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laurasdada

Confirmed, my PHEV is L1/L2 only. Not configured for L3 charging.

I try to be very conscious of charging etiquette as I'm a "want" vs "need" nuke power consumer. I'm fully charged in ~2.25 hours.
The biggest issue has been dino-powered cars parking in electric charging spots, but, and you must remember this, I'm finding that a bit less an issue as time goes by.

jmonroe1

stickguy said:

We are exporting it to my wife’s large collection of bell jars.

Doing the math, after buying the materials and dirt, and new lids, it should average out to about $10 per tomato or cucumber. assuming we get any because not sure she can do much with the garden due to bad knees. I have zero desire to screw around weeding but I’m sure I will get sucked into doing it anyway.

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Ask @oldfarmer50 for some help/advice. Since he gave up farming he might miss it enough to come over on weekends. Just throw on some rib eyes as an incentive.

jmonroe

oldfarmer50

stickguy said:

We are exporting it to my wife’s large collection of bell jars.

Doing the math, after buying the materials and dirt, and new lids, it should average out to about $10 per tomato or cucumber. assuming we get any because not sure she can do much with the garden due to bad knees. I have zero desire to screw around weeding but I’m sure I will get sucked into doing it anyway.

You better hope there’s no deer, rabbits or woodchucks in the neighborhood.

ab348

Shouldn’t you have removed all that sod before turning that into a planting bed? Unless you’re trying to grow prize-winning grass…

stickguy

oldfarmer50 said:

stickguy said:

We are exporting it to my wife’s large collection of bell jars.

Doing the math, after buying the materials and dirt, and new lids, it should average out to about $10 per tomato or cucumber. assuming we get any because not sure she can do much with the garden due to bad knees. I have zero desire to screw around weeding but I’m sure I will get sucked into doing it anyway.

You better hope there’s no deer, rabbits or woodchucks in the neighborhood.

the back yard is a freeway of rabbits, squirrels and chipmunks going back and forth. And the neighbors shed you see in the picture has 2 woodchucks around it all the time that come out and hang out near the road. Before the plants go in we will put some sort of fencing around the top. and before the dirt goes in I will scalp out the grass and put a barrier down. Not that I am worried about that grass coming up through 10" of dirt.

venture

I saw a BMW X3 M Competition today. Didn't know they made such a thing. It growled pretty well when the lady took off. I could only think, "Why"?

ab348

stickguy said:

Before the plants go in we will put some sort of fencing around the top. and before the dirt goes in I will scalp out the grass and put a barrier down. Not that I am worried about that grass coming up through 10" of dirt.

You might want to take the box apart before you hammer the rebar into place to make it easier to cancel the grass. Should only be another couple hours of hard physical labor….

stickguy

it is 2x6 boards that slid into the concrete corner blocks. If you need to just pull the boards out. The rebar just keeps the blocks from shifting (there are 2 stacked on top of each other)

jmonroe1

stickguy said:

We are exporting it to my wife’s large collection of bell jars.

Doing the math, after buying the materials and dirt, and new lids, it should average out to about $10 per tomato or cucumber. assuming we get any because not sure she can do much with the garden due to bad knees. I have zero desire to screw around weeding but I’m sure I will get sucked into doing it anyway.

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And when it’s all said and done you’ll be screwing on the lids too. Yep, I’d say you were screwed right from the start of this project.

jmonroe

kyfdx

venture said:

I saw a BMW X3 M Competition today. Didn't know they made such a thing. It growled pretty well when the lady took off. I could only think, "Why"?

Everyone needs 500 HP for their compact SUV.

corvette

kyfdx said:

Everyone needs 500 HP for their compact SUV.

It's the minimum required to make it not dangerously slow.

oldfarmer50

corvette said:

kyfdx said:

Everyone needs 500 HP for their compact SUV.

It's the minimum required to make it not dangerously slow.

What are you guys going to do when the government installs speed limiters, kill switches and automatic speeding tickets reported by your car?😩

jipster

@stickguy said:
They shouldn't raise the price since they already had it priced like it was perfect, given the miles.

my theory on used cars at a dealer (and dealership prices) is they are expected to need absolutely nothing and be fully reconditioned like that.

Mrs. Jip is now the owner of a 2021 Honda Passport EX-L. Just got the deal done. And you were correct. There were no additional charges added for the maintenance done. When I saw that I knew we'd be able to make a deal. They came down $200 from the price we had looked at last week. $24,400. Not the greatest deal by the ole Jipster, but not bad.

