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Ah,the wonders of a long heavy crowbar (or sturdy spade) and a heavy-duty hand truck and maybe a little help. The biggest piece is about maybe 3' long, 1 1/2' wide and 4" thick. It's solid stuff, poured back in the day before they used rebar. Hubby guesses somewhere in the realm of 3500-5000 psi. I'm bad at estimating sizes so I can check tomorrow, but all the other pieces are maybe half that size or smaller. For me the bigger trick is where am I gonna put all this stuff? Build a seating area on the other part of the yard?

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Ah,the wonders of a long heavy crowbar (or sturdy spade) and a heavy-duty hand truck and maybe a little help. The biggest piece is about maybe 3' long, 1 1/2' wide and 4" thick. It's solid stuff, poured back in the day before they used rebar. Hubby guesses somewhere in the realm of 3500-5000 psi. I'm bad at estimating sizes so I can check tomorrow, but all the other pieces are maybe half that size or smaller. For me the bigger trick is where am I gonna put all this stuff? Build a seating area on the other part of the yard?

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I think you may be underestimating how heavy the concrete is going to be, by quite a bit. I don't want you hurting yourself with your health issues, and with all due respect that is not a job for somebody your age in the first place. Last spring I broke up a bunch of concrete to dig out of the ground from the old post holes when the house-flippers behind me moved the fence back into their yard a few feet and left me with extra square footage but a huge weed-infested mess to clean up. It's not the first time I've done it, but it will be the last time I use a 20lb sledge hammer on concrete. Every joint in my body ached for at least a week after doing that.

I don't think you should be using a jackhammer either... I'm not one to spend somebody else's money, but maybe you could find somebody who could come and break that all up and dispose of it for you for a reasonable price?

If you decide to do this yourself, know your limits and please be careful.

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I find the trick to pulling weeds is just practice. You probably have different weeds around you than I do. You just get a feel for which ones need which pulling technique, and you probably couldn't even explain to somebody in written word what that even means since you just get a feel for it.

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Oh, totally. Around here it helps to water o'wise the dirt can be rock hard.

But I'm not going for finesse and trying to pull out all of the roots- except the effing Bermuda grass. Right now I'm just spading and raking it up to get the lay of the land, so to speak, bc I couldn't tell where the dirt was.

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Oh. Gotcha. I was just doing that last year with the Hoasta beds.

Are you going to put any mulch or rocks down once you're done? I still got some weeds in them this year, but it's about 1/1000th the amount I got before I put the weed fabric and the rocks down. A bit of a money and time and effort investement, but it looks so much better and I'm always in favor of putting in the work that keeps you from having to work on something so tedious every year.

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Yeah. Numbers are pretty great overall right now. I think my body is adjusting to the low amount of carbs I'm feeding it too since I'm still fairly high energy most times of most days.

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That's great news SIX!

Me,I'm just trying to lose a few pounds. I lost a lot on chemo and surgery took off a few pounds of boob and radiation cost a LOT of calories, but now that food tastes as good as its going to considering I have no sense of smell (can't tell garlic from vanilla but I can still taste sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami, and hot stuff) I've been slowly putting on weight. I'd like to say it's muscle. If only!!

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Dropped some stuff of at someone's house in the foothills, and they knew I needed some rocks to stabilize the tree mound, and they offered me a pick. DAMN! but there are lots of rocks there! No wonder they built everything out of these mostly rounded river rocks... walls, foundations, pillars. Anyway, I took my trusty hand truck and got a couple the size of small watermelons and a few smaller ones and I'm gonna go back for more next month. We went out to lunch later and had a NICE time!

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That's nice. One day I'd love to get some really nice looking boulders to put in my Hoasta beds. A guy I know knows of a place where he gets them, but it's about an hour deep into Michigan.

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CT scan shows some weird calcifications in my lungs, not cancer, but I've never had them before. Maybe it was metastisized tumors that got whacked by chemo and calcified over? Blood test coming up to see if my blood sugar and cholesterol are under control and if my kidneys are still "improved". But I try not to worry about that too much, just take care of myself and do stuff for the family. There's always something to do.

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I'm sorry to hear that. I hope it's nothing serious.

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How are you going to get all that concrete out???

SIGNY: Ah,the wonders of a long heavy crowbar (or sturdy spade) and a heavy-duty hand truck and maybe a little help. The biggest piece is about maybe 3' long, 1 1/2' wide and 4" thick. It's solid stuff, poured back in the day before they used rebar. Hubby guesses somewhere in the realm of 3500-5000 psi. I'm bad at estimating sizes so I can check tomorrow, but all the other pieces are maybe half that size or smaller. For me the bigger trick is where am I gonna put all this stuff? Build a seating area on the other part of the yard?

