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For a number of reasons, I effectively don't shop at Amazon anymore. The primary reason initially was just terrible service. Back in 2009ish when I started out on my own, the free shipping over $25 almost always arrived in just 2-3 days. Eventually that pushed out to a week or more, and I...

Specifically the reason I was planning on doing soil pH tests was for growing blueberries, or for other specific plant purposes. But I never got around to that. I'm not personally a fan of the perfect turfgrass lawn and monoculture, but to each their own. I had clover in my yard at one place I...

Standard practice from what I've read is do test, rinse with distilled water, clean with cleaning solution (if needed depending on test done), followed by a rinse in distilled water to clean off the cleaning water, followed by storage in KCl storage solution. A rinse in distilled water shouldn't...

What we really needed was a picture of my face at 2:43 this morning as I looked at the Planetary K-Index which had gone the wrong direction since I had gone to bed…

I’ve been meaning to use my Apera PH60 with the distilled water and soil test, but haven’t gotten around to doing so yet.

Very late notice but the latest CMEs are about to hit the earth, forecasted around midnight CDT. Aurora may be visible overhead from as far south as northern Illinois, with visibility to the North as far south as Oklahoma City. So if you live in a northern state, perhaps try to wake up in the...

Of course the forum resized the screenshot, making the difference less noticeable. :ROFLMAO: Even Craigslist to the original is noticeable, though that's understandable given the original is an 11 MB, 26 MP image shot from a Canon RP full-frame mirrorless camera. Nobody wants to host huge...

Probably not a shocker, but I was posting my truck for sale and editing some details on both Craigslist and Facebook. I realized the photos on Facebook looked not great in fullscreen, compared to how I remembered them. I pulled up the Craigslist and Facebook ads side-by-side and the quality...

Funny you should tag me on this now. The one issue my Pit Boss had is the pellet container isn't sealed around screw holes or the window on the hopper, and water from rain seeps in and gets the pellets wet. I meant to seal the openings with silicone but didn't get around to doing that. Usually...

Just checked Menard's. A gallon of 12.5% was $3.99/gallon when we put up our pool in Jun of 2020. Menard's website still lists $3.99/gallon currently.

In general no product sold as “bleach” will be cheaper for the amount of actual sodium hypochlorite than product sold for pool chlorination, as the pool chlorine is nearly always 10% or 12.5%. Menards, my go to in the Midwest sells 12.5% for $3.99/gallon. Most bleach around here is that or more...

I suspect the cost to manufacture HCl is less than the distribution and shipping costs, as I’ve never seen half strength muriatic acid in the Midwest that was not the same or more expensive than full strength. I buy full strength at Menards for $3.99/gallon. They sell half strength for...

Good find! This is a perfect reminder that my go-to place to buy liquid chlorine had none in stock by the middle of September last year, and my basement stickpile is down to 4 gallons. I need to go replenish before they stop carrying it for the year!

Dosing liquid hasn’t been a huge hassle for me. I live about ten minutes from Menards and I’m there decently often. If not I can swing by on my way home and it only adds the time I’m there to my commute. They’ve always had 12.5% in stock for $3.99/gallon through the swimming season. This year...

Blot the probe dry with filter paper. I would hazard a guess it stems from good practice with lab pH meters to avoid contamination or dilution of a small sample, but I can’t see any reason why you’d have to blot dry the probe before taking a sample of pool water. Especially if you’re like me and...

Nah, I’m not quite 30 and the liability from this alone would make me not do it. To each their own though.

There’s a reason for that. In this type of gas application you want the valve to shut when if power is lost so the gas doesn’t keep running with no way to shut off. Hence the use of solenoid valves. The solenoid opens the valve by pulling against a spring. If power is lost the solenoid stops...

Ah that makes sense. My allergies usually aren't too bad. I've been taking Allegra as needed since my allergies started about 7 years ago which works decently to stop a majority of the symptoms. In the past couple months I started taking Flonase too, and the combo is pretty effective. But I'd...

I haven't been sick*, but allergies suck and so I cannot say the same about the sniffles. I wish I could be sniffle free. *near the start of everything I did get one small cold, but I'm pretty sure that was pre-mask and everything was pretty much business as usual still. That was followed by my...

Our county still requires a mask, but I suspect that will change shortly. I’m vaccinated (and young) so I will probably not wear a mask once it’s not required unless the business requests it.

120 volt AC certainly kill you. In a number of cases it won’t, but treating it like it won’t is a great way to make sure it will kill you eventually. Please do not treat it like it won’t kill you. You should not “happen” to get shocked when doing electrical wiring. I never have. Please hire out...

We can travel, cause we are in the USA. @AUSpool is in Australia, and cannot leave. Borders there are closed, except for very specific circumstances.

So with my J&J in the morning, started getting a headache in the evening and started to get that hard to explain feeling like I was going to be sick the next day. Woke up at 1:30 in the morning, freezing and aching all over. Took a bath to warm up while browsing sites like TFP. Went back to...

Got the J&J vaccine this morning.

Wisconsin announced today they are opening it to the general public April 5th.

Eh. I don't personally find it that amusing but I neither find it "cruel and scary." Of course I'm also a very analytical person, I'd look at the fence and think "there's no way that could be electrified." :D I like some of the other funny pool signs. Such as the "ATTENTION: No swimming suits...

Well, guess I’m lucky. I checked the list, don’t qualify. Not even on the BMI of 25 or more. What’a funny is I know two people who regularly go to the gym and watch what they eat and are definitely not overweight but because they work out they have a BMI in the “overweight” category and are...

Totally need to agree with @Dirk here. Would I want to go back in time a few hundred years? No, things were undoubtedly terrible compared to now. But I’ve read a lot of things showing that the upward trend of things getting better started stagnating in the 70’s and 80’s. Somewhere around there...

You had something about a blizzard and a tub that couldn’t maintain temp uncovered.... :p We had tried a few weeks ago while it was snowing with wind, it was completely miserable having snow blow into your face and we quickly abandoned it. But with little wind and no snow it was quite nice.

...and we’re enjoying the hot tub for the first time in about three weeks. Quite pleasant in here, though ice is forming in my glass of homemade hard cider! My ears are a tad cold but not terrible, and there’s some ice in my hair. How is everyone else enjoying the cold snap?