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

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

POSTED BY: SIGNYM
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Sunday, July 19, 2026 5:48 PM

Nice. Painting is much quicker after you've got a good coat of primer and paint on there already. 2 coats on the flat panel door already, and finished the 2nd coat of the one louvered panel I hadn't done yet. Still have some paint in that bucket, which is pretty amazing. I didn't think what little in that bucket I left wrapped in the trash bag a few days ago would spread this far. I don't think I'll have enough to give everything one more coat with that, but I've got 3/4 of a bucket of it left I'll just have to mix again and give myself a little more to work with.

I'm going to throw any paint in there away when I'm done along with the bucket and that totally beat up dollar store brush though, so I'll need just a tad.

If I stay focused on this, I could have all the doors finished and hung in just a few more days. Maybe by Wednesday or Thursday at the latest, since I have to wait on that hardware and the tracks to come late on Tuesday, and I don't know how much I'll be able to get done when it comes to framing out the doors and hiding the height differences without that. I may even have to hang the doors and put the trim on while it's hung. I don't know yet.

That would be great if I could have the doors done and the lawn mowed by the weekend. That should give me plenty of time to get that chest out of the garage to start restoring for my aunt's retirement gift.

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Sunday, July 19, 2026 6:44 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Alright... Everything painted now except for the final coat on the last louvered door. I would have been working on that now, but I want to give that ample opportunity to dry before putting that last coat on. I've done good with drips, but with louvered doors you're going to inevitably have pockets in places where there's extra paint that takes longer to dry and you'll mess that up if you try to paint another coat over it too quickly.

I'm not too hopeful that I'll have it done early enough to dry by the time night falls. If I do try hanging it tonight, it will be by artificial light. I don't think I want to do that. We'll see.

I did dig up those ceiling light fixtures from my attic last week though. Maybe I'll put those up in the bedrooms and in the basement room that I bought all of them for.

I should have bought 1 more, but if memory serves, they were 3-packs for a steal on Woot.com, and I didn't need 6 of them. I really was just shopping for the bedrooms and the 3rd one was a bonus. I do have a nice ceiling fixture in the garage that just needs a little paint removed from it. It's got a "silver" finish on it, but that's nothing a little oil-rubbed bronze spray paint can't fix.

Unlike the vanity lights that were pretty intricate, I don't think spraying down the base of one of these circular dome lights is going to look super tacky, so it should be alright. That's going to be the afterthought 3rd bedroom in a leaky basement anyhow, so I don't think I'm going to go all out in that room for any reason.

Maybe I'll get my electric stuff out again and hang the two bedroom fixtures while I'm waiting for paint to dry. At least do one of them.

That should be nice. I don't remember if they're 2 or 3 bulbs each, but they're replacing these stupid little single-bulb ball lamps that I got at Goodwill 15 years ago just to put something up in the empty holes in the ceiling. Unless it's night time, you can't even tell that you turned that light on there's just so little light coming out of them, and even at night it's not really great. I may also consider buying special bulbs that are brighter for them too, instead of using my $1.00/box cheapo LED lamps you can find on occasion through your power company at places like Sam's Club and Costco if I want to brighten it up even more when it's done.

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Sunday, July 19, 2026 8:40 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Old man called me right before I was going to try hanging those lights, so that killed the time I needed to do the last coat of paint on the final louvered door. There was enough paint left in the bucket to give one more coat to the fronts of the flat door too, so even though it probably didn't need it I just went ahead and used it up. One more empty bucket out of the house.

I had a better look at that brush and although it wasn't a Purdy it was not a dollar store brush. So I did a real good job cleaning and that out and getting it back into reasonable shape.

Losing daylight now, but we've still got some time. It wasn't exactly bright all day with the cloud cover, but I'm not complaining since the temps in my house are a lot better than they have been recently.

I think I'm going to hang that ceiling light in the small bedroom where I have easy access to it and I could use the extra light while I'm dehoarding what's left in there to go through and I bring new stuff down from the basement.

The Master Bedroom light probably won't be too bad. I'll just be standing up on the bed to get it switched out instead of my step ladder. I don't think I'll get to that before it's dark though, and I really don't want to be using bright painters lights to get the job done while I'm standing on my bed.

I also found all 6 circular vents for the heat and the two rectangular ones for the walls in the basement out in the garage, so once I get the lawn mowed and I'm working on that chest for my aunt, I can be out there sanding down all of those vents along with all the hinges for the bifold doors so they can all get sprayed down with fresh paint.

