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Originally posted by Brenda:
Think there was a brief hail storm in my area at around 5pm then after a bit it turned back into rain.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nice. It's going to be almost 50 degrees on Sunday. It might rain and turn to snow at night though. :(


I wasn't ready for bed yet and I ended up sanding the face of the first two cabinets up top and inside about half of one of them. I was making a mess though and even with the bag it makes too much dust. As much as I'm itching to do them, I still have to clean off all the wall tiles so I can get plastic up and cover everything, and wash the ceiling so I can get plastic up and block off the kitchen, or I'm going to have a mess all over the house.


But at least I'll be able to paint the sides of two of the end cabinets tomorrow after my regular paint shift and see how they look. I'm not putting any primer on the upper cabinets though until they're sanded and I get a chance to put the wood filler in where it's needed. They need a lot of it.


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Originally posted by Brenda:
Think there was a brief hail storm in my area at around 5pm then after a bit it turned back into rain.

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Hail usually means VERY strong updrafts/wild weather. In the midwest, tornado weather. Good thing nothing worse happened!

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Originally posted by SignyM:
https://www.4feldco.com/articles/get-rid-of-gutter-ice-dams/

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SIX: I think it would be weird if with all of that melting snow your sump pump WASN'T going off, altho I can understand the flinch reaction! It would be like seeing snow elt but the creeks not rising. I think KIKI got it right: you have an intermittent underground stream running under your property which really shows up when there's a lot of snowmelt or rain. Your neighbors have it, too.

But you got the problem of water percolating down directly around your foundation fixed by fixing that drain pipe and putting in gutters, so it took a while for the snow to melt and the water to percolate down thru the dirt and move in your direction. Since it took a day or two for the sump pump to start working, it may take a couple more days after the snow has melted for the sump pump to stop working (lag time with drainage) but ... so far, so good.

And that was A LOT of snow!

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Out for a walk in the sun. Allergies waking up.

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Out for a walk in the sun. Allergies waking up.

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Hmm. What could be bothering you at this time of year. (It's a puzzle I go through during the year for myself.) Rain does a fantastic job washing allergens and pollution out of the air! (I know that professionally as a well-measured fact.) But when the rain stops all that nice air-cleaning goes away, and the allergens available right now go floating around and wreaking havoc.

So at this time of year, where you are I'm guessing what's 'blooming' right now is mold (sporulating, molds like dampness, and now the rains aren't washing the spores away); and, seasonally, grasses releasing pollen (wind pollinated), and trees releasing pollen (wind pollinated).

Oh, and the rest is just stuff I'm interested, and I like to share things that interest me in case other people are interested as well.

A lot of plants 'bloom' with invisible or nearly invisible 'flowers'. These are the wind-pollinated plants and include grasses and most trees, including conifers. Their flowers are generally small, inconspicuous, and contain no nectar, because they don't depend on attracting pollinators like insects, birds, or mammals (bats). Instead, they release tons and tons of pollen, in the hopes that enough will land on sticky structures to fertilize the eggs and create the seeds for the next generation.

OTOH the showy, nice-smelling, (and nectar-containing), garden flowers we prize so much have such heavy pollen, they need pollinator help to get the pollen from plant to plant.

Interestingly, the showy pollinator-needing plant goldenrod got blamed for the allergies actual caused by the inconspicuous wind-pollinated plant ragweed, that blooms at the same time.

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Ignore the post before this. It was an experiment that went wrong.

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I'm also allergic to dust which is why I did a bit of vacuuming today. But pollens and such. I did okay over the last couple of months. Just got to stay a head of them.

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I'm also allergic to dust which is why I did a bit of vacuuming today. But pollens and such. I did okay over the last couple of months. Just got to stay a head of them.

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You would not do well in my house right now...

I'm still half convinced that subfloor in my kitchen is made from asbestos.


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http://www.google.com/search?q=pictures+of+haida+totem+pole&sxsrf=
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So... how was your day?

