In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
The other day weatherguessers said it was the coldest temps in 3 years. That Global Warming must be attacking here, thanks to algore inventing it.
The only Nobel Laureate I actually know has his certificate for Global Warming, and he very clearly tells folk that all that Global Warming creation is complete bunk.
Here we have not gotten more than a couple inches of snow at a time, and then mostly melted. Has been too cold for snow a bit lately. Undisturbed depths are a few inches. If not for roadways, can barely call it winter. When it warms in March, Feb, we usually get a bunch. But normally by now we would have a foot or 2.
Yeah. I keep hearing about how bad the global warming is, but this looks like it's going to be two pretty terrible winters around here in a row.
We haven't seen a single minute above freezing for almost two weeks.
And now the 5 or 6 inches we were supposed to get on Wednesday looks more like 10 inches with another 4 or 5 on Thursday.
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Got rain where I am but at least it has cleared out the fog.
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Musical Sunday
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Quote:How nice!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Musical Sunday
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Yesterday I wound up doing a lot of unplanned cooking...
My dog-walking friend brought over a piece of beef heart and beef kidney for the dog's raw food diet, and some chicken feet for broth for us.
Plus, daughter scored a 10.8 lb picnic roast (pork) @ $1.19/lb that was taking up a huge amount of freezer space (on the list)
A ginormous box of prewashed spinach that couldn't even FIT in the frig (something I asked for)
A bit too much chicken breast
So ..
I wilted the spinach, divided, and stuck it in the freezer
Roasted the pork, divided up the cooked pork (4 meals-worth) and broth (2 meals- worth) and tossed the bone and fat. Meat in the freezer, broth in the frig
Divided up the chicken breast for the freezer
Made "raw food" for the dog (gr beef, heart, liver, kidney, egg) for the freezer
Made dinner for the family: roast vegetables (onion, potato, sweet potato, zucchini with olive oil and salt) and "oven fried" chicken (marinade chix pieces in seasoning and salt) coated (egg/thyme/oregano/mustard) and breaded (panko/parmesan/olive oil), and baked
Then I did MOST of the dishes- two whole drain-trays plus a range top of pots, pans, bowls and prep-ware.
Whew!
None of this was in my list of "things to do" but it took up most of the day! OTOH it's something I won't need to do again for a long time.
Plus I helped hubby in the garage for a bit.
Now, on to other things today.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:How nice!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Musical Sunday
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Yeah, I just listened to a couple of tapes that had some different songs on them, like "Papa Don't Preach" by Madonna, think there was some Cher too.
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In case you missed this one Sigs since it was on the previous page...
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So I wandered into the backyard to see how things were faring without attention.
The grass is tall in some spots and the weeds are taking over but- dang!- wouldn't you know but I spotted a few red, ripe tomatoes on my one tomato bush, and some green ones as well!
I had two tomato bushes last year, both Early Girl, and they grew spectacularly (taller than hubby) and bore prolifically. One bush does what Early Girl tomatoes do in the winter: it died down to the ground. The other, a mere 4' away, is still green and producing. I have no idea what's with that one plant, I'm very happy to be able to harvest garden tomatoes in the dead of winter, but why it wants to be a perennial is beyond me! Maybe I can save some seeds and see if new plants would come true to the original.
Gotta water, tho. Last significant rainfall was late Dec IIRC, and altho we got a good soaking the ground is probably dried out by now.
As usual I over planned my day, assuming I could accomplish more than I was capable of, but I did manage to walk the dog, roast a pork picnic roast, do a kitchen cleanup (the kind I hate the most, a couple of sinksful of cups, containers, caps, jars, utensils, pots, pans... took me almost 2 hours washing!, tidy up the house and make dinner
Have some bills pending in my email, need to unbox a bunch of stuff, freeze the pork, make dig food, fix a sprinkler head, water the property, sort the mail... make dinner tomorrow and Sunday, and... that'll be the weekend. Doesn't sound like much, but I bet I don't get ALLA if that done, either!
Hubby and daughter are working on finishing the platform bed. He just oiled it today with Tung oil, and it is a thing of beauty!!
Most of it is Euro steamed beech. We spent a HUGE amt of time picking out planks at the lumberyard looking for boards that were straight and with good figure and... OMG it's amazing! I'll try and post pix when I get a chance.
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Is this a new bed or the one you were talking about quite a while ago?
I've never actually seen any pictures of this. Looking forward to it.
I'm glad to hear that you're getting so much done recently.
I've just got to turn that guilt of not getting much done on my end in comparison to inspiration to get back into getting things done.
I managed to put about an hour into sanding walls, trim and baseboard in the pantry as well as pulling out the quarter round off the baseboard and removing any nails down there yesterday before losing interest.
My plan now that I have some coffee in me is to finish with the sanding and cleanup and at least getting some mud up there. There was a lot of damage done in that closet to the walls and the trim for the shelving.
I think I'm going to go to the store tomorrow and buy another large tub of plastic wood, now that I know I can get it to keep for over a year before going bad. There are two pieces of the trim that appear to have been broken toward the front on an angle that I'd like to re-shape with some plastic wood to make look like it was whole pieces. At first I thought it was done on purpose since both of them are at almost identical angles, but they didn't do it on the other side or on any of the other pieces of trim on the left side either. I'm guessing they had some old trim from somewhere else and put it up even though a few of the pieces were broken because "who cares? It's just a closet".
I still need more of that wood for other things, like extending the two window sills in the living room before putting up window trim, fixing both the front and back door jambs and one or two other things I know I wanted to use it for that aren't coming to mind right now anyhow, so most of
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Nice dry day for my walk.
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Brenda I'm so envious of your weather this winter.
Not quite freezing today, but the closest we've been to it in about 3 weeks.
It'll be 40 tomorrow. Just enough to start us off with a ton of snow melt and a few hours of rain before we get the 10 to 15" of snow they're predicting in the 48 hours between Tuesday and Thursday night. The entire area is going to be an ice rink for weeks.
Last night they upped that from 8" to 12", and now I'm seeing possibly 15".
Then it will be at least a week until we get a day warm enough to melt any of it. And that's only if the weather doesn't change for the worse, which it hasn't done once since the beginning of the month.
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Managed to buckle down and actually put a few hours in on the pantry today. Got everything else I needed sanded down and cleaned up before putting a coat of joint compound on any of the various holes in the walls and the trim.
To give you an idea of how bad the pantry was (and the entire house), there was a HUGE patch job done down by the baseboard, and I never even noticed it until this morning. I'm guessing they made a huge hole in there at some ponit when they fed the phone cord up to the hole that no longer exists for it in the kitchen (I tiled over it half a year ago).
They didn't bother finishing it, or even sanding it down or putting a needed 2nd and 3rd coat on it. Just left it in there like that. And the pantry has been so nasty for a decade I didn't even know.
I think I'm going to go out and pick up that wood putty today so I can get it up there. It's going to need some drying time, and I'm feeling the itch to do it, so I might as well put myself together and go run some errands so I can get that up there. I still need to sand everything down and likely hit more spots with additional mud before I can even think about putting any caulk in there, so no sense in wasting another day on the wood putty.
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Quote:Good for you getting over the winter hump and starting your renovations again.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Managed to buckle down and actually put a few hours in on the pantry today. Got everything else I needed sanded down and cleaned up before putting a coat of joint compound on any of the various holes in the walls and the trim.
