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6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, October 3, 2019 8:23 PM (P)

Yesterday was another gross day, but I got a lot accomplished and it's starting to get less gross. Today will be the third day in a row I haven't even bothered to wash my work jeans because they're just going to immediately be covered in mud again.

I got a lot more of the crawlspace graded, and I pulled enough pavers from up top to make 3 1/2 rows of them along the wall on the south end.

I stopped that work momentarily to decide if I still needed to jack up the porch on the side I hadn't worked on yet. To my surprise, everything over there is more or less fine, and I was able to "persuade" four 4 foot lengths of 2x8 to double up on the joists on that end. They really don't need it, but since I have the wood and the floor is still open I figured why not. The sill isn't great, but it's not terrible either. If I can keep water from leaking on that end and keep the ants away, it shouldn't be a problem.

So...

Glad I'm pulling those pavers up. I hope I can find some old pictures that would tell me the story of how low the siding was to them when I initially bought the house. They were only about 1/4 to 1/2 below the siding now, but because of the ants and the moles the dirt and sand have built up all along the ends of the shed and the garage and whenever it gets wet it's getting inside and making the plates on the floor wet too. Most of it is fine still and I'm catching it in time, but there are a few I'd like to figure out how to either replace or strengthen with additional boards.

I'm also going to do a bit more research and see if I can rent a tool from Home Depot that would allow me to do "mudjacking" (I believe that's the term for what I want to do). It involves drilling 2" holes into the concrete at strategic places so you can pump a mixture underneath that will actually raise the slab. If I could raise the slab of my shed at the end of the porch properly (but not too much!), it should mitigate a lot of potential problems in the porch and shed that I forsee down the road.

My initial plan was to put decorative rocks or at least gravel down for the patio between the garage and the porch. That's still the plan, but I wanted it all to be quite a bit lower than the height of the pavers are now. But when looking at everything yesterday that would be a problem. The patio would end up being a pool in heavy rains. Both the driveway on one end and the grass in the back yard would be higher than the patio. Even with gutters up that would be a problem if I can't get the gravel to more or less the same height as the pavers were now.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

BRENDA

Thursday, October 3, 2019 10:09 PM (P)

Rain here today. Mah jong then work. Boss and her husband suppose to be taking me out for a late birthday supper. We shall see.

BRENDA

Friday, October 4, 2019 7:10 AM (P)

Rain and a heavy hail storm that arrived around 4:30 or so.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, October 4, 2019 9:46 PM (P)

Didn't get anything done on the job yesterday. Needed to take a break from going down there again. The bruise from the fall is still pretty bad, and the cold weather setting in is not doing the general aches and pains from all that awkward positioning any favors either.

That being said... summer is officially over around here. I better get to it.

Really hoping I can get my friend back out for one day before the floor is in to look at things and give me his feedback about how to proceed. Because of the wonky design of this entire add-on, if I make the necessary changes to complete the floor now, that will preclude me from being able to jack up the foundation of the shed on the end at a later date because the construction will have been altered so much that it would ruin the floor of the porch to jack it up after the fact.

I hope I can at least finish re-grading the floor and getting a bulk of the patio pavers down below today. The visqueen came and is ready to rock when I am.

How was the dinner Brenda? Not too awkward, I hope.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

BRENDA

Friday, October 4, 2019 10:54 PM (P)

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
How was the dinner Brenda? Not too awkward, I hope.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Well, first they cancelled dinner because the other person couldn't make it and we were suppose to go out Sunday night. They drove me back home because we had a massive hail storm while I was working. I had just sat down to watch the news when I get a phone call saying that we could still go out last night or leave it till Sunday, my choice. I said might as well go out.

Anyways I walked up to the restaurant missing them coming by my apartment to pick me up. They got to the restaurant a few minutes after me. No big deal. We had a small laugh over that.

So not too awkward. Except the wife decided to give our server a religious pamphlet. I felt sorry for the kid but I couldn't say anything. They know how I feel about it. That just embarrassed me.

There was some other stuff that happened yesterday that just showed my boss' racist flag showing and a bit on her husband.

If I hadn't said it before I feel bad for their daughter-in-law.

BRENDA

Friday, October 4, 2019 10:55 PM (P)

Soggy again but I got some stuff to do. So later peeps.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, October 5, 2019 6:31 AM (P)

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
How was the dinner Brenda? Not too awkward, I hope.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Well, first they cancelled dinner because the other person couldn't make it and we were suppose to go out Sunday night. They drove me back home because we had a massive hail storm while I was working. I had just sat down to watch the news when I get a phone call saying that we could still go out last night or leave it till Sunday, my choice. I said might as well go out.

Anyways I walked up to the restaurant missing them coming by my apartment to pick me up. They got to the restaurant a few minutes after me. No big deal. We had a small laugh over that.

So not too awkward. Except the wife decided to give our server a religious pamphlet. I felt sorry for the kid but I couldn't say anything. They know how I feel about it. That just embarrassed me.

There was some other stuff that happened yesterday that just showed my boss' racist flag showing and a bit on her husband.

If I hadn't said it before I feel bad for their daughter-in-law.

I'm sure she's fine. Show me somebody who isn't regularly embarrassed by their parents and I'll show you a liar.

Glad the dinner went well outside of the religious shilling. Price for a free meal, I guess.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, October 5, 2019 6:37 AM (P)

Got a late start today because it was so freakin' cold. Wasn't sure that I'd do anything today, but I pushed through the urge not to and ended up getting a ton done.

Crawl is completely graded now, and about 60% filled with the pavers. What a chore to crab walk from one side to the other with them over the mud, but so worth it when it's done. Was able to take a break after doing around 12 at a time by just sitting down on the dry pavers before going back up and getting more.

Taking longer than I expected because everything is more or less wet up top too with the rain we've had the last week or so. Would have definately been easier to clean them off when they were dry, but oh well. Need to make sure I'm not taking any ants down with me.

Had my awesome spray bottle with me and soaked any colonies I saw along the way, and at the end of the day dumped another full 2 gallons of poison around all of the stuff that's exposed now.

Now that I'm seeing how much is filled down below and what remains on top, I'm thinking I'll easily have enough to put a second layer of pavers down there. I may very well choose to do that before putting the visqueen down instead of spending the next 6 months slowly salting those heavy things out with the trash.

I think I'm going to skip putting up any pylons. That floor is rock solid right now. Easily supported me and my brother last week and I probably could put about 40 of the heavy pavers on it without it moving even though I chose to only do about a dozen at a time. The only reason a pylon would be needed is if everything starts rotting out again, and I think with the work I'm doing that's not going to happen for at least 20 years.

The weathermen say tomorrow and the following week are going to be nice and warm again. Going to eat early and hopefully get a good night's sleep and start earlier tomorrow. Maybe I can have all the pavers up tomorrow and finally be done with it.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

BRENDA

Saturday, October 5, 2019 9:59 AM (P)

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by Brenda:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
How was the dinner Brenda? Not too awkward, I hope.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Well, first they cancelled dinner because the other person couldn't make it and we were suppose to go out Sunday night. They drove me back home because we had a massive hail storm while I was working. I had just sat down to watch the news when I get a phone call saying that we could still go out last night or leave it till Sunday, my choice. I said might as well go out.

Anyways I walked up to the restaurant missing them coming by my apartment to pick me up. They got to the restaurant a few minutes after me. No big deal. We had a small laugh over that.

So not too awkward. Except the wife decided to give our server a religious pamphlet. I felt sorry for the kid but I couldn't say anything. They know how I feel about it. That just embarrassed me.

There was some other stuff that happened yesterday that just showed my boss' racist flag showing and a bit on her husband.

If I hadn't said it before I feel bad for their daughter-in-law.

I'm sure she's fine. Show me somebody who isn't regularly embarrassed by their parents and I'll show you a liar.

Glad the dinner went well outside of the religious shilling. Price for a free meal, I guess.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

That's something they are not my parents. Just some people that I know.

Yeah and something I didn't know was going to happen.

Their daughter-in-law is Thai.

BRENDA

Saturday, October 5, 2019 11:13 PM (P)

Off in a bit. Going to meet a friend and her mom for a late birthday lunch. :) So we will be switching things. I've got some books that I promised her for her mum and found some stuff that I am giving to my friend's daughter.

1KIKI

Saturday, October 5, 2019 11:58 PM (P)

Have a nice time, Brenda. :)

BRENDA

Sunday, October 6, 2019 4:40 AM (P)

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Have a nice time, Brenda. :)

It was a good lunch then we went tooling around the mall we were in.

They bought some stuff and I kind of played conductor. Which was okay.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, October 6, 2019 4:41 AM (P)

lol

Further down the rabbit hole we go...

Yanno, if it was only my porch that needed fixing I would have been done a month ago.

As much damage as the ants and moles have done to the patio, and likely the concrete slabs under the attached shed and the front porch as well, I think the beginning of all of my problems were those gorram maple trees that I planted because that dipshit neighbor told me they were Rose of Sharons. I REALLY hope that she believed that. It's one thing to be pissed off that you're being foreclosed on and screwing the bank and/or future owners of that house by planting maples all along the fence and the garage of the house before you leave, but why would she have lied to me about it and have me plant them here too?

Anyhow, I never did anything about them after cutting them down. Huge mistake. They are, in fact, the reason why the crappy chain link fence came up. Just like the guy who gave me a fence quote said.

After starting the day by mowing the lawn, I figured I'd grade out all of the dirt that the exposed patio pavers had pushed up against the slabs of the garage and the shed. Garage went smooth. The shed... not so much.

There are roots everywhere. Some of them up to 1" thick... and that's only the ones I found. I ripped a lot of them out along the perimeter, then dug out the post of the fence closest to the house, re-set it deeper than it was, and buried it back and compacted the dirt down. That alone took hours to do by hand. Then the rain came.

I'm going to have to let that neighbor behind me know he better cut all the rest of those damn things down and obliterate the stumps. He's not just in danger of losing the soffits and gutters. Those roots are going to destroy the garage from underneath too as well as his really nice fence.

Oh well... I'll deal with it in the spring if I don't get to it before snowfall. I've got more pressing issues to deal with at the moment.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SIGNYM

Sunday, October 6, 2019 1:25 PM (P)

Damn SIX, but you're a machine. I can't imagine doing a fifth of the work that you do in one day!

Well dd and I have started clearing out her previous bedroom. Going thru all of her things and emptying out all of the furniture so we can move it over and put things in them in a more organized fashion. Put together a big giveaway box and a big recycling box. Tomorrow we'll finish emptying the room and I'll finish organizing her stuff. Hubby and dd and I also fixed a shelving unit that currently serves as a linen closet and we went over the bedding/ bthroom items and took out the extras so it's all organized now.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, October 6, 2019 9:14 PM (P)

It's out of necessity, really. Summer is over and the floor isn't even in yet.

I've already written off the windows and the interior of the porch until spring. That's probably not a bad thing since I can monitor things better for leaks for a half year before really sealing things up. We're going to screw the rest of the floor in, so as long as I'm careful I can pull it up if there is any need to (I really hope there is no need to). Actually, I just thought about it now and the last piece I put in the far corner could just be put down and maybe I just throw a single screw in it for now to have it tamped down for the season. That would allow me to easily go back under and monitor the situation in the spring before I proceed with the windows and the other work.

