Before we sold our old house, I had replaced the softener with one bought off the shelf at HD. I wouldn’t bother with hiring someone, I am not what anyone would consider “handy”, and I was able to pull the old one, prep and reinstall the new one, and have everything up and running in under three hours, sans a flood. I think all told I spent about $300, and if you already have some of the tools, probably closer to $250. I’m sure that prices have increased on the actual softeners, this was approximately 2016-18, but unless you are looking for the top of the line I wouldn’t feel comfortable spending more than $500.

Meh, at this point I think I’ll just wait until whatever generation they start financing these things, or more likely move to a subscription model.

Does three sizes of portables and now a single axle wheelhouse count? (Gonna need to build a second garage to store everything pretty soon…

Well I for one (after finally pulling the trigger on a wheelhouse after 10 years of pipe dreaming) am hoping for a 2013 type of winter. Give me extensions needed in the metro

Well looks like I won’t be missing Fox Spor..erBallerrrr ….FanDuel Sports or whatever gambling outfit owns it next

Yay, we get to be on somebody else’s trivia question again…

This trash is worse than even I expected. About the only silver lining is the Knicks looking just as bad. Hopefully this game doesn’t turn into the clown show that one did.

I’ll still maintain this was a move about money, and the basketball effects were a distant second consideration. I don’t share your enthusiasm for Randle, nor the belief that any second big deal is coming. The other guy is a back-up, and while the shooting is nice he will in reality probably just hinder the development of the two guys we just drafted. This is a wing and a prayer hope that Naz and Jaden can still improve while not paying the tax. If it works, great, if it doesn’t you’ve just wasted the prime of the guy you picked to be lead dog, and we’re back in the usual Wolves rut. With so little draft capital remaining, there’s really no margin for error, and no place between those options. I would wager most rational Wolves fans expect the worst as its usually what happens with this team.

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I love Naz, don’t get me wrong. I just think some Wolves fans have blinders on when it comes to his limitations. The story is great, but he wasn’t highly sought after coming out for a reason. To his credit he’s worked his butt off to be a more complete player, but he’s not suddenly gonna be a different body type or taller. I think he played his perfect role last season, and the returns will diminish with more time. My biggest worry is what happens when ANT invariably goes down for any length of time, as he has every year lately, and who picked up the scoring slack. There’s no one least on this squad that has proven they can do that for any length of time, and Randle ain’t it.

Problem is this minimizes Naz, he was best as mismatch 3, he’s ordinary as a true 4 and Randle isn’t playing that spot. Takes away his niche. I don’t take the popular opinion on Jaden, he’s a head case, great defender when he’s not taking stupid, emotional fouls, ok on offense, when he feels like it and isn’t all up in his own head. If he wasn’t still young, honestly I’d have rather flipped him over Kat, at least the ROI would have been better. Btw that draft pick isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, unless one suddenly has a great deal of optimism about the perennially awful Pistons.

Not gonna lie, underwhelmed. Don’t get me wrong, not a fan of Kat’s antics, but Randle is just as big a turd, and a downgrade in every basketball aspect, PLUS he can’t stay on the floor. Couldn’t pick the other guy out of a two person line-up. We now have quite literally no one on the roster capable of guarding Joker, and are one ANT injury away from offensive irrelevance. There isn’t a player that would have been a worse trade than Randle, he won’t last 2 seasons here, book it. On the plus side, at least I won’t have to watch the slide back to mediocrity, I still ain’t paying one red cent more for Bally’s.

REALLY hoping for ice this year, as I finally pulled the trigger on a fish house a couple weeks ago. So hopefully gonna hit the big ones (Red, ML, LOW, Winnie) and maybe throw in a few “I’d try it if I had a fish house and could stay a while” kinda spots. Probably wind up getting out once or twice, and wish for more, but after the last couple years, I’ll take it.

For future reference…makes life a lot easier. They go up nearly 3 stories

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Hey Bearcat, what league is that out of curiosity? My older son played 13u Gopher State this summer, we’re nowhere that level, from the sounds of things, just rec league in our case, but pretty sure all the travel teams were playing mounds and 75′ base paths I think? All kids except maybe a few held back are going into eighth grade in the fall.

Spooky looking last hour here in the N Metro

Way I do it is 1/4 inch hardware cloth, cut a rectangle maybe 7″-9″ by 15″ to 17″, make a half tube, wider at the top, put the wide end to the hole or gap, staple the screen down to the shingles, siding, whatever surface you’re on. Bats have to land and crawl in, they don’t just fly in a hole like a bird. If it’s vinyl, brick, LP etc… tape works, but be careful what you use. Bats can’t chew, so it doesn’t need to be anything super durable. This applies to things like soffit gaps, what we call “overlaps”, I think the technical term is soffit returns, siding holes, whatever. If it’s something like a fascia corner or drip edge, where you don’t have a long enough flat surface to attach, you can still use the screen, just make a full cone, and make sure you angle it down a a decent angle, or you can use aluminum flashing. If you look online, it’ll tell you you need a valve or, some window screen or something at the end, in my experience you don’t, as long as you’re gonna seal it up quickly, just extending the entry away from the hole is enough. Hope that wasn’t too long winded…

Only because it might not be alone.

