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I know how you feel on that point. My son's project fell into much the same conundrum. Unfortunately, the science fair projects at his school are entirely independent - they do not spend any class time discussing or working on them, and participation is optional.
He liked the idea of doing the project, but not the actual doing it. :sick:
In the end, I think he did a good amount of it himself, but it did require a fair amount of assistance and redirection on his parents' part!
The author said it early and it was obvious: the problem with large public schools is not their size or their teachers. Low scores directly correspond to poverty. Students in poor families often have issues at home, and parents who are unable to or uninterested in putting in personal time in their child's education.
Jim
We sold it but I still see our 2002 Legacy driving around town once in a while, so the wheels are still spinning around the DC area.
Sadly I don't think the new owner waxes them regularly like I used to. LOL
from Brenda who is a Native Texan living in Indiana ....
You the man.
Hope all is well. The 94 Turbo converted to a racecar got sold about 4 years ago. I replaced it with an 05 LGT wagon 5MT.
I just sold that and bought an '11 STi Hatch!
Welcome back.
Drop me an e-mail when you get a chance.
-mike
Subaru Guru and Track Instructor
Brenda, this is a great time of year to be in Texas, but come August, I'd give anything to be a little further North.
Mike, wow! '11 STI...NICE! And I'm sure you're using it to its full potential, knowing you. I absolutely will send an email soon.
And I will try to get some pics up this weekend. The windows are now 15-20% and the Yakima Load Warrior with extension is mounted, so, it's looking like I want it to. Soon, after my wallet suffers a ~$2k drain, it will sound like I want it to as well.
Jim
-mike
Subaru Guru and Track Instructor
Aren't Volvo V70s supposed to be lethal on tyres? I know several owners who complained about the speed at which they chewed through them.
Cheers
Graham
Doesn't matter. I'm in love, slushbox and all.
My Miata has 13k or so and they look pretty worn already.
Bob
Had it out on the track again this weekend. Got some race seats and 6 point harnesses installed which make a huge difference in being able to hold still while turning! Fun!
tom
However I've also noticed tires 'going off', losing a lot of traction and performance before they were anywhere near the wear bars.
I used Dunlop Z1 Star Specs on my LGT wagon. I put 30k miles on them AND 15 track days and they were just down to the wear bars when I took them off.
-mike
Subaru Guru and Track Instructor
I've heard a lot of good things about the Star Specs too. They don't come in a 225-15 though.
tom
Urrk! Nasty reminders of refurbishing our English home, where everyone had wallpaper.
Get yourself a steam wallpaper stripper with a large plate. If the wallpaper has a vinyl finish, crosshatch it with a utility knife. After peeling the paper off, wash the wall down pretty quickly.
Most importantly, promise yourself that you are never going to hang wallpaper again. Painted surfaces are so much easier. If you are really hung up on the pretty patterns, learn to apply stencils
Incidentally, the wallpaper stripper, with a jet nozzle rather than the plate, is fabulous for defrosting the freezer.
Cheers
Graham
it's not full walls (at least not in this room) thankfully, but a really NASTY border that in places (very small ones) is coming up, but in others appears to be stuck down with something along the lines of baby cereal that has been left to permanently bond with whatever it was left sitting on ...
along with the border along the ceiling, there is a narrow border around all the baseboards and around the shower area ... I think we'll eventually get it off but it's a PAIN!
I've never applied wallpaper yet I've had the misfortune of removing it from walls many times. This product simply should not exist! :mad:
Yup, I've noticed that too.
Bob
Stripping it off left a nasty texture, and it was far less work to just cover the whole thing.
tom
Fond memories of our old farm house.... I've hung a dozen rooms of paper, and taken almost that much down over the years! Only 2 rooms so far in the 'new' house, but DW has great plans for me.
Oh, crown molding is high on the list, along with new wide molding around the doors and windows with plinth block. She wants to replace the relatively decent stuff the builder used but is not her style. For me, another excuse for a power tool! 15g air nailer!
I hang the rock, she works it! And, she's getting pretty good at it, too. The first couple rooms she did, she made the walls smooth (no texture at all) and painted on that. On the first room, there was... um... "room" for improvement. However, the second room was amazing - doubly so because the wallboard had been butchered by me a time or two over the years due to the continual construction of the house before she'd ever plucked up the courage to plaster and finish it. I prefer the smooth appearance over the spackle that professionals generally spray over the surface.
