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| Thread ID: 97789 | 2009-02-27 21:25:00 | What time do you guys get up? | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 751939 | 2009-03-01 09:34:00 | half-past :) | Zippity (58) | ||
| 751940 | 2009-03-01 11:22:00 | up at 7.30, leave for work at 7.40, at work 8 | hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 751941 | 2009-03-01 16:19:00 | Nice pics surferjoe . Looks like a cozy cottage . Indeed . The perfect retirement? Yummy Food, and a Cozy cottage:p SJ, what's the fire risk like in summer? Those tree's look to damn close for my liking . The trees (Sugar Pines, Ponderosa Pines, Cypress, etc) are all protected by various societies that insist they remain unless they are actually pushing a house out of the way or intruding into living spaces . Actually - in the tree-cycle - the deciduous trees should all be in command now - pushing the coniferous trees off the mountains . People are so enamoured by the pines that they are doing all they can to keep them alive in spite of the droughts and the tree borers that are killing them now . The fires can occur, but so far they have been on the other side of the mountain and haven't gotten there - yet . A couple of years ago (The Esperanza Fire for example) had the locals all worried . Five firemen died in a burn-over of their trucks and the house they were trying to protect . That fire was set by a pyromaniac who just this next month goes to trial for the murders . Idyllwild was originally established by the Kellogg Corporation (ie: Komplete, Almond & Sultana, Special K Light Muesli Peach & Mango flavour, the ill-fated Bart Simpson's No ProblemO's, Choco Krispies,) as a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients (then called: "consumption") and John Henry Kellogg ( . wikipedia . org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg" target="_blank">en . wikipedia . org) was treating the disease with high-colonic coffee enemas and "health foods" in the form of corn flakes, wheat germ and shredded wheat cereals . {See: "The Road to Wellville" ( . imdb . com/title/tt0111001/" target="_blank">www . imdb . com)} From the Wikipedia:"Idyllwild was once the summer home for bands of Cahuilla Indians, who migrated to the area to escape the heat of lower elevation deserts . The Cahuilla's (metates) grinding slabs can still be seen in Idyllwild . A Cahuilla legend recounts how tribesmen chanted over the body of their fallen chieftain Tahquitz, or Takwish, who had been possessed by an evil spirit and killed his sweetheart . Suddenly his body began to glow like fire, and he rose and settled on Idyllwild's Tahquitz Rock . According to the legend, Tahquitz is trapped beneath the rock with a rattlesnake and a condor for company, and when the mountain shakes and trembles, it is not an earthquake, but Tahquitz up to his evil tricks on Lily Rock . Idyllwild was known originally as Strawberry Valley because of the wild strawberries that grow there, especially beside the creek that runs through the town, Strawberry Creek . Shepherds regularly brought their flocks to the valley . In the 1880s, the Domenigoni family of San Jacinto homesteaded land near what is now the Idyllwild Arts Academy . In 1889, George and Sarah Hannahs built a summer camp next to the site of their sawmill in upper Dutch Flat; they named it Camp Idyllwilde . By the 1890s a toll road had been built from Hemet, which opened Idyllwild to settlement, logging, and tourism . A post office was established in 1893; at this time, the town was called Rayneta after the Hannahs' son Raymond . In 1901, the Idyllwild Sanatorium was built to treat tuberculosis patients . The sanatorium was soon remodeled as a resort called "Idyllwild Among the Pines," and, later, "Idyllwild . " In 1901, the town's official named was changed to Idyllwild . With the invention of the automobile, Idyllwild became a weekend tourist attraction for people in Southern California . For many years, the town presented itself as an alpine village, and hotels and businesses had German or German-sounding names, but this practice ended during World War II . From the 1930s to 1950s, Idyllwild was a center for the production of pinecraft furniture, sometimes called "knotty pine furniture," the fine log furniture made in the Arts and Crafts style . Under the direction of Charles "Selden" Belden, the furniture was produced by the Idyllwild Pinecraft Furniture Company and, later, C . Selden Belden Idyllwild Pinecraft . The furniture is now "collectible" and can be found in many Idyllwild houses and cabins . In the late 1960s and 1970s, there was an influx of hippies in Idyllwild, which changed the nature of the town and alarmed many longtime residents . Timothy Leary lived on a ranch in nearby Garner Valley, with the ranch serving as the headquarters of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love . [1] Currently the ranch encampment in Garner Valley is operated by Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times as a year-round retreat for children with cancer and their families" Most of the outlaying cabins had no insulation, were not very weatherproof nor were they built to any existing or obvious building codes . Morally, all these old buildings should have come down years ago, but some have a rustic charm that people (read: "monied-people") have decided to invest in and rebuild and revamp to some sort of normal standards and qualify them as "second-homes", "third-homes", "get-away homes" and investments . A few of them I have been involved in the general remodeling and rebuilding, working as an adviser and detail-guy for the new owners as we try to insulate and weather-tighten the building without changing too much of it's "charm" and personality . Insulation is a real problem - or lack-of-it is really . Structurally the biggest problem is lack of a real foundation . Most times the house was build over a shoveled ditch that had a cement block at each end and occasionally another one or two somewhere in the length of the ditch which was then cold-poured by hand mixed barrows full of cement to establish the one (and usually only) "bearing footer" to support the cabin and keep it from sliding down the mountain, obeying the pull of gravity . We call these cabins "prostitutes" as they have no visible means of support . Quite a few cabins have had to be raised, buttressed into that position and a new bond-beam with rebar was poured under the home and the home then resettled on the new foundation . I especially like to do this kind of rebuilding . It's fun levitating the whole cabin over you and building a rebar frame in a 10-foot deep ditch for a concrete pour under it . , |
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| 751942 | 2009-03-01 23:17:00 | Hmm! That's over 250 lbs Rob! We have cars that weigh less! When i was into my weights etc hard out I got up to 120kg . But I wasnt very comfortable carrying that much around . Im 6ft3 so i guess it doesnt really show that much . |
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