I have little faith that I'll have anything put down to replace the patio pavers this year either, outside of some tarps or visqueen with some pavers holding them down. Not sure how shoveling that is going to be until we get there.

I'm not even sure if the gutters are a possibility now. My friend has been flaking hard on me the last few weeks, and using the excuse that I'm not ready to put the floor down as a reason not to come over even though there are a ton of other pressing issues simultaneously, such as jacking up the front overhang and raising raising the columns supporting it. My brother will probably help me with the majority of them since they're low and we can do them on A-frame ladders, but just trying to get him over here to help buy and move the plywood took weeks. He's got so many obligations I really don't know how I'm going to get a full day out of him... assuming we can even get it done in a single day.

And I got to get a job soon too. All this work and my dental stuff at the end of the year isn't going to pay for itself.

Back down below today. Hopefully nothing else pops up and gets in the way of doing that. It's cold down there now, and I had the sniffles all day yesterday from working down there the day before when it was cold.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SIGNYM

Sunday, October 6, 2019 10:06 PM (P)

Using screws not nails? GOOD IDEA! If subject to possible moisture, does this mean brass screws? I like the idea of tacking oone piece in with one screw, that DOES make it a lot easier to see what's going on under the floor!

Eh, it sucks that your friend is so unreliable. Is he giving you any sort of cogent explanation as to why he can't come over? Is he still up to his ass in alligators at his end? Or what? It would be nice for you to know so you could at least get an idea of when/if he might be over before the snow flies and the ground freezes! At least your brother is helping as best he can. I know you're capable of a lot more than I am, but een with your energy and strength there are still jobs that can't be done alone.

Er ... one thing more to think about before the ground freezes ... Wondering WHY your front overhang is drooping, have the columns sunk because the underlying support has sunk? If so, might that be because the sump pump is dumping water right back near the foundation and washing dirt away? Seems like you do have an underground flow problem, and pumping water back into the ground upstream of your foundation could be causing underground erosion (it happens! Some prankster turned on our neighbor's "fill" line to their pool and left it running, next thing I knew I had a "spring" pop up in my front yard, and a hollow was created under our sidewalk. It sounds like drum when we walk on it now!)

Hard to believe you're thinking winter already and we're still thinking heat waves. Today is predicted to get up to 90 F. The heat waves are getting cooler and shorter but we're a long long way from "winter"! At what point do you have to call it quits on the home rebuilding? When there's too much rain? Or when th ground freezes?

Glad you're thinking about getting a job. Reading your posts I really do get a sense that you're much happier when you have a project/ goal. I know you've called yourself OCD ... maybe that's not exactly what's going on with you but OTOH I can't imagine you twiddling your thumbs all winter long either. Best of luck with the job hunt, SIX!

*****

Back at this end, I messaged two doctors about all of the pain I've been in, and they both prescribed me some medicine - one Rx'd naproxen and the other Rx'd meloxicam. Can't take both at the same time, so I decided to start with meloxicam (once per day) and I'm FINALLY not hurting all day and all night! What a relief! shoulder pain ... mostly gone. Finger joint pain? Gone. Knee, ankle and foot pain? Gone. The only thing still bothering me is my left hip/sacroiliac, but I can deal with that. I can sleep, I can get out of bed or up from a chair without being stiff and hurting all over. yay!

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, October 7, 2019 6:19 AM (P)

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Using screws not nails? GOOD IDEA! If subject to possible moisture, does this mean brass screws? I like the idea of tacking oone piece in with one screw, that DOES make it a lot easier to see what's going on under the floor!

Yeah. I'm using screws that are rated for moisture. Probably wouldn't hold up for decades on a porch that got rained on every day, but should be fine in this setting. A lot better than all the rusty nails with the old construction, to be sure. Yup. I'll be just taking down that last piece until spring so I can see how it holds up over winter. Fingers crossed.

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Eh, it sucks that your friend is so unreliable. Is he giving you any sort of cogent explanation as to why he can't come over? Is he still up to his ass in alligators at his end? Or what? It would be nice for you to know so you could at least get an idea of when/if he might be over before the snow flies and the ground freezes! At least your brother is helping as best he can. I know you're capable of a lot more than I am, but een with your energy and strength there are still jobs that can't be done alone.

My friends house problems are probably 3 times as much as mine. He's also got the city breathing down his neck too, which fortunately I don't have to worry about yet since I'm careful and I caught this all before anything was becoming visible from the street. I know he'd be here more if he didn't have all of that crap to deal with on top of a full time job, fiencee, ex with child support, seeing his kid, etc. But then again, if he didn't need my help, I might not be getting his for free when he comes over either...

He's ready to come over whenever, but he just has a bug up his ass about doing anything until we put the floor down. That just kind of pissed me off since I could use his help with other things and there is going to be quite a bit of work on the existing joists as far as planing them down to make the floors fit. I really think he thinks we're going to get that done in a single night and there's absolutely no way it's happening in 3 hours with the prep work that needs being done (with a tool his dad owns, so I can't even do it myself now).

I should be able to tell him I'm ready for the floor to go in on Thursday. That won't be true, but at least none of the things that I wanted to do that he had no interest in doing will be holding it up anymore.

Quote:
Er ... one thing more to think about before the ground freezes ... Wondering WHY your front overhang is drooping, have the columns sunk because the underlying support has sunk? If so, might that be because the sump pump is dumping water right back near the foundation and washing dirt away? Seems like you do have an underground flow problem, and pumping water back into the ground upstream of your foundation could be causing underground erosion (it happens! Some prankster turned on our neighbor's "fill" line to their pool and left it running, next thing I knew I had a "spring" pop up in my front yard, and a hollow was created under our sidewalk. It sounds like drum when we walk on it now!)

It's over a gigantic concrete slab front porch that has sunk. I'm not sure if the sump is the issue since it's so far down from the slab, but I could give you a pretty long list of things making it happen in tandem and the sump definately isn't doing it any favors. Let's see... I don't have gutters, so all of the rain falling hard down off the house displaces all of the dirt below since there was never any rocks or mulch thrown on top of the bare dirt around the hastas. Then there's the ants... and the moles... *groan*... this house is so depressing to think about.

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Hard to believe you're thinking winter already and we're still thinking heat waves. Today is predicted to get up to 90 F. The heat waves are getting cooler and shorter but we&#

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, October 7, 2019 6:31 AM (P)

Yes... I'm in quite a bit of pain right now. Nothing serious, mind, but since I'm not nearly as physically active as I was while working the old job, this kind of work I've been doing the last few days is really taking a toll on the joints and stuff, especially when I wake up and it's not 70 degrees in my house anymore.

The good news is that I was able to work on the patio pavers all day. The bad news is that they're still taking a lot longer than I would have thought. If I were just pulling all of them up and throwing them in a dumpster I would have been done a few days ago, but I have to meticulously remove all the dirt and sand from them, beat them on some other bricks to make sure I'm not willingly carrying any insects down with me, stack them a dozen at a time in the porch, then get down there and hoist them all down with me, then crab walk my happy as with each one to place them.

It's a monster job for one person.

I did finish the first layer today though, and I got a great start on the 2nd layer. I would probably have enough un-broken bricks to put 3 layers down there, but that would leave less room than I'm comfortable with under the joists, I'm afraid.

Stacking up the broken ones at the end of my driveway for now. I've already filled all 3 cans with more of them than I'm comfortable with because of how heavy they are. It will probably take me 3 more weeks of trash pickup to get all the broken blocks out of here.

In the mean time, I'm also grading the dirt as well as I can from the walls, and after seeing the divots the rain put in the dirt I had exposed yesterday by the garage (and the subsequent mess it made on the siding), I'm also putting a straight run of pavers on top of the dirt all along where gutters should be so the rain will bounce off of them instead of making a mess and screwing up the graded dirt until I figure out what I'm going to do.

As for the fill? I'm now considering just planting grass seed in the spring. It turns out rocks are really expensive, and gravel isn't cheap either. Not to mention I'd probably need about 20 tons at least of whatever material I went with. They'd have to drop it out on the street and I'd have to carry it all over with a wheel barrow about 200 feet a little at a time. I'm not sure if I want to invest that kind of time, money and labor when this is over.

I'd just have to make a walkway between the garage and the porch when it was done. I could probably just buy some lumber and concrete mix and make my own. That's what Youtube is for. :)

Do Right, Be Right. :)

BRENDA

Monday, October 7, 2019 12:56 PM (P)

Strange dream this Sunday morning. Dreamt my Blair was still alive and people hit the fact from me. Not sure if I saw him in the dream. I saw my friend and her mom. I think that was what prompted the dream. There was a lot of things munched together.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, October 8, 2019 6:38 AM (P)

Finished the 2nd layer of pavers in the crawl.... FINALLY!

Nowhere near enough to put a 3rd layer down, even if I wanted to, and I don't want to.

Got about 60 left, and about half of them are broke, so they'll just be staged to throw out on garbage days. The rest of them will be used to make a temporary walkway to the porch until I figure out what I'm going to do back there.

Going to take a hiatus on that work for now though. Tomorrow will be all about finishing the structural reinforcement down below now that the crawl is dry and clean. After that's done, it's the visqueen. I'm hopeful that I'll get all of that done tomorrow with daylight to spare.

Weather changed on me, but seems to be in a good way. Got one extra day of no rain now, and 4 more days in the 70's. After that it's nearly a wekk in the 50's but then it seems to go back up to the 60's after that to wrap up the 2 week forecast.

I'll probably be putting the floor in with my friend in the 50's, but that's okay. At least I won't be down in the dank crawl when it gets that cold. :)

Strange dream, Brenda. Hope you're not too disturbed by it.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

BRENDA

Tuesday, October 8, 2019 9:13 AM (P)

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Strange dream, Brenda. Hope you're not too disturbed by it.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Yeah, it was. No not too disturbed. I was with Blair for 15 or 20 minutes after he died. So, I know.

As I said I was with a friend and her mom on Saturday and I think that is what prompted the dream. The friend's mom is in an assisted living home and she was a little worse than the last time I saw this lady. There was lots of talk of my mom and another lady that I knew. So. >>shrug<<

1KIKI

Wednesday, October 9, 2019 12:28 AM (P)

Today is forecast to be 86F, but the next 9 days are supposed to be between 80F and 85F even if just BARELY below 85F on one day. Oh blessed heat relief!

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, October 9, 2019 3:50 AM (P)

All the below deck structural repairs are done and the visqueen is down.

Unless something changes, my friend should be coming back Monday night to start putting the floor down.

Few hours left of daylight, and I should probably get more work done with the warm days almost behind us, but I'm absolutely wrecked. Going to do some grocery shopping and relax the rest of the night.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SIGNYM

Wednesday, October 9, 2019 7:26 AM (P)

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
All the below deck structural repairs are done and the visqueen is down.

Unless something changes, my friend should be coming back Monday night to start putting the floor down.