SIX: I think you may be underestimating how heavy the concrete is going to be, by quite a bit. I don't want you hurting yourself with your health issues, and with all due respect that is not a job for somebody your age in the first place. Last spring I broke up a bunch of concrete to dig out of the ground from the old post holes when the house-flippers behind me moved the fence back into their yard a few feet and left me with extra square footage but a huge weed-infested mess to clean up. It's not the first time I've done it, but it will be the last time I use a 20lb sledge hammer on concrete. Every joint in my body ached for at least a week after doing that.

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I don't think you should be using a jackhammer either... I'm not one to spend somebody else's money, but maybe you could find somebody who could come and break that all up and dispose of it for you for a reasonable price? If you decide to do this yourself, know your limits and please be careful.

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SIX: I find the trick to pulling weeds is just practice. You probably have different weeds around you than I do. You just get a feel for which ones need which pulling technique, and you probably couldn't even explain to somebody in written word what that even means since you just get a feel for it.

SIGNY: Oh, totally. Around here it helps to water o'wise the dirt can be rock hard.
But I'm not going for finesse and trying to pull out all of the roots- except the effing Bermuda grass. Right now I'm just spading and raking it up to get the lay of the land, so to speak, bc I couldn't tell where the dirt was.

SIX: Oh. Gotcha. I was just doing that last year with the Hoasta beds.
Are you going to put any mulch or rocks down once you're done? I still got some weeds in them this year, but it's about 1/1000th the amount I got before I put the weed fabric and the rocks down. A bit of a money and time and effort investement, but it looks so much better and I'm always in favor of putting in the work that keeps you from having to work on something so tedious every year.

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Yeah. Numbers are pretty great overall right now. I think my body is adjusting to the low amount of carbs I'm feeding it too since I'm still fairly high energy most times of most days.

That's great news SIX!
Me,I'm just trying to lose a few pounds. I lost a lot on chemo and surgery took off a few pounds of boob and radiation cost a LOT of calories, but now that food tastes as good as its going to considering I have no sense of smell (can't tell garlic from vanilla but I can still taste sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami, and hot stuff) I've been slowly putting on weight. I'd like to say it's muscle. If only!!


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SIGNY: Dropped some stuff of at someone's house in the foothills, and they knew I needed some rocks to stabilize the tree mound, and they offered me a pick. DAMN! but there are lots of rocks there! No wonder they built everything out of these mostly rounded river rocks... walls, foundations, pillars. Anyway, I took my trusty hand truck and got a couple the size of small watermelons and a few smaller ones and I'm gonna go back for more next month. We went out to lunch later and had a NICE time!

SIX: That's nice. One day I'd love to get some really nice looking boulders to put in my Hoasta beds. A guy I know knows of a place where he gets them, but it's about an hour deep into Michigan.

SIGNY: CT scan shows some weird calcifications in my lungs, not cancer, but I've never had them before. Maybe it was metastisized tumors that got whacked by chemo and calcified over? Blood test coming up to see if my blood sugar and cholesterol are under control and if my kidneys are still "improved". But I try not to worry about that too much, just take care of myself and do stuff for the family. There's always something to do.

SIX: I'm sorry to hear that. I hope it's nothing serious.
Good to hear it's not keeping you down and you're keeping yourself busy.

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How are you going to get all that concrete out???

SIGNY: Ah,the wonders of a long heavy crowbar (or sturdy spade) and a heavy-duty hand truck and maybe a little help. The biggest piece is about maybe 3' long, 1 1/2' wide and 4" thick. It's solid stuff, poured back in the day before they used rebar. Hubby guesses somewhere in the realm of 3500-5000 psi. I'm bad at estimating sizes so I can check tomorrow, but all the other pieces are maybe half that size or smaller. For me the bigger trick is where am I gonna put all this stuff? Build a seating area on the other part of the yard?

SIX: I think you may be underestimating how heavy the concrete is going to be, by quite a bit. I don't want you hurting yourself with your health issues, and with all due respect that is not a job for somebody your age in the first place. Last spring I broke up a bunch of concrete to dig out of the ground from the old post holes when the house-flippers behind me moved the fence back into their yard a few feet and left me with extra square footage but a huge weed-infested mess to clean up. It's not the first time I've done it, but it will be the last time I use a 20lb sledge hammer on concrete. Every joint in my body ached for at least a week after doing that.

