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Had to move a few more things then lift it over my head to get it through a really narrow spot into the living room.

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AHA!!! Now we know that you're Supergirl! behind that mild mannered disguise.

For the life of me I can't imagine ANYone doing that.

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But it is now in its spot with a blanket over it and the foot stool it comes with as well.

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CONGRATS!!

And I believe, come winter, it'll be a favorite spot.

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DAY 300, 2020
US Deaths per day: 7,808
US Deaths so far in 2020: 2,342,400


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"Should be doing some recycling but I am still sore from moving that recliner into my place on Sunday."

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So my cat has been having hairball problems. And I used to occasionally give him a petromalt-like product to help the hairballs. Which he used to like, until he didn't, a couple of days ago. Sigh. He'll hardly let me brush him, so aside from shaving him down, without the petromalt I was at a loss for that to do.

But then I remembered I have a couple of smallish plastic bags filled with organic dried catnip from a coworker who used to grow and dry it, and give it away to people he knew who had cats. (Sometimes he'd even buy long, cheap, non-fuzzy white socks and stuff them with catnip to give away as toys. He was a Harley-loving cat-guy.) And a small crumbling of that over the hairball remedy worked wonders for its likeability!

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Yay! on finding a hopefully long lasting solution to your cat's problem.

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Brenda

I literally laughed out loud when I read this "Almost fell asleep earlier this evening in that chair." I'm guessing now you know the seductive power of a comfortable recliner!

In any case, I hope your remaining aches will go away soon.

Yeah .. Ree Drummond. She gets on my nerves a bit. I used to watch her show because she had a fair bit of regional cooking. But the more I watched the more I realized that she uses the same mix-n-match ingredients in the same way over and over and over ... today I'm using shrimp and broccoli for stir fry and tomorrow it'll be pork!

I used to watch Chopped! but my memory for specialty cooking terms is very poor, so the descriptions went by me ... what's a remoulade, again? Or a veloute? I've watched "Guy's Grocery Games" and "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" as well, and he had another one which was filmed on his ranch that I liked, but I can't remember the name.

But with the shows you watch, jeez, no wonder you get hungry! (There's a reason I don't watch baking shows, HA HA!)

Chicken and rice ... sounds delish. Now ** I'm ** getting hungry!

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I'm glad you're diggin the chair, Brenda.




It's been 24/7 rain and high 30's to low 40's the last two days. Supposed to be sunny and in the 50's tomorrow.

Hoping that's true, because I got a flat on one of my 70,000 mile tires that only have about 4,000 miles on them on the way home from my friend's Sunday night. Something hit the car on the expressway. I heard it wind up and felt a thud on my car when it happened, but it was too dark to see anything. Car seemed to ride just fine for about a mile but then I knew a tire was flat. Drove it home on the rim because I was close and I've had a little experience doing that in my youth.

I've got a full size spare ready to go. Pretty old though, so I'll have to get the other rim redone. I'm thinking about ordering a new tire online and doing it myself. Assuming the tool costs less than $100 and it's not impossible for me to do myself, it will be a new skill learned and won't cost more than what I'd pay just to have somebody else do it. I can't believe how expensive it is to get a new tire these days.

If I can't do it myself, I know a hole in the wall joint out in Gary that will put a used tire on for around $40.

Fun stuff.

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Yay! on finding a hopefully long lasting solution to your cat's problem.

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Thanks. Poor guy, he must have been born under an unlucky star. But bit by bit I think I'm working out what he needs to have a really good life.

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Finally stopped raining today and was reasonably warm.

Waited for the dry weather because I knew what I was in for and I wasn't wrong. Tires are damn near welded on the car with rust. Took over an hour to do something that would only take about 5 to 10 minutes in ideal conditions.

Next spring I'm going to make a day of it and remove all of my tires one by one so I can brush/grind the rust off and put on some anti-seize lubrication so I don't have to worry about that if another one goes flat on me.