Few hours left of daylight, and I should probably get more work done with the warm days almost behind us, but I'm absolutely wrecked. Going to do some grocery shopping and relax the rest of the night.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

I say again, mate: Crickey!

That's A LOT of work!!! Rest! Not only do you deserve it, you need it!

*****

Meanwhile, at this end ... chipping away .... managed to fill three large and four medium-sized boxes of giveaway items. St Vincent de Paul is going to get those. Also filled a 30-gal bin with paper recycling and somewhat less of trash. Am keeping the Rotel turntable (to sell) and a complete china set (to sell). Am going thru the home office now, finding and giving away/recycling whatever needs to be recycled. Our fair city has a paper-shredding oppty soon so personal papers will be shredded there, I think. I'm of the opinion that unless things actually cross the perimeter outbound, the house will never be decluttered. If we don't get rid of stuff, we're just shuffling it around.

We just ordered a new faucet and drain for the sink. As I mentioned, hubby (with some help from me) managed to remove it and saw off the old fittings (corroded in place) without breaking the sink, so we can clean it up, replace the the fittings and put in back in place. ... we know it fits because that's where it came from.

Also sanded and refinished the top of a dresser that had been in the guest bedroom.

It's kinda scattershot, but things ARE getting done.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

BRENDA

Wednesday, October 9, 2019 9:27 AM (P)

Later this week going to see if I can find some lamb chops for my Turkey Day supper.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, October 10, 2019 5:53 AM (P)

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
All the below deck structural repairs are done and the visqueen is down.

Unless something changes, my friend should be coming back Monday night to start putting the floor down.

Few hours left of daylight, and I should probably get more work done with the warm days almost behind us, but I'm absolutely wrecked. Going to do some grocery shopping and relax the rest of the night.

Do Right, Be Right. :)
I say again, mate: Crickey!

That's A LOT of work!!! Rest! Not only do you deserve it, you need it!

*****

Meanwhile, at this end ... chipping away .... managed to fill three large and four medium-sized boxes of giveaway items. St Vincent de Paul is going to get those. Also filled a 30-gal bin with paper recycling and somewhat less of trash. Am keeping the Rotel turntable (to sell) and a complete china set (to sell). Am going thru the home office now, finding and giving away/recycling whatever needs to be recycled. Our fair city has a paper-shredding oppty soon so personal papers will be shredded there, I think. I'm of the opinion that unless things actually cross the perimeter outbound, the house will never be decluttered. If we don't get rid of stuff, we're just shuffling it around.

We just ordered a new faucet and drain for the sink. As I mentioned, hubby (with some help from me) managed to remove it and saw off the old fittings (corroded in place) without breaking the sink, so we can clean it up, replace the the fittings and put in back in place. ... we know it fits because that's where it came from.

Also sanded and refinished the top of a dresser that had been in the guest bedroom.

It's kinda scattershot, but things ARE getting done.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

Nice work. Get all that shit you don't need out of there!

Just make sure that you actually do sell that Rotel turntable and the china set, otherwise it's just more junk holding you back. I kept heming and hawing about a lot of stuff that I know I could have made money on, but when I decided just to let it all go instead I feel so much better that it's just gone and out of my life. Just this week, I remembered the two totes of old records my mom and step dad gave me that half of them had mold on them from being in their basement. All of those are in the trash now and being picked up tomorrow. I even threw away the old turn table without even bothering with goodwill this time. Just junk getting in my way at this point.

On my end, I just had the most physically intense day yet. Using the 20lb sledgehammer my step dad gave me, I pulverized the 10" deep by 7" wide concrete border between the pavers and the grass so I could bury it all, and I had to spend quite a bit of time digging all of the mud around it so I had a place to bury it. I also got another 40 to 50 pavers up. Just got a little more than 70 of them left.

I'm in quite a bit of pain tonight from about 200 swings of the sledgehammer. But no time for relaxation tomorrow. It's going to start raining tomorrow night. I need to have the rest of the pavers up and everything properly graded before rainfall. The following day will rain all day, but I'm sure I can find something to do since it's the last warm day before the bottom falls out.

Saturday is a high of 52. I think I'm going to sleep all day on Saturday. :)

Do Right, Be Right. :)

BRENDA

Thursday, October 10, 2019 12:30 PM (P)

More snow for Calgary.

SIGNYM

Thursday, October 10, 2019 1:25 PM (P)

Dd scraped paint from one bathroom wall (for some reason it was peeling badly, but just on that one wall) and from one portion of the vanity. One of the layers looks like it might be lead paint so we were very careful to clean up with TSp and take showers afterwards. Tomorrow we'll clean the old sink and dry-fit the fixtures. I'll spackle the walls in prep for paint and chip off the thin-set and scrape the countertop tiles so they can be re-installed. (a dozen or so came up with the sink.) I think that'll be about as much as I'll be able to do in one day, considering dinner prep and all. After that, I need to take a day to sort thru all of the bills and make sure that hubby, dear daughter and I will have medical insurance next year! (open enrollment)

All of the giveaway stuff is out at the curb. The house is slowly looking less cluttered.

On a sad note, hubby's Tormek grinder motor gave up the ghost while he was re-grinding some plane blades that got beat up. He found a lead on a replacement motor and will call about delivery times tomorrow.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

SIGNYM

Thursday, October 10, 2019 1:27 PM (P)

BRENDA, been having crazy dreams myself, about people I used to work with, days when I was a kid etc. Maybe it's the changing seasons bringing it on.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

THG

Thursday, October 10, 2019 6:02 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
In SECONDRATE's ever-sifting kaleidescope of thoughts, SECONDRATE jump tracks froHouse rules to Senate effectiveness, to death. SECONDRATE has no idea which of his ideas takes precedence and cannot control his own thoughts. SECONDRATE is

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

I think you meant to post this here.

T

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, October 10, 2019 7:56 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Dd scraped paint from one bathroom wall (for some reason it was peeling badly, but just on that one wall) and from one portion of the vanity. One of the layers looks like it might be lead paint so we were very careful to clean up with TSp and take showers afterwards. Tomorrow we'll clean the old sink and dry-fit the fixtures. I'll spackle the walls in prep for paint and chip off the thin-set and scrape the countertop tiles so they can be re-installed. (a dozen or so came up with the sink.) I think that'll be about as much as I'll be able to do in one day, considering dinner prep and all. After that, I need to take a day to sort thru all of the bills and make sure that hubby, dear daughter and I will have medical insurance next year! (open enrollment)

All of the giveaway stuff is out at the curb. The house is slowly looking less cluttered.

On a sad note, hubby's Tormek grinder motor gave up the ghost while he was re-grinding some plane blades that got beat up. He found a lead on a replacement motor and will call about delivery times tomorrow.

Nice. Not a fan of anything having to do with bathroom work myself. I'm sure it will look great when it's done.

Plane blades?

I'm in rough shape today. Going to have to get it started though. There are thunderstorms coming tonight. I think I've got around 5 or 6 more hours of work to do on that patio before then.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

BRENDA

Thursday, October 10, 2019 10:11 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
BRENDA, been having crazy dreams myself, about people I used to work with, days when I was a kid etc. Maybe it's the changing seasons bringing it on.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

SIG, could be. And Blair did die in September. So, yeah. Lots of stuff to deal with around this time of the year.

SIGNYM

Thursday, October 10, 2019 11:06 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Dd scraped paint from one bathroom wall (for some reason it was peeling badly, but just on that one wall) and from one portion of the vanity. One of the layers looks like it might be lead paint so we were very careful to clean up with TSp and take showers afterwards. Tomorrow we'll clean the old sink and dry-fit the fixtures. I'll spackle the walls in prep for paint and chip off the thin-set and scrape the countertop tiles so they can be re-installed. (a dozen or so came up with the sink.) I think that'll be about as much as I'll be able to do in one day, considering dinner prep and all. After that, I need to take a day to sort thru all of the bills and make sure that hubby, dear daughter and I will have medical insurance next year! (open enrollment)

All of the giveaway stuff is out at the curb. The house is slowly looking less cluttered.

On a sad note, hubby's Tormek grinder motor gave up the ghost while he was re-grinding some plane blades that got beat up. He found a lead on a replacement motor and will call about delivery times tomorrow.

Nice. Not a fan of anything having to do with bathroom work myself. I'm sure it will look great when it's done.

Plane blades?

Hmm.. that WAS acontext-free comment. wasn't it? The context is woodworking.

Planes

Blades

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I'm in rough shape today. Going to have to get it started though. There are thunderstorms coming tonight. I think I've got around 5 or 6 more hours of work to do on that patio before then.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

May I recommend aspirin, ibuprofen, or naproxen?

I'm sure a medical professional will tell me the hundred ways that I'm wrong, but as I understand it, when you beat your tendons, ligaments, and joints up with heavy loads and stress positions, they respond by becoming inflamed: the small blood vessels get leaky in that area in order to flood the damaged area with white blood cells, the better to respond to any potential infection. It sets off a cascade of immune responses which cause swelling and pain and joint damage.

Aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen are all good at short-circuiting that inflammatory response. Once the inflammatory response is stopped, the pain goes away (or reduces). I don't take aspirin because it isn't strong enough. I don't take ibuprofen because altho it works adequately it affects my kidneys pretty significantly and causes me to retain water/raise blood pressure. Naproxen (OTC) was one of the meds Rxed for me, but I chose the meloxicam bc my doctor told me it was better-tolerated by older people, but the few tablets that I tried did work quite well!

The downsides to all of these is that they can cause stomach and intestinal bleeding. They also increase the time it takes your blood to clot. Long-term use of all of these non=steroidal anti-inflammatories NSAIDS (except aspirin) also increase the risk of "cardiac events" ... but you won't be taking these long-term, just as-needed. (One of the upsides of ibuprofen is that people who use it regularly have a much lower risk of Alzheimer's.)

They work GREAT in combination with acetaminophen (tylenol). Tylenol, unlike the NSAIDS (read that carefully, NSAIDS reduce inflammation but they are not steroids) is an actual PAIN KILLER. Instead of working at the joint/site of inflammation it works IN YOUR BRAIN to reduce the perception of pain. These meds work synergistically ... if you reduce both the cause of pain and the perception of pain, you will have a multiplied effect of pain reduction. It may help you get thru all of the physical stresses with better sleep and less damage.

Just my $0.02

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men po

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, October 11, 2019 2:30 AM (P)

lol

I thought you had a personal airplane that you hadn't mentioned before.

I just powered through the pain and got done what I needed to get done today. If I thought I was wrecked the other day though, it's nothing compared to now. I'm moving pretty slow.

That's okay though. Until my friend comes (hopefully Monday night), there's really nothing I can do on the porch, and the patio is (hopefully) as "done" as it's going to get until spring. I'll be checking on everything through the rain the next 2 days and see if I have to regrade anything or make any adjustments to the temporary setup.

Tomorrow is still warm. If I'm feeling up to it, I might spend the day cleaning the visqueen in the main house crawl space since it's been many years since I did that and it's pretty filthy right now. If not, I'm sure I can find other things to do around here. There's a ton of stuff to do, and I haven't deep cleaned the basement yet either.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SIGNYM

Friday, October 11, 2019 2:40 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol

I thought you had a personal airplane that you hadn't mentioned before.

