based on the fuzzy set theory. Also it is proposed to develop Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) on the basis of expert design knowledge and experience. Finally test performance of the conventional design of microstrip antenna and fuzzy based design antenna has been compared. To avoid computational complications it is proposed to use the computer with MATLAB software. It is also proposed that designed microstrip antenna properly interfaced and then it will be tested for performance. Unique computer program also (source code) developed which is useful to fast and easy computation work. In actual practice of this work, Patch length L and width W is taken as input variables and frequency as output variable in the FIS. This paper concludes that fuzzy based design and developed technique is found to be most suitable for betterment of miscrostrip antenna. © 2015 IEEE.
Kemalkar A.K.,Sinhgad Academy of Engineering |
Bairagi V.K.,Sinhgad Academy of Engineering
2013 IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends in Computing, Communication and Nanotechnology, ICE-CCN 2013 | Year: 2013
This paper presents a no-reference image quality assessment, targeted towards blur distortions based on the study of human blur perception for varying contrast values. A probabilistic framework is developed based on the sensitivity of human blur perception at different contrasts. Utilizing this framework, the probability of detecting blur at each edge in an image is estimated. The blur perception information at each edge is then pooled over the entire image to obtain a final quality score by evaluating the cumulative probability of blur detection. Proposed metric is able to predict relative amount of blurriness in images. Higher metric value represent less blurred image. Results are provided to illustrate the performance of proposed metric. Performance of proposed metric is compared with existing no reference image quality metric for various publically available image databases. © 2013 IEEE.
Bairagi V.K.,Sinhgad Academy of Engineering |
Sapkal A.M.,College of Engineering, Pune
IET Science, Measurement and Technology | Year: 2012
Many classes of images contains spatial regions which are more important than other regions. Compression methods which are capable of delivering higher reconstruction quality are attractive in this situation for the important parts. For the medical images, only a small portion of the image might be diagnostically useful, but the cost of a wrong interpretation is high. Hence, Region Based Coding (RBC) technique is significant for medical image compression and transmission. Lossless compression in these 'regions' and lossy compression for rest of image can helps to achieve high efficiency and performance in telemedicine applications. This paper proposes an automated, efficient and low complexity, lossless, scalable RBC for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) images. The advantages of RBC are exploited in this paper, segmenting the region into various regions of importance and subjecting varying bit-rates for optimal performance. Moreover, the combined effects of Integer Wavelet Transform (IWT) and bit-rate limiting compression technique for lesser important regions helps reconstruct the image, reversibly, up to a desired quality. The overall compression thus reaches a satisfactory level to be able to safely transmit the image in limited bandwidth over a telemedicine network and reconstruct diagnostic details for treatment, most faithfully. © 2012 The Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Dhakate M.,Sinhgad Academy of Engineering |
Ingole A.B.,Sinhgad Academy of Engineering
2015 5th National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics, NCVPRIPG 2015 | Year: 2015
Pomegranate is a fruit which grows with a very high yield in many states of India and one of the most profits gaining fruit in the market. But due to various conditions, the plants are infected by various diseases which destroy the entire crop leaving very less product yield. So, the work proposes an image processing and neural network methods to deal with the main issues of phytopathology i.e. disease detection and classification. The Pomegranate fruit as well as the leaves are affected by various diseases caused by fungus, bacteria and the climatic conditions. These diseases are like Bacterial Blight, Fruit Spot, Fruit rot and Leaf spot. The system uses some images for training, some for testing purpose and so on. The color images are pre-processed and undergo k-means clustering segmentation. The texture features are extracted using GLCM method, and given to the artificial neural network. The overall accuracy of this method is 90%. The results are proved to be accurate and satisfactory in contrast to manual grading and hopefully take a strong rise in establishing itself in the market as one of the most efficient process. © 2015 IEEE.


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YEAH!! It's finally out!! Jaz is on the cover of Go Gilbert magazine!! I was quite impressed with the article they did about her! It's 4 pages all about Jaz and dog training. (starting on page 32) To read it, go to http://www.gogilbert.com/
And I LOVE these pictures they took!! (ESPECIALLY the one above!) That one is my favorite! I laughed when I saw the 2nd photo below (taken outside). Jaz had gotten a drink of water, and the bottom of her right ear is wet! And although I think the red bows are adorable, Jaz has already lost one of them. So now-a-days, she's sporting a hot pink bandanna. :D


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Sunday, July 10, 2011
A short update
**Pics from the past week will follow sometime this week.**
3 comments:
- Nicole on July 11, 2011 at 12:56 AM said...
I'm so glad he's doing well! Hudson got his tube at 5 months old and still can't tolerate bolus feeds. Hang in there Amber, you're doing a great job :)
- Kyla on July 11, 2011 at 10:23 AM said...
I'm glad he's doing well!! Everyone tolerates things a little differently, so it takes some time and some tweaking to find a good balance...but sounds like it is working! :)
- Heidi on July 12, 2011 at 4:27 AM said...
OH NO, I didnt read about the Gtube popping out! Well thats exactly what happened the first week Jack came home with his. I was sitting in the ER waiting area nursing him, knowing full well that it was all pouring out of his stoma! poor kid, I was willing to do anything to comfort him right then! lad it was an easy placement.
Jack still cant handle boluses either, 6 yrs later :( So we have the pump and its keeping him alive just fine.
HUGS and always prayers for your sweet boy. He really has done so well with all this, WTG Nate!
Heidi & Jack.


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April 29, 2017 at Rawhide
Join over 500 of your fellow neighbors for an evening of fun. The Festival of Lights Winetasting Festival has become Ahwatukee's signature event for adults held each Spring! Join us in April 2018, at Rawhide for this fun night out.
We'll have more than wine and beer to taste on April 29, 2017!


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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Hey Chica!!
I try and participate in my Friend Deborah's Card Chain Challenge every chance I get....This month I had the time and my card went to Heather Maria in Ireland! The color scheme this month was one that is a little difficult for me...I usually am not a Fall color person but I made it work using the Hero Arts Chick that I just Love!
Here is the card I sent to Heather.....
Jane Bejio's Fab Handmade Buttons!!
Hope You have a great day and Thanks for stopping by.....
It is so fun to participate in the CCC and get mail from all over the world!!
10 comments:
- Tiffany said...
You do wonders with this little chick no matter what color scheme is chosen, very cute!
- September 22, 2010 at 5:26:00 PM PDT
- Lin said...
SO cute, Kelly, that flower reminds me of a shower cap, with her towel tied around her waist! Great job with the colors!
- September 22, 2010 at 6:45:00 PM PDT
- Barb said...
Just so darn cute!
- September 22, 2010 at 8:20:00 PM PDT
- Dawn said...
so darn cute Kelly.... a real " Kelly" card for Heather Maria.
- September 22, 2010 at 10:04:00 PM PDT
- Jane said...
Stinkin CUTE!!
