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Quote:Freeze warning already???? I mean, we're still a long way from T-day!
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Didn't get to too much house cleaning today. I'll probably get some done, but after being out in the cold and depressing wind most of the day I'm really not feeling it.
I finished cleaning up the garage, wrapped up the A/C unit for the year, turned off the spigots, and put the final light switch in the porch. I had to run to the store to get one since the only one I had was a damn 3 way switch I don't even know why I have. I think some idiot returned it in the regular box and only got $2 back for a $6 switch and I got stuck with it somehow.
Oh well...
I actually slept in until almost 9AM this morning. I can't even remember the last day I wasn't up before 7:30 or earlier.
I'm glad warmer weather is still making a comeback. I hate winter. :(
ETA: Wow. Glad I took the time to do the winterization today. I was just doing it out of convenience since I'm done painting and didn't need the hose after I finished using it today. I just checked the weather and there's a freeze warning tonight.
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Speaking of which... Belated happy T-day, BRENDA! One of my other Canadian friends sent me some pix from Algonquin Natl Park... apparently the fall colors are spectacular this year.
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Freeze warning already???? I mean, we're still a long way from T-day!
Yeah... My once beautiful October forecast has looked worse and worse every single day I refresh the page.
We've gone from what was supposed to be about 10 more days in the 70's to zero days in the 70's and about 5 days in the 60's, with the rest of them in the 50's and 40's.
Bad news for me, but hopefully states like Wisconsin and Michigan are getting this BS early too so they can all be reminded about what Joe*'s policies are going to do to their wallets for 2 straight years before election day.
I told my dad to dress warm tomorrow. I don't care if half the nights for the rest of the month are going to be in the 30's, the heat doesn't come on until November 1st.
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Speaking of which... Belated happy T-day, BRENDA! One of my other Canadian friends sent me some pix from Algonquin Natl Park... apparently the fall colors are spectacular this year.
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Thanks SIG. I bet they are.
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It's supposed to be sunny at least today, so hopefully I get some of that radiant heat in my windows. I know that taking all the old blinds off and having that vinyl privacy film up really helps keep the house warmer.
My heat system is hugely inefficient, but at least the insulation seems to be pretty decent. Wind was howling all day yesterday into the night. It was 63 degrees around 3PM on my thermostat yesterday, and this morning it's 60 degrees even though it dropped to freezing last night.
60 today, 50's this weekend, 40's on Mon through Wed, then (hopefully) back up to 60's for 5 days straight.
The party is pretty much over after that though. :(
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My friend's dad still isn't out of the woods. I can't believe they haven't looked at his lung yet to see if the spots went away after the antibiotics. Still don't know if they're going to put in a stint or fullblown bypass surgery on his heart. Still walking around with a life vest on.
He's not going crazy doing work, but he's still out helping my friend on his house quite a bit. I really wish they'd work faster to get him where he needs to be so he doesn't hurt himself in the mean time. He's not the type to sit around all day long every day, so when they tell him he should be walking and doing mild exercise every day he translates that as he should be working on a house.
Even though what I still needed him for is very light work, I don't even want him to come out until he gets treatment, even if he offered it. I'm going to have to do the next part on my own.
I've got to help my friend this weekend and probably finally have my aunt and grandma over if they can make it, but next week I'm going to attempt to cut and install those window jambs on my own. It will take me forever to do, but I think it will be better if I do it alone on my own time so I'm allowed to let my perfectionism take over rather than get it done in half a day when my friend's dad is here.
Once that's done, I can finally get the window trim up.
But then the real tricky part is going to be fabricating the parting stops for the door. As many tools as I have on me, I don't think I really have the right tools to do that. They're not straight cuts and need to be thicker at the top of the door than at the bottom because of how the drywall sits on top of the uneven surface of the structure. It doesn't have to be perfect because caulk is king, but it's got to be at least workable.
I can't put the door trim up until that's done, and I can't put the baseboard up until the door trim is up. And I can't put the flooring down until all of that is done.
Usually, you'd put the baseboard a little high to put the flooring under it, but that's not going to happen out here. Things are too uneven for that given the massive amount of settling that's occurred. I have carpet tiles, but I'll need to get about 10 more to do the entire floor. The ones I got at the dollar store and have used as floor mats and to protect my back car seat when I put things on them are right width, but aren't thick enough to match them. I don't care about the colors of the center tiles if I can't match them because I decided that I am going to put my grandma's oriental rug down in the center of the room. I'm glad I didn't throw it out when I threw out a bunch of junk I had in my garage rafters in the spring.
It's all very exciting, but I have to admit it was nice taking a 1/4 day off yesterday and after cleaning today I'll just be able to relax and visit with my dad.
But I did obligate myself to helping my neighbor get their fridge and stove out to their garage tonight. Oy!
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What's a "life vest"?
Stenting is relatively easy: they just thread what is basically a coiled spring up the femoral artery (up from the groin) and when it reaches its destination they (somehow) release the coiled stent and it springs open and opens up the blood vessel. Possibly the blocked area(s) are too numerous and/or too large and marginal for stenting, but then they have to go to open-heart surgery which is considerably riskier.
But they prolly wouldn't consider surgery until his lung issue is resolved. Some surgeries are a Big Deal and a huge stress on the body, and they like to see people as healthy and fit for surgery as possible before they begin.
I know what you mean about wishing someone would take it easier. Hubby keeps trying to do stuff that he shouldn't. I just hope he doesn't screw up the surgery nd need to have it re-done. Once was enough of an ordeal.
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Out for my walk in a bit. Still bright and sunny where I am. Need rain. Washington state is suppose to be getting some. Hope it drifts up my way.
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Back from my walk and soon I will be enjoying the ice cream that I got on sale.
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What's a "life vest"?
That's what he calls it. I don't know what the official name is. I call it the device that insurance companies came up with so they can send people home that should still be in the hospital and not get sued as often.
It looks like one of those old tape decks you could sling over your shoulder. I guess it's got the ability to shock him if he goes into cardiac arrest, and it comes equipped with GPS tracking and the ability to automatically put a call out to an ambulance.
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Stenting is relatively easy: they just thread what is basically a coiled spring up the femoral artery (up from the groin) and when it reaches its destination they (somehow) release the coiled stent and it springs open and opens up the blood vessel. Possibly the blocked area(s) are too numerous and/or too large and marginal for stenting, but then they have to go to open-heart surgery which is considerably riskier.
But they prolly wouldn't consider surgery until his lung issue is resolved. Some surgeries are a Big Deal and a huge stress on the body, and they like to see people as healthy and fit for surgery as possible before they begin.
Yeah. They're sure taking their time about everything. He's in good spirits though.
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I know what you mean about wishing someone would take it easier. Hubby keeps trying to do stuff that he shouldn't. I just hope he doesn't screw up the surgery nd need to have it re-done. Once was enough of an ordeal.
Yeah. I'm sure I'll see him tomorrow and half my job is going to make sure he's not doing anything he shouldn't be doing.
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Went over to my neighbor's house and to say he was not prepared to move the appliances was an understatement.
They lucked out... The water to the ice maker turned out not to be a standard copper line and was a rubber coated metal hose that was fed from a water softener unit under the sink through the basement and up to the fridge. I was able to turn of about 98% of the water pressure by turning off that softener that only fed the fridge and some "water stick" thing on the sink that they never use, and we were able to pull the hose through the floor and get make it dump the leaky water into the slop sink until his dad comes over and fixes that plumbing issue. Jack don't do plumbing.
The valve on the stove gas doesn't seem to shut fully either, and I could detect an ever so faint gas smell that was pretty strong if you stuck your nose down on it. I told him if it were just me I probably would have let it go for the night and see what it was like in the morning, but he's got a family to worry about and I went to the hardware store with him and got a cap so we could close it off with some teflon tape for some cheap insurance.
The move went pretty smooth, although that fridge was bigger and heavier than the two I helped my friend move a few weeks back. Nobody got hurt and nothing was damaged though.
They fed me dinner and I actually hung around a few hours to bullshit. We don't do that very often. It was a good time. It's hard to believe how long I've lived here. Their oldest daughter was just a baby when I moved in and she'll be going to high school next year. Both daughters were very proud to tell me about how they got all A's and B's.
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Out soon to get my laundry done. I got messed up somewhere along the line and need to sort it out. Then my walk.
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Laundry done and walk in. Sitting down now.
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Crappy day today. Freezing cold with the wind on top of the roof doing repairs, then the road construction that is still going on (even though nobody is ever actually working on the roads) made sure it took me 3 times as long to get back home than it should have.
I was going to help my friend again tomorrow, but I think I'm done working outside in the cold until March comes along.
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Went into my local library today looking for a horror film. Couldn't find it and when I didn't want it, it was of course staring me in the face. Film is titled, "Blood Quantum".
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Quote:Seems like you're really an extrovert, SIX. Being alone in your house doesn't seem to suit you. On top of that, you're a neighborly neighbor. Going over and helping a neighbor and staying for dinner and shooting the breeze... well, word gets around, yanno?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Went over to my neighbor's house and to say he was not prepared to move the appliances was an understatement.
They lucked out... The water to the ice maker turned out not to be a standard copper line and was a rubber coated metal hose that was fed from a water softener unit under the sink through the basement and up to the fridge. I was able to turn of about 98% of the water pressure by turning off that softener that only fed the fridge and some "water stick" thing on the sink that they never use, and we were able to pull the hose through the floor and get make it dump the leaky water into the slop sink until his dad comes over and fixes that plumbing issue. Jack don't do plumbing.
