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The sun is out SIG. There was rain but it happened over night.

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Much better thank you, SIX. Heat from a hot water bottle seems to have got rid of the last bit of stiffness.

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The sun is out SIG. There was rain but it happened over night.

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Perfect!

Over here, tomorrow 92, then 97, 97, and 88.

DEFINITELY indoor work!

Yesterday daughter had what I consider a good meet with a sleep specialist neuro.

Today I called our tax guy, they will file for extension for us while we get our papers together. YAY! One less thing for me to do.

Tomorrow I will
scan and email some documents for our insurance agent
re-ask that an application be re-emailed to me, since it passed expiry and timed out.
pay some bills online and
answer some emails re: daughter's volunteer program.
Make up a menu and grocery list for Thurs.

It doesn't sound like much but between that and walking the dog (early!!) and cleaning up the kitchen and making b'fast and dinner, that will take all day. In fact, it will proll take more than one day.

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Much better thank you, SIX. Heat from a hot water bottle seems to have got rid of the last bit of stiffness.

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Good to hear. Sounds like you got to it before you really tweaked it.

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Blessed with three straight days in the 50's*.

The last two were sunny and warmish in the morning until around 1PM and then rained and felt like it dropped 15 degrees. Those afternoons weren't any colder than the weekend where I worked 11 and 8 hours, but they were a mental shut-down and not much got done after the cold came in.

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Today is 57, but it's already raining. Two more days in the 40's after that, and then MAYBE it starts warming up finally.


Half of the electric I still intend to do is in the attic, which I'm not looking forward to doing in any weather, and the other half is the outlet and light fixtures outside which I'm not going to be doing in the cold rain.

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I think I'll take a break from electric today. I'll probably work on whittling down my lumber pile in the garage and start making some shelving units so I can get rid of those dressers out there.

There's a really good sale on mulch until Saturday, but right now I'm in no position to store it until I'm ready to use it, and I'm far from ready to do that. I might buy a bunch online which would give me 3 weeks to come and pick it up. I should be able to build all the shelving and re-arrange things in the garage to accommodate it in between other obligations by then.

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Blessed with three straight days in the 50's*.

The last two were sunny and warmish in the morning until around 1PM and then rained and felt like it dropped 15 degrees. Those afternoons weren't any colder than the weekend where I worked 11 and 8 hours, but they were a mental shut-down and not much got done after the cold came in.

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Oh I understand! Truly demotivating!

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Yeah. But I did get some cleaning done and some paperwork. It's been a super productive week after quite a few where I didn't get much done outside of helping other people out.

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Today is 57, but it's already raining. Two more days in the 40's after that, and then MAYBE it starts warming up finally.


Half of the electric I still intend to do is in the attic, which I'm not looking forward to doing in any weather, and the other half is the outlet and light fixtures outside which I'm not going to be doing in the cold rain.

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Oh jeez, SIX! Why not??

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I think I'll take a break from electric today. I'll probably work on whittling down my lumber pile in the garage and start making some shelving units so I can get rid of those dressers out there.

There's a really good sale on mulch until Saturday, but right now I'm in no position to store it until I'm ready to use it, and I'm far from ready to do that. I might buy a bunch online which would give me 3 weeks to come and pick it up. I should be able to build all the shelving and re-arrange things in the garage to accommodate it in between other obligations by then.

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Good plan! Also, deadlines keepe on track, usually. Keeps me from getting derailed.

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Thanks SIX. It was a nice surprise.

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Sorry on the mice in your insulation. They can get into anywhere from what I understand.

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It's fine. I kind of expect mice to be in a garage when it's damn near Animal Planet in this area. Better than mice and squirrels and raccoons in the house.

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Lucky you on the warm weekend.

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Well... warm-ish. We keep gettting teased with a day in the high 60's or the low 70's only to get a few in the 30's and 40's. Monday through Wednesday is in the 60's and 70's but looks like a LOT of rain. Then they're already saying that next Monday we could see snow again!!!