The full size spare isn't in very decent shape with the treads, although it seems to hold the air fine. It was at around 20psi in the trunk after nearly 2 1/2 years and inflated just fine. Better than a donut for sure, but I'm not going to want to drive too long or too far on that before getting it replaced.

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All chores done for today and now having a nice sit down and a snack.

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I struggle with puppy wuppy when I have to give HER a pill: She has a very talented mouth and can yak something up that I swear to god was already halfway down her throat.

I used to bury the pills in the "pill pockets" until she got wise to them. Then I buried them in butter. Then sour cream. The latest iteration is almond butter. Or, I just struggle with her by trying to drop them straight in and holding her mouth closed until she swallows. (And, no, blowing in her nose only worked the first two times.)

The things we do for our pets!!!

Good for you for finding out the trick! Knowing how our pets learn, I hope it works for a long, long time!

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Hey SIX, sorry to hear about that flat tire. I had something like that happen to me on the freeway a few years ago; fortunately the weather was good and the car tracked straight when the tire went POP!

Sounds like a struggle getting that tire off the rim! Now, if you only had one of those hydraulic presses that just pop the tire off... Sounds like the hole is in the tread, not the sidewall. I assume you have a tire fix kit?

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Good for you!

Wish I could say the same, but still progressing thru several large projects and also trying to take care of the day-to-day. Someday, tho, I will be able to just my hands and say "There! That's done!"

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Hey Brenda and Signy -

Signy, I can relate on hoping to have a day when I can say ... all done. But Brenda, you help keep me motivated!

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China, Xi is on the ballot.

A vote for Biden is a vote for China.

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There is a stale debate in Washington over whether President Xi Jinping wants Trump or Biden to win November’s presidential elections, and might he tilt everything from trade decisions to intelligence operations to extract his preferred outcome.

China’s Xi casts his vote in U.S. elections. (Hint: it’s not for Trump or Biden)

The reality is that President Xi has already decided who he prefers to be the victor in our 2020 elections – and that would be China.

We’re in the systemic struggle of our age, and the U.S. democratic system is facing one of the great stress tests of its history without any certainty about the outcome. The situation is bound to get messier through the elections and, perhaps, far beyond.

The United States won its global role on the attractiveness of its values and the effectiveness of its institutions, charms that were tarnished even before the country’s worst-in-class performance in the face of coronavirus. Deaths this week in the U.S. hit a world record 233,437 while China is at 4,634, leaving allies around the world bewildered about their favorite superpower. www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Chinese leaders are telling their global partners this confirms further that the United States is a declining leader with a faltering model. Beijing underscores the value of their brand of leadership, which focuses more on being at the center of global influence that on being atop the heap.

China remains busy, seizing opportunities wherever it senses America has left behind a global leadership vacuum worth filling. In the face of COVID-19, it has demonstrated a remarkable ability to multi-task. The evidence of that would fill volumes.

Chinese military leaders have said they’d like to make Taiwan their own by the time of the Chinese Communist Party’s 100th anniversary in July of next year. https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/08/us-taiwan-china-relations-stop-pa
ndering-coronavirus/

It will take a far more focused and consistent Washington, acting with greater cohesion alongside its global allies, to deter any such birthday aspirations.

More at https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/inflection-points/china
s-xi-casts-his-vote-in-us-elections-hint-it-is-not-for-trump-or-biden/

The coronavirus pandemic has left governments in disarray and made planning even weeks ahead difficult. In Beijing this week, however, China's leaders met to set specific policy for much of the coming decade. Key goals that have been previewed in state media include a pivot away from GDP growth at all costs, cutting carbon emissions and achieving self-sufficiency in technology and science, amid increasing pressure from the United States on that front.

This kind of long-term planning is in contrast to the often flip-flopping nature of democracies, where promises and plans set in place by one government are vulnerable to being undone by the next -- a point often highlighted in Chinese state media to defend the legitimacy of Beijing's authoritarian system.

