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The rain is back.

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Over here it's hot and sunny. Friday is predicted to be almost 100F!

Too hot!

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Does cancelling the casino days save money?



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Just a few more days until the end of this blasted heat wave ...

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Well, it looks like we're going to cool down in a couple of days. If my "weather flip" notion holds up, maybe it means you'll warm up??? I hope so!

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Everyone have some feels for Fort MacMurray Alberta. They were burned out 4 years ago with all the wild fires and this Spring the residents are being flooded out.

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Well, finally this evening got around to swapping out a picture on a frame that I did up a couple of months ago. That made me feel good.

Still have another frame I want to do up with some more family photos.

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Jeez.

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Everyone have some feels for Fort MacMurray Alberta. They were burned out 4 years ago with all the wild fires and this Spring the residents are being flooded out.

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That's terrible.

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Well, finally this evening got around to swapping out a picture on a frame that I did up a couple of months ago. That made me feel good.

Still have another frame I want to do up with some more family photos.

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It's always nice to get something accomplished!

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BTW, Brenda - you're my role model - set a goal of accomplishing a project and keep working on it till it's done.

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Got some of the days a bit mixed up last week. Don't like that.

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Oy, it's a race against the falling avocado leaves, weeds, and bugs. And the leaves, weeds, and bugs are winning!

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Got some of the days a bit mixed up last week. Don't like that.

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I read that that's happening to people A LOT without their regular work-schedule.

Have a good walk!

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Oy, it's a race against the falling avocado leaves, weeds, and bugs. And the leaves, weeds, and bugs are winning!

KIKI: For the weeds, I have 2 words for you Signy - hardscape and mulch! (But your hardscape needs to be ant and weed-proof - no bricks, blocks, cobblestones, flagstones, or pavers set in sand!)

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Well... after having my mood dampened 2 days ago with my house springing a leak that I was mopping up on the reg until after 4:00AM and more or less taking yesterday off other than cleaning up the residual mess and assessing my situation, I've come to the conclusion that Spring sucks. Oh, and those gutters have to go up this year hell or high water. *pun intended*. I believe I found the source of the leak. I can't believe that I hadn't noticed it before now. There is a big patch under one of the basement windows that is cracked because they did such a horrible job on it. Once things dry up around here I'm going to dig a trench, keep my fingers crossed that it's only the top layer that need to be tuck pointed and give it the same fix I did the cinderblocks on the porch last year (that still look just as good as the day I finished them).

Back to work today. Those bedrooms aren't going to finish themselves.


In the mean time...

I didn't get a chance to really celebrate the fact that the closet was done since that happened. I don't think I'll truly be able to do so until my brother comes to stay here and we can move all the furniture up against the walls since everything will be finished by then except for the window sills and casings I have yet to construct and install.


Here's the pictures.

Thanks to Sigs and Kiki for the suggestion on what to do with my weird closet. I'd say it's definitely a huge upgrade from the closet that was there when I bought the place.



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Yuck. Bent metal crap shelving and two poles in front of each other on the right side.

Might be hard to even notice the yuck in that when you've got to get past the crap beat-up door trim, the crap beat up baseboard that had 15 layers of paint on it and were the same color as the walls, the crap beat up carpet and the crap beat up bi-fold doors.

I'm sure I have a picture somewhere too where the closet floors in both rooms were the skeeziest I've ever seen. Filthy grey wood that had never been given a coat of stain or poly after they were put down (why wouldn't you treat hardwood floors, even if they're in a closet where you wouldn't seem them 99% of the time?

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I'm pretty pleased with the results. It only took me 8 years to finally have a working closet in the house.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Coming around to the idea that what I need are big, off-the-ground perennials that I can weed and mulch under.

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But I need to find a reliable source of chipped bark/tree.

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I do have an area of front yard that's already dominated by ashy leaf buckwheat, pheasant's tail grass, purple three-awn, hollyleaf redberry, and rock purslane. (In fact, the rock purslane is SO successful I'm going to have to cut it back.)

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Part of the problem is that I'm also trying to convert what was formerly bee's bliss sage groundcover (it really was bee's bliss!) into a vegetable garden and - unfortunately- while it was a great groundcover the Bermuda grass crept in. So I've been digging up the area (about 12'X24') and sifting out the Bermuda grass roots by hand, so that adds a huge workload.

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And the weather has been so unseasonably hot that I hope I can actually plant successfully and not have the young plants and seedlings just die from heat.

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I hope the weather cools down in time for planting. Plus, the avocado trees are dumping all of their leaves all at once. We have filled six 65-gallon bins with leaves and sage in the past two weeks.

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Also, up on the agenda is to hose off the avocado trees from the bottom to control the persea mites. Over the years, I've found that works better than Neem oil or beneficial bugs. So I have to get the leaves while they're still leafing out and the mites while their populations are low.

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The problem with all of this ... weeding, watering, mowing, shopping, cooking, cleaning, laundry ... is that you know that if you finish it today, you will just have to do it again tomorrow, or next week. There's no sense of accomplishment, just treadmill.

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Brenda - you are STILL my role model!

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Nice job Jack.

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Good work Jack! Nice design Signy!

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So, in case my post got buried... NICE JOB, SIX! IT LOOKS AWESOME!!! I'm glad you took "before" pictures, because it shows what a great job you did on the walls, trim, and floor too! It looks legitimately great!

I'm always forgetting the "before" pictures and thinking about them halfway thru, so we never get to see how awful it was.


Sorry to hear about the leak, tho!

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