To give you an idea of how bad the pantry was (and the entire house), there was a HUGE patch job done down by the baseboard, and I never even noticed it until this morning. I'm guessing they made a huge hole in there at some ponit when they fed the phone cord up to the hole that no longer exists for it in the kitchen (I tiled over it half a year ago).
They didn't bother finishing it, or even sanding it down or putting a needed 2nd and 3rd coat on it. Just left it in there like that. And the pantry has been so nasty for a decade I didn't even know.
I think I'm going to go out and pick up that wood putty today so I can get it up there. It's going to need some drying time, and I'm feeling the itch to do it, so I might as well put myself together and go run some errands so I can get that up there. I still need to sand everything down and likely hit more spots with additional mud before I can even think about putting any caulk in there, so no sense in wasting another day on the wood putty.
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Yeah. Kind of at a stand-still now. I'm hoping that I'm not wasting my time.
Menards stopped carrying the DAP wood filler, apparently. All they had was Minwax and Elmers. Not a chance in hell I'm paying the price they wanted for Minwax, but after putting up the Elmer's I'm not sure if it's going to be up to the job.
I'm using it to do something that it is not designed to be used for, but the DAP wasn't designed for this use either. I've used DAP on enough things to have no doubt that it would be up to the task, but I think I may have just wasted 7 bucks and maybe a day or two of drying time.
I certainly don't want to put a fan on it to hasten the process. It's got to dry on its own time and hopefully not crack much of at all.
There's other things I can do while I'm waiting on that. I can still sand down the stuff I patched today and get most of the caulk up tomorrow so I can get most of the thing primed. But depending on how this putty goes it might really end up holding up the project now that I've gotten started.
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If it makes you feel any bette, the Tung oil is not curing AT ALL in the unheated garage. We have to bring the bedframe into the indoor hallway where it's heated.
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Brenda I'm so envious of your weather this winter.
Not quite freezing today, but the closest we've been to it in about 3 weeks.
It'll be 40 tomorrow. Just enough to start us off with a ton of snow melt and a few hours of rain before we get the 10 to 15" of snow they're predicting in the 48 hours between Tuesday and Thursday night. The entire area is going to be an ice rink for weeks.
Last night they upped that from 8" to 12", and now I'm seeing possibly 15".
Then it will be at least a week until we get a day warm enough to melt any of it. And that's only if the weather doesn't change for the worse, which it hasn't done once since the beginning of the month.
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Right now it is pretty good SIX, but there is a call for snow and rain mixed on Wednesday. Just have to see if the snow arrives but with the rain it won't stay.
It is sitting at around 44F which is good for the end of January. Hard to say what February will look like.
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Few clouds out on my way back but it was a little warmer than when I was out.
Did something I shouldn't have. I bought a package of real cheese when I was out. Going to have some for supper.
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I probably should have thought out my braces/molds for the wood putty better than what I'd used. I put a few blocks of wood under where I needed them and attached them to the walls with my brad nailer. I knew I'd have some small holes to patch when I took them out, but I had no idea that doing so on walls made of plaster would completely blow them out when I pulled the blocks down. Would have hardly done any damage to drywall.
Oh well...
At least I seemed to have been able to remove the blocks without too much damage to the integrity of the still somewhat malleable putty. I didn't want the putty to dry so much that the blocks broke it when I tried to get them off.
I think sanding these is going to be a nightmare, but at least it seems like they're going to hold up and do what I wanted them to do. We'll see what happens in a day or two when they dry completely. It would be nice if I could have a fan on them, but I know if I do that there will be cracks all over and it just won't work.
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Oh yeah... I'm not going to be reusing those shelving units.
Under the extremely hard to scrap off contact paper that was all over everything else, there's that old-timey yellowish high gloss paint that is probably from the 60's and full of lead.
And that's on top of some awful wood with huge knots and defects that occured naturally, let alone all the dings and dents they got from wear and tear over the years.
I'll probably just worry about finishing the room for now and see if I can catch a sale on something or find something in the remnants worth using.
I'm half thinking of just throwing all that old shelving out in the garbage. I honestly don't even think it's worth the time to peel off the contact paper off the other 9 shelves, and I don't even think that the shelving is garage worthy. I think somebody would probably kill themselves if they burned it in a fire pit.
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Out for my walk soon. Got a couple of things to do. It is nice and dry and bright for now.
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I've changed my stance on wood putty/filler.
It seems that the fact Menard's doesn't carry the DAP brand anymore ended up being a lucky break for me. For what I needed this for, the Elmer's stuff was WAY better. Sanding it was a dream compared to the nightmare that the DAP stuff would have been to shape.
Now... I'm not sure how this Elmer's stuff would hold up to abuse, but because of where I'm using it, I'm not worried about it. Once the second coat dries overnight and it's sanded down and painted, you're not even going to be able to tell that the two shelf holders made from baseboard were ever broke in the first place.
Even better, I was so happy with how well that went that I decided to use it on the ends of all 10 baseboards as they met the door frame on the inside. The actual baseboard on the floor was coped to fit the door frame nicely, but they just made straight cuts that looked pretty stupid for the shelving brackets. I was going to use some backer rod and caulk it, but after the caulk shrank it would look like I caulked it. Once this dries and I sand it, it's going to look like all 10 boards were coped properly to the frame.
I sanded all the joint compound down on the walls and trim too, so once I sand tomorrow I'm going to give the entire closet a coat of primer and see if any more repairs need to be done from there. This is going to look fantastic when it's done.
It ended up getting up to 47 degrees today! That's 8 degrees higher than they said it would yesterday. So I was able to get outside and get all the snow and the ice off of the walkway finally.
It's raining right now, but it's turning to snow soon.
15" incoming.
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Got a some snow heading my way too SIX. Tomorrow morning. Yuck!
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Your weather (collectively) sucks. I feel for you!
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Gonna be super busy until the end of next week, maybe they the end of the month. I'll be reading but not posting much.
Hang in there! It starts to getter better after February. Well, at least the days are noticeably longer, so that's something.
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Yeah... It's still not as bad as last February was (fingers crossed).
We had a whole month where it didn't get above freezing and we had 40" of snow on our roofs that entire time.
At least it got almost up to 50 today and melted most of the old stuff away before this new stuff starts coming down.
We've already got an inch or so now. It's not snowing at the moment, but I'm sure I'll be shoveling and blowing early tomorrow.
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Wow... it's coming down.
No way I'm doing anything outside at the moment. I'll probably be out there at some point in a blizzard though. I'll probably wait until mid-afternoon sometime.
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The snow missed me but I am sure Vancouver got some and other areas. Dry right now for my walk but I will take my umbrella incase of rain.
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So ... I'm not trying to rub in the weather here (and we pay for not having a real winter by having drought, relentless summer heat and sun, and a year-round fire season!) ... but the oxalis is blooming, and the honeybees are all over it.
OTOH these honey bees are a bit smaller than usual, not as chunky, somewhat aggressive, and really REALLY fast fliers. And that makes me think they might possibly be Africanized (which are still real honeybees, just not as nice as the 100% European kind). But I noticed the same kind of bee and the same kind of behavior a few blocks down on a blooming rosemary shrub. So if it's a problem, it's a neighborhood-wide problem and not limited to one very close by me. And for sure there's no hive in my yard, so there's nothing I can do about it anyway.