HAHAHA!! Wouldn't THAT be something!!

Quote:
I just powered through the pain and got done what I needed to get done today. If I thought I was wrecked the other day though, it's nothing compared to now. I'm moving pretty slow.

That's okay though. Until my friend comes (hopefully Monday night), there's really nothing I can do on the porch, and the patio is (hopefully) as "done" as it's going to get until spring. I'll be checking on everything through the rain the next 2 days and see if I have to regrade anything or make any adjustments to the temporary setup.

Tomorrow is still warm. If I'm feeling up to it, I might spend the day cleaning the visqueen in the main house crawl space since it's been many years since I did that and it's pretty filthy right now. If not, I'm sure I can find other things to do around here. There's a ton of stuff to do, and I haven't deep cleaned the basement yet either.
when you're done over there how about coming over here? I promise to feed you good food, hibiscus tea, and all of the ibuprofen you need!

St Vincent de Paul came and picked up our stuff. That's seven boxes, three lawn chairs, and two boogies boards out of our hair.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

BRENDA

Friday, October 11, 2019 7:55 AM (P)

Back from work and tired, tired, tired also tired and sore feet.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, October 11, 2019 6:24 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol

I thought you had a personal airplane that you hadn't mentioned before.
HAHAHA!! Wouldn't THAT be something!!

Quote:
I just powered through the pain and got done what I needed to get done today. If I thought I was wrecked the other day though, it's nothing compared to now. I'm moving pretty slow.

That's okay though. Until my friend comes (hopefully Monday night), there's really nothing I can do on the porch, and the patio is (hopefully) as "done" as it's going to get until spring. I'll be checking on everything through the rain the next 2 days and see if I have to regrade anything or make any adjustments to the temporary setup.

Tomorrow is still warm. If I'm feeling up to it, I might spend the day cleaning the visqueen in the main house crawl space since it's been many years since I did that and it's pretty filthy right now. If not, I'm sure I can find other things to do around here. There's a ton of stuff to do, and I haven't deep cleaned the basement yet either.
when you're done over there how about coming over here? I promise to feed you good food, hibiscus tea, and all of the ibuprofen you need!

St Vincent de Paul came and picked up our stuff. That's seven boxes, three lawn chairs, and two boogies boards out of our hair.

You'd have to pay for the airfare too, and figure out a way for me to get over my fear of flying while you're at it.

Great job on getting more stuff out.

BTW... do you know, or could you ask your husband what type of stuff I'd be looking for if I wanted to create a seal between a concrete slab and the foundation of my house?

I've got that large front porch slab that sits in front of about 2/3rds of my house, and I've got a slab next to the back porch that is large enough for a big grill. It's apparent that at some time these were "sealed", but it looks as though they might have just dumped concrete in there and it has long since just broken off.

I'd really love to get something in there to keep water from going behind them. I'm sure there is some sort of somewhat malleable material that is designed for the job, but my Google-fu is failing me right now and I'm not getting any relevant results.

***

Everything I did outside seems to have held up wonderfully through the heavy rain last night. No splashing and making a mess everywhere. I did notice a corner somewhat close to the main house that needs to be better graded though since it was pooling water while the rain was really heavy last night.

When it warms up again, I'm going to do the same in the front of the house around the hastas with the leftover pavers until I get the gutters up, but that's going to require some re-grading of the dirt first. I'll use that opportunity to finally fix that drain pipe too.

Rain all day today, and then it drops to 33 degrees here tonight!

Got about a week in the 50's after that, and then it goes back into the 60's for at least a few more days.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, October 11, 2019 6:54 PM (P)

I think I found it.

Do you think this would work?

https://hw.menardc.com/main/items/media/TWINC003/Prod_Tech_Spec/189418
0AKjointfillerTDS.pdf

Used with a backing rod under it before I squeeze it in there...

I'll probably need about 30 bucks worth of it for the whole job.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SIGNYM

Friday, October 11, 2019 11:25 PM (P)

Quote:
BTW... do you know, or could you ask your husband what type of stuff I'd be looking for if I wanted to create a seal between a concrete slab and the foundation of my house?

I've got that large front porch slab that sits in front of about 2/3rds of my house, and I've got a slab next to the back porch that is large enough for a big grill. It's apparent that at some time these were "sealed", but it looks as though they might have just dumped concrete in there and it has long since just broken off.

I'd really love to get something in there to keep water from going behind them. I'm sure there is some sort of somewhat malleable material that is designed for the job, but my Google-fu is failing me right now and I'm not getting any relevant results.

I know they put stuff in bewteen concrete sidewalk slabs (it's almost like an asphalt-impregnated rope), but that's more like "expansion joint" stuff, not waterproofing stuff. Looks like you found what you need, but I'll ask anyway.

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Everything I did outside seems to have held up wonderfully through the heavy rain last night. No splashing and making a mess everywhere. I did notice a corner somewhat close to the main house that needs to be better graded though since it was pooling water while the rain was really heavy last night.

So, the leftover pavers .... are you placing them under the drip-line of your eaves to keep the soil from being splashed away?

Quote:
When it warms up again, I'm going to do the same in the front of the house around the hastas with the leftover pavers until I get the gutters up, but that's going to require some re-grading of the dirt first. I'll use that opportunity to finally fix that drain pipe too.

Rain all day today, and then it drops to 33 degrees here tonight!

Jeezus. In the 30's already???

*****

Over at this end, I made like Michaelangelo with a cold chisel and then NOT like Michaelangelo with an oscillating saw (with a grinding tip)to remove the thinset while dd scraped the plumber's putty and corrosion from the sink. Alas, we discovered a very large chip-out and crack under the cold-water handle, and once we saw where the crack began we could trace it all the way through a large part of the sink. It must have been there for a long time because the part under the handle was deeply stained with rust. I thought about fixing the chipout with JB Weld but when I saw how far the crack had propagated I didn't want to use the sink, so I found a few online that look like they might fit the cutout that we have. Yanno, it seems kinda strange to me that they don't just specify the dimensions of the cutout that you need. They describe everything else, but not that. Looks like I'll be going to Lowes today to see which one fits and order it if they don't have it in stock.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

1KIKI

Saturday, October 12, 2019 5:59 AM (P)

Well, dang.

This is what I posted about some weeks earlier. The fire season held off for a nice while, but now that the Santa Ana's are blowing (starting as a hot high pressure air mass inland over the desert, and blowing to offhsore and the ocean) the hot, dry wind is fueling fires.

I hope the fire season isn't too bad here; most especially, I hope it's not too bad up in the Sierra's and NoCal. And I really hope we get our normal winter rains.

BRENDA

Saturday, October 12, 2019 9:35 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Well, dang.

This is what I posted about some weeks earlier. The fire season held off for a nice while, but now that the Santa Ana's are blowing (starting as a hot high pressure air mass inland over the desert, and blowing to offhsore and the ocean) the hot, dry wind is fueling fires.

I hope the fire season isn't too bad here; most especially, I hope it's not too bad up in the Sierra's and NoCal. And I really hope we get our normal winter rains.

Definitely made the news up here tonight. Not good and I know that is going to be an understatement this season.

SIGNYM

Saturday, October 12, 2019 12:06 PM (P)

SIX, they used to use rope soaked with tar, but they prolly have something better now.

*****

To get the lastest fire updates go to

https:// www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/

just remove the space before " www";

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, October 12, 2019 1:23 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
BTW... do you know, or could you ask your husband what type of stuff I'd be looking for if I wanted to create a seal between a concrete slab and the foundation of my house?

I've got that large front porch slab that sits in front of about 2/3rds of my house, and I've got a slab next to the back porch that is large enough for a big grill. It's apparent that at some time these were "sealed", but it looks as though they might have just dumped concrete in there and it has long since just broken off.

I'd really love to get something in there to keep water from going behind them. I'm sure there is some sort of somewhat malleable material that is designed for the job, but my Google-fu is failing me right now and I'm not getting any relevant results.

Quote:
I know they put stuff in bewteen concrete sidewalk slabs (it's almost like an asphalt-impregnated rope), but that's more like "expansion joint" stuff, not waterproofing stuff. Looks like you found what you need, but I'll ask anyway.

Yeah. I didn't even know that until I found it now. I thought I'd be pouring some rubber stuff all the way down the back of the concrete slabs.

Quote:
Everything I did outside seems to have held up wonderfully through the heavy rain last night. No splashing and making a mess everywhere. I did notice a corner somewhat close to the main house that needs to be better graded though since it was pooling water while the rain was really heavy last night.

Quote:
So, the leftover pavers .... are you placing them under the drip-line of your eaves to keep the soil from being splashed away?

Yeah. It worked great where I ripped everything up. Those pavers are so cheap I should have done it years ago in front in lieu of getting gutters. Still need to put gutters up there, but it would have at least helped the situation out.

Quote:
When it warms up again, I'm going to do the same in the front of the house around the hastas with the leftover pavers until I get the gutters up, but that's going to require some re-grading of the dirt first. I'll use that opportunity to finally fix that drain pipe too.

Rain all day today, and then it drops to 33 degrees here tonight!

Quote:
Jeezus. In the 30's already???

Yeah. :( 37 degrees right now as I'm writing this.

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SIX, they used to use rope soaked with tar, but they prolly have something better now.

I don't know about "better", but it looks as though people are just using that foam backing rod (which is cheap at about $2.99 for a 20 ft length) and caulk tubes of various concrete friendly materials. Some of the people at Menards seem somewhat knowledgeable, so I'll ask them which they recommend. Wish I knew a concrete guy to tell me specifically which one they'd recommend. They can vary quite a bit in price. I don't want to spend double the money if I don't need to, but I also don't want to buy crap or something that isn't made specifically for that job. The one I linked looks right to me though.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

THG

Saturday, October 12, 2019 7:12 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
1kiki, you are completely out of your mind. Trump gave Turkey the go ahead during a phone call on Sunday for a war on the Kurds, and you can't admit it
SECOND hears voices. They tell him what Trump says, what Trump thinks, and what Trump feels. They whisper in his ear and he believes them. SECOND is

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

I think you meant to post this here.

T

BRENDA

Saturday, October 12, 2019 11:26 PM (P)

Laundry day today then a couple of things to do outdoor in the cold.

THG

Sunday, October 13, 2019 1:46 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Well, dang.

This is what I posted about some weeks earlier. The fire season held off for a nice while, but now that the Santa Ana's are blowing (starting as a hot high pressure air mass inland over the desert, and blowing to offhsore and the ocean) the hot, dry wind is fueling fires.

]

The title of this thread is in the garden and rain kiki. Your post is off topic and doesn't belong here. You say nothing about gardens at all. Your post is about forest fires. Maybe I'll go through and see if I can't find many more examples of you posting about things other than gardens. What do ya think?

T

THG

Sunday, October 13, 2019 1:53 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Have a nice time, Brenda. :)

Oh, here's you responding to Brenda about birthdays. Nothing about gardens here. Oh well...ask me again about my middle east thread comrade.

