In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Well, you've been busy SIX! Congrats on getting a lot accomplished!
Gotta make the most of the summer. Been bitching about the heat, but before you know it I'll be bitching about the cold.
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Plumbers will be in the building tomorrow working on the main pipes. So, no flushing or running water from 10am to 2pm. I'll make sure to fill my kettle tonight for the morning.
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I think I'll relax today.
I won't be able to backfill the front until tomorrow, so instead of getting dirty twice just to do the side of the house today, I'll just do it all tomorrow. This *should* be the quick and easy part. I'm hoping the wire fencing to prevent mole tunnels along the foundation are as easy to make as I think they'll be.
I don't want to expose any more of the foundation until that's done, and I won't be doing any work on the shed slab until I can expose the side of it.
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Hope you both have good days.
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It's not really the season, considering that I have to crank up the oven to 350-400 for an hour, but I made roast onions, potato, and zucchini yesterday. (The zucchini is doing well again this year.) So tasty, for just a simple prep! It was so good I think I'm going to do the same thing again tomorrow, only I'll throw a chicken in the oven too.
C'mon over for dinner! I'll make a salad with fresh garden tomatoes too!
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Hope you both have good days.
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It's not really the season, considering that I have to crank up the oven to 350-400 for an hour, but I made roast onions, potato, and zucchini yesterday. (The zucchini is doing well again this year.) So tasty, for just a simple prep! It was so good I think I'm going to do the same thing again tomorrow, only I'll throw a chicken in the oven too.
C'mon over for dinner! I'll make a salad with fresh garden tomatoes too!
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Couple of things to do my end.
Those meals do sound tasty for sure SIG.
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Out for my walk in a bit. Got to get some lunch to take with me tomorrow for mah jong. Don't like what is one the menu.
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Back and done. Temp is reading 30C which is 90F.
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Hope you both have good days.
Thank you, Sigs.
I had a great day!
I didn't relax, and boy I'm glad I didn't. Backfilling is NOT a quick and easy job when I'm measuring and cutting all of those metal cloth pieces and putting them perpendicular to the foundation to keep the moles from making any tunnels there.
It's REALLY not quick when I'm also using the gardening tools to grade all of the existing dirt away from the house in prep for the rocks.
And it certainly isn't quick when I managed to put down some fabric and 17 fifty pound bags of the river rock so I can see what it's going to look like.
I wish I didn't have to backfill the front tomorrow, but I'll finish doing that and then get back to doing as much of the rocks on the side that I can get done. I'm so glad I decided to start on that because this is going to be transformative.
SUPER MOTIVATED NOW!
And unlike today, I won't be miserable in the sun the first half of the day doing the backfill, and hopefully by the time I get back to putting rocks down on the side the sun is hiding behind the tall trees across the street.
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It's not really the season, considering that I have to crank up the oven to 350-400 for an hour, but I made roast onions, potato, and zucchini yesterday. (The zucchini is doing well again this year.) So tasty, for just a simple prep! It was so good I think I'm going to do the same thing again tomorrow, only I'll throw a chicken in the oven too.
C'mon over for dinner! I'll make a salad with fresh garden tomatoes too!
That sounds so freakin' good. Too bad we're more than half a country away from each other.
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Off to mah jong in the morning. Hope I have some good luck.
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Good luck, Brenda.
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Back to the trenches.
The blister on my palm from all that tar painting is not very fun. And apparently while I was opening up the packaging on my outlet tester I decided that the other palm needed in on the fun and sliced it pretty good.
But the good news is, all of my garage electric is good. Well... that or the tester isn't good. Hmmmmm... I suppose I'm going to have to get around to intentionally wiring up an outlet incorrectly to see if my tester is working.
I've got two, maybe 2 1/2 days to backfill the front before the rain comes down. It won't take me all day to do that, so maybe I'll get some of it done and go back to putting down fabric and rocks after more grading. I'd really rather be doing that today, but I don't want to let time get away from me and not have the front backfill done before the rain comes in this weekend.
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Quote:I assume without the backfill you'd just have trench full of rain ?
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Back to the trenches.
The blister on my palm from all that tar painting is not very fun. And apparently while I was opening up the packaging on my outlet tester I decided that the other palm needed in on the fun and sliced it pretty good.
But the good news is, all of my garage electric is good. Well... that or the tester isn't good. Hmmmmm... I suppose I'm going to have to get around to intentionally wiring up an outlet incorrectly to see if my tester is working.
I've got two, maybe 2 1/2 days to backfill the front before the rain comes down. It won't take me all day to do that, so maybe I'll get some of it done and go back to putting down fabric and rocks after more grading. I'd really rather be doing that today, but I don't want to let time get away from me and not have the front backfill done before the rain comes in this weekend.
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Good luck, Brenda.
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Actually Jack. I had great luck. I got 1st place and won $10. Had 3 really good hands all over 1,000 points. Finally hand was winds and dragons.
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Back from mah jong and as you can see by what I told Jack it was a really good morning. I finished with over 7,000 points and went out 5 times. The table I was playing at did really good. Another lady I was playing with got 2nd place. Don't know who got 3rd though or if there was a booby prize.
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Was also informed by a lady that lives on my floor that she has seen a mouse around. I thanked for the info and said I will be careful and keep an eye out.
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:I assume without the backfill you'd just have trench full of rain ?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Back to the trenches.
The blister on my palm from all that tar painting is not very fun. And apparently while I was opening up the packaging on my outlet tester I decided that the other palm needed in on the fun and sliced it pretty good.
But the good news is, all of my garage electric is good. Well... that or the tester isn't good. Hmmmmm... I suppose I'm going to have to get around to intentionally wiring up an outlet incorrectly to see if my tester is working.
I've got two, maybe 2 1/2 days to backfill the front before the rain comes down. It won't take me all day to do that, so maybe I'll get some of it done and go back to putting down fabric and rocks after more grading. I'd really rather be doing that today, but I don't want to let time get away from me and not have the front backfill done before the rain comes in this weekend.
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Well... yes and no.
Even though I believe we're in for a good deal of rain on Saturday and Sunday, we had a light spring rain season and the sun and heat have done a good job keeping things fairly dry around here this year. My sump pump probably hasn't gone off since spring (if it has, I've never been around to hear it... and I find myself just checking that there isn't any flooding when we do get rain).
I don't think I'd have a river up against my house this weekend unless we got about 12" or some crazy amount. But 3 years ago when we had some crazy amount like 75" of rainfall that water would fill the trenches up to the brim. Even last year I noticed that when it only rained few inches when the fence was being replaced behind me that the post holes were full of water to the top.
But I finished the mole tunnel nets and backfill in front today.
I'm going to run out and buy some topsoil tonight for grading tomorrow. I shouldn't need any on the side that I started putting rocks down, but I know for sure that I'll need it on the other side. Even with the gutters up if there's a heavy rain water will sit against the shed slab on the side and wrap around the front of the house about halfway through the porch blocks. I'm never going to keep water from pooling in the hasta beds because the stone barrier for them is almost as high as the bottom of the siding, but I'm going to at least get the water to pool at the bottom of that stone and as far away from the foundation as I can. Hopefully the rocks will help with the drainage.
