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Been too busy over the past few days to post much, but hubby finally recovered from pneumonia to finish dear daughter's bed, so we helped glue felt on the feet, and drwaer liner between the frame and plywood platform (to prevent squeaking) and helped put on the plywood. With my various aches and pains I couldn't help with the heavy lifting, but I cleaned and waxed the frame (dear daughter didn't want a tung oil finish, but the beeswax/carnauba wax finish didn't smell too bad and did an excellent job of cleaning the the frame and sealing it against humidity changes).

Also, our cable provider recently gave us an upgrade to our modem and router, but the router broadcasts simultaneously on 2.4 and 5 GHz, and there's no way to get the connected devices to select which one to connect with, so the devices keep switching to find the strongest signal, which causes disconnect. We have to manually reconnect the tablet which interferes with dd's virtual gym class. So hubby bought a Motorola router wth a strong 2.4 Ghz signal, but (even better) it ID's each signal separately and allows us to connect the devices to the 2.4 GHz signal specifically. It didn't require much more than plugging it in, but I went around the house with my phone and the tablet to makre sure it was getting good signal everywhere, and that the devices weren't hunting for a higher signal. All is good.

Tomorrow, I return our DVR from our canceled cable TV service and the cable-provided router, and that should put a close on that issue.

And maybe now some much-delayed yardwork. I showed hubby the trimming that I think the avocado tree needs and he's OK with it. Also, after the rain came the sun, and the weeds have exploded, and the longer I'm delayed attending to that the worse it's gonna get.

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Been too busy over the past few days to post much, but hubby finally recovered from pneumonia to finish dear daughter's bed, so we helped glue felt on the feet, and drwaer liner between the frame and plywood platform (to prevent squeaking) and helped put on the plywood. With my various aches and pains I couldn't help with the heavy lifting, but I cleaned and waxed the frame (dear daughter didn't want a tung oil finish, but the beeswax/carnauba wax finish didn't smell too bad and did an excellent job of cleaning the the frame and sealing it against humidity changes).

Also, our cable provider recently gave us an upgrade to our modem and router, but the router broadcasts simultaneously on 2.4 and 5 GHz, and there's no way to get the connected devices to select which one to connect with, so the devices keep switching to find the strongest signal, which causes disconnect. We have to manually reconnect the tablet which interferes with dd's virtual gym class. So hubby bought a Motorola router wth a strong 2.4 Ghz signal, but (even better) it ID's each signal separately and allows us to connect the devices to the 2.4 GHz signal specifically. It didn't require much more than plugging it in, but I went around the house with my phone and the tablet to makre sure it was getting good signal everywhere, and that the devices weren't hunting for a higher signal. All is good.

Tomorrow, I return our DVR from our canceled cable TV service and the cable-provided router, and that should put a close on that issue.

And maybe now some much-delayed yardwork. I showed hubby the trimming that I think the avocado tree needs and he's OK with it. Also, after the rain came the sun, and the weeds have exploded, and the longer I'm delayed attending to that the worse it's gonna get.

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Glad your husband is feeling better. I didn't even remember you saying he was sick though. He managed to get that bed done in this amount of time while fighting off pneumonia at the same time. Tell him I can use his help over here when he's done trimming the avocado tree.



Going to have to deal with my cable company this month myself. That sweet contract I got myself into last year is up. My internet has acted really spotty the last month or so too... almost as if they're pulling some shenanigans to try to coach me into buying a faster connection...

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Been too busy over the past few days to post much, but hubby finally recovered from pneumonia to finish dear daughter's bed, so we helped glue felt on the feet, and drwaer liner between the frame and plywood platform (to prevent squeaking) and helped put on the plywood. With my various aches and pains I couldn't help with the heavy lifting, but I cleaned and waxed the frame (dear daughter didn't want a tung oil finish, but the beeswax/carnauba wax finish didn't smell too bad and did an excellent job of cleaning the the frame and sealing it against humidity changes).

Also, our cable provider recently gave us an upgrade to our modem and router, but the router broadcasts simultaneously on 2.4 and 5 GHz, and there's no way to get the connected devices to select which one to connect with, so the devices keep switching to find the strongest signal, which causes disconnect. We have to manually reconnect the tablet which interferes with dd's virtual gym class. So hubby bought a Motorola router wth a strong 2.4 Ghz signal, but (even better) it ID's each signal separately and allows us to connect the devices to the 2.4 GHz signal specifically. It didn't require much more than plugging it in, but I went around the house with my phone and the tablet to makre sure it was getting good signal everywhere, and that the devices weren't hunting for a higher signal. All is good.