The valve on the stove gas doesn't seem to shut fully either, and I could detect an ever so faint gas smell that was pretty strong if you stuck your nose down on it. I told him if it were just me I probably would have let it go for the night and see what it was like in the morning, but he's got a family to worry about and I went to the hardware store with him and got a cap so we could close it off with some teflon tape for some cheap insurance.
The move went pretty smooth, although that fridge was bigger and heavier than the two I helped my friend move a few weeks back. Nobody got hurt and nothing was damaged though.
They fed me dinner and I actually hung around a few hours to bullshit. We don't do that very often. It was a good time. It's hard to believe how long I've lived here. Their oldest daughter was just a baby when I moved in and she'll be going to high school next year. Both daughters were very proud to tell me about how they got all A's and B's.
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"Hey, that guy SIX. You know the one that really started fixing up his house a few years back that we didn't see for a long time? He's a good guy! He knows how to do a lot of things and he helped me out."
From a purely mercenary POV, you're building up good karma and helping your neighborhood becoming real... yanno, a place where people get together for fun and help each other when something goes wrong. My sis lives in that kind of neighborhood. And it's real handy when the SHTF, either individally or collectively. Good on you, SIX! May your neighborhood blossom, and may you never have raccoons in your attic!
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Quote:They say there's an arctic blast heading your way... and my sis' way too. Button up, baby! It's gonna be cold outside!
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Crappy day today. Freezing cold with the wind on top of the roof doing repairs, then the road construction that is still going on (even though nobody is ever actually working on the roads) made sure it took me 3 times as long to get back home than it should have.
I was going to help my friend again tomorrow, but I think I'm done working outside in the cold until March comes along.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
What's a "life vest"?
That's what he calls it. I don't know what the official name is. I call it the device that insurance companies came up with so they can send people home that should still be in the hospital and not get sued as often.
It looks like one of those old tape decks you could sling over your shoulder. I guess it's got the ability to shock him if he goes into cardiac arrest, and it comes equipped with GPS tracking and the ability to automatically put a call out to an ambulance.
Never seen such a thing. But there's a good reason not to be in hospital (besides saving money): hospital-acquired infections tend to be nasty, since hospital germs are usually multi-drug resistant.
Quote:At least he's feeling chipper!Quote:
Stenting is relatively easy: they just thread what is basically a coiled spring up the femoral artery (up from the groin) and when it reaches its destination they (somehow) release the coiled stent and it springs open and opens up the blood vessel. Possibly the blocked area(s) are too numerous and/or too large and marginal for stenting, but then they have to go to open-heart surgery which is considerably riskier.
But they prolly wouldn't consider surgery until his lung issue is resolved. Some surgeries are a Big Deal and a huge stress on the body, and they like to see people as healthy and fit for surgery as possible before they begin.
Yeah. They're sure taking their time about everything. He's in good spirits though.
Quote:I've given up on that. Nagging, wringing my hands, and hovering around like a mother hen fetching, carrying and picking things up wasn't working. I ran errands yesterday to give us both a break!Quote:
I know what you mean about wishing someone would take it easier. Hubby keeps trying to do stuff that he shouldn't. I just hope he doesn't screw up the surgery nd need to have it re-done. Once was enough of an ordeal.
Yeah. I'm sure I'll see him tomorrow and half my job is going to make sure he's not doing anything he shouldn't be doing.
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Just a lazy Sunday around me.
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BC and Canada Fire Safety is retiring Smokey the Bear after 80 years on the job.
I grew up with Smokey the Bear and I am kinda sad to see him go but yeah it is time. The new mascot is called Ember the Fox.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Seems like you're really an extrovert, SIX. Being alone in your house doesn't seem to suit you. On top of that, you're a neighborly neighbor. Going over and helping a neighbor and staying for dinner and shooting the breeze... well, word gets around, yanno?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Went over to my neighbor's house and to say he was not prepared to move the appliances was an understatement.
They lucked out... The water to the ice maker turned out not to be a standard copper line and was a rubber coated metal hose that was fed from a water softener unit under the sink through the basement and up to the fridge. I was able to turn of about 98% of the water pressure by turning off that softener that only fed the fridge and some "water stick" thing on the sink that they never use, and we were able to pull the hose through the floor and get make it dump the leaky water into the slop sink until his dad comes over and fixes that plumbing issue. Jack don't do plumbing.
The valve on the stove gas doesn't seem to shut fully either, and I could detect an ever so faint gas smell that was pretty strong if you stuck your nose down on it. I told him if it were just me I probably would have let it go for the night and see what it was like in the morning, but he's got a family to worry about and I went to the hardware store with him and got a cap so we could close it off with some teflon tape for some cheap insurance.
The move went pretty smooth, although that fridge was bigger and heavier than the two I helped my friend move a few weeks back. Nobody got hurt and nothing was damaged though.
They fed me dinner and I actually hung around a few hours to bullshit. We don't do that very often. It was a good time. It's hard to believe how long I've lived here. Their oldest daughter was just a baby when I moved in and she'll be going to high school next year. Both daughters were very proud to tell me about how they got all A's and B's.
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"Hey, that guy SIX. You know the one that really started fixing up his house a few years back that we didn't see for a long time? He's a good guy! He knows how to do a lot of things and he helped me out."
From a purely mercenary POV, you're building up good karma and helping your neighborhood becoming real... yanno, a place where people get together for fun and help each other when something goes wrong. My sis lives in that kind of neighborhood. And it's real handy when the SHTF, either individally or collectively. Good on you, SIX! May your neighborhood blossom, and may you never have raccoons in your attic!
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I don't know about being an extrovert... but whenever I've told people that I prefer to be alone rather than be in the company of other people and that I am shy and not very talkative they don't agree with me. Maybe it's all just in my head.
I'm glad I know how to do things like I do though. Maybe I should stop being a jerk and looking at it like people owe me things all the time though. I mean, I should have asked one of my neighbors to give me a ride to pick up my car instead of walking two miles to get it from the mechanic when he took so long and my sure ride wasn't there anymore. I've actually never called in a favor from my next door neighbor and that didn't stop him from asking for help again... not that I'd want them not to ask me, but it seems rather foolish that I didn't ask for a ride in retrospect. I'm always doing things on my own unless it's absolutely necessary to get somebody else involved. Never been much of a team player.
I should have probably introduced myself to my new neighbors. Two houses on my block were so
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What's a "life vest"?
That's what he calls it. I don't know what the official name is. I call it the device that insurance companies came up with so they can send people home that should still be in the hospital and not get sued as often.
It looks like one of those old tape decks you could sling over your shoulder. I guess it's got the ability to shock him if he goes into cardiac arrest, and it comes equipped with GPS tracking and the ability to automatically put a call out to an ambulance.
Never seen such a thing. But there's a good reason not to be in hospital (besides saving money): hospital-acquired infections tend to be nasty, since hospital germs are usually multi-drug resistant.
I didn't consider that. I just assumed that it was insurance related. I forgot how nasty hospitals have become. I do my best to avoid them.
Quote:Quote:At least he's feeling chipper!Quote:
Stenting is relatively easy: they just thread what is basically a coiled spring up the femoral artery (up from the groin) and when it reaches its destination they (somehow) release the coiled stent and it springs open and opens up the blood vessel. Possibly the blocked area(s) are too numerous and/or too large and marginal for stenting, but then they have to go to open-heart surgery which is considerably riskier.
But they prolly wouldn't consider surgery until his lung issue is resolved. Some surgeries are a Big Deal and a huge stress on the body, and they like to see people as healthy and fit for surgery as possible before they begin.
Yeah. They're sure taking their time about everything. He's in good spirits though.
Yeah. He was up on a scaffold installing missing trim on the front of my friend's house for 4 hours today. He won't be stopped.
Quote:Quote:I've given up on that. Nagging, wringing my hands, and hovering around like a mother hen fetching, carrying and picking things up wasn't working. I ran errands yesterday to give us both a break!Quote:
I know what you mean about wishing someone would take it easier. Hubby keeps trying to do stuff that he shouldn't. I just hope he doesn't screw up the surgery nd need to have it re-done. Once was enough of an ordeal.
Yeah. I'm sure I'll see him tomorrow and half my job is going to make sure he's not doing anything he shouldn't be doing.
Yeah. He's not going to let me tell him no about coming over to help me finish the porch. He says he's coming this week and we're going to install the jambs and get thos parting stops fabricated so I can paint them and start putting casing up. So I guess we're doing that.
Me? I think I'm taking a break for a few days. Not much I want to be doing when it's 40 degrees out, and except for sleeping all day when I got sick, I haven't really had a day off of working in about 2 months.
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Oh yeah... I did get my wall plates and my new light for the porch.
I'll be installing those tomorrow no matter how cold it is.
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Out for my walk in a bit. There was so much smoke in the air last night that the moon was orange because of it.
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Quote:Wow, that's bad.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Out for my walk in a bit. There was so much smoke in the air last night that the moon was orange because of it.
How's your fire season been overall so far this year?
I haven't heard of hundreds of fires burning in BC, so I hope better than average?
we've been lucky so far. Despite the longest, hottest hot spell in CA white-man recorded history, we haven't had any major fires, yet. And we got a spattering of rain about 5 days ago and another spattering a couple days ago, and except for the next two days around 90 the weather seems to have cooled down quite a bit. Still short of water, but cool/cloudy weather does help keep fires at bay.
I wonder if Canada has changed its fire suppression policies in addition to changing it's mascot. Smokey Bear was all about stopping each and every fire, which built up a huge fuel load. The under Reagan (IIRC) they switched to "let it burn" and clear-cutting, which were different kinds of catastrophes. One of these days, they'll settle on a reasonable management approach.
