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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Glad to hear you didn't accidentally shred your music books, Brenda.

You must have a BEAST of a shredder if you were worried you could do that on accident. I'm assuming you mean those 20 to 30 page think books like the ones I had for my guitar? Even still, if I put one of those in any shredder I ever owned it would have been instant regret and smoke.

I kept breaking them. I'd always start off with just a few sheets, but then I kept getting bolder (and bored) and shove more and more in them. I'd be able to fix it a few times, but eventually it would just end up in the trash with the last one.

I burn everything now.

After the house purge, I only have a small plastic tote with some folders with anything that is actually important. Aside from any mail that comes (which is mostly junk) that little box is the only thing left that has my name on paper.

I just tear off my name and address in any of the mail or statements, throw them in a grocery bag, recycle the rest, and burn the bag every spring when it's raining a lot and it's not a windy day.

Nothing goes into the trash with my name on it.


Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
well, THAT was an interesting oddysey! I tried calling 811 but got a recorded message: Hello, this number 1-800-277-#### is not in service. Please dial 811. (Huh. That's what I did.) If can't dial 811 you may reach us online at www.contact811.org.

So I redialed 811 just to be sure that I hadn't just encountered a momentary glitch... nope! Same message.

So I went online to www.contact811.org ... server not found

Oh, dear. Has this service been canceled bc of Covid?

So I did a Duckduck search for dial+before+dig+los+angeles and fortunately found their new, all new website, which is kinda glitchy (They asked me if I was a homeowner or business, but then dumped me into the "business" page anyway ...

NAME OF BUSINESS: SELF (HOMEOWNER)
OFFICE NUMBER: (my home phone)

and a lot of other nonsensical stuff, but I filled it out the best I could ...

NATURE OF WORK: LANDSCAPING
WILL YOU BE WORKING NEAR A POLE: NO

... and got a ticket opened. I would LIKE to talk to the person who'll be doing the locating, but it sounds like they just come, do the marking, and then email/text when the job is done. So I'll just continue with the cleanup, working around that pipe area, until tomorrow, when it will be too hot to do anything outdoors!

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Not hot here... cold actually. Just got done working for the day and decided to close my windows because it's going into the mid 50's tonight and while it's nice not having to keep the A/C on anymore that's just too cold too quick.

It will warm up by the weekend around here, but the 90's are almost certainly done and we might not even see any 80's anymore. Summer's over. :(





Going to be putting up my fascia I ordered either tomorrow or Friday depending on the weather and when they can fabricate it tomorrow. Then I just have to coordinate with the guy on getting the gutters installed.

Only thing left for me to do outside at that point is tuckpoint the foundation in a few spots and get the foundation tar up. Then it's back to indoor work until next spring.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Now the Vancouver area is dealing with a moth infestation. I had one on my balcony window all afternoon. Didn't move off until almost 8pm. Seen them all over the place today. People sent in photos to the news of months looking like snow falling in front of street lights.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It'll be nice once you're all caught up with the shredding and only have to deal with new stuff. It's so nice to have all the clutter out of your life so you've got a place for all the things you need and you're not tripping over everything.




Dental visit went great. I wasn't even aware until today that it was possible to see improvements. They have "numbers" that denote the depths of the valleys when it gets this bad, and it turns out that most of mine have improved, and the few that hadn't didn't get any worse. I didn't even know this was a thing until now. The bone never grows back, but once the tissue becomes healthy again it tightens up and fills stuff in. I told them now that I know that I'm going to work even harder at it and I'll get better scores everywhere next time. :)

Teeth cleaning always hurts when it's gone this far, but leaving the office feels even better than a haircut. I think after I move I'm going to have to make arrangements to visit with family when I come back into town every 6 months for my dental visits. I find it hard to believe that I'd ever find another office that takes as good care of me as this place does.



Weather not cooperating today, so I didn't get the work started. Got all my tools and materials though, so if things go smoothly tomorrow I should have the house wrapped up and ready for gutters.


This place I'm going to is fantastic. It's easy to tell that the new facia I'm putting up is just so much more high quality than the flimsy crap I had taken down. The gutters there are also nearly twice as thick as the stuff you get at the big box stores and only around 60% of the price. (And seemless and cut to your exact measurements on site to boot!)

I'm glad somebody turned me on to this place that specializes in aluminum. I feel like I'm in on a DIY secret that not many people know about. Otherwise I can't explain why the big box stores would carry the crap aluminum product that they sell for such high prices unless a lot of DIYers were buying it.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
So yeah, Brenda - I looked up the whole moth thing.

It looks like your not-too-dry year this year didn't make up for the past few years of dryish weather, and the trees weakened, and became susceptible to the moths. Hence the moths multiplied over time, and now they're everywhere.

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/outbreak-of-hemlock-looper-mo
th-hits-north-shore-metro-watersheds/

Still, it sounds creepy, and the pictures I saw were even creepier than the description.

