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Laundry day as soon as I get a move on. Later. Also will do a walk.

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Laundry day as soon as I get a move on. Later. Also will do a walk.

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Do I understand that you walk for exercise?

I forget how many floors high your current place is.

Have you been able to walk down a few stories of stairs each day as part of your routine?
How about climbing up at least one floor each day?

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hey JSF. Not sure if you saw it from yesterday, but I'm buying a 100ft braided tube for the pump. All three of the big home improvement stores only sell 1/2" ID braid in 10ft lengths or 100ft lengths. 10 feet ain't going to cut it.

I can get 100ft on Amazon now for around $66, which is quite a bit cheaper than in-store anywhere. The 10ft lenghts in store go for around $11 to $17 each.

A lot more money than I wanted to spend on this, but I'll have plenty of good tube.


ETA: It's $60 before tax. Not $66.

I just talked to my old man and he's interested in seeing how it works. He had an event around 15 years ago where he was bailing water out of his own well and he said he'd never be able to do that again.

I told him that I've got plenty of tube for him if he wants to get a cheap pump, but he'd probably want to get a few extra batteries to have on standby and/or find out if any of his neighbors have a genny that he could piggyback off of with a corded drill.

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I saw.

1/4" ID should have been plenty for the vacuum section, from well to the doorway.

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Do you or he go to used tool stores, or garage sales? Or do you either have a Speed Handle? At least for your dad, have him get a Speed Handle and the correct adapter for the drill pump. Set it up and test it, he may want to make a little cubby notch or hole to set the handle tip into, and then just crank on the handle, or else actually mount the pump on a spot. Then there is no need for a powered drill.

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Was up most of the night in pain until it finally subsided enough for me to sleep. Then I slept most of the day. Great.

I won't be eating tonight. Maybe not for a few days.

Tomorrow I'm going to call the dentist and find out how potentially bad it would be if I were to take a needle to it.

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Was up most of the night in pain until it finally subsided enough for me to sleep. Then I slept most of the day. Great.

I won't be eating tonight. Maybe not for a few days.

Tomorrow I'm going to call the dentist and find out how potentially bad it would be if I were to take a needle to it.

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Blister? Infection?

Either way, rinsing with salt water might help.

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THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Peanut butter again for dinner tonight. :(

It's a lot better though. Maybe tomorrow. Hopefully?

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Surprise, surprise. A nice, dry day out when the weather people were calling for rain. Mayhap they are wrong for the rest of this week.

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All recycling done. Good thing I did it today as the bins are getting full.

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

I like watching This Old House because sometimes they showcase clever ideas. The last one I saw had about 'sandblasting' using dry ice. In traditional sandblasting, of course you end up with a huge pile of sand, contaminated with whatever you blasted off. In dry ice sandblasting, since the dry ice evaporates directly into a gas (without going though a liquid stage), you have a big pile of nothing! How clever! (The only limitation I can imagine is doing it indoors with inadequate ventilation. The evaporating dry ice could fill the space up with CO2 gas, displacing oxygen, and creating a suffocation hazard.)

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Peanut butter again for dinner tonight. :(

It's a lot better though. Maybe tomorrow. Hopefully?

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Surprise, surprise. A nice, dry day out when the weather people were calling for rain. Mayhap they are wrong for the rest of this week.

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Good deal! Just as long it doesn't turn into a drought, and then fires...

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Sparrows like our front yard now that we have two large bushes and one tree-sized bush. I guess they feel safer if there's only a short flying distance between one safe spot and another. I hear them chattering together in the afternoon.

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Dd discovered 3 large zucchini in the garden, and the only way to use those up is zucchini lasagna (or zucchini parmagiana, whichever way you think of it), Alfredo style since 2/3 people in the house have a problem with tomato.

I'll say, according to the family it turned out GREAT. Using zucchini as "noodles" is a PITA bc I have to remove the seeds and most of the skin, slice them thin lengthwise, soften them in the microwave then egg dip the, dredge them in flour/parmesan mix and lightly pan fry them to golden brown. But it was TASTEEEE as dd says: the filling was ground turkey mixed with (a lot of) leftover cooked spinach and commercial Alfredo sauce powder and topped with shredded "Italian blend" cheese, so in one dish I got two vegetables (ion dark green, the other not so much) and we had cherries for desert, which was the non-green other color (cherries are in season here, and on sale).

I'm DEFINITELY going to have to patrol that zucchinin patch more thoroughly and catch them when they're still store-sized!

Cucumbers are filling out, but the tomtoes are stubbornly geen. Beets are quite large; I'm going to have to thin them ago (I see more greens in our future), carrots are growing quite nicely. Onions are ... growing. Going to plant the pepper plants that I started from seed since that's the other thing that I use quite a bit that's kind of expensive. Next year, tho, I think I'll substitute garlic and green onions for regular onions, since regular onions are relatively cheap but the other stuff is kind of specialty. I never did get to plnt the watermelon, and they take SOOO long to ripen I doubt I would get much in a season (and last year's one end-of-season watermelon was a disappointment) but I think we'll be OK with cantaloupe.