I’d consider a one-way door, over the spot they are coming in, if it didn’t just fly in the door that is..

INSIDE the garage? Is it finished (ie has a ceiling?) Looks like bat droppings to me, and I’ve seen A LOT. Tree frog droppings are usually larger than bats, ironically since they are much smaller, and they are almost never inside a structure, usually outside entries with lights. My guess would be, if it’s not finished, you have bats up there coming in after feeding for the night and doing their business before settling in to roost elsewhere in the garage roof. If it’s finished, I’d really need to see what it looks like. As far as toads go, I don’t get a lot of calls for those, but I would agree they should look similar to any other insect eater.

In case anyone is interested, Reis’s brother Erik was on PA’s show on KFAN yesterday. I’m sure it’s available on demand. Gave a pretty chilling description of what these guys went through. Worth the listen.

Little Stanchfield, N of Cambridge. Don’t even need a boat, they’re all you catch in the little spillway by the launch. Big enough they break off 50% of the time…

Justin riegel wrote:

This one hits close to home. Reis was my son’s soccer coach last fall, I am really hoping for a good outcome here. I never wear a life jacket or pull cord on the boat. I will from now on.

Yep, acquaintances through wrestling and football, he was my son’s football coach a couple years back. Just an awful situation all around. Good reminders and advice all around.

Been a long while now, but used to make that trip several times a year when I was in school to the the old University field station at Itasca. Our preferred route was the Sauk Centre route. Always seemed to hit a lot of delay through St. Cloud and further up 10.

Tlazer wrote:

Was talking about Zach Wilson. I just don’t see the benefit of using 2 to 3 first round draft picks to move up to take a QB, when most of them fail to ever make it in the NFL. Look at the 2018 draft, 5 QB’s taken. Mayfield at #1, Darnold at #3, Allen at #7, Rosen at #10 and Jackson at #32. The best 2 were taken at #7 and #32. If you hit on using all those top draft choices you did good, but if you miss I think you really set your team back. This also applies to other positions as well, not just at QB. I can see using like a third round pick along with your first round pick to move up a few spots to secure your targeted player, like the Packers did to secure drafting Love at #26. But I guess I would be ok with using the #11 pick, the #23 pick and next years #1 pick to draft in the top 3 for a QB that when you look at the averages will probably be a bust.

Vikings fans are so confusing. You hated the last guy because he traded back all the time to amass “bites at the apple” and you don’t want this guy to take a shot because he might miss. So am I to understand you just never want to trade during the draft at all? Cuz you realize it’s ALL just a crap shoot, no matter where the draft pick is, right?

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Yes, better to use 2-3 first round drafts picks to trade up for a QB, especially when you look at past drafts of the top QB’s in the draft usually end up a bust is a much better way to go. Weren’t Darnold, Wentz, Lance, Wilson, Trubisky to name a few picked at the top of the first round.

Most drafted QB in general are busts. There’s only 5-6 legitimately great QBs on the planet currently. That doesn’t mean that every team doesn’t need to expend every possible resource to get one of those QBs. What good is 2-3 first round picks if the team doesn’t have a QB. Trent Dilfer won the SB once. Hoping to have that particular lightning strike again is a fool’s errand. Until one’s team has a franchise QB, every other need should be secondary, but trading away all legitimate talent will simply ensure that whatever QB is selected will have no chance of success, and that whatever regime does the deal will no longer be employed.

Good grief, I clearly haven’t been paying much attention to hockey lately, but is the Sharks roster comprised solely of ex-Wild players?

Whoo boy…bring on the G League

Afraid this one might get ugly quick. Hopefully they can at least make a good showing, so as not to kill momentum, but hard to see how.

Joker might go for a Wilt

eyeguy507 wrote:

4-2 on the 6 game road trip without Towns and Rudy.

they better be resting all important players tomorrow against the champs or Finchy better have an explanation.

refs have definitely started swallowing their whistles since the absurd Cleveland game where Rudy made the 100K gesture so thank you Rudy. doubt it keeps up but its nice to see players decide the games for once.

Damn it feels good to be a Wolves fan again!

I don’t know if they have the option, short of calling up half the G-League squad. Who’s left, Minott? Not like there’s a lot of size, biggest is what, Miller?