Tomorrow, I return our DVR from our canceled cable TV service and the cable-provided router, and that should put a close on that issue.

And maybe now some much-delayed yardwork. I showed hubby the trimming that I think the avocado tree needs and he's OK with it. Also, after the rain came the sun, and the weeds have exploded, and the longer I'm delayed attending to that the worse it's gonna get.

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Glad your husband is feeling better. I didn't even remember you saying he was sick though. He managed to get that bed done in this amount of time while fighting off pneumonia at the same time. Tell him I can use his help over here when he's done trimming the avocado tree.



Going to have to deal with my cable company this month myself. That sweet contract I got myself into last year is up. My internet has acted really spotty the last month or so too... almost as if they're pulling some shenanigans to try to coach me into buying a faster connection...

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With everyone online, they're prolly gating you: holding you to a lower-than-contracted speed.

You can always check your speed at speedtest.net.

At one point, when we were with a third-party provider on the Verizon lines, hubby wrote a script that would successively run speedtest.net and plot the results. It definitely showed we were being gated. But third-party pointed to Verizon lines as being the issue (copper lines, too far away from switching computer) and Verizon pointed to third party, so we dumped them both. (It was clearly Verizon's fault.)

After this last "upgrade" on our modem and router, hubby for the helluvit ran a speed check and found that we had been switched to a 100 mbs service altho we are paying for 400 mbs service. So, one more irate phone call to our cable provider, and we got in touch with someone who knew someone who knew someone who had a "wand" that allowed them to override our settings, and with the next check we were at 460-470 mbs. WOO HOO!

Anyway, check your speed. You'll prolly find that you're being gated. And also there will be better times and worse times to connect. (We were being bonked at 2AM; I was told that's when banks, credit card processors and other financial institutions do their $ transfers, so - in our area at least- that's not a good time.)

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Walk in, grocery shopping done and recycling as well. As I was coming home it was trying to snow. Little flakes you could hardly see. Don't know what will happen this evening. Those it has warmed up some.

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Walk in, grocery shopping done and recycling as well. As I was coming home it was trying to snow. Little flakes you could hardly see. Don't know what will happen this evening. Those it has warmed up some.

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Well, I didn't do the walk but I DID take bags and bags of heavy recycling over to the recycling place (it's a few miles so I had to drive), and did really heavy grocery shopping at the store right next door. With all the heavy lifting, now my back is sore so I'll be doing just a few light things before I go to bed.

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Well Jack and Brenda - this is my special meatloaf chock full of vegetables because I hate, hate, hate, vegetables, and if I don't make them tasty somehow I just won't eat them. Ketchup is a vegetable! But aside from that this meatloaf had diced potatoes, diced onions, cooked mashed sweet potatoes (it's an experiment - to see if the starch in the sweet potatoes will act as a panade* and keep the meat tender, instead of using milk-soaked bread or breadcrumbs *"at its most basic, a panade is a combination of starch and liquid that keeps the protein in the meat from shrinking and tightening during cooking"), and fresh pureed tomatoes (and hot sauce). Each serving has a half-pound of vegetables, measured raw, and those are my vegetables for the day. And if I don't eat that, I don't eat vegetables.

So ... it's probably not like any meatloaf you might have ever had. Definitely not the kind you'd put gravy over! More like bbq. With vegetables mixed in.

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Well Jack and Brenda - this is my special meatloaf chock full of vegetables because I hate, hate, hate, vegetables, and if I don't make them tasty somehow I just won't eat them. Ketchup is a vegetable! But aside from that this meatloaf had diced potatoes, diced onions, cooked mashed sweet potatoes (it's an experiment - to see if the starch in the sweet potatoes will act as a panade* and keep the meat tender, instead of using milk-soaked bread or breadcrumbs *"at its most basic, a panade is a combination of starch and liquid that keeps the protein in the meat from shrinking and tightening during cooking"), and fresh pureed tomatoes (and hot sauce). Each serving has a half-pound of vegetables, measured raw, and those are my vegetables for the day. And if I don't eat that, I don't eat vegetables.
So ... it's probably not like any meatloaf you might have ever had. Definitely not the kind you'd put gravy over! More like bbq. With vegetables mixed in.

