In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2) by SIGNYM

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In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)

POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Monday, June 29, 2026 18:13
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Monday, June 29, 2026 6:33 AM

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They're only doing greenwaste bins bc they're running out of landfill space, I kid you not! They truck it to these big commercial composting operations, and just to incentivize people to use them, we get them for free, no monthly fee.
Eat your heart out!

Wow. Who was responsible for some common sense legislation in your neck of California? I didn't know they built them that way on the West Coast. They're a keeper.

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Yeah. No kidding¡
Do you get the idea he was picking up house and garage debris too?
In any case, it sounds like a well- coordinated response.
I still can't imagine a storm that fierce. I've never experienced anything like that. It almost sounds ominous.

I don't know. I'm certain that truck was capable of helping out with that work if they wanted to. It depends on what their focus was. There were so many trees down everywhere that I'm sure the two of those truck drivers could have had their hands full all week and still not come anywhere close to having it all done. There might have been several pairs of those guys all around my city and even in the other cities that got hit all at once without even factoring in people doing the houses. I would think that the fallen houses would probably be left for later, after the insurance companies came out to assess the damage first.

Yeah. I can't say I'm displeased at all.

There were 3 times as many houses without power in Illinois just a month or so ago when my Dad lost power for 3 days, but I think we were probably just hit way harder in a much smaller radius. I really think that a lot of the wait time was cutting down trees. I did notice that several hours before the power went on by us, they did have trucks coming by and people checking out everybody's houses. I think that was probably one last sweep that they were doing to check the power lines in case somebody was really sleeping our out-of-town and didn't report any line/tree issues by them. That's when I got them to re-anchor that power cable to the side of my house for free.

Yeah... It was so quick, but it was devastating. I can't imagine the whole episode was more than 5 minutes long from my perspective. It rained for a few hours afterward, but it was all calm after that brutal front left as quickly as it came.

Thank god that whole tree didn't fall on me this time and I really hope I put the fear in my neighbors to finally get it taken down before the next big storm. I hated saying what had to be said, but I've hated resenting them for that damn thing for all this time too. He seems cool, but he says his wife is pissed. That sucks, but they'd be a lot more pissed next year when that tree falls on me and they're being sued.

But if you look at the damage on both the street west of me and that east of me, it was as if Moses parted the sea on my block and it went around us on both sides. We had two roofs crashed in houses behind us and all those downed power lines and about 30 trees was just one block in front of us. I just found out the guy directly two blocks behind me who came and mowed my front lawn with his rider mower when I let it get too long last year had a tree fall on his house. Miraculously, it looks like there wasn't much more than some shingle and gutter damage.

I don't scare easy, but I was upstairs when that hail started coming down and you could hear all the booms going on outside. This one really had me worried there for a minute, especially when part of that tree slapped hard against my window with a force that still leaves me in awe that I didn't have a single broken window. It just sucks that all 3 of my windows on that side of the house have tears in the screens, when 5 days ago only the basement window did.

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Oh gosh no, no lawn clippings. Sorry to say I'm catching up on months and years of yardwork. My front yard has been in the process of being re-landscaped to a low water version since before I got sick, and without a lawn weeds just take off and grow pretty tall. Bc around here, if you water it, it grows 24/7/364.
I'm sure my neighbors hate me.

To be fair, about 1/2 of my bin and bag usage this week was cleaning up about 2 prior years of pure neglect outside of mowing. I was already out there, filthy and wet. Might as well get it all done while I'm fully committed to it. My inner thighs are still on fire this morning though.

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But, to be fair to me, half of that was pine needles. The Canary Island pines that I planted cast the shade I was hoping for, I just didn't realize they came with so many needles!

Pine needles??? Oh... That's why there's no clippings. You don't have any grass.

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Hahaha! I wish!
You accomplish more in an hour than I do in a week!
I'm following along with your home repair and renovation and decluttering and landscaping and emergency preparation and honestly I'm in awe.

Bah. I'm pretty slow, but I'm thorough. I'm running out of time before I need to be finding a job that I don't absolutely hate, so I'm trying to get some pretty big things done before I do that. Two of those things should really help out in the future with storms. I really think my generator can probably power a TV, a computer and my internet along with teh sump and fridge, so next time this happens I might be out of power in style.

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Monday, June 29, 2026 1:15 PM

BRENDA

Out soon for groceries and other things.

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Monday, June 29, 2026 4:14 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

I think I'm taking that day off, Sigs.

Every time I try to get up to do something, my inner thighs remind me why I'm not going to feel bad about chilling for a day or two while it's over 100 outside.

I might hang that shelf later if I feel like it. I think I was initially planning on doing that 6 or so days ago by now.

I've got a lot to clean up, re-org and throw away too at this point. Even more once I get my contact paper down everywhere I want it to protect the painted surfaces. Not that I can throw anything else away until trash day.

I already bought 4 more of these really nice plastic trays with rubber feet and lightly ribbed rubber padding on the inside bottom, and another cat litter tray for under the plumbing like I did with 2 of them in the kitchen sink cabinet to hold all the cleaning supplies that weren't in the bathroom.

Got some cleanup to get to in the basement too. Nothing serious, but I've got to get everything off one set of horses down there so I can pull out all the plastic that I had protecting the tile from paint drops because there's water between the plastic and the tiles now on about half of it, and I don't want any of that getting gross when it doesn't need to. If I'm going to do anything today, that's probably what should be getting done.

Nothing was on the floor that shouldn't have been, so only saw horse legs and the legs of all the shelving units I built even had any contact with the small amount in the living area. The only casualty was a deck of playing cards a friend got from Vegas with a hole punched through the entire deck. I don't even know how it got down there and it must have fallen behind and onto to the floor while I was digging for something I needed on that shelf. Oh well... I still have 2 or 3 more somewhere.

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Monday, June 29, 2026 6:13 PM

BRENDA

All done, all done, all done for today.

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