Also I saw an unusual hawk today. Looking it up, I think it was a Swainson’s Hawk, which is the only black-chested small raptor I found.
Apparently they migrate to Argentina for the winter. Some hawks migrate? Who knew? Anyway, for some reason they seem to think summer is over in Argentina, and winter is over over here.
Speaking of weather, again, I think our rain is over for the year. We had a remarkable December, but nothing to speak of in January and by now the rainy season is passing. So we'll be at about 11" which is 4" short out of 15". But that isn't bad for a la Nina year, and not as bad 2017-2018 when we had about 4 3/4" of rain, and 2020-2021 when we had about 5 3/4" of rain.
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Yeah. The weather is kind of a drag here. We have not gotten our normal allotment of snow this winter. It has mostly been too cold for snow here. Weatherguessers said yesterday was supposed to be 38F but ended up 46F, and today is single digits again.
Snow to the South, not sure about north of here.
So we have enough of Nature's Air Conditioning, but not enough snow, which cleans out the crud from the air.
And I keep forgetting to take Boost. Yesterday really felt it while cleaning up remnant snow and ice. Should have taken it the past 4 days.
Yesterday didn't get everything done by dusk. So was still moving things around while dark. Had my very best Battery Charger on the engine bay while moving one vehicle, and it jumped down, and I ended up driving over it, crushing it.
My very best, most durable, Battery Charger. Dang. Gingerly cradled most of the pieces, reconnected internal connectors, and it seems to be working at the moment, but I have not glued, strapped, or cobbled it back together. Really ticks me off. That might be really hard to replace.
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My area did get a bit of snow and it tried to snow when I went out. It kept trying but what fell was a bit of hail then a little bit of snow. It's dry right now and we are sitting at 1C which is around 33F.
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Well, I saw a flash of blue today, and I heard a scrub jay shriek (sounds like a rusty swing set) so my plan to bring the scrub jays back... worked!
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I sanded down the wood putty and put the first coat of paint on all of the trim. Since the paint is labeled as a paint/primer, I just hit all the marks, discolorations and anywhere that I mudded on the walls while I was at it.
Next step will be to put a third coat of paint on the ceiling, because this paint is trash. While I'm doing that, I'll just roll it out on the walls too so I've got more or less a blank slate to work with and see if there are any more repairs that need to be made.
After that, it was 2 1/2 hours of fun out in the snow. I don't know why I thought it would be light snow. It wasn't. At least 12" out there of heavy snow. But the wind is so bad that it's drifting everywhere too. The bermuda triangle had about 2 feet of snow to clear out just so I could get to the garage, and then I had to go through the house and try not to get everything wet so I could shovel the porch and the front walkway. Usually I'd just walk through the snow that way, but not with this much.
Snowblower was a champ and got the job done, but it was miserable. Wind kept changing direction every 3 seconds and always seemed to go straight toward my face. I had icicle beard and eyebrows when I came inside.
Hopefully we don't get too much more before tomorrow night, but the worst of it is over.
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Off to mah jong in the morning.
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I found an old half-gallon of some high quality ceiling paint that is also a primer. It starts out pink and dries white. So I used that and finished the ceiling and primed all the walls with it last nigth.
Assuming I don't have too much damage to fix, I'll be caulking today and probably painting up all the trim to finish. The wood putty worked great.
I didn't get any snow overnight, but 2/3rds of the front walkway needs to be re-shoveled. You can't even tell that I did it yesterday because of the snow drift.
Good luck at Mah Jong today Brenda.
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Put my backer rod where it was needed and caulked all 10 tracks, the baseboard and the door on the inside of the pantry. Then I went out and shoveled all the drift off my walkway. There was a TON of it, and it was a lot heavier than yesterday. Good news is that despite all the snow there's like none on my house or garage roof.
Somehow the driveway didn't get much drift, so I'm not going to bother dusting it. I lucked out there, since I saw my next door neighbor re-shoveling his entire driveway which faces the same direction as my walkway this morning.
My plan is to get both final coats of the white enamel up on the baseboard, tracks and inside door frame of the pantry today. That's probably all I'll get to, but you never know... Sometimes when I finally get to the painting part of a job I get so excited about it that I end up staying up past midnight working on it.
I'm going to have some pictures of it before/after without any of the shelving in there. I know that Kiki has mentioned before when organizing she likes to have shelves up high and drawers down below.
I'm probably not going to be building full drawers or anything, but I am considering buying some drawer tracks and making pullout shelving for the bottom three shelves. Would like to know everyone's opinion on that when I get to that point.
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Back from mah jong and my walk. I got first place today with a finish of over 5,000points.
But we got rain today though now at 2pm the sun is trying to break through the fog.
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Back from mah jong and my walk. I got first place today with a finish of over 5,000points.
Sweet! You win anything nice?
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But we got rain today though now at 2pm the sun is trying to break through the fog.
From where I'm sitting, Brenda, I'd call that a win too.
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Final coat up on all the trim.
It looks so freakin' good painted after shaping the wood putty to make everything look pro.
Going on 7PM here... Think I'm going to call it a night on the work. 3 days of shoveling along with 3 days of spending a lot of time on my knees scraping, sanding and painting kinda beat me up.
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Back from mah jong and my walk. I got first place today with a finish of over 5,000points.
Sweet! You win anything nice?Quote:
But we got rain today though now at 2pm the sun is trying to break through the fog.
From where I'm sitting, Brenda, I'd call that a win too.
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Think I won about $6. There 9 of us playing today. Booby prize was $2. So, I would guess that 2nd place and 3rd got $4 each.
It was nice to see the try to break through the fog. But now at 8:30pm, the fog has settled in for the night.
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Picked up "Die Hard" from my local library as I didn't see it over Christmas on YouTube.
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It's so weird that Die Hard is considered a Christmas movie today. I must have seen that half a dozen times when I was a kid. I don't think I ever heard somebody calling it a Christmas movie until a few years ago on the internet, and now almost everyone says it's a Christmas movie.
$6. Yeah... when I play games I don't play for much money either.
But if there's nothing on the line at all it seems kind of pointless.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and my walk. I got first place today with a finish of over 5,000points.
But we got rain today though now at 2pm the sun is trying to break through the fog.
Congrats on the win!
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Quote:I can sympathise! Tomorrow, grab a cuppa and put your feet up! when nature dumps on you, you gotta pace yourself (altho, honestly, with blowing drifting snow, I would wait until all the drifting was over, otherwise you might shovel the same area multiple times)
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Final coat up on all the trim.
It looks so freakin' good painted after shaping the wood putty to make everything look pro.
Going on 7PM here... Think I'm going to call it a night on the work. 3 days of seling along with 3 days of spending a lot of time on my knees scraping, sanding and painting kinda beat me up.
Would you say you caught up with your yearly snowfall, then?
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I can sympathise! Tomorrow, grab a cuppa and put your feet up! when nature dumps on you, you gotta pace yourself (altho, honestly, with blowing drifting snow, I would wait until all the drifting was over, otherwise you might shovel the same area multiple times)
Would you say you caught up with your yearly snowfall, then?
Yanno... I don't even know what our yearly snowfall is. It's so erratic around these parts. I know we've had years since I've lived in this house were we only ended up with like 5" of snow, but last year we had about 60".