- September 22, 2010 at 10:22:00 PM PDT
- Alice Wertz said...
too cute!! love it, girl!
- September 23, 2010 at 2:08:00 AM PDT
- Tasha said...
SO CUTE! Such a fab design
love tasha xx
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- ~amy~ said...
seriously, this is thee cutest, ever!
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- Heather Maria said...
Kelly, thank you so much again for this wonderful, adorable, fall coloured chick card! I love it to bits! Thanks also for the lovely goodies you included!
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- donna mikasa said...
Super cute! Love the "suntanned" chick--I'm sure Heather loved this!
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'The show examines the strange happenings in Hemlock Grove, a fictional town in Pennsylvania. Roman Godfrey, heir to the town's wealthy Godfrey family, befriends the town's newcomer, Peter Rumancek. Recent brutal murders in the town have stirred up rumours, and the two work together to shed light on the case while also hiding their own dark secrets.'
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Remodeling & Writing in Southern California
Every place I've ever lived has been designed for that "average American family," with lots of bedrooms, living room, dining room, family room, etc. The problem was that I was a single person, not an average family. I needed space, but for hobbies, not people. And because I'm over 6'2", bending over to use sinks designed for children was a constant frustration. Over the years, I collected a list of things I would change if I could have my dream house. As I approached retirement, I realized time was running out for that house; it was now or never.
Dreams are not always perfect, however. I could never afford my dream house, a spacious Southern California home overlooking the Pacific Ocean. But I could afford a modest ranch house, with a 20-mile drive to the beach. It was a very long way from perfect, but it had potential.
This blog documents the process of turning that small average house into something that matches my lifestyle. It will be as close to my dream house as I can make it. I'm doing all the work myself to stretch my resources. By not hiring contractors, I can afford high quality materials, and I'll know the job is always done right. The remodeling will be my primary avocation for a few years, even as I try to fit in my writing and other hobbies.
It promises to be an interesting journey, and a challenging one!
Sunday, August 6, 2017
Update . . .
Here's how the concrete removal went. First, sawing up the concrete with a big diamond saw:
And then, breaking up the concrete with a monster jack hammer mounted on a Bobcat:
Which produced a lot of rubble that was loaded into a big dump truck:
And by lunchtime, it was all gone!
I then mounted a big tarp over the work area to provide some shade for my digs:
Meanwhile, I designed the foundation, the stud wall that will go on top (details of which were needed to locate the anchor bolts in the foundation wall), then I designed the forms to be used to pour the concrete. The footings, foundation wall, and form design dictated the depth and size of the trench required. I bought a laser level to make sure the depth was accurate all around the future wall, and then after laying out the dimensions on the ground with string, proceeded to dig (or tried to dig).
I started with a mattock (a type of pick with a flat blade), but that mostly just bounced off the rock-like soil. Then attacked it with my 20-pound electric demolition hammer, using a three-inch wide bit. That cut through the petrified dirt. Here is a photo of my digs:
And a better photo of the trench. The deeper narrower trench (16" wide, and 8+" deep) is for the footings. This lower trench will contain the concrete without the need for separate wooden forms, possible because of the hard ground.
The wooden forms will sit on top of the deeper trench, supported by the wide shelf of the upper trench. The foundation wall will be 24" high and 8" thick. The concrete for both footings and foundation wall will be poured on the same day, with a break to pour the new front porch slab. That will give the footings time to start firming up before filling the foundation wall forms to the top.
So now more digging to do, and forms to build.
Because the heat makes digging difficult, I have started on the less taxing kitchen countertop fabrication project, working on both projects every day. That works well because I can't put my car in the garage until the concrete work is done, and the countertop project fills the garage. The countertop is, again, going to be an epoxy lamination of maple strips. The countertop is 12.5 feet long, and 30" deep. I've just finished building the form on which the gluing will be done (lots of clamps will be required). It's 13 feet long, and needed to be precisely level and flat, so the countertop will emerge from gluing perfectly flat and straight, and therefore fit without issues on the kitchen cabinet. The jig/form looks like this:
So next post will likely feature these two projects.
Sasha, most recently rescued stray:
Saturday, July 1, 2017
Waterbed Base — Part 3
It was a big revelation when I learned that waterbeds were invented in the 19th century by a Scottish doctor to treat bedsore patients. Bedsores (also called compression sores) are no joke. They can quickly develop into open wounds that go down to the bone. They can lead to very serious consequences if not treated properly, and even when treated diligently, they take a very long time to heal (often because the patients are elderly and infirm, with weak immune systems).
Waterbeds were useful in treating bedsores because they distribute support for the body evenly. I took care of my parents during the last few years of their lives. My father had Parkinson's disease, was confined to a wheelchair, and when he was in bed, was unable to shift positions. He developed a bedsore at a point where his spine impinged on a too-hard bed. Although we caught it quickly, and treated it by keeping him rolled to the side when he slept, and applying special gel bandages, it took a year to heal.
I wanted to get him a waterbed to resolve any future pressure sore issues, but he was of a generation that associated waterbeds with hippies, so he steadfastly refused. Got him a cushy pillowtop mattress instead.
Anyway, the modern waterbed was developed and commercialized by three San Francisco State University students over a period of several years, circa 1970. By 1987, 22% of all beds sold were waterbeds. Today, with advances in more conventional mattresses (memory foam, "sleep number," etc.), waterbeds make up less than 5% of beds.
Early waterbeds had simple mattress-shaped vinyl bladders contained by a wood frame. When you moved, you made waves. I had one of those starting in the mid-1970s, and used it for about five years. That type of waterbed came to be called "hardside."
Hardside waterbeds are now available with varying amounts of fiberfill batting inside the mattress, which dampens the movement of water, reducing the waves. You can buy one with as much or as little damping as you like. That is the kind I now have; it has a medium amount of damping — just enough movement of the water to know you're on a waterbed, but no waves.
Hardside waterbeds do not come in "standard" bed sizes. The widths are the same, but the lengths are all 84". Twins, Queens, and Kings are all 84" long, and all prefixed by "California." So if you're tall and have a twin-size waterbed, your feet don't hang over the end, like they would with a regular twin bed. My Queen-sized waterbed size is called "California Queen" — it's 60" wide by 84" long.
There are now more modern waterbeds called "softside." Instead of hard wood sides, their water bladders are surrounded by firm foam (although certainly a lot softer than wood). The water bladder and foam edges are held together in a big fabric envelope or case. These softside waterbeds come in standard sizes, sit on platforms, and use standard fitted sheets. They're also damped, so no waves. More like a regular bed, except with more even support.
The more even support is not only great for preventing bedsores, but it also eliminates cutoff circulation (pressure on a blood vessel), so no tingling or numbness.
And the water in waterbeds is heated. That improves circulation, and any healing that may be needed. And best of all, on those cold winter nights, no sticking your legs down between cold sheets!
But back to the construction of my waterbed base.