I predict our veggie bill will go down this summer. Too bad I can't raise a cow in the backyard. Maybe chickens?

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Hearing aides are okay. Mostly just me needing to get used to them.

Think my boss is jealous of me. The reason I am thinking on this is because before I left today she commented that I don't have much in the way of gray in my hair. She's had a lot of gray in her hair since she was in her late 50s and now it is going slightly whiter and more.

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I'm slowly, slowly beginning to reform my awful sleep schedule.

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First a train of thought ... when doctors want to know how you feel when you get up - rested, energetic, or not ... they might really mean how you feel a half hour after you get up (but before coffee). Because there's such a thing as sleep inertia. I've REALLY seen it in a few people who wake up super grumpy until some times goes by, and I've experienced it myself.

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But maybe there's sleep inertia in the opposite direction, wakefulness inertia, as in when you're awake you stay awake. Because if there is, I have that. Once I'm up I routinely stay awake for 24 hours and up to 36 hours, which makes getting to sleep at a reasonable time impossible.

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But lately I've been going out and doing yardwork for an hour before noon. And while I'm still not getting to sleep before 3AM, at least it's not 10AM ... or later.

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Dd discovered 3 large zucchini in the garden, and the only way to use those up is zucchini lasagna (or zucchini parmagiana, whichever way you think of it), Alfredo style since 2/3 people in the house have a problem with tomato.

I'll say, according to the family it turned out GREAT. Using zucchini as "noodles" is a PITA bc I have to remove the seeds and most of the skin, slice them thin lengthwise, soften them in the microwave then egg dip the, dredge them in flour/parmesan mix and lightly pan fry them to golden brown. But it was TASTEEEE as dd says: the filling was ground turkey mixed with (a lot of) leftover cooked spinach and commercial Alfredo sauce powder and topped with shredded "Italian blend" cheese, so in one dish I got two vegetables (ion dark green, the other not so much) and we had cherries for desert, which was the non-green other color (cherries are in season here, and on sale).

I'm DEFINITELY going to have to patrol that zucchinin patch more thoroughly and catch them when they're still store-sized!

Cucumbers are filling out, but the tomtoes are stubbornly geen. Beets are quite large; I'm going to have to thin them ago (I see more greens in our future), carrots are growing quite nicely. Onions are ... growing. Going to plant the pepper plants that I started from seed since that's the other thing that I use quite a bit that's kind of expensive. Next year, tho, I think I'll substitute garlic and green onions for regular onions, since regular onions are relatively cheap but the other stuff is kind of specialty. I never did get to plnt the watermelon, and they take SOOO long to ripen I doubt I would get much in a season (and last year's one end-of-season watermelon was a disappointment) but I think we'll be OK with cantaloupe.

I predict our veggie bill will go down this summer. Too bad I can't raise a cow in the backyard. Maybe chickens?

JSF: How about rabbits? They multiply. Might help you get rid of your weeds.

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Are all beets the same? A few years ago I had some beets at a restaurant. They were cubed, about an inch or more per side. But they were cooked such that they were almost bursting, bulging on every side. Very tasty.

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JSF: Is honeydew melon suitable to your climate? When I was a kid, come ripening season, we had muskmelon for every meal, for a 5 person family. Sometimes a half melon per kid per meal. That was back when we all put salt on everything, including cantaloupe.

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Hearing aides are okay. Mostly just me needing to get used to them.

Think my boss is jealous of me. The reason I am thinking on this is because before I left today she commented that I don't have much in the way of gray in my hair. She's had a lot of gray in her hair since she was in her late 50s and now it is going slightly whiter and more.

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Brenda:
Hearing aides are okay. Mostly just me needing to get used to them.
Think my boss is jealous of me. The reason I am thinking on this is because before I left today she commented that I don't have much in the way of gray in my hair. She's had a lot of gray in her hair since she was in her late 50s and now it is going slightly whiter and more.

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Hehe.


BRENDA: It was one of her odder comments to me along with my news about my health being good for another year to which she added, "God willing." They know I don't truck with their religion.

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Time to get that other Susan up and start painting my doors today.


I think I might mix up a batch of weed killer at some point. The hasta beds and the sand pit could use a little juice. Might as well hit the curbs while I'm at it, although mine look pretty good since I'm one of about 3 people on my block who ever do it.


Man... it's nice not having to spray a gallon of weed killer on driveway cracks anymore.



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Seen some unusual birds (for this area), altho they're common elsewhere: black Phoebes, juncos, butterbutts (yellow warblers).

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Summer is definitely here: steady ramp up in temperature over the next week from 77 today to a predicted high of 97 by next Tuesday, with only a slight cool down three days following.

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Well, they are talking drought up here. Where I am and up into the Interior of the Province. Not good. I would have to look up how many wild fires have already been reported in BC but I do remember the number is higher.

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Yeah, it was some stray cereal boxes and a couple of tv magazines along with washed out cans. I don't eat a lot of canned food but I do eat canned salmon, a bit of soup and alternative milks containers are also recyclable up here. So there were a couple of them and a couple of small tins that had tomato paste in them.

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Out in a bit, things to do. Later peeps.

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