But yeah, I think we've probably at least hit average now. We had like 15" over the course of a week or two a while back and now nearly double that. We didn't get the 4" yesterday into this morning that we were supposed to get, but we got about another 1" and it's still snowing right now.
The drifting seems to have stopped, but that's probably because there's no snow on anybody's roofs anymore.
Hey... I'm fine with that. Better on the ground and shoveling twice than weighing down the roof for the next month until it melts.
I have to keep up with the shoveling on the front walkway though. I didn't do that earlier this winter and it was an ice rink under the snow that I had to cover back up because I didn't want the post men and women slipping and cracking their heads open. I'll probably go out there and clean up whatever little came down last night sometime today between paint coats.
I really need to start working out again and stop thinking about it. It's not bad most of the year, but during winter when I'm more likely to not be doing anything for a few days at a time, it really kicks my ass when I have to put my back into the shoveling while I'm also doing rehab work. At least I haven't tweaked my back (yet).
That pantry has really been kicking my ass since it's so tight in there and I have to avoid touching anything I've painted with my clothes while also spending a lot of time on my knees and in lousy positions doing detail work once I get to the bottom half of it.
Wall paint going up today!
Give me a few. I'm going to post a couple of pictures soon.
How's things by you, Sigs?
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Pantry Preview...
At this point, I'd already put a little bit of mud up in here on bad parts toward the front of it. The pantry was still crammed full of stuff at that point, so with leftover mud I had for the coat closet I'd just use it up there and out on my back porch rather than throwing it out.
You can see from this first pic how the baseboards are turned upside down and were designed to hold the shelving. You can also see that aside from how badly beat up they were, number 2 and number 3 from the top down were broke on the bottom-front, and instead of coping them to the interior door frame like they did the actual baseboard, they just made straight cuts that look like hell. There were also some sizable gaps on the bottom of a few of them, none of them as bad as that one you can see on the top board.
Up close and personal, you can see the worse broken board of the two. I believe these were split by nails when they were installed. That hole in the wall you can see right next to the door frame was because of a nail that I think split the board and was just painted over. Taking that nail out damaged the wall a bit.
I used a brad nailer to put a scrap piece of wood as a template for my putty after making it level. At first when I saw the damage this caused, I regretted that decision, but nothing I couldn't easily fill in. It's probably the way I'd do it again in the future if I ever have to.
First coat of wood putty.
Sanded down after 2nd coat of wood putty. As you can see, I had decided at that point to fill in the straight cuts of the boards, so while doing the 2nd coat on the two broken boards I also filled in all 10 boards tight to the door frame, and filled them in on the back wall where caulk alone wouldn't do the job.
I used excess wood putty that existed when I did some preliminary shaping about an hour after application to fill in the brad nail/template damage.
Primer, Caulk and two coats of enamel later. Looks like those pieces of wood grew together.
I never did put a 3rd coat of wood putty on there, even though the pictures made it look like it was warranted. I've gotten pretty good with shaping caulk too, so while I was caulking everything up proper I squirted some extra wherever it needed some, rubbed it in with my fingers and then shaped it with a damp sponge.
No sanding, no mess.
You can also see that the gaps from the door frame to the wall are filled. Those were fairly sizable and existed on about 60% of the interior door frame. I probably could have gotten away without backer rod, and it was fairly difficult to jam it in there with a flat head screwdriver, but with the rod back there the caulk won't shrink and crack and look like hell a year from now.
Looks like new now. 
Here's my idea...
I'm considering just building straight up shelves for the top two tracks.
But on the bottom, I'm considering buying 3 sets of soft-close drawer slide systems, screwing them into the wall above the tracks with good drywall anchors, and just having pull out shelving for the bottom three.
Also, NOTE TO SELF: I need to use some of my ORB black spray paint to paint those gold screw tips on the hinges. The screws that came with the hinges were about the shortest things ever and in many cases on these old door jambs weren't enough to get the job done.
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It's so weird that Die Hard is considered a Christmas movie today. I must have seen that half a dozen times when I was a kid. I don't think I ever heard somebody calling it a Christmas movie until a few years ago on the internet, and now almost everyone says it's a Christmas movie.
$6. Yeah... when I play games I don't play for much money either.
But if there's nothing on the line at all it seems kind of pointless.
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Yeah, I know. I think I've seen it a couple of times over the years. I've seen all of them but the best are the first and the 3rd which has Graham Greene in it. Tried watching the last one and it sucked.
That's why they award winnings and something sometimes goes back to the Senior Centre for use of the room. But not yesterday with so few playing. I don't think.
Well, I think I would play without any winnings. It gets me out of my place and interacting with people.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and my walk. I got first place today with a finish of over 5,000points.
But we got rain today though now at 2pm the sun is trying to break through the fog.
Congrats on the win!
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Thanks SIG.
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True, that, about the walkways. Gotta keep them clear for the postal service!
Have you thought of salt for the ice? I've heard there's some sort of urea formula that doesn't burn your grass.
Oh, busy at this end. I do as much as I can each day. Yesterday I dug up some beets for dinner and did a little weeding out front.
Did one smart thing last year: I had an old tarp originally for the woodpile, but I spread it over the cleared part of the veggie patch and used it to solarize that part: kill weed seeds with heat.
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Out for my walk in a bit in the rain. Need to get to the pharmacy again as I forgot the get a refill on my seizure meds the last time I was there.
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Back and all done for today. It had stopped raining as it was dry when I was coming home but it is after 2pm and raining again.
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Yeah, I know. I think I've seen it a couple of times over the years. I've seen all of them but the best are the first and the 3rd which has Graham Greene in it. Tried watching the last one and it sucked.
Agreed. Die Hard: With a Vengeance is my all time favorite in the series.
I only saw the 4th one after that and didn't care for it at all. I don't know how many there were after the 4th one, but I never saw any of them.
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That's why they award winnings and something sometimes goes back to the Senior Centre for use of the room. But not yesterday with so few playing. I don't think.
Well, I think I would play without any winnings. It gets me out of my place and interacting with people.
It's good to get out. Congrats again on the win.
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True, that, about the walkways. Gotta keep them clear for the postal service!
Have you thought of salt for the ice? I've heard there's some sort of urea formula that doesn't burn your grass.
Yeah. I thought I'd have to shovel a tiny bit today with the snow, but even though it never got above freezing the sun was out and it all melted.
Good thing too, because I didn't have any down time between coats drying today. I managed to do everything more efficiently than I've ever done it before and only cleaned my brush and roller at the end of the day one time.
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Oh, busy at this end. I do as much as I can each day. Yesterday I dug up some beets for dinner and did a little weeding out front.
Did one smart thing last year: I had an old tarp originally for the woodpile, but I spread it over the cleared part of the veggie patch and used it to solarize that part: kill weed seeds with heat.
Glad to hear you're still up and about. You've been feeling good then?
I did all three cut-ins with the brush and two coats with the roller in the pantry today, so it's all done as far as repairs and paint go.
Tomorrow I should get the flooring in.
Not sure when I'm going to do the shelving though. It will require me to cut down wood out in my garage, and the next few weeks are all in the 20's and I don't feel like doing it when it's that cold. I don't want to feel rushed because it's so cold and end up making a bad cut because I was in a hurry.