In Part 2, the lower (drawer) part of the base was complete, and the outer sides of upper section were attached. The next step was to screw sleepers (or stringers) to the top of the drawers sections to allow for the installation of 1" of rigid foam insulation (to keep the heat in).
Next, another layer of 3/4" plywood was added. This would support the waterbed mattress.
Corner braces were added to connect the outer sides to each other, and lower spacers installed to add strength and separate the outer sides from the inner sides.
Then the upper spacers were glued to the outer sides.
There are outer and inner sides because a single piece of plywood would not be strong enough to stay rigid, and getting in and out of a waterbed requires sitting on the edge — and the edge of a piece of plywood would be nasty! Also, the space between the inner and outer sides is perfect for more foam insulation.
And then the inner sides go on, screwed and glued at the bottom and just glued at the top.
And while I could have left this detail out, I added a wood fillet for a more accommodating edge for the waterbed mattress (doesn't have to squeeze into a sharp corner).
At this stage, I coating all the interior surfaces with epoxy to make it waterproof, even though there is a waterproof liner that goes outside the mattress. And then the 3.5" wide maple tops are attached to the top of the sides. This trim is what I will be sitting on, getting in and out of bed.
Before the liner and the mattress go in, the 300-watt heating pad is positioned, as is the temperature sensor (thermocouple), which both connect to the heater control (thermostat).
Then the liner and mattress go in and a garden hose used to fill the mattress with about 1500 pounds of water (using a special adapter).
And of course, I still have to build the drawers, and attach some maple trim to the far side. I still need a suitable mattress pad and California Queen size sheets before it goes operational, but for now I need to move on to other things.
Other things being — concrete work for the six-foot garage extension and for the new covered front porch. One of my neighbors does beautiful concrete work, and he will be between jobs in a few weeks so I need to do all the prep work for that: hiring someone to cut and remove part of driveway, then digging for footings, and building foundation wall forms, etc.
The kitchen countertop and pottery studio cabinets will have to wait. Sigh.
Sunday, June 11, 2017
Waterbed Base — Part 2
I built the three drawer sections of the base separately in the garage, and then used a hand truck to move them through the front door into the house, down the hall, and then carefully into the master bedroom. This photo shows one of the sections pausing in the foyer.
Once all three sections were lined up in the bedroom, it was time to build the sub-base (which would raise the drawer units 2" off the floor). The sub-base was made from 2x4s ripped to two-inch width, and then assembled into a grid using lap-joints at the corners and biscuit joints for the inner cross pieces. This is how the two joints were made (then glued and screwed together):
Although it was unlikely that I would need to move the base after its initial positioning (and would not be able to do so after the assembly had proceeded very far — very heavy even without the 1500 pounds of water), I decided to glue quarter-inch thick felt to the bottom of the sub-base. This would facilitate any needed sliding, and minimize scratching the bamboo floor.
I then moved the three drawer sections aside and flipped the sub-base over onto the floor, then screwed all of that together. Sometime around then, I started working on the ten drawers, doing some design work and then cutting out 20 drawer sides:
A piece of furniture this big and complex cannot just be built ad hoc; here is a photo of two pages out of at least a half-dozen design drawings. It's of course not necessary to make these pretty and to scale if you're just doing them for yourself, but all the parts need to be there in their proper location, and the dimensions need to be correct and consistent.
Waterbeds are filled with hot water, maintained at a constant temperature with a heating pad that sits underneath the mattress and controlled with a thermostat. If the water was room temperature, you would freeze, as the 70˚ Fahrenheit water would suck the heat out of your body. So hot water (85˚ or whatever you choose) in the mattress. But you don't want to heat the whole house, especially in the summer; you want the heat in the water to stay there, which means insulation.
On the top of the mattress, you can use a comforter or something like that. On the bottom, I am installing one-inch thick rigid foam insulation. The foam will go between several sleepers/stringers, installed on top of the three drawer sections:
Once the foam goes in, another layer of 3/4" plywood goes on top of the foam, which will then support the waterbed mattress. Before that is installed, the outer sides were installed. The plywood sides sit on maple trim pieces installed first — glued, nailed, with aligning biscuits. The outer plywood sides are glued and screwed on.
The maple trim supporting the plywood looks like this:
The plywood sides were supported vertical by temporary brackets until the glue dried:
So I end this post at this stage, with the outer sides in place:
Next the rigid foam will be installed, with 3/4" plywood going in on top of that. The lower drawer sections will get trim that will add another 3/4" to the outside of that lower layer. The upper sides (which will contain the mattress) will ultimately be three inches thick; there will be another 3/4" plywood inner side added, separated by 1.5" spacers. The sides will be capped by 3.5" wide maple, a reasonable width to sit on (hopefully that will work out).
And then of course I need to build the ten side drawers, and the long one on the end. Always the drawers . . .
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Work Resumes — Waterbed Base
My eye pressure is too high now, though, likely due to all the procedures, meaning a risk of developing glaucoma. The intra-ocular pressure was not so high to pose a high risk, but I nevertheless have an appointment next month with a glaucoma specialist to see what's going on. Sigh.
Last post I mentioned there was a bubble of gas in my eye, part of the treatment to press the retina against the underlying tissue to enable it to heal, and it did that during the first week. The bubble remained in my eye, however, for a full six weeks, growing smaller and smaller over that time until it disappeared. While it was in there, always rising to the top of the eye, I could see over it, as long as I was looking straight forward. When I looked down, however, the bubble floated to the back of my eye, and so right in the middle of my field of view. So no clear view of anything through my right eye when I looked down, and that meant — no clear view if I tried to work on anything (measurements, working with tools, etc.). If I closed my right eye, I could see with my left eye clearly, but without any depth perception.
So six weeks of enforced idleness.
And now back to work! Back to work on the base for my waterbed mattress. I mentioned that the base will be built up from a number of assemblies. What I'm working on first are the two drawer sections that will support the 1500-pound mattress. The plywood pieces have all been cut out, and I've been getting the first one ready for assembly, but today discovered I'm out of the required 1 5/8" drywall screws. Since it's been so long without a post, I decided to report on progress now.
Since the drawer bases will support so much weight, I'm building them from 3/4" plywood, and doubling that for the vertical support drawer dividers (so 1.5" thick). Since drawers will only slide in and out smoothly if the dividers are all parallel and vertical, it is important that they be positioned accurately. To do that, I carefully marked out the locations, and then used biscuits to lock them in position while gluing and screwing the cabinet together. Like this:
For the ten drawers to move smoothly, the metal drawer slides also have to be located precisely. That means a jig, to position them consistently the same distance from and parallel to the bottom of the cabinet.
First I screwed the jig to the bottom of the drawer dividers while those were lying on their sides, then held the slide against the jig and drilled holes (starting them with an awl), and screwed the slides to the plywood. You can see one of the screws, not yet driven in all the way.