The guy in finance tried to get us to buy various combined packages of: service contract, maintenance contract, interior fabric protection, road hazard protection, paint protection... a couple other protections I can't remember. Each package would add so much to our monthly payment. Had him delete all but the service contract. Considered it briefly. $3,000 for 5 years 48k miles. Offered thru AUL. Anyone hear of this company? Decided against it.

So, not sure what we're going to do about our 2011 Hyundai Veracruz. Probably just hold onto it for awhile, as a backup, and see what happens. Thx everyone for the feedback.

kyfdx

oldfarmer50 said:

corvette said:

kyfdx said:

Everyone needs 500 HP for their compact SUV.

It's the minimum required to make it not dangerously slow.

What are you guys going to do when the government installs speed limiters, kill switches and automatic speeding tickets reported by your car?😩

When is that going to happen?

kyfdx

jipster said:

@stickguy said:

They shouldn't raise the price since they already had it priced like it was perfect, given the miles.

my theory on used cars at a dealer (and dealership prices) is they are expected to need absolutely nothing and be fully reconditioned like that.

Mrs. Jip is now the owner of a 2021 Honda Passport EX-L. Just got the deal done. And you were correct. There were no additional charges added for the maintenance done. When I saw that I knew we'd be able to make a deal. They came down $200 from the price we had looked at last week. $24,400. Not the greatest deal by the ole Jipster, but not bad.

The guy in finance tried to get us to buy various combined packages of: service contract, maintenance contract, interior fabric protection, road hazard protection, paint protection... a couple other protections I can't remember. Each package would add so much to our monthly payment. Had him delete all but the service contract. Considered it briefly. $3,000 for 5 years 48k miles. Offered thru AUL. Anyone hear of this company? Decided against it.

So, not sure what we're going to do about our 2011 Hyundai Veracruz. Probably just hold onto it for awhile, as a backup, and see what happens. Thx everyone for the feedback.

Congrats on the new ride!

driver100

My tennis friend has got his 2003 almost totally blacked out. The black-out headlights just came in, that'll cost $1500 to apply.

oldfarmer50

kyfdx said:

oldfarmer50 said:

corvette said:

kyfdx said:

Everyone needs 500 HP for their compact SUV.

It's the minimum required to make it not dangerously slow.

What are you guys going to do when the government installs speed limiters, kill switches and automatic speeding tickets reported by your car?😩

When is that going to happen?

I heard as early as 2026 on the kill switch but you know it’s coming.

https://youtube.com/shorts/L9y4AgMgVBo?si=V03wHeogvLoWlOGT

roadburner

venture said:

I saw a BMW X3 M Competition today. Didn't know they made such a thing. It growled pretty well when the lady took off. I could only think, "Why"?

I like them in some cases. Back in 2018 I nabbed a Long Beach Blue 2018 X5M press loaner when I was in Greenville SC to interview David Hobbs and Brian Redmon at a BMW CCA Foundation event. It was reasonably quick for its day (12.2 seconds /114 mph in the 1/4 mile) and it handled surprisingly well. One comment from the sidebar I wrote about it:
As with almost any BMW, it is deceptively fast; stay in the throttle too long and you will find yourself merging on to I-85 at 100+ mph- at least that's what someone told me.

kyfdx

oldfarmer50 said:

kyfdx said:

oldfarmer50 said:

corvette said:

kyfdx said:

Everyone needs 500 HP for their compact SUV.

It's the minimum required to make it not dangerously slow.

What are you guys going to do when the government installs speed limiters, kill switches and automatic speeding tickets reported by your car?😩

When is that going to happen?

