Our palm is 11 years old and has never been descaled, though the high winds on the past few weeks have had it descaling itself.
The reddish areas are where the scales have blow off.
A utility knife makes quick work of the lowest section.
To reach higher up a bucket is used for access while a machete is used to initially descale followed by a utility knife to trim up.
Clean trunk of our palm and the scale pile. Two more trees are being decaled in the background. So why is our palm so much taller than the neighbors? For several years we had a small unknown water leak near the palm and when palms get water they grow and grow.
I thought picking which replacement hard drive to buy to replace the failing HHD in my computer would be easy. Was I ever wrong. I had a few criteria I wanted to meet. I wanted to go with a solid state drive. I wanted at least 1TB and preferably 2TB’s due to all the photos and videos I take as well as the photo and video editing I do. I also wanted something that was of good quality and lastly, I wanted it to be easy to clone my failing drive and then install in my computer.
Since my computer is an older one, I decided I didn’t need the latest and greatest SSD, I just wanted one that did the job and had a decent life expectancy. I have a NAS on our network as well as a number of external hard drives I use for redundancy. We are highly invested in genealogy and family history and we don’t want to lose any of the decades of research we have done.
I deciding which SSD to buy I looked at the major review sites, the manufacturers sites, the major online retailer sites and my old standby, YouTube. Sifting through the reviews on the retailer sites it was clear to me that Samsung had the best ease of cloning. As to which one I picked, in the end I went with the 2TB 870 QVO. I liked how the review sites would write about how much better the more expensive EVO 870 was compared to the QVO 870, then down near the end of the article they would indicate that the typical user probably wouldn’t really notice much difference between the two. Time will tell if I made the right decision. It is interesting that Samsung had the same price as Amazon, while Best Buy was higher. Installation post hopefully coming in a few days.
This post shows two of the worst problems with our recent fence installation.
The chain link extends down so far beyond the bottom rail of the gate into the pergola area that it drags on the patio after only opening this far. The frame of the gate has a terrible welding job and it is not square. The installers obvious never tried to open the gate to this side after installing it, or they just didn’t care if it didn’t open all the way.
This is the gate into our side yard. It was installed upside down. Those sharp ends should not stick up above the rail.
This is the gate into our neighbors side yard, and is only a few feet away from our gate. This is the way the chain link should terminate at the top of the gate. There are other more minor problems in other areas of our installation. They are coming out in a few days to inspect it. Once it is fixed to our satisfaction they will be paid for the installation. I hope they realize the degree needed to satisfy my wife is very, very high.