A pair of drawer slides in position, waiting for its drawer:
Here's the one drawer cabinet assembled, but not yet glued and screwed together. Waiting to buy more drywall screws tomorrow. So what's important is that I installed the drawer slides before assembling the cabinet. The openings for the drawers are pretty small, sized for just one drawer, and deep. Trying to position the slides, precisely drilling the holes for the screws, and screwing them in, would be impossibly awkward if I had to do it after the fact through the small opening (especially the back screw!). I can attest to that from past frustrating experience :-(.
So tomorrow buy more screws and glue it up. Then do the matching drawer unit for the other side of the bed (oh wait, I just ordered the next five pairs of slides, so I'll have to wait on that — so I'll build the center section next). Back in a couple of weeks . . .
Ten-year-old Sophie:
Sunday, April 2, 2017
The Eyes Have It — Work Halts
Something seemed to be off with my right eye vision a few days ago (a Friday), so I began looking for the symptoms of a retinal detachment. Found it after lunch: a very small dark semicircular area (with wavy distortions) intruding from the edge of my field of view. I drove down to the university eye center where my first retinal detachment was fixed, but they were closed for a Caesar Chavez holiday (?). I drove home and finally ended up that evening (8:30 p.m.) at the main university hospital, with my detachment ominously larger. An on-call ophthalmologist confirmed the detachment. She called the on-call eye surgeon and we relocated to the eye center (15 minute drive). The decidedly unpleasant but necessary procedure was finished just before midnight. I drove home with my right eye patched.
The pneumatic cryopexy procedure uses a extremely cold probe to seal up the small tears and holes in the detached retina, which also tacks the retina to the underlying tissue. When that part is done, a special gas is injected into the eye. The resulting bubbles float to the top of the eyeball, and the patient (me) orients himself so that the detached retina is at the top of the eye. The floating gas bubble then holds the retina to the inside of the eye until it bonds together.
My detachment was at the upper right of the eyeball, so that means I have to continuously keep my head upright (front to back), and tilted to the left, for pretty much a week. That includes sleep time, propped up on my sofa with my head appropriately positioned. Not something you would want to do forever, but sure beats blindness. (If left untreated, a detached retina can lead to blindness within a couple of days. The more promptly treated, the better the chances for a good outcome. Nasty business.) Still blurry at this writing.
Which brings me to the point of this post, and its relevance to my house remodel/renovation. Hard to get any work done if you can't freely move your head around. Certainly I can move my head out of position for brief moments, but carpentry is out of the question. There is also the matter that lifting heavy weights is forbidden — your core stiffens and blood pressure spikes, which can do damage to delicate blood vessels in a healing eye.
But before this disaster, I did make some remodel progress. The first was the decision to build the water bed platform next. The base I designed consists of three main parts: 1) a simple 2" base constructed from ripped 2x4s to raise the platform off the floor, 2) a 10" high cabinet section that will contain drawers, and 3) the section that contains the 8" deep water bed mattress.
The plan is to build the center drawer section first. It will be constructed of three sub-sections: two identical drawer sections on each side of the bed, and a third section in between. I had one sheet of 3/4" cabinet-grade plywood on hand, which would be enough for the top and bottom of one of the side sections. I would use the same tongue and dado slot technique that I use for all my cabinets to join the corners. Normally I cut the slots with a dado blade in my table saw, but in this case the dados would have to be made in the ends of a 7.5-foot long piece of plywood. In other words, sideways, and too cumbersome to do on the saw. The slots would be 3/8" wide, and look like this:
I cut these using a router with a template guide and a 1/4" carbide spiral straight bit:
And built a jig with a half-inch wide slot to guide the router. That gives a 3/8" dado. The jig has a piece of plywood with a stop screwed to the bottom, that when pushed up against the end of the plywood, positions the slot correctly.
Worked great! Needed to cut eight slots with it: top and bottom pieces for the two drawer cabinet sections. At this point, I needed lots more plywood. I ordered from Home Depot for delivery, and it arrived Friday morning:
That's enough for the bed and most of the pottery studio cabinets, and also the laundry room table. Alas, an hour later I discovered my new detached retina (a recurring nightmare), so the plywood sits.
I also made a decision about my long-awaited kitchen countertop, which had been planned to be solid surface acrylic, ordered from a contractor. I was ready to make a fourth attempt going the contractor route when I decided to epoxy-laminate my own from maple strips (with a couple of walnut stripes down the middle). I will use low-viscosity West System epoxy (generally used for boat building); it soaks into the wood, stabilizing and water-proofing. I would finally roll on a couple of coats of epoxy on the surface and sand to a nice satin finish. We'll see how that goes . . .
But first, need my vision back.
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Hall Bamboo Floor — Part 2
If you recall, tearing up the tile in the hallway left a lot of tenacious areas of mortar stuck to the concrete floor. And at the far end, which had originally been part of the garage, I discovered that the concrete slab was especially torn up (like a little mountain range, much of it a half-inch too low, along with some peaks too high).
At the end of the last post, I had erected a plastic "tent" to contain the clouds of dust produced by my diamond grinder, with the hopes of sending the dust down the hall to the air handler to be filtered.
Didn't work, so I found a shroud on amazon that clamped around the grinding cup and connected to my shop vacuum. Had to wait a week or so before that came. In the interim, I went up and down the hall attacking small bits of the excess mortar with a cold chisel and hammer. Did that a number of times over the weeks. The shroud came and looked like this from the top and from the bottom:
It initially did not fit my grinder (had to use a hack saw and file), and vacuum hose did not fit either (used duct tape and small wood splints). The rubber hose adapter also would pull out as I moved the grinder around (with predictable consequences), so I held the grinder with one hand and held the hose in place with the other. I would not want to use it that way regularly, but for this one job, it was manageable, and it did substantially reduce the amount of dust escaping into the house.
I went down the hall and ground off the offending blobs of mortar, and then went back with a straight edge checking for flatness. The slab was mostly flat, but there were a couple of areas with high areas. I marked those places with a Sharpie, and then went back over those with my grinder.
Then repeated this process again (and again). Not a lot of fun, and the weather was great outside, so on one grocery store run, I made a small detour to the dog beach. (the big perk of living in Southern California — 82˚ that early March day at my house, upper 60s at the beach).
And then back to the grind (literally).
For the low rough area at the end of the hallway, I mixed some floor leveler. I didn't measure the amount, and just added water until the viscosity seemed right (I had used it in the laundry room), and poured the bucket of leveler into the low area. Pretty reckless of me. Then used a 24" float to spread it out, and it leveled itself, and amazingly, it almost exactly came up to the right level. There was just one part (under the 2x4, where I did not "help" it to level) that ended up slightly high. I ground that down. Pure luck it didn't turn out to be a disaster.
I made one last check of the floor's flatness, using my fingers to feel for bumps and the cold chisel and hammer to remove any small bumps. Then came the underlayment — a 2 millimeter thick insulation/cushion/moisture barrier. The work of fitting the bamboo planks along the edge of the hallway was very fussy and time consuming. That was not too critical along the walls where the edge would be covered by baseboard, but it took time to match the edge of the bamboo with the tile areas (foyer, kitchen, and laundry room). I used a clear silicone to secure the bamboo to the aluminum tile edging.