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oh, i remember about that mess! What a chore!

i moved a big piece big by myself few years ago. i found a handy rock, levered the piece up with a crowbar bit off to the side, slid the hand truck 'toe' under the middle of the slab, lowered the slab onto the toe and levered it back up off the ground with the hand truck. the trick at the time was wheeling everything over soft ground into position. but if i can't manage this time with the big piece I'll ask for help, bc its a lot easier if someone can 'flip' the slab onto the rails instead of resting it all on the toe, which i fear one day will break off.

I've already moved a few of the smaller pieces temporarily out of the way of my 'stream bed', but now they're on the way of other stuff. but i still don't know where i'm going to put all of this crap. i don't want to have to move it too far just to have to move it back again.

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Sounds like you have a plan to move it away from where you need to clear it out at least. But please ask for help, especially on that BIG one. 3 ft by 1.5 ft by 4 inches is going to be HEAVY. Like roughly 250lbs heavy!!!

I don't really have any suggestions for where you should move it to, but yeah. You should have a plan for that too. I hate double work and that's a LOT of double work.

Maybe you have some place somewhat out of sight to put it in the meantime so you're not tempted to procrastinate on that part of the job? Maybe somewhere close to the front of your house so if you end up paying somebody to remove it they've got the easiest possible job and you get a better deal?

They don't technically let us throw out concrete here, but nobody ever checks the cans. I've thrown out tons of broken pavers and all of that concrete that I've busted up over the years. Just have to salt it out in the trash over time so it doesn't make the cans to heavy. That would require busting those up though. Maybe you could pay somebody to break it up for you and have it all close to your cans so you can slowly throw it all out if that's cheaper than having somebody just come and take it off your yard?

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I don't think you should be using a jackhammer either... I'm not one to spend somebody else's money, but maybe you could find somebody who could come and break that all up and dispose of it for you for a reasonable price? If you decide to do this yourself, know your limits and please be careful.

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SIX: I find the trick to pulling weeds is just practice. You probably have different weeds around you than I do. You just get a feel for which ones need which pulling technique, and you probably couldn't even explain to somebody in written word what that even means since you just get a feel for it.

SIGNY: Oh, totally. Around here it helps to water o'wise the dirt can be rock hard.
But I'm not going for finesse and trying to pull out all of the roots- except the effing Bermuda grass. Right now I'm just spading and raking it up to get the lay of the land, so to speak, bc I couldn't tell where the dirt was.

SIX: Oh. Gotcha. I was just doing that last year with the Hoasta beds.
Are you going to put any mulch or rocks down once you're done? I still got some weeds in them this year, but it's about 1/1000th the amount I got before I put the weed fabric and the rocks down. A bit of a money and time and effort investement, but it looks so much better and I'm always in favor of putting in the work that keeps you from having to work on something so tedious every year.

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since I have what's called a lot of 'weed pressure' ... about fifteen years of weed seeds drifted over on to our property from a huge vacant untended lot right across the street, just waiting to spring to life with the littlest water, fighting weeds and wild grasses (like foxtail) has been an ongoing struggle. So i've looked around and done some internet research on what works and what doesn't. i've had landscapers cloth under mulch, but weeds grew into the cloth, they were impossible to pull out. people here have decomposed granite, pebbles, and rocks over fabric, and believe it or not weeds will start growing in the DG, pebbles, or rocks and anchor themselves into the fabric there too, and it becomes a maintenance nightmare. but i've read about sheet mulching,which is cardboard under mulch, so i have three approaches:
sheet mulching, and keep up with the mulch (i've read the chip drop service works well, and it's free)
plant weed-smothering plants. lantana does a great job at the foundation, so gonna interplant lantana under my shrubs. 'pigeon point' coyote brush appears to do similar in hotter drier areas. still looking for equivalent plants along the front walkway

don't water where you don't want anything to grow.

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Good luck. I've only had experience with the river rock and CHEAP from ALDI weed blocker sheets. I did have some weed growth, but considering that i used to have pretty much every square inch full of weeds in the dirt between the Hoastas before I did that, it's infinately better than having to pull all of those weeds every year... or spray all of them with some really toxic crap if I'm being lazy and then I'm just left with tons of dead brown crap in the dirt.

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Yeah. Numbers are pretty great overall right now. I think my body is adjusting to the low amount of carbs I'm feeding it too since I'm still fairly high energy most times of most days.

That's great news SIX!
Me,I'm just trying to lose a few pounds. I lost a lot on chemo and surgery took off a few pounds of boob and radiation cost a LOT of calories, but now that food tastes as good as its going to considering I have no sense of smell (can't tell garlic from vanilla but I can still taste sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami, and hot stuff) I've been slowly putting on weight. I'd like to say it's muscle. If only!!