My goal is to have the rocks down on the side and around the front to the walkway tomorrow. If I only use 1/3 of the rocks for that, I shouldn't have any problem covering everything I wanted to cover this year. Then I'll have to buy another 10,000 lbs of rocks for next year.
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Good luck, Brenda.
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Actually Jack. I had great luck. I got 1st place and won $10. Had 3 really good hands all over 1,000 points. Finally hand was winds and dragons.
Awesome.
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Good luck, Brenda.
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Actually Jack. I had great luck. I got 1st place and won $10. Had 3 really good hands all over 1,000 points. Finally hand was winds and dragons.
Awesome.
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It was.
. My first hand, I went out and got over 1,000points. Then it sort of skidded around for a while then I got another hand with over 1,000points. Then more skidding. I almost had winds and dragons in another hand but I couldn't get rid of 2 character tiles. So, that hand wasn't great. The last hand was just pure luck. Didn't have my own flower or my own wind. But I had the wind of the round which was West and the green and white dragons. So, I got 3 doubles for the basic winds and dragons then another 3 doubles for the wind of the round and the 2 dragons in my hand. 6 doubles and another over 1,000point hand.
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Out for my walk and I'm not sure if my area saw any of the rain the weather people were predicting but I am putting a jacket on.
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Quote:Just make sure all your food is sealed up in sturdy containers. You probably won't see mice per se, but keep an eye out for droppings next to baseboards, backs of drawers and cabinets in your kitchen, and backs of closets.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Was also informed by a lady that lives on my floor that she has seen a mouse around. I thanked for the info and said I will be careful and keep an eye out.
We had a field mouse in our house once, so I bought a fieldmouse-sized live trap and caught it. Cute little thing. I released it in a nearby field.
But they chew power cords and can spread hanta virus (altho never heard of hanta virus near Vancouver) so best that they're not in the house.
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Quote:That was your lucky day! Congrats!
BRENDA Actually Jack. I had great luck. I got 1st place and won $10. Had 3 really good hands all over 1,000 points. Finally hand was winds and dragons.
SUX: Awesome.
BRENDA: It was.
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:Just make sure all your food is sealed up in sturdy containers. You probably won't see mice per se, but keep an eye out for droppings next to baseboards, backs of drawers and cabinets in your kitchen, and backs of closets.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Was also informed by a lady that lives on my floor that she has seen a mouse around. I thanked for the info and said I will be careful and keep an eye out.
We had a field mouse in our house once, so I bought a fieldmouse-sized live trap and caught it. Cute little thing. I released it in a nearby field.
But they chew power cords and can spread hanta virus (altho never heard of hanta virus near Vancouver) so best that they're not in the house.
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I am very careful. I don't leave food out when it is open. I haven't seen anything but keeping a close watch.
A mouse got into the apartment where I was living when I was looking after my mom and it finally ate the poison but I still had to kill it. Just to put it out of its misery.
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Quote:That was your lucky day! Congrats!
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BRENDA Actually Jack. I had great luck. I got 1st place and won $10. Had 3 really good hands all over 1,000 points. Finally hand was winds and dragons.
SUX: Awesome.
BRENDA: It was.
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It really was. I haven't won anything in weeks playing.
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Walk in and done.
Have to get some vacuuming done in the kitchen before I make my supper.
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Took one vehicle in for service, make SOME MORE doctor appts(!) -not for me but for others.
Bc of infusions yesterday and vehicle service today grocery shopping is put off for a couple of days and we're low on lunch options. So I did another bean and corn salad with onions, garden red peppers,garden tomatoes, garden parsley, a fresh grinding of pepper, a bit of leftover roast chicken (altho the rest is for chicken-bean-cheese enchiladas later) and a vinaigrette. And it got a family thumbs-up.
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Quote:That was your lucky day! Congrats!
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BRENDA Actually Jack. I had great luck. I got 1st place and won $10. Had 3 really good hands all over 1,000 points. Finally hand was winds and dragons.
SUX: Awesome.
BRENDA: It was.
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Did you just call me SUX?
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Got 'er done.
I was not on pace to beat the sun, but I went the last two hours without any breaks, hauling 55 bags of rock from the back of my house, all around to the front of the house and putting them down while also cutting the weed fabric.
Most of my day was spent meticulously cleaning the dirt site and then meticulously grading everything on a slope away from the house. Putting the rock down is easy. Just a lot more physical than everything else.
I'm freakin' beat.
Almost half my rock pile is gone now. I think I'm going to need more rock.
It's going to look so good after a few rains. the area where the A/C drips cleaned off the rocks and they are beautiful. So colorful. I really had no idea when they all look so brown and dirty out of the bag.
I wish I could show it to you two. Maybe when the rocks are clean I can get a shot under the siding with some of the rock and a hoasta and you can just imagine what it looks like.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:That was your lucky day! Congrats!
Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:
BRENDA Actually Jack. I had great luck. I got 1st place and won $10. Had 3 really good hands all over 1,000 points. Finally hand was winds and dragons.
SUX: Awesome.
BRENDA: It was.
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Did you just call me SUX?
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OH NO!!!!
So SORRY!!!
The "u" and "i" are right next to each other. I can't tell you the number of times Ive corrected that typo! I guess I missed one!
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Oh yeah. The I is right next to the U. I haven't even given any thought to the placement of keys for decades since I learned how to type. Back in the late 90's when I went to an office staffing temp agency that a few of the lady friends I had used the women there all couldn't believe that a guy could type 55 WPM with a .5% error rate. I've since added all the numbers and symbols above them and gotten quite a bit faster over the years just from writing all the time.
But I've seen you quote me as SUX back when we weren't agreeing on something too. You sure you're not mad at me about something still?
My old man was right. We got a ton of rain last night. Earlier this week I thought I'd have at least half a day before it started raining today, but after his warning I knew I needed to kick it into high gear and get it done.
Hopefully there isn't too much of a mess over on the other side that doesn't have any rocks yet. The tar should be dry though, so it should just be a matter of rinsing it down. I'm not worried about any dirt displacement either since I only needed to use 1 bag of topsoil on the 1st side, and the other 17 bags are for the other side that needed them. I'll probably go through them all, but if I don't I have some spots around the yard where I can use them.
I wonder if the rain really washed the rocks off? They look freakin' awesome right now while they're all wet. But yesterday I did spray a section of them with a hose and thought I'd washed them off but after they dried they were only slightly less dirty than the ones I hadn't sprayed.
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Sun came out and is drying the rocks already. They still look pretty clean. We must have gotten a good deal of rain last night. More rain incoming tonight and tomorrow, so hopefully their true look comes out by the end of the weekend.
I'm taking it easy today. I'm wrecked.
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Laundry, laundry. Not fun but has to be done.
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Laundry done and walk in. Temp is sitting at 78F right now and there is a nice breeze out.