I was up on my roof risking my life, hanging from the peak of my overhang on a steep slope with my left hand while doing my best to shove sheets of metal up under shingles, jamming a half shingle over the damage and then caulking the hell out of it with roof tar, all with one hand, for a temporary patch until I can pay a roofer to fix it for me.

Got a guy coming to give me a quote to cut down the maple trees tomorrow.

Fucking raccoons.


Somewhere, there is a god laughing at me right now.


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Yes, how did you get it to work? I tried to cut and paste it but I couldn't.

I wanted to see if I could post a picture of a totem pole from the West Coast of Canada. It's Haida.

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Yup. The snow tracks last week was just foreshadowing.

Real dick raccoon though. Instead of putting the damage within any area I could conceivably reach safely, it put it nearly in the center of the overhang about twice as far down as it was the last time. Last year I was just barely able to replace four layers of shingles from the top by straddling the peak of the overhang. This time it's about 7 layers down and impossible to do a real fix... Too far from the front of the house to work from a ladder, and too far from where the overhang meets the main roof to do it while safely perched on both slopes. The first stiff breeze we have is going to take down what I put up there.

It gets worse though... This little prick decided to tear up the shingles, but then didn't finish the job. Didn't even bother tearing the tar paper after it got through the shingles. So there's no hole. Just 2 to 4 shingles that need to be replaced in a spot that I have to pay somebody else to replace them.

If I hadn't had one that burrowed through in nearly the same spot last year, I'd be convinced that a large limb fell on my roof but then somehow landed in another dimension before hitting the ground. There is no tree debris anywhere near the size it would take to cause that damage anywhere on my property.

I'm hoping what happened is that it jumped 15 feet down, had a bad landing, took a few shingles with it while it fell off the roof and broke a few legs when it hit the ground.



So after doing all that work in the mid-30's weather on a roof that still has snow up the banks I usually shimmy up, I did what I should have done the second I saw those tracks leading to the maple a week ago and got my boom box out of the garage and had it at full blast with full bass in the overhang just in case it comes back to finish the job.

I haven't been outside yet to check it today, but after around 11:15 last night it still hadn't tried again.





So I've had one stray ant 3 days ago. 4 mouse droppings spotted 2 days ago and a raccoon trying to get into the roof 2 nights ago, and I've still got ice in the damn gutters.

No mice caught in any traps yet, and no other evidence of them found yet, and no other mice spotted.

Forecast shows no rain for days. So before the tree people come for a quote I'm going to start spraying all around the foundation for ants early this year. I'll probably put a bag of the spreader poison around the foundation too. Way earlier than I usually would, but that ant didn't just come alone.


I'm literally exhausted right now. I'm not getting any real sleep and I'm stressed to the max. The first spring rain hasn't even touched down yet.


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Yes, how did you get it to work? I tried to cut and paste it but I couldn't.

I wanted to see if I could post a picture of a totem pole from the West Coast of Canada. It's Haida.

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I missed this post until right now. Sorry Brenda.


I opened your link in another tab, then (hoping that the image which popped up on the right was the specific picture you wanted), I right clicked on the image and clicked "view image".

That pulls the image itself into the window with nothing around it and gives a direct link to the image in the address bar (which you can then copy and paste here).

I almost certainly could have just used that link here without any problems, but I like taking the extra step of uploading images to a site called imgbb.com so fff.net is pulling from that image instead of from whatever random page the image came from, but you usually don't have to do that if you don't care to.


NOTE: This was all done in Firefox. It should be manageable in every browser, although the steps might be slightly different.

NOTE 2: Trying to copy and paste the image inside of Google will give a bad link. They just give a reference link to the image instead of the direct image itself. It didn't always used to be this way, but I believe there was some lawsuit years back against Google Images for the technology to present all of theses pictures across the internet as if they belonged to Google, so the extra step of making the referral links apparently was enough to get the lawyers off their back. (I'm sure there's more too it, but what do I know?)


NOTE 3: That being said, make sure the link you're trying to post with an image ends with ".jpg", ".jpeg", ".bmp" or ".gif". These are the most standard image types uploaded to the internet, and those suffixes on the links should ensure you're posting a direct link to the image instead of some weird referral link.



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