T

1KIKI

Sunday, October 13, 2019 1:54 AM (P)

I see you cut out the part where I posted about RAIN. "And I really hope we get our normal winter rains."

Why do you feel the need to constantly lie, THUGGER?

The insane never-Trumpers will be driven even more insane in the wash/rinse/spin/repeat/ cycle they mistake for reality.

THG

Sunday, October 13, 2019 1:55 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I see you cut the part out where I posted about RAIN.

Why do you feel the need to constantly lie, THUGGER?

The insane never-Trumpers will be driven even more insane in the wash/rinse/spin/repeat/ cycle they mistake for reality.

Ok, lets look for more comrade.

T

1KIKI

Sunday, October 13, 2019 1:57 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I see you cut the part out where I posted about RAIN.

Why do you feel the need to constantly lie, THUGGER?

The insane never-Trumpers will be driven even more insane in the wash/rinse/spin/repeat/ cycle they mistake for reality.

Ok, lets look for more comrade.

T

The insane never-Trumpers will be driven even more insane in the wash/rinse/spin/repeat/ cycle they mistake for reality.

1KIKI

Sunday, October 13, 2019 1:57 AM (P)

Why do you feel the need to constantly lie, THUGGER?

The insane never-Trumpers will be driven even more insane in the wash/rinse/spin/repeat/ cycle they mistake for reality.

THG

Sunday, October 13, 2019 1:59 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by rue:
Moving. What a chore! I can't think of any handy good way to do it.

But I think you need boxes for the stuff you have to unpack first which are things you use every day: boxed food you eat often like cereal; 1 set of everday pots, pans, dishes, silverware, dish terg and sponges; a change of clothes, bathroom supplies, a few towels and washclothes, and one set of linens. And some things automatically sort themselves like clothes in a closet and clothes in a dresser.

OTOH you may or may not have a linen closet/ pantry/ built-in bookshelves/ desk/ in your new/ old place, so it makes no sense to me to be carefully organizing everything by one set of organization. Just put it all in boxes and sort it when you get there according to the rooms, closets and storage spaces in the new place. One family I know used the extra clothes and linens to pack the fragile stuff. :)

Rue, that's your sock puppet isn't it kiki. Oh no, nothing about gardens here. Oh well..

T

THG

Sunday, October 13, 2019 2:01 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:
I know that when it's cold I crave thick, hearty soups. I make a phenomenal, rich, tasty minestrone if I say so myself!

Not about anything, but my cat ... sigh. He got out AGAIN today. Fortunately I was able to round him up pretty quickly across the street before he scampered up the hill into the undeveloped wild part. I shook a bag of treats and he came sidling over. The last time he did this, I looked and looked. That wasn't the first time he got out, but every time before that I was able to retrieve him after an hour or 2. The last time I looked for 5 hours. I thought he was gone for good, irretrievably lost, or maybe quietly eaten, or hurt ... Then finally around 2AM I went to the internet and looked up 'how to find a lost cat' and that's where I found the 'bag of treats' tip. Yanno, go around with that bag of treats shaking it so they can hear the treats rattling inside. Which is how I got him back in the house at 2:30AM.

This neighborhood is NOT friendly to indoor / outdoor cats. Out of the 5 I had previous to Einstein (he's a ridiculously smart cat, he can open every single interior door in the house), 2 were eaten by coyotes, and one was run over by a car. As much as he wants to go o.u.t. it's not going to happen if I can help it.

He is HUGE. I'm 5'7" and when he stretches up to reach for my attention, his front paws come just below my chest. He sleeps in a dog bed and fills it. And he's STRONG. I mention this because he recently tore out a window screen. THIS time around, he pushed the damn window open before he hopped out through the previously torn screen. So now I have to keep it completely closed - AND LOCKED.

Also, I had $$ecurity $$creen doors put in because I knew for a fact he would just rip through a regular one.

I hope he appreciates all I go through for him! (Just kidding. He's a cat. But despite being feral with pretty much everyone else, he's deeply attached to me. So somewhere along the line, what I do counts for something with him.)

Shit, I can't get help but trip over posts by you that have nothing to do with gardens. Get the point yet comrade?

T

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, October 13, 2019 2:06 AM (P)

Do not feed the troll in this thread. He does a fine enough job derailing everything else.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

THG

Sunday, October 13, 2019 2:12 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Do not feed the troll in this thread. He does a fine enough job derailing everything else.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

6IXSTRINGJACK

Do not feed the troll in this thread. He does a fine enough job derailing everything else.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

T

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, October 13, 2019 2:18 AM (P)

Finally got down into the crawl to clean it up today after doing nothing but sleeping yesterday. Kind of reversed which days I wanted to do it because of the weather, but it really didn't get that cold in my house despite it getting into the low 30's last night.

That being said, I only did half of it today. I think there's a limit these days to how much gross I can handle. I'm not using bleach either, so it's taking a lot longer to clean everything, although I didn't set my lungs on fire this time.

When I'm done, I'm going to spray that ortho safe-for-indoors stuff everywhere around the perimeter. Between that and all the spraying I've been doing outside, hopefully this will keep about 95% of any bugs that get into my house from that crawlspace, the bane of my assistance. That should also keep the visqueen down their cleaner for a much longer time. From across the place, it looks as though it got "dirty" with dirt, but upon closer inspection it would seem that it was just the spiders keeping the rif-raff out, and the debris that follows after around 4 or 5 years.

It's not sparkly white this time, but what I have finished still looks 1000% better than it did.

In the mean time, I've been checking the peremiter wood and nothing looks to be "munched" on by anything. There's also zero mold down there except for on the back of some insulation that was up against the drain pipe going out of the house. Not exactly sure what caused that, but I do know a few years after I cleaned it up down there last time the pump fell out of position and was spraying water everywhere. I'm going to have to cut that insulation out, replace it and monitor the situation going forward to see if it happens again.

Tomorrow and Monday still in the 50's. Tuesday in the mid 60's. After that it's a mix of mid 50's to damn near 70 for about a week then back into the 50's. Going to put my to-do list together for what I want done outside before it really gets cold. Hopefully my friend comes on Monday night and we can at least start putting the porch floor back in as well as a new screen door. Once we get that done I'm going to get serious about putting out my job apps and hopefully work out a deal somewhere to work weekends so I can keep working on my house full time too.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, October 13, 2019 5:06 AM (P)

Never thought I'd say it, but I think the raccoons did me a favor...

It's too early for me to put my heat on around here, but I figured I'd better at least test that everything is working right today. I was in mid cycle where the blower starts going off when I came in from getting the mail, and I realize while going through it that I'm getting a LARGE amount of hot air being forced down directly on my head. The ceiling vent above the front door was putting out air about 50 times more powerful than it ever has since I've lived here.

So I went around and realized that this is the only vent doing so, and the other 5 are hardly putting out anything by comparison (which is the output that it usually put out).

I'm not sure if I mentioned the discovery I made when I had the racoon problem, but the reason I heard them against the vents so often, doing whatever it was they were doing, is because I don't actually have any legit duct work for that ceiling system. It's just one length of actual ducts, and from there are attached 6 insulated "snakes" that make their way to the various ceiling vents.

So without a way of blowing them out, I just went upstairs and wherever I could I knocked them around a bunch. I also took off all of the vent covers from the ceiling and made sure they were open fully inside and banged them around from there as well, careful not to get the dust all over myself.

Whatja know? I've actually got some legit heat coming out of those vents for the first time in 8 years.

And it smells... I'm going to try going without heat for the next few days and turn the blower on all day when it's back up in the 60's with all of my windows open to get the shit out now that it's not blocked up anymore.

I'm thinking part of this is the design of those vent covers as well as something just blocking the snakes. They are made to diffuse the heat to the sides, rather than shoot it straight down. Kinda dumb when heat rises. Also kind of dumb to willingly block up the heat so it doesn't all come out of the registers during a cycle and melts the snow off of my roof instead.

I'm going to have to see if I can find better circular vent covers for my system, but in the mean time I'm leaving them off. It's amazing being able to put my hand a foot from the floor on the lower level and feel the heat hit it from above. It's actually too hot in my bathroom now. I'm going to have to close that vent off a bit.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

BRENDA

Sunday, October 13, 2019 6:00 AM (P)

Well, got a couple more frames ready to be donated and cleaned out one sewing box that will be donated as well. Also finally shifted what was left in my jewellery box into my mom's. So a good afternoon after getting the laundry done as well and a bit of shopping done.

BRENDA

Monday, October 14, 2019 12:05 AM (P)

Rain again here.

THG

Monday, October 14, 2019 1:46 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
How does THUGGER spell Saudia (sic) Araba (sic)?

Syria.

The insane never-Trumpers will be driven even more insane in the wash/rinse/spin/repeat/ cycle they mistake for reality.

ETA: I looked though the article and EVERY SINGLE SUPPOSED SOURCE IS ANONYMOUS. And there are no links to sources. Not one.

I'd need to see something better than the NYTimes' say-so.

T

THG

Monday, October 14, 2019 1:50 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Why do you feel the need to constantly lie, THUGGER?

The insane never-Trumpers will be driven even more insane in the wash/rinse/spin/repeat/ cycle they mistake for reality.

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
can see clear signs that 1kiki and Signym will crack up.- SECONDRATE
More nuttiness from our local crazy-person. SECONDRATE is

*****

Yanno, just as an aside .... I've known some crazy people. For some of them, a touch of madness is a touch of genius. Calling SECONRATE crazy is disrespectful to crazy people.

The thing that makes SECONDRATE particularly abhorrent is that he's VOLUNTARILY crazy. He clings to his hate, which fuels his delusions, which fuels his lies, which fuels his hate.

Stop the cycle, SECOND, please, I beg you. Come back to sanity. Stop living in a world of hate.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

T

THG

Monday, October 14, 2019 1:56 AM (P)

What's next in the impeachment inquiry as Congress returns

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is returning from a two-week recess on Tuesday, but some lawmakers barely left Washington.
Three House committees investigating impeachment worked through the break, issuing multiple subpoenas and holding depositions with State Department officials relevant to the inquiry . Democrats are investigating President Donald Trump's dealings with Ukraine and exploring whether he compromised national security or abused his office by seeking dirt from a foreign country on a political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading Democratic contender for the 2020 White House nomination.
That work will intensify when Congress gets back. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., has said she wants the committees to work "expeditiously" as Democrats gather evidence and prepare to make a final decision on whether to vote to impeach the president.

The impeachment probe was sparked by a whistleblower who revealed that Trump asked Ukraine's new president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to investigate Biden's family and Ukraine's role of in the 2016 election that put Trump in office. The calls to investigate Joe Biden and son Hunter have come without evidence of wrongdoing by either Biden, in either country.

FLURRY OF SUBPOENAS AND DEPOSITIONS

Despite Trump's assertions that he won't cooperate, some members of his administration are participating anyway.
Staff and lawmakers from the House Intelligence Committee, the House Oversight and Reform Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee have called in several State Department witnesses.