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I kind of like my veggies depending on what they are. I eat less carrots now than when I was a kid. And I don't eat cooked peas. I like them fresh, young and sweet. Brussel sprouts and broccoli are good too. I eat a lot of those and some beets.

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Well Jack and Brenda - this is my special meatloaf chock full of vegetables because I hate, hate, hate, vegetables, and if I don't make them tasty somehow I just won't eat them. Ketchup is a vegetable! But aside from that this meatloaf had diced potatoes, diced onions, cooked mashed sweet potatoes (it's an experiment - to see if the starch in the sweet potatoes will act as a panade* and keep the meat tender, instead of using milk-soaked bread or breadcrumbs *"at its most basic, a panade is a combination of starch and liquid that keeps the protein in the meat from shrinking and tightening during cooking"), and fresh pureed tomatoes (and hot sauce). Each serving has a half-pound of vegetables, measured raw, and those are my vegetables for the day. And if I don't eat that, I don't eat vegetables.
So ... it's probably not like any meatloaf you might have ever had. Definitely not the kind you'd put gravy over! More like bbq. With vegetables mixed in.

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I kind of like my veggies depending on what they are. I eat less carrots now than when I was a kid. And I don't eat cooked peas. I like them fresh, young and sweet. Brussel sprouts and broccoli are good too. I eat a lot of those and some beets.

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I have never generically liked vegetables, not even the sweet and high-starch ones even babies usually like - peas, carrots, and corn. I do like potatoes and I do count them as a vegetable because they do have a lot of potassium and some vitamin C, as well as fiber in the skins, which I do eat. So they're not like grains which are starch on starch and nothing else. And if you chill them after cooking, or freeze them, which I do, some of their starch becomes resistant starch, which isn't quite as bad for you. Other than potatoes, the only other vegetable I like are green beans, fresh from the garden, and cooked just enough to be tender, served Polonaise (with bread crumbs fried in butter) (and fresh green beans from the garden are not going to happen here anytime soon!).

But I like some vegetables in some ways. For example, while I truly, deeply dislike fresh tomatoes - sliced fresh tomatoes on sourdough with a bit of mayo are a fantastic taste. Forget the bacon and lettuce, you don't need them! I didn't even know I liked fresh tomatoes at all until I was in college, and one of my roommates introduced me to the perfect tomato sandwich.

So, it's all a matter of figuring out how to eat them.

But I still dislike carrots. And I've finally decided to eliminate them from my diet. While a lot of people like them because they're 'sweet', I really dislike their carrot funk. Truly, indelibly dislike them.

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Gross... Tonight's 11 degree is the warmest night we're supposed to have until the 20th. Worst February I remember in a long time. Supposed to get 4 to 7 more inches of snow between today and Sunday.

Got things to keep me more than busy indoors. But I'm going to go out today to pick up a few more gallons of that primer that's on sale. With all the painting that will need to be done after the cabinets, I'm going to need it. On the off chance I don't burn through three gallons on the inside work on the 1st floor I want to repaint the 2nd floor aluminum after I recaulk them like I did the low level windows and eventually get around to repainting every square inch of old aluminum that isn't a new gutter or wasn't replace before the gutters when up. So it will all get used.

Should have bought them when I was out the other day, but I'd already bought an extra gallon of white enamel paint and I'd just bought those two sanders and had a large bill come up. It was an expensive 48 hours, and my judgement was clouded by that.


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Hey Brenda, I hope your and your friend have a good visit.

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Even I've got to do that. For example, after posting here this morning I decided on a nap and I just woke up right now. Too late for my painting shift, and I don't feel like dealing with any of the other stuff either.

I am trying to motivate myself to get ready and go out and do some various shopping while it's a balmy 20 degrees outside.

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Nine months ago, I was busy digging out that second vegetable garden, putting a couple of hours in most mornings, before the day got too hot. I was assuming that with cooler weather I'd be able to get more done, but this arthritis thing has really set me back. It's just a measure of how things have changed for me, and hubby, over the long run.

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I'm still hoping to resolve this. I had a couple of weeks of feeling GREAT(!!!) after feeling horrible for months. So it can be done, I just need to figure out how.

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Yeah. That's a shame. You sounded real excited about it and thought you knew what was wrong. Just take it little steps at a time. I know with the outdoor work, especially, the problems just come back on you a lot quicker than any work you get done inside, but getting something done is better than getting nothing done and eventually you'll get to where it's under control and it feels manageable. Just make sure you keep up with regular maintenance things and then try to do the Projects a little at a time when you feel capable of doing it. And whatever you do, DON'T do what I do and get all manic and work through pain while hopped up on affine. Then you just eventually crash and burn and (if you're prone to depression) you can end up doing nothing for weeks at a time.