Ember the Fox hasn't been adopted in the USA, but it's really a cute mascot. with the orange-ish fur the name really fits. And most people (except chicken-ranchers) think foxes are kinda cute, so ... good choice!
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SIX, when I tell people I'm an introvert they don't believe me either. Having supervised a very large group (in a professional setting, the usual span of control is is 1 to 6 -8 staff, my group was as large as 14) I had to compensate, but it's not something I feel comfortable with.
I think what you really hate is feeling dependent. Because once you depend on someone for something - or even ask someone for something- they can always turn you down, and that generates all knds of negative feelings. and who wants to go thru that?
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SIX, when I tell people I'm an introvert they don't believe me either. Having supervised a very large group (in a professional setting, the usual span of control is is 1 to 6 -8 staff, my group was as large as 14) I had to compensate, but it's not something I feel comfortable with.
I hear you loud and clear there and can empathize. When I'm forced to be social I don't (at least outwardly) have any problems doing it. Maybe it's just out of my comfort zone and something I could work on though. My days of caring what other people think are almost entirely over. It would probably be a lot easier to adjust to that now than it would have in my 20's.
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I think what you really hate is feeling dependent. Because once you depend on someone for something - or even ask someone for something- they can always turn you down, and that generates all knds of negative feelings. and who wants to go thru that?
You're not wrong.
On top of that, I have an aversion to obligations. I don't like owing. Not money and not favors. I prefer to build my credit up first and let other people pay it back later than vice versa. That probably goes back to what you were saying though. If somebody is obliged to you because you've done one or several favors for them first, they're much less likely to tell you no when you ask for something.
They've done studies on that. Hell... The Hare Krisna's whole ritual of giving away flowers at the airport before asking for donations is based entirely on that concept. Even by accepting a dumb little flower that you never wanted in the first place will make you feel like you owe that person something in return. At least most people feel that way, and then throw out the flower at the nearest trashcan after giving a few bucks (where the girls are sent to pick the flowers out of trash cans so they can re-gift them for new donations).
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I got my wall plates and the new porch lantern up, and I LOVE it all.
Unfortunately, the GFCI that my friend's dad gave me to save me a few bucks is going to have to be replaced with a new one. I can't believe I didn't think of that when I put it up there. I had to remove it from a metal cover (for garages or anywhere that finished walls aren't going to be put), and the only way you can get an outlet to fit in those is to break off 3 metal tabs off each side. Two of the tabs are meant to hug the wall so you don't push the outlet in the hole when plugging something in, and that could be remediated, but the third tab on each side is where the outlet covers screw into the outlet. I'm not going to glue the cover to the wall to save some cash after all the work that's gone into this. I need 2 more for my bathrooms whenever I get to them anyhow, so I'll just buy another 3-pack and hope the price hasn't doubled since I bought the last 3 pack over a year ago.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Out for my walk in a bit. There was so much smoke in the air last night that the moon was orange because of it.
How's your fire season been overall so far this year?
I haven't heard of hundreds of fires burning in BC, so I hope better than average?
we've been lucky so far. Despite the longest, hottest hot spell in CA white-man recorded history, we haven't had any major fires, yet. And we got a spattering of rain about 5 days ago and another spattering a couple days ago, and except for the next two days around 90 the weather seems to have cooled down quite a bit. Still short of water, but cool/cloudy weather does help keep fires at bay.
I wonder if Canada has changed its fire suppression policies in addition to changing it's mascot. Smokey Bear was all about stopping each and every fire, which built up a huge fuel load. The under Reagan (IIRC) they switched to "let it burn" and clear-cutting, which were different kinds of catastrophes. One of these days, they'll settle on a reasonable management approach.
Ember the Fox hasn't been adopted in the USA, but it's really a cute mascot. with the orange-ish fur the name really fits. And most people (except chicken-ranchers) think foxes are kinda cute, so ... good choice!
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It hasn't been as bad as last year but it is lasting longer than last year because it was a late start to fire season. We had a very wet Spring and start to Summer, so that has helped. We've had over 100 fires burning at one point but I think right now we are well below that number.
Cool weather definitely does keep the fires at bay and that is great for California.
Not sure but Fire Safety Canada has apparently changed their messaging to go along with the new mascot.
Not every province in Canada is ready to ditch Smokey. BC has and the others will over time. It is a cute mascot.
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Walk in for today and on my way back, I could smell some smoke in the air. *sigh* I hope the rain the forecasters see does come on Friday. We need it in BC.
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Good luck Brenda. It's not close to you, is it?
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Good luck Brenda. It's not close to you, is it?
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No, the fires aren't. It's just the direction of the winds blowing it to where I am. We've had some really bad air quality in BC, especially in the Fraser Valley. Warnings have been out for people with lung conditions.
Drought bad enough that up the Sunshine coast a little place like Sechelt has just put in serious water restrictions for its citizens.
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35 degrees outside now. 56 degrees on the 2nd floor of my house. I lost 3 degrees since yesterday morning when I woke up.
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Nevermind. As I was writing this, my furnace went off. I thought I had it set to something stupid like 43 degrees, but apparently it was at 56. So who knows how often it went off last night. I guess I'll monitor how often it goes off at this temp. It's cold, but as long as I'm bundled up I'm not uncomfortable since I've acclimated to it. If its going off more then once every 4 or 5 hours I'll turn it down a few degrees since I already broke my no heat until November rule on accident.
It's not THAT cold out right now. Just too cold to be doing any of my outside work, and since the outside work isn't complete and tons of stuff is staged all over the work area of my basement, I can't really start on any of the inside work right now either.
Warm days are coming one more time though. Thursday should be 58 degrees while Friday through Tuesday are supposed to be in the high 60's to mid 70's for highs. Two of those days I'll be helping my friend, but the other three (if my friend's dad actually does make it over) should be enough to get my jambs and casings up and free up my basement to start painting trim I still have to put up in the 1st floor and maybe attempt to make my own drawers for the kitchen and finally wrap up that project.
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Out for my walk in a bit.
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Slowly but surely I've begun a project that won't get completed before I go back outside to work Thursday, but it will be resumed and it will keep me busy and keep me from being bored when it is cold.
I got that really cool bamboo entryway table that my neighbor was throwing out. I've already removed some screw-in wood nuts from the back of it with an allen wrench and used wood putty to fill them in. Now I'm using a dental pick to remove a ton of melted candle wax of various colors off of the top surface which is thin woven wood similar to what you'd make a woven basket out of. That's actually quite a bit more time consuming than I thought it would be.
Right now it's a sickly shade of ivory that if I didn't know better would lead me to believe it was inside a house where the occupants regularly smoked, and there is quite a bit of flake off of the paint, particularly on the wooden bands that hold it together.
Once I get the wax off and I vacuum out all of the nooks and crannies I'll be giving it a light sand down, priming it and then painting it with the same white enamel paint that I've used on my kitchen cabinets and the window and door casings.
This table will be perfect for right under my large mirror (that I also sanded down the frame and painted white before re-installing last year). It has a very shallow profile from the wall compared to the table that is there now, and it won't feel like it's encroaching into the room so far that you have to walk around it if you came in the front door and went directly upstairs from the door.
I wonder what I'm going to do with the old table though. It's a really nice metal framed "BBQ Table" that my rich uncle was going to throw out when he moved. I'm sure it's good for other things, but as an entryway table it's been a disaster for years. Not only does it stick out about 3 feet for the wall, but it's top is made of wooden slats that require containers to be placed on top of it if you're going to store anything there because stuff just falls through the 1.5" gaps of the slats. I'll probably put it out in the porch for now until I figure out if I want to keep it or not.
I'm getting bored of picking out wax right now though. I think I might have lunch and take a nap.
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I wish you guys had beenover for dinner. Last night I made Thai red curry with lotsa vegetbales and pork (toned down quite a bit for daughter's tatse) and the night before it was chicken Tikka Masala with chick peas and spinach.
But the weather will bit hot for three days starting today, so tonight its just gonna be burgers and salad. Good thing I put lettuce and cucumbers and red cabbage on last week's list!
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Back from walk and done for today including getting the garbage out.
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I wish you guys had beenover for dinner. Last night I made Thai red curry with lotsa vegetbales and pork (toned down quite a bit for daughter's tatse) and the night before it was chicken Tikka Masala with chick peas and spinach.
But the weather will bit hot for three days starting today, so tonight its just gonna be burgers and salad. Good thing I put lettuce and cucumbers and red cabbage on last week's list!
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It certainly sounds more adventurous than my normal meals around here.
I did get a big bowl of stew from my friends wife to take home with me Sunday night and I ate that the last two nights. Tasty.
Just the usual here tonight though.
It stayed 56 all day without the heat going on again. I know for sure because I turned it down to 53 after I made the earlier post.
Two more cold nights before the temps get warmer. Now that I'm all set up my goal is to have that entryway table primed tomorrow. Probably not going to do much else.
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Out for my walk in a bit.
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Back from my walk and even got some cleaning in.
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Did not prime the table today. Not really feeling it. I did get all the candle wax and sand most of the front. I think I'm going to want to caulk some things here and there too before it gets primed. Oh well... now it will be pushed back for a while because the warmer weather returns for about a week.
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Mah jong in the morning for me.
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Hey BRENDA, we just watched what I believe is the last episode of the last season of Shetland. Without giving anything away, I think you'll like it.
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Hey BRENDA, we just watched what I believe is the last episode of the last season of Shetland. Without giving anything away, I think you'll like it.