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Im very sure I'm not mad at you.
You're like the guy in my typing ckass. He was short for a guy but bc he was built like a refrigerator and fast he was on the football team. Real nice guy, not puffed up like some of the others on the team. Anyway, he had sausages for fingers but he typed like a demon.
Me? I'm a terrible typist. No matter how much I practiced I could never get it right,I had to drop typing in HS bc it was bringing my grade down! Anyway, I mostly post from my phone, no typing involved. Between the characters being so close together, auto fill/ autocorrect and bad eyesight it makes for a lot of funny mistakes.
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Im very sure I'm not mad at you.
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You're like the guy in my typing ckass. He was short for a guy but bc he was built like a refrigerator and fast he was on the football team. Real nice guy, not puffed up like some of the others on the team. Anyway, he had sausages for fingers but he typed like a demon.
Me? I'm a terrible typist. No matter how much I practiced I could never get it right,I had to drop typing in HS bc it was bringing my grade down! Anyway, I mostly post from my phone, no typing involved. Between the characters being so close together, auto fill/ autocorrect and bad eyesight it makes for a lot of funny mistakes.
Well... the irony for me is that my Typing class DID bring my grade down. The teacher we had was real nice and cool and a group of about 5 of us probably got away with more in her class than we should have. She was gone one day and we had one of our 5 typing tests which was our only markers for our grade for the semester. It was also the final one, which was worth more than any of the others. The rest of us decided somwhere along the way that it would be a good idea to just copy Gary's work and turn it in so we could clown around while the substitute teacher was there.
Great plan, until we all got the same 5 mistakes on the paper.
I could tell that it broke her heart to do it, but we all got a Zero on that test, including Gary. Gary and I were the only ones of the five that still passed the class... With a "D". The other three had to finish it in summer school.
Despite that fact, I still tell people that the only thing I learned in 12 years of public education that made me any money in life was that one semester keyboarding class. She really was a great teacher.
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Got a new toy for my auto shop. 50% off an impact wrench that works with all of my existing batteries. Between that and my tire inflator I might have to get a bag with a good seal and keep them all in my trunk with a charged battery in case I ever get stuck with a problem on the road.
It will sure be nice using the impact wrench to change my tires and brakes in the future instead of using hand tools.
Now I just need to get a good jack instead of the crappy scissor jack that comes with the car.
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Oh, nice!
Have fun with your new toy!
I have one of those "starter batteries", just in case.
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Oh, nice!
Have fun with your new toy!
I have one of those "starter batteries", just in case.
Those are great to have. I had one of those that got quite a bit of use on one of my older cars. It had all the bells and whistles too.
But then I decided one day that it would be a good idea to use it to power a saw to cut out a stump that was too far for any of my extension cords.
Instant sparks, smoke and regret.
I don't think the battery would have been any good on it anymore though anyways. That was 10 years ago or more by now, and it was already 5 years old when I did it.
I've got a trickle charger in my car and a beast of a charger in the garage, but they wouldn't do me any good on the road. I always have my jumper cables in my trunk. I don't really drive all that much, and I never drive anywhere remotely where there isn't anybody else. I can be pretty persuasive when I need to be.
But yeah. That's been on the list of things to get. I just haven't been able to bring myself to buy one because of the price tag. The one I had was awesome, and even had a light and a AM/FM radio. It was $80 back in the mid-aughts. Can't get anything close to that for $80 these days, and usually it's not even by a brand name I've ever heard of.
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Had a problem a while ago. Couldn't post. Don't know what happened.
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Went to see Hamilton on the weekend. Loved the music and learnt a bit about US history.
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Went to see Hamilton on the weekend. Loved the music
That's nice.
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and learnt a bit about US history.
But I doubt that is a thing that happened while watching Hamilton.
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and learnt a bit about US history.
But I doubt that is a thing that happened while watching Hamilton.
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Possibly true - it’s an interpretation. But it did make me do a bit of googling about the War of Independence.
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Yeah. If you look at history books here in the US, and I'm referring to the ones that are taught to kids in public schools, just about every 5 years you'll find the text to be unrecognizable to the books that came 5 years before it.
I believe what people claim is American History just about as much as I believe that The Bible is a record of events from over 2000 years ago. (Which to note, any version of The Bible that has been translated so that I could read it is itself an interpretation of the original work)
Maybe that's where the religious types got it wrong though. Aside from the changes that were made when it was translated, the book doesn't change.
People seem to trust sites like Wikipedia and Snopes though, even though they both are run by people with an obvious bias and the information presented is extremely fluid and easy to change when doing so is convenient.
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Wiki is a reasonable place to start though - especially if you want a bit of basic information- which I didn’t have before. Not sure I’m interested enough to read the biography of Hamilton which is supposedly quite good.
In the end much of history is about the lens in which you look through - the basic facts don’t change but the view of them do- always been that way.
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Had a problem a while ago. Couldn't post. Don't know what happened.
If you couldn't reach ANY internet website, it was probably a problem with your internet service provider. We're on cable, and there was a time when our inet went out for a few hours, and while walking the dog I saw our electricity provider replacing some poles while running a (big!) generator to run the telecom and internet services because, of course, they run on electricity too. Or could be a server (DNS) problem with your ISP, especially if you got "file not found"-type error messages wherever you tried to go.
Another problem that can cause global errors is a problem with the modem and router. I don't know how you get inet access ... if you have your own modem and router and pay your own bill, or if your apartment come with jacks in the wall, or wifi provided by the apartment bldg ... but SOMEONE has a modem and router through which you reach the inet, and occasionally it gets confused and needs to be rebooted, or firmware patches need to be downloaded from your ISP.
If it was just this site ... well, this is probably a medium-sized database at this point, and every now and again it needs repacking or backing up or other maintenance.
But if your PC was misbehaving with other software ... say, you tried to save file and it garbled the contents ... then it might have been your PC. SIX would prolly be able to explain troubleshooting better than I can.
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Wiki is a reasonable place to start though - especially if you want a bit of basic information- which I didn’t have before. Not sure I’m interested enough to read the biography of Hamilton which is supposedly quite good.
In the end much of history is about the lens in which you look through - the basic facts don’t change but the view of them do- always been that way.
I find Wiki USUALLY to be a reliable source of technical info.* I used to refer to it all the time when I needed basic technial info like "How do blowout preventers work?" or "what is texanol?" but anything political or historical ... Hoo boy! It doesn't get basic facts wrong ... names, dates, etc ... but it could highly selective about WHICH facts were put in, and it would leave a crap-ton out. If I was following a specific topic I could see the content change from month to month, or even from day to day, depending on how politically active the topic was and what narrative was being pushed that month/week/day.
One of the original founders of wikipedia - Larry Sangers- has disavowed it, even as Jimmy Wales continues hawking for donations.
That is the problem with the inet's historical info: it's too fluid. Our agency was not above changing the language (on the sly) of a negotiated contract just before signing ... fortunately, one of our negotiators was a stubborn cuss who insisted on reading the whole thing word for word before signing... and the intranet version was just as fluid, so it paid to have a signed hardcopy document on-hand that couldn't be changed on a whim bc I found discrepancies between the intranet and hardcopy versions.