Maybe I'll take a day or two off after the floor is in and figure out what I'm going to do next. I might finally extend those two window sills in the living room so I can get the new window trim up.
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Feeling well? Oh, sorry to say no. Still have side effects, some may last for a year. But definitely feeling better.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Yeah, I know. I think I've seen it a couple of times over the years. I've seen all of them but the best are the first and the 3rd which has Graham Greene in it. Tried watching the last one and it sucked.
Agreed. Die Hard: With a Vengeance is my all time favorite in the series.
I only saw the 4th one after that and didn't care for it at all. I don't know how many there were after the 4th one, but I never saw any of them.Quote:
That's why they award winnings and something sometimes goes back to the Senior Centre for use of the room. But not yesterday with so few playing. I don't think.
Well, I think I would play without any winnings. It gets me out of my place and interacting with people.
It's good to get out. Congrats again on the win.
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I tried to watch the 4th one in the series out of curiosity but about a half an hour into it and I just couldn't. McClain went to Russia or Eastern Europe to rescue his daughter and her boyfriend or something like that. It just made no sense what so ever.
It is good to interact with people and I have lunch at the centre. I can either order what they have on their menu or bring a sandwich and get a coffee there. The mah jong group usually all eat together then we go our separate ways. Thanks.
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Suppose to be a dry weekend here which will be nice.
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Quote:I tried to watch the 4th one in the series out of curiosity but about a half an hour into it and I just couldn't. McClain went to Russia or Eastern Europe to rescue his daughter and her boyfriend or something like that. It just made no sense what so ever.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:Agreed. Die Hard: With a Vengeance is my all time favorite in the series.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Yeah, I know. I think I've seen it a couple of times over the years. I've seen all of them but the best are the first and the 3rd which has Graham Greene in it. Tried watching the last one and it sucked.
I only saw the 4th one after that and didn't care for it at all. I don't know how many there were after the 4th one, but I never saw any of them.Quote:
DH was in LA. 2 was in DC. Vengeance was in Harlem. Live Free was back in DC. Good Day was in Russia or Yurp.
Those last 2 had little Lucy grow up to be Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
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I tried to watch the 4th one in the series out of curiosity but about a half an hour into it and I just couldn't. McClain went to Russia or Eastern Europe to rescue his daughter and her boyfriend or something like that. It just made no sense what so ever.
I just thought it was a boring flick. I saw the whole thing years ago and honestly couldn't tell you anything about it. My only takeaway from it was that Timothy Olephyant makes a terrible villain. It's the only thing I've ever seen him in that I didn't like.
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It is good to interact with people and I have lunch at the centre. I can either order what they have on their menu or bring a sandwich and get a coffee there. The mah jong group usually all eat together then we go our separate ways. Thanks.
Sounds like fun. I always think I should see if there's something similar around here. I've gotten back in with some of my old friends, but they're married with kids and full time jobs and hardly ever get together anymore.
I was joking with my Grandma yesterday that she's probably been out of the house more this year so far than I have. I don't think that's really true, but it's probably not too far from the truth.
I typically stock up and hibernate for the winter if I'm not working a job anyhow though. At least there's plenty of projects here to keep me out of trouble.
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Quote:DH was in LA. 2 was in DC. Vengeance was in Harlem. Live Free was back in DC. Good Day was in Russia or Yurp.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:I tried to watch the 4th one in the series out of curiosity but about a half an hour into it and I just couldn't. McClain went to Russia or Eastern Europe to rescue his daughter and her boyfriend or something like that. It just made no sense what so ever.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:Agreed. Die Hard: With a Vengeance is my all time favorite in the series.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Yeah, I know. I think I've seen it a couple of times over the years. I've seen all of them but the best are the first and the 3rd which has Graham Greene in it. Tried watching the last one and it sucked.
I only saw the 4th one after that and didn't care for it at all. I don't know how many there were after the 4th one, but I never saw any of them.Quote:
Those last 2 had little Lucy grow up to be Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
Wow.... There were 6 of them. lol
Were the last two Box Office releases or straight to RedBox like most of Bruce's stuff these days?
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Quote:DH was in LA. 2 was in DC. Vengeance was in Harlem. Live Free was back in DC. Good Day was in Russia or Yurp.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:I tried to watch the 4th one in the series out of curiosity but about a half an hour into it and I just couldn't. McClain went to Russia or Eastern Europe to rescue his daughter and her boyfriend or something like that. It just made no sense what so ever.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:Agreed. Die Hard: With a Vengeance is my all time favorite in the series.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Yeah, I know. I think I've seen it a couple of times over the years. I've seen all of them but the best are the first and the 3rd which has Graham Greene in it. Tried watching the last one and it sucked.
I only saw the 4th one after that and didn't care for it at all. I don't know how many there were after the 4th one, but I never saw any of them.Quote:
Those last 2 had little Lucy grow up to be Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
Oh, then the one I didn't like was the 5th in the series. I don't remember. I stopped counting after 3.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I tried to watch the 4th one in the series out of curiosity but about a half an hour into it and I just couldn't. McClain went to Russia or Eastern Europe to rescue his daughter and her boyfriend or something like that. It just made no sense what so ever.
I just thought it was a boring flick. I saw the whole thing years ago and honestly couldn't tell you anything about it. My only takeaway from it was that Timothy Olephyant makes a terrible villain. It's the only thing I've ever seen him in that I didn't like.Quote:
It is good to interact with people and I have lunch at the centre. I can either order what they have on their menu or bring a sandwich and get a coffee there. The mah jong group usually all eat together then we go our separate ways. Thanks.
Sounds like fun. I always think I should see if there's something similar around here. I've gotten back in with some of my old friends, but they're married with kids and full time jobs and hardly ever get together anymore.
I was joking with my Grandma yesterday that she's probably been out of the house more this year so far than I have. I don't think that's really true, but it's probably not too far from the truth.
I typically stock up and hibernate for the winter if I'm not working a job anyhow though. At least there's plenty of projects here to keep me out of trouble.
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That's all I remember about it. I like Timothy Olphyant but that was before "Justified" and so I didn't know who he was. I loved "Justified." Seen the whole series on DVD.
It is fun and we talk about stuff over lunch and how the morning went.
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Out for my walk on a dry day at least. Couple of things to do.
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Yeah. Justified was awesome.
Did you ever watch Deadwood? That's the first thing I'd seen him in and I loved that show.
More recently, I've seen him in a few episodes of The Santa Clarita Diet, a comedy with Drew Berrymore. He's a lot better at comedy than he was playing a bad guy.
The first thing I would have seen him in was Steven King's Dreamcatcher, but it was only years later that I found out he was in it because at the time he was the only actor in the film I'd not already known. He didn't have a small roll in it either, but I just forgot he was in it until long after Deadwood was finished.
Justified and Deadwood were perfect roles for him though.
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Got my flooring down in the pantry, so everything is done now in there except for the shelving and the threshold.
Man is that flooring hard to do when you're putting it in an area that you won't be putting baseboard or quarter round on top of. Would have been a cinch if I could have been up to 1/8" off on the entire perimeter, but it took me 3 hours to do it to make it perfect along the natural curves of the existing baseboard. Doing it long ways into a deep closet instead of into a shallow but wide closet seemed to make it quite a bit more difficult too.
I'll try to remember to get a few pics of it up later.
