Found a hen in the street "Backyard Chicken"

[Irving]

Do you guys have spread sheets or charts or anything to help with organization, or if you die and your wife needs to figure out why the microwave turns on every time she watches Days of Our Lives?

I spend all day sketching people's houses and could build a blue print of mine in less than an hour but haven't bothered. I'd like to build the blueprint and diagram which circuits control which outlets and lights. It'd come in handy probably 5 times a year, yet I've not taken the time to actually do it.

Also, chickens.

[brutal]

Do you guys have spread sheets or charts or anything to help with organization, or if you die and your wife needs to figure out why the microwave turns on every time she watches Days of Our Lives?

I spend all day sketching people's houses and could build a blue print of mine in less than an hour but haven't bothered. I'd like to build the blueprint and diagram which circuits control which outlets and lights. It'd come in handy probably 5 times a year, yet I've not taken the time to actually do it.

Also, chickens.

LOL. TF I care after I'm dead.

j/k. Envelope with all the account login and passwords. Executor of my will can figure it out with the family from there.

That said. That's also another reason I'm moving away form smart bulbs to point switches.

[Irving]

To bring this thread back to chickens, here are two in the nesting boxes at the same time. They like to share spaces. The one in the top left sometimes lays immediately below. The other two share the space the one in the lower right is occupying. If one is in the bottom and the other comes in, they cluck at each other until one moves, like waiting for the toilet. The other chicken lays across the coop. I've got enough nesting boxes for like 12 hens, but four of them wait in a line. Whatever.

[Irving]

This is a terrible picture, but it is TWO hawks sitting in the tree down the street watching over the yard.

[OtterbatHellcat]

Not for my house, but I do for my truck. And a shitload of pics to help remember how stuff was done.

[Irving]

That's a good move. When run new wires in my house, I write in a sharpie on both ends of the wire (junction box in attic, and right before it goes through the soffit into the box) with a sharpie saying what it goes to. I'm sure some electrician will laugh at me in the future, and hopefully triple check to make sure I'm correct, but it sure makes me feel better.

[Irving]

A regular paddle switch is what, $2-3? I needed a 3-way 10v dimmer, in white, for my LED living room. Cost me $70 online. I can only imagine what a Wifi friendly one costs.

[brutal]

A regular paddle switch is what, $2-3? I needed a 3-way 10v dimmer, in white, for my LED living room. Cost me $70 online. I can only imagine what a Wifi friendly one costs.

I can buy a 3 pack of Lutron Caseta smart dimmers with Pico remote on ebay for ~40 each. Slap the remote in a faux plate on a wall for an instant wireless 3-way. HD sells the 3-pack retail for $48 each. The "better" ones with an additional "favorite" button, that use a neutral and run MLV or ELV lights (virtually anything) and at a higher wattage I picked up for $60 each but those don't come with a remote - thought the Pico remotes do work with them.

A Zooz paddle switch is $40 or less. They can also run 3-way or 4-way with dumb switches.

P.S. They're not WiFi, they're z-wave. Wifi stuff only works with the likes of Alexa and Google Home. Z-wave and zigbee are the new HA standards.

I'll stop crapping your thread now, sorry.

[Irving]

I've never even heard of zwave and zigabee, but I'm interested in being educated.

I'll stop crapping your thread now, sorry.

I just want to make sure you can keep up. No one can crap up a thread like a chicken, with this perfect spiral crap. I should have framed this in a shadow box.

[brutal]

I've never even heard of zwave and zigabee, but I'm interested in being educated.



I just want to make sure you can keep up. No one can crap up a thread like a chicken, with this perfect spiral crap. I should have framed this in a shadow box.

Looks like a mini Dairy Queen swirl ice cream.