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Speaking of that... Have you watched either Mrs. Scarlett or Jamestown yet, Brenda?
I'm interested to see if you like either of them.
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Grosssssssss... It's still 30 degrees out right now. It won't start warming up for about another 2 hours. At least the high is 58 today.
I'm going to park my car outside the garage after running some errands and get my miter saw out of the basement and up on a table in there so I can start cutting the jambs down to size.
I don't think my friend's dad is going to make it today since I haven't heard from him all week. My intention was to work on these alone today anyhow, but I kind of wish he hadn't said 5 or 6 times he'd come over this week to help and get my hopes up about that. I really liked his idea about how we'd get them in there, but I don't think it's something that I could do on my own without 3 or 4 hands.
Oh well... Maybe he'll surprise me. I'm not going to call him and put any pressure on him about it.
One of the things I need to get is another 3-pack of GFCI outlets. Last time I bought them they were $31.00. Today they're $35.00. Stupid inflation.
I told my dad I'd pick some stuff up at the hardware store for him anyway, so I'll just buy those now so I can get that last wall plate finished in the porch and be done with it. The other two outlets will end up in my bathrooms when I work on them, and that should be the last GFCIs I ever need to buy for this house. (Which is nice, because I'm already about $100 into them after today).
The good news is that for some reason it seems that the price of insulation has come back down. The non-sale price for a 15ft bat of R-15 is only under $17 right now where it was something crazy like $23 or $24 just a few weeks ago.
I'm still not going to buy it yet and see what sales are going on into black friday weekend. I'm sure I wont' get them for $5 each like the last time, but maybe I get lucky and they have a really good deal on them next month. It just makes sense that they'd make insulation a black friday staple since most people who were going to insulate their homes have already done it before the end of November.
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Still cold and it's almost noon.
Got all the shopping done. Going to drag my saw outside and get it set up. Probably install the GFCI first and get the last wall plate on before I start cutting anything.
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Hey BRENDA, we just watched what I believe is the last episode of the last season of Shetland. Without giving anything away, I think you'll like it.
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Cool.
I just managed to find episode 2 of Series 7 of Shetland on YouTube.
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Hey BRENDA, we just watched what I believe is the last episode of the last season of Shetland. Without giving anything away, I think you'll like it.
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Speaking of that... Have you watched either Mrs. Scarlett or Jamestown yet, Brenda?
I'm interested to see if you like either of them.
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I just finished "Jamestown" last night and it was interesting. I found the characters that grew the most were Sharrow brothers. It also left me wondering if Alice Sharrow survived the crossing back to England with her young child.
Haven't watched "Miss Scarlett and the Duke" yet. Tonight I am going to wade my way through a horror film.
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Had a good morning at mah jong. Managed to get 3rd place. I had all 4 flowers of one colour 3 different times. Don't think I've ever done that.
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I just finished "Jamestown" last night and it was interesting. I found the characters that grew the most were Sharrow brothers. It also left me wondering if Alice Sharrow survived the crossing back to England with her young child.
Was it just Season 1, or all 3 seasons?
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Haven't watched "Miss Scarlett and the Duke" yet. Tonight I am going to wade my way through a horror film.
Miss Scarlet has 2 seasons so far and Season 3 is supposed to begin at the end of January.
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Did not do the jambs today, but got my saw out there and the table set up.
Changing out that GFCI was a real pain because I left my wires shorter than I should have. The drywall was doubled up on that wall, so it was a lot easier to put the first outlet in there when I had an extra inch of wires to play with. On top of that, the new oulet had the LINE and LOAD sides reversed from the old one, so I didn't figure out I wired it up incorrectly until after I'd finished leveling the wallplate and installing it, forcing me to have to redo the entire installation.
Works great now tough.
Talked to my friend's dad and he's going to come over Tuesday to help with the jambs and casings. Maybe Wednesday too. I'm going to clean out the gap between the slab off the back of the porch again and get the self-leveling caulk down finally tomorrow, and probably do the same to the front porch slab. Then I'll mow the lawn. Then I'll probably be helping my friend out again this weekend.
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I just finished "Jamestown" last night and it was interesting. I found the characters that grew the most were Sharrow brothers. It also left me wondering if Alice Sharrow survived the crossing back to England with her young child.
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Haven't watched "Miss Scarlett and the Duke" yet. Tonight I am going to wade my way through a horror film.
Miss Scarlet has 2 seasons so far and Season 3 is supposed to begin at the end of January.
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I saw all 3 season of Jamestown. There were only 8 episodes per season.
For "Miss Scarlett", I've only got Season 1 out.
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Wow you watched that fast. Must not have been too bad then, huh?
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Wow you watched that fast. Must not have been too bad then, huh?
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I guess it was a little fast. I used the Close Captioning for the show and reading what the English actors were saying was fine. I had to give up trying to read the English translation for the Algonquin which is what the Pamunkey spoke as it was so small on screen. I just listened to the Algonquin.
And I could get the jist of it anyways. As I said the two characters that changed the most were the Sharrow brothers, Silas and Henry. Silas started out just wanting to make a life for himself and being the good brother, while Henry was only out for money and no interest in anything really. It was almost dying in a fire when he had talked his brother into going trading and being saved and healed by the Pamunkey that changed his life. He became about building a life on the land and bringing honour to his family name. Then Henry became even more understanding when he was given a Pamunkey wife. Watching him learn how to reconcile the English culture with Pamunkey especially after their baby daughter died. He wanted to bury the baby on the land he was given but his wife's brother said the baby had to be buried on Pamunkey land. Henry finally gave in and grieved mightly for his child.
I got the feeling that the Govnenor was returned to Virginia to take more land than what they had gotten from the Pamunkey. By the end he was talking guns and destroying the Pamunkey. Course there was a war between the settlers of Jamestown and the Pamunkey. The Pamunkey lost and the settlers that survived were the ones that got to Jamestown and behind its walls.
Henry's wife went with him most likely out of fear. She wouldn't have been spared in the raids.
The Widow Castell, Jocelyn came from England to get away from her past and marry a rich man. The red head who was a thief and her passage was bought by the Tavern owner was adapting. Alice was suppose to marry Henry Sharrow but fell for his brother Silas. She was having a hard time adapting to life in the New World maybe it was best that she went back to England.
What drove me batty besides that the fact that in another 200 years when the colonizers would reach the now western states nothing in their behavior had changed. Convert, land, resources and destroy.
Also I prefer the word Indians to "the Naturals" as those early colonists called us.
So, it did get under my skin some.
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Well, my area got some rain last night and into this morning. It's suppose to hang around until next Tuesday. That's a start.
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Wow you watched that fast. Must not have been too bad then, huh?
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I guess it was a little fast. I used the Close Captioning for the show and reading what the English actors were saying was fine. I had to give up trying to read the English translation for the Algonquin which is what the Pamunkey spoke as it was so small on screen. I just listened to the Algonquin.
As I said the two characters that changed the most were the Sharrow brothers, Silas and Henry. Silas started out just wanting to make a life for himself and being the good brother, while Henry was only out for money and no interest in anything really. It was almost dying in a fire when he had talked his brother into going trading and being saved and healed by the Pamunkey that changed his life. He became about building a life on the land and bringing honour to his family name. Then Henry became even more understanding when he was given a Pamunkey wife. Watching him learn how to reconcile the English culture with Pamunkey especially after their baby daughter died. He wanted to bury the baby on the land he was given but his wife's brother said the baby had to be buried on Pamunkey land. Henry finally gave in and grieved mightly for his child.
I got the feeling that the Govnenor was returned to Virginia to take more land than what they had gotten from the Pamunkey. By the end he was talking guns and destroying the Pamunkey. Course there was a war between the settlers of Jamestown and the Pamunkey. The Pamunkey lost and the settlers that survived were the ones that got to Jamestown and behind its walls.
Henry's wife went with him most likely out of fear. She wouldn't have been spared in the raids.
The Widow Castell, Jocelyn came from England to get away from her past and marry a rich man. The red head who was a thief and her passage was bought by the Tavern owner was adapting. Alice was suppose to marry Henry Sharrow but fell for his brother Silas. She was having a hard time adapting to life in the New World maybe it was best that she went back to England.
What drove me batty besides that the fact that in another 200 years when the colonizers would reach the now western states nothing in their behavior had changed.
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Convert, land, resources and destroy.
Also I prefer the word Indians to "the Naturals" as those early colonists called us.
So, it did get under my skin some.
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Back from my walk and it was raining when I went out. Dry now. Maybe that's the start of our wet season. Heaven knows we need it. Finally got a shelf put up that I bought months ago, so that's good.
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Wow you watched that fast. Must not have been too bad then, huh?
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I guess it was a little fast. I used the Close Captioning for the show and reading what the English actors were saying was fine. I had to give up trying to read the English translation for the Algonquin which is what the Pamunkey spoke as it was so small on screen. I just listened to the Algonquin.
As I said the two characters that changed the most were the Sharrow brothers, Silas and Henry. Silas started out just wanting to make a life for himself and being the good brother, while Henry was only out for money and no interest in anything really. It was almost dying in a fire when he had talked his brother into going trading and being saved and healed by the Pamunkey that changed his life. He became about building a life on the land and bringing honour to his family name. Then Henry became even more understanding when he was given a Pamunkey wife. Watching him learn how to reconcile the English culture with Pamunkey especially after their baby daughter died. He wanted to bury the baby on the land he was given but his wife's brother said the baby had to be buried on Pamunkey land. Henry finally gave in and grieved mightly for his child.
