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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
The other day weatherguessers said it was the coldest temps in 3 years. That Global Warming must be attacking here, thanks to algore inventing it.

The only Nobel Laureate I actually know has his certificate for Global Warming, and he very clearly tells folk that all that Global Warming creation is complete bunk.




Here we have not gotten more than a couple inches of snow at a time, and then mostly melted. Has been too cold for snow a bit lately. Undisturbed depths are a few inches. If not for roadways, can barely call it winter. When it warms in March, Feb, we usually get a bunch. But normally by now we would have a foot or 2.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Musical Sunday

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Musical Sunday

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How nice!

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So I wandered into the backyard to see how things were faring without attention.

The grass is tall in some spots and the weeds are taking over but- dang!- wouldn't you know but I spotted a few red, ripe tomatoes on my one tomato bush, and some green ones as well!

I had two tomato bushes last year, both Early Girl, and they grew spectacularly (taller than hubby) and bore prolifically. One bush does what Early Girl tomatoes do in the winter: it died down to the ground. The other, a mere 4' away, is still green and producing. I have no idea what's with that one plant, I'm very happy to be able to harvest garden tomatoes in the dead of winter, but why it wants to be a perennial is beyond me! Maybe I can save some seeds and see if new plants would come true to the original.

Gotta water, tho. Last significant rainfall was late Dec IIRC, and altho we got a good soaking the ground is probably dried out by now.

As usual I over planned my day, assuming I could accomplish more than I was capable of, but I did manage to walk the dog, roast a pork picnic roast, do a kitchen cleanup (the kind I hate the most, a couple of sinksful of cups, containers, caps, jars, utensils, pots, pans... took me almost 2 hours washing!, tidy up the house and make dinner

Have some bills pending in my email, need to unbox a bunch of stuff, freeze the pork, make dig food, fix a sprinkler head, water the property, sort the mail... make dinner tomorrow and Sunday, and... that'll be the weekend. Doesn't sound like much, but I bet I don't get ALLA if that done, either!

Hubby and daughter are working on finishing the platform bed. He just oiled it today with Tung oil, and it is a thing of beauty!!

Most of it is Euro steamed beech. We spent a HUGE amt of time picking out planks at the lumberyard looking for boards that were straight and with good figure and... OMG it's amazing! I'll try and post pix when I get a chance.

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Is this a new bed or the one you were talking about quite a while ago?

I've never actually seen any pictures of this. Looking forward to it.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Managed to buckle down and actually put a few hours in on the pantry today. Got everything else I needed sanded down and cleaned up before putting a coat of joint compound on any of the various holes in the walls and the trim.


To give you an idea of how bad the pantry was (and the entire house), there was a HUGE patch job done down by the baseboard, and I never even noticed it until this morning. I'm guessing they made a huge hole in there at some ponit when they fed the phone cord up to the hole that no longer exists for it in the kitchen (I tiled over it half a year ago).

They didn't bother finishing it, or even sanding it down or putting a needed 2nd and 3rd coat on it. Just left it in there like that. And the pantry has been so nasty for a decade I didn't even know.



I think I'm going to go out and pick up that wood putty today so I can get it up there. It's going to need some drying time, and I'm feeling the itch to do it, so I might as well put myself together and go run some errands so I can get that up there. I still need to sand everything down and likely hit more spots with additional mud before I can even think about putting any caulk in there, so no sense in wasting another day on the wood putty.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Brenda I'm so envious of your weather this winter.

Not quite freezing today, but the closest we've been to it in about 3 weeks.

It'll be 40 tomorrow. Just enough to start us off with a ton of snow melt and a few hours of rain before we get the 10 to 15" of snow they're predicting in the 48 hours between Tuesday and Thursday night. The entire area is going to be an ice rink for weeks.

Last night they upped that from 8" to 12", and now I'm seeing possibly 15".

Then it will be at least a week until we get a day warm enough to melt any of it. And that's only if the weather doesn't change for the worse, which it hasn't done once since the beginning of the month.

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Back from mah jong and my walk. I got first place today with a finish of over 5,000points.

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But we got rain today though now at 2pm the sun is trying to break through the fog.

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Back from mah jong and my walk. I got first place today with a finish of over 5,000points.

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But we got rain today though now at 2pm the sun is trying to break through the fog.

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From where I'm sitting, Brenda, I'd call that a win too.



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Back from mah jong and my walk. I got first place today with a finish of over 5,000points.

But we got rain today though now at 2pm the sun is trying to break through the fog.

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Final coat up on all the trim.

It looks so freakin' good painted after shaping the wood putty to make everything look pro.


Going on 7PM here... Think I'm going to call it a night on the work. 3 days of seling along with 3 days of spending a lot of time on my knees scraping, sanding and painting kinda beat me up.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I can sympathise! Tomorrow, grab a cuppa and put your feet up! when nature dumps on you, you gotta pace yourself (altho, honestly, with blowing drifting snow, I would wait until all the drifting was over, otherwise you might shovel the same area multiple times)

Would you say you caught up with your yearly snowfall, then?

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It's so weird that Die Hard is considered a Christmas movie today. I must have seen that half a dozen times when I was a kid. I don't think I ever heard somebody calling it a Christmas movie until a few years ago on the internet, and now almost everyone says it's a Christmas movie.



$6. Yeah... when I play games I don't play for much money either.

But if there's nothing on the line at all it seems kind of pointless.

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Back from mah jong and my walk. I got first place today with a finish of over 5,000points.

But we got rain today though now at 2pm the sun is trying to break through the fog.

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Congrats on the win!

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Yeah, I know. I think I've seen it a couple of times over the years. I've seen all of them but the best are the first and the 3rd which has Graham Greene in it. Tried watching the last one and it sucked.

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That's why they award winnings and something sometimes goes back to the Senior Centre for use of the room. But not yesterday with so few playing. I don't think.

Well, I think I would play without any winnings. It gets me out of my place and interacting with people.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
True, that, about the walkways. Gotta keep them clear for the postal service!

Have you thought of salt for the ice? I've heard there's some sort of urea formula that doesn't burn your grass.

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Yeah. I thought I'd have to shovel a tiny bit today with the snow, but even though it never got above freezing the sun was out and it all melted.

Good thing too, because I didn't have any down time between coats drying today. I managed to do everything more efficiently than I've ever done it before and only cleaned my brush and roller at the end of the day one time.

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Oh, busy at this end. I do as much as I can each day. Yesterday I dug up some beets for dinner and did a little weeding out front.

Did one smart thing last year: I had an old tarp originally for the woodpile, but I spread it over the cleared part of the veggie patch and used it to solarize that part: kill weed seeds with heat.

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