I heard as early as 2026 on the kill switch but you know it’s coming.

https://youtube.com/shorts/L9y4AgMgVBo?si=V03wHeogvLoWlOGT

This government?

stickguy

Probably not any more.

driver100

I read todays Edmunds email, titled: Our Tesla Cybertruck Test Ended With a $58,000 Repair Bill.
We added a Tesla Cybertruck to our One-Year Road Test fleet last year.
Five months into our test, the Cybertruck was involved in a crash that put it out of commission — forever.
The final repair bill? Nearly $58,000. Yeah, our truck was totaled.
The article is at: https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/2024-tesla-cybertruck-damage-long-term-wrapup.html/?utm_source=marketo&utm_medium=email&utm_account=edmunds_insider&utm_targetid=wurcloftapctqfofn4bpunrfgrmtll6s1bxfpt&utm_campaign=editorial_newsletter&utm_term=2025_4_30_editorial_newsletter&utm_adgroup=13861&utm_content=module_1&mkt_tok=NDYxLU5NSi01OTgAAAGaJu5RfZYp5MVtfrle92LyOpU_4eKWex_U9iMf6UJToXelPcf6RgKMj9keXZl9DwDjYOzJGlzdAoW4xiWWVQJZfs7cmhhZTWnrbZJEHgkkLF947g

explorerx4

@driver100,
We had some discussion about that a few days ago.

tjc78

So .. if anyone followed my eye questions the other day, we have a bit of closure.

I was researching blurry vision and lots of things came up about high blood sugar. That led me to research signs of Diabetes. Well - I had them all. Incessant thirst, extra bathroom breaks, weight loss and of course the blurred vision.

On Monday night I felt really off. Vision was bad, tons of pressure in the eyes and super thirsty.

Talked to the wife and ended up ordering a tester from Amazon to test myself in the AM. Boom - 336. I said it can’t be accurate so we tested her and it was perfectly normal 83.

Uh oh… well I’m a stubborn moron and drove to work and was gonna make an appt with the doc. After I ate my breakfast I felt really off. Drove myself to an urgent care and they told me to leave and go to ER immediately.

Drove the hour to our hospital (@stickguy’s old hood) Wife met me there. Spent 5 hours for all kinds of tests. They confirm sugar over 303 and a diabetes diagnosis. Much of my mother’s family has it and I’m overweight so not a surprise.

Started medication and have to follow up with primary (which I don’t have so am trying a new one).

Never a dull moment. Fingers crossed my vision isn’t permanently damaged. Doc at hospital said the eye doctor would have seen that

Thankfully this is controllable by pills and diet. Kinda frustrated with eye doctor for not suggesting this or asking more questions.

stickguy

scary but good thing you caught it before something worse happened. Type 2 at least is better than 1. Hopefully the meds + lifestyle changes do the trick.

That is a nice hospital too.

jmonroe1

tjc78 said:

So .. if anyone followed my eye questions the other day, we have a bit of closure.

I was researching blurry vision and lots of things came up about high blood sugar. That led me to research signs of Diabetes. Well - I had them all. Incessant thirst, extra bathroom breaks, weight loss and of course the blurred vision.

On Monday night I felt really off. Vision was bad, tons of pressure in the eyes and super thirsty.

Talked to the wife and ended up ordering a tester from Amazon to test myself in the AM. Boom - 336. I said it can’t be accurate so we tested her and it was perfectly normal 83.

Uh oh… well I’m a stubborn moron and drove to work and was gonna make an appt with the doc. After I ate my breakfast I felt really off. Drove myself to an urgent care and they told me to leave and go to ER immediately.

Drove the hour to our hospital (@stickguy’s old hood) Wife met me there. Spent 5 hours for all kinds of tests. They confirm sugar over 303 and a diabetes diagnosis. Much of my mother’s family has it and I’m overweight so not a surprise.

Started medication and have to follow up with primary (which I don’t have so am trying a new one).

Never a dull moment. Fingers crossed my vision isn’t permanently damaged. Doc at hospital said the eye doctor would have seen that

Thankfully this is controllable by pills and diet. Kinda frustrated with eye doctor for not suggesting this or asking more questions.

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Medication and diet can reduce your sugar numbers. This is not uncommon with overweight at ages around 50. I agree with the emergency room doctor that an ophthalmologist should have seen signs of diabetes when looking at your eyes. I’d look for another one of those since that is borderline incompetence.

Good luck and let us know how you respond to medication.

jmonroe

sda

@tjc78 said:
So .. if anyone followed my eye questions the other day, we have a bit of closure.

I was researching blurry vision and lots of things came up about high blood sugar. That led me to research signs of Diabetes. Well - I had them all. Incessant thirst, extra bathroom breaks, weight loss and of course the blurred vision.

On Monday night I felt really off. Vision was bad, tons of pressure in the eyes and super thirsty.

Talked to the wife and ended up ordering a tester from Amazon to test myself in the AM. Boom - 336. I said it can’t be accurate so we tested her and it was perfectly normal 83.