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Sunday, July 19, 2026 10:14 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Jack is a very happy man.

I installed not 1, not 2, but all 3 of those light fixtures.

The difference in light is STARK. Just two 60 watt equivalent LED bulb (something like 8 watts) and it looks like daylight in those bedrooms when it's dark out now.

I'll have to show you these ridiculous fixtures I had up there before. I can't believe it was so long ago now that I didn't remember they weren't even standard light bulbs. These things each had their own miniature ballast in them, and there was a plug-in fluorescent bulb in each one. Never seen nothing like them before, and that's why I can't believe I don't remember it. I know I put them up there. Obama probably would have still president for another 3 years after I did it though, so it was quite a while back.

Why so little light output though? I can't even think of the point of these things. I just thought I had 60w equivalent LEDs in each one, and because of the white painted on the glass it was just not very bright, but holy crap do I have a lot of light in there now. It's almost too bright. Not that you'll get sunspots if you look at them now, but probably not too far off from that. I might actually want to get 40w equivalents instead. I never imagined that would be the case. I could always get a dimmer switch put in there, but I do really like the light switches that I have in the bedrooms and in the hallway that are backlit with a few small LEDs so you can see the switches at night, and I'd have to make that trade if I do.

Anyway... Those brand new fixtures have been sitting around for so long in the attic that the white boxes they originally came in looked about as bad as my lungs probably do from the smoking up there. What a stupid, stupid thing that I waited this long to get it done.

Although, I do remember finally moving them up into the attic when I had that appraiser coming out when I was fighting my taxes and any little things like this that were finishing pieces on any rooms that were near finished wasn't something I was in any hurry to get up or even advertise I had and was planning on putting up. And the appraisal was fair. I don't think it should be that much, but then again, my house would sell for a lot more than I ever thought it would have when I bought it right now, as-is, even if I didn't put another minute of work into it.

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Sunday, July 19, 2026 10:40 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Man... I REALLY want to get that door hung tonight.

Will I do it?

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Monday, July 20, 2026 12:13 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

I'm thinking no on the door tonight...

I'm sure it's dry enough to handle it at this point, but I'd be working under some painter spotlights and this could end up being a job I don't really want to get into right now. If I knew it was going to go smoothly, I'd be doing it right now. There's still the issue of where exactly do I want that door knob, and I don't really want to be thinking about measurements and drilling right now.

I did put the hinges on and they look great. Not that you'll ever see anything but just tiniest bit of them when they're open in the front, but way better than the chrome ones on the other doors that got white paint on them. I've got half a mind to sand those down from the front, tape everything and protect it all with plastic and spray them right on the door like I did with the kitchen door hinges, but I've got way better things to be doing with work time right now. I'll put it on the to-do list and maybe do that later.

Oh... and how is this acronym a thing I've never heard of until Google AI told me today???

RAVEN

Remember : Affect is a Verb.

Effect is a Noun.

The difference between Affect and Effect has always been a big weakness in my English. I don't know why that is. I notice I have these weird quirks and mental blocks about some things.

This just fixed that. I'll never mix the two up again.

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Monday, July 20, 2026 1:27 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Man.... If I didn't take a before photo of the louvered doors, I'm going to be mad. I had to have when I was out there sanding them. There's no way I didn't. That was probably right around the time I was doing all that re-org on my computer and maybe I just had a smallish folder I was using for more recent photos that got backed up somewhere right before I really ramped up work and started using the folder I'm using today to organize all these things by date. Super annoying that I couldn't find that to show you before/after pics.

I did find some more before bathroom pics though... even before I painted the window or pulled down the wallpaper border I had at the top, so at the bottom of this post I'll show them and their new counterparts. I also have some shots of the last day those two cabinets were sitting on my living room floor for over a year and I started working on them.

But first... The finished door (minus the track hardware and knob installation):

Back with hinges. Primed but not painted.

Front with FOUR coats of paint on top of the primer:

Shots of the cabinets before any work, both opened and closed. Sorry about them being washed out... That was with the bad camera and when that sun comes in during spring at that low level it's just blazing in the living room. Sorry I had them upside down on the living room floor too, but it gets the point across and it's the only shots I believe I have of them before I sanded anything down.

I can't believe I just had those sitting on my living room floor just staring up at me for like 2 years until I finally did something about it.

Here's a shot I didn't think I had, with my gross beard trimmer and electric toothbrush IKEA shelf above the only outlet in the room at the time. I'd already painted the door frame at this point, but I hadn't caulked anything yet.