The planks in the whole middle area of the hallway went down very quickly. At the doorway to the bedroom, which already had bamboo installed, I used a special bamboo transition piece, here shown upside down:
The piece installed:
The next photo shows what the installation looks like at the kitchen entrance. The baseboard has been installed but not caulked yet, and nail holes not yet filled, nor paint touched up. (Need to move on to something else for awhile before coming back to the final details.)
The last photo looking down the completed hallway:
Thinking about the waterbed base or the kitchen countertop next, or maybe some work outside . . .


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Many may know Houston as an oil and gas industrial place. However, Houston is, also, a port city that has two large medical centers. So, plenty of work, right?! What is there to do for fun? Whether you are there for a business conference, a weekend visit, or a full relocation to live and work, there are plenty of places to go without spending too much of that hard earned money! There is so much to do that I will include more places in upcoming blogs! But, I will work my way from the city center of downtown to out and about an hour or so drive. The drive is so worth it!! (Also, I posted the links to each place at the end of the blog to make it easier to find out more about them.)
The view of Houston's downtown from above is great! You get to see the penthouse pool of a building nearby. You can see the aquarium with all the amusement rides. A miniature replica of the outdoor sculpture seen in the front plaza sits in the center of the lobby along with a story about it.
2. Downtown Aquarium! Where? Downtown. Cost? $8.99 (children) $11.99 (adults)
A great way to spend a date night. Or, take the whole family. Visit sea life up close and learn more about the native wildlife near Houston such as from the bayous and gulf coast ocean. For only $5 more you can touch and feed the sting rays. My husband and I fed the sting rays. It was a fun experience.
Are you done with the indoors? Go outside and play! The aquarium has several amusement rides including a large Ferris wheel. It gives a grand view of downtown Houston. Also, get a bird's eye view of the highways without the worries of driving them! It gives a new perspective of them too.
3. Downtown Underground Tunnels! Where? Downtown. Cost? Free.
Alright, enough of the above ground fun. Let's take y'all underground. Yes, you read that right. Houston's best kept secret is underneath the downtown area. Bring out your inner adventure explorer while keeping cool in the Texas heat! Sure beats a gym membership. There are restaurants, shopping, and connections to downtown sights such as the Chase building.
My brother and I discovered this when he came to visit us in Houston. We went downtown and soon became confused that we didn't see anyone in a major U.S. metro city on a weekday! I know the heat can be a bit much, but… Finally, we saw a few folks. My brother asked a young woman where everyone went as the downtown seemed empty for a weekday. She replied simply for us to follow her. As we arrived to a building entrance, she explained that everyone was down below and we needed to take the stairs. Down below? We followed her lead down an escalator. Boom! There was such a hustle and bustle. Folks everywhere! The aroma of food. The sounds of conversations. Oh and it was nice and cool too.
4. Hermann Park Where? Just South of Downtown near Rice University and the zoo. Cost? Free.
This one my husband and I discovered when looking for another new place to walk our dog. This park is very dog friendly! It is a large park with joggers, sports teams, and outdoor theatre and music performances. One night we sat outside with our dog Charlie to enjoy live music. Another night we watched a dress rehearsal for a theatre production. Also, ever been to cities where you can not find a public restroom anywhere? Not a problem here. Plenty of clean public restrooms. It can be the small things in life that make or break a place.
5. Galleria Shopping. Where? Downtown. Cost? Depends if you are buying or window shopping. Parking is free.
The Galleria is one of the downtown spots that are accessible through the underground tunnels. But, if you are out and about and decide to drive there, the parking is free as well. Parking is underground so you can avoid coming back to an oven heated car! You can spend the day visiting an art gallery or trying out a luxury car. My brother and I went into an art gallery to learn more about the artists behind each piece. Then, we went into a store where they had an actual floor model of a Tesla. It was nice to try a car without the pressure of a dealership or crowd of a car show.
6. Buffalo Bayou Park. Where? 15-20 minutes East of Downtown. Cost? Free.
Buffalo Bayou Park is another great place to walk the dog, walk with friends, play sports with family, and just enjoy the tranquility of the bayou. Also, the night view of downtown is a local's treasure. Our view was located in the Greater East End of Houston. Yes, that is the name of the neighborhood!
7. NASA Space Center Where? 30-35 minutes Southeast of Downtown. Cost? $29.95
Do you want an out of this world experience? Go check out the NASA Space Center located just Southeast of Houston in Webster! You get to sit in the control center. Yeah the one y'all see in the movies. Then, you see the Saturn V up close. This space craft will make you feel petite.
8. San Jacinto Monument. Where? 30-35 minutes East of Downtown Houston. Cost? Free.
Do you admire large battleships? Do you crave seeing one in person? Do you like learning more about history? Do you like relaxing outdoors? This is the place for you! The San Jacinto Battleship is docked as though still ready to go back out to the sea. Across the road stands the San Jacinto Monument where you can read more about the battle. Also, there is a vast dog friendly park area. Yes, we take our dog to as many places as possible! He gets much needed exercise while we get our much needed adventures.
9. Galveston Beach. Where? About 1 hour Southeast of Downtown Houston. Cost? Free. Free entry! Free parking!
Enjoy the warm gulf water at Galveston Beach. There is a pier with amusement rides along with good eats along the main street that runs along the beach. Also, it is a great place for a house sightseeing drive. Then, you can park right on the sand! Free. Take your children and dogs to play by the beach. Galveston Beach is a great place to see natural sea animals from starfish to sting rays. We even watched as a guy put a lost string ray back in the water. Charlie loved running along the beach with my husband! Even the seagulls enjoy the free parking!!
10. Galveston Ferry. Where? Northeast of the beach. Cost? Free. Dog friendly.
Oh yeah, done with the beach for the day? Catch the sunset on the water! Galveston has a free ferry that you can drive onto and be taken to the next port to go home.
11. Kemah Beach. Where? Cost? Free. Dog friendly.
The Houston area boasts of another beach area – Kemah. Do you enjoy sailboats? Look no further! Kemah has beautiful sailing water. Visit Kemah center to see the vintage police car too. Fun for the kids! While there, grab some fresh delicious seafood.
Links to learn more!