After finishing the second room (a bathroom), she went back and re-did the first room to the standards of the second.
Then, she broke down this Spring and insisted on finishing our garage walls (which is where we primarily live), even though I have not hung the ceiling rock or even finished the walls. Enough was enough. So, since she is the one who has to blend the now with the later, I just let her run with it. Instead of smooth walls, she lightly trowel-textured them. I wasn't convinced when she first did it, but after they were primed and painted, and with a south-facing natural light source, I was sold! Very cool; I love the look, and now I'm inspired to finish the whole space just so I can enjoy it that much more!
What happened to the 'man cave' look? I expect to see ratty old metal cabinets with ancient cans of Bondo, maybe some DDT bug spray, an old Coleman lantern, etc. NOT pretty finished walls!!!
Otis Spunkmeyer cookies in the waiting area too!
-mike
Subaru Guru and Track Instructor
Some day I swear that my garage will actually be a garage... ratty old metal cabinets and all (in front of the pretty finished walls, of course)! :shades:
The house we owned in England had been painted and papered many times, although only about 20 years old when we bought it. IN one room, I was able to discern every fashion trend from 1975 to 1993 as I peeled back the layers. Glad we missed the Orange Era as that was definitely not eh best look
Cheers
Graham
About 3 years ago, we started talk with a local company that provided design and remodeling services about several jobs for our house. A few months and $750 later, they folded as the bank financing dried up and then the whole economic system threatened collapse. The following year, DH was laid off for 4 months so we waited ....
Last summer, we were all ready to proceed, but then I had difficulty getting people out to give me bids on the job! I finally got one bid from a contractor we had used for small jobs before, but I had also found a 2nd contractor that I wanted to bid the job. Around Christmas, we had a bid from the 2nd one and went with him. He was busy until recently, so we finally started the work ...
Isn't life as a homeowner grand?
Over the course of the last year or so, I have bought things for the bathroom as I found them on sale. The garage has floor tiles, glass tiles for accent, a toilet, a sink, and the shower pan. We are putting in subway tiles (white 3x6 for most of the tiling). Those have been readily available at 14 cents each and not on sale. This weekend I realized they had gone up in price to 23 to 26 cents each! They are still fairly inexpensive, but it means that I'm spending about $450 on the tiles instead of $225! The second problem is that I was having difficulty finding a store with ENOUGH of the tiles. Yesterday morning DH went out and located enough in 2 stores of the same chain close enough for us to get them all. He bought most of them yesterday and I will go to the 2nd store today to buy the rest ...
I keep reminding myself as I trudge upstairs and can't find anything and it takes me 3 times as long to get ready to go anywhere ... that I was NOT hit by an earthquake and tsunami ....
Hard to say, but from what I can tell, some of the walls in this house still have their first coat of paint on them. We've left a few of the rugs, and the Sears label on the back of them is dated 1957. Lead paint and wool rugs last a long time. :shades:
The previous owner (yeah, we're the second owner) wrote on the basement walls every time he fixed something. So we know how many times the sewer backed up here (four), when the street out front was paved (1988) and when the heat was changed from coal to oil to gas.
On one workshop cabinet he wrote when his kids were drafted and when they went to Okinawa or Germany. Pretty neat.
I spent many hours at the county hall of records researching deeds, then town records to find out more about the previous owners. But you definitely have an edge in information.
While it is buried 4' below grade right now, my wife and I signed and dated the footing of our house back in June 2002 while the concrete was still wet.... :shades:
Sugar? I've been searching all the nooks and crannies I can get to looking for the hidden bags full of silver.
The owner worked at one of the local hardware stores and the store name is stenciled on some of the wood that the shelves in the basement are made of. Lots of stuff was shipped in wooden crates back in the day.
When I rebuilt my deck they told me to get extra lumber, and then they came to me with a 15% fee (IIRC) I complained to a manager to have that waived, since it was their recommendation to order extra.
work had a few surprises for me this week as well ... not all good ones ... you know ... "when it rains, it pours" ...
at least we have that wonderful 'spring' weather ... (looking at the temp on the desktop that reads 28 ....)