Sorry, I didn’t get any reall testing done with this problem this weekend. Instead I spent the weekend working on a nitrogen laser. Much more fun than flushing the toilet repetively. I’ll maybe look into it somethime this week and see if I can find the cause. I don’t think anyone else in the world is having this problem with their plumbing. Usually if I hit on a strange topic Google will send at least a few wayward people to this site, but nothing yet. That somewhat reduces my hopes for an easier answer comming through comments, but I’ll get it sorted out!
On the weather front things seem to be heating up quite a bit this week, but still those continuous thunderstorms. I can’t quite think of any time in the past years that I’ve lived in NY that we’ve gotten storms day after day. It reminds me of when I was down in florida, they had a big storm everyday, then the sun would come right back out and everything would be sunny and muggy/humid. I think it’s supposed to be mid to upper 80’s, I was reading that my family in the NE may be getting close to 100. So hot!!! Glad that Mom at least has an air conditioner to help her out. Though I’d trade my air conditioner if we could just get rid of the humidity here!
We put the air conditioner in the window a couple of weekends ago, it was kind of a pain in the neck because of some missing screws for the side covers of the air conditioner. In my last apartment the windows slide left to right so I didn’t need them, and promptly lost the little screws. So of course the local hardware store didn’t have anything like them in stock. As usual every 30 minute project turns into a 3 hour ordeal.
The lawns are coming along okay. The problem with the peninsula lawn still exists, the soil is still to sandy and the nutrients wash out of it quickly and I’m sure the water probably leaches out pretty quick too, even with all that peat moss we tilled in.
If I don’t tear the lawn out and redo it again, it’s going to have to be fertilized once every 3-4 weeks to keep it growing. Otherwise it screeches to a halt and gets a little unhealthy looking. Once it’s fertilized it perks right back up and has normal growth. Tearing it out, again would mean getting a sod cutter, cutting out all the grass and rolling it up somewhere (if we were to try and reuse it, I’d rather replant) then a) tilling in a bunch of good quality topsoil into the sand to bring it to some kind of a ‘normal’ soil level or b) removing a bunch of the topsand.. err soil and replacing it completely with new good quality topsoil which wouldn’t be cheap either and would probably require renting a BobCat for a weekend (fun, but expensive as well).
Hmm decisions decisions
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