I got the feeling that the Govnenor was returned to Virginia to take more land than what they had gotten from the Pamunkey. By the end he was talking guns and destroying the Pamunkey. Course there was a war between the settlers of Jamestown and the Pamunkey. The Pamunkey lost and the settlers that survived were the ones that got to Jamestown and behind its walls.
Henry's wife went with him most likely out of fear. She wouldn't have been spared in the raids.
The Widow Castell, Jocelyn came from England to get away from her past and marry a rich man. The red head who was a thief and her passage was bought by the Tavern owner was adapting. Alice was suppose to marry Henry Sharrow but fell for his brother Silas. She was having a hard time adapting to life in the New World maybe it was best that she went back to England.
What drove me batty besides that the fact that in another 200 years when the colonizers would reach the now western states nothing in their behavior had changed.Quote:
Convert, land, resources and destroy.
Also I prefer the word Indians to "the Naturals" as those early colonists called us.
So, it did get under my skin some.
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Very good point about the weaponry getting better. It did.
It was interesting as all I knew about Jamestown was that it existed and that was it. Though they kept talking about this British company and I should look that up as I have no idea what they, the settlers were talking about.
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Wow you watched that fast. Must not have been too bad then, huh?
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I guess it was a little fast. I used the Close Captioning for the show and reading what the English actors were saying was fine. I had to give up trying to read the English translation for the Algonquin which is what the Pamunkey spoke as it was so small on screen. I just listened to the Algonquin.
Wow that's cool. I didn't know you were bilingual.
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As I said the two characters that changed the most were the Sharrow brothers, Silas and Henry. Silas started out just wanting to make a life for himself and being the good brother, while Henry was only out for money and no interest in anything really. It was almost dying in a fire when he had talked his brother into going trading and being saved and healed by the Pamunkey that changed his life. He became about building a life on the land and bringing honour to his family name. Then Henry became even more understanding when he was given a Pamunkey wife. Watching him learn how to reconcile the English culture with Pamunkey especially after their baby daughter died. He wanted to bury the baby on the land he was given but his wife's brother said the baby had to be buried on Pamunkey land. Henry finally gave in and grieved mightly for his child.
I got the feeling that the Govnenor was returned to Virginia to take more land than what they had gotten from the Pamunkey. By the end he was talking guns and destroying the Pamunkey. Course there was a war between the settlers of Jamestown and the Pamunkey. The Pamunkey lost and the settlers that survived were the ones that got to Jamestown and behind its walls.
Henry's wife went with him most likely out of fear. She wouldn't have been spared in the raids.
The Widow Castell, Jocelyn came from England to get away from her past and marry a rich man. The red head who was a thief and her passage was bought by the Tavern owner was adapting. Alice was suppose to marry Henry Sharrow but fell for his brother Silas. She was having a hard time adapting to life in the New World maybe it was best that she went back to England.
I kind of had to gloss over this part. I only saw one episode, so I'm not familiar with the characters names yet, and I really don't want too many spoilers. I was sad to see that it got cancelled after 3 seasons and it sounds like they really rushed the ending to try to tie up loose ends when they realized there wasn't a 4th season. Shame on PBS for not ever mentioning that, I think.
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What drove me batty besides that the fact that in another 200 years when the colonizers would reach the now western states nothing in their behavior had changed. Convert, land, resources and destroy.
Also I prefer the word Indians to "the Naturals" as those early colonists called us.
So, it did get under my skin some.
I'm sure it did. But wouldn't you rather see them make the show with the warts and all instead of pretending that this didn't happen? I'm surprised they did it in today's climate. Everybody gets so offended about everything so easily that we're just erasing the past completely to save the most sensitive of us from being offended.
That's how history ends up repeating itself. :(
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I cleaned and caulked both slabs.
Got the front lawn mowed and a full bin worth of other people's branches. We must have had some hell of a wind storm since I last did the front lawn. I haven't cleaned up that much lawn debris since before I got the two dying trees cut down.
It was gorgeous today. 72 degrees. It's getting up to the mid-to-high 70's this weekend too.
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I guess it was a little fast. I used the Close Captioning for the show and reading what the English actors were saying was fine. I had to give up trying to read the English translation for the Algonquin which is what the Pamunkey spoke as it was so small on screen. I just listened to the Algonquin.
Wow that's cool. I didn't know you were bilingual.Quote:
As I said the two characters that changed the most were the Sharrow brothers, Silas and Henry. Silas started out just wanting to make a life for himself and being the good brother, while Henry was only out for money and no interest in anything really. It was almost dying in a fire when he had talked his brother into going trading and being saved and healed by the Pamunkey that changed his life. He became about building a life on the land and bringing honour to his family name. Then Henry became even more understanding when he was given a Pamunkey wife. Watching him learn how to reconcile the English culture with Pamunkey especially after their baby daughter died. He wanted to bury the baby on the land he was given but his wife's brother said the baby had to be buried on Pamunkey land. Henry finally gave in and grieved mightly for his child.
I got the feeling that the Govnenor was returned to Virginia to take more land than what they had gotten from the Pamunkey. By the end he was talking guns and destroying the Pamunkey. Course there was a war between the settlers of Jamestown and the Pamunkey. The Pamunkey lost and the settlers that survived were the ones that got to Jamestown and behind its walls.
Henry's wife went with him most likely out of fear. She wouldn't have been spared in the raids.
The Widow Castell, Jocelyn came from England to get away from her past and marry a rich man. The red head who was a thief and her passage was bought by the Tavern owner was adapting. Alice was suppose to marry Henry Sharrow but fell for his brother Silas. She was having a hard time adapting to life in the New World maybe it was best that she went back to England.
I kind of had to gloss over this part. I only saw one episode, so I'm not familiar with the characters names yet, and I really don't want too many spoilers. I was sad to see that it got cancelled after 3 seasons and it sounds like they really rushed the ending to try to tie up loose ends when they realized there wasn't a 4th season. Shame on PBS for not ever mentioning that, I think.Quote:
What drove me batty besides that the fact that in another 200 years when the colonizers would reach the now western states nothing in their behavior had changed. Convert, land, resources and destroy.
Also I prefer the word Indians to "the Naturals" as those early colonists called us.
So, it did get under my skin some.
I'm sure it did. But wouldn't you rather see them make the show with the warts and all instead of pretending that this didn't happen? I'm surprised they did it in today's climate. Everybody gets so offended about everything so easily that we're just erasing the past completely to save the most sensitive of us from being offended.
That's how history ends up repeating itself. :(
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Not bilingualism. I was just going by what I could read of the translations of the Pamunkey and what the settlers were saying in return in English. Also just body language of the actors.
Sorry about all of that. I was trying to figure out how to talk about the show without dropping too many spoilers. Guess I blew it. It did feel like th
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Not bilingualism. I was just going by what I could read of the translations of the Pamunkey and what the settlers were saying in return in English. Also just body language of the actors.
Oh. Okay. I thought you actually knew enough of the language to at least get the bits in pieces. It's a shame that the text was so small. I wonder if you would have enjoyed the show better if you got all that dialogue.
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Sorry about all of that. I was trying to figure out how to talk about the show without dropping too many spoilers. Guess I blew it. It did feel like they kind of left things hanging and it is too bad. PBS isn't usually that shoddy.
Oh.... No worries. You only typed out a few paragraphs for a 3 season show. Like I said, I just kind of skimmed over it, but even if I took it all in I don't even remember any character names from the one episode I watched.
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It did and I expected it too truthfully. I do want history any history represented as truthfully as possible. Erasing portions of what happened in the past serves no one. I would hazard that the reason it got made at all was because it wound up on PBS. If it was done and being funded by a regular network it would have been sanitized. PBS doesn't seem to really cater to the overly sensitive viewers.
Oh... Not only would it have been sanitized, but people would have had magical super powers and I'm sure the dialogue would be nonsense gibberish in between the epic battles that had no basis in reality.
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That is also true. :(
The past needs to be preserved, for better or for worse. Not to shame anyone, but to learn from the mistakes so they aren't ever repeated again.
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Not bilingualism. I was just going by what I could read of the translations of the Pamunkey and what the settlers were saying in return in English. Also just body language of the actors.
Oh. Okay. I thought you actually knew enough of the language to at least get the bits in pieces. It's a shame that the text was so small. I wonder if you would have enjoyed the show better if you got all that dialogue.Quote:
Sorry about all of that. I was trying to figure out how to talk about the show without dropping too many spoilers. Guess I blew it. It did feel like they kind of left things hanging and it is too bad. PBS isn't usually that shoddy.
Oh.... No worries. You only typed out a few paragraphs for a 3 season show. Like I said, I just kind of skimmed over it, but even if I took it all in I don't even remember any character names from the one episode I watched.Quote:
It did and I expected it too truthfully. I do want history any history represented as truthfully as possible. Erasing portions of what happened in the past serves no one. I would hazard that the reason it got made at all was because it wound up on PBS. If it was done and being funded by a regular network it would have been sanitized. PBS doesn't seem to really cater to the overly sensitive viewers.
Oh... Not only would it have been sanitized, but people would have had magical super powers and I'm sure the dialogue would be nonsense gibberish in between the epic battles that had no basis in reality.Quote:
That is also true. :(
The past needs to be preserved, for better or for worse. Not to shame anyone, but to learn from the mistakes so they aren't ever repeated again.
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My great grandmother's language wasn't and isn't related to Algonquin. Those clips you posted, I think the Native actors and for sure the English actors had to learn to speak Algonquin. I know that many Indigenous languages in the US and Canada are in danger of disappearing because they have so few speakers. Algonquin which is spoken in Eastern Canada is better protected up here. Also there was some sign language as well. It really was. I probably would have gotten more out of the show if the translating had been in bigger print.