Chase Building formerly Texas Commerce Center – http://www.chasetower.com/building.php?sect=1
Houston Aquarium – http://www.aquariumrestaurants.com/downtownaquariumhouston/default.asp
Downtown Underground Tunnel Walkway – https://www.downtownhouston.org/district/downtown-tunnels/
Hermann Park – http://www.hermannpark.org/visit/hours-and-directions/
Galleria – http://www.simon.com/mall/the-galleria/about
Buffalo Bayou – http://buffalobayou.org/?gclid=CPfn7PCowNMCFU64wAodfAwHow
San Jacinto – http://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/battleship-texas
NASA – https://spacecenter.org/
Galveston Beach – http://www.galveston.com/beachparks/
Galveston Ferry – http://www.galveston.com/galvestonferry/
Kemah – http://www.kemah-tx.gov/
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Tough teen crossing to independent young woman,
Angst crossing to forgiveness,
Girl crossing to woman,
Late night studies crossing to graduation,
Poverty crossing to professional,
Struggle crossing to support,
Follower crossing to leader,
Health crossing to illness,
Homebody crossing to traveler,
Native crossing to immigrant,
Illness crossing to realization,
Professional crossing to entrepreneur,
Leader crossing to inspirer,
Do you know her? She is you. She is crossing new paths every day. Whatever choice she makes, to live her life is the most important choice of all.
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Zest for life today as tomorrow is not a guarantee.
What is that one thing you have to do in your life that you keep putting off for whatever reason?
Make it happen!
Focus on it and figure out your own path.
Make it personal because it is.
Those are not access or frontage roads along the highways. They are called feeder roads. They don't all follow along the entire highway either…so if you are trying to avoid the highways, better learn no such thing as shortcuts. You will be going the long way.
As if that is not enough, they have towering overpasses with highways everywhere. So, if you get a bit confused about where you are going and what lane you should be in. You are not alone! 2 or more in the car? Take the HOV lane. It is a breeze!
Speed bumps? No ma'am, those are speed humps. They are everywhere. They are massive! When you drive here you will understand why we all are doing the bobble head.
Oh yeah I did say 'no ma'am'. You will not hear 'yes, miss or no, miss'. You may feel a bit older when you arrive here.
Houston – downtown in the summer – where is everybody? Did the heat scare them off?! No, they are likely wandering underground in the tunnels under the city. It is like a second city with shopping, restaurants, and walkways to explore!! The Galleria has underground parking as well.
Southeast Texas from Houston to San Antonio – free air shows nearly every day – between all of the Air Force bases and the large international airports. Even the local wildlife is ready to be air borne!
Oh yeah, Texas is broken down into regions. One region is Southeast Texas that includes Austin, Houston, San Antonio, and the gulf beach cities. Each city is unique.
Heat – Texas has all different kinds of heat for ya! It is not uncommon to hit triple digits in the summertime. Houston – is hot and humid – very sticky sweaty heat. Kind of like stepping out of a hot steamy shower and into an oven. Never tried that? Well, lucky you! San Antonio – is a dry heat with some breezes that feel cool. Shade and A/C will become your new best friends! Lucky for us San Antonio has plenty of large shade trees.
Cold – Days and Nights in 'winter'. Yes, you will feel that 20 degree drop in the temperature soon after the suns sets for the evening. Yes, you will have a blanket. Yes, your Midwest friends back home will be like What?!
Winter – I still laugh at that coming from Chicago!! Winter? No, no snow except a dusting in Dallas.
Southeast Texas has another season – rain season! The thunderstorms are terrifying with tremendous lightening displays. When first arriving to Houston, it may a good idea to trade in your car for a boat. Be sure to get a real pair of rain boots and a raincoat along with that oversize umbrella. "Texas is like a desert" they all told me back home. Ha ha, no.
Oh yeah! When it is raining in Houston, do NOT drive. Just don't. Find an indoor project to occupy your time. Or, you can take the bayou.
No, not everything is bigger in Texas. That is just fine in some cases. Such as with the fire ants and wasps.
Ants – they are red hot and pack a nasty bite! Oh look an ant walking over my toes so tiny! No, do not be fooled by their size. Get it off ASAP!!
Wasps – they are also red hot and come with a nasty sting. You will likely swell up. No, not with pride, but with plenty of pain.
You will see owls on many businesses and homes. No, they are not real. Folks put them up to scare off the noisy, messy grackle birds. There are plenty of sounds of nature such as the grackles. They hang out at the HEB stores. You cannot miss them. They are loud and carry on full conversations all day and all night. They watch your every move with a deep soul stare. You have to see them for yourself…
Oh yeah, H E B is a large grocery store chain in Texas based in San Antonio.
Buc-ees – what is it with all these beaver bumper stickers? Have to admit it is adorable though. You will not see a gas station bigger than these gas stations!
Preparing for the trip – write a list!!
It is easy to forget something and be halfway to a destination to realize, 'Oh no! We left that on the table or hanging up on the door hook!!'
Cats & Dogs
Vaccinations & Vet Documents – We make sure that each of our pets are up to date on their vaccinations before our trip. We, also, get health certificates for them from our family veterinarian. This helps ensure that we have no issues when entering through the border into Mexico and on our return trip to the states. We carry their veterinary records folder that has their medical history and photos/description. This is just in case they need veterinary care in Mexico during our stay. It is helpful during an emergency to simply pull out the dates of prior visits and medical conditions.
Medicine – We bring calamine lotion and allergy tablets (recommended by our veterinarian) in case of insect bites or stings.
Food – We bring enough food for the stateside part of our trip in a sealed plastic container. This keeps out pests. The food we expect to need during our stay in Mexico remains in the original sealed package from the manufacturer. Basically, we load it into the car as it was from the store.
Water – We bring a good amount of filtered water in containers. Just as we need water so do our pets.
Litter & Supplies – We take litter to use at our destination, litter scoop, travel size litter pan, and pet pee pads. (More about the absorbent pads below in the During the Trip section.)
Travel Safety & Comfort – We bring;
Carrier for the cats – We have more than one cat and our little guys get along well. We have a carrier large enough for them to travel together. This helps them to stay more calm. We simply use a carrier that we originally bought for our dog, Charlie, when he was a puppy. He grew up to be a bit larger than we expected, so we kept it for the cats. Enrique modified it a bit. He cut a piece of plywood to about half of the length of the carrier and placed it between the top and bottom halves of the carrier. Then, we added a pillow and blanket. This gives both senior felines plenty of space and comfort on the second level while also providing space for a small litter box on the first level. (During our first drive to Mexico, we found one of the cats sleeping in the litter box. Not good for him and he smelled like pee. Hence our carrier modification.)
Portable carrier for the cats – We have two soft portable carriers for the cats.
Blankets – We do not use clean blankets rather we opt for 1-2 day old blankets that have the scent of home. Charlie even gets pillows for extra comfort. They, also, minimize the vibrations he feels from the road and helps him to relax more.
Toys – Again we do this so they have the scent of home. Also, they have their favorite toys to play with when we arrive to our destination.
Harness for the dog that works with seat belts – This is important for sudden stops or when driving over a hidden tope (Mexican speed bump) in the middle of a highway.
Leash – One of the essentials. This is good to have handy for potty stops along the way.
Household Cleaners – baking soda, vinegar/water mixture in a spray bottle and/or Lysol disinfectant spray, our favorite air freshener Febreeze, and paper towels.
Leaving for the trip – Today is the Day!!!
We give everyone a light breakfast and some water.