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Yeah. Justified was awesome.
Did you ever watch Deadwood? That's the first thing I'd seen him in and I loved that show.
More recently, I've seen him in a few episodes of The Santa Clarita Diet, a comedy with Drew Berrymore. He's a lot better at comedy than he was playing a bad guy.
The first thing I would have seen him in was Steven King's Dreamcatcher, but it was only years later that I found out he was in it because at the time he was the only actor in the film I'd not already known. He didn't have a small roll in it either, but I just forgot he was in it until long after Deadwood was finished.
Justified and Deadwood were perfect roles for him though.
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No, never saw "Deadwood". Didn't know he was in that. Only actor from the clips I recognized was Ian McShane, British guy and a good actor. I used to love "Lovejoy" which was a series he did back in England in the 1990s.
I haven't seen "Santa Clarita Diet", thought it sounded okay. Keep meaning to see if I can find it on YouTube. Some of these things don't make it on to DVD, so my library doesn't get them.
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All things done for today. I will be so glad when they are finished repairing the elevator that goes down to the parking lot where the garbage and recycling is.
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Quote:I count 5.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:Wow.... There were 6 of them. lol
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:DH was in LA. 2 was in DC. Vengeance was in Harlem. Live Free was back in DC. Good Day was in Russia or Yurp.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:I tried to watch the 4th one in the series out of curiosity but about a half an hour into it and I just couldn't. McClain went to Russia or Eastern Europe to rescue his daughter and her boyfriend or something like that. It just made no sense what so ever.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:Agreed. Die Hard: With a Vengeance is my all time favorite in the series.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Yeah, I know. I think I've seen it a couple of times over the years. I've seen all of them but the best are the first and the 3rd which has Graham Greene in it. Tried watching the last one and it sucked.
I only saw the 4th one after that and didn't care for it at all. I don't know how many there were after the 4th one, but I never saw any of them.
Those last 2 had little Lucy grow up to be Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
Were the last two Box Office releases or straight to RedBox like most of Bruce's stuff these days?
I watched each one in cinema, as original release. I like that even tho MEW had become more in demand, she still reprised her role as Lucy.
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Quote:Salt melts ice OK above 30F. At 20F it is 1/5 as effective. Below 10F it is nil. Salt stops melting at -6F.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
True, that, about the walkways. Gotta keep them clear for the postal service!
Have you thought of salt for the ice? I've heard there's some sort of urea formula that doesn't burn your grass.
Salt is for old people, or those too lazy.
Not sure how many recent days 6ix has had above 20F. I have not seen many.
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Yeah. Justified was awesome.
Did you ever watch Deadwood? That's the first thing I'd seen him in and I loved that show.
More recently, I've seen him in a few episodes of The Santa Clarita Diet, a comedy with Drew Berrymore. He's a lot better at comedy than he was playing a bad guy.
The first thing I would have seen him in was Steven King's Dreamcatcher, but it was only years later that I found out he was in it because at the time he was the only actor in the film I'd not already known. He didn't have a small roll in it either, but I just forgot he was in it until long after Deadwood was finished.
Justified and Deadwood were perfect roles for him though.
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No, never saw "Deadwood". Didn't know he was in that. Only actor from the clips I recognized was Ian McShane, British guy and a good actor. I used to love "Lovejoy" which was a series he did back in England in the 1990s.
Yeah. When he did Justified, I think he just brought the same character over from Deadwood and modernized him a bit. No complaints from me since I loved both shows.
Ian McShane was arguably the most dynamic character on the show with the largest arc of growth. I loved his character by the end of the run. I believe it's the final season where an episode completely surrounding an issue he's got is one of the most intense things I remember ever seeing in a TV show. Phenominal actor, although the only other thing I've ever seen him in was the terrible remake of Death Race in 2008. (He's the only thing I even remember about it).
I would HIGHLY recommend Deadwood to you considering the cast, but that comes with a warning too. It ain't PC, like at all. And most of the characters of Deadwood outside of Timothy and the Doctor use cuss words as punctuation marks. YouTube probably took it down by now, but I remember a 5 minute long video where somebody took every single instance of the word C*%#sucker and just played them all one after the other without any repeats.
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I haven't seen "Santa Clarita Diet", thought it sounded okay. Keep meaning to see if I can find it on YouTube. Some of these things don't make it on to DVD, so my library doesn't get them.
I think you'd like it. It is one of the few shows my old man and step-mom can watch together. He showed me a few episodes while we were visiting my brother on several occasions, but I watch so little these days and it didn't totally grab my attention enough to make me watch the whole thing. I didn't find anything objectionable or bad about it though. I'm sure if I were dating somebody who wanted to watch it with me I wouldn't mind.
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Yeah. Justified was awesome.
Did you ever watch Deadwood? That's the first thing I'd seen him in and I loved that show.
More recently, I've seen him in a few episodes of The Santa Clarita Diet, a comedy with Drew Berrymore. He's a lot better at comedy than he was playing a bad guy.
The first thing I would have seen him in was Steven King's Dreamcatcher, but it was only years later that I found out he was in it because at the time he was the only actor in the film I'd not already known. He didn't have a small roll in it either, but I just forgot he was in it until long after Deadwood was finished.
Justified and Deadwood were perfect roles for him though.
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No, never saw "Deadwood". Didn't know he was in that. Only actor from the clips I recognized was Ian McShane, British guy and a good actor. I used to love "Lovejoy" which was a series he did back in England in the 1990s.
Yeah. When he did Justified, I think he just brought the same character over from Deadwood and modernized him a bit. No complaints from me since I loved both shows.
Ian McShane was arguably the most dynamic character on the show with the largest arc of growth. I loved his character by the end of the run. I believe it's the final season where an episode completely surrounding an issue he's got is one of the most intense things I remember ever seeing in a TV show. Phenominal actor, although the only other thing I've ever seen him in was the terrible remake of Death Race in 2008. (He's the only thing I even remember about it).
I would HIGHLY recommend Deadwood to you considering the cast, but that comes with a warning too. It ain't PC, like at all. And most of the characters of Deadwood outside of Timothy and the Doctor use cuss words as punctuation marks. YouTube probably took it down by now, but I remember a 5 minute long video where somebody took every single instance of the word C*%#sucker and just played them all one after the other without any repeats.Quote:
I haven't seen "Santa Clarita Diet", thought it sounded okay. Keep meaning to see if I can find it on YouTube. Some of these things don't make it on to DVD, so my library doesn't get them.
I think you'd like it. It is one of the few shows my old man and step-mom can watch together. He showed me a few episodes while we were visiting my brother on several occasions, but I watch so little these days and it didn't totally grab my attention enough to make me watch the whole thing. I didn't find anything objectionable or bad about it though. I'm sure if I were dating somebody who wanted to watch it with me I wouldn't mind.
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Since I know that Deadwood is set in the old west, I don't expect PC. And cussing in a show like that wouldn't bother me. I might hit my library on Monday. I know I have seen the DVDs there.
I'm not sure if I have seen the remake of "Death Race 2000". Know I saw the original one with David Carradine. Might look the remake up for a giggle.
I'm always looking for something new to watch
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You'll have to let me know what you think.
Deadwood's a show that should have gotten one more season, or a movie RIGHT after it was done like they said they were going to do. They finally made that movie 10 years later. I still haven't watched it, because I intend to rewatch the show before seeing it.