Okay then. I did a reasonable job.
Or they would have left the Pamunkey out all together.
I agree with you as I think I have said around here. Any and all history needs to be preserved so we all can learn.
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Out for my walk and taking umbrella.
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Not bilingualism. I was just going by what I could read of the translations of the Pamunkey and what the settlers were saying in return in English. Also just body language of the actors.
Oh. Okay. I thought you actually knew enough of the language to at least get the bits in pieces. It's a shame that the text was so small. I wonder if you would have enjoyed the show better if you got all that dialogue.Quote:
Sorry about all of that. I was trying to figure out how to talk about the show without dropping too many spoilers. Guess I blew it. It did feel like they kind of left things hanging and it is too bad. PBS isn't usually that shoddy.
Oh.... No worries. You only typed out a few paragraphs for a 3 season show. Like I said, I just kind of skimmed over it, but even if I took it all in I don't even remember any character names from the one episode I watched.Quote:
It did and I expected it too truthfully. I do want history any history represented as truthfully as possible. Erasing portions of what happened in the past serves no one. I would hazard that the reason it got made at all was because it wound up on PBS. If it was done and being funded by a regular network it would have been sanitized. PBS doesn't seem to really cater to the overly sensitive viewers.
Oh... Not only would it have been sanitized, but people would have had magical super powers and I'm sure the dialogue would be nonsense gibberish in between the epic battles that had no basis in reality.Quote:
That is also true. :(
The past needs to be preserved, for better or for worse. Not to shame anyone, but to learn from the mistakes so they aren't ever repeated again.
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My great grandmother's language wasn't and isn't related to Algonquin. Those clips you posted, I think the Native actors and for sure the English actors had to learn to speak Algonquin. I know that many Indigenous languages in the US and Canada are in danger of disappearing because they have so few speakers. Algonquin which is spoken in Eastern Canada is better protected up here. Also there was some sign language as well. It really was. I probably would have gotten more out of the show if the translating had been in bigger print.
Okay then. I did a reasonable job.
Or they would have left the Pamunkey out all together.
I agree with you as I think I have said around here. Any and all history needs to be preserved so we all can learn.
Some say that the Innuit had a dozen (or more!) words for "snow". Maybe that's an exaggeration, but when you have to travel by dogsled or on foot, you would have wanted some way to describe how often your runners froze on the surface, or how deep they sank, or maybe whether it had frozen into hillocks or glare ice, or whether it was powder and free-running. (I guess kind of like skiers today: is it cornball snow? a groomed surface? slushy? powder?) Once you have a snowmobile a lot of those distinctions fade away. Unless you preserve the language. Maybe create a written form if none existed.
I imagine there are hundreds of lost languages across the Americas. It's a shame bc every culture had a way of looking at the world, expressed in its language.
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Not bilingualism. I was just going by what I could read of the translations of the Pamunkey and what the settlers were saying in return in English. Also just body language of the actors.
Oh. Okay. I thought you actually knew enough of the language to at least get the bits in pieces. It's a shame that the text was so small. I wonder if you would have enjoyed the show better if you got all that dialogue.Quote:
Sorry about all of that. I was trying to figure out how to talk about the show without dropping too many spoilers. Guess I blew it. It did feel like they kind of left things hanging and it is too bad. PBS isn't usually that shoddy.
Oh.... No worries. You only typed out a few paragraphs for a 3 season show. Like I said, I just kind of skimmed over it, but even if I took it all in I don't even remember any character names from the one episode I watched.Quote:
It did and I expected it too truthfully. I do want history any history represented as truthfully as possible. Erasing portions of what happened in the past serves no one. I would hazard that the reason it got made at all was because it wound up on PBS. If it was done and being funded by a regular network it would have been sanitized. PBS doesn't seem to really cater to the overly sensitive viewers.
Oh... Not only would it have been sanitized, but people would have had magical super powers and I'm sure the dialogue would be nonsense gibberish in between the epic battles that had no basis in reality.Quote:
That is also true. :(
The past needs to be preserved, for better or for worse. Not to shame anyone, but to learn from the mistakes so they aren't ever repeated again.
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My great grandmother's language wasn't and isn't related to Algonquin. Those clips you posted, I think the Native actors and for sure the English actors had to learn to speak Algonquin. I know that many Indigenous languages in the US and Canada are in danger of disappearing because they have so few speakers. Algonquin which is spoken in Eastern Canada is better protected up here. Also there was some sign language as well. It really was. I probably would have gotten more out of the show if the translating had been in bigger print.
Okay then. I did a reasonable job.
Or they would have left the Pamunkey out all together.
I agree with you as I think I have said around here. Any and all history needs to be preserved so we all can learn.
Some say that the Innuit had a dozen (or more!) words for "snow". Maybe that's an exaggeration, but when you have to travel by dogsled or on foot, you would have wanted some way to describe how often your runners froze on the surface, or how deep they sank, or maybe whether it had frozen into hillocks or glare ice, or whether it was powder and free-running. (I guess kind of like skiers today: is it cornball snow? a groomed surface? slushy? powder?) Once you have a snowmobile a lot of those distinctions fade away. Unless you preserve the language. Maybe create a written form if none existed.
I imagine there are hundreds of lost languages across the Americas. It's a shame bc every culture had a way of looking at the world, expressed in its language.
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If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
I've heard that too and I'm not sure if it is true or not. I would have to do some research on it.
My opinion is that the distinction doesn't go away but probably adapts. Even with a snowmobile to replace a dogsled or snowshoes, you still need to describe what the snow conditions are like.
There are projects going on in places across Canada including the north wh
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Walk done and no rain. Also managed to cross a couple more things off my to do list.
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Well my schedule and the weather finally coincided and I got out to yardwork. I hope to be able to continue for the next ten days (longer, if the weather holds out) in between the various appointments on the calendar.
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Just a slow Sunday around me.
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Just a slow Sunday around me.
I discovered the thing that propels me out of bed in the AM: a nice cup of coffee (decaff will work!) with some canned milk and a bit of natural sweetener.
It sure gives me something to look forward to! Seems like it would be a nice Sunday AM treat
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Just a slow Sunday around me.
I discovered the thing that propels me out of bed in the AM: a nice cup of coffee (decaff will work!) with some canned milk and a bit of natural sweetener.
It sure gives me something to look forward to! Seems like it would be a nice Sunday AM treat
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I do. I usually start my day with a cup of decafe with no milk and just 1 tsp of sugar.
It is and was.
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Rain arrived last night and still raining this morning for my walk. Small dent in the drought in BC.
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Well, the rain has dried up for now and the sun is out. Walk in and groceries done, including finding some Christmas cards.
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Dentist appointment went well yesterday. I finally inquired about how much a 3rd cleaning without an exam or Xrays would cost and when I found out it was only around $90 I'm kind of chiding myself for not doing that earlier. Whenever I walk out of there after getting that deep clean it feels as good as walking out of Great Clips with a fresh haircut, but multiplied by about 100 times. I'll be doing that every 4 months instead of every 6 months from now on. $90 is worth a lot less than it was 2 years ago, so the price is right. I've also scheduled my long-overdue denture reline. Most people get it after 6 months. I believe I've had them for around 3 years now. They've gone from minor annoyance to ill-fitting over the last year or so, so now it's time. Nothing seems to be adjusting on me anymore, so it's not something I should have to be doing every few years. It's quite expensive, but for about 2 years now I've had that subtracted from my available funds anyhow in my records, so let's just get it done.
My buddy's dad is supposed to come over today to help me cut and fit those window jambs and maybe get a start on the casings. Unfortunately, it looks like a LOT of rain. I'll have to see about maybe attaching one of my tarps from my porch gutter to my garage gutter so we have a dry path to continually walk between them otherwise we're getting wet, the wood floor is getting wet and my jambs and casings are getting wet. I really wish he was able to make it out last week when it was 75 degrees and dry. Oh well...
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Out for my walk in a bit and more rain heading my way.
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Dentist appointment went well yesterday. I finally inquired about how much a 3rd cleaning without an exam or Xrays would cost and when I found out it was only around $90 I'm kind of chiding myself for not doing that earlier. Whenever I walk out of there after getting that deep clean it feels as good as walking out of Great Clips with a fresh haircut, but multiplied by about 100 times. I'll be doing that every 4 months instead of every 6 months from now on. $90 is worth a lot less than it was 2 years ago, so the price is right. I've also scheduled my long-overdue denture reline. Most people get it after 6 months. I believe I've had them for around 3 years now. They've gone from minor annoyance to ill-fitting over the last year or so, so now it's time. Nothing seems to be adjusting on me anymore, so it's not something I should have to be doing every few years. It's quite expensive, but for about 2 years now I've had that subtracted from my available funds anyhow in my records, so let's just get it done.
My buddy's dad is supposed to come over today to help me cut and fit those window jambs and maybe get a start on the casings. Unfortunately, it looks like a LOT of rain. I'll have to see about maybe attaching one of my tarps from my porch gutter to my garage gutter so we have a dry path to continually walk between them otherwise we're getting wet, the wood floor is getting wet and my jambs and casings are getting wet. I really wish he was able to make it out last week when it was 75 degrees and dry. Oh well...
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I had some disturbing news about my heart last time: One of the treatments I've been on for a year (which just ended early this month) is cardiotoxic. It took this long, but now it's affecting my heart function. I can tell bc my heart's skipping more beats than normal lately.
