02 Base for my son

George B said:

You might have some of our equipment in that plant. If you do continuous blow down on that boiler you may have our heat recovery system for the make up water. And the plant may use our samplers at different points of the process.

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We don’t have a closed loop system. It’s the stupidest thing, we dump our condensate to the ground. The money to run return lines back to the makeup thanks would be crazy. Besides that, we have 2 boiler tied to the the same header and sometimes only run on one. So if the condensate runs to one boiler that isn’t running it’s just gonna overflow anyway. And we would have to heat trace and insulate the return water and have pumps in every building. Their thought process at the time was, we are on a quarry and don’t pay for water so it wasn’t cost effective. Only thing we waste is chemicals but we also use RO water for boilers so it’s so clean anyway it doesn’t take much chemical.
We don’t have continuous blowdown. Skimmers are pinched way down and we manually blow down the boilers once a week.

Short video of last year lake drags. Lining up 4-5 wide to get thru the 40 racers for test and tune.

This is his new ride for this season.

Home sweet home. 3hr drive one way and left this morning at 7am. Got home at 1:30. I don’t know why but I always have anxiety after making big purchases. I’m sure it will pass when I feel what a 300hp pull feels like.
Didn’t get a picture before I covered it so I did a screen shot off my ring camera.

My heart is broken and it hurts.

Snowbound said:

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Sorry Jim. Sux to lose a faithful friend.

So sorry brother. I lost both my boys to my ex wife in March. Tried to fight it, but it wasn’t gonna happen. Worst part of my divorce without a doubt.

Excuse my absence, having to put Lola down was ******* the entire family. My daughter looks for her in the stars almost every night still. Can’t believe how bad it hit Jess, she does not want another dog after having to go thru that.
Lola got pretty bad rather quickly there at the end. It was as hard of a decision to make as most would think but I couldn’t see her in distress any longer. Made a call for vet to come out to the house for an emergency euthanasia and had Jess’ mom come pick up Julianna. She didn’t want to say goodbye to Lola, just buried her face in Jess’ stomach and said she didn’t want her to go as she cried.
Been dealing with my boys shit since early November, their mom let them do whatever they want and dad puts his foot down so I’m the A-hole and they decided not to come back here anymore but they did come say goodbye to Lola before it happened. Long story with that mess and gonna spare you all the details.

Cooked my Lola her own steak that night. Nice big fat ribeye, bloody just the way we like it. Jess spoiled her with some treats as well all the way up until the doc showed up. She first gave her a sedative and Lola was snoring in a matter of minutes. Gave her the shot and my poor girl’s breathing increased a little for about 6 seconds followed by one final exhale and it was over. The vet and I slid Lola over onto her favorite blanket that was on a stretcher and as she’s strapping Lola in Rosie (our cat) came over to Lola and smelled her head and rubbed her face against Lola’s paw like she was saying her goodbye. Jess lost it at that point. We carried Lola out to the the van for her trip to Cozy Acres where I had her individually cremated so I could keep her ashes. Picked them up 3 days later.


Julianna cried herself to sleep for about a week after. She wrote in her journal every night how much she hoped Lola wasn’t feeling alone in heaven.


A note to her Elf to take to Santa.

It was tough. Just as it was with Peanut. Buried myself in work like I always do and only made matters worse for my foot. Had a limited snowmobile season due to weather but made the most of it as often as I could but not enough. Other than work and going up north I haven’t gotten anything else done due to this foot throbbing and not being able to stand on it. Finally made the call to schedule the surgery and I’m going in on 4-24, Julianna’s birthday. I’m gonna be down for about 6 weeks they say but I say, challenge accepted.

Hope everyone has been safe and healthy during this time and I have a lot of catching up to do here so bare with me as I read what I’ve missed out on.

Snowbound said:

Excuse my absence, having to put Lola down was ******* the entire family. My daughter looks for her in the stars almost every night still. Can’t believe how bad it hit Jess, she does not want another dog after having to go thru that.
Lola got pretty bad rather quickly there at the end. It was as hard of a decision to make as most would think but I couldn’t see her in distress any longer. Made a call for vet to come out to the house for an emergency euthanasia and had Jess’ mom come pick up Julianna. She didn’t want to say goodbye to Lola, just buried her face in Jess’ stomach and said she didn’t want her to go as she cried.
Been dealing with my boys shit since early November, their mom let them do whatever they want and dad puts his foot down so I’m the A-hole and they decided not to come back here anymore but they did come say goodbye to Lola before it happened. Long story with that mess and gonna spare you all the details.

Cooked my Lola her own steak that night. Nice big fat ribeye, bloody just the way we like it. Jess spoiled her with some treats as well all the way up until the doc showed up. She first gave her a sedative and Lola was snoring in a matter of minutes. Gave her the shot and my poor girl’s breathing increased a little for about 6 seconds followed by one final exhale and it was over. The vet and I slid Lola over onto her favorite blanket that was on a stretcher and as she’s strapping Lola in Rosie (our cat) came over to Lola and smelled her head and rubbed her face against Lola’s paw like she was saying her goodbye. Jess lost it at that point. We carried Lola out to the the van for her trip to Cozy Acres where I had her individually cremated so I could keep her ashes. Picked them up 3 days later.
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Julianna cried herself to sleep for about a week after. She wrote in her journal every night how much she hoped Lola wasn’t feeling alone in heaven.
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A note to her Elf to take to Santa.
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It was tough. Just as it was with Peanut. Buried myself in work like I always do and only made matters worse for my foot. Had a limited snowmobile season due to weather but made the most of it as often as I could but not enough. Other than work and going up north I haven’t gotten anything else done due to this foot throbbing and not being able to stand on it. Finally made the call to schedule the surgery and I’m going in on 4-24, Julianna’s birthday. I’m gonna be down for about 6 weeks they say but I say, challenge accepted.

Hope everyone has been safe and healthy during this time and I have a lot of catching up to do here so bare with me as I read what I’ve missed out on.

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I'm so sorry for your loss brother. Always hard to lose a good friend. Hoping she felt no pain. Would've been selfish to NOT do it. Still....such a hard decision to make.

Lots of good work on that garage floor and the sleds. Sorry for the loss of Lola. We lost our little chocolate dog, Charlie, at Thanksgiving. He passed in my wife's arms. I feel for you all. Be well.

Damn man. It’s so hard to let them go. I know how you felt about making that decision though. It’s so tough, but you don’t want them suffering anymore, and you know it has to be done. I did that back in 2020, and still have Todd’s picture on my wallpaper of my phone, so see him every day. Bless you and your family.