They did a fine enough job wrapping it up. It wasn't a cliffhanger ending like Sarah Connor Chronicles, but it did leave you wanting for more.
Hopefully the movie is good.
Deathrace 2008 definitely has a higher production budget and luster to it than the Carradine version does, but it's just another of a long line of remakes that didn't need to be made.
The original one, IMO, wasn't that great either though, so I felt that it was kind of a missed opportunity. I'm not against remaking movies that weren't great in the first place, but they could have done a better job than they did.
If they never remade The Thing in the 80's, we'd never have the awesome Kurt Russell version.
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You'll have to let me know what you think.
Deadwood's a show that should have gotten one more season, or a movie RIGHT after it was done like they said they were going to do. They finally made that movie 10 years later. I still haven't watched it, because I intend to rewatch the show before seeing it.
They did a fine enough job wrapping it up. It wasn't a cliffhanger ending like Sarah Connor Chronicles, but it did leave you wanting for more.
Hopefully the movie is good.
Deathrace 2008 definitely has a higher production budget and luster to it than the Carradine version does, but it's just another of a long line of remakes that didn't need to be made.
The original one, IMO, wasn't that great either though, so I felt that it was kind of a missed opportunity. I'm not against remaking movies that weren't great in the first place, but they could have done a better job than they did.
If they never remade The Thing in the 80's, we'd never have the awesome Kurt Russell version.
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I know people thought that Deadwood got the shaft.
Well, the Carradine version was done in the 70s and a lot of cheesy movies from that time came out.
I know what you mean about remakes of movies. Somethings should be left alone.
Love Kurt Russell but The Thing didn't do anything for me. Now Escape from New York that I liked.
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If they never remade The Thing in the 80's, we'd never have the awesome Kurt Russell version.
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If they never remade The Thing in the 80's, we'd never have the awesome Kurt Russell version.
Yeah. I've never seen the original (From the 50's? 60?'s), although I do intend to watch it one day.
I saw the MEW version. It was awful, but that's what happens when you try to ape off of lightning in a bottle for a quick profit. Some things like Death Race SHOULD get a proper remake every few decades or so until they get it right. The Thing was already about as close to perfection that a movie should get and shouldn't be remade.
I realize that it wasn't a remake per se, but I don't care if you shifted the timeline a bit, it's still a remake of the movie if you're doing the same damn thing the whole way through.
I'd love to see the original version of the MEW remake though. They actually DID do all practical effects like the Kurt version, but some dipshit Hollywood execs stepped in and said "Where's the CGI? The kids love CGI!!!" and then the movie went over budget putting cartoonish effects over all the expensive practical effects and the CGI they used was already outdated before the movie even began production. That's the turd we all saw.
Do you know if they ever got around to a director's cut with that CGI trash taken out of it? It might actually be a decent movie under there.
ETA: On the subject of director's cuts, another movie I wanted to watch as the director wanted it is The Mist. It was supposed to be black and white, but the Hollywood Execs stepped in and changed that too. As far as I know, there's no other differences between the two versions, but the change to black and white is really supposed to add a lot to it. Especially with the environment and shadows.
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I know people thought that Deadwood got the shaft.
Yeah. But like I said, they saw the writing on the wall at least. I feel they did do a fine enough job wrapping it up and we weren't left with a Firefly situation or anything. My old man saw the movie but his opinion was that they waited too long. Everybody looked so much older 10 years later, so instead of following up on recent events like an immediate movie would have, it followed their lives many years later and I think they kind of filled in the blanks with exposition.
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Well, the Carradine version was done in the 70s and a lot of cheesy movies from that time came out.
Yeah. I think it's probably a movie I would have loved if I saw it when I was a kid. I didn't actually watch it until after I watched the 2008 version though, so there was no nostalgia there for me. It was still better than the new one though, IMO although they both have their pros and cons and neither comes close to being a great flick.
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I know what you mean about remakes of movies. Somethings should be left alone.
Yeah.
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Love Kurt Russell but The Thing didn't do anything for me.
Maybe you don't have the trust issues I've got. Good for you.
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Now Escape from New York that I liked.
I love the Escape movies. It's great how LA is just an unashamed ripoff of NY with a higher budget. It's hard for me to say which one I like better since despite the glaring similarities thrown in your face they're both quite different in tone. It's almost like LA is a spoof of NY.
I was always sad we never got that Escape From Earth movie to round out the trilogy.
Kurt could still do it. I'd love to see Old Man Plisken finally get off this rock and we could imagine one day he meets up with Old Man Mal and the Firefly crew.
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Shopping today. There's currently 3 simultanious ads out at the big box store, with two of them ending today. I probably waited too long for some of the stuff that will be sold out, but they've got more than 20 4-packs of various tools for the end of my newish multitool that are only $10 after rebate, so it's worth the trip for me to see if they have anything else I was interested in.
They've got some corner guard trim that's on clearance for a good price. I think when I build my shelving for the pantry I want to use that to cap them off rather than router nice edges to them. I might be using extra plywood I have out in the garage for the shelves, and I could easily screw the edges up with my router since it wouldn't be solid boards.
Might pick up some food while I'm out, but I don't really need to.
Taking advantage of the WARM day. They say it might actually get up to 30 degrees! I forget what the 30's feel like.
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I know people thought that Deadwood got the shaft.
Yeah. But like I said, they saw the writing on the wall at least. I feel they did do a fine enough job wrapping it up and we weren't left with a Firefly situation or anything. My old man saw the movie but his opinion was that they waited too long. Everybody looked so much older 10 years later, so instead of following up on recent events like an immediate movie would have, it followed their lives many years later and I think they kind of filled in the blanks with exposition.Quote:
Well, the Carradine version was done in the 70s and a lot of cheesy movies from that time came out.
Yeah. I think it's probably a movie I would have loved if I saw it when I was a kid. I didn't actually watch it until after I watched the 2008 version though, so there was no nostalgia there for me. It was still better than the new one though, IMO although they both have their pros and cons and neither comes close to being a great flick.Quote:
I know what you mean about remakes of movies. Somethings should be left alone.
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Love Kurt Russell but The Thing didn't do anything for me.
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Now Escape from New York that I liked.
I love the Escape movies. It's great how LA is just an unashamed ripoff of NY with a higher budget. It's hard for me to say which one I like better since despite the glaring similarities thrown in your face they're both quite different in tone. It's almost like LA is a spoof of NY.
I was always sad we never got that Escape From Earth movie to round out the trilogy.
Kurt could still do it. I'd love to see Old Man Plisken finally get off this rock and we could imagine one day he meets up with Old Man Mal and the Firefly crew.
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Closure in tv shows is important and that is good.
I went and looked it up after I left here and I have seen the 2008 version and it wasn't as good. Definitely preferred the David Carradine one. I must have watched that when I was in high school on tv some late night. Carradine's came out in 1975.
Yeah, I've seen both Escape movies but I still prefer New York to the LA one.
I don't feel quite the same way. I think the two films were just fine.
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Sunny Sunday. Nice, quiet.
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The corner guard trim on clearance was just pressed wood garbage with a thin veneer wrapped around it and half peeling off in the middle. No way I'm using any of that. Oh well.
I just bought $180.00 worth of stuff though, and after the rebate comes in it will have cost me less than $15.00.
