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Post by Tarpon65 on Aug 11, 2024 10:17:17 GMT -5
Normally I do not do much with the two dozen plus pineapple plants I have around. After the plants produce fruit, I usually have left them to die and rot, but today I went out and removed any slips/pups from plants that have produced this year, removed the old plant, and planted the slip/pup in its place in order to clean things up a bit. I also planted a few tops from fruit my wife had recently harvested and cleaned.
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Post by mackeralsnatcher on Aug 11, 2024 10:46:14 GMT -5
About to do the same thing. I have four that are almost ready and I'm keeping a close eye on them so I can get them before the critters do. Have four large pots that acree palms were in that died ready for pineapple pups. When we move up to Inverness I'm gonna dig up all the pineapple plants here (around twelve or thirteen) and replant them up there.
Tarpon: I think you are letting very good fruit go to waste. Every pineapple we have just let go and grown in our yard has been 10X as sweet as anything i've ever bought in the store.
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Post by 4ward on Aug 11, 2024 11:12:15 GMT -5
Sent my youngest off to Grand Cay for the week. I’m stuck at home mowing 🤬
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Post by Tarpon65 on Aug 11, 2024 13:04:30 GMT -5
Mack, we are harvesting most of the fruit, unless the critters get to it first. And yes, they are much better than what you buy at Publix or the local store.
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Post by jmarkb on Aug 12, 2024 19:21:01 GMT -5
I pissed off a homeowner. Majorly pissed off a homeowner 8-)We have an addendum that we send with every proposal. It puts in writing exactly what we will be doing, what material we use, everything we can think of we don't provide, multiple examples of what non contract entails (namely if it's not on the set of plans I bib the job with, it's an extra) and a bunch of other stuff. Usually that saves any complaining about the cost of non contract stuff. The plumbing on the house we are doing was bid at about 28K. Thats for labor, pipe, fittings and other general things. This is a 3 1/2 bathroom house. Our bids for most houses we do are at the 17-19k. We met with the owner to go over the changes they wanted this morning. I had already gotten a list of the extras, and had a price already worked up. I had also told him and his wife that they were getting a expensive list of things that were not on the original proposal, and so had the contractor. Their total was another 11k. He immediately went off. He said he wasn't gonna pay it, I told him fine, I wasn't going to do the work. He said it was too expensive, I told him no negotiating. He said he would get someone else, and I told him I'd pull my permit, and that every plumber around here knows each other, and I would be letting them know why I pulled it off. I also told him that since he was threating to pull off the job, that lead me to believe that he wouldn't pay me after we got done, so 100% of the extra work would have to be paid for in advance, and that the special order stuff he wanted he was going to have to locate, purchase and get all of it to the house before we would install any of it. By the time we were leaving his wife came out to the truck and apologized for his actions, and that she would have a "talk" with him and straighten his ass out. Her words, not mine.
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Post by tonyroma on Aug 12, 2024 22:09:59 GMT -5
I pissed off a homeowner. Majorly pissed off a homeowner 8-)We have an addendum that we send with every proposal. It puts in writing exactly what we will be doing, what material we use, everything we can think of we don't provide, multiple examples of what non contract entails (namely if it's not on the set of plans I bib the job with, it's an extra) and a bunch of other stuff. Usually that saves any complaining about the cost of non contract stuff. The plumbing on the house we are doing was bid at about 28K. Thats for labor, pipe, fittings and other general things. This is a 3 1/2 bathroom house. Our bids for most houses we do are at the 17-19k. We met with the owner to go over the changes they wanted this morning. I had already gotten a list of the extras, and had a price already worked up. I had also told him and his wife that they were getting an expensive list of things that were not on the original proposal, and so had the contractor. Their total was another 11k. He immediately went off. He said he wasn't gonna pay it, I told him fine, I wasn't going to do the work. He said it was too expensive, I told him no negotiating. He said he would get someone else, and I told him I'd pull my permit, and that every plumber around here knows each other, and I would be letting them know why I pulled it off. I also told him that since he was threating to pull off the job, that lead me to believe that he wouldn't pay me after we got done, so 100% of the extra work would have to be paid for in advance, and that the special order stuff he wanted he was going to have to locate, purchase and get all of it to the house before we would install any of it. By the time we were leaving his wife came out to the truck and apologized for his actions, and that she would have a "talk" with him and straighten his ass out. Her words, not mine. You need a body cam, that would get hits on YouTube😉
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Post by jmarkb on Aug 13, 2024 7:06:36 GMT -5
We usually don't have issues like this one. It was fun watching the guy make an ass out of himself. He's supposed to be back on site this morning, we will see what happens. If he starts up again, he can look for someone else to finish it. He will play hell getting another plumber
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Post by ferris1248 on Aug 13, 2024 7:19:32 GMT -5
Sent my youngest off to Grand Cay for the week. I’m stuck at home mowing 🤬 There is something wrong with that statement.
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Post by cadman on Aug 13, 2024 10:46:34 GMT -5
Sprayed the yard for insects this morning and started filling a few places with body filler on the Jeep. Forgot how fast the stuff dries. The first batch dried before I could use half of it. The second round went with a smaller batch and doing one or two small areas at a time.
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Post by gardawg on Aug 13, 2024 15:00:08 GMT -5
I messed around the house for a while and then meandered on outside where I strolled down to a path where I ambled on out to the road. Then I sauntered over to my shop where I puttered about and accomplished diddly squat. Then I rested.
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Post by Captj on Aug 14, 2024 15:38:43 GMT -5
Snorkeled a few shallow patch reefs. Checked out a lobster ledge from the past. Docked the boat and went for a swim in the clubhouse pool. Took a nap and am now planning out the rest of the day. Tough job but someone's gotta do it!
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Post by cadman on Aug 14, 2024 16:30:17 GMT -5
Went to the dentist to have a permanent crown put on. Supposed to take 30 minutes took little over an hour.
Then cleaned the house and mopped the floor.
Tomorrow I'm supposed to get my PRP shot finally for my hip. Then 3 to 4 days of relaxation since I'm supposed to take it easy and just do range of motion exercises.
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Post by ferris1248 on Aug 14, 2024 17:22:51 GMT -5
Ate lunch with my kidney buddy. Talked about stuff.
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Post by bswiv on Aug 14, 2024 19:40:54 GMT -5
Woke up to a 63 year old woman in my bed......wondered for a moment what happened to the 16 year old with wild blue eyes, Daisy Duke jeans and a white tank top soiled with red clay from softball practice and freckles and hair that went.....well....there was a lot of it.
Figured as it was her birthday........
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Post by 4ward on Aug 14, 2024 20:01:02 GMT -5
Ate lunch with my kidney buddy. Talked about stuff. Tough having pals! You are a good man ferris… thank you
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