* Altho we did just find a technical error just yesterday. We were watching a TV show and the phrase "drift mine" came up, and the wiki definition was at odds with every other definition and every image that duckduck came up with. Clearly, wiki got it wrong on that one.
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Had a problem a while ago. Couldn't post. Don't know what happened.
If you couldn't reach ANY internet website, it was probably a problem with your internet service provider. We're on cable, and there was a time when our inet went out for a few hours, and while walking the dog I saw our electricity provider replacing some poles while running a (big!) generator to run the telecom and internet services because, of course, they run on electricity too. Or could be a server (DNS) problem with your ISP, especially if you got "file not found"-type error messages wherever you tried to go.
Another problem that can cause global errors is a problem with the modem and router. I don't know how you get inet access ... if you have your own modem and router and pay your own bill, or if your apartment come with jacks in the wall, or wifi provided by the apartment bldg ... but SOMEONE has a modem and router through which you reach the inet, and occasionally it gets confused and needs to be rebooted, or firmware patches need to be downloaded from your ISP.
If it was just this site ... well, this is probably a medium-sized database at this point, and every now and again it needs repacking or backing up or other maintenance.
But if your PC was misbehaving with other software ... say, you tried to save file and it garbled the contents ... then it might have been your PC. SIX would prolly be able to explain troubleshooting better than I can.
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No, it was just here. Not sure how long it lasted or whatever.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Had a problem a while ago. Couldn't post. Don't know what happened.
If you couldn't reach ANY internet website, it was probably a problem with your internet service provider. We're on cable, and there was a time when our inet went out for a few hours, and while walking the dog I saw our electricity provider replacing some poles while running a (big!) generator to run the telecom and internet services because, of course, they run on electricity too. Or could be a server (DNS) problem with your ISP, especially if you got "file not found"-type error messages wherever you tried to go.
Another problem that can cause global errors is a problem with the modem and router. I don't know how you get inet access ... if you have your own modem and router and pay your own bill, or if your apartment come with jacks in the wall, or wifi provided by the apartment bldg ... but SOMEONE has a modem and router through which you reach the inet, and occasionally it gets confused and needs to be rebooted, or firmware patches need to be downloaded from your ISP.
If it was just this site ... well, this is probably a medium-sized database at this point, and every now and again it needs repacking or backing up or other maintenance.
But if your PC was misbehaving with other software ... say, you tried to save file and it garbled the contents ... then it might have been your PC. SIX would prolly be able to explain troubleshooting better than I can.
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It wasn't Brenda. It was the site.
I'd thought it kind of strange how little post activity happened last night, until the site hung up on me at one point and I gave up. Later I went back to try to post somewhere and the thread would come up, but when I tried to make a post one of those database errors came up.
This morning it was good though.
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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Wiki is a reasonable place to start though - especially if you want a bit of basic information- which I didn’t have before. Not sure I’m interested enough to read the biography of Hamilton which is supposedly quite good.
In the end much of history is about the lens in which you look through - the basic facts don’t change but the view of them do- always been that way.
I find Wiki USUALLY to be a reliable source of technical info.* I used to refer to it all the time when I needed basic technial info like "How do blowout preventers work?" or "what is texanol?" but anything political or historical ... Hoo boy! It doesn't get basic facts wrong ... names, dates, etc ... but it could highly selective about WHICH facts were put in, and it would leave a crap-ton out. If I was following a specific topic I could see the content change from month to month, or even from day to day, depending on how politically active the topic was and what narrative was being pushed that month/week/day.
One of the original founders of wikipedia - Larry Sangers- has disavowed it, even as Jimmy Wales continues hawking for donations.
That is the problem with the inet's historical info: it's too fluid. Our agency was not above changing the language (on the sly) of a negotiated contract just before signing ... fortunately, one of our negotiators was a stubborn cuss who insisted on reading the whole thing word for word before signing... and the intranet version was just as fluid, so it paid to have a signed hardcopy document on-hand that couldn't be changed on a whim bc I found discrepancies between the intranet and hardcopy versions.
* Altho we did just find a technical error just yesterday. We were watching a TV show and the phrase "drift mine" came up, and the wiki definition was at odds with every other definition and every image that duckduck came up with. Clearly, wiki got it wrong on that one.
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That's as good an explanation of Wikipedia as I've ever read before.
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Well, today was another somewhat productive day. Aside from the usual dog-walking and KP duties, I gave the dog a bath and hubby helped me trim her nails (she needs to be mummy-wrapped for the nail-clipping part). She hides when she hears me run water in the laundrey tub. Today I had to drag her out from under the kitchen table, and she gives me a look that would melt a heart of stone. Sorry pup ... you itch, your fur is dirty, and you need a bath and nail trim!
And then I cut hubby's hair and trimmed his beard and 'stache. He's quite a handsome guy!
Would you believe I've been "brushing" the dog's teeth most evenings for over a month? I found that a small piece of gauze wrappped around my finger with doggy-toothpaste embedded in it works well and isn't too large for her small mouth. Ever since she has her teeth cleaned and had 7 (!!) teeth extracted I've been trying to keep up with her dental hygiene ... who knew dogs had such needs?? She gives me that pleading look, and the tip of her tail vibrates with the same beseech ... "Please can you NOT brush my teeth???" ... but I think the toothpaste actually tastes pretty good to her and she's getting used to it. Altho I have to dig around in her mouth a bit to find the back molars.
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Grooming is mowing the lawn, but for people. (And dogs too)
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Just waiting to watch the prequel to "Game of Thrones". tv mag said it was suppose to start at 8pm and the guide on my tv says 9:30pm. I just hope the dang show starts tonight.
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My aunt came over yesterday without my Grandma because we had to do some work on her retirement stuff and we did some warehouse store shopping. She'd never been in one before and I got her a membership. I'm slowly working on her to start budgeting and saving because she's set to get a pretty good SS monthly check when she retires late and should have a very easy time getting by with it if she can make some better choices with what she does with the money.
She got a chance to see the rocks that I put down and is amazed. She can't wait to come back soon with Grams and show her the whole thing once I've got it done.
The old man might be coming by as early as tomorrow afternoon. Not the best time for me, but he really wants to see it and it might be the only opportunity he has this week to make it.
That means I'd better haul ass today. I want to have the entire front done before he gets here, and with how muddy the work is going to be after all that rain I'd rather not be finishing that up tomorrow morning before he gets here.
If I have my way, all 5 tons of river rock I bought on sale back in March will finally be in place by dusk.
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Site's been wonky all day by me.
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Ah, it's back!
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We're back? Maybe?
Got all the grading and rocks in the front done. I didn't use nearly as many bags of topsoil as I thought I would have so far. The area by the front and the other side of the house is quite tricky as far as drainage and grading, and I need to account for the pooling that would happen from the side and wrap around the front to the porch. Because I need the level of the dirt to be low at the decorative barrier, I was able to use a lot of the dirt at the end of the hoasta beds to pull up toward the foundation. It won't be ideal, but at least water would pool up about 8 to 10 feet down and away from the foundation instead of right next to it.
