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

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

POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Saturday, April 18, 2026 00:49
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Friday, April 17, 2026 9:50 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
My god, you were an Energizer Bunny!

Yeah... lol. I wouldn't have done that, but until I finally wrapped it up I had so much "stuff" in the middle of the floor, and I really wanted it all put together and looking nice before my dad got here. I can tell that he's been down for a while too, and I wonder if my mood has rubbed off on him. I'm trying to get him back into good spirits before his "bucket list" trip. He's about to go on a cross-country car ride and see a bunch of stuff, including The Wizard of Oz at The Sphere in Vegas.

I told him that I'm not going to call him at all while he's gone, but he's welcome to call me if he wants to (but he really shouldn't). And I told him to tell my brother not to call him too. I don't think my dad has had that kind of alone time since he married my mom in the 70's, and I think it will do him a lot of good to just be alone for the first time in almost 50 years.

He's going to come here and spend the night 2 or 3 nights before he goes. He's never done that before. Now that I have the living room all put together and looking great, I'm going to buy my first flat screen TV. I found out that they do ship them to your house, so I'm going for the 75" Samsung that's on sale for only $345. I've already got a nice soundbar with the BOOM, so we're going to be watching movies in style from now on when he comes by on my nice leather recliners.

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Yanno, aside from being a handyman, you seem to be a good organizer. There are plenty of ppl who would pay to have their homes uncluttered and organized!

Who knows... Maybe I'll think about that. My plan right now is to get as much done on the house as I can between now and about mid-fall and hopefully get the last of the major preventative stuff done so I don't have to worry about that when I get a job. I need to get a job on the books because if you don't have 5 years worth of quarters in the last 10 that you worked and paid taxes, you can't file for SSID. That's not a thing I need to be worrying about with the diabetes. If I start working this winter I can have that emergency fallback option available to me again by the time I'm 52.

Although, I guess I could just do that type of work sporadically if I'm doing my own taxes. As long as I get even one single gig in a quarter and pay taxes on it, that counts as a quarter you paid into the system.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I've only had one night terror but it was scary as hell.

What an awful night for you!

Did you see anything/anyone? A lot of people don't, but they still have that dread and fear and can't move.

It wasn't really that bad. If I had a job to go to the next morning it might have been because I was up about 3 hours before I finally got back to sleep. It's not as if the feeling of fear stays with you after you're out of the dream. At least it doesn't with me. It's just so weird.

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Friday, April 17, 2026 9:57 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Okay thanks for telling me that it would be too big for my place. No worries. It looks like it would on the page.

I didn't exactly say it was too big for your place. I know from what you've said that you don't have a ton of space and you have that extra dresser outside of the room, but I don't really know what you're looking for or what kind of free room you have for things. But if the measurements really were 14" by 74" and that wasn't a typo, that would be 6 feet 2 inches long. But you said it was a square, so I didn't think it really was those dimensions.

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I tried looking at the website for what I saw in the store and their website is useless.

Thanks for trying to help. Though if the store still has it maybe I can get the measurements off the ottaman itself. Will see.

How much was the product, do you know? The square Navy ottoman I posted was $59.99. Anything huge there was PRICEY. So how much did you think you'd be paying for it? That might help narrow it down.

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Friday, April 17, 2026 10:11 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Mowed the back yard for the 2nd time, so it's finally short and looks good. But I didn't get to the grocery store in time because I was out there sanding things down on my horses all day in prep for paint. Sanded down a nice 12"x64" shelf from my grandma's which I'm going to paint glossy black to match my current TV stand, and I'm going to put rubber feet underneath it so it can rest on top of my existing TV stand without scratching it and my new TV will actually have a surface for the legs. I didn't cut it to size yet because I want to know exactly how long it needs to be to hold the legs of the TV without sticking out a foot on either side. I believe I only need about 52" for that.

Got all the shelves for the over the toilet cab and medicine cabinet done as well as the 2 doors for the toilet piece. Got a whatever I could get sanded with my power sanders done on the 2 units as well as the shelf with the towel rack underneath. Fully sanded down the bifold door for the small bedroom closet (I'm going to use the one I currently have on my linen closet across from the bathroom for that closet). I also sanded almost the whole bi-fold door with louvers that will go on the linen closet.. I don't even know where I got that thing over the years and forgot I had it. Nice knowing that I don't have to pay $80-$100 for another door when this is all done. Still have to sand down one side of the louvers by hand since I ran out of daylight before getting it finished. That takes SO FREAKIN LONG!!!

Once I finally get all of those bifolds painted and installed, that will be 2 more rooms in the house finished.

These new Ryobi sanders kind of suck. The bags for the dust collection do not stay on at all, so the sanding really has to be done outside. But I just found out today that the design for the tube going out to the non-working dust collection bag just gets in the way of sanding stuff if you're not sanding a flat surface. Trying to sand those cabinets with this thing was harder than it needed to be. I'll have to do a lot of hand sanding inside on those. I'm glad that the older Ryobi sanders I used for the kitchen cabinets were engineered so much better otherwise that job would have sucked even more than it already did.

I'd rather be painting tomorrow, but I think I'll just finish sanding down everything I can think of that still needs sanding for my upcoming work so I can paint all the stuff all at one time. I've got 4 sets of horses now, so I can set those all up in my 2 rooms in the basement. If I'm painting them inside then it doesn't matter how the weather is outside. Might as well do what needs to be done outside on the nice days and save the painting for the crappy days.

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Friday, April 17, 2026 11:21 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Oh... right. I didn't touch the mirrored oak medicine cabinet door yet. I'm really debating whether or not to unscrew 24 freakin' screws necessary to take the mirror out first. I don't want to use power tools on it with the mirror in place. Obviously not on the inner part of the face of it by the mirror, but anywhere. I noticed a the thinnest of hairline cracks in my huge and heavy mirror I have mounted on my entryway wall in the living room (the one I took my avatar picture with). Just like the kitchen cabinets the high-gloss white has held up perfectly on it over the years, but even though nobody has ever or probably will ever notice that hairline crack, I do. I don't know if I did that myself when I sanded that thing down by hand out on those horses or if it was always there, but once I've seen something I can't unsee it.

See... This is why I write things out. I've just talked myself into taking the mirror out. Of course I'm going to take the mirror out. I would never forgive myself if I broke that mirror because I was being lazy. And unlike the mirror in the living room there are going to be 3 or 4 lights directly above it showing off any hairline crack to anybody who uses the bathroom. Uggghhh...

I think I'll throw on my sweats and and go out and get it from out of the shed now. I could do that right now while I'm watching YouTube.

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Saturday, April 18, 2026 12:49 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Went out and got it at the right time for sure...

I had no idea what we were in for. We just had one hell of a storm blow through here with the air raid sirens going off for about a half hour.

Strangely, it wasn't that bad... The rain was only torrential in spots, and the wind seemed to be higher than us. The really tall trees were swaying, but my house didn't creak or crack at all like it has a few times with high winds this year.

I was kind of preoccupied with that for a while but I finally got to taking the mirror out. But the damn thing is glued on to the inside of the back panel

I'm going to have to be really careful sanding that. I'll just do it by hand and make sure the mirror is protected while I'm doing it. I thought about leaving that as-is for an interesting contrast inside the cabinet, but there is two not-so-minor defects in the stained/varnished finish on it, and it'll just be easier to paint it along with everything else than try to touch that up seamlessly.

I'm done for the day. The tornado warning is over and I'm toast.

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