Comments on: If thine eyes could see. https://wimminz.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/if-thine-eyes-could-see/ Wimminz Sun, 08 Apr 2018 01:13:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: tweell https://wimminz.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/if-thine-eyes-could-see/#comment-9406 Tue, 21 Mar 2017 02:20:56 +0000 http://wimminz.wordpress.com/?p=5452#comment-9406 My dad taught me to keep a notebook in the glove compartment, and write down every bit of maintenance done on the vehicle. Thanks, Dad!

Mobil 1 oil filters are the best for cars IMHO, although I’ve been leaning towards Valvoline Synpower oil lately, the Civic seems to like it better. Advances in lubrication are a big part of why modern car engines can last longer than the car engines of my youth.

]]> By: d. beguiled https://wimminz.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/if-thine-eyes-could-see/#comment-9404 Sat, 18 Mar 2017 22:09:21 +0000 http://wimminz.wordpress.com/?p=5452#comment-9404 I used to go over to the natural building section of the website over at permies.com and learn a lot, particularly from a poster called Jay C. White Cloud, a timberwright who I think had it in the family in addition to learning from Amish and Japanese master timberwrights, and he could and did go on for pages why natural materials, put together the right way, were actually better than modern materials. Knew a lot about pest abatement too, which helps when you are planning a house, and also how to word things when you are talking to a building code guy so you could get it past him. Stuff like look at rubble trench, podium, stone foundations for Japanese Minka farm houses that have literally lasted centuries, in maximally seismic Japan, and you want a concrete slab?

Another dude, who went by Terry Ruth, who would interact with the woolly thoughts and hopes of the hippie builders, and say why this or that would not work, and why you had to test soils and wear hard hats and I kind of liked learning from him too because he was, surprise, and actual structural engineer.

Those two are long gone now. Got called too bossy, too know it all, too often telling people that their “new” idea or technology either wasn’t new or would end up with the roof on top of them in the middle of the night probably.

You could almost hear these patient guys, sighing behind the screen, as they were shouted down over and over, by the newbies who knew.

It was fun while it lasted.

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