I couldn't put all the rock down in the front yet because I'm going to have to make some adjustments over on the far end after I fix the cracked concrete slab and do my drainage grading on that side. However I did a bit of cleanup over there that I wasn't expecting to do with my time yesterday. There was an old, cracked half covered stone barrier over there that I yanked out. It would have been right where the old beat up chain link fence was before I ripped it out. One less thing I need to do as I wrap my way around to the back porch area into the Bermuda Triangle.
It looks like they're calling for rain now on both Thursday and Friday, although the amount of rain is significantly lower than they were predicting before. I think today I'm going to at least dig down to the bottom of the shed slab to clean it up and get watertite seal in there. It needs 72 hours to dry before I can cover it with tar. I don't really need to tar a slab, but it will look better since it joins with the cinder block wall of the porch and I want that clean black look all around the foundation.
After that, I'll probably mow my front lawn. Maybe the back if there's time.
My old man is coming in the afternoon, and after spending the last 3 hours last night without a break in a race against the sun again I don't mind having an easier day today.
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Out for my walk in a bit. Got a referral for some physio from my doc yesterday. I messed up my right shoulder over a month ago and thought it was getting better. But it's not completely. So, I had to go to my doc and he examined it, sent me for x-rays and gave me the referral. I am off to see about that as well as hit the library. Later peeps.
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Back from walk and waiting for a call from the physio office I went into.
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Got the call from the physio office and have an appointment for September 29. Had to laugh at the receptionist then explain why I was laughing. It's my birthday. But I am also on their wait list so I could get in earlier.
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Supper tonight is my version of a Spanish rice dish called a paella. I think I have the spelling right.
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Quote:At one time my right shoulder was hurting, and x-ray showed a possible torn rotator cuff. Since I was playing tennis a the time maybe that's what happened.
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Out for my walk in a bit. Got a referral for some physio from my doc yesterday. I messed up my right shoulder over a month ago and thought it was getting better. But it's not completely. So, I had to go to my doc and he examined it, sent me for x-rays and gave me the referral. I am off to see about that as well as hit the library. Later peeps.
But now my LEFT shoulder hurts, same problem,but I'm not playing tennis or throwing bball, so WTH? There's no fix for it. Shoulder surgery I'm told is complicated with a long recovery and I don't need that. Plus it seems ALL of my tendons are weak...DXd with tendonitis, tendonitis, etc in most of my major joints.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Out for my walk in a bit. Got a referral for some physio from my doc yesterday. I messed up my right shoulder over a month ago and thought it was getting better. But it's not completely. So, I had to go to my doc and he examined it, sent me for x-rays and gave me the referral. I am off to see about that as well as hit the library. Later peeps.
But now my LEFT shoulder hurts, same problem,but I'm not playing tennis or throwing bball, so WTH? There's no fix for it. Shoulder surgery I'm told is complicated with a long recovery and I don't need that. Plus it seems ALL of my tendons are weak...DXd with tendonitis, tendonitis, etc in most of my major joints.
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There is a chance that I have damaged my rotator cuff and maybe even arthritis in the shoulder joint itself. That's why the x-ray the doctor said. The poor technician yesterday wanted a certain view of my shoulder but couldn't get it as my right arm wouldn't do what he wanted it to and he had to give up.
The physio will help get my mobility back and may be able to suggest some exercises I can do on my own. My new family doctor doesn't want to go with shots and I agree with him. Though the doctor said I have good arm strength when he stress tested both my arms. So, that's something.
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Cool visit with Dad. Blown away by the updates.
With some rain in the forecast, I probably shouldn't have had him over and I should have been working, but it's not every day that he tells me he wants to come over without me throwing out an invite first.
I needed it though. Back to the salt mines tomorrow.
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Have either of you tried reducing gluten in your diet?
I know it sounds like some hippie mumbo jumbo, but I finally got my old man to do it a few years back. He complained about joint pain all the time and was taking that Osteo Bi-Flex (Which is for Osteoarthritis) for years to deal with it. But all that harping on him about it must have stuck in his craw because when he had a medical procedure coming up and he didn't eat anything solid for 3 days he called me up and told me that his joint pain was basically gone. I used that opportunity to talk him into cutting the unnecessary gluten from his diet and he listened this time.
For two or three years now he hasn't even used Osteo Bi-Flex and whenever I ask about it he says all that joint pain he was living with is gone.
He hasn't cut it completely out of his diet, but he says he probably only eats about 20% as much as he did before.
It also didn't help his back problem or his hip pain. He's since gotten a good mattress to take care of the back pain, but he probably needs to have hip surgery eventually. Going gluten free isn't magic that will fix any serious damage, but maybe in the case of both of your shoulder pains it might reduce or even get rid of the pain over the course of a week or two. Especially if it's arthritis related.
It's not easy at all going completely gluten free, but maybe you can will yourself to try it for a few weeks and if the pain gets better you can go back to gluten in lesser quantity and see how that goes?
Even I'm not truly gluten free anymore. It was easy to do when I was a hermit, but once I started hanging out with friends and family again that was a burden I didn't want to put on anybody else. I had actually done it once or twice and realized how awkward it was to put somebody who was preparing a meal for me to tell them what I would and wouldn't eat. It's not as if I had a doctor's order to stop eating gluten. It just works.
And besides... On the rare occasion I do eat a pizza or some great Italian food, it tastes 100 times better than it used to when I ate that stuff all the time.
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Alright...
Time to get out to my shed and clean that crack up so I can put the cement patch in there.
There's nothing I can do about the fact it's not level anymore, but hopefully this will keep it from shifting along with the watertite seal I put out there yesterday.
Had to make a long trip last night to another store to get the stuff since the one by me didn't carry it, and because of how potentially serious this issue is I didn't want to just go the easy route and get some inferior stuff that's easier to acquire. Hopefully I use at least part of the 2nd bag or else I'll have to find another reason or two to drive that far again to return the 2nd bag.
Rain moved up a day and there's no way I'll have anything ready to seal up by tomorrow, but now we're not getting any on Friday and it's only .10 inches tomorrow, so I should be fine just covering up the work area with some old plywood.
I'll need to be busy this weekend though because it looks like were in for a decent sized thunderstorm on Monday that wasn't in the forecast.
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Have either of you tried reducing gluten in your diet?
Yes, I did. I took gluten out of my diet for quite a few months. The only thing I got out of it was an allergy to rice and potato. I was also tested for wheat gluten sensitivity as well as sensitivity to the two compounds that react to form gluten (gliadin and glutenin) and was negative. In fact, it was only after I had extensive allergy testing that showed I was alergic to potatoes and rice but not gluten, gliadin or glutenin, that I switched back to wheat.