The cool thing about this shot is right outside the door you can see the flat-panel bifold door that I took down and I'm replacing with the louvered door.

I'll definitely have to make another shot from this exact spot once I have that louvered door hung, but this is the closest new shot I could find along with the old one.

And I finally found a shot of the old towel rack before I took it down. I wasn't sure if I had one of those either. I'd say I'm making just a tad better use of that space now.

And here's one from an angle I know I didn't take for any after shots, but it's got the window before I sanded it down and painted it.

You can also see how short the bottom piece was under the sill. I know that used to be the style years ago, but it always bothers me when I see it. The full piece end-to-end that I replaced that with actually came from a piece of the "baseboard" that I removed before painting. They didn't actually use baseboard and just used the door/window trim for baseboard and I just didn't notice it until I pulled it up.

And here's one of the vanity with all the original chrome hardware and the dark stain that was on it before I'd sanded anything down.

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Monday, July 20, 2026 1:49 AM

SIGNYM

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Well, dang SIX! That looks classy!

That's really good looking!

But what was that border along the ceiling? Wallpaper?

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Monday, July 20, 2026 1:59 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Well, dang SIX! That looks classy!

That's really good looking!

Thanks Sigs.

When I show you pictures of the back of the linen closet bifold door and how I used to leak paint all over when I was a drunk idiot, you'll see why I never would have attempted painting anything like those louvers 10 or 15 years ago.

Did you see the note on the 7th photo down that you can see the flat-panel bifold door that I took down for the linen closet and I'll be replacing with the louvered door?

I'm going to take another shot from that exact spot and angle as soon as I've got that new door up.

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Monday, July 20, 2026 2:05 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Depth Perception is one hell of a thing too...

(ETA: I'll just repost the picture I'm talking about...)

I'm looking at that 7th picture now, and I can say with certainty that the new door and window trim I bought for the house is MUCH wider than the original stuff I've been replacing all over. I didn't replace any of it inside the bathroom though, because of just how close it was to the shower transition already. The door and window trim in both bathrooms is the only small trim in the house.

But look at that picture... You can't even tell. Just that 3 or 4 feet or so extra distance from the hallway and I think the trim in the bathroom actually might look just a little bigger.

And I think that because it's all caulked and painted up right now, the offset of the trim from the jambs and the bulk of the jamb itself give it the illusion of being wider than it actually is too.

I don't think anybody would ever notice that the trim in both bathrooms is smaller than the trim in the rest of the house unless I told them.

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Monday, July 20, 2026 2:11 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
But what was that border along the ceiling? Wallpaper?

Sorry... must have caught you pre-edit and missed that question, Sigs.

Yeah. That was a roll of wallpaper I got for .50 at a Goodwill out in Illinois years back. I mean like YEARS back before they got greedy, put all their great stuff on eBay and Amazon when the employees weren't taking it for themselves and they didn't jack up the prices on what's left for the stores by 3 times. I barely even go there anymore these days, and only for jeans and belts when I do. I can literally buy clearance shirts at Walmart brand new for cheaper than most of their used t-shirts by quite a bit these days and the "half-price" days are the only time I ever go and it's not even competitive anymore.

Anyway... I loved how the border matched my shower curtain and the wood trim of everything at the time. It really was a nice looking border. But that had to go...

Until about 2 months ago, that border is the only "work" I ever did in that bathroom besides removing all of that failing caulk, doing it all up proper with backer rod and re-caulking the entire bath/shower area.

If I ever want to do that bathroom up totally proper, I'm going to break down one day and tile the walls.

But I know if I do that, I'm completely opening myself up to all of the horrors that lie underneath that vinyl, and I'm going to end up gutting the walls completely and either replace them with concrete board or that new awesome Space Age shit that is impervious to water and mold.

It's so cool and a shame that I'd probably have to put a lean on the house to buy it for myself. It's infinitely easier to work with than any other bathroom material I've ever used because you can score it and cut it with nothing but a straight edge and a utility knife without making any big production out of it or making a mess.

Instead of having to cut stuff outside and bring it in after you're done making the mess out there, you can just have have all of these super-dense, but super-lightweight foam pieces right outside the room and just cut them to size on the spot, put them up and there's zero mess to clean up. The only time it ever gets potentially messy at all is when you bust out the tube of sealent that goes with it for all the corners and joints, before you put your tile over it.