Uh oh… well I’m a stubborn moron and drove to work and was gonna make an appt with the doc. After I ate my breakfast I felt really off. Drove myself to an urgent care and they told me to leave and go to ER immediately.

Drove the hour to our hospital (@stickguy’s old hood) Wife met me there. Spent 5 hours for all kinds of tests. They confirm sugar over 303 and a diabetes diagnosis. Much of my mother’s family has it and I’m overweight so not a surprise.

Started medication and have to follow up with primary (which I don’t have so am trying a new one).

Never a dull moment. Fingers crossed my vision isn’t permanently damaged. Doc at hospital said the eye doctor would have seen that

Thankfully this is controllable by pills and diet. Kinda frustrated with eye doctor for not suggesting this or asking more questions.

Wishing you the best.

explorerx4

Considering tjc78's previous medical history, unusual side effects can happen.
During and after my CLL treatment, at the time classified as experimental, my body tempurature was between 94 and 95.
It freaked a lot of medical people out. Since then it has pretty much normalized.

Michaell

@tjc78 - glad to hear you’ve discovered the root cause of your issues. I sporadically test my blood sugar - around 100 with the meds I’m on.

My eye doc is surprised I haven’t yet had eye issues related to the diabetes.

Good luck!

28firefighter

That’s really scary @tjc78 - glad you’re ok!

nyccarguy

Very scary @tjc78 . I hope you get better soon!

tjc78

Thanks everyone! Hoping that the meds get me back to normal fairly quickly.

stickguy

got 1 of my 2 big yellow bags of dirt emptied and into the garden box. that was a little over a yard (probably about 1.25). will likely need 1/4 to 1/3 of the other bag but saving that for tomorrow. Then have to figure how what to do with the remaining half ton of dirt. The wife will just buy some more planting boxes probably.

and man, dirt is really, really heavy. Had to shovel it out of the big bags (that stand a good 4' tall) into the yard cart, drag it around the other side of the house, then dump it in and spread it out. Definitely going into the "I am too old for this nonsense" category.

driver100

explorerx4 said:

@driver100,
We had some discussion about that a few days ago.

I have been busy.....I try to read everything but missed it.
You mean someone else reports Tesla incidents too?

corvette

@jipster - congrats! How many miles were on it? I can't remember.

corvette

Did Edmunds self-insure the Tesla? I have a suspicion State Farm wouldn't be waiting a month to get a repair estimate if they insured it.

corvette

Hoovie seems to have lucked out buying an M6 Comp convertible with what appear to be no major issues under $10k... To be continued after his mechanic looks at it, I'm sure. The E38 is an interesting spec/color for those--didn't realize they offered them in Imola Red.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH0PSMNy6HU

oldfarmer50

tjc78 said:

So .. if anyone followed my eye questions the other day, we have a bit of closure.

I was researching blurry vision and lots of things came up about high blood sugar. That led me to research signs of Diabetes. Well - I had them all. Incessant thirst, extra bathroom breaks, weight loss and of course the blurred vision.

On Monday night I felt really off. Vision was bad, tons of pressure in the eyes and super thirsty.

Talked to the wife and ended up ordering a tester from Amazon to test myself in the AM. Boom - 336. I said it can’t be accurate so we tested her and it was perfectly normal 83.

Uh oh… well I’m a stubborn moron and drove to work and was gonna make an appt with the doc. After I ate my breakfast I felt really off. Drove myself to an urgent care and they told me to leave and go to ER immediately.

Drove the hour to our hospital (@stickguy’s old hood) Wife met me there. Spent 5 hours for all kinds of tests. They confirm sugar over 303 and a diabetes diagnosis. Much of my mother’s family has it and I’m overweight so not a surprise.

Started medication and have to follow up with primary (which I don’t have so am trying a new one).

Never a dull moment. Fingers crossed my vision isn’t permanently damaged. Doc at hospital said the eye doctor would have seen that

Thankfully this is controllable by pills and diet. Kinda frustrated with eye doctor for not suggesting this or asking more questions.