Really not very comfortable with how much rain we've had so far. I'm hoping that gets dialed back a bit, or I'm really going to be getting a test this year if my foundation patches did anything.

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It was a beautiful day around where I am but the clouds are rolling in and it should start raining I guess by the time I head to bed then into tomorrow. *sigh*

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And ... mice in garage insulation? Oh dear. But I have a ? If the garage is unheated why insulate?

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Well, there were 2 owners before I was here and after the garage was built, I believe. I know the dad of the family that was here for decades used to work on cars in the garage. There is a large pipe going out the center of the roof (probably to remove exhaust?), and there is a gas pipe that terminates right outside the back of the garage at the bottom with a hole in the bottom of the garage where it would have gone inside. Frankly, I'm not a fan of that pipe being there at all because it's dangerous and I don't even know if it's live or where from the house it even comes from, but it's evidence that it was heated at one time.

But the insulation only covered about 2/3rds of one wall. It's like they started the job and ran out of money or something. I was hoping that the stuff would be in better shape than it was. I bought 9 bats of insulation back during Black Friday week in 2019 for only $5 each after a $10 rebate, but that won't be enough to do the porch. There's not a lot of space I'll need to use it on the front and back with the large windows and the entry door, but I'll use up quite a bit of it on the shed side and run out fairly early on in the attic.

So far, I'd say that out of 4 bats I got about 2 1/2 that are usable. If that ratio is maintained, I probably will not have to go out and buy more. Fingers crossed.

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Anyway, this could be very old mouse activity. I can't imagine mice living very long with little glass splinters in nose, mouth, and stomach.

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It probably is. It had to have been about 9 years since I left the grass seed out there the one winter, and they destroyed EVERYTHING around the bag. Even my spreader got ruined that year since they chewed through one of the inflatable tires on it, and it wasn't until YEARS later that I finally got around to drilling a few holes through some comparable wheels I'd gotten from my brother when his wagon broke that I was able to attach a new tire to it and get it working again.

Since then, I've never seen any droppings anywhere... At least in places that I can see. And aside from inside the insulation and under it, I'm not seeing any under where the dressers were before I dismantled them. About 2 or 3 years ago I did see a dead mouse right on the floor in the garage after winter time. Around that same time was when I was doing dehoarding and re-org and there wasn't any droppings on any of my stuff that's up in the rafters.

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Mice and rats can squeeze thru small holes since their widest part is the skull. You'd have to be looking for a hole the size of a dime, or smaller.

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Oh. I know. This ain't my first mouse rodeo.

And speaking of mice... I think I FINALLY took care of the problem in the house now that the outside of the porch was sealed up (more for fear of raccoons than anything else) and we got the new windows and exterior door up. I have had 2 traps out for around 6 months now without a bite and I haven't seen nor heard any activity since then.

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Did everything on my to-do list plus bit more. Yesterday was 103F according to hubby who took dear daughter out for grocery shopping and running errands. Today about the same so I'll think about paperwork I might have missed, and dusting and damp-mopping today and tomorrow, plus maybe get a start on my 2021 hardcopy filing. Let's see how far I get into THAT.

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Thanks SIX. It was a nice surprise.

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Sorry on the mice in your insulation. They can get into anywhere from what I understand.

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It's fine. I kind of expect mice to be in a garage when it's damn near Animal Planet in this area. Better than mice and squirrels and raccoons in the house.

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Lucky you on the warm weekend.

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Well... warm-ish. We keep gettting teased with a day in the high 60's or the low 70's only to get a few in the 30's and 40's. Monday through Wednesday is in the 60's and 70's but looks like a LOT of rain. Then they're already saying that next Monday we could see snow again!!!

Really not very comfortable with how much rain we've had so far. I'm hoping that gets dialed back a bit, or I'm really going to be getting a test this year if my foundation patches did anything.