You could make your own if you wanted to, but they also sell prefabed specialty pieces for things like recesses in your shower wall for things like soap and razors made out of the same material and already glued together and sealed, ready to fit right between your studs.

I'm going to get the name Sigs. You should check that out if you ever remodel a bathroom yourself or know somebody who is considering doing it. If I could afford it, I'd be using it myself.

....

There it is. Kerdi-Board

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Schluter-Systems-0-5-in-x-32-in-x-48-in-Kerdi
-Board-Polystyrene-Foam-Backer-Board/4712901

I'd installed this once with my friend's dad. Amazing stuff.

But you're out of your mind if you think I'm going to pay $48 for a 4 foot by 32in length of anything that isn't gold plated.

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Monday, July 20, 2026 3:10 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Hey Sigs... on a completely unrelated topic. I just recently got some health insurance information that I found quite interesting.

The officially gave us the 6 month notice, 3 weeks late. When we are up for recertification, they're going to be looking back to the beginning of the year. They're not starting the clock on re-certify date, and they have no intention of giving you a 6 months grace period like they do for food-stamps when you no longer qualify for similar reasons, such as a very high unemployment rate going down to a level that no longer allows you food stamps unless you have kids or are over 55 years old.

I kind of figured all of that would be the case. I wasn't sure exactly when it would happen, but I assumed it would be right after mid-terms.

That's not the interesting thing...

I was always under the impression that the amount of work you had to do was 20 hours per week to keep things like this... or volunteer work, or job training, etc.

That's not the case at all. I mean, it does say that is one of the requirement for sure, but it's far from the only one that keeps you qualified.

The one that is interesting to me is where it says that over any 4 week (monthly) period, you're expected to earn at least $580. And then they go on to explain that this is equivalent to the national minimum wage of $7.25 at 80 hours per week. And they state this in such a way where they're very clearly saying that in leiu of working 20 hours per week, so long as you are earning at least $580 per month you are qualified. (I will have to verify if this is Gross or Net... but I would have to think it's Gross since the net could change so much from person to person).

This changes EVERYTHING!

If I end up going back to retail and/or staying there for any signifigant amount of time, I've got nobody to blame but myself.

If I cannot gross $6,960 in 365 days doing literally ANYTHING on my own, I probably don't deserve that insurance.

This may end up being a blessing in disguise, is kind of what I'm saying. I've never forced myself to go to work for myself. You've been telling me I should try that for years. And if I were to get myself back into a little better shape I'm sure I still have a few people I could reach out to that might be able to assist with that.

I'll mow lawns. I'll clean houses. I'll dog sit or walk dogs.

There's about a hundred things I could probably think of that I'd rather be doing to keep that insurance than going back to work any job where I have to deal with idiot managers and disrespectful customers.

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Monday, July 20, 2026 1:20 PM

BRENDA

Wow! That is fantastic SIX.

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Monday, July 20, 2026 1:23 PM

BRENDA

Out soon on a 66F day. Probably get hotter. Meds and new shoes today. I hate shoe shopping. Flat feet is no fun finding them. Then a couple of smaller things.

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Monday, July 20, 2026 6:00 PM

BRENDA

All done after having my blood sugar bounce around before I grabbed something to eat. Meds and shoes got. Feel better now.

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Monday, July 20, 2026 6:17 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Wow! That is fantastic SIX.

The pictures or the health insurance update?

Sounds like you deserve to relax tonight. You going to watch Killers of the Flower Moon tonight?

Figured you would have mentioned if you'd watched it already.

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Monday, July 20, 2026 6:23 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

If nothing goes catastrophically wrong, I should have that bifold door up by nightfall.

I'm going to be cannibalizing parts from another door with new parts on the way tomorrow for the last two doors with a brand new track that "should" make installing the bedroom closets fairly easy.

I'm in the process of giving that thing a deep clean since I have the opportunity. Everything's been pulled down and wiped with microfiber. I had some glass panels from a table that somebody gave me to go over the refinished shelves, but unfortunately there were only 3 of them out of 4, and I have 4 shelves so the top shelf that nobody will ever see the top of didn't get that glass protection. I think there is some "gunk" up there I'm going to have to get my step ladder back up to give a good wipe down. After that I'll Windex the glass panels and get them back in place, and then I'll start the door.

I will have pictures. I just found some pictures of what that linen closet and the entire hallway up there looked like when I bought the house and just began working up there. These are pictures that I would have been posting here in the threads where me and Wish and JO would get together almost every night and BS.

WOW. They almost look alien to me. It's like a parallel world where this house was a complete piece of trash.