You'll eventually get there.

Seriously though... I know I mentioned it before, but even though a "To-Do" list is invaluable, at the bottom of that list put a "DONE" list too. Whenever you finish something from the to-do list, or somehow jump to doing something that wasn't on it because your work led you there, make sure to add those things to the DONE list.

I didn't start that up again myself until my brother was here last May, but I now have just shy of 100 items on that list. It's a huge motivational boost to me to look at what I have accomplished. Especially on one of the bad days when I've fallen back into a funk. I only wish that I'd thought to put dates at the end of each DONE item, but if I really wanted to know (at least with project work) I have it all dated with my photos.

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In any case, I did manage to torch most of the front yard...before the fire department stopped by a told me to stop! I guess my torching is going to be in the backyard, and I'll just have to spray the front bc I refuse to hand-weed all of that stuff.

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I'd say, "wow, really", but then I think of all the fires in California and how little rain you've gotten. Though I totally empathize with your desire to keep any work you're doing in the back yard and away from prying eyes, do be careful.

I can't remember... how did that spray I recommended you get work out for you? Did you get one of those awesome 2-gallon Round-Up pump sprayers? If the spray isn't doing it for you, put more in than the instructions say. It literally melts any of my weeds. And even though spraying for weeds and bugs is never fun, that good pump sprayer at least elevated it from my least favorite chore around the house.

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I tried that a couple of years ago, hoping that if I got the weeds before they set seed I'd have fewer weeds later. I do have less sow thistle and dandelion, but more western ragweed ...all I managed to do was change the population, not the overall amount. So, since I have no choice I'm just going to regularly spray until I can reshape the yard and put down chipped bark.

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They always find a way. Spraying will never be done around here, but after finally getting it under control I spend a whole lot less time doing it, spread out over several treatments per year. And I rarely, ever have to get my hands dirty pulling anything anymore except for cutting any "suckers" that grow right next to the Maple's where I wouldn't want to poison the grass and I don't feel like having to buy and store a third pump sprayer for grass safe chemicals.

But just keep that manageable and part of your regular chores, and then chip away at those projects when you feel you're up to it. They're not going anywhere.

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Anyway, getting our cable provider to stop billing us for TV service that we no longer have ... done. That saves us about $120 per month, and I'm glad to get rid of that. It was a lot of channels but few good choices.

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I was actually watching it back in the drinking days. I liked it. It was before Amazon took it over, and I think I stopped watching all TV somewhere in the middle of the 2nd or 3rd season. I might give it another try one of these days. The problem is with some of these shows there are so many episodes to watch it feels like homework. I won't lie and say I don't waste a lot of time on YouTube, but usually the absolutely maximum length of videos I'd watch there are around an hour long and don't require any other watching, with most of the videos being around the 10 or 15 minute mark.

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Oh, BTW SIX, trimming the avocado is NOT on hubby's "honeydew" list! The tree is about 60-70' tall, and right through all the power and communication lines in back. We're going to leave that to the professionally licensed, insured, and bonded, professionals!

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I wish you could come over here and help out!

SIX: Too bad we're not neighbors. In the last year I've helped out my neighbors more than my friends.

SIGNY: Hubby and I ... he gets thru a day ... I get thru an hour or two ... and we need a day to recover!

SIX: Even I've got to do that. For example, after posting here this morning I decided on a nap and I just woke up right now. Too late for my painting shift, and I don't feel like dealing with any of the other stuff either.
I am trying to motivate myself to get ready and go out and do some various shopping while it's a balmy 20 degrees outside.

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SIGNY: Nine months ago, I was busy digging out that second vegetable garden, putting a couple of hours in most mornings, before the day got too hot. I was assuming that with cooler weather I'd be able to get more done, but this arthritis thing has really set me back. It's just a measure of how things have changed for me, and hubby, over the long run.

SIX: Too bad your old gardener friend isn't around anymore. No chance you can't get some reasonably priced help?

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SIGNY: I'm still hoping to resolve this. I had a couple of weeks of feeling GREAT(!!!) after feeling horrible for months. So it can be done, I just need to figure out how.

SIX: Yeah. That's a shame. You sounded real excited about it and thought you knew what was wrong.