They have already heard from two: Kurt Bolker, a former envoy to Ukraine, and Marie Yovanovitch , a former ambassador to Ukraine. Each provided information that could be used against Trump as Democrats contemplate impeachment.

Fiona Hill, a former White House adviser who focused on Russia, is expected to appear in private on Monday, with plans for Gordon Sondland , the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, to follow on Thursday. Sondland didn't show up for a scheduled deposition last week after the State Department directed him not to come, but his lawyer said he would comply with a subpoena issued by the committees afterward.

Democrats want to ask Sondland about text messages provided by Volker that show the two of them acting as intermediaries as Trump urged Ukraine to start the investigations.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/whats-next-in-the-impeachment-
inquiry-as-congress-returns/ar-AAIICnY?ocid=spartandhp

T

THG

Monday, October 14, 2019 2:02 AM (P)

Kremlin relishes US pullback from Syria, turmoil in Ukraine

MOSCOW (AP) — From Syria to Ukraine, new fault lines and tensions are offering the Kremlin fresh opportunities to expand its clout and advance its interests.

© Provided by The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking at the Summit of leaders from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
The U.S. military withdrawal from northern Syria before a Turkish offensive leaves Russia as the ultimate power broker, allowing it to help negotiate a potential agreement between Syrian President Bashar Assad and the Kurds who were abandoned by Washington.
And in Ukraine, where the new president saw his image dented by a U.S. impeachment inquiry, Russia may use the volatility to push for a deal that would secure its leverage over its western neighbor.

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Slide 1 of 49: A journalist looks out of an hole on a house that was damaged by a mortar fired from inside Syria, on the Turkish town of Akcakale, southeaster, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019.Nobody got hurt by the attack. The owners of the house weren't home at the time of the attack. Turkey says its military offensive has taken central Ras al-Ayn, a key border town in northeastern Syria, and its most significant gain since its cross-border operation began against Syrian Kurdish fighters began.
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A journalist looks out of an hole on a house that was damaged by a mortar fired from inside Syria, on the Turkish town of Akcakale, southeaster, Turkey, on Oct. 12.

The Turkish offensive in northern Syria followed President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. forces from the area, cold shouldering the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, the key U.S. ally in the fight against the Islamic State group.
Washington's abrupt decision to ditch the Kurds contrasted sharply with Moscow's unwavering support for its ally Assad, which helped his government reclaim the bulk of the country's territory in a devastating civil war.
Along with military power, Russian President Vladimir Putin has relied on diplomacy to achieve his goals in Syria, reaching out to regional powers — from Iran to Saudi Arabia, Israel and Turkey.
NATO member Turkey has become a particularly important partner for Russia. Even though the two countries have backed opposite sides in the Syrian conflict, they have pooled efforts to negotiate a de-escalation zone in the Syrian province of Idlib and co-sponsor talks on forming a committee that would draft a new Syrian constitution.
The Russia-Turkey rapprochement came as Ankara's relations with Washington grew increasingly chilly and were further strained over Turkey's recent purchase of Russian air defense missiles.

© Provided by The Associated Press Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks during talks with journalists in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. Ukrainian President is holding an all-day “media marathon” in a Kyiv food court amid growing questions about his actions as president. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Turkey's offensive in Syria, which has drawn harsh criticism from the U.S. and European Union, may now push Moscow and Ankara even closer.
"Russia wants to benefit from that operation, and one of the gains could be the strengthening of ties with Turkey," said Kirill Semenov of the Russian International Affairs Council. "The harsh response from Washington, the EU reaction, the threat of sanctions against Turkey all play into Moscow's hands

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Monday, October 14, 2019 2:05 AM (P)

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Tuesday, April 21, 2015 6:20 PM

THGRRI

EU's Antitrust Charge Against Gazprom: Another Putin Disaster

"The trashing of Russia’s most valuable economic asset adds to Putin’s growing list of major policy disasters. By attacking Ukraine, he has alienated the Ukrainian people for generations to come. By saber rattling beyond the borders of Ukraine, he has rejuvenated NATO and given it new purpose. Putin has succeeded in pushing traditional sympathizers in the European community, such as Germany’s foreign minister; they’ve decided that the danger he poses trumps their business interests. Instead of raising Russia’s prestige and national pride, he has turned the country into a pariah state with a tottering economy and declining living standards."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2015/04/20/eus-antitru
st-charge-against-gazprom-another-putin-disaster/

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'Pro-Russia' Chechen leader threatens to kill Russian cops on his turf

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2015/0423/Pro-Russia-Chechen-lea
der-threatens-to-kill-Russian-cops-on-his-turf

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Friday, April 24, 2015 10:46 AM

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“The boom years are over,” says Chris Weafer, a senior partner at consulting firm Macro Advisory in Moscow. “The old model based on trickle-down oil revenue has come to an end.”

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/putin’s-miracle-dissolves-as-ru
ssian-middle-class-faces-crunch/ar-AAbAyI4?srcref=rss

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Saturday, April 25, 2015 10:59 AM

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Cutthroats And Bandits': Volunteer's Stint With Ukraine Rebels Turns To Nightmare

When he joined the separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine, Russian businessman Bondo Dorovskikh thought he would be fighting hordes of fascists bent on victimizing the local population.

The reality on the ground turned out to be quite different.

Instead of defending eastern Ukraine, Dorovskikh says he found himself stranded in the town of Alchevsk, where pro-Russian rebels controlling the area spent their days looting and drinking.

"In the morning the commander would get up and line up the insurgents for the roll-call, and in the evening there were another roll-call," he told RFE/RL. "The rest of the time the militants roamed around Alchevsk, pillaging, stealing scrap metal, removing metal gates and selling them to buy alcohol and cigarettes. Some of them would get drunk and fire at each other."

http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-war-russian-volunteer-interview/2
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Saturday, May 2, 2015 11:24 AM

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We have another case of history repeating itself in Russia today. Genocidal Russian leader Josef Stalin at first used the May 9th Victory Day celebrations of the defeat of Nazi Germany to create solidarity and patriotism, but after two years he decided the celebrations had served their purpose so he cancelled them. Current Russian president Vladimir Putin seems to be taking a page from his historical mentor Stalin as he is using Victory Day to whip up nationalist fervor as he attempts to rewrite history and paint a fal

THG

Monday, October 14, 2019 2:07 AM (P)

Stop trolling me or I'll troll every thread you create from now on comrades.

T

BRENDA

Monday, October 14, 2019 8:45 AM (P)

Lazy Sunday here.

SIGNYM

Monday, October 14, 2019 10:28 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Never thought I'd say it, but I think the raccoons did me a favor...

It's too early for me to put my heat on around here, but I figured I'd better at least test that everything is working right today. I was in mid cycle where the blower starts going off when I came in from getting the mail, and I realize while going through it that I'm getting a LARGE amount of hot air being forced down directly on my head. The ceiling vent above the front door was putting out air about 50 times more powerful than it ever has since I've lived here.

So I went around and realized that this is the only vent doing so, and the other 5 are hardly putting out anything by comparison (which is the output that it usually put out).

I'm not sure if I mentioned the discovery I made when I had the racoon problem, but the reason I heard them against the vents so often, doing whatever it was they were doing, is because I don't actually have any legit duct work for that ceiling system. It's just one length of actual ducts, and from there are attached 6 insulated "snakes" that make their way to the various ceiling vents.

Legitimate or not, that's how its done over here.

Quote:
So without a way of blowing them out, I just went upstairs and wherever I could I knocked them around a bunch. I also took off all of the vent covers from the ceiling and made sure they were open fully inside and banged them around from there as well, careful not to get the dust all over myself.

Whatja know? I've actually got some legit heat coming out of those vents for the first time in 8 years.

What do you suppose might have been blocking them? Nothing's supposed to get in there except fine dust.

Quote:
And it smells... I'm going to try going without heat for the next few days and turn the blower on all day when it's back up in the 60's with all of my windows open to get the shit out now that it's not blocked up anymore.

I'm thinking part of this is the design of those vent covers as well as something just blocking the snakes. They are made to diffuse the heat to the sides, rather than shoot it straight down. Kinda dumb when heat rises. Also kind of dumb to willingly block up the heat so it doesn't all come out of the registers during a cycle and melts the snow off of my roof instead.

I'm going to have to see if I can find better circular vent covers for my system, but in the mean time I'm leaving them off. It's amazing being able to put my hand a foot from the floor on the lower level and feel the heat hit it from above. It's actually too hot in my bathroom now. I'm going to have to close that vent off a bit.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

At least you have heat for the winter!

Still, it's a puzzle as to what might have happened up there. No rat or raccoon-sized holes in any of the flexible ducts?

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

SIGNYM

Monday, October 14, 2019 10:30 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Lazy Sunday here.

I hope you enjoyed it!

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, October 14, 2019 10:41 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Legitimate or not, that's how its done over here.

Wow. Really?

I'm starting to get the feeling that Crook County, IL is just super anal about all sorts of codes. I'd never seen anything like this before, and my family is kind of in disbelief at it too. We all had legit ductwork to all of our vents in any house we lived in.

One of the houses that I was looking at down by my brother didn't have any conduit at all coming from the breaker box either, which in my mind was a deal breaker. It was just straight romex coming from the box to all the receptacles. When I told my step-dad about that, he said that their house that they owned down in AZ, which was very recently built, was the same. That's another thing I'd never heard about before this year.

I probably don't need to be so paranoid about code where I live either. Could be that the Chicagoland area is just crazy about that stuff compared to everyone else.

Quote:
What do you suppose might have been blocking them? Nothing's supposed to get in there except fine dust.

I really have no clue. It did smell when the heat was on though. I'm going to wait until it warms up next week to put it back on so I can have all the windows open and just turn the blower on all day to air it all out now.

Quote:
At least you have heat for the winter!

Still, it's a puzzle as to what might have happened up there. No rat or raccoon-sized holes in any of the flexible ducts?

Yer tellin me.

No holes in the flex ducts... at least from what I can see. I can't imagine that there would be now. The system is actually working right for the first time since I bought the house.

What I know now is that my return is large enough for the vents, which was always a concern when I didn't have good air flow before.

At the end of the season I changed the filter, which I hadn't done in a long time. Though the old one was in rough shape and it was stupid to let it go for however long I did, it wasn't the first time I'd changed it.

The amount of force coming out of all 6 vents now is insanely more powerful than it has ever been since I lived here. It's night and day.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

BRENDA

Monday, October 14, 2019 12:52 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Lazy Sunday here.
I hope you enjoyed it!

-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

I did. Did nothing but mess around with my computer and had the tv on in the background. :)

BRENDA

Monday, October 14, 2019 11:33 PM (P)

Out for a walk in a bit in the dry.

SIGNYM

Tuesday, October 15, 2019 7:48 PM (P)

Quote:

Lazy Sunday here. BRENDA

I hope you enjoyed it! SIGNY

I did. Did nothing but mess around with my computer and had the tv on in the background. :) - BRENDA

Oh, that sounds lovely! The only things that would make it better are a cup of hot chocolate and an afternoon snooze.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

BRENDA

Tuesday, October 15, 2019 9:56 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Lazy Sunday here. BRENDA

I hope you enjoyed it! SIGNY

I did. Did nothing but mess around with my computer and had the tv on in the background. :) - BRENDA

Oh, that sounds lovely! The only things that would make it better are a cup of hot chocolate and an afternoon snooze.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

It was lovely. No need to do anything of importance. No snoozing for me in the day time then I don't sleep at night.