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Monday, July 20, 2026 7:19 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Alright...

Moment of truth. No putting it off any longer because nothing else is left in the way of it. It's all cleared out and clean up and ready for the door to be hung.

Fingers crossed it goes smoothly, because I'm going to have some awesome truly before/after pictures on this one from the humble beginnings of what this linen closet looked like before I got to it.

I use this thing every day, I've never once cleaned it like this, and I just forget how great it really looks after I refinished everything. It's going to be one of those "selling points" in my house like the pantry with the roll-out shelving I added. Every closet in my house is basically a work of art, and they all showcase different skills with none of them looking the same.

I do have to give the woman who lived here at some point before me credit for her creativity, even if everything was garishmaxxing to the extreme. What with all the Gay Chefs decor in the kitchen, and the 70's looking contact paper that covered every square inch of the inside of this closet.

You'll see what I mean when I post a photo of what it looked like later tonight. I swear to god, it happened every time I looked at it in real life just as it did when I saw the picture again today for the first time in years... I hear the song "Age of Aquarius" playing in my head when I see that contact paper.

"Feels like I'm drowning in the Age of Aquarius... The age of Aquarius... Aquarius! Aquarius...."

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Monday, July 20, 2026 9:28 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Done.

And it was a challenge every single step of the way. Pretty much everything that could go wrong with the harware did go wrong with the hardware, but without going into any specifics on the ten or so things I needed to do in between to get it up there, it was still easier to hang than the old one was now that I know how bifold doors work. The biggest issue I had here was that the old wheel absolutely needed to be used with the track, and the way that this hardware was installed in the door is different than any modern way of doing it. A lot of thought had to go into how to solve that problem without wasting days filling the old hole with wood filler and waiting for it to dry so I could drill a much smaller hole.

That original door had ZERO play.

Solid 1/2" peg going into a hole in the bottom bracket, and a solid 1" peg going into the hole in the top of the track that you need to secure down with a screw when you get it just right. Imagine trying to put a 1/2" metal pin into a hole you can't see through the bottom of a bifold door, and then trying to line up a solid pin on top without any spring action.

It was hard enough with that spring action in play, and a proper bottom piece, but MUCH easier than the original install.

The only thing is that the original door was the most solid bifold door I've ever seen and now it's not. And I know exactly why that is. If I ever want to make it that solid again, I know exactly what I need to do. But I have zero interest in ever doing it again.

I think when I get my pictures I'll snap one of the bag of old track hardware I just found in the basement today and how glad I won't have to look at any of that garbage with the 2 new track sets coming tomorrow.

It's dark out now, but the hard work is done. I can still do all the rest of the cleanup and get my new streamlined setup put together. If I can help it at all, I'd like to get all the stuff I would use within the next 1 to 3 months in the bathroom itself now, and anything that would only be needed 3 months or more from now will be out of the room and in that linen closet. Maybe I'll even use the linen closet for some actual linen instead of just toiletries and cleaning products.

I'll have some good pictures to share later tonight.

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Monday, July 20, 2026 10:56 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Lots to catch up on with you guys!

BRENDA, I hear you about flat feet and shoe shopping! I've got thst, plus EEEE width feet, and a bunion on my right foot. Once I find a brand and style that I like, I stick with it. Shoe shopping is such a trial!

Glad you noticed your blood sugar bouncing around. As I recall, you have hypoglycemia, right? I'll bet that's no fun.

SIX.
Interesting option on the insurance angle. I guess you report to the IRS as "self employed“. You might want to get a receipt book and save your copies bc I assume you'll be paid in cash? Also not sure what the contractor laws are there, but here any job worth more than $500 requires a license.

Also, don't do what our one handyman did: He did phenomenal work, a perfectionist. But had the strangest hours, would show up at 8PM and work until 3AM. That made sleeping difficult! And ultimately he bailed on a job and we couldn't get hold of him for completion. Once you get the rep for being reliable, people will be banging on your door! Also, have you thought of helping people de-hoard, or at least organize? It's light work but highly valued!

And congrats on getting that door up!

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Dpeaking of de- hoarding... I found dear daughter's secret stash in the front guest bedroom, where I rarely go. So we butted heads and then I sat her down in front of 8 bins ... #1 plastic, #2 plastic, glass, aluminum, general recycling, small scrap metal, and trash, and sorted thru the bags with her.

She's still mad at me.

When we get to her room, tho, I won't make her get rid of anything. It'll just be organizing so hopefully less friction.

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