Dogs – We take Charlie out for a pee and poo walk when we first get up and right before we leave out on our road trip.
Cats – We load our suitcases and personal items first to give the cats time to use the potty too.
Getting everyone in the car! We put the cat's car carrier in the car with the door facing toward the car door – this helps on the road when removing the litter box for cleaning. We place the travel size litter box with absorbent pad in the carrier. We, then, bring them to the carrier in their portable carriers (car carrier is heavy with them in it). Then, we tell Charlie it is time for 'Up and In'. He happily jumps into the car!
Finally, we Double Check that we have everything – go down the list(s). Our passports and supplies, suitcases, personal care items, and the pet list.
During the trip – Yay on the Road Again!!!!
When we stop to gas up or use the restroom, we take Charlie out to pee/poo and check the litter pan for clean ups. We carefully open the carrier door to ensure that the cats do not get out. While opening the door we give the cats food and water to keep their attention on that. Then, we remove and replace the litter pan as they eat their food.
We realized that instead of litter which can get stinky with urine – one of worst odors ever in a small space like the car! – that we could try an absorbent pee pad that we can throw away and replace with a clean one. Dog training pads will work. We used what we already had and it worked wonders!! The pads have less odor than litter. We simply remove the pad, spray the pan with our cleaner, wipe it down, and replace with a new pad.
Weather permitting we leave the windows open to keep fresh air flow in the car!
Arriving at your destination – Whew Done with the Drive!!!!
When we arrive we take the cats out of the carrier in their portable carriers.
The dog helps us carry in our suitcases. No, not really but he does walk along with us. This gives him stretch and unwind time after a long drive.
We set up the cat's litter box(es), give them food and water, and let them out to explore.
Then, we take the dog out for his evening walk.
Finally, we eat, drink, and rest. Then, we enjoy our stay! We hope that you do too!!
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Los Lunas Youth Basketball League Gym Request Procedures
The league shall secure facilities for game days, drafts and clinics utilizing the online facility request system. All coaches will have to secure a practice facility utilizing the online facility request system. They will need to request access to request online facility requests and will have to name the organization, their name and the age group of their players. for example: YAFL John Smith 4 & 5 grades. This year we will be placing certain grades level in the appropriate gym size. For example: grades k-5th grades will only be allowed you use the smaller gyms. No alcohol or illegal drugs shall be allowed on premises at anytime and there shall be no smoking with in any school property. Facilities that are in use shall be cleaned immediately upon termination of activity. Failure to do so may result in termination of any future use of the facilities at the discretion of the site manager and Director of Maintenance and Construction.The responsible person or designee shall be present when facilities are opened and shall supervise everyone in the gym at all times and shall be responsible for securing the facility upon departure.Except as specifically permitted by the site manager, there shall be no access to, or use of school telephones, copiers or other school district equipment. All school planned educational events i.e. (science fairs, assemblies, etc.) will take precedence above all applications for facility use. Facilities shall be inspected before each event, practice, etc. by the person responsible. Any damage shall be reported to a league board member and board member will report to the Director of Maintenance and Construction. Any damage done to school property during the term of applicant's use of school facilities shall be paid for by the applicant upon submission of a bill from the Los Lunas Schools. Los Lunas Schools shall have the sole right to determine the extent and value of such damages. If no school district employee or league board member can be scheduled to open and close the facility, the event shall not be scheduled. No food or drinks are allowed in any gymnasiums and other areas specified by the site manager.Coaches the (How to request gym access) link below is only used to get yourself an account through School Dude, Andy Garcia at Los Lunas Schools. When you get to the section showing organization name please fill out as such: LLYBL your first name and last name then what grade level you are coaching. look at the example below. Organization Name: LLYBL John Doe 6/7/8Once you get an email back from school dude Andy Garcia stating you have been approved then use the (How to login once approved gym access) link below to login to your account and request your gym. Once you are logged into your account you will need to keep in mind the grade level you are coaching to match the gym. For example: If you are coaching 6/7/8 the gyms you will want to match are Los Lunas Middle School, Valencia Middle School or Century High School. The max time allowed for practices are 1 hour and 30 minutes. only one practice per week. Please keep this in mind because you will be denied if you attempt to schedule more time or more than one practice per week. Make sure you pay close attention when you schedule your times for practice most schools won't allow anything past 9pm. Think of the grade level you are coaching when scheduling your practices. Please use the two links below to request for your gym access for the 2017-2018 basketball season. If you have any questions please contact your divisional coordinator.
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Thursdays are my favorite day of the week to go to the Howdy Farm because we get to just sit on the porch at the farm and sale veggies to the community all afternoon. It's great to see all the people who come on out to the farm, and the support we get from the community is amazing. This past Thursday we had over a hundred heads of lettuce to sale. Our romaine lettuce was a huge hit, with the butterhead and bronze beauty varieties not being too far behind.
On Wednesday the majority of our field was full of huge, beautiful heads of lettuce. During volunteer hours we harvested all the heads into bins. We then carefully washed every head by hand, and stored the produce in our walk in cooler inside of the Horticulture building. Then, on Thursday we set up a table and sell our yummy, organic produce right on the front porch of our building! This is the protocol pretty much every week, and it is always a hit.
Most weeks we have a small variety of the different fruits or vegetables that we grew on the farm. Unfortunately this week we only had lettuces to sale, but soon the farm should be expecting a wider mix of produce. We have dozens of carrots that will soon be harvested, beats and radishes will follow soon after, and we should even have some broccoli available soon! The Howdy Farm is an amazing place and I love that we get to invite the community out to buy our fresh produce every week.
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If you're planning some home renovations, you might be wondering which, if any, renovations will actually add significant value to your home. Maybe you're planning on selling in the near future and want to maximize selling price. Maybe your family has grown and the space just doesn't work as well as it used to. Or maybe you're just ready for a change. Whatever your reason for wanting to renovate, remodel, or redecorate, you're probably concerned that you'll spend more money than you'll recoup. Below, you'll find a guide outlining which renovations usually make the most financial sense. I say "usually" because the market in which your house is located matters. Some renovation projects are worth more in certain areas of the country, or even in different neighborhoods within the same city. Your best bet would be to do at least a little market research in your area to determine what buyers in your area are looking for.
On the exterior, replacing cosmetic elements like the front door and siding tend to add almost as much value as you'll spend, no matter where you live. In some cases, repainting can actually yield the same positive results as replacing and will definitely cost much less. Replacing would be a preferred option if the current front door and siding are old and worn enough to lack any energy efficiency.
Replacing windows and the roof with newer, more energy efficient models is another way to increase a home's value. Prospective buyers will love that your improvement looks great and will save them money on heating and cooling bills.
Remodeled kitchens are still one of the best investments homeowners can make. Typically, you'll see a return of over 80% of your investment. Many prospective buyers will overestimate how much it would cost them to redo a kitchen, which makes an outdated-looking kitchen a major turnoff. That's in addition to the fact that many prospective buyers will want a move-in ready home, so anything they don't have to do is a plus.