:-)
I have a crapton of food allergies and dozens, literally, of environmental allergies (you should see my allergen report!) as well as a possible autoimmune issue for which I've been Rxd medication. I suspect that all of these tendon issues are either a mild autoimmune attack on my collagen (set off by a round of levaquin antibiotic) or a result of one or several of my many food allergies. And for all that my immune system is hyperactive, it's all misdirected since I used to get frequent sinus infections, asthma attacks, and, of course, cancer.
Curiously, when I was on chemo one positive side effect was that my joints stopped hurting. That could either have been one of the chemo agents or the steroids they were giving me to counteract the chemo agents.
I suppose I could possibly narrow it down to whether it was a food allergy by going on a three-day fast. Unfortunately it wouldn't tell me which food I was reacting to, and I sometimes think I react to the solinaceae (tomato, potato, eggplant = tested +allergy).
One thing I didn't win was the DNA lottery.
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My body needs gluten as I have low blood sugar. Foods missing ingredients isn't good for me as my body has nothing to work with. And I have tried eating gluten free things and have felt terrible afterwards.
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Anyways off for my walk in a bit. Need lunch for mah jong tomorrow. Nothing good on the menu. Hope the physio calls me early.
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Quote:er... if you have low blood sugar the answer is glucose, not gluten. Glucose is a sugar. Gluten is a protein found in wheat and closely-related grains like barley and rye, and primitive forms of wheat like spelt. (Oatmeal, rice, and corn are OK. https://www.livestrong.com/article/522560-gluten-content-of-grains/) Entirely different things.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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My body needs gluten as I have low blood sugar. Foods missing ingredients isn't good for me as my body has nothing to work with. And I have tried eating gluten free things and have felt terrible afterwards.
But if you react badly to gluten-free foods (Most foods are gluten-free, and include rice, potatoes, oatmeal, corn, quinoa, fruits, vegetables, meats, nuts and dairy products) that would be worth pursuing, since many foods specifically made to be gluten-free (gluten-free pancakes, cookies, breads, and flours) tend to have additives that you could be reacting to and should definitely be avoided.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:er... if you have low blood sugar the answer is glucose, not gluten. Glucose is a sugar. Gluten is a protein found in wheat and closely-related grains like barley and rye, and primitive forms of wheat like spelt. (Oatmeal, rice, and corn are OK. https://www.livestrong.com/article/522560-gluten-content-of-grains/) Entirely different things.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
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Have either of you tried reducing gluten in your diet?
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My body needs gluten as I have low blood sugar. Foods missing ingredients isn't good for me as my body has nothing to work with. And I have tried eating gluten free things and have felt terrible afterwards.
But if you react badly to gluten-free foods (Most foods are gluten-free, and include rice, potatoes, oatmeal, corn, quinoa, fruits, vegetables, meats, nuts and dairy products) that would be worth pursuing, since many foods specifically made to be gluten-free (gluten-free pancakes, cookies, breads, and flours) tend to have additives that you could be reacting to and should definitely be avoided.
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I do watch my sugar intake as I have to be careful about eating too much. I use unprocessed sugar in the morning in my coffee then during the rest of the day, I have a certain amount of sugar.
Sorry, I should have really said foods that are made gluten-free, like sausages that have no binders in them like say bread crumbs or baked goods made with different kinds of flour. Those I avoid.
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Back from my walk and lunch got along with getting the garbage and some recycling out.
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No way I was going to finish what I wanted to today. It took hours to excavate that crack with chisels, brushes and screwdrivers.
I pulled 40 lbs of sand out of there easily, so the 20lbs of patch I bought isn't going to cut it.
Cleaned the whole shed up and it looks nicer from the inside than it ever has before. Got some crap clogging up my garage now, but it shouldn't be too much in the way until I get this done.
Going to get up early and get my supplies tomorrow morning and at least get a slurry coat down at the bottom of the crack early enough that it will stay put if the rain in the PM ends up being more than they thought it might be.
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What kind of crack are you talking about, and what does it indicate, SIX? Just curious..
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Back from my walk and lunch got along with getting the garbage and some recycling out.
Well, I'm not sure I've even done that much. For some reason I just couldn't get my rear in gear.
I DID try a new recipe for pork tenderloin today. It was more northern Italian and included bacon, sage, parsley, white wine, onion, garlic, sun dried tomato, broth and cream. I wasn't sure how it would turn out and so far the family hasn't been impressed with similar recipes. Since I can't smell a thing, I have no idea how it tastes but family wasn't impressed with this recipe either. I'd have to do something wildly different with it; ditch the tomato, ramp up the garlic or something but as it is it's OK at best
Well, better luck next time!
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I am off to mah jong in the morning. Hoping for good luck but we shall see.
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What kind of crack are you talking about, and what does it indicate, SIX? Just curious..
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It was here when I bought the place. It got bigger during the years of negligence. Now that I'm getting quite intimate with the entire foundation of the house, I'm pretty sure that this was a major contributor to the structural issues I was having.
It hasn't gotten any worse since I got the raccoons out and put the gutters up. I've got photographic evidence of that to compare it to.
Shoring up the grade and fixing the crack is only the first thing I'm doing out there. I've got a few things planned. Might actually be able to reverse some of the damage instead of building around it if it goes right.
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Damn... Rain came in early. Glad I had the foresight to put the board up outside to cover the exposed crack that I patched before I wrapped up. I even second-guessed that move because it wasn't supposed to rain until the afternoon.
Looks like a lazy day for me now. Biggest thing on my plate is putting out the trash bins before they come and pick them up.
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Quote:Is it a crack between the shed and foundation, indicating that the whole shed floor is sinking? ( Or alternately, the house was floating?) Or across the floor of the shed, ditto?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
What kind of crack are you talking about, and what does it indicate, SIX? Just curious..
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It was here when I bought the place. It got bigger during the years of negligence. Now that I'm getting quite intimate with the entire foundation of the house, I'm pretty sure that this was a major contributor to the structural issues I was having.
It hasn't gotten any worse since I got the raccoons out and put the gutters up. I've got photographic evidence of that to compare it to.
Shoring up the grade and fixing the crack is only the first thing I'm doing out there. I've got a few things planned. Might actually be able to reverse some of the damage instead of building around it if it goes right.
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I think once you repaired the drain pipe that was dumping sump water back around your foundation, graded away from the house and put up gutters and long drain pipes (whatever they're called) you went a long way to solving your foundation issues. Good on you!
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:Is it a crack between the shed and foundation, indicating that the whole shed floor is sinking? ( Or alternately, the house was floating?) Or across the floor of the shed, ditto?
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Originally posted by SignyM:
What kind of crack are you talking about, and what does it indicate, SIX? Just curious..
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It was here when I bought the place. It got bigger during the years of negligence. Now that I'm getting quite intimate with the entire foundation of the house, I'm pretty sure that this was a major contributor to the structural issues I was having.
It hasn't gotten any worse since I got the raccoons out and put the gutters up. I've got photographic evidence of that to compare it to.
Shoring up the grade and fixing the crack is only the first thing I'm doing out there. I've got a few things planned. Might actually be able to reverse some of the damage instead of building around it if it goes right.