Wow! 336? No wonder you felt wonky, I’m surprised you didn’t feel drowsy all the time. Yeah, eye doctor should have caught that. Lose some weight and if you smoke, quit.

oldfarmer50

stickguy said:

got 1 of my 2 big yellow bags of dirt emptied and into the garden box. that was a little over a yard (probably about 1.25). will likely need 1/4 to 1/3 of the other bag but saving that for tomorrow. Then have to figure how what to do with the remaining half ton of dirt. The wife will just buy some more planting boxes probably.

and man, dirt is really, really heavy. Had to shovel it out of the big bags (that stand a good 4' tall) into the yard cart, drag it around the other side of the house, then dump it in and spread it out. Definitely going into the "I am too old for this nonsense" category.

I guess it’s too late to tell you that you can make your own soil mixture using lighter components for less cost.😢

jipster

@corvette said:
@jipster - congrats! How many miles were on it? I can't remember.

Thx corvette... and @kyfdx The Passport has 78k miles. Mrs. Jip only drives about 10k miles a year, so will be able to get that mileage back in the "average" range within 3-4 years. Would have preferred something in the 60k mile range, but pickings were slim.

stickguy

This is the nicest garden soil we have ever had (it is a mixture not just dirt). Plus does not require source multiple components that need to be mixed. And will still be pretty heavy and require moving! Would have been easier if they delivered to the back yard instead of the driveway.

ab348

corvette said:

Hoovie seems to have lucked out buying an M6 Comp convertible with what appear to be no major issues under $10k... To be continued after his mechanic looks at it, I'm sure.

I honestly cannot believe anyone watches this guy. Everything is overly dramatized and his shtick got old for me in a hurry. I am not the kind of person who generally wishes ill fortune on anyone, but for him I might make an exception. Nobody could be as unlucky and reckless as he makes himself out to be. His mechanic is no day at the beach to watch either.

corvette

Car Wizard can be overly dry, although I do like the Car Ninja (whom he uses for BMWs).

stickguy

Rest of dirt for garden bed moved. Now I have to figure out what to do with the large amount left over in the 2nd bag. Sadly I know the answer is spend more money to buy additional boxes to scatter around for flowers and other veggies then haul the rest of the dirt to them.

At least the giant bags the dirt comes in will be handy for collecting leaves and lighter yard debris. Like a giant pop up pail. Should fit nicely in the back of the truck to take to the transfer station.

Side note, I love having that m my new town. Any yard stuff I can drag over and dump for free. Does not even have to be bagged.

stickguy

driver100

This may have been covered or we may be in new territory. We have lots of windows in this house, and a lot of them are getting foggy....the house is 18 years old.
I expect window will cost about $300 each to replace......there could be 20 or 30 windows...might do it in 2 steps.
There are companies that say they can fix foggy windows. My wife is liking that idea.
It seems to me, it will be a deal that will last for about 3 to 5 years, and then you will have to replace the windows anyway.
Any ideas?

qbrozen

@tjc78 , more age=more pills.

I’m up to 5 prescription meds a day now.

corvette

@driver100 - it's been years since I looked at it, but the foggy window repair process used to be that they would drill a small hole in the inside, spray the inside with a solution to clean the fog/residue, and plug the hole. You would not have the benefit of any argon fill nor the insulation of having double panes, in general, but if they're fogged, it means a seal has broken, and you've already lost those benefits anyway.

I'd plan more than $300 per window to replace with a good quality vinyl window. The "good" window company in my area had a minimum of $7 or $800 per window, and that was several years ago.

stickguy

$300 was a long time ago.

I have had a number of windows fixed. Had to do a few at the house we sold in 2022 (had been foggy for years and I ignored it but would not fly for selling). Was actually very easy assuming the pane pops out (so movable not fixed).

Sometimes they can do in 1 day but plan on 2. Simple process. Take the sash out and bring it into the shop. They take out the old glass from the frame, make a new piece to match, pop it in and put the molding/clips back on to hold it in then you just go pick it up and put it back in the window. No change to the sash frame part so no issues fitting.

I think it was in the $50-$100 range per pane depending on size but fuzzy on that. I know it was way less than replacements.

The shop would come and take out and deliver and install. For a couple hundred $ extra. Still went back to the shop.

kyfdx

qbrozen said:

@tjc78 , more age=more pills.

I’m up to 5 prescription meds a day now.

Still just one..

jipster

@corvette said:
Car Wizard can be overly dry, although I do like the Car Ninja (whom he uses for BMWs).

May have been mentioned here before, but "The Car Care Nut" is heads and shoulders above any other car enthusiast video channel I've seen. Repairs and car reviews, done by master mechanic Amd, are of the highest standards.