BRENDA

Tuesday, October 15, 2019 9:57 PM (P)

Rain today. Gotta lug my umbrella along.

THG

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 12:18 AM (P)

I see kiki still wants to play, ok.

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:

How does THUGGER spell Saudia (sic) Araba (sic)?

Syria.

The insane never-Trumpers will be driven even more insane in the wash/rinse/spin/repeat/ cycle they mistake for reality.

b

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Blue-tinged snow seen in St. Petersburg, Russia

A St. Petersburg resident shared a photo on social media of blue-colored snow in his neighborhood. Some are now concerned that the snow has been contaminated with metal and toxins.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/blue-tinged-snow-st-petersburg-rus
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Saturday, December 30, 2017 10:35 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 1kiki:
Articles devoid of evidence and a clip of a cartoon dog snickering.

I think you've hit your stride.

Thanks, and thanks for the bump.

T

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Tuesday, January 2, 2018 1:06 PM

THGRRI

Back in 1983, Ronald Reagan labeled the Soviet Union an "evil empire" during remarks before evangelical Christians in Florida. The president was warning about a buildup of Soviet strength and global menace, and the need to confront it.

History is now repeating itself. Today's Russia is a pale version of the communist regime that finally dissolved in 1991. But Russian President Vladimir Putin, famously embittered by that collapse, is bent on reacquiring some of that former glory.

Putin's Make Russia Great Again strategy is a font of international mayhem.
Russia invaded neighboring Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014, where fighting rages on and 10,000 have died. Its illegal annexation of Crimea was the first effort to alter European borders by force since World War II. The Russian military, dispatched to Syria, shored up the regime of Bashar Assad and committed atrocities, bombing a United Nations aid convoy and targeting hospitals.

High-confidence findings by the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency concluded that Putin ordered a cyber and propaganda attack to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election and undermine public faith in the American democratic process. Russian "trolls" posted false stories on Facebook that reached 140 million Americans, and Russian hackers stole thousands of emails from Democratic leaders and leaked them. Similar attacks have since occurred in Germany, France and the Netherlands.

Other Russian aggression includes selling weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan and oil to North Korea. The Kremlin also provides sanctuary to a rogue's gallery of cyber criminals,dispatches fighter aircraft that harass U.S. military jets in Syria and NATO aircraft over the Baltic, and sends submarines to prowl suspiciously close to crucial Atlantic undersea cables carrying 97% of global communications. All the while, Putin works to rig upcoming Russian elections in his favor.

The Trump administration's response to this mounting threat has been schizophrenic. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson writes in The New York Times that the Trump administration has "no illusions" about a resurgent Russia. And a suddenly tougher line emerged last month with the welcome announcement that anti-tank weapons would be sold to the Ukrainian government for defense against Russian-backed rebels.

Even so, these steps run contrary to President Trump's tendency toward appeasing Putin. The administration has slow-

BRENDA

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 3:59 AM (P)

Not a good day today. Rain, no luck in mah jong, couldn't find a door hanger and add to that all 4 washing machines in use. Got some hand towels that need washing before I can use them. They are full of fabric softener and I am allergic to it.

BRENDA

Thursday, October 17, 2019 9:09 AM (P)

Rain, rain, rain

BRENDA

Thursday, October 17, 2019 10:16 PM (P)

Rain, rain, rain. But at least it is not snow. Manitoba is still digging out from a major snow storm.

SIGNYM

Thursday, October 17, 2019 10:26 PM (P)

I know I've posted this before but it sure would be nice if we could do a weather-swap once in a while!

-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

BRENDA

Friday, October 18, 2019 8:10 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I know I've posted this before but it sure would be nice if we could do a weather-swap once in a while!

-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

I wish! Getting soaked up here.

1KIKI

Friday, October 18, 2019 1:11 PM (P)

I'll try to imagine a nice soaking rain with cozy rain-sounds when I go to bed.

In any case - enjoy being warm, dry, and snugly settled-in!

BRENDA

Saturday, October 19, 2019 6:41 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I'll try to imagine a nice soaking rain with cozy rain-sounds when I go to bed.

In any case - enjoy being warm, dry, and snugly settled-in!

I am. So nice to be able to put heat on when I go out and then be nice and warm when I get home.

Home. Nice word.

BRENDA

Saturday, October 19, 2019 6:41 AM (P)

Gotta check the towels I managed to get into the wash. Later peeps.

SIGNYM

Saturday, October 19, 2019 9:34 PM (P)

Hey guys, just checking in with you all.

KIKI, how are things going at your end?

SIX, long time no hear! Everything OK?

BRENDA ... has the rain let up yet?

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

BRENDA

Saturday, October 19, 2019 10:51 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hey guys, just checking in with you all.

BRENDA ... has the rain let up yet?

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

Rained last night and might be a little drier today but still taking my umbrella with me juuuuuuuust in case.

1KIKI

Saturday, October 19, 2019 11:58 PM (P)

I got 2 separate important paperwork items done the day before yesterday, plus 1 not so important one, but it needed doing. Paperwork has always been a trial for me, because I always mess something up somewhere, no matter how hard I try. (The work-around I've come to is to ask for lots of help. Generally, my approach is to try and find someone on the phone or behind the counter and tell them I have no idea what I'm doing, so please point out to me what I should do, and where I should sign. For example, for one paperwork item I needed it notarized and to make sure it gets where it needs to go. So I spent a fair bit of time looking up what the UPS offers by way of tracking and signing. Here's the info. https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/503.htm#ep1238627 OMFingG, it looks like it was lifted from some 40CFR section. So, after getting the papers notarized ... where do I need to sign, what do I need to do? and could I have copies of everything please? and how much will that be? and can I have a receipt please? ... I went to the PO and said ... how can I track this and make sure it gets there, please? where do I need to sign, what do I need to do? and could I have copies ... ... ...) Having got those 3 things done, my background agita is reduced somewhat.

And yesterday I didn't have any coffee, so along with feeling more relaxed, I spent most of the day sleeping! I'm still working on that sleep problem, which has been with me since I was very little - way before kindergarten as I recall.

And I probably could have slept all day today too, but I have a nice big pitcher of delicious and strong home-made cold-brewed coffee ready to go.

Having got that paperwork done, my focus/push/motivation (mostly focus - lining up what needs doing first, second, third ...) to do my big projects - even if a little bit at a time by cycling though the many projects that need doing - has fallen somewhat. So today I'm going to 1) have coffee, and 2) putter.
Whatever little things I see that need doing, generally more like daily and weekly tasks, I'll putter on those. I expect my day to be productive! just not be moving ahead on my projects.

But as long as I'm getting things done, it's all good!

BRENDA

Sunday, October 20, 2019 4:34 AM (P)

Well, was dry when I left this morning but waiting for a bus to come back to my city it started raining AGAIN. Oh and it hasn't let up. It started around 1pm and it is now 3:30pm.

I got some Christmas decorations from a local Dollar Store and now I just have to get a tree to put them on. Local Walmart has some small ones for $19Canadian which with tax is a little over $20. So good price. Will get one.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, October 20, 2019 7:02 AM (P)

Finally did that *explicit* drain!!!!

I'm lucky it didn't ruin the house. It's been broken since back in my drinking days. I forgot about it from back then. But I re-discovered the problem last spring. Didn't do anything about it then. Didn't do anything about it all summer long. Haven't been able to get my friend over to even finish the floor yet, let alone help me with this.

So I just bit the bullet, scared the shit out of myself, and finished it today.

The big reveal...

After finally digging it out, this was the mess I was dealing with. It was never attached with anything. It's clearly a broken pipe, and I'm lucky that I at least had a nub against the house to work with and it didn't shear off right up against the house.

VERY large crack, with at least 1/8" to 1/4" offset. Once it erodes the dirt away, you can see the hole (which was at least 2 1/2 feet deep) fill up to the top with water and slowly sink once the sump pump stops. I couldn't tell you how many gallons were spilled out every time the pump went off (or how much actually went back into the pipe and out to the street), but my guess would be that I was left with at least 3 gallons of water right up against my house every time the pump went off. Maybe more...

So.....

Has anyone ever tried cutting through a cast iron pipe with a metal cutting sawzall blade? Me either. Not fun.

Now I had to take this cut off to the big box store to fit my new parts. (In the mean time, throuought all of this, I had to go into the crawlspace and use a cup to fill a 2 gallon bucket and dump it out into my toilet to the wastewater drain 4 times. It hasn't rained here in a week, but that's just the ground water around here... which is even heavier I'm sure because I never get it all out to the street).

And we're done.... (sort of)....

Tightened the shit out of them, while also taking care not to break the straps. I have a habit of applying too much torque to things.

Ran it through a few laundry load cycles to make the pump go off. It still leaks, but not too much. Maybe 1/16 of a cup maximum every time the sump pump goes off. Nothing more than a faint dampness around the seams while leaving a steady stream of the kitchen sink faucet for 10 minutes.

Would prefer if it didn't leak at all, of course, but we're not exactly working with new pipes here. The iron was rusted to hell on the outside and pretty oblong and impossible to seal up completely. But as long as nothing breaks here I can't imagine it's going to be pulling dirt down into itself anymore. It's 1000% better than it was before.

I'm going to see if my friend has any further suggestions when he comes to help finish the porch. If anybody here has any ideas, feel free to let me know.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, October 20, 2019 7:21 AM (P)

Yup. Fine over here Sigs. Went to visit my bro with my Dad for a few days. Was nice to get the house out of my mind for a while. Back at it now though.

Saw my second movie in a theater this year. GO SEE JOKER!!!!

Good work Kiki.

Seems like you're getting all the rain we had back in June, Brenda.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

BRENDA

Sunday, October 20, 2019 8:50 AM (P)

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Seems like you're getting all the rain we had back in June, Brenda.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Could be but with that rain also comes wind. Got a bit Thursday morning and there will be more.

Think I mentioned that we had a bad, bad wind storm up here last December that destroyed part of a pier. That pier was reopened over the summer after being repaired. The city used concrete then over the next year the rest of the pier will be replaced with concrete to prevent the rest of it from being destroyed.

1KIKI

Sunday, October 20, 2019 9:00 AM (P)

Jack

WOW. Thank god for that stub you had.

You did what I would have done with a stub. Without would have been near impossible, I think! It all seems mostly working now, and hasn't damaged anything existing, especially that precious stub! So I'd personally leave things as-is, unless/ until you get a professional who can do a 100% job with more knowledge/ better equipment/ and different parts. The only thing is, I'd throw a tarp over the hole to keep the rain out, but I'd leave it open otherwise for a while, to check and make sure neither fitting gets pressured-off.

CONGRATS!! I hope you're pleased with a job that seems to me well done!