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The crack is roughly in the center of the slab for the shed, which is on the far end of the addition after the cinderblock wall underneath the porch (the house is solid poured concrete foundation, thank god). The crack is (roughly) perpendicular to the cinderblock wall about 1ft away from it. (Incidentally, the raccoons were getting in underneath the siding in between these two structures that really aren't joined well, then they climed up the shed, went into the porch attic and got into the house attic. This has all been blocked up for years now.
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I think once you repaired the drain pipe that was dumping sump water back around your foundation, graded away from the house and put up gutters and long drain pipes (whatever they're called) you went a long way to solving your foundation issues. Good on you!
Yup. All of that plus killing off the moles that were making the tunnels along the foundation, killing all the ants (including those terrible carpenter ants), putting up windows and proper siding so water wasn't leaking behind the porch walls and destroying everything, and killing off the Maple Trees I'd planted close to the house when my idiot neighbor who gave me the hoastas told me they were Rose of Sharon and my dumb ass believed her. I think I finally dug out the stumps for those 2 or 3 summers ago so they couldn't build any more shoots and stay alive.
And also right now I'm putting in those grates to keep the moles from making any more foundation tunnels if and when they manage to make their way back up there and strategically grading all the dirt down from the walls before putting the rock in.
Hard to pin down exactly what went so terribly wrong when I was letting every possible bad scenario play out all at once.
P.S. I did just check outside and the slab is going to be fine. Not all that much more rain expected today. Although it will be sporadic and ruin any working plans, it won't pool up in that pit I dug to get to the outside edge of the crack for repairs.
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Back from mah jong and just a terrible morning. Last week I couldn't hardly do anything wrong. Today, I could hardly get out of the starting blocks. Took me most of the morning to break 1,000points. Mind there were 4 people playing at my table. Almost had the booby prize but one of the ladies I was playing with only had 900points, so it went to her. Oh well. Maybe next week.
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Spontaneous visit from my buddy today with very little warning.
Had to go to the store to buy the supplies to jack up the shed and replace the bad sill plate. I only asked him yesterday and he's so booked up I thought it might take weeks. $25 and 2.5 hours work and one more major potential catastrophe in the rearview.
Heck... I don't even know if I mentioned that problem here yet this all happened so fast. We're getting to be pros at jacking up structures to fix them. This is my 4th one now.
Perfect that this was done before the door went up. I was going to have to do it with his Dad before we put the door up if he couldn't make it in time, but now I'll be able to have his dad help me with some tricky electrical final touches with that time instead.
That sill plate was so bad. Wood rot from water damage and the half of the bottoms completely hollowed out by ants. Now I've got proper green board under there, and I'll make sure everything is wrapped up tight and water never makes it back in there.
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Quote:There will be days like that When I used to play cards at work- rummy, or gin rummy, or bridge- I had some losing streaks that lasted weeks!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and just a terrible morning. Last week I couldn't hardly do anything wrong. Today, I could hardly get out of the starting blocks. Took me most of the morning to break 1,000points. Mind there were 4 people playing at my table. Almost had the booby prize but one of the ladies I was playing with only had 900points, so it went to her. Oh well. Maybe next week.
I really preferred Scrabble.
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Quote:So, I'm puzzled. How do you jack up a structure if the sill plate is rotten? Don't you need to lift it by the sill plate?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Spontaneous visit from my buddy today with very little warning.
Had to go to the store to buy the supplies to jack up the shed and replace the bad sill plate. I only asked him yesterday and he's so booked up I thought it might take weeks. $25 and 2.5 hours work and one more major potential catastrophe in the rearview.
Heck... I don't even know if I mentioned that problem here yet this all happened so fast. We're getting to be pros at jacking up structures to fix them. This is my 4th one now.
Perfect that this was done before the door went up. I was going to have to do it with his Dad before we put the door up if he couldn't make it in time, but now I'll be able to have his dad help me with some tricky electrical final touches with that time instead.
That sill plate was so bad. Wood rot from water damage and the half of the bottoms completely hollowed out by ants. Now I've got proper green board under there, and I'll make sure everything is wrapped up tight and water never makes it back in there.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and just a terrible morning. Last week I couldn't hardly do anything wrong. Today, I could hardly get out of the starting blocks. Took me most of the morning to break 1,000points. Mind there were 4 people playing at my table. Almost had the booby prize but one of the ladies I was playing with only had 900points, so it went to her. Oh well. Maybe next week.
That sounds like when I play UpWords with my grandma and half the game I'm sitting on either all consonants or all vowels.
Can't win 'em all when there's luck involved.
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:There will be days like that When I used to play cards at work- rummy, or gin rummy, or bridge- I had some losing streaks that lasted weeks!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and just a terrible morning. Last week I couldn't hardly do anything wrong. Today, I could hardly get out of the starting blocks. Took me most of the morning to break 1,000points. Mind there were 4 people playing at my table. Almost had the booby prize but one of the ladies I was playing with only had 900points, so it went to her. Oh well. Maybe next week.
I really preferred Scrabble.
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I've had that happen too. So close to winds and dragons again but was stuck with a couple of tiles that I couldn't get rid of.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and just a terrible morning. Last week I couldn't hardly do anything wrong. Today, I could hardly get out of the starting blocks. Took me most of the morning to break 1,000points. Mind there were 4 people playing at my table. Almost had the booby prize but one of the ladies I was playing with only had 900points, so it went to her. Oh well. Maybe next week.
That sounds like when I play UpWords with my grandma and half the game I'm sitting on either all consonants or all vowels.
Can't win 'em all when there's luck involved.
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No, you can't. Was close to winds and dragons again today but I got stuck with a couple of tiles that I couldn't get rid of.
When you can't get the tiles there isn't anything you can do.
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Suppose to get rain where I am tomorrow and into Saturday. Will just have to see if it arrives.
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:So, I'm puzzled. How do you jack up a structure if the sill plate is rotten? Don't you need to lift it by the sill plate?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Spontaneous visit from my buddy today with very little warning.
Had to go to the store to buy the supplies to jack up the shed and replace the bad sill plate. I only asked him yesterday and he's so booked up I thought it might take weeks. $25 and 2.5 hours work and one more major potential catastrophe in the rearview.
Heck... I don't even know if I mentioned that problem here yet this all happened so fast. We're getting to be pros at jacking up structures to fix them. This is my 4th one now.
Perfect that this was done before the door went up. I was going to have to do it with his Dad before we put the door up if he couldn't make it in time, but now I'll be able to have his dad help me with some tricky electrical final touches with that time instead.
That sill plate was so bad. Wood rot from water damage and the half of the bottoms completely hollowed out by ants. Now I've got proper green board under there, and I'll make sure everything is wrapped up tight and water never makes it back in there.
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Nope! Bottle Jacks are awesome.
We had three of them at our disposal. We used two of them with 2x4 studs along the far edge of the shed under the header (perpindicular to the crack). Those didn't move the entire time. The third one was moved from front to back further away from the wall using a "T" we made out of 2x4's that spanned two of the ceiling joists at a time.