Remodeled bathrooms return similar yields. Again, many folks overestimate the cost of doing the job after they move in and just don't want the hassle of remodeling added to the hassle of moving.
When it comes to adding rooms, most projects don't return nearly as much as they cost. One notable exception is the addition of a second bathroom. Many buyers will be looking for at least 2 bathrooms, so adding a second one could be key to selling the property at a good price. The problem with adding a second bathroom that changes the footprint of the house is making sure that the bathroom "fits" the layout and doesn't seem like it was just tacked on. It's less expensive if you're able to convert closet, bedroom, or living space into that second bathroom. A nice master suite is always attractive to buyers.
In addition to knowing what buyers in your area are looking for, it's important to understand that having a $750,000 house in a $500,000 neighborhood really isn't any better than having a $500,000 house in a $750,000 neighborhood. If your renovation is about making your home work better for you and your family, you should certainly feel free to do whatever makes you happy. Just understand that what constitutes an invaluable upgrade for you might not be worth a higher list price to buyers down the line.


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Macaroni and Cheese for Grownups
Recipe by Tinalovespasta
This is a sophisticated version for those who appreciate the cheesy goodness without the processed powdered cheese flavor. You can use macaroni or another small pasta like shells or spirals.
Top Review by Mrs. Moon
What a great recipe! I used a bunch of little cheese pieces up. I also used up a bunch of pasta that had just a little bit left. It did have way too many breadcrumbs on top, but that is easily fixed. Very yummy, and different every time. Thanks for sharing!
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1⁄2 yellow onion, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced or pressed
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 2 cups 2% low-fat milk
- 1 teaspoon white wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt (or to taste)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon fresh ground pepper or 1⁄2 teaspoon white pepper (or to taste)
- 1⁄4 teaspoon Tabasco sauce (or to taste)
- 1⁄4 cup pepperoncini peppers or 1⁄4 cup pickled jalapeno pepper, diced (or to taste)
- 3 cups assorted cheese, shredded or crumbled
- 2 cups elbow macaroni, cooked al dente
- 1 cup seasoned dry bread crumb
- 1⁄2 cup grated fresh parmesan cheese
Directions See How It's Made
- Melt the butter in a heavy skillet.
- Add the onion and saute on medium heat until softened and mostly cooked-about 10 minutes.
- Add the garlic and cook for one more minute-be careful not to brown the garlic.
- Whisk the flour in.
- Cook while stirring for three minutes.
- Uncooked flour tastes bad!
- Whisk in the milk.
- Continue to stir until the mixture barely begins to boil.
- It should be a little bubbly and beginning to thicken.
- Add the vinegar while whisking-if the milk is hot it won't curdle and the vinegar brightens up the sauce.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- If you don't want black flecks use white pepper instead.
- Add a dash of Tobasco.
- Taste then add more if you like.
- Stir in the pepperoncinis or jalapenos.
- You need to experiment-make this a few times and decide exactly how much of which pepper you like.
- Stir in your favorite cheeses.
- I like to combine sharp cheddar with a little crumbled bleu.
- Swiss is good for flavor but not texture so blend with something creamy like Fontina.
- Monterey Jack is very creamy but without a lot of flavor so add something sharp and flavorful.
- Pour the macaroni into a large baking pan.
- Pour the sauce over and gently mix.
- Sprinkle the parmesan and bread crumbs on top.
- Bake at 350 degrees until browned on top-about 25 minutes or so.
- Let sit for 10 minutes then serve.
- You may never even consider boxed mac-n-cheese again.


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Metro Denver unemployment rate down from a year ago
Metro Denver's unadjusted unemployment rate stood at 6.5 percent in February, up a tenth of a percentage point from January but down almost a full point from February 2013's 7.4 percent rate, according to raw county jobs estimates Friday from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.
The 6.5 percent unadjusted jobless rate is for a 10-county area that includes Denver, Aurora, Lakewood, Broomfield and Centennial, but not Boulder County. Boulder County's unemployment rate was 5.2 percent last month. The rate for metro Denver combined with Boulder was 6.3 percent.
By county, last month's unadjusted jobless rates in the metro-Denver region ranged from a low of 5.3 percent in Douglas County to a high of 7.4 percent in Adams County, the raw figures show. The rate in Denver County was 6.9 percent.
> MORE: Colorado adds 6,200 jobs; unemployment unchanged at 6.1%
A survey of households in the 10-county Denver area (not including Boulder) showed total employment at 1,346,191 last month (including the self-employed and farm workers), with 92,918 unemployed people actively seeking work.
Elsewhere in Colorado, last month's unadjusted jobless rate was 5.5 percent in the Fort Collins-Loveland area, 6.7 percent in the Greeley area, 8.1 percent in the Grand Junction area and 8.0 percent in the Colorado Springs area.
Unlike the statewide unemployment rate, the county and metro-area numbers are not adjusted for normal seasonal job fluctuations and are therefore not considered directly comparable to the adjusted state data.
Also, year-over-year comparisons of the unadjusted rates are considered more valid than changes from one month to the next, which could be pushed up or down by normal seasonal changes in hiring that are removed when adjusted rates are reported.
Mark Harden directs print and digital news content for the Denver Business Journal and compiles the daily "Afternoon Edition" email newsletter. Email: email@example.com. Phone: 303-803-9227.


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Thursday, April 8, 2010
It Feels So Goood
Legend has it that when rockabilly wild man Hasil Adkins (1937-2005) was young and listened to Hank Williams on the radio, he thought that Hank was playing all the instruments - guitar, bass and drums - by himself, and all at the same time at that. In his isolated neck of the woods, Hasil never had any idea one could have a band, with different guys playing different instruments.
So what did Hasil do? He simply learned to play the way he thought Hank did it, all by himself. And he´s been a one-man band ever since. The manic She Said from ´64 was made popular by The Cramps, but I tell you there´s nothing like the original. "She jumped up outta the car, pulled her hair down her eye... Do you know what she tried to tell me?"
Hasil Adkins - She Said MP3
The Cramps - She Said MP3
Posted by Ramone666 at Thursday, April 08, 2010
Labels: Hasil Adkins, The Cramps
1 comment:
- ib said...
I'm still trying to get myself back into the blogging loop after getting bogged down with some other stuff.
Hasil Adkins was the real deal. An amazing talent.
I got into his stuff, too, after tracing back The Cramps'famous cover some years back.
Adkins was a real Horror movie buff. A year or so before his death, when he got run over in his own backyard by a teenage hoodlum on a quadbike, he made a cameo appearance in a George Romero flick.
Scarcely recognizable from the famous picture you use here, it seems to have been one of the last public performances he ever made.
A lot of the stuff to be found on the Norton retrospectives was originally released on the Virginia imprint - I think - Jody Records.
- April 13, 2010 at 2:13 PM
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