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Yeah. I love the dentist. I know it's going to hurt when I go, but my hygeneist is freaking awesome and she gives me a straight up root scaling and planing every 6 months that cost me $1,500 out of pocket when I paid a periodontist to do it years back.

If I wasn't so cheap, I'd go see her 4 times a year. Maybe when I sell my house and move into something much cozier I might start treating myself to that.



With me, the paperwork itself was never in my way, but it was just more crap I didn't need that was taking up my out of sight storage space. Until I got rid of 75% of the junk I owned, I was literally tripping over the stuff that I do use because there was no place for it. Now everything has a place and decluttering my house did a great job of also decluttering my brain. It's so nice to know exactly where I need to go for something when I need it instead of spending 45 minutes throwing everything around and cussing because nothing was organized.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Save those family photos. They might not have much value on the open market, but assuming they bring back memories of good times for you, they're treasures.



Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Finished another box of shredding. Now all of that is ready to go down to recycling. Not today. Probably Monday.

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Save those family photos. They might not have much value on the open market, but assuming they bring back memories of good times for you, they're treasures.



Do Right, Be Right. :)

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I will be keeping them. They just need to be put into albums. Some are just in envelopes. Try and find some I hope are just misplaced. Those are of my dad and one of his aunts walking down a street in Calgary Alberta, so that is after WWII. Must have been Fall as he is wearing his army great coat and combat boots.

Negatives if I find anymore have to be sorted out. But I want to keep anything that I find from before 1920.

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Over the last 2 days the smoke here has gone from being 'up there' making for grey and orange skies, to 'down here' making for very hazy air, a strong smoke smell, and tremendous ashfall.

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Finished another box of shredding. Now all of that is ready to go down to recycling. Not today. Probably Monday.

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Curiously, they will not take shredded paper for recycling over here. They DO have "shredding days" when you can bring up to 5 boxes of paper for shredding, and I think that goes directly for recycling.

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Save those family photos. They might not have much value on the open market, but assuming they bring back memories of good times for you, they're treasures.



Do Right, Be Right. :)

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I will be keeping them. They just need to be put into albums. Some are just in envelopes. Try and find some I hope are just misplaced. Those are of my dad and one of his aunts walking down a street in Calgary Alberta, so that is after WWII. Must have been Fall as he is wearing his army great coat and combat boots.

Negatives if I find anymore have to be sorted out. But I want to keep anything that I find from before 1920.

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You might want to consider just keeping all of those negatives, Brenda.

They take up so little space comparatively to other things you can be trashing, and once they're gone you can never replace them. Unless you've got a room that's got piles of negatives stacked to the ceiling of course.

If it's just a shoebox or less worth of them, I'd maybe look into purchasing a special case designed to hold and protect them and just tuck them away at the bottom of your photos somewhere. You might have some really cool images stored on those things that with today's tech could pretty easily be converted to very high quality digital images.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Over the last 2 days the smoke here has gone from being 'up there' making for grey and orange skies, to 'down here' making for very hazy air, a strong smoke smell, and tremendous ashfall.

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Well winds from "down there" is driving the smoke from California, Oregon and Washington State into my province. Weather lady said tonight that most of the province will be covered by it tomorrow. More air advisories out. Reporter outdoors in Victoria and you couldn't see the Legislature buildings or the Empress hotel that were behind him.

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Well winds from "down there" is driving the smoke from California, Oregon and Washington State into my province. Weather lady said tonight that most of the province will be covered by it tomorrow. More air advisories out. Reporter outdoors in Victoria and you couldn't see the Legislature buildings or the Empress hotel that were behind him.

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Holy smokes! so to speak.

It looks like here's the smoke plumes making their way up to you over time.

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The saga of the mystery pipe ... so, they marked the gas supply line, like I posted. And I can see that the building line (after the gas meter) goes thru the foundation and under the house .... all very promising. But the mystery pipe is heading towards the supply line, and I just HAVE to see what it does when it gets to the (marked) supply line location. Is it a cutoff? Does it dive deeper?

As it turns out, it ends in a "T", and the pipe continues along the path that the 811 people had marked, so I STILL can't figure out if this is a weird gas supply pipe or something else. So I called our gas company and they came out within a couple of hours, took a look at it, looked at my meter and told me that they didn't know what it was, but that I have a new plastic pipe which is brightly colored, along with a yellow wire which is their "locator line" to which they apply a slight voltage and which helps them, and others, locate a (non-metalic) line underground: definitely NOT my gas line.

So there! I can safely remove the pipe since I know where all of my other utilities (electric, phone, cable, water) are.

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Speaking of ashfall... when the Bobcat fire comes under control, or burns itself out (whichever comes first) ... I'm going to have to hose off our solar panels. I saw them from down the street and they look GRAY, not black.

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Why are you removing it again?

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