So I looked it up ... there are effective treatments that can reverse the problem. That's when I rebelled against thinking of myself as a sick person and did yardwork for a couple of days so far. But I realize I need help, bc between taking care of hubby during his stormy recovery and my own chores, appointments and physical limitations, I'd be pecking away at landscaping and yardwork for the next year before I saw progress, so I'm going to look around for a helper for the digging-up part.
I also finally got in contact with some mfrs of custom solid shower bases. We desperately need to repair and renovate two bathrooms, but given our age and health it's not going to be a DIY project! So I'm going to get some comparative quotes for the two different versions I have in mind (one is a conservative shower replacement and the other is a reconfiguration) either tiled conventionally or with a solid-surface base and walls, and fly them past hubby.
I know how to do this bc I used to put out things for bid when I was working. I know hwo to drilldown on spec and details bc that's where the problems usually arise. That's how I got a great deal on our solar panels! And with house prices plunging and the upcoming holidays I expect contractors will be looking for work so this might be the best time for these projects.
So, onward thru the fog.
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Wet when I went out but dry now. Got a bit of veg, returned something to the library and picked up a couple of other things.
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Well, I got my driver's license renewed today, woohoo! They allow two consecutive mail-in 5-year renewals, but then you need to go in person. New thumbprint (they had a hard time capturing that! Chemo made my prints indistinct, and yardwork put a lot of small cracks in my skin. In two years it probably won't look the same, heh.)
New eye test. One of my eyes passed, but I need new glasses!
New photo, with my post-chemo plush-toy hairdo, which also won't look the same in two years!
But renewal done, and a worry off my mind. Anyway, I think I'll splurge and celebrate with a pizza.
And now, to clean to dog's teeth and go over the ballot...
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Out for my walk in the dry soon. Rains have stopped for now.
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Got the jambs up on 3 of the windows yesterday and ripped down the parting stops for the doors before my friend's dad had to leave. (I really should just be calling him my friend too at this point).
I just insulated the door with spray foam after sanding, breaking and priming the stops that will go over the insulation. Those door/window cans don't go nearly as far as the regular stuff though... There's no way I'm going to be able to do about 3 more windows worth of gaps with just one can.
I'm going to paint them soon and probably install them today, but it looks like I'm probably on my own today and it's cold and I'm not really feeling it anyhow. I'll probably vac/clean everything up in the porch and the garage before installing them and call it a day. We have warmish days coming... probably for the last time.
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Dry for my walk but the dark clouds are rolling in for more rain at some point this afternoon or this evening into tomorrow morning.
Discovered that I can now lift my right arm over my head and I am not in pain. Even managed to get it behind my back. That should please the physio therapist tomorrow afternoon. I know I'm happy about it.
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Seems like your friend's dad is doing better?
Every time I see him he looks good. He's eating a lot, and not that he was ever an unhealthy eater I can't believe how healthy his new diet is.
He did get that lung drained and he got the antibiotic. It looks like that helped. But he's still got to get that test done for his lung before they do anything about the heart. I believe that's the test he's having done tomorrow. He's hoping to make it here afterward but I let him know to take it easy and not worry if he can't. He's busy on Friday and the weekend won't work. It will be in the 60's next week for our last hurrah, but truth be told I might actually end up finishing the work without him. He probably won't be too happy about that since he's working off the rest of what he owes me, but I probably don't need his help anymore on this job.
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I had some disturbing news about my heart last time: One of the treatments I've been on for a year (which just ended early this month) is cardiotoxic. It took this long, but now it's affecting my heart function. I can tell bc my heart's skipping more beats than normal lately.
So I looked it up ... there are effective treatments that can reverse the problem. That's when I rebelled against thinking of myself as a sick person and did yardwork for a couple of days so far. But I realize I need help, bc between taking care of hubby during his stormy recovery and my own chores, appointments and physical limitations, I'd be pecking away at landscaping and yardwork for the next year before I saw progress, so I'm going to look around for a helper for the digging-up part.
I also finally got in contact with some mfrs of custom solid shower bases. We desperately need to repair and renovate two bathrooms, but given our age and health it's not going to be a DIY project! So I'm going to get some comparative quotes for the two different versions I have in mind (one is a conservative shower replacement and the other is a reconfiguration) either tiled conventionally or with a solid-surface base and walls, and fly them past hubby.
You might consider removing the tub altogether and making a walk-in shower, at least for one of them. I've helped my friend's dad in the past on those many years back when he was younger and if done right they look beautiful and are very functional. PRO TIP: Either have a seat built into the wall opposite of the shower head and have it tiled if you have enough room, or have the people install one of the fold-down seats. They're a couple of hundred bucks, but everyone who had it installed was very happy they did after the fact.
You can't imagine how many rich old people retire and buy up these McMansions with a million rooms that they'll never use except when family comes over. They were all built with a gigantic bathroom off of the master bedroom that is bigger than my master bedroom and a huge closet off the side that is bigger than all of the closets in most normal houses combined. They all had a jacuzzi installed with tiled steps leading up to it. The old people never use it because they can't, and a lot of those bathrooms get converted to a huge walk-in shower. Sometimes with not one but two shower heads.
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I know how to do this bc I used to put out things for bid when I was working. I know hwo to drilldown on spec and details bc that's where the problems usually arise. That's how I got a great deal on our solar panels! And with house prices plunging and the upcoming holidays I expect contractors will be looking for work so this might be the best time for these projects.
So, onward thru the fog.
Sounds like you've got enough to keep yourself out of trouble.
Don't push yourself too hard though. I think a helper for the digging parts is a great idea. I'm already not looking forward to doing the rest of the di
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Dry for my walk but the dark clouds are rolling in for more rain at some point this afternoon or this evening into tomorrow morning.
Discovered that I can now lift my right arm over my head and I am not in pain.
Wow. That's progress! Great to hear, Brenda.
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Had a long nap today and what a weird sensation it is when you wake up and see the clock says 6:30 and you think it's morning and just about time to wake up. I didn't mean to sleep that long and it kind of threw me for a loop.
I put two coats of paint on the parting stops for the double reveal on the entry way door and I cut out all the overflow spray foam on the door and the one window. I was thinking I'd just use the 2nd can I have to do as much as I could on the windows tonight since after re-evaluating the situation there's no way I'm getting away without having to buy a 3rd can, but I remember the directions said the ideal temp is 75 degrees and you shouldn't use it unless it's at least 60 degrees. It was cold out there in the dark. It won't be 60 tomorrow either, but it will be close enough. The stuff I used today worked just like it should have and it was only 54 degrees.
If the cold doesn't get to me, I might start cutting down the trim to finish the three windows with the jambs and the door to the kitchen. We'll see how it goes. I kind of don't work outside when it's under 60 degrees anymore. I hate the cold.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Dry for my walk but the dark clouds are rolling in for more rain at some point this afternoon or this evening into tomorrow morning.
Discovered that I can now lift my right arm over my head and I am not in pain.
Wow. That's progress! Great to hear, Brenda.
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It is a huge improvement and my right hand is stronger now. I can hold a pen and write for a lot longer than I could a couple of weeks ago. I still get a little twinge now and again but nothing like it was. Also the muscle in my upper arm is loosening up too.
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Got an atmospheric river moving over BC tonight and through tomorrow which means 50mm of rain or more depending on where you are. My area most likely will see the 50. It will also bring winds with it. Warnings about trees coming down and possible outages.
So, it will be a soggy walk for me tomorrow to mah jong and the physio in the afternoon.
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Had a good morning at mah jong. Got second place today. Had all 4 flowers of one colour twice. First hand that happened I had 3,000 points with 6 doubles. Second time wasn't so good, only 800 points. Still finished the morning with over 4,000points.
Also the physio was very pleased with how my shoulder is healing. She did recommend a couple new shoulder exercises and some finger ones as well because my middle and fourth along with the pointer sometimes gets stiff.
Still a good day and even with the winds picking up a bit in the afternoon, I didn't get blown away. Though there was a fair amount of rain today.
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Heading out a little earlier for my walk. Hoping to beat the rain that I am sure will be back.
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Back from my walk and so far no rain. Sun is out and dry.
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Dry for my walk but the dark clouds are rolling in for more rain at some point this afternoon or this evening into tomorrow morning.
Discovered that I can now lift my right arm over my head and I am not in pain.
Wow. That's progress! Great to hear, Brenda.
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It is a huge improvement and my right hand is stronger now. I can hold a pen and write for a lot longer than I could a couple of weeks ago. I still get a little twinge now and again but nothing like it was. Also the muscle in my upper arm is loosening up too.
Sweet.
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The three windows are fully insulated as well as the door. Parting stops installed.
I was worried that my friend's dad might not be coming to finish the job after a message I got from him yesterday, but it was a misunderstanding. The PET scan really knocked the wind out of his sails was all. He's going to be coming on Monday to help me wrap everything up, so I just finished the insulation and cleaned up the porch and the garage and did a little house cleaning today.
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Dry for my walk but the dark clouds are rolling in for more rain at some point this afternoon or this evening into tomorrow morning.
Discovered that I can now lift my right arm over my head and I am not in pain.
Wow. That's progress! Great to hear, Brenda.
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It is a huge improvement and my right hand is stronger now. I can hold a pen and write for a lot longer than I could a couple of weeks ago. I still get a little twinge now and again but nothing like it was. Also the muscle in my upper arm is loosening up too.
Sweet.
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I know. The exercises the physio recommended have really helped.
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Well... It looks like neither god nor man has come up with a primer or paint that will cover candle wax. Bummer.