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It was a beautiful day around where I am but the clouds are rolling in and it should start raining I guess by the time I head to bed then into tomorrow. *sigh*

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Just popped in to see whazzup.

2nd place? WOOHOO! Congrats!

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And ... mice in garage insulation? Oh dear. But I have a ? If the garage is unheated why insulate? Anyway, this could be very old mouse activity. I can't imagine mice living very long with little glass splinters in nose, mouth, and stomach.
Mice and rats can squeeze thru small holes since their widest part is the skull. You'd have to be looking for a hole the size of a dime, or smaller.

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Did everything on my to-do list plus bit more. Yesterday was 103F according to hubby who took dear daughter out for grocery shopping and running errands. Today about the same so I'll think about paperwork I might have missed, and dusting and damp-mopping today and tomorrow, plus maybe get a start on my 2021 hardcopy filing. Let's see how far I get into THAT.

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KIKI mentioned once that instead of oil pipelines maybe we should have water pipelines.


Can you imagine - went the post- flying a helicopter looking for leaks? All you'd need to do is look for the big green area!

But, yeah ... water transportation across the USA. In any year, there are always some areas that get too much, and some that don't get enough. It's too bad we can't move it from flooded areas to parched areas.

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Unless it's a mom looking to make a litter, you're probably alright. With all the reading I've done on them, they're not interested in making your home their home for any other reason, and with the extreme temperatures that you're having right now I don't think they'd have any interest in making your hot attic their home.

I have no idea how raccoons would behave out by you with your temperatures the way they are though. If anything I'd think that their birthing season would be closer to new years through early February since it would be the only time you could even laughably consider it cold by you. But that's me possibly making the erroneous claim that they breed in the cold and birth just when the coldest temperatures finally break when there could be other reasons that their behavior is predictable in these parts.


Not a bad idea to find somebody to get up there and check things though for piece of mind. Good luck.

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Unless it's a mom looking to make a litter, you're probably alright. With all the reading I've done on them, they're not interested in making your home their home for any other reason, and with the extreme temperatures that you're having right now I don't think they'd have any interest in making your hot attic their home.

I have no idea how raccoons would behave out by you with your temperatures the way they are though. If anything I'd think that their birthing season would be closer to new years through early February since it would be the only time you could even laughably consider it cold by you. But that's me possibly making the erroneous claim that they breed in the cold and birth just when the coldest temperatures finally break when there could be other reasons that their behavior is predictable in these parts.


Not a bad idea to find somebody to get up there and check things though for piece of mind. Good luck.

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That's reassuring. But just in case ... it was ammonia that did the trick for you, right?

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Glad you like it!

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You guys got any plans for Easter?

I don't. Not yet, anyway! It kinda snuck up on me this year. I'm going to send out note cards instead of Easter cards bc I can't count in dear daughter buying reasonable ones

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I had a helper come over today, and between chatting and taking breaks we managed to dig up 1.5 bins of weeds.

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I don't. Not yet, anyway! It kinda snuck up on me this year. I'm going to send out note cards instead of Easter cards bc I can't count in dear daughter buying reasonable ones

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Honestly, I don't even know when Easter is. My mom's family used to celebrate it, but after my Uncle who always hosted it passed I don't think I've ever done anything for the holiday. Good memories though.

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Nice.




I managed 13 hours of work in the garage today. Making up for some lost time.

I built 4 of the stackable shelves so far, and pulled a bunch of nails and prepped all of the rest of the wood I need. I think I have the plan for exactly which boards I'm using for each step of the process now.

Tons of cleanup and reorganization done. I saw two walls that I haven't seen in nearly a decade today.

All of the insulation is down. I probably managed to save 3/5ths of it, and the rest is in the trash. I have to run some more electric on the exposed areas now, but otherwise the shelf building should go really quickly now.

Oh.. and I know how the mice were getting in now, so that will be sealed up.



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