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SIGNY: Dropped some stuff of at someone's house in the foothills, and they knew I needed some rocks to stabilize the tree mound, and they offered me a pick. DAMN! but there are lots of rocks there! No wonder they built everything out of these mostly rounded river rocks... walls, foundations, pillars. Anyway, I took my trusty hand truck and got a couple the size of small watermelons and a few smaller ones and I'm gonna go back for more next month. We went out to lunch later and had a NICE time!

SIX: That's nice. One day I'd love to get some really nice looking boulders to put in my Hoasta beds. A guy I know knows of a place where he gets them, but it's about an hour deep into Michigan.

SIGNY: CT scan shows some weird calcifications in my lungs, not cancer, but I've never had them before. Maybe it was metastisized tumors that got whacked by chemo and calcified over? Blood test coming up to see if my blood sugar and cholesterol are under control and if my kidneys are still "improved". But I try not to worry about that too much, just take care of myself and do stuff for the family. There's always something to do.

SIX: I'm sorry to hear that. I hope it's nothing serious.
Good to hear it's not keeping you down and you're keeping yourself busy.

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Got meds refilled and lunch. Afternoon mah jong was no luck. Took me almost the whole afternoon to break 1,000 points. Oh well. Maybe better luck tomorrow.

Regular mah jong tomorrow then errands. Have to return "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" to the library at least.

Just hope I don't wake up forgetful like last Thursday. I went out without my denture and had to come back and get it. Then left with out my lunch and had to come back and get that. So I was a little late last week. *L*

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Got it primed tonight. Kind of crazy how much got done in one day, but I can't work until 10:30PM every day...

It looks pretty sweet. I think I'm going to caulk the seams and wood putty the knots and prime them one more time before I put any paint on them. I'll have some time to do that and other things I need to get done in the porch before the paint anyhow since I'm going to want to swap out those fridges before I have final paint down on the floor. I only want to have to worry about my kitchen floor, not all the floor the whole way in and out.

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I have a list of things for me and dear daughter to do over the next several days. I have a tool stand to assemble, and I need to bring the rocks together that the previous guy had scattered here and there to great artistic effect, but gonna need them to stabilize the tree mound. Once I do that I'll see how many more I need. Dear daughter helped me unload to two rocks. One of which, looking at it again, is more the size of a regular watermelon.

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Got meds refilled and lunch. Afternoon mah jong was no luck. Took me almost the whole afternoon to break 1,000 points. Oh well. Maybe better luck tomorrow.

Regular mah jong tomorrow then errands. Have to return "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" to the library at least.

Just hope I don't wake up forgetful like last Thursday. I went out without my denture and had to come back and get it. Then left with out my lunch and had to come back and get that. So I was a little late last week. *L*

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I have to agree with you, Jack. I had a blast watching it as it has been a few years since I seen it.

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I've come close to going out without my denture and may have even forgotten completely at one time. But last Thursday I remembered as I got to the lobby of my building and decided to go back to my place to get them.

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I have to agree with you, Jack. I had a blast watching it as it has been a few years since I seen it.

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I haven't seen it in ages. One of these days I should see if my buddy wants to watch them on his big screen with the surround sound. My old man rented the 2nd one for me and my brothers when I was probably 8 years old and even though I was watching it on my grandma's tiny 19" TV I was enthralled. Watching Last Crusade in the theater a few years later with my dad and brothers is a memory that sticks to me with this day.

I'd love to see the first two on a big screen.

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I've come close to going out without my denture and may have even forgotten completely at one time. But last Thursday I remembered as I got to the lobby of my building and decided to go back to my place to get them.

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Can you talk without them? With a few years practice I've gotten pretty good at it. When I'm home I often don't have them in, and in between working on projects and things I'll talk on the phone and nobody knows I don't have them in. If it weren't for the facial hair though, people would easily be able to tell I didn't have them in, especially with the way I need to pull in my lower lip on my remaining bottom teeth so I don't lisp.

IRL I've been known as a man of few words though, so I can get away with it.

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Back from mah jong and errands. No luck at mah jong today. Found some ice cream on sale though which was nice. $2.99 Canadian for a good sized carton of Beyers chocolate ice cream.

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I have to agree with you, Jack. I had a blast watching it as it has been a few years since I seen it.

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I haven't seen it in ages. One of these days I should see if my buddy wants to watch them on his big screen with the surround sound. My old man rented the 2nd one for me and my brothers when I was probably 8 years old and even though I was watching it on my grandma's tiny 19" TV I was enthralled. Watching Last Crusade in the theater a few years later with my dad and brothers is a memory that sticks to me with this day.