I got about 99% of it out of the basket woven top of that entryway table I want to paint. It's really just going to be in the nooks and crannies that aren't likely to get anything put on top of the table rubbing on them.
I bought myself a new toy from Harbor Freight of all places recently though, and since I was already paying for shipping I got myself a cheap little rotary tool/polishing kit. I don't expect this thing to last very long since I had a brand name Dremel years back that bit the dust only 2 years after I got it, but it should be enough to at least try to get deeper in the weave.
I still have half a bucket of the "snot" that I used to strip the kitchen cabinets, but I'm afraid that if I tried using that in the weave I'd never get the residue out and it would end up being worse to try to paint over that than the wax would be.
Since I'm going to be waiting until Monday for my friend's dad to get back to the windows and I'm going to have my aunt and Grandma over today or tomorrow, I think I'll spend my free time this weekend working on that table.
My living room floor is going to be my workshop for quite a bit this winter, most likely. I have some other things I need to restore like a medicine cabinet and that other cabinet that sits over the toilet for the bathroom, and after I build those two drawers for the kitchen they're going to be painted out there too. There's a few other things I have out on my work bench in the garage that need to be finished so I don't have to look at them anymore. I've got myself a nice little work table that I made that I can bring out to the living room so I'm not sitting on the floor while I'm working on them. It's nice not having a monster project like painting all those kitchen doors and shelves that will require me to be sitting on bare concrete while painting everything again. Even if I work on two or three pieces at a time I should be able to rotate them on the table without having to constantly clean brushes while waiting for things to dry.
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Car's back in the shop. Fingers crossed that the next stop isn't the junk yard.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Dry for my walk but the dark clouds are rolling in for more rain at some point this afternoon or this evening into tomorrow morning.
Discovered that I can now lift my right arm over my head and I am not in pain.
Wow. That's progress! Great to hear, Brenda.
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It is a huge improvement and my right hand is stronger now. I can hold a pen and write for a lot longer than I could a couple of weeks ago. I still get a little twinge now and again but nothing like it was. Also the muscle in my upper arm is loosening up too.
Sweet.
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I know. The exercises the physio recommended have really helped.
Got derailed (again) the past few days. Had a three-month followup with my rheumatologist on Thursday, but when I showed up for it they told me it had been canceled back in September. Apparently all her afternoon clinics had been canceled due to some schedule change.
Gee, it would have been nice if someone had told ME! Fortunately, they found an appointment at 8AM Friday, but that was 1 1/2 hours wasted, right in the middle of the afternoon, and 2 hours yesterday.
Then while I was at clinic I had to make an urgent-care for hubby for a hospital-acquired infection (fortunately, not on an incision) and since he can't drive I had to take him there myself. Another 2 hours gone on Friday. In all of October, including 6 at-home visits by physical therapy, hubby's hospital stay-days, and various Dr office visits, there were almost 20 medical appointments/visits. Sometimes I feel like I'm tying to run thru a pond of glue.
The house is dusty and the yard is still a mess. But there are only 4 family medical appointments on the calendar in November, so I once again hope that my schedule clears up ... and STAYS clear ... and that I can gather my thoughts and figure out what I'm doing next.
One thing on my "list of things to do" is get regular exercise. Yes, I tkae the dog for a walk every day and it's better than nothing. And I manage the occasional hour r two of yardwork.
But like with you, BRENDA, I have assigned exercises (mine, for lymphedema and shoulder range of motion) plus I want to add some more rigorous exercises for the larger muscles like thighs etc. My dream is to get into shape for skiing this winter, which was tremendously fun when I tried it many years ago. And if I can't get into shape in time, I'll aim for sailboarding or some other water sport for summer. I dangle this in front of me to give me something to aim for.
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Quote:Oh, dear. I hope it's not too serious.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Car's back in the shop. Fingers crossed that the next stop isn't the junk yard.
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BTW, wax might be dissolvable with toluene, xylene or kerosene, and the nice thing is they evaporate. However, you run the risk of dissolving the wax only to spread a thin film through everything, which will make large portions unpaintable with water-based paint.
what about using a heat gun to melt the wax, and then some sort of absorbent material, like paper, to soak it up?
All else fails, you can wipe it down thoroughly with toluene/xylene and try painting it with oil-based paint. (But test a small portion first to see if the wipedown/oil-based paint approach will work. Preferably on the underside, if there is candle wax there too.)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Good deal, BRENDA!
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Dry for my walk but the dark clouds are rolling in for more rain at some point this afternoon or this evening into tomorrow morning.
Discovered that I can now lift my right arm over my head and I am not in pain.
Wow. That's progress! Great to hear, Brenda.
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It is a huge improvement and my right hand is stronger now. I can hold a pen and write for a lot longer than I could a couple of weeks ago. I still get a little twinge now and again but nothing like it was. Also the muscle in my upper arm is loosening up too.
Sweet.
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I know. The exercises the physio recommended have really helped.
Got derailed (again) the past few days. Had a three-month followup with my rheumatologist on Thursday, but when I showed up for it they told me it had been canceled back in September. Apparently all her afternoon clinics had been canceled due to some schedule change.
Gee, it would have been nice if someone had told ME! Fortunately, they found an appointment at 8AM Friday, but that was 1 1/2 hours wasted, right in the middle of the afternoon, and 2 hours yesterday.
Then while I was at clinic I had to make an urgent-care for hubby for a hospital-acquired infection (fortunately, not on an incision) and since he can't drive I had to take him there myself. Another 2 hours gone on Friday. In all of October, including 6 at-home visits by physical therapy, hubby's hospital stay-days, and various Dr office visits, there were almost 20 medical appointments/visits. Sometimes I feel like I'm tying to run thru a pond of glue.
The house is dusty and the yard is still a mess. But there are only 4 family medical appointments on the calendar in November, so I once again hope that my schedule clears up ... and STAYS clear ... and that I can gather my thoughts and figure out what I'm doing next.
One thing on my "list of things to do" is get regular exercise. Yes, I tkae the dog for a walk every day and it's better than nothing. And I manage the occasional hour r two of yardwork.
But like with you, BRENDA, I have assigned exercises (mine, for lymphedema and shoulder range of motion) plus I want to add some more rigorous exercises for the larger muscles like thighs etc. My dream is to get into shape for skiing this winter, which was tremendously fun when I tried it many years ago. And if I can't get into shape in time, I'll aim for sailboarding or some other water sport for summer. I dangle this in front of me to give me something to aim for.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
I hear ya SIG on the range of motion. Basically that is what these exercises are for on my shoulder and to help with the stiffness I feel in my hand, wrist and such. Have to see if I can get them printed out.
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Laundry day for me then my walk.
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Was dry when I went out for my walk but the rain arrived while I was in a local mall. But I'm in and done for the day.
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Car's back in the shop. Fingers crossed that the next stop isn't the junk yard.
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Who knows. I didn't learn my lesson last time and it's at the same guy who did my brakes. I didn't even know he worked on Saturday since he didn't pick up either Saturday he had my car before, so that makes me believe him when he says he got caught up.
I'm leaking gas though. I called him yesterday to see if he could think of any reason why my brakes would already be leaking since I saw a puddle on the ground when I came out of the store and he couldn't think of one. He told me to have somebody pump the brakes while I'm looking at it to see if the flow comes out quicker. I hadn't gotten around to that by this morning but I looked and there was a large fresh puddle where it had been leaking all night. I started the car up and it was leaking about 10 times as much. That's when I put my finger in the puddle to smell it and it was obviously gasoline.
The "it's not a matter of IF but WHEN" certainly came up on me a lot sooner than I hoped it would.
But now that we're in a position that the car is undrivable unless it's fixed, he confidently stated that he could come up with something to fix it if I could manage to get it over to him. He also knows how to take the seat out since they did it the last time to get a look at it (and if I didn't mention, he sent me pictures of what the fuel line looked like and it was terrifying).
This isn't going to be cheap. I know he has to drop the fuel tank to do the job too. I'm just hoping he can come up with a way to fix it since a crucial part isn't produced anymore. I reminded him of that and he said he's going to come up with something. I don't have an emissions test that I have to worry about failing for another 1.5 years, so as long as it's not too much over $500 it will be worth it. Hopefully I don't have to go another 3 weeks without my car this time.
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BTW, wax might be dissolvable with toluene, xylene or kerosene, and the nice thing is they evaporate. However, you run the risk of dissolving the wax only to spread a thin film through everything, which will make large portions unpaintable with water-based paint.
what about using a heat gun to melt the wax, and then some sort of absorbent material, like paper, to soak it up?
All else fails, you can wipe it down thoroughly with toluene/xylene and try painting it with oil-based paint. (But test a small portion first to see if the wipedown/oil-based paint approach will work. Preferably on the underside, if there is candle wax there too.)
Imagine THIS surface, but on a much smaller scale (around 1/8" segments).
I've managed to pull and scrape most of it out, but it gets tricky in the valleys.
Fortunately, the surface was already painted, so I think my best bet is going to stay away from chemicals and see if my new rotary tool can get in there and chip away all the old paint... Assuming this cheap tool can be used in a way where it doesn't just rip the weaving to shreds. I don't even know if it has any way to vary the speed or if it's just full on 16,000 RPMs or nothing.
Also fortunately, I don't have to worry about painting the underside of the shelf with the wax on it. There's another weaved shelf just about 4 " under it, so nobody is ever going to be stooping down to look under it. The table isn't super high anyway, so I doubt that I'll even be painting the bottom of the lower shelf anyhow.
I'll know more when I get to it. The car thing kind of wrecked m
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