Few American presidents have put this into starker relief than Donald Trump, who upon taking office scrapped a major trade deal, withdrew the US from the Paris climate accord, and set about dismantling the Iran nuclear agreement, essentially reversing all the long-term policy established by the Obama administration.
www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/asia/china-beijing-plenum-us-intl-hnk/index.htm
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Bummer, Brenda.

Hopefully this is all over soon.

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Whoever said that native gardening is "less work" than a lawn.... lied.


But I have a plan for after all of this planting, that with selective watering, mulching and a little spraying, the work will be reduced to watering and pruning and a little weeding. I expect to see a garden-ful of bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, lizards (because I make little "lizard houses" for them out of chunks of broken concrete) and birds.

The neighbors have already noticed that even with the pollinator=friendly plants in the other part of the yard that I always have butterflies flitting about. What they don't see (because they aren't casual birders. like me) is that a lot of migrating birds come stopping by for a drink or a bite to eat, like "butterbutts" (yellow warblers), Anna's hummingbirds, orioles, towhees, owls, falcons, hawks etc besides the usual crows, ravens, mockingbirds, scrub jays, phoebes, and English sparrows.




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Whoever said that native gardening is "less work" than a lawn.... lied.


But I have a plan for after all of this planting, that with selective watering, mulching and a little spraying, the work will be reduced to watering and pruning and a little weeding. I expect to see a garden-ful of bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, lizards (because I make little "lizard houses" for them out of chunks of broken concrete) and birds.

The neighbors have already noticed that even with the pollinator=friendly plants in the other part of the yard that I always have butterflies flitting about. What they don't see (because they aren't casual birders. like me) is that a lot of migrating birds come stopping by for a drink or a bite to eat, like "butterbutts" (yellow warblers), Anna's hummingbirds, orioles, towhees, owls, falcons, hawks etc besides the usual crows, ravens, mockingbirds, scrub jays, phoebes, and English sparrows.




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I'm hoping that after reducing my landscaping to hardscape, some mulch and some bare dirt areas, and large and critter/ bird/ pollinator friendly shrubs and trees it'll provide good walking and some recreation areas, cool my lot, and be low maintenance ... as well as being a respite for natives and honey bees.

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Despite the fact it was near freezing outside, I got the bug late in the day to do something about that ladder.

Although it probably won't be the final resting place, it's off the floor now. I found two heavy duty shelf brackets I didn't know I still had. In a perfect world, I would have mounted them to studs on the back wall to hang both the 12ft and 7ft ladders, but that would require me removing about 7 more feet of various tools I'd put up on the wall with no real place for me to put them until I fix the shed.

I mounted them fairly high up on a ceiling joist. The top part of the ladder isn't very wide and is on the right side by the service door, with the bottom part of the ladder being around 38" on the left side. 3/4 of the ladder is high enough that I'd never hit my head on it, but I will have to be careful if I walk around the front of my car when I get out since I could hit it. It wouldn't fall, but it would be annoying... At least the feet are rubber so I wouldn't gouge my forehead on a hard metal corner. There's so much room in there now though I can park deep enough to easily walk around the back.

I even engineered it to be easy to mount and unmount. I knew this would require me to be able to put the top part up first, and if I did that as-is I would risk damaging the ladder on the hard edges of the steel mounts. I found some old pipe insulation, cut it to size, then wrapped it tight with twine and tied it up.

I thought I'd have to take out my milk carton to stand on, but nope. :) I can just lift the top of the ladder on the right mount after the third rung, then easily put the bottom of the ladder on the left mount straight from the ground.

I love it when a plan comes together.



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Is that with or without hardscape? - because people like spacious walkways, patios, decks, porches, etc and I've never heard of significant limitations on those. I suspect if you completely paved over your lot with concrete there would be some generic prohibition, but otherwise you'd be safe making things easier by building a patio or such. I know I intend to 'pave' the lower 40 with pavers, with very wide (8') native shrub-planted borders along the alley and the fenceline. IDK about your city, but everything I've ever read basically in general counts a 'planted area' as a view from above, so a tree canopy counts.

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