We only needed to lift everything up a hair to get it high enough that we could cut out the bad pieces and knock the new green boards in with a mallet before tying everything together.
It's actually NOT all tied together yet because I have two more pieces to do that don't require jacks.
Once I get those replaced this morning I'm going to go a little crazy with the nails and rust-proof decking screws to get it all rock solid. Then I'm going to double up on some spots in between studs with another green 2x4 on top of the new plate. There's also some damage on several spots of the plywood wall like there was in the garage, so I'll be using some green 2x6 boards flat against the wall and then sealing everything with caulk like I did in the garage.
Oh... And I'm going to have to tap into the slab with my concrete bits and my hammer drill so I can get some heavy duty concrete screws down through the plate into the concrete. The far wall had some rusty old railroad spikes doing that job (poorly), and the bolts that were on the ground for the two plates on either side of the door were so rusty that they all sheared off when I took my wrench to them even after letting it marinate with some Liquid Wrench an hour before we got started. I had to just cut those bolts completely with a metal sawzall blade.
So hopefully I can finish all of that and finish cleaning the crack and get the first application of the vinyl concrete patch in there to dry overnight.
Oh... P.S. I was really happy that the entire fix was costing me under $20 until I needed to rip my 8 foot 2x8 green board in half for the last piece. I did have plans for that. I didn't want to pay the SIXTEEN FREAKIN DOLLARS that they wanted for an 8ft 2x4 green board after paying almost $5 per stud for the jacks, so I went with three 3ft green 2x4s for $0.89 each and it was too short for the last piece we needed. :(
Still. Totally worth it. And the price of lumber will come down so I'm sure I can replace that board down the line before I need it for way cheaper than the current prices are anyhow.
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Out for my walk in a bit. Things to do and it's not sure if it wants to rain or not. So, I shall go out prepared.
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Bear wtih me, SIX, I'm slow ... So, you disconnected the studs from the sill plate where it was bad and lifted just a hair using the header? That way you could knock out the sill plate where it was bad, and knock in a replacement. Then you nailed or screwed (using rust proof nails and screws) the studs back onto the (new) sill plate. And now you intend to re-attach the (new) sill plate to the foundation. Is that abut right?
Thanks for the explanation!
PS: $16 for a fricken 8' 2X4?!?!
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Back from my walk and everything done. Even made a dental appointment to get some more work done. Turns out my insurance isn't maxed out and with medical covering some and me, it will be okay. Got my last refill of thyroid done too.
There was some rain when I got off a bus to go to the pharmacy and the dentist.
The dentist was a spur of the moment thing just to ask a question but with the info, I thought why not.
Also bought a second hand Dr. Who book at a little store in the same area.
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Back from my walk and everything done. Even made a dental appointment to get some more work done. Turns out my insurance isn't maxed out and with medical covering some and me, it will be okay. Got my last refill of thyroid done too.
There was some rain when I got off a bus to go to the pharmacy and the dentist.
The dentist was a spur of the moment thing just to ask a question but with the info, I thought why not.
Also bought a second hand Dr. Who book at a little store in the same area.
Well that's good news on the inurance! And you got your refills and a new book too. Sounds like a good day, Brenda!
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Just saw my cardiologist bc I'm in the home stretch of my infusions (just two more months) one of which is cardiotoxic. But so far, so good. I learned that they will monitor me for a year following the end of treatment (MORE Dr appts!!) but since she considers me to be in generally good health (REALLY?? She must see some really sick people!) any negative effects should reverse in a few weeks. That was good to hear
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from my walk and everything done. Even made a dental appointment to get some more work done. Turns out my insurance isn't maxed out and with medical covering some and me, it will be okay. Got my last refill of thyroid done too.
There was some rain when I got off a bus to go to the pharmacy and the dentist.
The dentist was a spur of the moment thing just to ask a question but with the info, I thought why not.
Also bought a second hand Dr. Who book at a little store in the same area.
Well that's good news on the inurance! And you got your refills and a new book too. Sounds like a good day, Brenda!
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It was a good day.
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Just saw my cardiologist bc I'm in the home stretch of my infusions (just two more months) one of which is cardiotoxic. But so far, so good. I learned that they will monitor me for a year following the end of treatment (MORE Dr appts!!) but since she considers me to be in generally good health (REALLY?? She must see some really sick people!) any negative effects should reverse in a few weeks. That was good to hear
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That's good news for you too, SIG.
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Also got a call today from my doctor's office about the x-ray he ordered for my right shoulder. There is no arthritis in the shoulder joint and no tears in the rotator cuff. So good news there as well.
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Found the first episode of series 7 of Shetland on YouTube yesterday and started watching it today.
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Bear wtih me, SIX, I'm slow ... So, you disconnected the studs from the sill plate where it was bad and lifted just a hair using the header? That way you could knock out the sill plate where it was bad, and knock in a replacement. Then you nailed or screwed (using rust proof nails and screws) the studs back onto the (new) sill plate. And now you intend to re-attach the (new) sill plate to the foundation. Is that abut right?
Yeah. You got it. I disconnected the studs using a metal cutting saw blade to shear the old nails after it was jacked up. I actually did it again on my own with my single bottle jack to take out the last old piece. It really wasn't all that bad, but there was some ant damage so I'm still glad I did it.
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Thanks for the explanation!
Yep.
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PS: $16 for a fricken 8' 2X4?!?!
I know, right? "Only" 5 bucks for regular studs, but green board prices around here are disgusting right now.
Speaking of which, I need to see if I can get a 3ft length of 2x6" green tonight. (I need 22" and if there are any 3ft or under lengths in the "value wood", it will only cost me .89 cents) I used 2x6 as plates up against the walls over the new sill to cover up any wall damage and then caulked everything with watertite like I did in the garage. The only section that is missing a board now doesn't actually need it, but I want everything uniform. Also, it gives something for me to screw into outside. I'm going to make sure the wall under the siding is tight to the new wood.
I already replaced J channel on the side of the overhead shed door in back, but I have to replace the entire length on the side too. The old one was nailed into the rotted sill plate and fell off last night. Thing weighed about 20lbs because of how much dirt and moss was in it. I've got 4 or 5 more 12ft lengths of the stuff from when I did the windows next year, so tomorrow I'll get a new one up there.
Still didn't get to any concrete repair, but as long as I get my shopping done tonight and I can get everything I need, I don't think it should take me past mid-afternoon to get everything else done so I can get back to giving that crack a deep clean and at least get the slurry coat of patch down at the bottom of the crack.
Finger's crossed!
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Just saw my cardiologist bc I'm in the home stretch of my infusions (just two more months) one of which is cardiotoxic. But so far, so good. I learned that they will monitor me for a year following the end of treatment (MORE Dr appts!!) but since she considers me to be in generally good health (REALLY?? She must see some really sick people!) any negative effects should reverse in a few weeks. That was good to hear
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Well that all sounds good.
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