A lot of it is for me, but I'll have plenty more to give away this round.
I think today is going to be a cleanup day. Nothing has gotten gross, but as I usually do while in the middle of the project I just let stuff pile up everywhere and I've got to get everything back to its home now before cleaning around the kitchen sink area and giving the bathroom a good cleanup.
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PICTURES!
I don't even remember why I took a picture of the pantry when the door was off, but I'm glad I did because I forgot to take any before pictures of the shelving in there before starting the work on it. Unfortunately, that means that I don't have any pictures of the pantry with bare shelves unless I can manage to dig up one from the photos I took when I was originally house hunting.
Two pictures illustrating how badly damaged and discolored the walls and shelf brackets were.
The horrible, dirty, somewhat damaged floor.
The mysterious hole that was filled in with plaster or something. I neglected to snap a picture of it before sanding it down, but it was probably bubbled out about 1/2" at the bottom where the weight of the wet stuff just sagged. It needed an extra coat of mud after that but you can't see it now. I really think they made this hole to fish up the phone line in the kitchen and some point and didn't ever care to repair it.
You can really get a good feel for how gross and damaged the walls and baseboard were from the closeup.
Nice and clean with the new floor. 
A better view of the floor and how I cut it out around the existing door frame.
Not pictured is how much work went into prepping and caulking the interior door frame to the walls inside. Nobody will ever see it, but at least I know it looks awesome now.
The only tape I put down was on the floor around the baseboard, even though I knew it was going to be covered up with the new floor. Everything else was cut in meticulously by hand. THREE FREAKIN TIMES because Pittsburgh Ultra paint sucks.
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Great work SIX.
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Just a musical Sunday.
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Great work SIX.
Thanks Brenda.
One room at at time
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Great work SIX.
Thanks Brenda.
One room at at time
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Nice long talk with friends in Alberta tonight. Was good. Forgot to ask them what the weather is looking like out there.
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Weather people say my area should hit 11C by Friday which is 52F. That will be nice.
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Thanks for the pix, SIX! That pantry looks great!
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Thanks for the pix, SIX! That pantry looks great!
Thanks Sigs. I'm so glad I had that extra floor to put in both of the closets. It really seems to be a quality product. It took forever to cut it in there like that without having the door jamb and trim installed on top of it (or without undercutting those with a tool that I don't have), but what's great about it is that it stays put without needing any adhesive. I did put an "X" under there with double stick tape in case I needed it, but I've yet to pull the top part off and affix it to the bottom of the floor. It doesn't appear to need it.
I could still easily go back and take it up if I wanted to whenever I get around to restoring hte 1st floor hardwood. That will probably be a long time from now because I'm running out of rooms that I don't care if people wear shoes. I might not even do it in the closets anyway though because I like how good the floor looks.
I still have enough of it to do one more similar sized closet, but I'm out of closets. There's one in the basement still, but that's the biggest closet in the house and the piece wouldn't be big enough for it. I've got a stack of those bench shelves I built in there with everything that used to be in the pantry and other various tools on it now.
If my sliding shelf idea works well in the pantry, I think I have a use for it still. I might make a soft-close pull out shelf in the kitchen in that garbage nook and trim out the sides of it after cutting a final piece out of that flooring to go on top of it. I'd probably build up a small piece on either side for easy pulling, rather than requiring you to get down on your knees every time you wanted to pull the trash bins out.
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Nice sunny day for my walk. And the computer temp is reading 8C which is 46F.
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Back from my walk on a pretty nice day still. Maybe it will last all week. :)
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Well, lots of clouds out but dry so far.
Real good start to the morning turned this computer on and then instead of hitting google, I hit the shut down button. So, I had to turn it back on again. *L* Also almost knocked over my coffee cup.
Anyways out in a bit to get some groceries.
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Just cold again today. Cold again every day. Not seeing anything warm in the 10 day forecast.
At least it's not snowing.
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The rain that was suppose to be here yesterday arrived today.
So I forgot my umbrella and had to come back and get it and when I was out, I lost $5.
So a strange day for me.
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Well... You're still up a buck from Mah Jong.
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Nice... Tomorrow is supposed to be a high of 37 degrees with a low chance for snow.
I think I might just spend some time in the garage building and sanding down some pantry shelving tomorrow.
Not as warm as I'd like it to be for the job, but if I keep waiting for 40 degree days I'm going to be without a usable pantry for a long time.
Hopefully I don't have to do too much power sanding. I'm willing to do hand sanding in the basement, but I have no desire to be kicking all of that dust around power sanding while the furnace is sucking it all up and blowing it everywhere else.
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Hey all - I'm sorry I haven't been keeping up. I figured I was going to be busy, but I'm far far busier than I imagined!
I hope everyone is well!
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Been a while since we've seen you post. Glad you're alright.
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Well... You're still up a buck from Mah Jong.
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Very true. What I figured happened was instead of the $5 and a couple of coins going into my pant's pocket, I must have dropped it on the floor and didn't notice.
Oh, well. Hoping for a better day tomorrow.
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Good to see you, Kiki.
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Well... You're still up a buck from Mah Jong.
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Very true. What I figured happened was instead of the $5 and a couple of coins going into my pant's pocket, I must have dropped it on the floor and didn't notice.
Oh, well. Hoping for a better day tomorrow.
Try not to let it bother you too much.
I did that one time and I was still thinking about it a year later.
I obsess over money too much.
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Very true. What I figured happened was instead of the $5 and a couple of coins going into my pant's pocket, I must have dropped it on the floor and didn't notice.
Oh, well. Hoping for a better day tomorrow.
Try not to let it bother you too much.
I did that one time and I was still thinking about it a year later.
I obsess over money too much.
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Nah, just one of those things. They happen. I'll forget about it probably by tomorrow.
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Out for my walk in a bit and here's hoping for a better day than yesterday.
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It felt like somebody left the heat on today. 37 degrees.
I got 3 shelves for the pantry cut to size, sanded and "broke"... That means rounding the edges to give it a nicer look and not having hard edges to paint around.
Since it's plywood, I was too afraid to try giving it an edge with the router, but I think it's going to look great. I'm going to primer them, then I'm going to hit any of the knots with wood putty, sand it down, prime those spots, then give it a few coats of paint. I have at least enough white contact paper left after doing the curio cabinet to get the three shelves done.
I'm going to wait on the bottom two shelves until I figure out which drawer slides I'm going to buy so I know exactly what width they need to be.
I robbed Menards again with the rebates today. Not nearly as nice a haul as the last one on paper because the 4 air filters for my furnace still cost $5 each after the $2 rebate, but they were also on sale and normally are $12.99 each. Not including those, the rest of the stuff was $52, but after the rebate they'd have been $15. None of the stuff this time was free, and they weren't paying me to take the antibacterial wipes off their hands like they did the other day.
In total, with the last two rebate heavy trips there, the upfront costs were roughly $258 but will only cost me $58 when the rebate comes in, and that's including the $20 for the 4 filters.
Got a lot of great new tools and materials out of the deal, and a lot more stuff to give away once the rebate clears.
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My area is 10 degrees warmer than were you are SIX. It hit 46F where I am today under cloudy skies but at least it was dry.
Much better day today.
Bought some egg replacer today to use if I want to make pancakes and got some vacuuming done when I got home.
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