I'd love to see the first two on a big screen.

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I've come close to going out without my denture and may have even forgotten completely at one time. But last Thursday I remembered as I got to the lobby of my building and decided to go back to my place to get them.

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Can you talk without them? With a few years practice I've gotten pretty good at it. When I'm home I often don't have them in, and in between working on projects and things I'll talk on the phone and nobody knows I don't have them in. If it weren't for the facial hair though, people would easily be able to tell I didn't have them in, especially with the way I need to pull in my lower lip on my remaining bottom teeth so I don't lisp.

IRL I've been known as a man of few words though, so I can get away with it.

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Back from mah jong and errands. No luck at mah jong today. Found some ice cream on sale though which was nice. $2.99 Canadian for a good sized carton of Beyers chocolate ice cream.

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It's great finding something on sale!

Waiting at the lab for my blood draw and urinalysis. I have a lot of Drs piling in on this one: Dr Onco, Dr Cardio, and Dr Nephro. Then I see Dr Onco for my usual followup. I have ?? but feel good.


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I have to agree with you, Jack. I had a blast watching it as it has been a few years since I seen it.

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I haven't seen it in ages. One of these days I should see if my buddy wants to watch them on his big screen with the surround sound. My old man rented the 2nd one for me and my brothers when I was probably 8 years old and even though I was watching it on my grandma's tiny 19" TV I was enthralled. Watching Last Crusade in the theater a few years later with my dad and brothers is a memory that sticks to me with this day.

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I've come close to going out without my denture and may have even forgotten completely at one time. But last Thursday I remembered as I got to the lobby of my building and decided to go back to my place to get them.

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Can you talk without them? With a few years practice I've gotten pretty good at it. When I'm home I often don't have them in, and in between working on projects and things I'll talk on the phone and nobody knows I don't have them in. If it weren't for the facial hair though, people would easily be able to tell I didn't have them in, especially with the way I need to pull in my lower lip on my remaining bottom teeth so I don't lisp.

IRL I've been known as a man of few words though, so I can get away with it.

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same here. blood samples taken, dr visit done, questions answered, meds picked up, chariot gassed up.

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Speaking of frigs...

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Of course, on a weekend and right after shopping. NATURALLY, over the four hottest days of the year so far. And OF COURSE, none of the local grocery stores carry dry ice so we had to make do with water ice overnight. Not effective, and messy! Repair not scheduled until July 5!


To top it all off my attempt to get an appt scheduled with Sears appliance service required a payment method verification, and that went haywire and went to Hertz Auto Sales instead, so I had to cancel our only credit card. We won't get a replacement until Wednesday.

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Fortunately we have a freezer and we were able to xfer most of the frozen stuff to the spare freezer. This AM I found a place that sells dry ice, and even tho they probably won't have enough for us thru Monday/ Tuesday their next closest location has a lot (they say).

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Out for my walk in a bit. Have a good 4th of July everyone.

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we will! we bought the usual 'safe and same' fireworks that are legal in this city. and the vendor sold them to us at cost bc it was clear dear daughter was having a terrible time making up her mind, despite me using the qr codes to bring up videos of each product. the person who was attending us was very patient, he told me (very quietly) that his adopted son was 20 but like 10, and gave us a deep discount so dear daughter could get more of what she wanted.

tonight, tho, i have to go out and get more dry ice and xfer food out of the frig into my homemade insulated box to be ready for the repair guy some time before noon. so my day is gonna be full and start out early tomorrow. i sure hope the saga of the 'busted frig' ends soon!

right after that, once we get our new cards, i have to re-set all of our autopays. i like to pay our regular unavoidable bills thru credit card bc this card gets us anywhere from 2-five pct off, so even tho it's not a lot in terms of savings it adds up.

THEN I can get back to routine and projects, of which i have several.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm not doing nothing today and it will be nice...

I did manage to clean and put the footrest back on the oversized single recliner my friend gave me. YouTube video told me to mix 1 part baking soda with 2 parts water and use an old sock to clean it and it worked great. Kinda feel really low energy today though so I only did one then took a nap. My friend came by and we got the fridge out to the garage, so now I'll have room to put the couch together once I get things back where they're supposed to be and out of the way.

If I feel up to it, I might put it back together tonight, but I'm not going to clean it yet. That's a real chore. I think I'm going to get some leather conditioner and make them look really nice after I clean them too.

Can't wait for that porch floor to cure so I can get all the furniture and the fireplace back out there. I hate having everything in this level of disarray.

96 degrees outside here today. Picked the right day not to work outside for sure.


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How you do anything is how you do everything.

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