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SIX: Just take it little steps at a time. I know with the outdoor work, especially, the problems just come back on you a lot quicker than any work you get done inside, but getting something done is better than getting nothing done and eventually you'll get to where it's under control and it feels manageable. Just make sure you keep up with regular maintenance things and then try to do the Projects a little at a time when you feel capable of doing it. And whatever you do, DON'T do what I do and get all manic and work through pain while hopped up on affine. Then you just eventually crash and burn and (if you're prone to depression) you can end up doing nothing for weeks at a time.

You'll eventually get there.

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SIX: Seriously though... I know I mentioned it before, but even though a "To-Do" list is invaluable, at the bottom of that list put a "DONE" list too. Whenever you finish something from the to-do list, or somehow jump to doing something that wasn't on it because your work led you there, make sure to add those things to the DONE list.

I didn't start that up again myself until my brother was here last May, but I now have just shy of 100 items on that list. It's a huge motivational boost to me to look at what I have accomplished. Especially on one of the bad days when I've fallen back into a funk. I only wish that I'd thought to put dates at the end of each DONE item, but if I really wanted to know (at least with project work) I have it all dated with my photos.

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SIGNY: In any case, I did manage to torch most of the front yard...before the fire department stopped by a told me to stop! I guess my torching is going to be in the backyard, and I'll just have to spray the front bc I refuse to hand-weed all of that stuff.

SIX: I'd say, "wow, really", but then I think of all the fires in California and how little rain you've gotten. Though I totally empathize with your desire to keep any work you're doing in the back yard and away from prying eyes, do be careful.

I can't remember... how did that spray I recommended you get work out for you? Did you get one of those awesome 2-gallon Round-Up pump sprayers? If the spray isn't doing it for you, put more in than the instructions say. It literally melts any of my weeds. And even though spraying for weeds and bugs is never fun, that good pump sprayer at least elevated it from my least favorite chore around the house.

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SIGNY: I tried that a couple of years ago, hoping that if I got the weeds before they set seed I'd have fewer weeds later. I do have less sow thistle and dandelion, but more western ragweed ...all I managed to do was change the population, not the overall amount. So, since I have no choice I'm just going to regularly spray until I can reshape the yard and put down chipped bark.

SIX: They always find a way. Spraying will never be done around here, but after finally getting it under control I spend a whole lot less time doing it, spread out over several treatments per year. And I rarely, ever have to get my hands dirty pulling anything anymore except for cutting any "suckers" that grow right next to the Maple's where I wouldn't want to poison the grass and I don't feel like having to buy and store a third pump sprayer for grass safe chemicals.
But just keep that manageable and part of your regular chores, and then chip away at those projects when you feel you're up to it. They're not going anywhere.

SIGNY: Anyway, getting our cable provider to stop billing us for TV service that we no longer have ... done. That saves us about $120 per month, and I'm glad to get rid of that. It was a lot of channels but few good choices.

SIX: Nice. I haven't called my company yet. I'm not expecting too much trouble, but I think my internet will go up at least $5 a month this year.

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SIGNY: If you can manage, see if you can find "The Expanse". Not sure who's distributing besides Amazon, but it's free there and it's an awesome scifi series. I can't wait for the next season. And unlike Game of Thrones, the books are already all written, so they're not having to make it up as they go along.

SIX: I was actually watching it back in the drinking days. I liked it. It was before Amazon took it over, and I think I stopped watching all TV somewhere in the middle of the 2nd or 3rd season. I might give it another try one of these days. The problem is with some of these shows there are so many episodes to watch it feels like homework. I won't lie and say I don't waste a lot of time on YouTube, but usually the absolutely maximum length of videos I'd watch there are around an hour long and don't require any other watching, with most of the videos being around the 10 or 15 minute mark.
No obligations.

SIGNY: Oh, BTW SIX, trimming the avocado is NOT on hubby's "honeydew" list! The tree is about 60-70' tall, and right through all the power and communication lines in back. We're going to leave that to the professionally licensed, insured, and bonded, professionals!


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Never heard of 'em.

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Well, when the padnemic reared its ugly head, hubby got all paranoid about it and didn't want ANYBODY coming over to work. I tried telling him that our sometme gardener would be working outdoors and ince lunch was alwsy part of the deal I could give it to him outside, and I would be masked up any time I needed to talk to him or pay him, but hubby is SO paranoid about the virus and I can't change his mind. But I have to respect his wishes.