1KIKI

Sunday, October 20, 2019 9:13 AM (P)

Hey Brenda

I do remember you talking about a gondola ride coming down and damaging the pier. Am I remembering correctly?

Heavy wind is never a good thing.

I've been through two serious wind storms - one here where the wind was gusting over 100mph (~170 kph if I calculated correctly). And every time it would gust, the sound would go from a deafening moan to an even louder deafening shriek, and I could hear the roof shingles rip off like they were being unzipped. So there's be an extended period of loud WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO with intermittent and even louder EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ... WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

And it went on .all. .night. .long.

The same thing happened in downtown Chicago one night, except instead of hearing roof shingles rip off, I heard glass crashing. I thought it was windows popping out of the tall buildings.

I too do not like seriously windy weather.

ETA: If it wasn't clear, I find violent windstorms deeply unnerving.

SIGNYM

Sunday, October 20, 2019 12:12 PM (P)

Nothing quite as much fun as digging in the dark and the mud, hunting for a crumbled rusty pipe that's welling water up. Had that happen more than once .... interestingly, the pipes all rusted about 9" down ... I figured that's about where there was both enough water in the soil, with enough oxygen penetrating from above, to really corrode those pipes! These were sprinkler system pipes, but we didn't even have a separate shutoff for them so we had to shut off the entire house. The scary part was that each time we tried to cap to pipe off, it crumbled. We had to keep digging deeper and deeper until we found a portion that was solid enough to put a cap on.

Fortunately for you it looks like your pipe cracked instead of crumbled, so hopefully the hose clamps will stay on for a good long time!!!

Sounds like you had a nice visit; it's VERY good to get away once in a while because it's waaaay too easy to get stuck in a mental rut and get too narrow-focused!

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Speaking of narrow-focus ... wow this sink repair is taking way too long. Hubby is a perfectionist, and when it's all done it will be the best-looking sink in the house, but I feel like we could have been done a day ago instead of having two more days of work!

The hole under the sink has been patched with (basically) a two-piece plywood access panel. We had to cut out some concrete in order to seat the sink a little lower. Also, because the sink doesn't fit quite the same hubby is making a front panel to fit under the sink. Still need to cut about a dozen tiles so we can re-tile around the sink, and I need to get a P trap with a longer pipe coming out of the wall, and taller to reach the sink drain. But once THAT'S done I still need to install some curtain rods and brackets, hang curtains, and sort thru the office, livingroom and dear daughter's prized possessions. And clean. We have out of town guests coming in a few weeks and we need to put our place in some kind of order, and especially get the guest bathroom ready!!!

And there are still a lot of weighty legal and financial things to take care of. It's sure not going to get done any timesoon. Maybe by the end of next month ...?

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, October 20, 2019 7:58 PM (P)

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Jack

WOW. Thank god for that stub you had.

I know! Tell me about it.

I actually knew that nub existed back early this spring when I had dug a much tinier hole right up to the house to see what the problem was, and (laughably) tried making a stupid Macguyver style solution that failed miserably before I just filled it all back in (all of that dirt had since washed away and the hole was there again).

The thing is, until yesterday, I didn't even know what to do with the nub or how grateful I should have been that it existed in the first place.

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You did what I would have done with a stub. Without would have been near impossible, I think! It all seems mostly working now, and hasn't damaged anything existing, especially that precious stub! So I'd personally leave things as-is, unless/ until you get a professional who can do a 100% job with more knowledge/ better equipment/ and different parts. The only thing is, I'd throw a tarp over the hole to keep the rain out, but I'd leave it open otherwise for a while, to check and make sure neither fitting gets pressured-off.

Yes. I was going to find myself a piece of the old plywood flooring from the porch that I was using for various things and cut it down to size to fit over that until I cover it up. I'd like to make it through a few heavy rains and see how it behaves before covering it back up. I think the beauty part of this solution is that it should hold for at least a while, and even if the straps break I still don't think the amount of water leakage would be anywhere near what it was before since it would be the straps on the iron most likely to break and the rubber wedged on there so hard I can't see them moving at all. I also cut the pvc to the exact size, put the sleeves on the PVC, then forced them onto the iron from there, so there's not a ton of play in between for things to get all wonky.

And there's the fact that I still have over 4 feet of PVC pipe, and the rubber sleeves only cost $5 for a pair, so a future repair will not cost much unless something else goes catastrophically wrong.

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CONGRATS!! I hope you're pleased with a job that seems to me well done!

Thanks.

Yeah. It ain't perfect, but should do the trick for at least a while. If it doesn't get any worse, the amount of water that stays is incidental and there would be more water in the ground just from the rain.

Youtube is a beautiful thing. Until I watched a pair of 5 minute DIY videos after I dug it up to see what I was looking at, I had absolutely no idea what I was going to do.

The only credit I'm willing to give myself here is taking that risk to cut the pipe which left me with zero options other than to figure it out and fix it (unless I wanted to spend rain cycles bailing out a few buckets of water every 5 minutes to keep up with the water) and actually making it through that drain pipe without taking a break or breaking a blade.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, October 20, 2019 8:08 PM (P)

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Nothing quite as much fun as digging in the dark and the mud, hunting for a crumbled rusty pipe that's welling water up. Had that happen more than once .... interestingly, the pipes all rusted about 9" down ... I figured that's about where there was both enough water in the soil, with enough oxygen penetrating from above, to really corrode those pipes! These were sprinkler system pipes, but we didn't even have a separate shutoff for them so we had to shut off the entire house. The scary part was that each time we tried to cap to pipe off, it crumbled. We had to keep digging deeper and deeper until we found a portion that was solid enough to put a cap on.

Fortunately for you it looks like your pipe cracked instead of crumbled, so hopefully the hose clamps will stay on for a good long time!!!

Yeah. I probably mentioned before that I hate plumbing. At least this water was all more or less clean water. That pipe looks really nasty, but after cutting through it you can tell by the cross section that there's plenty of legit metal still there. The pipe was strong, but the shifting because of the moles, ants, tree roots and lack of gutters must have caused the extremely heavy, decorative concrete borders to sink a little bit and pull the pipe down. (At least that's my theory right now. It is fortunate that the pipe nub at the house end was higher than the pipe going out to the street and not in reverse).

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Sounds like you had a nice visit; it's VERY good to get away once in a while because it's waaaay too easy to get stuck in a mental rut and get too narrow-focused!

Yeah. Even though my friend bailed at the beginning of the week and said he would have been available when my dad was going down, I wanted to go this time since I couldn't make it last time. It's probably the last time I'll see my brother until he stays with me around Christmas time.

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Speaking of narrow-focus ... wow this sink repair is taking way too long. Hubby is a perfectionist, and when it's all done it will be the best-looking sink in the house, but I feel like we could have been done a day ago instead of having two more days of work!

The hole under the sink has been patched with (basically) a two-piece plywood access panel. We had to cut out some concrete in order to seat the sink a little lower. Also, because the sink doesn't fit quite the same hubby is making a front panel to fit under the sink. Still need to cut about a dozen tiles so we can re-tile around the sink, and I need to get a P trap with a longer pipe coming out of the wall, and taller to reach the sink drain. But once THAT'S done I still need to install some curtain rods and brackets, hang curtains, and sort thru the office, livingroom and dear daughter's prized possessions. And clean. We have out of town guests coming in a few weeks and we need to put our place in some kind of order, and especially get the guest bathroom ready!!!

And there are still a lot of weighty legal and financial things to take care of. It's sure not going to get done any timesoon. Maybe by the end of next month ...?

Go easy on him. You'll both be more pleased with the results that the extra time spent yield.

That's going to be my problem here. Being a perfectionist is all well and good when it's your house and you're not planning on moving. I want to fix her up and get out of here. But the amount of time it takes me to get anything done because of the perfectionism is going to make that take a very long time. I wish I could just fill stuff up the wrong way and slap paint on it like my friend does at his rental, but I follow the instructions for materials to the T and don't ever get as much stuff like outdoor painting done when there's a chance of rain nearly every day like there has been the last few summers in these parts.

Good luck with the financials. Got plenty of those around here, but I&#

BRENDA

Monday, October 21, 2019 12:42 AM (P)

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Hey Brenda

I do remember you talking about a gondola ride coming down and damaging the pier. Am I remembering correctly?

Heavy wind is never a good thing.

I've been through two serious wind storms - one here where the wind was gusting over 100mph (~170 kph if I calculated correctly). And every time it would gust, the sound would go from a deafening moan to an even louder deafening shriek, and I could hear the roof shingles rip off like they were being unzipped. So there's be an extended period of loud WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO with intermittent and even louder EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ... WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

And it went on .all. .night. .long.

The same thing happened in downtown Chicago one night, except instead of hearing roof shingles rip off, I heard glass crashing. I thought it was windows popping out of the tall buildings.

I too do not like seriously windy weather.

ETA: If it wasn't clear, I find violent windstorms deeply unnerving.

Hey KIKI.

Good memory but they are two separate incidents. The pier was last winter as I stated. Big wind and high waves during the day. Someone was caught on the pier and had to be airlifted back to dry land.

The Sea to Ski gondola had a major cable cut over the summer by some mutton heads but no one knows why they did it. It is still being repaired. Think the city of Squamish is hoping to have it reopened by next summer. Won't make the ski season. Squamish is going to loose some money this winter.

Wind storms can. We get a lot of them in the winter. The last bad one that did any damage was over 10years ago and tore up a seawall in a large park in Vancouver. Took 3 levels of government to rebuild it and get rid of all the downed trees and the trees that were teetering before some got hurt. Stanley Park is a huge tourist attraction at all times of the year as it is the largest green space in the lower mainland.

They don't bother me but I do worry for people who are out in them and worry about trees and power lines coming down.

BRENDA

Monday, October 21, 2019 12:43 AM (P)

Lots to do tomorrow. Gotta reregister to vote since I moved this Spring. Hopefully I have enough ID and such to be able to do that.

Hoping to pick up a Christmas tree as well and maybe get some other shopping down too.

BRENDA

Monday, October 21, 2019 10:23 PM (P)

Lots to do in the rain today.

SIGNYM

Monday, October 21, 2019 10:40 PM (P)

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Go easy on him. You'll both be more pleased with the results that the extra time spent yield.

That's going to be my problem here. Being a perfectionist is all well and good when it's your house and you're not planning on moving

Er ... you see, that IS the problem.

We may move to downsize, like you, and to a smaller city so that dear daughter inherits a place that she can maintain. And even if we stay, we were going to replace the whole vanity anyway because it's too low and was made from scrap wood and full of leaded paint, so there's no point in being so fussy.

In any case, hubby had a whole bunch of scrap wood from cabinets and a closet that we had taken down a few years ago because they were ugly, and I managed to persuade him to junk it all, so he cut up and I bundled the wood and took it to the curb. The garage looks so much bigger now!

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Hey BRENDA, stay dry! I hope you get a reprieve from the rain soon!

If you can believe it, this late in the year we are looking at 90-95+ temps from now until Friday!

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY

BRENDA

Tuesday, October 22, 2019 5:46 AM (P)

Hey SIG,

I am in and dry. No reprieve from the rain though. Thoroughly wet today.

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