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It was much easier for me to figure out mine, but after talking with you and Kiki I just went cold turkey on the Hodge-podge of stuff I KNEW had whatever was causing the hives. Slowly I introduced the least likely culprits back into the diet until the Cajun spice was the only thing I wasn't eating anymore without any problems. And just like you said might happen, after around 7 or 8 months I started using the Cajun spice again and I don't get any reactions. I still probably use more than I should, but compared to what I used to do I'd say it's quite sparingly. And if I ever do get the hives again I know what caused it.

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Since weeding IS the biggest "maintenance" chore and spring is when the weeds explode, it's imperative that I get ahead on that.

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Agreed. Good plan.

In the mean time though, if you've got that "DONE" list (in your diary) you can go back and look at all the projects you completed while you were at war with the weeds. Your memory probably makes the weeds themselves a larger enemy in your head than they actually are because you think of all the other things you were doing at the time.

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Well, I do something similar in that when I accomplish something I cross it off my "to do" list and write it into my diary. It IS a good motivational tool, even if all I've done is clean the house, do the dishes and cook a meal that day! Also, when it comes to dealing with insurances, cable company, or what-have-you, it's very useful to be able to read back to them WHEN I called them and what the content of the call was. A habit from when I was a supervisor and dealt with a lot of outisde businesses.

But honestly, to me, there is nothing quite as satisfying as crossing itmes off the list, and then being able to throw the list away!

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My list is all on the computer. Just a simple TXT document. Easy to cut and paste and re-arrange. I don't get too much satisfaction from removing something off the to-do list because right now there's always something else to go on there and it's usually about a dozen items for the week that may or may not even get done during that week. The satisfaction for me is being able to move them down to the DONE area though.

Good habit there having times and dates and names of people you talk to. I picked that up when I worked at a customer service help desk. Invaluable when trying to get money owed to you or to strike up a bargain. Save those trouble ticket numbers too if they're available.

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The spray works great, as does the sprayer. I was just hoping to reduce the amount of spraying, seeing as I'm trying to be environmentally responsible.

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You're at war. You have to let that one go, especially if you're doing yourself bodily harm.

There was a day when I'd tell my grandma I didn't want to use any chemicals because I'd be afraid that the birds that always dig for worms on my property after it rains might die from it. But when you've practically given your property back to nature with 3 foot high weeds, 7 maple trees growing right next to your house's foundation, moles making holes all along the same foundation, ants eating your water damaged porch and raccoons eating through a shingled roof to have their babies, you finally realize enough is enough and the rent is due.

I've made peace with the fact that I simply can't afford to be environmentally conscious when my repayment for that is the destruction of my most valuable assets.

Keep recycling. Keep turning off lights and other things when you don't' need them. Keep planning out your errands for one trip instead of driving 5 times more than you need to. But use the spray.

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HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Out for my walk on a nice bright day. I'm sure it's plenty cold out though.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Out for my walk on a nice bright day. I'm sure it's plenty cold out though.

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I'll bet! It looks like you're on the Arctic side of the jet stream!

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Did my regular paint shift. Glued and clamped the broken door in time to get it in before the next shift in 2 days. Spent a ridiculous amount of time cleaning off that paste off the tiles finally (I'm never doing that again). Scoured the stove on the outside. Used the AWESOME grout pen to whiten up all the grout lines from the wall to past the stove where I'd washed them. Put another layer of primer on the wall where there is no tile behind the stove and the dishwasher. Installed the two new tiles to replace the broken ones that have been uglying up my kitchen for the past decade. Moved everything back to the wall so I can start sanding those damn upper cabinets finally.

After days of dancing around that flexible gas line, I thought I'd messed up bad when I jacked up the back to clean the filthy, grease crusted legs in the back (I quickly removed the pads I'd installed... they'll be good when I have tile, but they don't play well with the existing subfloor and make the stove a literal bitch to move right now).

But when I turned the gas line back on I smelled gas. Shit.

It took me longer than it should have to realize that I'd turned one of the burner knobs just a little bit from the off position.



Everything's good, and for the first time since I've started this project I can actually tell a huge improvement from what it used to look like. You wouldn't believe how good the clean tiles look compared to the unwashed ones that didn't get the grout pen treatment yet.

And a clean stove and dishwasher that look like they're brand spankin' new even though I'm probably ditching the washer... And just knowing that the mountains of filth that used to be behind them are now just a fading memory.

I'm going to sleep like a baby tonight.




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